is that true? am i remembering correctly you looked into other options before going to just an oversized vehicle ban? >> that's right. andy thornily sustainable division mtab. this is part of the codified guide abs you -- guidance you approved and we look at the problem you asked us to solve and take up an assortment of tools and would time limits help something and something else. a good principle, try to achieve multiple things with a swing and not just one. ordinary daytime time limits, blanket overnight parking restriction on the edge of the reservoir. we talked about rpp knowing that's a bigger thing we wouldn't just bring forward u

unilaterally and the maybers are used to leaving their cars parked so none of those were satisfactory. if i might volunteer the oversized vehicle in the parking restriction is not directed ostensibly at overnight vehicles but dimensional and you heard many commenters including the supervisor's office say some of the problem is commercial vehicles left parked on the streets. there's a food truck i see often. there are box trucks, moving trucks, things that are not appropriate for a residential neighborhood. it's convenient to talk them up against the reservoir and leave them for a long time. the oversized, overnight restriction would apply to them likewise. so it's a combined issue of things too big to be parking in the neighborhood. >> thank you.

these are difficult. i don't like the idea of continuing it because i think what we will accomplish by continuing it can be accomplish by mr. thornily said is not request signage goes up until the department has had time to do their work. i don't like these at all but i will ultimately support this. >> commissioner: director torres you had a motion to make and upon reflection i realize i should have let you make that. i apologize. please go ahead. >> i vote to approve it. >> commissioner: i think what will happen procedurally is we'll vote on the motion to continue and if it passes we'll continue, if not we'll vote on the matter as a whole. anything else, director torres? director hsu.

[inaudible] >> my sense in working with the office is it's been a year it's been a hot topic for district 9. i've been hearing from neighbors probably at least that long. i think last march i came to you with an informational presentation nothing put before you but here's what we're dealing with and university avenue i think was captain novo's house. i showed you a severe situation around the reservoir in the portola. >> commissioner: my personal view is not to vote for the motion to continue and i thank

the notion outreach and every time jeff is here presents so eloquently so please thank him and what i heard on the motion is the signs will not go up tomorrow. they'll go up in four weeks after jeff has had time to complete his outreach program. jeff reported to us his outreach program has shown success and jeff reported he needs about four weeks to reach the same success here. i think continuing this matter is simply going to be delay for this neighborhood when in fact the outreach will go forward if we adopt this as you just described. as far as the item as a whole i'll speak to for efficiency's sake, i'll say it before and again for the benefit of those who haven't heard it, if we're going solve this problem as city, lift the ban everyone. let everybody suffer the issue and everybody see the issue, let

everybody play in the democracy that will solve this issue. if we are not going to do that it's not fair to hold one neighborhood hostage as the guinea pig or the test case until the city solved an issue that extremely smart compassionate people have been trying to solve. please, no applause especially not for me. those are the rules. this community has come to us the same way others have come to us, you and others have handled this very compassionately. i continue to be impressed the way this is going. it's pursuant to the plan. i don't say this because i'm convinced that i am right. if our vice chair were here and she's not do to family crisis she'd give the other side of the story which is engaging neighbors and politically sensitive people is the only way to get the momentum we need to solve the problem. that's an entirely rationale

view. i just don't share it. we've come this far and unless you have a proposal to lift this everywhere including the sunset reservoir near my house and other neighborhoods affected by this i cannot support an unfair patch work and i will support this proposal here today coming from staff and from the community. so with that, we have a motion on the table to continue the item. director eakin's motion to continue the item. yes means we don't hear it today and continue to later and no means we resolve it today. ms. boomer a roll call vote. [roll call] >> clerk: eakin aye director hsu. aye. director torres. the motion to continue fails. >> commissioner: unless there's

further discussion i'll entertain a motion on the item. >> moved. >> a second? >> second. >> commissioner: we can do a roll call vote in favor. all those in favor of item 11, ms. boomer. >> clerk: brinkman aye. eak eakin nay. director hsu. aye. director torres aye. the motion carries. >> commissioner: so thank you to everyone who came down to speak to us. it was an informative debate. we know it's a passionate issue. there was a great deal of respect shown. andy, please do everything you can to help those people before the sign goes up, okay. >> that's my pledge to you. >> commissioner: thank you. we'll move on to the next item. >> clerk: item 12 approving overnight parking restriction on a portion of napoleon street. >> commissioner: mr. thornily, long time, no see.

>> yeah, good to be back. again, andy thornily with the transportation agency. the item is similar but different. a piece of napoleon street near the creek south of chavez street. the department of public works burr burree o of -- bureau of urban has asked for a portion of napoleon which is often congested when workers come they can't find parking and a lot of the problem is long-term parking and a lot of that long-term parking is large vehicles some of which may be inhabited. we have been working with director kaczynski's team to reach out and connect to folks living in those vehicles. there's a larger ongoing

encampment challenge in that part of the city sidewalk and open space tent and improvised struck our and the homeless team have been working in the area and the vehicular aspect is further to that. there's not a special effort on connecting with vehicularly housed folks. in this case, to director brinkman's questions on tools we bring forward, because this is not a residential neighborhood and because it was availability for commercial interests and our own city partners we proposed a blanket no-parking overnight restriction. so every night between midnight and 6:00 you may not park anything. a yugo, winnebago, fishing boat. it's a short piece of napoleon.

i have a picture but it's about a block on evans street sigh -- it's a portion of napoleon. i believe we have folks from public works bureau of urban forestry on hand and if they're here i hope they'll give comment. that's all i have. >> commissioner: okay. he love being master of ceremonies. >> he loves that. >> commissioner: i was worried you missed the joke. >> i'm with san francisco public works bureau of urban forestry with the request to approve the proposal. the idea came to us when the deputy director came to an mtab first half and saw similar

restrictions in the mtab site so in the spirit of consistency we request you approve this. our new facility is for our arborists sometimes called upon to perform work in the middle of the night and generally start in the morning and there's an ongoing issue with parking available and really significant illegal dumping and the existing long-term parking has hamp perked our ability to keep that area clear. it's a very difficult site to keep clean. our crews are moving into the new fast so it would facilitate two challenges. it would allow us to keep the area much cleaner because the existing parking is an obstruction to cleaning the sight. we had a 10-wheel truck with ten

loads and there's a ton of illegal dumping that happens there and would facilitate our crews being able to park and park in close proximity to the work and our routine work. we appreciate the consideration. >> commissioner: thank you very much. directors, any questions for staff before we open public comment? okay. you've worn them down, andy, good job. public comment. ms. boomer. >> clerk: starting with melody and followed by martha. >> commissioner: are you prepared to speak? call the next speaker. >> clerk: spencer hudson and mike lee. >> i can tell you martha felt she needed to go to the meeting in room 250 but she wanted me --

>> commissioner: state your name again. >> flo kelly. >> commissioner: welcome back. >> i volunteer with the coalition on homelessness and wanted know give her comment by proxy which is she's very much against restricting this parking. i just wanted to say that when i have done outreach in the bay view which i've done more often than any other location, i have been impressed by talking to certain people who live in their vehicles who have made arrangements with the businesses that are closeby. -- close by. one guy with his tv on said see that wire over there, the business that i am parked in front of is so grateful that i'm here that he is letting me use

his electricity. there was another person said that he's made an arrangement with the business next to him and they're kind of helping each other. so the business man is asking thoim -- him to keep the sidewalk clean. making sure everything is safe around there and so he does. there's about five vehicles on that same block. i just impressed to hear when businesses and residents living in their vehicle make an

arrangement to work together in unity, it's a beautiful thing. >> commissioner: thank you, ms. kelly. thank you for your obvious compassion. mr. newman, please. and melanie, when he's done speaking, we'll go to you, if that's okay. sir, please. >> clerk: spencer hudson. >> commissioner: sorry, i mistook your name. mr. hudson welcome back. >> last week you may have heard the democratic socialist of america raised $3,000 in four days to provide funds for us to go out and provide tents and blankets and food and socks and batteries and water to people living on the street. we spoke to many people living in vehicles and they told us what a tough life they have even though they had a vehicle over their head, they are still trying to keep one stead ahead

of mtab and sfpd. they struggled with getting services from the city. they struggled getting food and water and maintenance for their vehicles. but the over arching sentiment was here of losing their home and parking restrictions whatever they are for whatever reason is cutting their ability to find somewhere on the street to live in their home. if you live in the sunset, you have a home. you like i are safe and warm in our beds at entitle. we have nothing to -- at night. we is have nothing to fear. these people do. that's not expand on that fear. let's find a solution to help them and parking restrictions,

towing, confiscation will not help them. >> commissioner: thank you, again. apologies on your name and thank you for why you eloquent comments. next speaker, please. >> clerk: ellen, mike lee and evan owski. >> my name is melanie and i'm upset because so many left right now. i just need to ask you to not do this. there's going to be nowhere for us to park. that means we get tickets. and the more tickets people get the more chances you are to get

towed. once you are towed they leave you there on the sidewalk in the rain with a pile of stuff. they only give you a few minutes to get your stuff and get out. i'm not the person making this mess on the street. there's nothing i can do about those other people but please this is going to be mo -- nowhere for us to go. i'm asking you please, don't do this. thank you very much. >> commissioner: thank you very much. next speaker. >> clerk: mike lee. evan owski. is he here? maria shulman. mr. chair, that's the last person on the speaker card. >> commissioner: welcome back. >> i know evan had to go back to work but he is also opposed to

this and i mean i think that it doesn't make sense. you guys all acknowledge it's cruel to keep moving people around from place to place, from street to street and yeah, we should ban it across the city. we should not have parking restrictions anywhere but you guys can start now by stopping this restrictions. don't pass this one. don't pass the next one. >> commissioner: thank you very much. okay. with that we'll close public comment. i'll assume there's no further questions for mr. thornily. if none, are there comments on the item? >> i'll make a motion to approve with the comment i believe we have done quite a bit of work to help people not have their holds they live in towed.

-- homes they live in towed and can you remind me what we've done to avoid the towing of the vehicle vehiclely housed dwelling. >> chair of the sustainable street division. the things we've done to minimize the rim of a vehicle -- risk of a vehicle being towed reducing the citations an waiving late fees and giving people more opportunities to have people do community service for the fines. anyone at an income threshold at 200 he 200% of the federal poverty level can have their late fees waived and citations can be paid

off with community service rather than through cash payment. that's a quick summary. there's more details but primarily our efforts have been on relieving the financial burden of the citation. >> i'll make a motion to approve and with the reminder that we can troll what we control and we have tried to make this as fair as we've been able to. >> commissioner: yes, with a lot of those steps under your leadership when you were chair, mr. brinkman. is there a second? there's a second. any further comments on the item. director rubke, please. >> i'm going oppose this but i do so hesitantly. i side with director eakin in terms of wanting a more holistic solution and understanding and

appreciating the work staff has put into this and the thoughtful and optimistic measures thus far. i think we're premature in six months. i'd be more optimistic of voting for these when we have legislation the board of supervisors and and hopefully other nishtds so initiatives so people aren't just moving from one street to another. and with respect i will vote against this. >> commissioner: we have a motion and second i'll entertain a voice vote. all in favor say aye. opposed. director rubke voting no and director eakin had to leave for travel reasons. that passes. >> clerk: and item 13 for a budget amendment in supplement appropriation of $38.1 million for fiscal year 2019 for to

support projects and mune ir and environmental review findings. >> we have two opportunities before us one is thanks to the city controller we have identified the city has overpaid in the educational revenue fund and have counties pick up a larger portion of the state's responsibility for funding consideration -- counties and it comes with caps the city controller found in the last fis yal year the city overpaid by a sum of the order of $450

million. so therefore those revenue are returned to the city. and are available for allocation to the general fund and to various other funds that by charter receive city revenue including the municipal revenue fund and there's about $185 million that will go to the general fund and others going to various places including approximately $38 million that would come to the mtab. the other opportunity is that the contract that you and the board of supervisors approved to replace light rail vehicles and we've already started receiving the expansion vehicles all 68 in total we will receive by the end of this calendar year under that

contract and the replacement of the replacement is expected to start in 2021 and run through 2027 and the opportunity we have is through conversations with the manufacturer would be to accelerate the replacement with the new lrv4 vehicles starting the end of next year instead of 2021 and ending in 2025 instead of 2027. given that no withstanding this morning's infrastructure issue the reliability of rail service is i think most jep ardized -- jeopardized with the vehicles and replace them with the new vehicles that would provide much more reliable and better service and better seating ultimately is

the single best thing we can do for the rail system and i think it's about 25% of the ridership is carried by the light rail system every day. those opportunities coming together is what's before you. we had already spoken and come to an informational item about the benefits and opportunities. i had also indicated that we would likely be seeking supplemental appropriation from the board of supervisors to have access to the revenue now with supplemental appropriation those revenue would fall into our fund balance and but we wouldn't have access to them. in conjunction with the mayor, we have proposed supplemental appropriation scheduled to be heard in the budget and finance

committee tomorrow and i bring this item to you with your concurrence moving forward supplemental appropriation. at the time i talked to you before about the item and drafted it, we were proposing primarily to use the funds for the acceleration of the light rail vehicle procurement for the replacement vehicles. the reason why we would benefit from having that money now is in order to lock in the schedule i identified and we are still hopeful for a better one but at left -- least to lock in that one, we need to issue notice to proceed to the rail vehicle manufacturer so they can take the steps necessary to get the early start in place in late 2020.

in order to execute that notice to proceed, there's up front costs we would need to cover. these dollars or a portion of these dollars would enable us to be able to issue that notice to proceed. we don't fully know yet what the net cost of this acceleration would be because there may be costs in terms of financing the funds for these vehicles are available but they're available under the original schedule of 2021 to 2027 to bringing them forward may have some costs. but on the savings side, we'll be paying less escalation cost because the contract as time goes on we recognize the cost of inflation. there's also the cost we'd be avoiding in term of escalating investment we'll need in the vehicles to keep them serviceable.

and we don't know with exactness now and there's funds and we are getting with the manufacturer to know what the costs are. all that said and in the last few days there's been lots of discussions about the use of these funds the city portion and the mta and other portions. i have a revised proposal for your consideration rather than using the full $38 million for the light rail vehicle procurement, we'd put $19.3 million towards the light rail vehicle procurement, put $13.8 million towards mta energy

efficiency programs and put $5 million towards small business impact funds. now, where did these other two needs come from? as you know, with the pg&e bankruptcy there's been discussion among folks in the building how the city can start taking steps towards energy independence. we have done projects and we put solar panels on our facility at 700 pennsylvania. they allow us to consume less energy which benefits us and puc because the provide energy at less than market cost.

so the $13.8 million would allow us to conduct energy assessments in the rest of of the buildings as well as fund solar panels on our maintenance facilities as well as other buildings and projects as determined by the system-wide audit. the second item the small business impact fund last week at the transportation authority commission there was considerable discussion about the impacts of city construction projects particularly mta projects on small businesses. particularly when the construction projects are delayed. so there was a desire indicated and this is not a new conversation. you've heard this a lot before.

we as a city step up the assistance we provide small businesses extraordinarily impacted by city construction projects. i spoke earlier in my report about the delays on vaness avenue and the idea with this second item my revised recommendation to you is you adopt the resolution with modifying language that would allow us to finalize the amounts with the controller's office and

with the mayor and board of supervisors office and the allocation of these funds, the charter gives you the full and ultimate authority over these. >> commissioner: so procedurally do we need a motion to amend the current thing before us? okay. is there public comment on the item, ms. boomer. >> clerk: it looks like the individual has left and it doesn't look like everybody in the audience is making moves forward. >> commissioner: is there anybody that would like to comment publicly. seeing none, we'll close public comment. >> i failed to note a couple important points in thinking further. one is that it would be my intention that whatever the amount is we need in order to

issue the notice to proceed for the rail manufacturer to proceed on this accelerated path if the $19.3 of the supplementally added revenue and we would look elsewhere and reprioritize elsewhere within our capital program. there are trade-offs here. i want to be very transparent about that. we don't know what the final number would be. we think it probably will be more than $19.3 we'll need to execute the notice to proceed and will need it make other tradeoffs but the change and not having all the revenue available comes with trade-offs but i wanted to assure you as i said the acceleration of this vehicle procurement is the single most thing we can do to improve rail

service so it's my intention to move forward with that regardless and if it means we have to reprioritize other areas program and we'd report that back to you, that would be my recommendation. under the revised proposal i'm not seeking we put at risk the notice of the replacement of the light rail vehicles. >> commissioner: do you have enough figures to know what you think that acceleration project will cost? >> i don't. when i met with staff last week they thought in the order of $30 million. it's why we were seeking the full amount. we'll know that better once we can nail down the price with the manufacturer. >> commissioner: and that estimate of $30 million is the full acceleration. it's not doing something

partially the full acceleration of the lrvs envisioned? >> there's not the lower and faster. it's the fastest possible the manufacturer can achieve. the amount of the notice to proceed cost is really based on certain costs in the contract we need to provide for up front and seek the fastest possible accel rage. >> commissioner: someone can say this is a priority why don't we throw more money and finish faster and if i understand correctly the item you estimate to have a $30 million price tag is the fastest possible acceleration and if it turns out to be $30 million or over $19 million the agency will re-allocate capital priority to go and accelerate as fast as

possible. >> commissioner: are there other questions? i bet. >> so the staff report and what you just said articulate very good reasons to accelerate the lrv procurement using these funds. i was curious though to know

staff's analysis we have criteria that we use. i don't have them off the top of my head for unforeseen revenue and how to use them. ultimately it was my decision that focussing these on something that could very materially impact muni service especially at a time where we're seeing increasing challenges with our older light rail vehicles as a clear winner in terms of the funds. we've not had a whole lot of time to evaluate other needs that have emerged in conversations with folks in this building. we have a lot of needs. these are legit nat -- legitimate needs and we have other needs. we have gone through another progress and i presented this last year of reassigning our two-year capital budget based on updated revenue figures. we had recently gone through a

prioritization process. wen that was happening -- when that was happening we didn't know the revenue were there. we knew at the end but not at the time we were going through the process. these are revenue not anticipated so it frees us up to be flexible in how we allocate them. the size of the budget was over a billion dollars so to address the two needs that have been identified and things that have h happened it's a good use of the revenue relative to other needs. >> commissioner: does that answer your question? director brinkman. >> i won't be able to put this

gracefully or delicately or even maybe correctly, but we've been talking about how to spend these funds for a couple months now. we've heard from the public when they disagree one us on this and some of the things they think we should spend this on. it feels dodgy to me to save this at the last moment. any public who may have want to spend it on this, aren't here to tell us otherwise. this is input from the board of supervisors how they want us to spend these funds. with said we want to spend it on providing new lrvs for the public to avoid the break downs

and they are saying no. they have us over a barrel. i would approve it because i don't see how to get the $19 million and may even hold up more funds. i don't like this. i don't know why they didn't bring this up earlier and give this a chance to be aired in public. i hope in the future when lrvs break down they won't yell us about why trains aren't moving through the tunnel and hopefully we'll still be able to speed up the purchase of the lrvs. i don't like it at all and think they're monkeying in the work we're supposed to do and supposed to look out for the riders and system and the board of supervisors is at the last minute pulling the rug from underneath our feet and putting our feet to the fire to approve something like that that's not going to stop them from fighting us and combining about us and

tearing into us in the future when things go badly for the lrvs. that's my two cents worth and it may be incorrect and i will support it because otherwise we don't get the money. >> i appreciate the sentiment. we did notice the item and speak and agendize it. i think the public input is important. the formal action that that prove provesa that approves the supplemental action starts with the committee and the full board of supervisors. there'll be opportunity for the public to weigh in.

>> the $5 million to a small business impact fund. do we know how that will be administered or decided or a brand new thing that will have to be administrated? >> we hope not to create special new funds but we have mechanisms and started building into our project budget a line item of funds that support the work of construction mitigation. mostly done through the office of economic and workforce development. we would ideally be able to use existing channels and not create new mechanisms. in term of how the allegation would be done, it's something we want to work with our partner at oewd as well as the other the

works and the role of the mayor and board and the processes while the charter gives the mtab board the full and sole authority ultimately, in all of our budget processes we try to work collaboratively with the mayor and board to make sure we understand what their prospectiv perspectives are and in term of the timing of this being last minute, and negotiations have been ongoing and probably aren't done at this point. i can appreciate your concern or feeling this came last minute. it did. we're trying to work collaboratively with the folks in the building for the

unforeseen revenue. >> i appreciate you being so willing to adapt to this and still committed to moving up the appropriates of the new lrvs. for the public to know if they want to weigh in on that the appropriate time to do that is the board of supervisors meeting i assume. >> this item will be at budget and finance committee tomorrow. >> tomorrow's budget and finance committee. thank you. >> commissioner: thank you director brinkman. anyone else? let me address this personally. i share a great deal of director brinkman's concern about the merits of this and the way it came about. i will tell you if i thought this would jeopardize the fastest acceleration of the lrvs i would make a stink. >> and i won't recommendation. >> the reality is the system is not working as well as it should. the transit professionals and

you told us expediting the purchase of the lrvs is one of the best things to fix it. it had to be done. you committed you will carry out the fastest acceleration you can. the reality is the pressure to do other things which is not money flushed down the toilet it's just not in my view the highest priority nor agency. it's not coming at the expense of the lrv acceleration or folks can say why'd do you that if i can put a finer point on what director brinkman said. the relate is you haven't had the time to figure it out and how you'd prioritize it and if

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