or lack of benefits. and their level of transparency with regard to pay. one of the big issues we have been hearing about lately is deactivation his. and whether or not there is a good appeals process when a driver or courier is deactivated we will also hire a consultant to do a survey and peer reviewed final report and that will offer a ground breaking glimpse into the gig economy workforce in san francisco. we have already been in touch with a number of academics who are interested in bidding on the r.f.p. we are talking to graduate students from usf and berkeley who have expressed interest in taking on some aspects of the study. one of the things we are talking about his is having these students investigate the lobbying practices of these companies. the results of which could inform the city's efforts to

pass state legislation, allowing for local regulation. the number of emerging mobility companies in san francisco seems to be growing by the day. our account puts them at more than 100. they fall under several categories. the biggest our ride services like uber and lift and then there are courier network services. while we cannot regulate t.n.c. at courier network services is an area where there is no regulation. supposed mates, door --dash, grub hub, amazon flex, caviar, and bike share and moped share and car share. micro transit like chariot and autonomous vehicle companies. workers on these platforms drive but they also use scooters, electric bikes, regular bicycles , i have met several couriers who walk and of course,

i have also seen couriers on hover boards, as well. so what we hope to do is once we have selected a consultant to do the survey, we are going to work closely with them to develop the questions in the methodology. we want to get a handle on the demographics. things like age, race, ethnicity , gender, city of residence, we would like to find out if they do it full time or do they do it for supplemental income? what is their mode of transportation? what is there commute like? do they have health benefits? do they access food assistance? we will be using an equity framework to analyse the data that we receive. we also hope to identify some of the barriers to gig economy work especially as it relates to the digital divide and how workers access vehicles and bicycles or equipment needed for the job. we will be bringing together an

advisory committee composed of city agencies, advocates and representatives from the labor and tech sectors. several people have already agreed to sit on the committee. they include the city's chief economist. advocates from the greenlining institute and transform, the teamsters union, and the representative from post- mates. we will be reaching out to several more individuals in the coming weeks. we are also working to develop a template of questions for each company. we want to know what's there profits are. we want to know the salaries of their c.e.o. we want to know what the average worker earnings are. and also the estimated cost for supplies for courier or drivers to get started. phones, cars, bags, things like that. we also hope to gather some focus groups. i will be coming back to the commission to set some public hearings on the issue so that we

can have strong community engagement throughout the process. we really want to hear from gig economy workers, advocates and staff from other city departments. not just in san francisco but other cities who have studied this issue and may have some recommendations for us. we would welcome collaboration. this study, and you approved this at the last meeting, this study is going to require about $55,000 in new expenditures. i have also estimated in mind time on this which i think will be about 80% of my job as executive director. and then i have budgeted small amounts for printing and photography on the final report, along with a stipend for our research assistant. in addition to leah who is here today, a plan to bring on a few more research assistants. i want to let you know that i do expect the budget for this to

increase. but i won't know exactly how much until we receive some proposals. i am working to identify sources of funding and i have some good ideas. but once i do identify that funding, which will be from city departments, i will need your help to lobby for those funds. what we are planning to do now with your feedback, is break the r.f.p. up into a few phases. developing the methodology, conducting a survey and issuing the final report. it is the last two faces that we are likely going to need more funding for. but again, i will not know how much until we get some proposals in. we do have a fairly aggressive timeline for the study. the tasks were outlined in detail in your last packet for the previous meeting. what we expect the beginning phase to take about three months

i have already drafted the r.f.p. and currently going over it with legal council. this will be an informal and art -- informal r.f.p. process we are we solicit three or more bits. i hope to have that wrapped up by the end of november. the survey itself will take about seven to eight months. interviewing the companies and getting the data we expect will take 6-7 months and i don't expect that we will get a lot of data from some of the bigger companies but from some of the smaller companies like post- mates, i expect that we will get some data from them. and then we will begin drafting the final report by spring. so what we hope to do is come up with a list of policy recommendations for local state and federal regulators. as well as the companies themselves. in doing so, we would have considered their respective regulatory authority.

our next steps will be draft and issue an r.f.p. for the representative survey, conduct a literature review, that is already underway and of course, identify additional funding. that is my presentation. i'm happy to take any questions and i also want to thank our research assistants for her help on this and our intern for helping as well. >> thank you. >> yes. this is really impressive and exciting and supervisor and commission are fewer and i were saying it is a nice complement to the recent studies that we have been given at the transportation authority that is starting to fill out the picture a bit about the impact of this new industry on our city and on our workforce. i really appreciate the work. thank you, so much. one simple question, aside from government resources for this project, have you identified any

private lending sources that we may be able to apply for? >> yes. i am looking into that spirit chair fewer's office has made some recommendations and we are looking at nonprofit and potentially corporate money to see if we can get financial systems that way. >> do you have a projected budget? >> i am thinking -- so i spoke with a few survey companies and got a little feedback. it is possible that we might need as much as $100,000 more. >> additional. >> in additional funds for the study. i think, ultimately, leah who is with us through the end of december, i would like to figure out a way to extend her time on this because her help has been invaluable thus far. >> hasn't been any study of this kind anywhere in the country? or internationally, for that

matter. >> i think new york city was able to get a glimpse into the workforce, but to my knowledge, the data that will be coming out of this survey, especially of the workers will be the first of its kind of any major american city with the exception of new york city. >> i do think a literature -- we don't need to reinvent the wheel , for sure. i think a literature review is important. have you contacted the organization, the national employment law project? >> i have not. >> i would highly recommend contacting them and talking through this with them. i believe that annette is still there. they conduct a lot of studies of the impact in the reality facing the wage workforces and have

done many similar studies in different industries. carwash industries, day labor industry, et cetera. they probably have a lot of thoughts and leads about how to do very effective studies in this regard. i highly recommend it. rebecca smith is there as well. i can make those connections if you need them. >> that would be great. thank you. >> commissioner saying? >> i want to echo supervisor ronen in her enthusiasm. i am really excited to find out what the results of this are, particularly because one thing that i have had in mind or have been thinking about is law does a lot as washington, d.c. has mission 77 which was just overturned by city council. it was looking into the issue of tips. i think this is prevalent here because one thing that is a

unifying factor that we see with uber and many services is that these workers may be increasingly reliant on tips to furnish their wages. so i would be really interested in looking into how much gig labor is dependent on tips. it has become a unifying factor. that is something they have been adding too. uber now has tips where they didn't before. caviar has a courier bonus and all that stuff. that is something i would be interested in if that is what you are looking at. and also, i do appreciate the difficulty of this task considering a lot of these companies are based here. while they may be national or international companies, san francisco is a ground-floor innovation or experimentation. i can understand why that would be very hard or it might take a little extra time in terms of comparing it to what is going on

in other cities. >> thank you. i think that is an ex -- excellent suggestion for us to consider tips. i will add this into the scope because as you know, initially, none of the apps had tipping options and that was really a big deal. i think that i will include that in our analysis. >> thank you. >> thank you, so much. this is exciting. i think groundbreaking. important work for us to do and i am excited for what you've put together before us today. i would love to hear a little bit more about your advisory committee. you talked a little bit about city agencies and advocates, unions and companies could be a part of that and i would assume that it also includes organizations like jobs with justice. what that be a subcommittee or

what that be something more informal in terms of the advisory committee? >> to answer your question about additional groups, as i am still reaching out to folks and i think jobs with justice is an excellent suggestion and i will reach out to them, but the advisor committee process role is to give us feedback along the way and also have a couple of meetings where we can gather their input and bring everyone together in the same room. i think the purpose of the advisory committee would be mostly for feedback on the draft report. feedback on the data and of course, feedback on the final report before we issue it. >> ok. and then you would bring those findings to the commission so that we could have insight into those? >> exactly. i would bring the findings to

the commission and i think i would also make a presentation before the board of supervisors acting as a transportation authority and potentially even the board of supervisors down the way. >> thank you, so much. >> any other questions, commissioners? seeing none, is there any public comment on this item? [please stand by]

had a history of -- this person who died on the job, his name was patrick ricketts, he died from a beam. there's a history of violations. in fact, in november 2016, a worker operator died after losing control of a forklift. this brings into question if the screening process -- in fact, it demonstrates that the checks and balances are not being done by

the people who spoke this week before the panel. moreover, there's a female who bu busted the glass ceiling who lost her life working on a construction site. she has a two- or three-year-old daughter who's asking where her mother is, and the grandfather is telling her mother that she's in heaven. and the two- or three-year-old little girl is saying she wants to go to heaven with her mother, these departments need to be disciplined. >> public comment? seeing none, public comment is now closed. no action needs to be taken on this matter. madam clerk, can you please call item number five. >> approval of the 2019 regular meeting schedule. mr. goebel. >> the document i provided in your packet has a list of

proposed tapes. the commission meets every month with the decision of december and august with the winter and summer recesses. i reached out to all of you and did not find any of these dates posed a conflict. let me know if any of this changes. our meeting scheduled for next month has been changed to november 30th and there's no meeting in december. my recommendation is you propose dates for meeting in 2019. >> thank you very much. >> commissioner ronen? >> that's from the last item, but i will make a motion to approve the regular meeting schedule for 2019. >> thank you very much. we'll take public comment on this item. >> are you doing your scheduling of hearings? i would like you to have a

hearing on making part of your business to conduct an investigation and a release of the lists of catholic priests that's raping and sexual assaulting little kids in these churches. it's just been released that bishops have released 71 catholic priests from a church who are raping and sexual harassment little kids, just like the list that has been released in pennsylvania. in this county, i believe this is taking place in the city and county of san francisco. moreover, in san jose, there was also a list of 15 priests in the catholic church who have credible information pertaining to little kids being sexually harassed going to church. furthering that my suspicion

this is taking place is correct. this should be handled by the justice department. now it's in the system and the justice department is getting involved and taking care of these problems pertaining to these child molesters who are raping kids. here are examples of victims who have been raped by priests. as you can see, they're adults, their crimes. this is what they looked like before they were being abused by these pedophiles. moreover, here is another picture of a person who was 16 years old. as you can see, the latest picture of him on how much time has passed from the assault. here is another victim. age six, she's a female who was raped by a priest. here is how she looks in her adult life. in fact, that's one of the sisters, a family of four who was raped by priests in the same

church. the attorney general that started this -- >> thank you. thank you very much. any more public comment. see -- seeing none, public comment is closed. can we take this without objection. the motion passes. madam clerk, could you call item number six. >> unon the request for proposal for legal services. >> mr. goebel. and ms. strictler is leaving the room. >> on august 7th, we issued a request request for proposals for lafco legal services. the commission felt it was time to do that considering the contract has not been updated in

almost 20 years. so the deadline to submit proposals is now october 26th, and i do anticipate several proposals. i am currently putting together an energy panel that will consist of the board angela -- a member of the chairs staff and a member from another area lafco and a representative lawyer from the city attorney's office. at this point, we hope to have the interviews wrapped up by mid-november, and i hope to bring a recommendation to you most likely at your january meeting. >> thank you very much. up for public comment? is there any members of the public that would like to comment on number six, which is the update for the request for proposal. okay, mr. wright. >> the proposals, i would like you to include that the shipyard

and the whole area is coming further to life. just last night, there was another additional investigative report demonstrating that the shipyard is contaminated. i spoke about that contamination, and i made demonstrations showing the magnitude of the reasons why that area is contaminated with radioactive material. viewer, please. here's the shipyard, how it looks. overhead view. then, when you look at it, as far as the areas that are contaminated with radioactive material, these are the area where is housing is being built and proposed to be built. moreover, there's additional situations that demonstrates the reasons why the radioactive material take place there.

there were not one but a total of two nuclear atom bomb explosions that took place in the pacific ocean that caused this radioactive material. back then in the early '30s and '40s, the navy wasn't too smart. they did a nuclear explosion with 128 of our battleships right next to the explosion -- dangerous range of explosion. those dark spots, they were battleships. they were affected and hit with the radioactive material and the cancer-causing blast and concussion from the explosion. here is an example of the one of the battleships that was on the receiving end of that explosion. as you can see, all the metal is melted from the high temperature of the dangerous chemicals. it says keep clear.

danger. very radioactive materials. >> thank you, mr. wright. any other public comment? seeing none, public comment is now closed. i don't think we need to make any motion. there's no action on this matter. so would you mind calling in mr. stricter, please. thank you. thank you, very much. i would like to also note that our legal counsel's name is teresa stricker. i called her strictler. i would like to correct that. >> call number 7. >> it's the lafco budget update. >> thank you, i have two items for you today. as you know, a few weeks ago, i

attended the calafco conference at yosemite. it was the first time in the history of our lafco that we've been represented at the conference. and we received applause almost every time we were called. it was quite thrilling to be there. >> lots of love. >> you know, going into this, because our lafco is unique, i wondered how much of the conference was actually going to be relevant to me. i found it really beneficial on several fronts. first of all, i got to network and meet other lafco executive officers, and commissioners were there from all over california. there were 57 lafcos represented. my impression is that lafcos are going vital work, but they lack the resources to be as strong as they need to be. many lafcos and counties where

fires caused widespread destruction have stepped up to better coordinate fire services. sonoma is working on consolidating fire districts. those are the kind of issues we don't deal with in san francisco because we don't have different districts. many of the panelists expressed lafcos having strong relationships with their local planning department. that's something i'm still working on. and their local legislators because almost every year there is some type of legislation that threatens the work that lafcos do. so in your packets is also a document published jointly by the strategic growth council, the government's office that talks about the role of lafcos in promoting efficient growth and preventing sprawl and

preventing open space and in some counties, preserving farmland. there's urban development and farmland. a lot of lafcos are working to preserve, you know, pristine farmland in california. i think what the conference did for me was gave me a better understanding of what lafcos do and inspired some ideas that i hope to bring to the commission at some point. there's a lot that we could be doing that we don't currently have the resources for. so thank you for allowing me to attend the conference. next year, it will be held in sacramento. i look forward to attending. the other i have for you today is brief lean update on our budget. chair fewer has asked me to provide this in each packet. you can see we're at 55,265 this year.

so our spending is pretty much on track with what we've budgeted. of course, i'm already looking ahead to next year as i know we'll start talk about the budget again in december. so that's something i'm working on. also, i think it would be important for the commission with your feedback to develop a strategic plan. where do we see lafco in one or two or three years down the road. so that is my report, madam chair. >> thank you very much. let's open it up for public comment. are there any public comment on this item? mr. wright? >> you talk about -- when you talk about your budget -- is this your pen? when you talk about budgets, i've got a problem with the budget. i spoke earlier this week too where i watched numerous multibillion dollar bonds being proposed on numerous departments in the city. okay? then i pointed out when i spoke

how the amount of money being proposed as far as these multimillion dollar bonds is just a fraction of the amount of money that twitter and the minimum of high-tech companies have gotten for free. i predict that at the present time, twitter and a minimum of tech companies have gotten over $300 billion worth of free monday. and then the programs that are in the city who's supposed to help the most vulnerable people, economically disadvantaged, got a combination of mental and physical disabilities, veterans, people in wheel chairs, victims in rape, they've got to always come to the board and literally beg for finances in order to keep their departments afloat to help the most vulnerable people. and then you turn around and

give a break, multiquadruple, millions and trillions of dollars, break to companies that don't need a break. that's an insult on my intelligence and the people on the board and the people in the community that need help. it's disgusting. you sit up there and talk about -- you mentioned chariot taxi company. they come before the board and ask for a payroll tax break and explaining how they get along with the mta and they would like to not pay payroll taxes and they were told by peskin that they shouldn't be excluded from payroll taxes. why is that not applying to the high-tech companies? that's preferential treatment.

>> item number eight is public comment. >> hello. public comment, i'm going to further expand on my earlier demonstration on how those three departments who are supposed to scrutinize the pre-application requirement in order to be permitted to be a contractor and work in the city. i already mentioned how patrick ricketts lost his life and died on the job site. i further want to demonstrate when filling out an application, one of the questions that was asked on that application -- viewer, please. one of the questions that was asked is have you had any major accidents within the past 10 years?

they lied on that application and said no. by further response, the review of their file not done by the city overseers who came in looking professional wearing a suit and tie but their performance was -- one of the accidents, there was a fatality. so you had a person die on the construction site before you were granted the latest proposal when you filled out this application. that's not the only bad record they have. according to this review of their files, they have three serious accidents that took place while they were working. that contract shouldn't have been permitted. as a result, this employee lost his life. and about the shipyard, this started off a class action suit of my own.

unlike the $50 billion class action suit filed in state court, my experience is in federal court. here is the front page. i'm starting off with the human rights commission. i filled out the form. started it off -- >> item number nine is future agenda items. >> future agenda, i want you to add this to your future agenda. i want you to add my earlier demonstrations to your agenda in order to make sure that these

issues get addressed. i want that situation, those three departments that claim that they got pre-requirement applications to screen contractors is proof that they're not doing a good job. if they did, the two people who died who i demonstrated earlier would still be living. normally when i take care of business, i always take care and make my demonstration pertaining to females first because i'm a gentleman, but last week, you caught me off guard and i walked into that hearing and you were talking about that. so the first person that came to my mind was about that person that died at the west portal station. but i further matured and realized there was a female that died who i seen on an educational show, and it stuck out in my memory, in my recollection, that on how that

two-to three-year-old girl asked that grandfather where is her mother. and the grandfather said the mother is in heaven, and the three-year-old kid said she wanted to go to heaven to see her mother. that should have been included on the agenda. that hearing was call because of the male that died at the west portal station. that should have been called when the female died, which is seven months beforehand. so i want a hearing on those three departments that took place this past week to ask them why didn't you catch the history of this contractor which caused those two people to lose their lives? is that clear? all right. >> that concludes our business for today.

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[♪] [♪] [♪] >> i had a break when i was on a major label for my musical career. i took a seven year break. and then i came back. i worked in the library for a long time. when i started working the san francisco history centre, i noticed they had the hippie collection. i thought, if they have a hippie collection, they really need to have a punk collection as well. so i talked to the city archivist who is my boss.

she was very interested. one of the things that i wanted to get to the library was the avengers collection. this is definitely a valuable poster. because it is petty bone. it has that weird look because it was framed. it had something acid on it and something not acid framing it. we had to bring all of this stuff that had been piling up in my life here and make sure that the important parts of it got archived. it wasn't a big stretch for them to start collecting in the area of punk. we have a lot of great photos and flyers from that area and that. that i could donate myself. from they're, i decided, you know, why not pursue other people and other bands and get them to donate as well? the historic moments in san francisco, punk history, is the sex pistols concert which was at winterland. [♪]

it brought all of the punks on the web -- west coast to san francisco to see this show. the sex pistols played the east coast and then they play texas and a few places in the south and then they came directly to san francisco. they skipped l.a. and they skipped most of the media centres. san francisco was really the biggest show for them pick it was their biggest show ever. their tour manager was interested in managing the adventures, my band. we were asked to open to support the pistols way to that show. and the nuns were also asked to open the show. it was certainly the biggest crowd that we had ever played to. it was kind of terrifying but it did bring people all the way from vancouver, tee seattle, portland, san diego, all up and down the coast, and l.a., obviously. to san francisco to see this show. there are a lot of people who say that after they saw this show they thought they would start their own band. it was a great jumping off point for a lot of west coast punk.

it was also, the pistols' last show. in a way, it was the end of one era of punk and the beginning of a new one. the city of san francisco didn't necessarily support punk rock. [♪] >> last, but certainly not least is a jell-o be opera. they are the punk rock candidate of the lead singer called the dead kennedys. >> if we are blaming anybody in san francisco, we will just blame the dead kennedys. >> there you go. >> we had situations where concerts were cancelled due to flyers, obscene flyers that the city was thought -- that he thought was obscene that had been put up. the city of san francisco has come around to embrace it's musicians. when they have the centennial for city hall, they brought in

all kinds of local musicians and i got to perform at that. that was, at -- in a way, and appreciation from the city of san francisco for the musical legends. i feel like a lot of people in san francisco don't realize what resources there are at the library. we had a film series, the s.f. punk film series that i put together. it was nearly sold out every single night. people were so appreciative that someone was bringing this for them. it is free. everything in the library is free. >> it it is also a film producer who has a film coming out. maybe in 2018 about crime. what is the title of it? >> it is called san francisco first and only rock 'n' roll movie. crime, 1978. [laughter] >> when i first went to the art institute before the adventures were formed in 77, i was going to be a painter. i did not know i would turn into a punk singer. i got back into painting and i

mostly do portraiture and figurative painting. one of the things about this job here is i discovered some great resources for images for my painting. i was looking through these mug shot books that we have here that are from the 1920s. i did a whole series of a mug shot paintings from those books. they are in the san francisco history centre's s.f. police department records. there are so many different things that the library provides for san franciscans that i feel like a lot of people are like, oh, i don't have a library card. i've never been there. they need to come down and check it out and find out what we have. the people who are hiding stuff in their sellers and wondering what to do with these old photos or old junk, whether it is hippie stuff or punk stuff, or stuffestuff from their grandpar, if they bring it here to us, we can preserve it and archive it and make it available to the

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harness and we get it together in the parking lot and then we get on the air train. he loves it. little kids love him because he is a little lower to the ground so easy to reach and he has this big furry head they get to pet and he loves that. >> he doesn't seem to mind at all. probably one of the happiest dogs in the world. >> many people are nervous when they travel but seeing the dogs is just a wonderful relief. >> what i absolutely love most about it is the look on people's faces, so whenever they are stressed and flying is stressful these days you get these wonderful smile. >> i am the mom of lilo the pig and she is san francisco's first therapy pig. >> lilo joined the wag brigade as our firs first pig.

>> wag brigade invited us to join the program here and we have done it about a year-and-a-half ago. our visits last 1.5 to 2 hours and it does take a little bit longer to get out of the terminal because we still get a lot of attention and a lot of people that want to interact with lilo. >> i feel honored to be part of the wag brigade. it's very special to meet so many people and make so many feel happy and people that work here. it's been a great experience for me and a great experience for to totoby. >> it's been an extremely successful program, so the next

time you are here, stop by and say hi. >> the teams really, really went above and beyond and is continuing to do that today. this past year, the san francisco public utilities commission water quality division started receiving many more requests to test for lead in the public school system here in san francisco as a result of legislation that had passed from the state requiring all of the public schools to do lead testing. and so as a result, the public utilities commission and the water quality team in particular was asked to meet with the san francisco unified school district to begin to prioritize which schools to test to meet that state

mandate. >> the team that tests, we're a full service environmental laboratory, and we take care of both the needs of the water quality division and the waste water enter price. and on the water quality enterprise, we have to also have drinking water that meets all federal and state quality regulations. and lead in schools, we're playing a problem in remediating this problem of lead in schools. >> our role here in communications is being able to take the data that we have that we know is protective of public health and safety and transmit it, give it to the public in a way they understand we are really doing our jobs well and making sure that they are safe always. >> the public learned very quickly all the accurate facts and all the critical information that they needed to know, and it's up to these individuals and their agencies and their commitment to the city. >> i enjoy the work because i

can help people, and i can help the utilities to provide a better water quality, make sure that people feel that drinking hetch hetchy water is actually a pride. >> hats off to the water quality team because between them working on late nights, working on the weekends when the schools are closed, and working as a partner in the school district for the times they found a higher lead sample, they worked through to address that, so the team went above and beyond and is continuing to do that today.

>> when i open up the paper every day, i'm just amazed at how many different environmental issues keep popping up. when i think about what planet i want to leave for my children and other generations, i think about what kind of contribution i can make on a personal level to the environment. >> it was really easy to sign up for the program. i just went online to cleanpowersf.org, i signed up and then started getting pieces in the mail letting me know i was going switch over and poof it happened. now when i want to pay my bill, i go to pg&e and i don't see any difference in paying now. if you're a family on the budget, if you sign up for the regular green program, it's not going to change your bill at all. you can sign up online or call. you'll have the peace of mind knowing you're doing your part

in your household to help the environment.

good morning and welcome to the san francisco county transportation authority meeting for today, tuesday, october 23rd. our clerk is mr. alberto quintanilla. mr. quintanilla, if you could please call the role. [ roll call ] [ roll call ]