25,000 was presented to all the treasure island community event. it was supposed to be for transportation and other developments. we fleed to -- we need to stop doing that. what we need to start doing is submitting our intelligence of governorship to the where the establishments require and the governor called for the united states and protocol. >> chair mondejar: thank you. >> no mr. speaker card. >> chair mondejar: thank you sir. please call the next item. >> next order of business is item 10, closed session. there are no closed session." items. the next order of business is item 11, adjournment. >> chair mondejar: i need a

motion to adjourn. >> i move that the meeting be adjourned >> chair mondejar: this meeting is ended at 2:01 p.m. thank you. >> this neighborhood was lived for approximately 22 years. >> yeah, like 21 years. >> 21 years in this neighborhood. >> in the same house. >> we moved into this

neighborhood six months after we got married, actually. just about our whole entire married life has been here in excel. >> the owner came to the house and we wanted to sell the house and we were like, what? we were scared at first. what are we going to do? where are we going to move into? the kids' school? our jobs? >> my name is maria. i'm a preschool teacher for the san francisco unified school district. >> my name is ronnie and i work in san francisco and i'm a driver from a local electrical company. >> we went through meta first and meta helped us to apply and be ready to get the down payment assistant loan program. that's the program that we used

to secure the purchase of our home. it took us a year to get our credit ready to get ready to apply for the loan. >> the whole year we had to wait and wait through the process and then when we got the notice, it's like, we were like thinking that. >> when we found out that we were settling down and we were going to get approved and we were going to go forward, it was just a really -- we felt like we could breathe. we have four kids and so to find a place even just to rent for a family of six. and two dogs. >> we were going to actually pay more for rent and to own a house. >> it feels good now to have to move. it feels for our children to stay in the neighborhood that they have grown in. they grew up here and they were born here. they know this neighborhood. they don't know anything outside san francisco. >> we really have it.

>> we'd love to say thank you to the mayor's office. they opened a door that we thought was not possible to be opened for us. they allowed us to continue to live here. we're raising our family in san francisco and just to be able to continue to be here is the great lesson. >> 7 and a half million renovation is part of the clean and safe neighbor's park fund which was on the ballot four years ago and look at how that public investment has transformed our neighborhood.

>> the playground is unique in that it serves a number of age groups, unlike many of the other properties, it serves small children with the children's play grounds and clubhouses that has basketball courts, it has an outdoor soccer field and so there were a lot of people that came to the table that had their wish list and we did our best to make sure that we kind of divided up spaces and made sure that we kept the old features of the playground but we were able to enhance all of those features. >> the playground and the

soccer field and the tennis fields and it is such a key part of this neighborhood. >> we want kids to be here. we want families to be here and we want people to have athletic opportunities. >> we are given a real responsibility to insure that the public's money is used appropriately and that something really special comes of these projects. we generally have about an opportunity every 50 years to redo these spaces. and it is really, really rewarding to see children and families benefit, you know, from the change of culture, at each one of these properties >> and as a result of, what you see behind us, more kids are playing on our soccer fields than ever before. we have more girls playing sports than we have ever had before. [ applause ] fp >> and we are sending a strong message that san francisco families are welcome and we want you to stay.

>> this park is open. ♪[music] >> san francisco city clinic provides a broad range of sexual health services from stephanie tran medical director at san francisco city clinic.

we are here to provide easy access to conference of low-cost culturally sensitive sexual health services and to everyone who walks through our door. so we providestd checkups, diagnosis and treatment. we also provide hiv screening we provide hiv treatment for people living with hiv and are uninsured and then we hope them health benefits and rage into conference of primary care. we also provide both pre-nd post exposure prophylactics for hiv prevention we also provide a range of women's reproductive health services including contraception, emergency contraception. sometimes known as plan b. pap smears and [inaudible]. we are was entirely [inaudible]people will come as soon as were open even a little before opening. weight buries a lip it could be the

first person here at your in and out within a few minutes. there are some days we do have a pretty considerable weight. in general, people can just walk right in and register with her front desk seen that day. >> my name is yvonne piper on the nurse practitioner here at sf city clinic. he was the first time i came to city clinic was a little intimidated. the first time i got treated for [inaudible]. i walked up to the redline and was greeted with a warm welcome i'm chad redden and anna client of city clinic >> even has had an std clinic since all the way back to 1911. at that time, the clinic was founded to provide std diagnosis treatment for sex workers. there's been a big increase in std rates after the earthquake and the fire a lot of people were homeless and there were more sex work and were homeless sex workers. there were some public health experts who are pretty progressive for their time thought that by providing std diagnosis and treatmentsex workers that we might be able to get a handle on std rates in san francisco.

>> when you're at the clinic you're going to wait with whoever else is able to register at the front desk first. after you register your seat in the waiting room and wait to be seen. after you are called you come to the back and meet with a healthcare provider can we determine what kind of testing to do, what samples to collect what medication somebody might need. plus prophylactics is an hiv prevention method highly effective it involves folks taking a daily pill to prevent hiv. recommended both by the cdc, center for disease control and prevention, as well as fight sf dph, two individuals clients were elevated risk for hiv. >> i actually was in the project here when i first started here it was in trials. i'm currently on prep. i do prep through city clinic. you know i get my tests read here regularly and i highly

recommend prep >> a lot of patients inclined to think that there's no way they could afford to pay for prep. we really encourage people to come in and talk to one of our prep navigators. we find that we can help almost everyone find a way to access prep so it's affordable for them. >> if you times we do have opponents would be on thursday morning. we have two different clinics going on at that time. when is women's health services. people can make an appointment either by calling them a dropping in or emailing us for that. we also have an hiv care clinic that happens on that morning as well also by appointment only. he was city clinic has been like home to me. i been coming here since 2011. my name iskim troy, client of city clinic. when i first learned i was hiv positive i do not know what it was. i felt my life would be just ending there but all the support they gave me and all the information i need to know

was very helpful. so i [inaudible] hiv care with their health >> about a quarter of our patients are women. the rest, 75% are men and about half of the men who come here are gay men or other men who have sex with men. a small percent about 1% of our clients, identify as transgender. >> we ask at the front for $25 fee for services but we don't turn anyone away for funds. we also work with outside it's going out so any amount people can pay we will be happy to accept. >> i get casted for a pap smear and i also informed the contraceptive method. accessibility to the clinic was very easy. you can just walk in and talk to a registration staff. i feel i'm taken care of and i'm been supportive.

>> all the information were collecting here is kept confidential. so this means we can't release your information without your explicit permission get a lot of folks are concerned especially come to a sexual health clinic unless you have signed a document that told us exactly who can receive your information, we can give it to anybody outside of our clinic. >> trance men and women face really significant levels of discrimination and stigma in their daily lives. and in healthcare. hiv and std rates in san francisco are particularly and strikingly high were trans women. so we really try to make city clinic a place that strands-friendly trance competent and trans-welcoming >> everyone from the front desk to behind our amazement there are completely knowledgeable. they are friendly good for me being a sex worker, i've gone through a lot of difficult different different medical practice and sometimes they weren't competent and were not friendly good they kind of made me feel like they slapped me on the

hands but living the sex life that i do. i have been coming here for seven years. when i come here i know they my services are going to be met. to be confidential but i don't have to worry about anyone looking at me or making me feel less >> a visit with a clinician come take anywhere from 10 minutes if you have a straightforward concern, to over an hour if something goes on that needs a little bit more help. we have some testing with you on site. so all of our samples we collect here. including blood draws. we sent to the lab from here so people will need to go elsewhere to get their specimens collect. then we have a few test we do run on site. so those would be pregnancy test, hiv rapid test, and hepatitis b rapid test. people get those results the same day of their visit. >> i think it's important for transgender, gender neutral people to understand this is the most confidence, the most comfortable and the most knowledgeable place that you

can come to. >> on-site we have condoms as well as depo-provera which is also known as [inaudible] shot. we can prescribe other forms of contraception. pills, a patch and rain. we provide pap smears to women who are uninsured in san francisco residents or, to women who are enrolled in a state-funded program called family pack. pap smears are the recommendation-recommended screening test for monitoring for early signs of cervical cancer. we do have a fair amount of our own stuff the day of his we can try to get answers for folks while they are here. whenever we have that as an option we like to do that obviously to get some diagnosed and treated on the same day as we can. >> in terms of how many people were able to see in a day, we say roughly 100 people.if people are very brief and straightforward visits, we can sternly see 100, maybe a little

more. we might be understaffed that they would have a little complicated visits we might not see as many folks. so if we reach our target number of 100 patients early in the day we may close our doors early for droppings. to my best advice to be senior is get here early.we do have a website but it's sf city clinic.working there's a wealth of information on the website but our hours and our location. as well as a kind of kind of information about stds, hiv,there's a lot of information for providers on our list as well. >> patients are always welcome to call the clinic for there's a lot of information for providers on our list as well. >> patients are always welcome to call the clinic for 15, 40 75500. the phones answered during hours for clients to questions. >> >>.

>> i just feel like this is what i was born to do when i was a little kid i would make up performances and daydream it was always performing and doing something i feel if i can't do that than i can't be e me. >> i just get excited and my nickname is x usher my mom calls me i stuck out like a sore thumb for sure hey everybody i'm susan kitten

on the keys from there, i working in vintage clothing and chris in the 30's and fosz and aesthetic. >> i think part of the what i did i could have put on my poa he focus on a lot of different musical eras. >> shirley temple is created as ahsha safai the nation with happens and light heartenness shirley temple my biggest influence i love david boo and el john and may i west coast their flamboyant and show people (singing) can't be unhappy as a dr. murase and it is so fun it is a joyful

instrument i learned more about music by playing the piano it was interesting the way i was brought up the youth taught me about music he picked up the a correspond that was so hard my first performing experience happened as 3-year-old an age i did executive services and also thanks to the lord and sank in youth groups people will be powering grave over their turk i'll be playing better and better back la i worked as places where men make more money than me i was in bands i was treated as other the next thing i know i'm in grants performing for a huge protection with a few of my friends berry elect and

new berry elect and can be ray was then and we kept getting invited back you are shows got better we made it to paris in 2005 a famous arc we ended up getting a months residencey other than an island and he came to our show and started writing a script based on our troop of 6 american burr elect performs in france we were woman of all this angels and shapes and sizes and it was very exciting to be part of the a few lettering elect scene at the time he here he was bay area born and breed braces and with

glossaries all of a sudden walking 9 red carpet in i walgreens pedestrian care. >> land for best director that was backpack in 2010 the french love this music i come back here and because of film was not released in the united states nobody gave a rats ass let's say the music and berry elect and performing doesn't pay very much i definitely feel into a huge depression especially, when it ended i didn't feel kemgd to france anymore he definitely didn't feel connected to the scene i almost feel like i have to beg for tips i hey i'm from the bay area and an artist you don't make a living

it changed my represent tar to appeal and the folks that are coming into the wars these days people are not listening they love the idea of having a live musician but don't really nurture it like having a potted plant if you don't warrant it it dizzy sort of feel like a potted plant (laughter) i'm going to give san francisco one more year i've been here since 1981 born and raised in the bay area i know that is not for me i'll keep on trying and if the struggle becomes too hard i'll have to move on i don't know where that will be but i love here so so much i used to dab he will in substances i don't do that i'm sober and part of the being is an and sober and

happy to be able to play music and perform and express myself if i make. >> few people happy of all ages i've gone my job so i have so stay is an i feel like the piano and music in general with my voice together i feel really powerful and strong

>> good morning and welcome to the san francisco county transportation authority for the meeting of november 13th, 2018 could you please call the role. [roll call]

>> thank you." colleagues, can we have a motion to excuse, temporarily commissioner kim? motion made by commissioner gary is there a second -- could make motion made by commissioner he. we will take that without objection. please note that commissioner ronen has joined us. next item, please. item two is a citizens advisory report. >> good morning mr larson. >> i am john larson. chair of the citizens advisory committee and i will be presenting the report of the october 24th citizens advisory committee meeting. beginning with item six on your agenda, the a.c. recommended adoption and amendments of the five white pp as presented.

there was a specific interest and requests related to the balboa park station improvement to ensure that a comprehensive plan is shaped, both with regards to specific station area improvements, and overall pedestrian and commuter safety in the area. given that the m. line has its terminus there, the proposed geneva bart project is in the planning stages and general development is underway in the area. they also work -- inquired about longer-term funding and planning now that funding streams in the expenditure plan appeared to be on an end horizon in the next five-year period. turning to item eight, the final freeway quarter management project funding, they emphasize the primacy of conducting a thorough equity study, given the preferred alternative of studying told, expressed or hot managed lanes.

in addition, members were interested in the cost-benefit analyses that would be conducted to see if higher vehicle occupants would be achieved and whether the associated travel time benefits were justified. they also raise the issue of commuter buses using the express lanes when they are often virtually empty for one end of their trips. following the october resolution to authorize the executive

>> i've also maintained good working relationships with a number of the staff and continued that to this day. i think joe should. >> you have 30 more seconds. >> i wanted to say, i have a couple of areas of particular interest for me. one is the linkage between development, project development , affordable housing and access to housing. i also want to see some more serious oversight over some of the various new transportation technologies like electric bikes , scooters, skateboards and some of the ride hail companies. and finally, i just want to assure the transportation justice will be served so that all communities are equitably served in san francisco.

>> thank you. are there any other potential applicants? seeing none, is a public comment on this item? seeing no public comment, public comment is closed. as is our custom. we will look to the district two commissioner. commissioner stephanie, you have the floor. >> thank you. i just want to recommend mr levine for the assistant advisory's committee. after i was appointed supervisor , we met shortly thereafter and i was impressed with his passion for transportation and his experience and his ideas. i highly recommend him and i look forward to working with him >> he is indeed eminently qualified. is there a second for that motion? seconded by commissioner mandelman. we have a different house. so can we have a role call, please? [roll call]

>> congratulations, jury. if there is no objection, colleagues, at the request of commissioner ye, i would like to take item 11 out of order. can you please read item 11? >> up for final approval. approval of revelation -- resolution of support to encourage the board of supervisors and the media to pledge to use crash and collision and not accident and recognition of world day of remembrance, 2018. >> thank you for allowing this

item to go out of order. this was heard at the vision zero committee and past out of the committee with a positive recommendation. i wonder what the big fuss over a word is. the word can be very damaging. the perception -- when people come from a pollutant -- particular world, it dictates your attitudes. i want to allow for members of the families to present on this item. amanda? >> thank you. good morning transportation authority and thank you for having me here today. my name is amanda lam and i'm a member of san francisco bay area families for safe streets and i'm here today to ask that you pass a resolution before you and also to share about world day of remembrance.

families for safe streets as a group of individuals who have personally survived a traffic crash or loved ones of those who have been hurt or killed in a traffic crash. our group launched in november 2016, and we are one of eight families for safe streets chapters in north america. we are supported by a walk san francisco, and the san francisco department of public health, and we are bay area wide. this year, as supervisor he mentioned, in honour of world day of remembrance, we are calling on elected officials such as yourselves, the media, and the public at large to pledge to replace the word " accident" with the words " clapped -- crash and collision" when referring to traffic violence. why does this matter to me? why should it matter to you? august 22nd, 2015. i have rehearsed this -- replayed the state in my mind

1,000 times, each time changing just one minute detail. i was walking home, just three blocks away when he hit me. i stepped into the crosswalk at webster and mcallister, not knowing that those would be the last steps i would take for a very long time. i saw the car out of the corner of my eye, but more importantly, the driver of that car did not see me. as he accelerated into his left hand turn, and into my body, all i could do was brace myself against the hood of his car. in that moment, i knew that was the end for me. all i could do was pray. my family knew they were my everything. perhaps mostly, i have had to rely on witness accounts for

what happens next because i was knocked unconscious. what i do remember was the ambulance and not being able to speak and the only thought that kept running through my mind was , three blocks from home. to read in a police report weeks later, and -- that my body somersaulted through the air three times, flew 30 feet before landing on the pavement, is a feeling that i will never be able to describe to you, no matter how hard i try. what happened to me was not an accident. it was completely preventable. we know that left hand turns pose a specific threat to pedestrians. we know that they are predictable and they are therefore preventable. the word "accident" is the most commonly used descriptor of the life ending and life altering

dangers that take place on city streets every day. i see this as a symptom of a much bigger problem. we, as a safety, do not understand what a serious problem traffic violence is. nor that it -- and that it affects every single one of us. you must care about this. if you are a san franciscan, if you have ever walked or biked down a city street, and especially if you drive in san francisco. we are struggling with a complete lack of awareness and action, and that is what we are trying to change. in shifting our language from " accident" to "crash", we are calling people into this conversation and calling them into action. what is there to be done about an accident? all you can do is say, how sad,

i'm so sorry that happened to you. but there is no action. all you can really do is engage your sympathy and while sympathy is important, it's not going to stop people from dying in our streets. when you talk about a crash, it invites people to actually think about this issue and to think about how dangerous our streets are and how much work we have to do. that is what we are looking to do here today. as determined as i and the other members of families for safe streets are, we have a huge gap that needs to be bridged if we expect to reach vision zero and we know we can't do that without your support. that is why we are calling on elected officials, media, and the community at large to stop using the word "accident" and to join this movement. sympathy is important especially when you've gone through something as traumatic as the members of our group have.

but your sympathy does nothing for me. it does nothing for julie and paul mitchell, their sun dylan was killed by a garbage truck. -- there son dylan was killed by a garbage truck. or of rest franklin who was killed on a thursday afternoon on a high injury corridor and it does nothing for the people who will continue to be killed and injured on our streets. if we can stop using the word accident, we can start to take responsibility to change our dangerous streets and to change our culture that simply accepts these things as being unavoidable. i'm here today to ask you pass the resolution in front of you. which would commit the transportation authority to stop using the word accident in place of words like crash and collision.

most of you have already signed this individually, and i want to take a moment to thank those of you who have done so. it really means a lot to us. and also to encourage those of you who haven't. lastly, i want to take one final opportunity to tell you, and the people of san francisco about world day of remembrance for trafficked victims, which is coming up this up -- the sunday, november 18th. this is a global event that takes place every year to honor the millions of people who have been hurt or killed in traffic crashes, apt for us to stand in support of the family members and loved ones of these people. this sunday will be our fourth annual world day of remembrance, and we want to invite each of you to join us. if you are receiving this message, you are welcome and we need you. please come. we plan to meet at 3:00 pm, at

12th and howard, near the site of russell franklin post his death. from there, we will go on a memorial walk visiting crash sights where people have been killed and we hope to honor their memory and to raise awareness of what a serious problem this is. the memorial walk will end at 4:30 pm on the steps of city hall where we will be having a press conference and you will get to hear from other members of the families for safe streets , in addition to supervisor yee. please join us on november 18th , and please pass this resolution before you today. thank you for your time and consideration. >> thank you. commissioner yee? commissioner cohen? >> thank you very much for your very personal testimony. i was truly touched and i believe that you have driven home the message. i think superficially, it would appear like a semantic change.

like one was quibbling over the words, but i believe you articulated it and your desires in support for this resolution in a very poignant, personal way and i'm very grateful you found the strength to come into the chamber this morning to share with us, not only your story, but the stories of many others that are often considered a number, or a tally and not a name and not a human being. i want to thank you for that. for awakening us and reminding us how important it is to remember and to recognize that we do have some power to make some changes to high-traffic corridors and that we, as a transportation authority should continue to strive to make sure streets are safe for everyone, for pedestrians as well as the drivers and bikers. i want to appreciate you for that. supervisor yee can't thank you for bringing this measure before us. i think i have given you a verbal signing on and i would

like to indicate my support. thank you. >> thank you. >> thank you very much. thank you for the kind words. what are we? commissioner his. commissioner cohen. thank you, amanda, for once again articulating why we want to do this. i know it's very difficult for you and other members of the families for safe streets to talk about your personal tragedies and so forth. and i am hoping we can make this unanimous in regards to everyone signing on. i think most of the commissioners have signed on already. at the committee meeting, i actually did a shout out to a.b.c. news. because two days prior to the community meeting, i heard them in the report talking about a collision, rather than using the

word accident. it seems to me people are picking up on this and they understanding the need for this also. i hope my colleagues here can join us at the world day of remembrance. it is a touching -- i don't want to say celebration, it is a touching event for all of us that have been there. please join us. >> thank you. commissioner fewer? >> yes, i would also like to say thank you to commissioner yee, and for you for coming and sharing your story. i actually was hit in an intersection when i was nine years old by a speeding vehicle. right at 15th and california in my district, on my way home, two blocks away from my house. my husband who was a san francisco police officer for 35 years served nine years as -- in

a traffic unit with a solo motorcyclist. he had a collision that we thought he would die from. it was someone making a u-turn right in front of him. going at a fairly high speed and they had a crash. to call it an accident is actually minimizing the harm that really happened and what happens. and then i also want to say that i actually, now that it's brought to my attention about crash and collision versus accident, i think commissioner cohen is right. it is sort of a word, but, yes, actually, it does describe it in a much more violent type of way, and also, all i could say about my husband post is crash was it

was a horrible accident. it was so horrific of an accident that when you say it was a terrible crash or it collided with another car, it is much more powerful. thank you very much. i want to say thank you to my partner here, what is your name again? mental men. i'm just kidding. commissioner mandelman and i, working together with the police chief, knowledge we do need more enforcement on our streets and beefing up our traffic unit to have more thorough motorcyclist get out there and change driving behavior. thank you for partnering with me for that. i don't know if i signed on, but i would like to verbally sign on right now. with my partner over here, commissioner cohen. >> commissioner brown? >> i want to thank amanda.

i do appreciate it. i had the unfortunate incident where i was able to use crash for the first time about a month ago. it was after i shot -- signed on to this resolution and a constituent in my district was struck and killed by a car. he actually passed away. i was with him and his family at the hospital just before they took him off life support. i was able to use the word crash it was a hit and run and i even felt like crash or collision wasn't strong enough at that time. i definitely appreciate you coming up and speaking for everyone that can't be here because they, unfortunately, did not survive the crash or collision. thank you.

>> okay. so is there a motion -- i'm sorry. commissioner stefani. >> thank you. as a vice chair of the vision zero commute -- committee, i was so moved by the stories we heard at our last meeting and i wanted to thank you for coming here today, and sharing your story. i was so happy to sign a pledge immediately when you put it in front of us. i didn't say at the last meeting something that i wanted to say. that is that words matter. this is extremely important. when situations are preventable, accident is not the appropriate word. i was thinking too when you are talking about this, we are also focused on changing the language around unintentional shootings. at the same thing. when people talk about a 4 -year-old getting hold of a gun that is not stored properly and accidentally shooting their sibling. it is not an accident. it is a preventable.

>> chair peskin: now we'll return to our regular calendar item number 5, please. >> clerk: item 5, allocated $8.7 million in sales tax funds for 11 requests with conditions and appropriation of $200,000 in

tax funds for one request. this is an action item. >> chair peskin: missfort. >> good morning, commissioners from the transportation authority. thank you for your action on the previous items. i'd like to present some requests before you today for prop k funds, the first request is from caltrain for the annual member contribution from san francisco's share to their annual capital budget. and there's a long history of offsetting the local capital match contribution so since the passage of prop k in 2003, each year we have been able to cover the capital match as well. and as you'll hear on the next item, it can fund caltrain at this particular level at $7.5 million per year, through fiscal year 2021. just highlighting that the list of projects includes renovation

of the restrooms and the waiting area for caltrain station. and next item is from the ssmta for the design phase of new traffic signals at five locations throughout the city. and there are another five locations that will advance as well, concurrent through this project if general obligation bonds and some district -- fees are secured. and the construction would be done by 2021. so this is the design phase. you will see the construction phase request next year. and next request is to leverage the bay area bridge tolls to replace 35 paratransit vans and this improves reliability and reduce maintenance costs on the program for paratransit. and last request is from the transportation authority and this is for an appropriation of funds to -- to assess the

sustainability program. so when the city -- when there are new developments that are going up in the city, there's a requirement that the developers employ transportation demand management strategies and these include things like on-site amenityities and subsidizing transit passes and all in reducing the miles traveled by the residents moving into new developments. so we'll develop a tool to see how to analyze the data and evaluate the effectiveness of these strategies. eventually the next phase of work in the next year, in the y.y.p. is to create a public web-based version of the tool. so that the public and developers can look and see how effective the strategies are and the menu -- in the toolbox for these strategies. and with that i can take any questions and as can the project

managers.