the system is complementing for go bike. it has different origins and different destinations. we will we feel it is a good complement to the purely dot based system that we currently have. we have also found that the lot to design were the parking rack has not eliminated every single complaint about sidewalk parking we still have a couple. your ways you can leave a bike and it has eliminated almost all of those complaints -- compliance from the users. at the same time, the concerns around monopolizing bike parking suggests that if and when station less bike share increases in san francisco, the demand for bike racks will increase as well. figuring out how we tailor our bike parking program to any increase will be a really important porridge of continuing to evaluate the pilot something we can look at as we increase the. finally, working with johnson to

continue to promote the low income plan that they have available and making sure that the service provided is distributed at the service area. finally, our next step, one is as of october ninth, we would be recommending expanding the jump cap 5500 bicycles for the duration of the 18 month pilot for the following nine months. completing the pilot evaluation and going further into detail on a lot of things that i just discussed. continuing the compliance monitoring to making sure that jump has continued to meet all the terms and conditions that we have set forth. and finally, something that i think is important to mention, is bringing jump and scooters and shuttles into other programs into alignment in terms of how we collect data. jump has provided data to us but in terms of setting up a standardized way with realtime data is provided to us by jump

or other companies, that is something that we are working on with innovation teams to make sure we do have realtime data flowing to us from all the companies so we can have evaluations that directly compare to bikes and scooters. that is my presentation. i'm happy to take questions. >> chairman brinkman: thank you, very much. i do want to do public comment before we dive in. >> chairman brinkman: we have one speaker. >> hello. i'm speaking on behalf of patrick who cannot be here. he had to take off. i had to leave to get back to work, patrick says. the item was discussed but here is what i was planning to stay at the meeting today. i would like to share two things with the board. first, russell franklin was killed by riding a bike on howard and van ness in a

crosswalk. one of the more than 25 -- 250,000 on street parking spaces that sfmta allows. within three hours, there were multiple requests filed and e-mails to remove two parking spaces, and yet sfmta has not made any changes. sfmta needs to be risk more responsive to this request and remove the parking spaces within 24 hours. it only takes paint to remove those spaces to make the crosswalk safer. it marks the 20th fatality. we are on an increase of 22% over last year. i am excited about the jump bike increase from 250 to 500. i want to thank the staff for hearing these materials. the day to share shows the

demand for bike sharing is huge and growing in san francisco in the past five months. ridership is up for go bike and has more than doubled at each jump is now used on average more than eight times. this is not near enough to meet the demand for bike share in san francisco. i asked someone from the sfmta board to act as a broker and make the deal and motivates the increase the number of bags for both companies in san francisco. >> chairman brinkman: thank you very much. much appreciated. do i have any more public comment. director torres would you like to start us off? >> director torres: i am always concerned about these things. when you talk about projections, where do you think we should end up in a year.

>> that is something that we are looking at to help tell us. but seeing how going from 250 to 500 how that affects the public feedback we get an demand on the bike parking, how the demand for the bike scale -- his p7 the extra bikes will be paid for by jump or by the city? >> they do not have a standard bike rack. they pay for it. i think something that we would evaluate, as far as the pilot, if we are expanding station less bike share, whether through jump or other operators, that they pay for the share of the bike parking increase that is needed. the bike racks that we put in our available to the public and

it is never available for jump but any member of the public his p7 any jump bikes wrapped around street poles, is not acceptable? >> it is part the terms and conditions that jump bike should be only lock to bike racks. that is part of the education that jump does with users and if we see that we do notify jump and they go and remove the bicycle from the street pole. >> chairman brinkman: any other questions? c5 in theory, jump should be able to figure out a way to let the users know if they have tied it to the wrong place as opposed to improper brake -- bike rack. is that right? >> one thing we have talked about and i should mention as well we do have two representatives from jump here today in case there are specific questions that i can't answer. they will provide more specific

information to users in regards to bike parking and can be integrated into the op. we do have information on where the bike racks are and we can tell them where the appropriate parking spots are that would help. >> director hsu: in theory, these rocks could be used for both scooters or electric bikes. if there some kind of program where the companies are actually pitching and to put up rocks, you will be scooters and e. bikes and putting them into places. that does not take away parking spaces but that may actually be necessary, or there may be places where you can put in these rocks. there's a lot of possibilities. >> if we are moving towards thousands of station less vehicles, whether it is scooters or bicycles, we need to scale up the bike parking program and that would be great. the program right now involves about 600 bike racks per year. if we were going to do significantly more of that we

would have different resources to make that happen. >> i think they have an idea of the number of bikes that they would like. do we know what that number is we ? i imagine the company has projections of what they would like to see. >> chairman brinkman: do we have someone from jump here? >> would someone like to take a whack at that? [laughter] >> hello. i am mark from jumped bikes. it is a challenging question. it is a challenging question to answer because as you deploy more bikes, you also create more usage. it is a difficult thing to forecast. it is never really been done meaningfully at scale and in a city like san francisco. we only have guesses. i am born and raised here in the city and have been biking for over 20 years of my life and i would say that my own dealing is

the city could easily support in the 2-5,000 range of bikes but we would love to do -- what we would love to do is to play them in groups and figure out if demand can keep up to create a scenario where we could even have demand for a 5-10,000 bikes those are the numbers -- numbers were talking about when we are thinking about projecting out for the years to come. we are not saying we are there today and we want to drop thousands of bikes but we would love to do more than 500 today because we already know that we will outpace the demand. but we also understand the process to pursue the pilot. does that answer the question? >> director hsu: there must be some sort of numbers you have in mind or if there's any other smaller cities with additional data. >> sacramento recently launched

the jump. they have something like six or 700 active bikes that are being utilized right now in sacramento , which has a fraction of the density that san francisco has and a poor bike network system. to the extent that we can compare, you know, it has a little bit apples and oranges. but when you look at data and you understand what are the important pieces that inform bike ridership, that you can draw from useful conclusions from that. >> we have the hills for that. [laughter] >> vice-chairman heinicke: so the question that i ask of similar programs is enforcement with what our partners are doing forgive me if i'm not as up-to-date on the program as i am with others. but to director torres posed this question, there are a few

issues that we have seen. there is improper parking of the bike. forgive me if i'm naïve. if we come across a bike that is improperly bite -- parked or dangerously parked, wouldn't we not have information of who the last registered user was and some sort of ability to hold the person accountable? >> from mda's standpoint, we hold the company accountable company accountable. it is up to them to figure out how they pass it on to users are not. we got about three complaints a month about improperly parked bicycles and jump is required to move them within several hours at each bike also comes with a permanently displayed contact information and an i.d. number 4 jump. i don't know if jump wants to talk about -- >> vice-chairman heinicke: if it is that limited and that is the way we are doing it to, that is ok. as these programs go forward and as these programs expand, i am

fine leaving enforcement with the company as long as we make clear that it is a condition of you moving forward. that you are going to have to hold your riders responsible and show us that you are doing so. that is a proper model and much better than us playing a police. just as we did with a the scooters, there really has to be a part of this program. i appreciate that a representative from jump is here i appreciate he answered the last question very eloquently and straight to the point. i am in no way criticizing this program. when i hear those sorts of numbers and have seen what happens when we get larger and larger fleets out there, i just expect that the agency will expect this and i will have programs in place. >> it is not just a matter of ensuring there is adequate enforcement by the companies of the permit condition so that they can expand, but even so that they can keep their permits and to the extent the companies

cannot demonstrate that they can have their users here with the permit terms. ultimately, we can revoke the permit. >> director borden: one of the things i noticed in next steps, as part of our emerging mobility data, these spikes bikes are trackable and people can go in on an app and find a bike and we know where the bikes are. is not like we don't know where they are. if we are doing that then we shouldn't have compliance issues because, conceivably, we would know if it was part someplace it was not supposed to be part. is it that part of when we gather data that we will be able to do that? >> we certainly will be using the data sharing from jump for our evaluations and understanding the use pattern. we could maybe then find some generalized places where there

might be a not a lot of dependent -- demand and not a lot of bike parking. we not collecting any personally identifiable information from jump. that is something we are doing for our end for security purposes. we would not be able to identify individual users. >> director borden: but we will be able to identify the shuttles and the location of where they are? >> i don't think that the g.p.s. accuracy, and this came up during that scooter a set -- session, i don't believe that the accuracy is such that we wouldn't be able -- we would be able to pinpoint the location of relative to a legal or not legal parking space and the sidewalk. we do not have every bike rack. so whether it was at a bike rack or a treaty or a lamp post, we wouldn't know if it is in the street. we might know that but i don't think we or the companies -- i don't think that technology is very good at that level of accuracy. >> director borden: i would not say that on a proactive

basis but you can probably look at the data and see where it is. within an uber app you can rent a jump. it tells you where the bike is. >> but you can't tell on that sidewalk, as it properly attached to a tree? is it lying on the ground? >> director borden: we would know if there were complaints then you could see where it was. obviously we don't have these abilities to proactively enforce anything. >> the retaught -- realtime data would be significant for all of these these programs in terms of compliance. >> director borden: that is my only thing. we have the ability -- i know we have no ability to do proactive enforcement in terms of searching. no agency has the capability to do that. because they are already tracking the location of the bikes, we can cross-reference that if indeed people are parking wrong. i have been wanting to use jump

bike for a while. there are many times where i don't ride my bike because of the hills. >> i think it is a great solution with mobility. and we need more people to say they would like you bikes. >> chairman brinkman: thank you. >> director rubke: you discussed service area a couple of times. it looks like on the map, the western side of the city is just not covered very well in general i am wondering, as we expand the cap during the pilot program, is that going to be better covered or is that more forward-looking once we're done with with the pilot program? >> i think a significant expansion of the service area would be contingent on expanding the station list program after the pilots.

from 250 to 500 the initial focus will be on serving the existing service area better. you may be some targeted expansions of it around the edges, but i don't think, based on the conversations with jump and our observations on how well and tune the existing service area is, that 500 to will allow us to serve the entire city. >> chairman brinkman: i do have a few questions. i don't know if you can answer the ones or if it is better for it jump to answer them. so gender breakdown of jump users and forward go bike users. are we seeing more gender diversity? i know with female cyclists in the city we are holding tight at 26% of cyclists that were women. are we seeing more women writing these bike share programs?

>> we don't have any data on gender breakdown for jump users right now. one of the things we are doing is the continuation of the pilot and an in sfmta voluntary user survey. i don't know if jump has specific data. the tendency is to try to not collect that kind of data from users on a mandatory basis because it may prevent people from using the service. we will be doing a voluntary survey to get information on racial breakdown, age, demographics that i think will tell us how the program really is. >> chairman brinkman: but really encouraging a segment of the population that doesn't own bikes and doesn't like to ride bikes uphill. i admit i am embarrassed how many times i have run into directors when they are on their own bikes and i am on my bike and i waved. [laughter] >> the 20% boost members, are

they able to access bikes when and where they need them? i am worried that when i look at the jump map and the other maps, it does not cover communities of concern as much as he jumped as right now. are they able to get the bikes? i worry we have this great program. that boost membership is fantastic. but if people can't get the bike , it does not help them and it is not reliable enough to depend on. >> mark may want to add something to this. i think that you can still use the option to locate a bike if you have the boost membership. you do not have to do this. if you see a bicycle you can do it. but certainly locating bicycles without a dedicated docking station or an app is a challenge and in particular, i think as i have mentioned before, the

southeast portion of the service area in the bay view tends to not have very many bicycles and it in the middle of the day. it is something that i think has been hard to achieve with bicycles. we are really looking to jump to make sure that that improves with the expansion. >> chairman brinkman: i understand the balancing is challenging. i live not too far away in a western addition, and in the middle of the day i can't get a bike. there is nothing up there. they were all empty at 10:30 am. thankfully i have the flying five that i took down. no harm and no follow. it would be nice for people to be able to access that. i understand that we don't know what the correct number of bikes is, but when i opened one of those apps to look for a bike and i end up not taking a bike, do we know if that is logged as a missed opportunity so that the

companies have some idea that this person up there opened both apps and did not get a bike from either one. >> i understand the stance is yes. do you want to add to that? >> chairman brinkman: it would help us get some information about the correct number of bikes. >> we call that eyeball data. someone opens the applicant for a bike and does not find one. furthermore, we logged how far away they are at the moment. we create designations based on not just if you open to the app but did you open the app and close the bike -- and was the closest bike more than a quarter mile away? it was often used in bike share as a general guideline for how far a person should be expected to walk to grab the bike. we do log that data. there are many thousands per day if you remember, we did send some information to summarize the data. and that was on the slides that we showed.

>> chairman brinkman: i appreciated. >> director hsu: just a follow up on that. if you see a lot of zeros show up in one spot, you can deploy a number of bikes to that location is that right? >> we are not monitoring that data at right now on a moment by moment basis but it is historical data we are analysing to inform. for example, should we be expanding the area into this part of the city? it is no secret. by the north beach area is an area outside of the highest number just mumble -- number of applicants. >> director hsu: it will be cool to get to an area to quickly eyeball this data. but we have to work on it. >> chairman brinkman: i am concerned about two things. one is my ability to get a bike and my other concern is, how do we quickly get -- what is the

fastest way to get bike share deploy to the west side? we are hearing more and more from people out there that they want to use that. i know that 20% of u.s. car trips are less than 2 miles and 50% of u.s. car trips are less than 4 miles and 4 miles, on electric assist bike in san francisco, i don't even break a sweat at that point. this is such a great solution for those short urban trips that we are seeing clogging up our streets. and to go back to the parking question, -- i don't want my own because if it gets stolen, that is expensive. i don't want a bike and then have it stolen. my other concern there is i have incorrectly locked a jump bike. i locked one to the parking sign at the end of my block when i can get my paws on one and i can't get another bike. it is gone within an hour. i thought i will use this one

later in the day. no chance. it was gone within an hour or an hour and a half. so i think we need to look at that. is a bike racks or can we expand that to parking metres and fixed post? the same way i would do with my personal bike. if i would expand, there is not many bike racks out there, are there? we will have to give people other options on where to lock these jump bikes and we will have to make sure that we really support the expansion of the bikes. i don't like the idea of this e.a.c. request that the board has to approve any every single docking station. that will slow down the bike expansion a lot. i know there is concern about the docking stations taking car parking spots. when you think that these spikes are being used, 6-10 times a day , we are gaining so much more use out of that curbside spot than just two or three cars that

we might turn over a few times a day. [laughter] >> i will get you on an electric assist bike. i bet you would like it. >> i do want to be careful about encouraging locking two poles. from what i can see, anecdotally , jump has been great i have not seen jump bikes in bad places. but i do think we need to encourage more bike racks so that we are not compromising accessibility at the curb for those who need it. >> chairman brinkman: that is a good point. i had not thought about that with the parking metres. it could be really difficult to open the car door. we need to really work on expanding the bike racks. if you do the quick meth, there are almost 400,000 cars in san francisco. and we want 20% of trips to be by bicycle, each bike is due nine trips a day, that is almost

1,000 bikes that we could support and a combination of jump and the other bikes. cut to the chase. more bikes and quickly. with that in mind, when this expansion to 500 comes to us in october, how quickly thereafter, in tandem with jump bikes, can we expand that number of bikes and can we expand a geographical reach of those bikes agree. >> quick clarification, that is under the permit terms of the director of transportation. would not be a specific m.t.a. board approval for the expansion to 500. was author -- already authorized and then in terms of bringing more bikes faster, the next nine months of the pilot is about figuring out the future of bike

share in san francisco. i think the first nine months has shown very clearly the demand for shared ebags is high. we don't need to do further evaluation to understand there is demand. but what we need to do is figure out how we meet that demand and whether working with m.t.c. and regional partners on bike share and working with jump and figure out the bike park program, we need to figure out how we scale the system. we agree the demand is high and we need to figure out a way to meet it. >> chairman brinkman: to go back to the 500 number since that has been approved and that is the director transportation decision, then the next jump past that cleat what happens to go above 500-1,000? >> with the board did was authorize an 18 month permit program with up to 250 for the first nine months and up to 500 for the balance. that is what you have already

authorized. you have not authorized anything beyond that. we would be coming to you towards the end, in advance of the 18 month permit program for a recommendation in terms of what to do in advance of this program expiring. >> chairman brinkman: can we do it before that pilot period ends? >> the intent would be to do it before so if you wanted to continue -- so we would not necessarily have a break in service. >> chairman brinkman: i don't even want a break in service. i want more bikes more quickly. more bikes than the 500 before the end of the pilot program. >> it is something -- there is a complication associated with this that we can discuss. >> chairman brinkman: i do understand the complication. >> i understand the direction and the desire. >> chairman brinkman: that is not the complication. the complication is -- yes. ok. do i have anymore questions or comments from the board? anybody else?

thank you so much for the presentation. thank you so much for coming. i do appreciate it. moving on to item 13. making environmental review findings and improving amendment number 1. to provide excess liability for central public project with risk insurance west for a total contract amount not to exceed $25 million. madam chair, no member of the public has indicated an interest in addressing this matter. >> good afternoon. my name is albert. the acting program manager for central subway. i'm here to talk a little bit of insurance. is an owner -controlled insurance program which was adopted under the central subway program in 2012 and approved by this board board. this is to supplement the issuance for our two largest

contracts. the tunnel contract and the station contract. to basically provide additional coverage. the coverage that we would have gotten from the contractor was not cost effective. we took on the goal -- the burden of getting older coverage with the tunnel contract, it had a 200 million-dollar coverage and we put 150 million on top of that. and for the station contract, there was a 60 million-dollar contract and we put another hundred 50 million on top of that. when he first came to this board , we had authorization to authorize both contracts and the station contract. the first amendment first amendment that we are here to talk about -- talk about is a retroactive amendment. it is a result of the station contract originally estimated of $750 million but the premium was based on 750 million contract amount. we awarded the contract and the amount was $840 million.

we had to pay additional premium of $684,000. that amendment went through and got approval from director raskin. however, when we improve just reviewed all of the differences and the amendment action based on prior adjustments of the supervisor approval, we noticed this was one of the items that exceeded the authority. the half a million dollar authority. i am here today to get a retracted approval from this board and i will be going to the board of supervisors next month to get the board of supervisor approval to move forward. that is the first item of this amendment. the second item is an extension of the program. currently the program has expired. we are in the process of trying to expand this. part of the reason i am here to expand it is because construction is not finished. we have been delayed for a year.

so part of the reason why we are here is that the way that the contract was written as we put in the contract that we will provide above the 50 million dollars of coverage that the contractor got for additional hundred $50 million. because of that, if we allow this contract to expire, we would have to abide our contract and also we would need to either get additional insurance or do something different. that is why i am here. in addition to that, this coverage has something called a tale. what that does is if we extend the contract beyond the completion of the contract itself, what it will do is will allow for additional ten year coverage beyond the completion of the station. what that means is that we are actually buying a 12 year

insurance program. not just a two-year but another ten year beyond that. any construction issues that happen between now and that 12 years. that is what i am here for. i will take any questions that the board may have. >> chairman brinkman: thank you. directors. questions? >> vice-chairman heinicke: within the budget and plans? >> it is all within the budget. we are not asking to change the 1.578 budget that you approved. >> chairman brinkman: other questions? do i have public comment? public comment is closed. do i have a motion to approve. >> second. >> chairman brinkman: all in favour? >> aye. >> chairman brinkman: approved item 14 is discussion and vote to open attorney client privilege to conduct closed session. >> chairman brinkman: do i have any public comment? public comment is closed. all in favour?

>> aye >> chairman brinkman: return, they are backed back. they met a close session and discussed with the city attorney to settle the matter. item 16 would be appropriate to vote to disclose or not disclose the information discussed. >> do i have a motion? do i have a motion? >> aye. >> there is no board meeting on october 2nd. everybody, thank you very much for your time today. take care.

>> good afternoon everyone. on the mayor of the city and county of san francisco. [cheers and applause] >> mayor breed: i'm really excited to be here with some of our city's most incredible leaders. members of the board of supervisors, and including the person who has led the efforts for each and every one of us that brought us here to this day thank you so much. [applause] for farm too loan, survivors of sexual harassment and assault of how to navigate through tangled web of city departments and resources as they fight for justice and accountability. but thanks to the leadership of everyone here, we are helping

those survivors receive the help and the support that they truly need. recent surveys have shown that more than 80% of women and 40% of men and have experienced some form of sexual harassment. nearly two thirds of those assaults are not even reported to authorities. so why is that klee because time after time -- why is that? time after time survivors have been dismissed by the system. the system that is supposed to help individuals get the treatment they need to help heal from the traumatizing experience that they have heart. we have heard so many incredible stories about things that victims have had to go through, to the point where they just given up. and to have to recount such a horrible tragedy, time and time again, is something, that what we're doing here today to

address is hopefully, is going to help to deal with this. this is not ok in the era of the me too movement and we cannot stand by and let survivors go through this experience alone. today, i am proud that the board of supervisors is taking a huge step forward and helping survivors of sexual harassment and assault by creating our new office sexual harassment and assault response prevention. [cheers and applause] >> mayor breed: it is why we are here today. we, as a city clearly need to send a strong message. we hear you, we are here for you and will do everything we can to put the resources necessary to make sure that we don't just pass legislation to make an office like this possible. we actually passed the budget allocation to support the success of this office. i want to thank all of my colleagues who are here. every member of the board of

supervisors was a sponsor of this legislation. every member of the board of supervisors thought for and voted to support the funding to make this office a success. i also would like to take this opportunity to address cheryl davis from the san francisco human rights commission. she's not here today but she will be leading the charge in this effort, because we know that she focuses on issues around human rights and equity and things that matter. this clearly matters to the city and county of san francisco, which is why we are putting it at the forefront of the human rights commission. i am grateful to cheryl for her leadership. thank you to all the commissioners here who are here from the commission on the status of women. it does take a village to move things forward in this capacity. we have had an incredible leader in this effort. someone who has been a fighter and relentless in not only just producing this legislation, but making sure that every member of the board of supervisors served

as a cosponsor and a real partner for this particular efforts. ladies and gentlemen, at this time i would like to introduce supervisor hilary ronen. [applause] >> hello ladies and gentlemen in san francisco. today is an amazing day and victory for all women, but also all survivors of sexual assault in san francisco. let's give that a round of applause. [laughter] [applause] >> i want to start off by thinking mayor lee, first off when she was still a supervisor for being a very early sponsor of the legislation, and now for signing it into law and holding this beautiful ceremony. i think it elevates the importance of the legislation. thank you so much, mayor breed. and to all my members on the board of supervisors, it is so rare to introduce a piece of legislation that is unanimously

sponsored from day one by every member of the board of supervisors. i think that is a testament to how amazing this board is. and my colleagues who care so much about this issue. it is also a testament to the women behind the legislation. i did not write this legislation alone. i wrote this piece of legislation with a group of six survivors of right who worked every single day -- of rape and they brought the issue to my attention to begin with and then who said we don't just want to complain, we want to sit down and solve this issue. so i just want to give a huge shout out to those women and a very specific thank you to jane doe, who you will hear from in a moment, to rachel, who is here with us today, tiffany who couldn't be here because she's on one of those rare two-week vacations, but who will have a chance to celebrate at the board of supervisors in a few weeks, to britney, to maria, who is

here with us as well, thank you for being here, at also to audrey you you will hear from in a moment. we had an incredible team together, with my legislative aids, and specifically carolina morales, two champions this was all of her heart and soul from day one. if we can give them all a very big round of applause, they deserve it and so much more. [applause] >> so it was also surprised me that there were many women in san francisco who don't come forward and report sexual assaults, rape or sexual harassment, because we know this is an epidemic all throughout the country. but what did surprise me is that women who did feel comfortable coming forward, who wanted accountability from their

perpetrators, who wanted to be involved in our city system to investigate and prosecute and to get some accountability and justice, that they were treated so poorly by city departments. that was, honestly, a shock to me. the more i learn learned, the more i realized that we couldn't just have a meeting with the heads of those departments, who i know have the best intentions. we needed something more regular that was going to get us the type of systemic change that would make sure that san francisco would not only dissuade survivors from coming forward and reporting these crimes, but would also take a step forward and make sure we are on the cutting edge and meeting the nation in terms of the best practices of dealing with sexual assault. when we have statistics that one in every two women in her lifetime a sexually assaulted and one of every six men

sexually assaulted practice is not something that we can just throw our hands up and say, that is a shame. this is an epidemic that must be taken with all seriousness. we must have systemic change at every level. and by starting a sharp office in san francisco where survivors and victims can come forward and say, i am not being believed by a city employee, i am not being taken seriously, i'm not being treated with dignity, i'm not being respected, that from day one, they will have an advocate to help them navigate through these difficult systems will be with them side-by-side as they are going through the very painful process of telling their story and getting justice. so this is a very important step is one of only many steps that we need to end this epidemic of sexual assault in the united states. and i'm so proud of the leap forward we are making here today

without further ado, it is my absolute honor to introduce to survivors who will speak to you next. the first one, jane doe, is actually a city employee who i have worked on for years on women's rights legislation. we worked on equal pay legislation together and is the one that brought these issues to my attention in the first place. we will hear from her and a moment. and then audrey martinez, who is a leader with communities united against violence. it is an organization that works with the lgbtq community to end violence in that community and deal with a very specific issue that that community faces. if you can give them a warm round of applause, that would be wonderful. thank you. >> hello. mayor brigade, -- mayor breed,

thank you. recently, a candidate for congress stated that the people closest to the pain should be closest to the power. often, we suffer in silence. many of us who speak up are further quieted by abuse. but you listens. you listen to me and dozens of rape victims recount the details of our darkest hour. so many of us were not only raped but blamed and discarded by san francisco process law enforcement agencies. those sworn to serve and protect under equal protection of the law. so many of us did not receive proper care at the hospital because the city process sexual assault response team was inadequately resourced. we are told rape is a fact of life. rape is a sentence. the terror of the crime is only the beginning. the magnitude is unfathomable at first.

it slips by shock and denial. but so corrosive is the impact of victims can never be the same nor can we escape the nightmare as it unfolds. i am jane doe. it has been two years and nine months since i was raped. 949 days of my precious life stolen. supervisor ronan knew me before as a colleague and governments, a week or so after the rape, we had a call about work. i blurted out what had happened. sfpd was utterly indifferent and tried brushing me off without so much as an interview. they deemed rape to be complicated but not serious. i was patronized for asking police to take basic investigative steps like securing video evidence or interviewing key witnesses. i couldn't wrap my mind around it. neither could supervisor whose unwavering ronen support for your support has been a source

of strength. she and her extraordinary team, especially early not more alice, have worked with a group of victims of rape to a summons the two stand up. mayor breed, supervisors, i'm overwhelmed with gratitude for each of you. at the beginning of the hearing that led us to today, victim after victim shared harrowing experience as a being trivialized, blamed and. you listens, you asked watchful and smart questions of our city department that consistently failed the rising masses of victims of rape and assault. you stood with us on the steps of city hall to call for change. and today, we take a step forward by taking action. this office will be a source of advocacy and accountability that shamefully, we don't reelect in san francisco. a voice definitely absent in a

course crying out to, me too. on behalf of victims, survivors, warriors, loved ones, all those who ever had or will be affected , thank you. also, special thanks to supervisor stefani for your support. without women and office, we wouldn't be here. it is amazing that today our first african-american female mayor is signing legislation authored by a female legislature and supported by all of her colleagues. and by community members of all genders. this is truly a celebration of empowerment. to those who spoke up in the hearing, at the sv you or in civil court, because your criminal case is on shelf, thank you. i am honored and humbled to stand in solidarity with you. to those who cannot or will not speak up, who are so far from a

seat at the table, we stand in solidarity with you and today, we start the work of building a bridge to you. thank you. [applause] >> thank you, everyone. i am here, my name is audrey martinez. i'm a member of the community united against violence. i am doing what it takes to make the change, the change i want to see in my life. i want to hear -- to celebrate and thank mayor breed and supervisors in all city officials that supported this new love to create an office of sexual assault prevention and intervention. this office is important because people of all genders need to have a safe place and get help

after violence occurs. as an emigrant survivor, it is important to have a space where we can feel cared about without being ashamed. thank you for creating this space that helps foster, sorry, i'm so nervous. to be accountable as a human being and stop being shamed for the experiences that we have gone through. it is about time to get help and start the change . the shame. thank you. [applause] >> mayor breed: again, i know it takes a lot of courage to get up here and share your experience. thank you both so much for your courage and for bringing us to this point. i'm excited that we are here today to sign this legislation with members of the board of supervisors, president cohen had

to leave but we have supervisor vallie brown, supervisor catherine stefani, supervisor norman yee, and others. thank you all so much for your support of this very important legislation. at this time, i will sign the legislation. [cheers and applause] >> mayor breed: here we go. and today's date is? [cheers and applause].

>> neighborhood in san francisco are also diverse and fascist as the people that inhabitable them we're in north beach about supervisor peskin will give us a tour and introduce is to what think of i i his favorite

district 5 e 3 is in the northwest surrounded by the san francisco bay the district is the boosting chinatown oar embarcadero financial district fisherman's wharf exhibit no. north beach telegraph hill and part of union square. >> all of san francisco districts are remarkable i'm honored and delighted to represent really whereas with an the most intact district got chinatown, north beach fisherman's wharf russian hill and knob hill and the northwest waterfront some of the most wealthier and inning e impoverished people in san francisco obgyn siding it is

ethically exists a bunch of tight-knit neighborhoods people know he each other by name a wonderful placed physically and socially to be all of the neighborhoods north beach and chinatown the i try to be out in the community as much as and i think, being a the cafe eating at the neighborhood lunch place people come up and talk to you, you never have time alone but really it is fun hi, i'm one the owners and is ceo of cafe trespassing in north beach many people refer to cafe trees as a the living room of north beach most of the clients are local and living up the hill come and meet with each other just the way the united states been since 1956 opposed by the grandfather a big people person

people had people coming since the day we opened. >> it is of is first place on the west that that exposito 6 years ago but anyone was doing that starbuck's exists and it created a really welcoming pot. it is truly a legacy business but more importantly it really at the take care of their community my father from it was formally italy a fisherman and that town very rich in culture and music was a big part of it guitars and sank and combart in the evening that tradition they brought this to the cafe so many characters around here everything has incredible stories by famous folks last week the cafe that paul carr tennessee take care

from the jefferson starship hung out the cafe are the famous poet lawrence william getty and jack herb man go hung out. >> they work worked at a play with the god fathers and photos he had his typewriter i wish i were here back there it there's a lot of moving parts the meeting spot rich in culture and artists and musicians epic people would talk with you and you'd get

>> clerk: -- for thursday, september 13, 2018. i would like to remind members of the public that the commission does not tolerate any outbursts of any kind. please silence your mobile devices that may sound off during these proceedings. and when you speak