>> chair peskin: so that was represe representing? >> sponsor reimbursements from d.p.w., m.t.a., transbay terminal, a combination of it. mainly from the m.t.a. >> chair peskin: and what did the m.t.a. purchase that they didn't bill you for? >> vehicles. >> chair peskin: so has the m.t.a. acquired those vehicles and how do they -- they have enough cash to buy them and how does that work? >> so we are on a reimbursement based program. every department must incur the costs before they come to us, where we would use our proceeds to reimburse them. once we receive the sponsor reimbursements, we drawdown on the proceeds with u.s. bank as our trustees. at this point, i am getting indication from m.t.a., but tot total accounts payable i'm expecting from the city and county of san francisco is 15

million, and i know that is -- know the majority of that is from the m.t.a. >> chair peskin: okay. i don't think we care, as long as our agency is not dragging our feet. but it does not sound -- we have not been billed. >> correct. this agency is not dragging its feet, this agency is paying the money, waiting for reimbursements to come? . we still have a good amount of time to spend the remaining 115.8 million. i don't anticipate at this point that we will not spend those funds. >> chair peskin: miss ramos, if you don't send me the bills, you don't get the money. continue, please. >> thank you. regarding the proceeds, we have 66.5% sitting in the county treasury pool, and that is in compliance with the california government code. this is an information item. i'm more than happy to answer any further questions you may

have. >> chair peskin: commissioner walton? >> chair peskin, is it appropriate to ask m.t.a. representatives that they have acquired vehicles that they mentioned? >> chair peskin: mr. ramos -- yes, it's absolutely appropriate, commissioner. >> through the chair, responding to the supervisor's inquiry. i wish i could provide some information to that question. i was unprepared. so what i will do is use this trusty device, and hopefully, before the end of the meeting when you're walking out, i can get you an answer. >> yeah. i think the answer, commissioner walton, but we will hear eventually from the m.t.a. is they were short staffed in their accounting department. they bought the l.r.v.s, they

had enough cash. they purchased them, and we will reimburse them when they bill us, when they've been slow in billing us. >> that is amazingly great information chair, but i had a conversation with leadership m.t.a., and they got me very excited about the fleet that is on the way, so i want to know if they've purchased these vehicles or not. >> chair peskin: so if, they have purchased, and some are still being fabricated, and they will take title ii -- miss la fort, would you like to jump in? press that button. >> yes. commissioner walton, there is a chart in the annual report on page 47 that gives an annual overview where the city is at in procuring vehicles. so you'll see that of the motor coaches, i would say that maybe 75% of the vehicles are already in service of the replacement

vehicles. more than half of the trolley buses are in service, and the light rail vehicles, the expansion vehicles are already in service, and they're working to replace the fleet, so yes, these vehicles are in service, we just have not received invoices from the m.t.a. so they've gotten the receipt, they've done the testing, and they've put them into testing on the street. >> chair peskin: is there any public comment on this item? seeing none, public comment is closed. [gavel]. >> chair peskin: thank you, ms. fong, for your work, and that is an information item. is there any introduction of new items? seeing none, is there -- oh, commissioner brown? >> yes, i actually -- i actually was going to the treasure island mobility management, on the minutes -- >> chair peskin: that is actually a separate meeting

that will start as soon as this meeting it over. >> oh, thank you. >> chair peskin: yeah. that's weirdly enough, a different agency, with a different chair. >> thank you, chair. >> chair peskin: my pleasure. is there any general public comment? >> commissioners, my name is francisco decaosta. i've been monitoring your meetings on the television. what i'm really interested in is what is san francisco county transportation authority doing when it comes to congestion? we can have all this talk about vehicles and whatever else you all waste your time on, but i'm really interested in the increase in the carbon footprint that affects our

infants, our children, our youth, those with compromised health. that's what i'm interested in. i'm not interested in the b.s. because as an environmentalist and having served san franciscans for over 40 years, i don't see any changes for the good. and i see the turnover on the side of the san francisco county transportation authority, a great turnover. and i don't see any diversity. i don't see any diversity. and when i say diversity, i don't mean one type of diversity, i mean, do you all really represent the constituency, the taxpayers of san francisco? having said that, i see the supervisors are busy having a sidebar, and that tells me

something. supervisors, one, to become a supervisor, you must represent. and for the newest supervisors, you can look what's happening around you. when somebody's giving public comment, which is sacrosanct, and you're having your public conversations, and you think you're really smart, i can write, and that's the reason why i have my blog. >> chair peskin: is there any further public comment? seeing none, public comment is closed. [gavel]. >> chair peskin: and the t.a. is adjourned. [gavel] it.

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that especially the toughest they think this is - i really appreciate they love this art. >> from the cantonese to the hypomania and we have hot pots we have all of the cuisines of china in our chinatown you don't have to go far. >> small business is important to our neighborhood because if we really make a lot of people lives better more people get a job here not just a big firm. >> you don't have to go anywhere else we have pocketed of great neighborhoods haul have all have their own uniqueness. >> san francisco has to all

>> good morning, and welcome to the board meeting of the treasure island mobility management agency. if you are wondering why i am sitting here chairing this, i am the current vice chair of this committee, and the former chair

was commissioner kim, and she is no longer in our mix anymore, so here we go. i will welcome everyone to the meeting today on tuesday, january 29th, 2019 at 1116 a.m., and our clerk today is alberto, i would like to thank s.f. government t.v. for broadcasting this meeting and making the transcripts available to the public. mr clerk, please call rollcall player . [roll call]

>> we have a quorum. >> thank you. can you please call item number 2? >> item number 2 is chair's report. >> we will forgo the chair report today and wait for the next meeting to see if there is a chair report. is there any public comment on the non-charter report? [laughter] >> i don't see any so public comment is now closed. mr clerk, please call the next item. >> item three is executive director's report. this is an information item. >> thank you so much. i would like to provide a brief update. we refining the total policy affordability program that was resented to the board at the end of 2018 and doing more deep outreach with residents and businesses to help find a way to

ease the burden on existing residents and merchants. will be back to you in a couple months time with some more updated proposals in that area. the ferry terminal continues as well. our team will be at the meeting on february 7th to provide an update to the board to. this is a water emergency transportation authority, our ferry partners, and along with private partners that we are also discussing potential services with. we are also continuing to do work on the autonomous vehicle shuttle planning and system engineering. the contract was met last year. this was a federally funded grant program that allows us to provide a first last mile distribution folks to and from the neighborhoods back eventually connecting to a.c. transit bus service, munimobile service and water ferry services we are also conducting a lot of outreach and coordination meetings with the bay area toll authority on the bike connection

that will be an exciting long-term project to add a bicycle production maintenance path to the island to san francisco, touching down in district six, south of market area, and in the vicinity of essex. in addition to the ramps program , that our deputy is working on, pretty much the only connection we are not working on is a gondola, i mean that is a little joke. i mean we can work on those. we have our hands full with transit, ferries, buses, autonomous shuttles, ramps, and the like. we are happy to provide more details at the next meeting. >> okay. commissioner brown? >> okay, now i get to talk about this. for the minutes, before we approve the minutes, i would just like to go in, and i noticed that when we were talking about, and we were to go

out back out and do outreach with the residence, a lot of people had mentioned, and i noticed it was not in here, when you do outreach i think it would be really good together, information of how many times they leave treasure island, and because i know they were saying gas and food and going to work or school, but there is also people talking about how they came home, and they had to go back out for outside activities for their children, so i think that is just a really good idea is to find out how many times on average do they leave the island a day, because i think that will really guide the conversation of the toll and what they are getting for compensation. >> thank you so much for the reminder, apologies for missing that. we will take that as an amendment to the next item on the minutes. >> any other comments from my colleagues? seeing none, is there any public

comment on this item? [indiscernible] >> i was watching at the last meeting -- [indiscernible].

>> to have the filthy rich and then the poor. and there are representatives which i called the beos, and all of you who work for the san francisco transportation authority do not feel because your heart has to be in the right place, if you have just come here to b.s., i'm going to do this, i'm going to do that to , then know the developers are rogue developers that we don't trust. when the people say, if they can stay on treasure island, then you know you have to accommodate them, because you are on a fixed income. that is all i'm going to say now but i am watching you all like a hawk, and i can address the

issues on some other level. thank you very much. >> thank you. any other public comments on this item? seeing none -- come on up. >> hello, my name is bobby and i live on treasure island. i'm a little late, i didn't get a lot of the foreground of the conversation, but i want to make my way out, give my voice to be heard. i speak for a lot of us. we are having meetings on the island regarding this situation about tolls and more revenues being generated off of the people who already live there. there's a lot of interesting points that are coming up in conversation that i think are valid relative to this, like if developers and people that are actually bringing more life, more units, more retail to

treasure island, that really has nothing to do with the people who are already living there like me. i understand that it is congestion management is the goal to impose a fee to people who live on the island, and a lot of us go on and off throughout the day, but if we don't have anything to do with causing the congestion or increasing its, then i don't think it is really deserving to impose more money to be spent just to drive on the island to get to our homes if we don't really have anything to do with it, so i'm a pretty fair guy, i'm about people making revenue, and the government generating what they need, but i think it is bad enough with the tolls even just being increased a month ago on the bridge that most people -- everyone has to pay, as far as i know, it is a

lot of revenue being generated, and i just don't think the people living on the island should have to be responsible for that, since we are not responsible for the congestion. i wanted to share that. >> thank you. any other public comments on this item? seeing none, public comment is now closed. this is an informational item. mr clerk, call item number 4. >> item four is approve the minutes of the december 11th, 2018 meeting. this is an action item. >> okay. is there a motion? >> i would move to approve subject to the amendments made by commissioner brown as articulated by our executive director. >> is there a second? motion made by commissioner peskin and seconded by commissioner ronen.

any public comments on this item seeing none, public comment is closed. there is a motion to pass this as amended. any objections? i should probably should take rolled -- rollcall. [roll call] >> we have approval. >> okay. let me have item number 5. >> item five is election of chair and vice chair for 2019,

this is an action item. >> i will take the chair first and go through the action and then do the vice chair. is there any nominations for the office of the chair? commissioner walton? >> thank you. i would like to nominate commissioner haney as the chair of the board. it is in his district, and i believe he wants to take the lead on this. >> okay. is there a second? motion made by commissioner walton and seconded by commissioner stefani. any other nominations for this position? seeing none, haney is nominated and this is a second.

are there any public comments on this issue -- item? seeing none, public comment is closed. his are right now there is a motion on the floor, and why don't we just have rollcall? >> on the motion to elect commissioner haney as a chair of the timma board for 2019... [roll call] >> we have approval. >> great. the second part of this agenda item is now -- nominations are

now in order for the nominations of the vice chair. i see -- are there any nominations? let me have commissioner mandelman. >> i will nominate commissioner walton. >> okay. is there a second? seconded by commissioner safai. are there any other nominations? seeing none, nominations are now closed. are there any public comments on this item? >> commissioners, since you have appointed a chair who has been newly elected to represent district six, and treasure

island comes under his jurisdiction, and a vice chair, i've been involved for all of 40 years in matters involving base closure, and i'm very familiar with treasure island, which is thinking one and a half inches every year, but rather i would request the chair and the vice chair, do not repeat what is happening at hunter's point. treasure island is contaminated, and many people have died living in treasure island, including this city's policy to just dump people in homes without first following our precautionary

principles, which most of you have not read, and if you all have read it, shame on y'all, because y'all have not enforced it. basically the precautionary principle states that if any project is ongoing and adversely impacts any life, including animals and insects and frogs, the job has to stop, and the investigation has to be done. this has not been done, so the new chair and the new vice chair have their work cut out, and i am here to state it so that it can be recorded. thank you very much. >> thank you. any other public comments on this item? seeing none, public comment is now closed. is the nomination of

commissioner walton to be the vice chair of timma, and rollcall, please. >> on the motion to elect commissioner walton as vice chair for 2019... [roll call] >> we have approval. >> okay. congratulations chair haney and vice chair walton. mr clerk, please call item number 6 -- or do you take over now?

>> all right. all right. thank you vice chair yee serving as chair and thank you to vice chair walton for stepping up, and to all my colleagues, i appreciate you electing me. we just have two items. item six is introduction of new items. is there any new items from the staff? all right. is there any public comment on this? seeing none. item seven, general public comment. >> commissioners, in san francisco, they own -- there are

only two places where we can expand our housing, transportation, and other quality-of-life issues. it is hunter's point and it is adjacent to candlestick point and treasure island and it is all connected. if you read the documents, the earlier documents when it came to the area that i mentioned, it would say, treasure island, and then it would say at hunter's point annex. that's how the department of defense entitled these areas. in the year 2,000, when i was at the presidio with a very qualified engineer named jack swanson, we scanned the area

that is now called treasure island, and we have critical data on each and every building, it was submitted to the city. at that time the job that is a jack swanson's job was funded by the san francisco public utilities commission. now you supervisors, and you from the san francisco county transportation authority have to study the empirical data when it comes to contamination and pollution, and if you know there is contamination and pollution, and people die, then that blood is on the hands if you are guilty. that's all i've got to say.

>> any further public comment? all right. meeting is adjourned.

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anywhere else and san francisco a hot bed for local manufacturing in support that is what keeps your city vibrant we'll make a compelling place to live and visit i think that local business is the lifeblood of san francisco and a vibrant community >> i lived in the mission neighborhood for seven years and before that the excel see your district. 20 years a resident of the city and county of san francisco. i am the executive director of a local art space nonprofit that showcases work that relate to

the latino community and i have been in this building for seven years and some of my neighbors have been here 30 year. we were notified from the landlord he was going to sell the building. when we realized it was happening it was no longer a thought for the landlord and i sort of had a moment of panic. i heard about the small sites program through my work with the mission economic agency and at met with folks from the mayor's housing program because they wanted to utilize the program. we are dealing with families with different needs and capacities. conversations were had early in the morning because that is the only time that all the tenants were in the building and finally when we realized that meda did

have the resources to buy the building we went on a letter writing campaign to the landlord and said to him we understand you want to sell your building, we understand what you are asking for and you are entitled to it, it's your land, but please work with us. what i love about ber nell height it represents the diversity that made me fall in love with san francisco. we have a lot of mom and pop shops and you can get all your resources within walking distance. my favorite air area of my homes my little small patio where i can start my morning and have my coffee an is a sweet spot for me

and i. >> my name is angela wilson and i'm an owner of the market i worked at a butcher for about 10 years and became a butcher you i was a restaurant cook started in sxos and went to uc; isn't that so and opened a cafe we have produce from small farms without small butcher shops hard for small farms to survive we have a

been a butcher shop since 1901 in the heights floor and the case are about from 1955 and it is only been a butcher shot not a lot of businesses if san francisco that have only been one thing. >> i'm all for vegetarians if you eat meat eat meat for quality and if we care of we're in a losing battle we need to support butcher shops eat less we sell the chickens with the head and feet open somebody has to make money when you pay $25 for a chicken i guarantee if you go to save way half of the chicken goes in the enlarge but we started affordable housing depends on it occurred to us this is a male field people said

good job even for a girl the interesting thing it is a women's field in most of world just here in united states it is that pay a man's job i'm an encountered woman and raise a son and teach i am who respect woman i consider all women's who work here to be impoverished and strong in san francisco labor is high our cost of good ideas we seal the best good ideas the profit margin that low but everything that is a laboring and that's a challenge in the town so many people chasing money and not i can guarantee everybody this is their passion. >> i'm the - i've been cooking mile whole life this is a really, really strong presence

of women heading up kitchens in the bay area it is really why i moved out here i think that we are really strong in the destroy and really off the pages kind of thing i feel like women befrp helps us to get back up i'm definitely the only female here i fell in love i love setting up and love knowing were any food comes from i do the lamb and that's how i got here today something special to have a female here a male dominated field so i think that it is very special to have women and

especially like it is going at it you know i'm a tiny girl but makes me feel good for sure. >> the sad thing the building is sold i'm renegotiating my lease the neighborhood wants us to be here with that said, this is a very difficult business it is a constant struggle to maintain freshness and deal with what we have to everyday it is a very high labor of business but something i'm proud of if you want to get a job at affordable housing done nasal you need a good attitude and the jobs on the bottom you take care of all the produce and the fish and computer ferry terminal and work your way up employing people with a passion for this and empowering them to learn

as latinos we are unified in some ways and incredibly diverse in others and this exhibit really is an exploration of nuance in how we present those ideas. ♪ our debts are not for sale. >> a piece about sanctuary and how his whole family served in the army and it's a long family tradition and these people that

look at us as foreigners, we have been here and we are part of america, you know, and we had to reinforce that. i have been cure rating here for about 18 year. we started with a table top, candle, flower es, and a picture and people reacted to that like it was the monna lisa. >> the most important tradition as it relates to the show is idea of making offering. in traditional mexican alters, you see food, candy, drinks, cigarettes, the things that the person that the offerings where being made to can take with them into the next word, the next life. >> keeps u.s us connects to the

people who have passed and because family is so important to us, that community dynamic makes it stick and makes it visible and it humanizes it and makes it present again. ♪ >> when i first started doing it back in '71, i wanted to do something with ritual, ceremony and history and you know i talked to my partner ross about the research and we opened and it hit a cord and people loved it. >> i think the line between engaging everyone with our culture and appropriating it. i think it goes back to asking people to bring their visions of what it means to honor the dead, and so for us it's not asking us to make mexican altars if they

are not mexican, it's really to share and expand our vision of what it means to honor the dead. >> people are very respectful. i can show you this year alone of people who call tol ask is it okay if we come, we are hawaii or asian or we are this. what should we wear? what do you recommend that we do? >> they say oh, you know, we want a four day of the dead and it's all hybrid in this country. what has happened are paper cuts, it's so hybrid. it has spread to mexico from the bay area. we have influence on a lot of people, and i'm proud of it. >> a lot of tim times they don't

represent we represent a lot of cultures with a lot of different perspectives and beliefs. >> i can see the city changes and it's scary. >> when we first started a lot of people freaked out thinking we were a cult and things like that, but we went out of our way to also make it educational through outreach and that is why we started doing the prosession in 1979. >> as someone who grew up attending the yearly processions and who has seen them change incrementally every year into kind of what they are now, i feel in many ways that the cat is out of the bag and there is no putting the genie back into the bottle in how the wider public accesses the day of the dead. >> i have been through three different generations of

children who were brought to the procession when they were very young that are now bringing their children or grandchildren. >> in the '80s, the processions were just kind of electric. families with their homemade visuals walking down the street in san francisco. service so much more intimate and personal and so much more rooted in kind of a family practice of a very strong cultural practice. it kind of is what it is now and it has gone off in many different directions but i will always love the early days in the '80s where it was so intimate and son sofa millial. >> our goal is to rescue a part of the culture that was a part that we could invite others to join in there there by where we

invite the person to come help us rescue rescue it also. that's what makes it unique. >> you have to know how to approach this changing situation, it's exhausting and i have seen how it has affected everybody. >> what's happening in mission and the relationship with the police, well it's relevant and it's relevant that people think about it that day of the dead is not just sugar skulls and paper flowers and candles, but it's become a nondenominational tradition that people celebrate. >> our culture is about color and family and if that is not present in your life, there is just no meaning to it you know? >> we have artists as black and

brown people that are in direct danger of the direct policies of the trump a administration and i think how each of the artists has responsibilitie responded ss interesting. the common [♪] >> i just don't know that you can find a neighborhood in the city where you can hear music stands and take a ride on the low rider down the street. it is an experience that you can't have anywhere else in san francisco. [♪] [♪]

>> district nine is a in the southeast portion of the city. we have four neighborhoods that i represent. st. mary's park has a completely unique architecture. very distinct feel, and it is a very close to holly park which is another beautiful park in san francisco. the bernal heights district is unique in that we have the hell which has one of the best views in all of san francisco. there is a swinging hanging from a tree at the top. it is as if you are swinging over the entire city. there are two unique aspects. it is considered the fourth chinatown in san francisco. sixty% of the residents are of chinese ancestry. the second unique, and fun aspect about this area is it is the garden district. there is a lot of urban agriculture and it was where the city grew the majority of the flowers. not only for san francisco but for the region. and of course, it is the location in mclaren park which

is the city's second biggest park after golden gate. many people don't know the neighborhood in the first place if they haven't been there. we call it the best neighborhood nobody has ever heard our. every neighborhood in district nine has a very special aspect. where we are right now is the mission district. the mission district is a very special part of our city. you smell the tacos at the [speaking spanish] and they have the best latin pastries. they have these shortbread cookies with caramel in the middle. and then you walk further down and you have sunrise café. it is a place that you come for the incredible food, but also to learn about what is happening in the neighborhood and how you can help and support your community. >> twenty-fourth street is the birthplace of the movement. we have over 620 murals. it is the largest outdoor public gallery in the country and

possibly the world. >> you can find so much political engagement park next to so much incredible art. it's another reason why we think this is a cultural district that we must preserve. [♪] >> it was formed in 2014. we had been an organization that had been around for over 20 years. we worked a lot in the neighborhood around life issues. most recently, in 2012, there were issues around gentrification in the neighborhood. so the idea of forming the cultural district was to help preserve the history and the culture that is in this neighborhood for the future of families and generations. >> in the past decade, 8,000 latino residents in the mission district have been displaced from their community. we all know that the rising cost of living in san francisco has led to many people being

displaced. lower and middle income all over the city. because it there is richness in this neighborhood that i also mentioned the fact it is flat and so accessible by trip public transportation, has, has made it very popular. >> it's a struggle for us right now, you know, when you get a lot of development coming to an area, a lot of new people coming to the area with different sets of values and different culture. there is a lot of struggle between the existing community and the newness coming in. there are some things that we do to try to slow it down so it doesn't completely erase the communities. we try to have developments that is more in tune with the community and more equitable development in the area. >> you need to meet with and gain the support and find out the needs of the neighborhoods. the people on the businesses that came before you. you need to dialogue and show respect. and then figure out how to bring in the new, without displacing

the old. [♪] >> i hope we can reset a lot of the mission that we have lost in the last 20 years. so we will be bringing in a lot of folks into the neighborhoods pick when we do that, there is a demand or, you know, certain types of services that pertain more to the local community and working-class. >> back in the day, we looked at mission street, and now it does not look and feel anything like mission street. this is the last stand of the latino concentrated arts, culture and cuisine and people. we created a cultural district to do our best to conserve that feeling. that is what makes our city so cosmopolitan and diverse and makes us the envy of the world. we have these unique neighborhoods with so much cultural presence and learnings, that we want to preserve. [♪]