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>> clerk: item 7. vision zero strategy update. this is an information item. >> i am going to present on the 2019 action strategy. a good deal of substance at the last meeting in october. this is abbreviated version of the presentation. i didn't want to take too much time here. on february 28th we held our quarterly vision zero task force meeting and released a 2019 update of the action strategy which reflects hours and hours of input if the community and stakeholders. we believe it takes a big step forward in talking how we are going to get to zero and moves from the action the cities can take to expansive and broader vision for how everyone including the state partners and our federal partners can help us work towards achieving that goal. first, our strategy is guided by
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the core principals. i will not read these. we are in alignment with the international goals of vision zero and energy is in the areas where it is most important which include saving lives, reducing speed and making sure our engineers is leading the way in improving the streets for safety. we are moving from traditional strategic action approach. it is stand alone to broader emphasis around most just the actions. the things the city can and will do in two to five year tim timee to get to zero identifying the policies. these have been brought up repeatedly on the committee you
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have been strong supporters and lastly, identifying the goals where every single metric needs to shift in the right direction for us to we seeing the vision zero goal we are all seeking. lastly they need to be in equity. we are not going to exacerbate existing inequities through projects or policies or programs through vision zero strategic action or through transformative policies. so the complimentary goals are all things the city of san francisco has said out loud that we have goals towards and we are actively working to through programs throughout the city both at m.t.a. through other departments as well. those include getting more people walking and biking. getting more people on muni and making it reliable and robust.
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having a better land use housing balance. we can't everybody working in the city living outside the city and expect reduced vehicle miles traveled. working toward all of these things by reducing the vehicle miles traveled by getting people to sustainable mode we will see the climate outcomes that are necessary to live on this planet in 100 years. these are great metrics to get to zero. these are intersectional that go to our goal. it is important to talk about the trams in one breath. this is first step to identify the goals. we continue to strengthen the relationships with the programs to talk about how we can work more collab bertively. the transformative agenda is four pages.
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what can i do to help you achieve vision zero i am very important i have money. pick a policy and help us advance at the state. we have had great conversations with you, commissioners and definitely with our state legislativetive toward advancing the four policies. automated enforcement, pricing and tools to reduce vehicle miles traveled. urban speed limit to give local practitioners the ability to reduce speeds based on known conditions as opposed t to the % rule and lastly we heard about this today local regulation ofrancoftransportation networks. the equity is deepening the stakeholders. we are proud people come out at 3:30 p.m. on thursday. we need partners to build the robust transportation network to
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get to zero. we continue to work on high injury network. it is a source of pride that people have really institutionalized the high injury network. we need to work on those streets in the communities of concern to get to that reduced number of fatalities. thinking about how equity addresses the transformative policies. we are proud of what we did advance to the legislature. it was so rooted in the outcomes to populations and any other policies we advance should have that same emphasis. thinking about competent multi lingual campaigns as well as on the project. using the hospital data you are interested in to ensure we get the right data from the right places and especially people who are less likely to call police or for crashes where police do
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not need to be in attendance and that gives the best data to make sure we address vulnerable populations. this is how we are measuring how we are doing. the goal is zero fatalities. something we added is sustainable travel miles added. our goal is 40 miles in the next five years of protected bicycl bicyclephasis facility -- facilities. we have the 13 miles on the high injury network. we are thinking how we address more safety treatments within the community concerns they are most vulnerable. we heard about the focus on five. on the right side is outreach and education. they have their own metrics. i will end by saying to get to zero we know that it is everyone in this room but a lot of people
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outside the room. our challenge is to make sure we are working with the city and community here and upping the emphasis to working at the region and the state to the positive side. we are working with mtc recently on how do we advance vision zero at regional level. i got a call from someone interested. people living in san francisco cross county lines all of the time it is exciting to see the work at the region. we hope to see that success at the state as well. thank you very much. >> supervisor yee: questions. thanks for this report. can we in terms of metrics look at those i guess severe injuries as a way to include this as a
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metric? >> i can answer that question. we do have a commitment to release the annual report. we are monitoring severe injuries and are committed to issuing an annual report and we would be happy to present it to the committee. >> supervisor yee: it is good to have a report. i am asking for whether or not we could have a metric on severe injuries and consistent to what was stated as a desire to reduce it. >> more explicit target? >> supervisor yee: yes. otherwise we are looking at the same data, not knowing what to do with it. the other thing would be in this
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report what it doesn't do is this is for the next two years. this strategy action things. previously we had a two year action strategy and i don't think we ever reported how we did with those. >> we do track and we actually shared at our last when we did the workshop for the strategy we reported on all of our actions and we included that as a hand out to every participant. i don't think we put it on the website. we are happy to do so. this was intended as a forward looking document. we are happy to report on the old actions. they are strengthened through the strategy. we are happy to report.
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>> supervisor yee: it makes sense to see how we did how we can improve in the forward looking. if next time we could get some report on that. that would be great. that is important. if we did well in the last two year report or two year strategy, i think we should pat ourselves on the shoulder. if we didn't, i think we should double down. >> i think there were successes and challenges and equal neighbor thursday of both. we are happy to talk about those. >> supervisor yee: i don't know if you can answer this. you have a 20 miles per hour strategy. if the city wanted to have certain areas like hospitals, those streets to slow down to 1o that locally?
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i was just at u csf. it is a crosswalk. a lot of times the drivers floor it and run those signals. just to get through it and so it may be we could slow it down a little bit. >> you are describing the exact reason why this is called a transformative action of the strategy. there is limited circumstances under which cities can set speed limits under 25 miles an hour or using methods that don't simply set the speed at the prevailing speed of traffic. the situation you described is not one of them so what we are asking the state to do and we are doing this in concert with
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the other seven big cities in california. los angeles is the lead in this. we ask cities to use other proven documents and methods to set the speed limits that are safe for urban areas. it is not just the speed. just because the state line speed is 25 miles per hour doesn't mean it is safe for many streets in the city. one of the speakers alluded to the toward zero death task force. a legislator passed the bill last year to set that up which takes this issue up to make the recommendations to the state agencies. we are excited about that effort. the seven big cities have demanded cities have a seat at the table. we don't want that set by bureaucrats and aaa or ought to industry. we want people like traffic engineers from cities who have
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dealt with the issues to be the ones making the recommendations. i'm sorry if i sound like a soapbox. we have too many streets where the hands are fid and they shouldn't be tied. >> supervisor yee: any public comments on item seven. i believe there was one speaker. kristen. >> i'm sorry. i didn't take the whole presentation yet. whole off a couple more minutes. would you like to do your presentation? we just did half the presentation for this item.
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we will do the other half. we will call for public comments in a second. >> good afternoon. john with s p.u.c. while streetlights aren't actually specifically called out in vision zero action strategy, we think they are a very important part of vision zero. we coordinate often with city agencies to make sure our streets and our intersections and crossings are better lit in order to support the vision zero goals. quickly with the authority
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having jurisdiction in regards to street and pedestrian lighting in public right-of-way, however the ownership of the lights in the city are slit 50/50 between pg&e. in p.g.e. if we want lighting upgrades we have to submit the service order through us so otheother agencies are not ableo do to. we coordinate new streetlight requests working with p.g.e. to request electric service for those. we work with other city agencies and developers as they installing new streetlights. we convert streetlights to led. we convert about 75% of the streetlights 26,500 streetlights. we hope to complete the final conversions by 2022 to provide better vision at night and improve visibility.
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what else do we do? 311 calls for outages and streetlight addition requests. complete lighting assessments and update lights when any city agency or supervisor officers ask us to complete lighting assessments where we can do major improvements to lighting sometimes it is increasing watttage and new lights. we partner to provide electrical engineers. the mission geneva project. p.u.c. team member an electrical engineer on that project to provide expertise on those types of projects. we do minor modifications to streetlight locations when pedestrian type projects are implemented.
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it requires us to move the lights a little bit. we are also helping with electrical connections with flashing traffic lights within the street pavement. this is my final slide. just want to hit on the larger projects that we also do. we recently completed a huge project in tenderloin. we are starting to plan phase two of the project. we review areas where lights are needed for improvements. good example now for the upcoming year is cap street due to the large amount of crime in the area and really we developed these capital projects and plans based on safety. two forms of safety a pedestrian and be soutand bicycle safety. high crime is our priority. the secondary drivers aging
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infracture. so that is it. i have for this for today. we support these efforts and want to assist fellow agencies as we implement the better vision zero goals. >> supervisor yee: thank you for the quick presentation. public comments. come on up now. >> if there are others to make comments come on up and line up over here. >> hello commissioners. i am kristin lucky member of vision zero coalition here to highlight there are only five years left to reach the vision zero goal. the city has done a lot. we are not on track to reach zero by 2024.
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the city must act quickly. this action strategy is not strategic. it is a list of actions not a road map to zero. without a road map we won't get there. in the letter we sent out we outline a concern with the strategy how the city can act to address these to help us achieve our goal. i urge this committee to address the concerns to put us on track to achieve vision zero by 2024. thanthank you for your time. >> i am from the east cut benefit district to talk about quickly some of the focuses that a lot of our residents have with bike and pedestrian safety. i don't think there is enough outreach to do with this circumstance. a lot of people in our community bike on fulsome and howard and especially after the incident last week we want to make sure our constituents are safe.
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one of the other issues we are a transit dense neighborhood. in the next few years we are to have 2 to 3,000 more residents in the neighborhood. there are not a lot of transit options to get to the mission or west soma. we want vision zero to have a transit focus. i live in district five. i come in to downtown. sometimes i am waiting for a bus. it is not reliable. sometimes i have to grab an uber which accident exacerbates the problem. we need to get people out of the cars and into public transit. thank you. >> good afternoon. i am kelly. i am from the academy under
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ccdc. we are working with vision zero. we are aiming to reinforce pedestrian safety for seniors lieu are more vulnerable more high risk. recently two pedestrian fatalities happened in richmond district they are both seniors. the deaths in 2019 outpaced last year four times the amount that occurred by the end of march 2018. there are several scramble systems in chinatown and we found it very effective to protect senior pedestrian safety so we urge the cd to do research on other streets that need a scramble system and take action to implement that. other than that to improvise street design and traffic engineering are very significant factors for pedestrian safety.
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we believe educating people an andditionsemnating useful information about preventing commissions and fatality is essential so that as our program and the youth has reached through the action plan of vision zero we believe it is very important to have a specific action plan to show better guidance and achieving a vision zero in 2024. thank you. >> what school? >> gagalleleo. >> lions like this guy and the mayor? >> yes. >> thank you for coming in. >> exciting. excited to see you. i work for walk sf. i want to speak on behalf of vision zero coalition. we are more than 35
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community-based organizations. we helped get vision zero passed in the city. we advocate for swift and effective -- definitely effective swift and equitable of vision zero. today we submitted a letter that is 8 pages. i will summarize it for you because 8 pages is a lot. here is what it is. first, this document has a lot of important stuff. it is a list of all of the things the city is doing or need to happen at the state level. not a plan that is going to get us anywhere in five years. i don't want to it is to say these are the things we are doing let's hope to get there in five years? what is the plan? what is needed? what is the stuff we don't have money to do? we need the money? what is the plan and road map. we are not asking for miracles.
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wwe just need a plan. the others part of the coalition is transit. it is great to see trans it first. it is what is going to get us to vision zero. we know that transit. communities that use transit are much saver. if we get more people riding transit fewer people are going to get hit by cars. what is the city plan to improve transit to get to vision zero? we are not asking for miracles. we want to see plans and strategies. i want miracles, too. >> supervisor yee: thank you. >> good afternoon. i am jody.
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i am here as executive director of walk san francisco. we are only 10 weeks into 2019 and we have already lost five people walking one on a bicycle and two in cars to traffic violence. this is more than a wake-up call. this is a crisis. i want to thank the three of you and the rest of the board for your commitment to vision zero. we need to act quickly to accomplish this. before i share the response i want to thank the city agencies putting their backs into this plan in particular. i would like to thank sf m.t.a. and department of public health who are close partners to getting long-term changes to zero. i believe that vision zero strategy has many of the inagreed agreed -- ingredients.
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i am talking about three things. it is speeding up the pace. we really need to get safety improvements installed quickly. 100% of the network by 2020. this is short term. ithere is no time to waste. this is stuff to do and the city can have life saving impact. two, we have never seen a cost assessment for vision zero. we don't know the cost. this is something that i think totally makes sense. our efforts shouldn't be held up. we are asking for transparency and accountability. we don't have a way to track the progress on the high injury network. how many projects are complete, how many more of the streets on the high injury network do we need? we don't know. we are asking you to be our
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leaders and get us to where we need to be. thank you very much. the rest is in the letter to the mayor you all received. >> good afternoon. alice rogers also part of the vision zero coalition through our south beach mission bay maybe neighborhood. i am here to echo what has been said and to say that there are tons and tons of people behind those signatures that are on the letter you received today. i definitely want to thank m.t.a. and the department of public health and everybody who worked on this new action strategy plan. especially for the new levels of outreach it is an important step
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to bear extra fruit going forward. these new connections to new communitieses that haven't been involved in the discussion. i would also like to join the request that transit become more central to this. >> we want to cheer them on as opposed to hearing them. they experienced value to change the discussion. thank you for taking everything that goes on in this arena very seriously. you get a lot of criticism but you get a lot of praise payment. thank you. >> thank you very much. any other public comments. public comment is closed.
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i just want to maybe summit up. i think this letter that we received really does make some good points. i hope that staff can address it. some of the action items are we hope to get there. i mean they are good. like 20 miles an hour. what happened if we don't get 2? it doesn't mean we are not going to reach the vision zero policy or none. we are going to fulfill our goals. i mean it is a lot of questions for me. i have been at this since i have been here. i am feeling like, my goodness, time is running out, and i feel anxious that we need to speed up
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what we need to do to actually get to our goals of vision zero. if there is no other comments then we will close this item and informational. thank you very much. we have one more item 8, i believe. if we could do this quickly. it is getting late. >> this is athis is an informat. vision zero communications and education program update.
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>> are you win know. >> yes education outreach. i will try to go quickly. for 2018, all of our campaigns had over 250 million media impressions. it is if best guess algorithm of the outreach and exposure of people in our campaign. if it is a add on your facebook feed or cell phone or when you are walking through the neighborhood with your dog. this is like the estimate how much people they are reaching. in person interactions.
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we had a chinese, spanish, philadelphia piano -- philadelphia piano there and we provided materials in multiple languages. i will talk a little bit about some of the partnerships we did last year. in case you have been to the dnc recently or plan to go in the next year. this is the psa that we formed a partnership to play not only in our sf field office but also over 170 field offices throughout california. we confirmed oakland. i got my sister to confirm in la. this is part of our campaign. we knowed that speeding is a -- we know that speeding is a factor. for world day remembrance we worked with the sf streets.
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it was indoors because of the fires. this is a photo what it looked like. we looked up photos of possers that looked like this. the district attorney's office had a campaign last year that you have seen. they are bright yellow. they had banners. ads. multiple languages english spanish and chinese. the city of san jose reached out they were in the city. the banners caught their eye they are interested in repindicating them this year. we put them in touch with the district attorney. the department of public health has the safe program. seth 2018 they started the next
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round funding 8 community organizations last year the walk sf and the senior and disand pedestrian work group launched this to extend crossing times. they worked cathy is in the photo. this is a handmade thank you card they presented. so 2018. for 2019 a look ahead of campaigns you can anticipate coming live we are working on driving in today sf which is social media based. we have almost four videos right now. this they are seeking to break down be the more complex and confusing treat treatments in small bite size video format to
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share with the public. another campaign safer intersections which focuses on left turn collisions. we started groundwork and data collection last year we had behavior specialists to keep dive into the program and we will launch if education campaign later this year. this is our third year of our motorcycle safety program. last year we did six social media snip its to promote motorcycle safety. this year we will work with the police department. lastly, as part of our post fatality outreach we are piloting the third prong. we know we have the rapid response team to do street
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investigations. we have the dph crisis response team to include the district attorney to provide emotional support and navigation through city services. this year we are starting a street team in response to paytalty. we piloted the first couple in january. what the goals of this outreach are we have the team go out and respectfully acknowledge, talk to members of the public and be opportunity t to talk about decision zero. it is positively received people appreciate it. we are able to provide crisis response cards with the 24/7 phone number for people needing more support. then this is a photo from the january 28th fatality at 46th where members of the neighborhood installed flowers
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and so we have a street team outreach go out and post posters to the world day remember brans our neighbor died at the intersection and they will go out and talk. that is the end of the presentation. >> supervisor yee: thank you. questions. whatever happened to our attempt to do the ghost bikes? >> can you say that again? >> supervisor yee: ghost bikes? did anything ever it seems we never had a conclusion for that. >> i don't know exactly about putting up ghost bikes. we worked with department of public works to confirm the policy not removing the ghost bikes for those memorializing cyclist fatalities. we are trying to standardize
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what we want to put up there. >> we will go back and be bring you an answer to that question. >> supervisor yee: i know this is probably not part of your work, but the city supported some education outreach to younger people meaning elementary and first grade and so forth. that was the neighborhood. it would be nice if somehow we could get information how many kids they served over the year. all you can do is get the number of kids that went through the program and can't measure any other way but it would be interesting for us to hear what happened. i think more recently that program went into district 3,
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right? have you had a chance to see it supervisor peskin? hopefully supervisor stephanie will see the elementary school in your district go for that. any public comment on this item? seeing none, public comment is closed. >> supervisor stefani: i think this is for the sf m.t.a. when major changes are made to a road like the euclid traffic circles what outreach is done to the immediate neighbors in terms of these changes have been made, this is why, this is how you can effectively navigate it. we are getting the complaints. people are running to the traffic circles which is good they are going too fast those are there to slow them down. what outreach? what i hear from people and i have been thinking about this a
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lot in terms of education and how often the roads are changing, red lane, green lane. i don't know that education is keeping up with it. i hear that all of the time. i got my license when i was 16. for some people that was long ago like me. they don't feel like they know how to effectively navigate the new changes. i feel like that education piece is really missing. also the education piece in terms of really making people aware what happens when you park your car and you start to open your door. what you need to look for. i can't stop thinking about this. maybe it is there and i haven't seen it. an educational component to road changes and also for people to know their part. this is what you need to do if you are a driver, a cyclist,
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pedestrian, know your part, keep each other safe. i would like to see and know if there is any type of educational campaigns around that. >> that is a good question. the presentation you talked about driving in today's sf is one of the campaigns we will launch next year specifically aimed at that issue. we are at the cutting edge of all kinds of traffic practices here. it only works if drivers know how to navigate it. that is the subject of our campaign this year. >> supervisor yee: i believe this item is closed. why don't we go to the next item. >> clerk: introduction of new items. >> supervisor yee: i see none. next item. >> clerk: public comment. >> supervisor yee: public comment on item nine? seeing none. public comment is closed.
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move to next item. >> clerk: item 10 public comment. >> supervisor yee: general public comments come on up. >> i am jay bane. i never talk in front of these kinds of meetings so it is a little bit embarrassing. i lived in san francisco for 23 years. i lived for 22 years in district five near buchanan and her man where there was road range several times of day. i am living in d1. i live san francisco and i am empathetic towards the cyclists and drives here. you have made great points about trying to reach out to people who, you know, are in different
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modes, and maybe there are educational opportunities for people that haven't taken a driver's test to remind them not to use cell phones, to remember to use turn signals and not keep on pedestrians in crosswalks. i think having seen th the road report where it showed increasing use of vehicles in the past year that contrasts with some of the decreased use of bicycles for personal bicycles but payment we have a very strong response to bike share and options for people. i would like to see more bike share in the outer richmond and west side of san francisco dock less bike share that has been doing well in the center of the town and also in d2, for example. they are great solutions with
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technology and services. i think the more you have cyclists and people using those multi-modal options it will help reduce traffic. you know accidents and things like that. thank you. >> supervisor yee: thank you. you did well for your first time. any other public comments? public comment is now closed. next item please. >> clerk: item 11 adjournment. >> supervisor yee: meeting is adjourned. thank you very muc
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>> welcome to another episode of safety on today is episode we'll show you how 0 retroactive you're home let's go inside and take a look. >> hi and patrick chief officer and director of earthquake for the city and county of san francisco welcome to another episode of stay safe in our model home with matt we'll talk about plywood. >> great thanks. >> where are we we if you
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notice bare studs those are prone to failure in an earthquake we need to stabilize those they don't lean over and plywood is effective as long as you nail along every edge of the plywood for the framing we'll nail along the sides and top and on the bottom 0 immediately you'll see a problem in a typical san francisco construction because nothing to nail the bottom of the plywood we've got to wind block between the studs and we'll secure this to the mud sill with nails or surface screws something to nail the bottom of the plywood. >> i notice we have not bolted the foundation in the previous episode thorough goes through options with different products so, now we have the blocking we'll a xoich attach the
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plywood. >> the third thing we'll attach the floor framing of the house above so the top of the braced walls one to have a steel angle on top of this wall and types of to the top of the wall with nails into the top plate and the nails in this direction driving a nail it difficult unless you have a specialized tool so this makes that easy this is good, good for about 5 hundred pounds of earthquake swinging before and after that mount to the face of wall it secures the top of wall and nailed into the top plate of the with triple wall and this gives us a secure to resist the
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forces. >> so you now see the space is totally available to dots blocking that he bottom and bolted the foundation in corneas what the code in the next episode you'll see you apply
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>> in 201,755.7 million passengers traveled through san francisco international airport. we have on average 150,000 people traveling through the airport every day. flying can be stressful so we have introduced therapy dogs to make flying more enjoyable. the wag brigade is a partnership between the airport and the san francisco therapy animal
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assistant program to bring therapy animals into the airport, into the terminals to make passenger travel more enjoyable. i amgen fer casarian and i work here at san francisco international airport. the idea for therapy dogs got started the day after 9/11. an employee brought his therapy dog to work after 9/11 and he was able to see how his dog was able to relieve passenger's jitter. when we first launched the program back in 2013, our main goal was to destress our passengers however what we quickly found is that our animals were helping us find a way to connect with our pang. passengers. we find there are a lot of people traveling through the airport who are missing their pets and who are on their road a lot and can't have pets and we
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have come in contact with a lot of people recently who have lost pet. >> i love the wag brigade. >> one of my favorite parts is walking into the terminals and seeing everybody look up from their device, today everybody is interacting on their cell phone or laptop and we can walk into the terminal with a dog or a pig and people start to interact with each other again and it's on a different level. more of an emotional level. >> i just got off an 11.5 hour flight and nice to have this distraction in the middle of it. >> we look for wag brigade handlers who are comfortable in stressful situations. >> i like coming to airport it's
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a lot of fun and the people you talk to are generally people who are missing their dogs. >> they are required to compete a certification process. and they are also required to complete a k9 good citizen test and we look for animals who have experienced working with other orgorganizations such as hospits and pediatric units and we want to be sure that the animals we are bringing into the airport are good with children and also good with some of our senior travelers. i think toby really likes meeting kids. that is his favorite thing. he likes to have them pet him and come up to him and he really loves the kids. >> our wag brigade animals can be spotted wearing custom vets and they have custom patches.
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>> there is never a day that repeats itself and there is never and encounter that repeats itself. we get to do maximum good in a small stretch of time and i have met amazing people who have been thrilled to have the interaction. >> the dogs are here seven days a week, we have 20 dogs and they each come for a two hour shift. >> there is a lot of stress when people have traveling so to from these animals around to ease the stress and help people relax a little bit. i think it's great. >> one of our dogs has special need and that is tristine. he wears a wheel around. >> he has special shoes and a
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harness and we get it together in the parking lot and then we get on the air train. he loves it. little kids love him because he is a little lower to the ground so easy to reach and he has this big furry head they get to pet and he loves that. >> he doesn't seem to mind at all. probably one of the happiest dogs in the world. >> many people are nervous when they travel but seeing the dogs is just a wonderful relief. >> what i absolutely love most about it is the look on people's faces, so whenever they are stressed and flying is stressful these days you get these wonderful smile. >> i am the mom of lilo the pig and she is san francisco's first therapy pig. >> lilo joined the wag brigade as our firs first pig.
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>> wag brigade invited us to join the program here and we have done it about a year-and-a-half ago. our visits last 1.5 to 2 hours and it does take a little bit longer to get out of the terminal because we still get a lot of attention and a lot of people that want to interact with lilo. >> i feel honored to be part of the wag brigade. it's very special to meet so many people and make so many feel happy and people that work here. it's been a great experience for me and a great experience for to totoby. >> it's been an extremely
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successful program, so the next time you are here, stop by and say hi.go. >> shop and dine the 49 promotes local businesses and changes san franciscans to do their shopping and dooipg within the 49 square miles by supporting local services within the neighborhood we help san francisco remain unique, successful and vibrant so where will you shop and dine the 49 hi in my mind a ms. medina exci
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>> when we had that big rainstorm last year that was racing down this hill i went out and when there was a break in the weather to make sure that was clear and that was definitely debris that draws down i make sure i have any bathroom we me and sweep that away that makes a big difference
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sfwrts can fleet floated and every year we were coming home he it was rainey noticed it the water with hill high on the corner and she was in her rain boats so she had fun doing that. >> i saved our house. >> so adopt a drain 25 >> chairman: the meeting will come to order. welcome to the thursday march 711th meeting of the government audit and
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