will choose alternative options instead of in a car. we've seen that our ridership in -- on scooters and what i anticipate will be a bigger and bigger field of micromobility options are new riders who are getting on the bikeways for the first time and are choosing to do so instead of lyft and uber. 37% of our riders say they're taking scooters instead of uber or lyft, so that's a significant percentage. it's the largest percentage who are choosing to get out of their ride share and into alternative modes, so if we can provide our safe alternative for our riders to do so, that will significantly help this problem. thank you very much. >> chair peskin: thank you. next speaker.

>> my name is tim greer, and i've lived and biked in the southern half of san francisco over ten years. i ride with a ten-year-old daughter and eight-year-old son. many other families are doing the same. the difference between the protected section of valencia and other sections are night and day, and i think studies will appear this out. supervisor ronen, you said that the current lanes -- we need to do more, and improving these lanes is completely within our control, while everything else is, you know, really requires the input of the state and these companies that are not in our control. i understand that every change to the streets involving tradeoffs between everyone's needs, parking, as well, is obviously a major frusstration, but the needs of 2100 daily

cyclists should override the loss of some parking. we'll never have enough parking to make provide cars a sustainable transportation solution here. many cities have found ways to deal with these needs. san francisco should be leading the way on this, but sadly, we are not. vision zero is an excellent goal, but it's meaningful only to the extent that we build physical infrastructure. to do that, we need strong leadership from this board. >> chair peskin: thank you. >> my name is ivan, and i live just off valencia, and i've seen the changes over the past two decades, and i came today to urge you to implement the plan. the difference, i rode my bike

here today. from 19th to 15th, i counted a dozen impacted or incidents with pedestrians, cars, people in the way of the bike lane, blocking the bike lane where i had to change direction and wind my way around. and then, i got to 15th street, which i call base or my safe spot in the game of tag as i get through the road. from 15th to market, there was zero. there was one guy who quite far ahead of me ran across the bike lane, but didn't need to brake. it was, like, being safe, and the difference is so, so marked. i can't -- i can't -- can't impact that enough what a difference it makes. it is a little bit zigzagy, but the green paint leads you home.

in the evening, it's insane, and it's not just uber and lyft, as people have mentioned, it's all the other pick ups and drop offs, that people have mentioned, restaurant dropoffs and driliefr res. it's just people -- deliveries. it's just people running in and dropping off. it's to protect the like lanes. there's no way to protect them without actually physically separating them, so please do that the whole length of valencia. thank you. >> chair peskin: thank you. i have a next speaker. >> hi. good morning. my name is j.j. i live on valencia at 23rd street. and as you can see, i bike. i don't think there's any cars around, but it is a bit chilly. and the -- yeah, as some of the other commenters have suggested, the difference in the bike lane is absolutely night and day. actually, i turn on 14th street

to get to work. that one block in the morning is just amazing, and that street of blocks coming home is amazing, ybut a greater proportion of my trip is actually unprotected, and that section is harrowing. yes, i totally echo the concern that many have pointed out this moerk about uber and lyft. i am -- this morning about uber and lyft. as many of the bike commenters have pointed out, i think it's inaccurate to say that the bike lanes would be sufficient as is, even if the absence of-of uber and lyft. i am here to voice my support for the current pilot as well as any extensions at least to 23rd street, and that would come up, so thank you very

much. >> chair peskin: thank you. next speaker? >> yeah, my name is brian, and i'm here to thank the sfmta for providing the initial $100,000 for the study of the separated bike lanes on valencia. combined with the money from the mayor's office, the sfmta estimated that these four blocks cost $800,000 or only 200,000 per block. i encourage the commissioners to keep this great project going, and continue this pilot project from 19th street all the way to mission street. the sidewalks and roads is the same width or the traffic conditions are the same from 19th to mission street. it would only cost an estimated 1.4 million to make the rest of valencia safe for pedestrians

and cyclists. i urge you to continue this shovel ready project. thank you. >> chair peskin: thank you, sir. are there any other members of the public that would like to testify on this item? seeing none, public comment is closed. [gavel] [please stand by]

-- on bike share membership projects such as lyft, that upon purchased the operator must have a commensurate amount to the project. this year we expect to have approximately $720,000 in tsfcta funds for the projects. there's project types and requires program managers to adopt criteria that guide the selection of these local projects and this is the item before you today.

and the transportation authority typically funds four to eight projects per year and we generally are able to fund most, if not all of the projects that meet eligibility requirements in. past years we funded diverse projects, bike parking and shuttles and low emission vehicles and even building clipper capabilities into the i.d. card for discounted transit pass. and to prioritize projects we make sure that they meet the eligibility requirements, including cost effectiveness. and next unlike the policy guidelines, we prioritize projects based on project type. the first priority is zero emissions and non-vehicle projects like bike infrastructure. and next are shuttle services that provide first and last mile connections to transit and don't overlap with the existing ones. and third are alternative fuel vehicle projects. our local criteria also

prioritizes the reductions and require consideration of other tactors such as project readiness and program diversity and past delivery track record. for this year we have three new criteria to reflect discussions over the board in the last year. first, community support would give priority to projects that demonstrate the community support like being in a community-based transportation plan, and conducting outreach or a letter from one of you all, and the next benefits of concern would give priority to projects that benefit a community of concern, whether the project is located in that area or provides other benefits to a disadvantaged population. and, third, investment from non-public sponsors or partners where there is one. non-public entities are eligible to apply for a certain tfcs project categories, including alternative fuel vehicles and they may partner with public entities on other project types. so this gives priority to the

projects that include an investment from nonpublic intity for the funds requested. this is our proposed schedule for this year's funding cycle. once criteria are adopted we'll release the project by march 1, 2019. and after reviewing and evaluating proposals we will present our staff recommendation to the cac in may and back to the board in june. and with that i can take any questions. >> are there any questions from commissioners? is there any public comment on this item? seeing none, public comment is closed. is there a motion to adopt the tfca criteria made by commissioner brown. and seconded by commissioner mandelman and we have the same house, same call. the item is adopted on first read. next item. >> clerk: to execute the master agreements programs

supplemental agreements and cooperative agreements and any amendments thereto with the california department of transportation for receipt of federal and state funds for the westside bridges seismic retrofit project in the amount of $7 million and the southgate improvement project for $30 million. this is an action item. >> good afternoon chair peskin and commissioners. i'm happy to report that we're getting very close to construction on very important projects here on y.b.i. so i'm going to go ahead and do this here in the next five minutes, understanding the hour. i just want to do a refresher course for some of the commissioners that have not been out to y.b.i. recommend or new to the board. we completed the eastside ramps, the new westbound on and off ramps, in the latter part of 2016. and the total project cost over $100 million funded with bridge program, and state proposition 1-before and tida funds.

we're currently closing out that project. you know, as part of that we created a vista point which is actually quite gentlema majestiu can see the view. >> sfgtv, your powerpoint. you might want to go back to your last slide. >> sure. an aerial view of the new westbound on and off ramps that we just completed. and the very high bridge structures over the historic quarters one project there and just completed that project and we're ready to close that out this spring. and also too now you can see on the point is the vista point that we created with the toll authority. it is an active basically a vista point that we have pathways and drinking fountains for folks from the east bay or from treasure island. and finally just -- finally a note -- you know, we relocated the historic property to the clipper cove area and created

there a small park. and built restrooms as a requirement for that area. and it was opened in october 2017. and i'm giving you that background because now the rest of the work here is related to that and in particular what we call the southgate road realignment. what this does is to go ahead and reestablish the interstate 80 eastbound off-ramp. as you're driving through the tunnel towards oakland on the right side there, there is an off-ramp that's been closed for about 15 years. so we'll go ahead and reopen that in partnership with caltraan and the toll authority. and realign southgate road which is the off-ramp there that will basically as you see there in that maroon color there -- we're grade separating the traffic separation so it's safe in that regard and building the final components of the bike-ped path in that area. >> back to that slide, eric, the

red is the southgate road as you're driving and coming off on the right side you'll get off on the right and you'll go over what is southgate road and then go under the blue, which actually the blue is southgate road? i thought it was the red to the north of that? i mean -- >> you mean the orange? >> yeah, the orange. >> that's the bike path as you come off. >> got it. >> okay? a little bit about the schedule here. spring of 2019, we're basically at the very end right now of finalidessing all of our environmental design or right-of-way documents. we were held up a little bit by the federal furlough, let's hope that doesn't happen again. but we're ready to advertise in the springs of 2019 and we're estimating the contract at $31 million. and, once again, it is funded primarily with federal highway bridge program, 1-b, seismic retrofit with tida funds.

let's move on to the -- what we call the westside bridges. the roadway in that picture there is basically the roadway that shows the roadway on the western slope of the island. it is the western approach to the bay bridge. there are seismically deficient bridge structures and where basically our strategy is to realign the road and create more retaining wall structures and push the -- push hillcrest road into the hillside there. and to do some retrofits of some final bridges there. and this project as we reported late last year, we've chosen a contractor through the construction management delivery method and we're intent to complete the design by the spring of 2020. and start construction in the summer of 2020 and end it in 2021, the latter part. this construction estimate right now is $55 million and funded significantly with significant

contributions from the federal highway bridge program and state proposition 1-before wit-b with. and cal tran asks us to go ahead and to seek a resolution for the execution of key caltran agreements and master agreements, etc. so here we're requesting authorization for the executive director to execute those agreements for the two subject projects. that completes my presentation. >> thank you. any questions for mr. cordoba? seeing none, any public comment on this item? seeing no public comment, public comment is closed. and i believe that miss chang that we modified the language for our conversation to limit the scope of the delegation of authority. is there a motion to authorization the executive director as set forth in item 11? motion made by commissioner

haney, and seconded. we have the same item and next item, please. >> clerk: item 12, a two-year professional services contract with the option to extend for two, two-year periods and incorporated the amount not to exceed $100,000 for performance monitoring and analysis services for the congestion management program. this is an action item. >> mr. sana, did i say that right? >> yes, thank you, chair peskin and commissioners am i'm here to seek approval for a contract for performance monitoring for the congestion management program or c.m.p. and as the agency of san francisco, the transportation authority prepared the c.m.p. report update every two years. this is in accordance with the state law to monitor the congestion on c.m.p. roadway networks and to mitigate congestion if it falls below certain thresholds. other than that, it's not specifically required by legislation, but we monitor speeds and collect data on

pedestrians and bicyclists to measure the performance. and consistent services are needed to assist us in going out and collecting this data in the field and also processing and analyzing the data. we issued an r.f.p. in november last year seeking consultant services and by due date in december we had received two proposals. a selection panel comprised of staff from the transportation authority, and also afmta, reviewed the proposals and interviewed the teams. the panel recommended award of contract to the highest ranking from the university of kentucky research foundation, along with wiltec. and the team distinguished itself with a much better understanding of the project objectives, especially around the multi-model performance aspect of it. and they also had better capabilities to deliver software

code to do the process analysis which makes it more efficient in future cycles. and with that i'm happy to take any questions. >> commissioner mandelman? no. all right, i don't see any questions. miss fong, do you want to say anything? you know what i'm thinking. >> debbie fong, with finance and administration. just a clarification, this contract is going to rural tech with a sub to the university of kentucky. >> that's been stated for the record. any public comment on this item? seeing none, public comment is closed. is there a motion to move item number 12? made by commissioner brown and seconded by commissioner fewer. we have the same how house, same call. it's passed on first reading. that takes us to introduction of new items.

and i will use that opportunity to talk a little bit about something that is happening in this chamber a little later today with regard to the long discussed e-ref proposals. (please stand by)

>> chair peskin: and i've heard this from commissioner yee as to west portal, from all of the commissioners who have districts that border vanness, i've heard those concerns, and we want to get in front of them relative to geary b.r.t. impacts. so as we know, the part of the

eraf discussion relative to the m.t.a. -- and i want to thank supervisor safai who pushed that $5 million for mitigation funding for relief. in light of that and our discussion, what i would like to do is ask our t.a. staff to analyze and present policy recommendations, and they can do that in conjunction with the sfmta and other agencies, including our department of public works as to how this fund ought to be administered, what the eligibility criteria should be or would be, how small businesses can effectively be built into the oversigh oversight. and also speaking of oversight and structuring the fund, i am looking forward to hearing the final recommendations from our

c.t.a. staff as it relates to oversight and restructuring and delivery of the caltrain retail extension, something that took on a whole new shade as the govern governor announced about an hour ago it doesn't appear this administration is going to support high speed rail from los angeles to the city of san francisco, so we need to weave that into the discussion. there are different interpretations of what the governor said, but i have just read his speech, and it seems pretty darn clear to me. so i want that to be a part of your thought process as it relates to tjpa and caltrain extension. are there any other commissioners who have new items for introduction. commissioner safai? >> supervisor safai: you

essentially just took everything that i was going to say, so it was great. i was going to talk about the mitigation fund. thank you for acknowledging the work that we did on that. basically, that came out of this body. we heard from a lot of people loud and clear that have been impacted. i would just say one thing to the tjpa, to ensure that there's an appropriate point of contact because it's one thing to have the mitigation fund setup, it's another thing to actually make it accessible and useable in a timely manner, so when small businesses are coming in to discuss the impact that a project is having on their bottom line, it's important to have the appropriate point of contact, particularly if an agency has not done that in the past. and the second thing i would say is the governor announcing

he's no longer interested in funding the second leg. the governor has stated it's too expensive to do. l.a. to san francisco, which seems to me this body would have a lot to say about, given the fact that that seems to be the highest volume of traffic. one of the largest cell is the flight patterns and the traffic patterns from san francisco to l.a. and l.a. to san francisco would be mitigated or diminished by having an alternative form of high speed rail. and so something that i think that your body should weigh in on, and thank you, supervisor chair peskin for saying it. that's it. thank you. >> chair peskin: yes. and thank you. i know that eraf is not before us right here, but it will be in 1.5 hours. but i do want to say to folks that have concerns about our not investing that $5 million into l.r.v.s or other

transportation improvements that could be felt right now. i think what we are all collectively aware of is if we do not get ahead of the mitigation impact issue, the voters aren't going to vote for another prop a of .5 million. it's going to be harder and harder for us to justify the hundreds of millions of dollars for b.r.t. projects and subway extensions and what have you. while i understand the concerns and frustration that we're not plowing into l.r.v.s and eraf, is there anything further on general public comment?

seeing none, public comment is closed, and we are adjourned. [gavel]

>> if you frequently travel before i van ness i might be surprised van ness will goodwill go the first transit corridor to have brt as more frequently known the goal to get conveniently van ness and geary boulevard one of the most reliable transit systems in the country van ness avenue is a major connecter between potrero hill and mission on the south side of

san francisco correcting connecting us to the marina and state highway in the financial with the western edition neighborhood it is mostly residential a lot of the geography of van ness the rain that is wide it was uses is a firebreak in the 1906 san francisco earthquake a lot of building occasion that helped of hoped to stop the fire from jumping van ness had a light rail or sprash separating and along geary 0 when we came to the question of how to address the needs on haven because of its cost effectiveness we have found in the brt system with the new vehicles. >> the new mr. secretary is a change we will actually have transit in the middle ♪ the far legal unit and a broadly prom >> one of the reasons it is in

the center a was it is an clouf right-of-way a set of pedestrians will cross from the sidewalk to the middle of the street a. >> to move the reliable along the corridor with this travel time had been signifying reduced we think the ripped will go from 16 thousand a day in that portion the corridor up to 22 thousand and we'll have those beautiful new one like this one. >> with the dedication of the signal and lighter saying that between stops we were able to estimate a .32 improvement in travel time and a 50 percent reliability improvement as a result. >> we're pitting u putting in a up to date modern system of new thirty foot high light fixtures and pedestrian lights

on the same pole again inviting a comfortable environment for pedestrians. >> it has become a 3 dimensional street project. >> the water that is my understanding under the ground and the emergency firefighting water system month will be replaced and new street lights and traffic lights and the paving and stripping the trees both in the medium and on the side. >> the main core of the project goes from market it lombard that's where we'll be replying the sidewalks. >> there are a number of trees that need to be replaced and they will be additional new planting. >> we're planting a lemon gum that gets to be 50 or 60 feet tall that comes over the offer head wires that wee when we get

done van ness it will look like a new street it will visit fresh new looks like the grand boulevard again. >> we're going eliminating left turns off of van ness into the side streets and places the left turning traffic backs up the traffic and upgrading the signals to the mini traffic will flow more smoothly and traffic impacts as we execute the construction signed we're working to minimize these but impacts that will likely shift the traffic up franklin and we'll pick up the traffic. >> right now that looks like we're skeleton to start in march ever 2016 are of our construction. >> in the past people prospective of bus traffic that go unreliable and noisy and very

fluting we're here to remake the vehicles are on the streets and with the combination of the brt improvements much more rail like services with the technology. >> the public is in for a .

>> 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 >> growing up in san francisco has been way safer than growing up other places we we have that bubble, and it's still that bubble that it's okay to be whatever you want to. you can let your free flag fry he -- fly here. as an adult with autism, i'm here to challenge people's idea of what autism is. my journey is not everyone's

journey because every autistic child is different, but there's hope. my background has heavy roots in the bay area. i was born in san diego and adopted out to san francisco when i was about 17 years old. i bounced around a little bit here in high school, but i've always been here in the bay. we are an inclusive preschool, which means that we cater to emp. we don't turn anyone away. we take every child regardless of race, creed, religious or ability. the most common thing i hear in my adult life is oh, you don't seem like you have autism. you seem so normal. yeah. that's 26 years of really, really, really hard work and i

think thises that i still do. i was one of the first open adoptions for an lgbt couple. they split up when i was about four. one of them is partnered, and one of them is not, and then my biological mother, who is also a lesbian. very queer family. growing up in the 90's with a queer family was odd, i had the bubble to protect me, and here, i felt safe. i was bullied relatively infrequently. but i never really felt isolated or alone. i have known for virtually my entire life i was not suspended, but kindly asked to not ever bring it up again in first grade, my desire to have a sex change. the school that i went to really had no idea how to handle one. one of my parents is a little bit gender nonconforming, so they know what it's about, but

my parents wanted my life to be safe. when i have all the neurological issues to manage, that was just one more to add to it. i was a weird kid. i had my core group of, like, very tight, like, three friends. when we look at autism, we characterize it by, like, lack of eye contact, what i do now is when i'm looking away from the camera, it's for my own comfort. faces are confusing. it's a lack of mirror neurons in your brain working properly to allow you to experience empathy, to realize where somebody is coming from, or to realize that body language means that. at its core, autism is a social disorder, it's a neurological disorder that people are born with, and it's a big, big spectrum. it wasn't until i was a teenager that i heard autism in

relation to myself, and i rejected it. i was very loud, i took up a lot of space, and it was because mostly taking up space let everybody else know where i existed in the world. i didn't like to talk to people really, and then, when i did, i overshared. i was very difficult to be around. but the friends that i have are very close. i click with our atypical kiddos than other people do. in experience, i remember when i was five years old and not wanting people to touch me because it hurt. i remember throwing chairs because i could not regulate my own emotions, and it did not mean that i was a bad kid, it meant that i couldn't cope. i grew up in a family of behavioral psychologists, and i got development cal --

developmental psychology from all sides. i recognize that my experience is just a very small picture of that, and not everybody's in a position to have a family that's as supportive, but there's also a community that's incredible helpful and wonderful and open and there for you in your moments of need. it was like two or three years of conversations before i was like you know what? i'm just going to do this, and i went out and got my prescription for hormones and started transitioning medically, even though i had already been living as a male. i have a two-year-old. the person who i'm now married to is my husband for about two years, and then started gaining weight and wasn't sure, so i we went and talked with the doctor at my clinic, and he said well, testosterone is basically birth control, so there's no way you

can be pregnant. i found out i was pregnant at 6.5 months. my whole mission is to kind of normalize adults like me. i think i've finally found my calling in early intervention, which is here, kind of what we do. i think the access to irrelevant care for parents is intentionally confusing. when i did the procespective search for autism for my own child, it was confusing. we have a place where children can be children, but it's very confusing. i always out myself as an adult with autism. i think it's helpful when you know where can your child go. how i'm choosing to help is to give children that would normally not be allowed to have children in the same respect, kids that have three times as much work to do as their peers

or kids who do odd things, like, beach therapy. how do -- speech therapy. how do you explain that to the rest of their class? i want that to be a normal experience. i was working on a certificate and kind of getting think early childhood credits brefore i started working here, and we did a section on transgender inclusion, inclusion, which is a big issue here in san francisco because we attract lots of queer families, and the teacher approached me and said i don't really feel comfortable or qualified to talk about this from, like, a cisgendered straight person's perspective, would you mind talking a little bit with your own experience, and i'm like absolutely. so i'm now one of the guest speakers in that particular class at city college. i love growing up here. i love what san francisco represents. the idea of leaving has never occurred to me. but it's a place that i need to

fight for to bring it back to what it used to be, to allow all of those little kids that come from really unsafe environments to move somewhere safe. what i've done with my life is work to make all of those situations better, to bring a little bit of light to all those kind of issues that we're still having, hoping to expand into a little bit more of a resource center, and this resource center would be more those new parents who have gotten that diagnosis, and we want to be this one centralized place that allows parents to breathe for a second. i would love to empower from the bottom up, from the kid level, and from the top down, from the teacher level. so many things that i would love to do that are all about changing people's minds about certain chunts, like the transgender community or the autistic community. i would like my daughter to know there's no wrong way to go through life. everybody experiences pain and grief and sadness, and that all

of those things are temporary. >> everything is done in-house. i think it is done. i have always been passionate about gelato. every single slaver has its own recipe. we have our own -- we move on

from there. so you have every time a unique experience because that slaver is the flavored we want to make. union street is unique because of the neighbors and the location itself. the people that live around here i love to see when the street is full of people. it is a little bit of italy that is happening around you can walk around and enjoy shopping with gelato in your hand. this is the move we are happy to provide to the people. i always love union street because it's not like another commercial street where you have big chains. here you have the neighbors. there is a lot of stories and the neighborhoods are essential. people have -- they enjoy having their daily or weekly gelato. i love this street itself.

>> we created a move of an area where we will be visiting. we want to make sure that the area has the gelato that you like. what we give back as a shop owner is creating an ambient lifestyle. if you do it in your area and if you like it, then you can do it on the streets you like. >> 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 >> the teams really, really went above and beyond and is continuing to do that today. this past year, the san francisco public utilities commission water quality division started receiving many more requests to test for lead in the public school system here in san francisco as a result of legislation that had passed from the state requiring all of the public schools to do lead testing. and so as a result, the public utilities commission and the water quality team in particular was asked to meet

with the san francisco unified school district to begin to prioritize which schools to test to meet that state mandate. >> the team that tests, we're a full service environmental laboratory, and we take care of both the needs of the water quality division and the waste water enter price. and on the water quality enterprise, we have to also have drinking water that meets all federal and state quality regulations. and lead in schools, we're playing a problem in remediating this problem of lead in schools. >> our role here in communications is being able to take the data that we have that we know is protective of public health and safety and transmit it, give it to the public in a way they understand we are really doing our jobs well and making sure that they are safe always. >> the public learned very quickly all the accurate facts and all the critical information that they needed to

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