then this facility will function primarily again as a light rail facility. so the plan is to get this project moving quickly so that construction can start in winter of 2022. you'll see a request in about a year designs from the m.t.a. for this request. the next request is from the m.t.a., the bike-to-workday 2019 event. we have a long-standing of funding this day of activity as well as the events leading up to it. there are a lot of outreach to normalizing bike transportation. we will be requesting on receiving before, during, and after counts to enhance the

effectiveness on the ridership on the day of, and how that compares to the prior years, as well. with that, i can take any questions, and project leaders are here, as well. >> chair peskin: thank you. colleagues, are there any questions of staff? seeing none, is there any public comment on this item? okay. public comment is closed. [gavel]. >> chair peskin: and is there a motion to allocate the afore mentioned $3.48 million? motion by commissioner fewer. is there a second? seconded by commissioner mandelman. colleagues, can we do that same house, same call. the motion is approved on first reading. [gavel]. >> chair peskin: next item, please. >> clerk: [agenda item read].

>> chair peskin: mr. young. >> good morning. eric young, senior communications officer at the transportation authority, here to present this item. an important part of our work involves regular communication with the general public, policy makers, the media, partner agencies and others with the assistance of on call communications consultants. with our on-call contracts expiring soon, we conducted a competitive procurement process, seeking new contracts with consultant teams that have a broad range of communications and outreach skills. we are recommending two firms for contracts as we have learned from past experience, this gives us a broader and deeper bench of expertise, gives us competitiveness, and ensures we have rear he resource -- resources when we need them. the two firms that we selected

scored the highest among our r.f.q. these two firms provide a strong set of skills, specialist and relevant experience. civic edge has a proven track record of performance in all on-all task areas and a deep bench of subconsultants. convey, together with its subconsultants demonstrates strong capabilities to support our agency's work in emerging mobility, pricing, and other areas. both firms have experience on transportation projects, having worked for compliants such as the contra costa transportation authority, sfmta, marin transit, caltrain, and a.c. transit. we established a disadvantaged business enterprise goal of 17% for this contract. both teams have made commitments to exceed that goal. the civic edge team includes

21.5% d.b.e. participation from four san francisco owned businesses. the convey team includes 40% d.b.e. participation through convey being a woman-owned firm. budget for these contracts will be funded by a combination of federal and/or state grants, local agency contributions and prop k sales tax funds. the recommendation is to award a three-year base contract to extend for an additional year. these contracts are on an as-order basis. with me are representatives of civic and convey. and i'm happy to take questions. >> chair peskin: just one question, and i think i know the answer to this. none of these folks are registered lobbyists, correct? >> to my understanding, they are not registered lobbyists, any of the primes or subs.

>> chair peskin: beautiful. any questions from commissioners? any public comment on item number eight? sunshine, you want to say something? pendergast, just come on up. >> i just wanted to add for public comment, once again, the san francisco public transportation agency has outdone itself to the disadvantaged business community, the local business community, and it is the only agency that consistently reached out to the lgbtq businesses. thank you for setting the example to your sister agencies and to the rest of the country. thank you. >> chair peskin: thank you. is there any further public comment? seeing none, public comment is closed. [gavel]. >> chair peskin: is there a motion to approval a three-year professional services contract,

with an option for two one-year periods? made by commissioner mandelman, seconded by spiefr stefani. we can take that same house, same call. the item is adopted. [gavel]. >> chair peskin: next item, please. >> clerk: [agenda item read]. >> good morning, chair peskin and congratulations to you and vice chair mandelman. just a highlight of the busy and productive year that we had last year. >> chair peskin: miss chang, do we have a policy on per diems, somebody comes in for one minute and leaves? that was a joke. keep going. >> yeah. we appreciate everyone's attendance and participation and look forward to working with everyone this year, especially our new board members. first of all, the annual report is something that we do every year, and it's a pleasure to present our highlights of the prior year and reflect a bit on

what we're planning to accomplish in the coming year. we just had our staff retreat yesterday at beautiful university of san francisco campus, and cover -- we're just super -- very excited for the work ahead. it's our 30th anniversary here, so that's very excited. we were established by voters in 1989 to administer the half-penny sales tax known as prop b. our mission, just to remind everyone, is to plan, fund, and deliver transportation improvements in san francisco to make travel safer, healthier, and easier for all. we work on local and regional projects to improve travel choices for residents, commuters, visitors and the like tlou the city and the region. and i just want to emphasize some of these roles. our congestion management agency, our funding roles, but essentially, we do the plan, fund, and deliver with all of our partners in concert at the local agencies, but also at the

regional agencies. i often get a question about what's different about the san francisco public transportation agency from agencies that work in the city. our first slide to sort of speaks to one of the major differences in that we look at the entire system of planning across all the different modes, local and regional with caltrans. this year, there's a connectsf long range planning program that's really going to get more involved in the streets and highways, master modal planning. we also have master regional planning happening with the horizon scenario planning effort. it's looking at all different potential futures and trying to make sure or city -- excuse me, our region is well prepared and resilient going forward. as you can see, some of the other activities have to do with advocacy for revenues. last year was a big year for s.b.-1, as well as air quality

district management plans, and caka. another regional role for us is to look with our sister agency at santa clara and san mateo. eric cordoba's looking at this, for buses and carpoolers and people who really want that direct connection between san francisco and the south bay. so thank you for that study and planning going forward. also on the d-9 planning freeway, worked through commissioner ronen's leadership to try to make things building on the allemeny neighborhood. moving to another sort of policy area where we've been able to provide some advise and guidance and direction to staff

and partners and city based on your leadership, especially chair peskin around t.n.c. research, we looked at a whole spectrum of goals that would apply to mobility and shuttles and scooters and all the like, autonomous vehicles. we worked last season with assembly member ting and industry partners. in addition to the t.n.c. research on congestion, we looked at other ways that we can manage congestion for the broader sort of traveling public, and that involves a congestion pricing study update, and we're looking at partnering with new mobility partners in the outer mission excelsior area. working with supervisor safai's office.

on planning, we've advanced many local planning studies that were identifies by each of your offices, these include completing the bayview study. -- identified by each of your offices. vision zero ramps was a very strong focus for district six, both in the phase one study that was adopted last year, looking at the eight intersections and the phase two study looking at an additional ten intersections where the street network touches with local freeway network. on the regional coordination front, we support our sister agencies, our regional partners on things like the pen opinion alignment chosen for the downtown extension, the rail into transbay. we selected that last year. better market street is making progress. they're in the preenvironmental phase.

bayview transportation plan, sfmta, was participating in a budget coming forward to implement top priorities for top priorities in the bayview. i think with some of the passage of the housing plans in brisbane, we're going to see that gear up again, trying to connect our buses efficiently across 101, looking at a geneva extension eventually to is 01, and -- to 101. treasure island, we had a lot of work this last year on program development, how are we going to be able to fund our bus, ferry, and transit services equitiablely and effectively. we did a lot of outreach, and we will go back and continue to take the feedback from the

board last fall and move with the community on additional options to look at each more ways that we can relieve the burden on existing residents and businesses and bring that back to you through the traeshl island mobility management agency. other outreach work -- procurement work is initiating our toll system, using federal funds through a grant from the obama administration smart cities grant, interestingly, the bike ped path development on the west bend, which would take the vista point terminus of the san francisco oakland bay bridge, bring you across the top of y.b.i. and over to treasure island to a potential ferry in the near term and across the actual bay bridge west span and touching down ess essex i believe in the longer

term. we updated our strategic plan led by our deputy for policy and programs, and this is really the five-year look over the 30 years of the sales tax program. we're in year 15, and it's a really important milestone. most of our big projects are underway or already constructed, and we're working on the very important smaller category that are spread across the city over multiple categories. here's a highlight or scan of the neighborhood transportation planning and capital projects in each of the districts that were completed. as far as funding applications were completed over the next years, and the projects will be completed over the next several years in several districts.

district five, eight, seven, as well. we have several more in the pipeline. it's always a pleasure to work on these because they always reflect your priorities, and across the board, whether it's m.t.a., public works, our agency appreciates collaborating with you on these and working on important neighborhood improvements. so the five projects that were completed in 2018 are in d-4, 6, 7, and 10. we did a study on quintara, as well as south park traffic calming. in balboa area, we did a traffic calming study. starting july 1, we are through our programming action last year, created additional five year budgets in the order of 700,000 for praj development, planning and construction. at the federal level, m.t.c. takes those funds and apportions them to the counties and through this board's actions in cycle one, we

prioritize projects such as masonic avenue, broadway, chinatown, and the latter two were completed with fant sick celebrations with the community last year. masonic, we were there just yesterday taking a tour with our whole staff. our cycle two money was propagated to the embarcadero elevator, john yee hall chin elementary and some other projects. the webster street pedestrian signals is another highlight, and we're hoping to also do a new round this coming year because we have more funding coming in for programming. another fund that we manage is the air district money to reduce air emissions, and we had the gator pass, which is a transit pass that san francisco state implemented last year

with all the students. going forward, we had new projects allocated funding for fast chargers for electric vehicles, bike racks, and a whole bunch of other electrification-type projects. in terms of delivery, we either deliver the projects or oversee the agencies in terms of their ability to deliver the projects. all of we're all working on vehicles, train control, maintenance facilities, and you'll see some highlights here from the -- hopefully, you've been able to ride all the new vehicles from b.a.r.t. and of course the municipally l.r.v. we had our new meet and greet facility, in the yslais creek

area. s are westbound ru s -- we are preparing our south gate road and again coordinating on pedestrian path projects with the regional and state agencies. oversight focused on transbay. we had a wonderful focus on opening the center in august and unfortunately did discover the cracks, but to some degree, that was lucky because we wouldn't have wanted to discover that in a different way, so it was fortunate that we caught it, and the tjpa is actively working with a peer review to understand the causes and to converge on a fix. the downtown rail extension, as i mentioned, made progress. we had done some tunnel track design peer review studies with a panel -- an expert panel that advised on whether we should

have two versus three tracks reading into the terminal and conversion on the three and rusing the tunnel cover was very important as a result of that work, as well. we are moving ahead with the d.t.x. over sight and management peer review and we'll report back in the next few months -- or in the early part of this year. central subway makes progress. there has been some delay, but overall the the project is 81% complete, and we were able to backfill some money that the state had for this project to backfill $61 million. on caltrain modernization, that is making progress on the train control as well as electrification projects. the first train sets were received, and revenue service is anticipate index 2022. finally, there's a whole host of arterial projects around the

city, there is a reflection of the m.t.a. bond money and the s.b.-1 funds. these are projects on lombard, 19th avenue, geary. folks are feeling the crunch of the traffic impacts, and i think that's something we continue to focus on with these agencies. we convened m.t.a. and public works on an information item last year about how they're looking at these as a group, not just an individual projects and try to reduce the impacts on individuals and businesses in particular. they do get complex, but i -- i am positive that with more concerted effort, we can provide even more advice and perhaps assistance to them as they try to find ways to ease the traveling experience across town. vision zero initiatives, we have our vision zero committee

that's been chaired for several years now by commissioner yee, chair yee, and several other commissioners have been participating in the education and the outreach as well as street design efforts. so many projects were developed and approved by the sfmta that were very important and exciting with mayor bleed's support, as well. -- mayor breed's support, as well. our families for safe streets, you know, very bravely had a lot of great activity, they were testifying in sacramento, really trying to press for legislation that we're seeking, such as automated speed enforcement and other things that will help improve speed safety on our streets. we do see a troubling overlay in speeding and fatal crashes in the areas of concern so that remains a focus on the vision zero task force. finally, we had another year of

clean audits, 15 years in a row. thank you to our deputy for finance and administration, cynthia fong and her finance team. we took a look inward, as well to see how we're doing on our budgeting, on our program management for the prop k program, and we've implemented many of the recommendations and keep you posted on those. our bond program continues to be productive. we have our major cash flow drivers for the funding of the k program with vehicles for m.t.a., but also some critical communications programs. we've made off our revolving credit agreement, and going through december 31 have not only hit our bond argumentatives but have strong -- bond targets but have strong l.b.e. and s.b.e.s in

contracting opportunities, so with that, i'm happy to thank you all and your staffs for a productive year, and going forward look forward to your continued guidance and support. thank you. >> chair peskin: thank you, executive director chang. and to new commissioners haney, mar, and walton, that was your t.a. 101. now you know everything you need to know. the one thing that i think all of us are going to have to deal with in the coming year and going forward is impacts to small businesses from these major projects, whether it's the central subway, which we dealt with last year or vanness and in the future geary and lombard, it affects all of our districts, and we really have to work with the m.t.a. to come up with some kind of a meaningful real mitigation program because i'm watching these businesses on vanness avenue, and it's not okay. so that's a 2019 project for

us. with that, commissioner yee? >> president yee: first of all, thank you -- i want to thank director chang for her report, and i also have a -- probably concerns -- as much concern as chair peskin in regards to small businesses really hurting with these construction projects. i've seen over and over again, even for the few months that it impacted west portal, it had some impact. and i said probably two years ago that we really need to address this issue and to find a system where it's not just about the city's response afterwards when everything's completed ten years later and say hey, we're going to promote your corridor now. it's too bad half your businesses are gone. so that's -- that's not the right thing to do, and we need

to find some other solution. my -- i have a question in regards to your emerging mobility services and technology, on page 18. as you know, i asked for the creation of a task force to look for emerging technology. that also includes mobility, right? and so i was just wondering how, in your recommendations, if that's going to be consistent with the recommendations that will come out of the emerging technology task force. >> yes. thank you for your earlier comment. we stand ready to help, and i think that's a deep concern amongst many community members, business community, public community, and the residents, the disruption that -- the feeling that there is more disruption than is required, and so that's something we can

help refine perhaps due to some strategic reports we can do. regarding the emerging mobility work and the task force that he created with the city administrator's office, we participated in that and there's a high degree of overlap and convergence there. the citywide task force on the emerging technology does not just deal with transportation but they utilized some of the work that we had done with m.t.a., thinking about all the different ten goal areas, making sure we are being comprehensive and not piecemeal. a large percent of them are in transportation. i think there are some other applications of this policy framework that affect other parts of the city government, but i think city administrator naomi kelly has done a really good job bringing everybody to the table and making sure we're

thinking in the broadest division across departments. >> president yee: okay. thank you. >> thank you. >> chair peskin: commissioner fewer? >> supervisor fewer: thank you, chair. i just want to echo your concerns about the small businesses and the small businesses along vanness, and also very concerned about what's going to be happening to my neighborhood once the geary b.r.t. construction begins. i hope we've learned some lessons through the vanness b.r.t. construction and hope that we can mitigation some of those issues. >> chair peskin: miss chang, you want to respond? >> we're certainly listening, and before we get to the geary, i think we -- i'm sure geary, lombard, and 19 avenue will experience some impacts. geary, the more intense impact would be on the west side, but we have a few years to get

ready for that. that's something that public works is aware of, and as we're heading into that environmental approval period, are trying to make sure that we're being thoughtful and using lessons learned and trying to get ready for that fifth through seventh segment of better market street. >> chair peskin: and colleagues, just so you know, i had this conversation with ed reiskin last week. it's just going to be very hard for us, as appropriators whether we're at the board of supervisors or the t.a. to appropriate money for these kinds of projects when there isn't sufficient real mitigations. i've lived through it on the central subway, and it's been a nightmare, and i'm living through it now as is commissioner haney and commissioner stefani on vanness avenue. i know mr. ramos is here in the

audience from the m.t.a., listening. we've got to get a handle on this or we've got to stop appropriating money and we'll just live with funky vannesses. we've got to get a handle on this in a real way. >> chair peskin: commissioner brown? >> yes, thank you. and i agree that we have to look at other ways of helping them. i'm under siege. i have the other side of vanness, haight-ashbury, inner sunset, and it'll be geary b.r.t. so my district's under siege, and i'm always -- the amount of time that we're trying to spend to help them is -- it's overwhemumming. and one of the things with -- i know we've -- have office of economic development going in,

saying that there's low interest loans for them, but i think a lot of businesses, when i talk to them, they're like, you want me to take out a loan and have another thing to pay when i'm struggling. they're nervous to do that. we've also gotten project mitigato mitigators out there to help with a construction crew, to take out parking signs when they're not working. but this is overwhelming, and a lot of businesses, a lot of long time businesses like the v vit -- veterinarian business who's feeling the impact. she's saying, i'm just not sure if it's worth it. i can't manage it. so i'm really worried about this. i think we have to look at it creatively, and i think the only way we can move forward is actually offering some kind of

compensation and put that within the project. thank you. >> chair peskin: hear, hear. commissioner walton? >> thank you. >> chair peskin: is your mic on? >> there you go. sorry about that. if i recall during the super bowl that we were dealing with businesses that were displaced, and your office was able to come up with a way to mitigate the pain and negative consequences for those businesses during that time period, so i'm wondering if there isn't a bigger strategy we can work onto provide mitigation opportunities for businesses during construction so we don't have to live with the funky vannesses, etc. or if you want to, you can give all the resources from prop k to the southeast sector of san francisco and we'll figure out a way to mitigation everything. but in all seriousness, you had a plan that did compensate

businesses, and i'm wondering if that's something to build off of for the future. >> chair peskin: thank you, commissioner walton. so there are two instances that i know of. one was the short-term displacement of folks who had city permits in and around the super bowl, and those were street artists that had street artists permits, and those were folks who had d.p.w. permits. they were, like, hot dog sellers and shoe shine folks. and this board of supervisors appropriated funds, and each and every one of them received a payment in the amount of, i think, $490, if my memory serves me. and i can offline regale you with how we got to that number. and in a second instance, there

were a handful of payments on the 900 and 1000 block of stockton street in relation to the central subway appropriated by the board of supervisors after the projects had gone far beyond what the businesses were originally promised. there have been noncash assistance that has been rendered primarily by the office of economic and workforce development, ranging from technical assistance, facade improvements, a number of other things, but there's nothing like an actual cash mitigation payment to alleviate, you know, people's struggles with increasing rents. in the central subway situation, they were able to demonstrate to us reductions by as much as 50% of their revenue on an annual basis. commissioner safai?

>> supervisor safai: yeah, just to build on that point, i know the p.u.c., when they've done work -- i worked on a project in viz valley, and they actually built into the project a mitigation fund. as you could see, as businesses could prove based on their previous revenues and gross receipts the impacts to the business, then, they were able to put in requests for some type of mitigation. i think that should be a consideration going forward, as we're scoping these projects, that we build into the price mitigation fund because we've done it in other departments in the city. particularly, the geary b.r.t., vanness b.r.t., significant, significant impacts to businesses where people just don't even know if the businesses are open because of the way the barriers have been created, there's not safety for pedestrians. not to mention, parking, if

people need parking for whatever access to the business, loading and unloading, all the things that go along with having a successful retail business or small business in this city. so i think we should contemplate for sure building in a mitigation fund as we move forward on these projects, particularly because they're bond funded, and we have the ability to write that in in the scope. >> chair peskin: yeah, and let's be honest. historically, departments have been hesitant to do this because it increases project budgets, whether it's m.t.a., whether it's public works, none of them want to do this. and my response is okay, if we're not going to take care of our small businesses, then let's not do these businesses. >> supervisor safai: or -- just to follow up on that point, when we have a scope of work on vanness, and then, within the first two months, a change order request comes in at $21 million because all of a sudden there was -- or you know, $15

million because of the scope of -- it was not analyzed, it was mainly a sewer replacement project at that level -- which is understandable. it's hard to understand what the overall infrastructure is until you open it up, but if they have that ability to weather that type of change order, then, they should have the ability to write into the project -- >> chair peskin: that project is now two years behind schedule. it's one thing, you go to the businesses and say oh, you're going to suffer for this amount of time. and then, central subway, vanness b.r.t., it turns out to be much longer and much more suffering than we told them it was going to be. it's unconscionable. miss chang -- >> thank you. i will work with my colleagues and office. >> chair peskin: you can see there are 11 members of this body of the same mind. is there any public comment on

this matter? seeing none, public comment is closed. thank you for the 2018 annual report and to you and your staff for your incredible work. with that, next item, please. >> clerk: motion -- >> chair peskin: we need to adopt the 2018 annual report. my bad. is there a motion to adopt said report? made by supervisor safai, seconded by supervisor yee. we have a different house. roll call, please. >> clerk: on item 11 -- [roll call] >> clerk: we have first approval. >> chair peskin: next item, please. >> clerk: item 10, internal accounting report, investment

report and debt report for the first six months ending june 30, 2018. this is an information item. >> good morning. cynthia fong, director for finance and administration. we are six months into the fiscal year 18-19 now. total revenues and total expenditures are within budgets for the first six months. total assets for the first six months total to 220.8 million and liabilities at 322.7 million. as you recall, we issued our first sales tax revenue bond back in november 2017, we still remain at 43% spent on the bond proceeds. that is a spending of 88.1 million, with a -- with 115.9 million left to spend. >> chair peskin: miss fong, sorry to interrupt you, but didn't you project that you would have spent much more of the revenue bonds by now? >> yes. right now on our books, we have

approximately 15 million of incoming sponsor reimbursements we expect in the next quarter, so with that coming in, we'll be closer to our target. >> chair peskin: was that 1-5 or 5-0? >> 5-0. >> 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] food in san francisco

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in the one of the rare places, you know, people have access to green space 24 is one of the places to grow things like the purple floor. it is sort of recognizing that the more diversity in given space the better not to just have one thing by everything supported each another >> it provides the community with an opportunity to get their hands dirty and reach 0 out and congressmen with the community in ways they might have not otherwise to engage with one other. >> now the dpw urban planning program so see how the garden community. >> so i grew up on a farm in

air force base we picked the foods open the trees and share with other families and as i drive around san francisco i see any trees with apples or mrumdz and lemon trees i can see the food going to waste and brought that idea back to the department many of the trees where the fruit would go to waste we origin or crop and pick other fruits and delivery this to food banks or shelters to people who need them. >> i'm here with nang wong hello nang. >> hello. >> i need to understand house this gleaning work. >> we come and harvest like for example, we'll come over here this is the lemon and plug it

like this. >> (laughter). >> made that good, good and ease. >> the trick is how not to hurt the branches. >> like the thing. >> i'm so excited about this. the people are so passionate about where the food goes to the private property owners give us the food they're happy that no of a t is going to waste >> oh. thank you. thank you. again job aura natural >> (laughter). >> from backyards to back lots let's take a look at the food and community bonding at the

free farm. >> my idea was to start growing food and giving it away. and getting my neighbors to who had space and having a kind of event that brings people together not to run our food program this time around but to share the wealth of the abundance of our welfare. we were all divorce and as part of our philosophy of working together and working together. >> what's the most rewarding aspect of volunteering for the free farm stand. >> well, we could is a generalic satisfaction but something about giving food away it's giving something i brought that in and sort it and gave it

to you it's primitive to be able to give something some basically to someone else. >> now serving number to 49 come on down. >> we have the capability of producing this food and in san francisco you can grow food all year round so the idea we're capable of prougdz food in our own backyards we're here to demonstrate an bans of food and i think that giving it away for free we show individuals it in have to be a comedy. >> we build time together and it's the strength of any ideas of the connections we'll turn that connection and the more connections you make no mistake about it the more you can have a

stronger power and not have to rely on money that's the people power. >> in this episode we've seen the urban farms and gardens provide more in fruits and vegetation people can have the special produce available it can be a place to give back by donating food to others and teach our children the connection to the earth and environment it's truly

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