during the transformative project take page that was -- face was submitted last year as transformative. in addition to that, within the programmatic categories we anticipate reliability across the city as well as moving forward is going to be included. >> when you talk about the m line. are you talking about the sort of band-aid approach of moving it over a little bit and not increasing capacity or are we talking about the concept of actually increasing the capacity for trains, which means you have to go underneath? >> that's right. that is the project submitted which is the full underground. i don't be have all of the project details in front of me

right now, but that was submitted. >> i want to make sure we are thinking about that. >> it is going from 4,000 to 12,000. they are talking about 2050 which could be an increase 65,000 more people. i am a little concerned about whether or not an infrastructure to support the 30 or 40,000 more people out there. >> i will add for this process, we are trying to make sure that we have space within the regional planning process to pursue the process with the local flanking. that -- planning. connect sf is looking at the

maps where population and employment are going to be. i am not going to get into that camille can do a better job. >> thank you. >> it is a lot of planning. >> chair peskin: commissioner fewer. >> commissioner fewer: i might be guilty of the same thing. i am thinking you have a plan to have some underground capacity out to the west side on the gary corridor line, is that correct. >> can you repeat that? >> i assume we have plans for undergrounding along the gary corridor out to the west side? >> i do think that will be addressed in the connect sf planning process. what we are doing is making sure that we have enough funding identified in the regional process to advance the next stages of development for the city's future priorities for rail.

>> i wanted to make sure we have enough funding to include that particular study of undergrounding out to the west side. i am hearing behind me, yes. >> commissioner fewer the region did submit a rail mega project, the second transbay tube connected to west side rail extension that represented the west side rail. that is what the region submitted with our support in san francisco. >> thank you very much. >> chair peskin: any other questions from members? any public comment on this item? seeing none, public comment is closed. thank you for the presentation. next item. >> clerk: item connect sf statement of needs.

this is an information item. >> good morning, commissioners,

i am camille, transportation planner at the transportation authority. i am here to talk about the connect sf statement of needs. as michelle told you about the area. i will speak to how we are developing our local priorities that feed to the regional plan. joining me in the audience today are some of our colleagues from key partner agencies and leads of the project. we have linda of the transportation authority as well as doug johnson from the planning department and the sf m.t.a. connect sf strives to collaborate, coordinate and streamline long-range transportation planning across the city agencies to identify major transportation investments

and policies. it factors in land use to plan transportation as the two are related and interdependent. in the spring of 2018, we completed the first phase of work. this included developing a vision what the city will be like in 50 years. this was an extensive outreach with 5,000 individuals and 60 organizations contributed the thoughts on the future of san francisco as a place to live, work and place. the vision is one where san francisco is a growing, diverse and equitable city and there is a multitude of transportation options available and affordable to all. these are the five goals that shape the connect sf vision and guide the city's long-range transportation work moving forward. the next step after vision is to

understand needs and challenges for the future given our current transportation system and the projects we have planned. today's presentation focus on the statement of needs which is the beginning of the san francisco transportation plan or sftp, county wide plan. the challenges we spell out today we will develop project concept recommendations for our transit streets and freeway networks. in the final phase of connect sf, the sftp analyzes all project concepts for streets and transit including all modes and operators and develops a fisca fiscally constrained investment strategy with policy recommendations. priorities for transit streets and be freeways will be formalized as policies in the transportation element of the

general plan. to have a base line understanding of how san francisco's transportation system is performing today and in the future we ask the question does this performance meet the goals and aspirations set out by the vision? if it doesn't, what are the gaps or areas where we need to do better to reach that vision? we look at metrics in 2015 as the baseline year to measure conditions today and 2050 as the future year. san francisco will continue to grow because it is and will be an attractive place to live and work. our growth projections are based on development capacity including adopted plans and policies like accessory dwelling units, pdr programs, state density bonuses, home-sf, pipeline, soft site as well as major large developments.

employment is expected to grow at historical rates at 5,000 jobs annually and population is to grow faster than it has historically. while in the future 35 years we see growth of 10,000 people annually. where will this projected growth go? supervisor alluded to southwest and this map shows the projected change where people live and work from 2015 until 2050. the vast majority of plan will oker in -- curin the eastern part of the city and the major developments and plan areas are shown here. for the year 2050, we took the transportation network

assumptions from plan bay area 2040 and the project in that includes gary, bus rapid transit, central subway. downtown extension, more bart service through the san francisco core as well as express lanes on 101 and 280. through connect sf we will identify new concepts based on our needs to help us assess how we are doing. we identified metrics corresponding to the goals and objectives in the slides that follow we highlight a sub set of metrics summariesing the findings from the statements of needs. these reflect a typical weekday in san francisco. i will start off with good news first. more jobs are accessible to san francisco residents in 2050. and there is a greatter increase in the number of jobs accessible

by transit than by auto. this tells us that san francisco and other cities are putting jobs closer to transit and/or planned transit improvements are having a positive effect on accessibility. you can still get to a lot more jobs by car in 2050. they tend to have a longer commute as shown by the darkest red portions of the map. while it is good that average commute times are changing little with the growth we are expected to see the pink shows commutes in southern neighborhoods are growing longer. the green tells us the commutes in soma and the eastern

neighborhoods are getting shorter. this is a metric where we see uneven outcomes across the city. in addition to city wide analysis we wanted to look at results with an equity lens. we looked at how transportation network is working for communities of concern in the future. communities of concern are mtc's way of capturing transit dependent populations. people who live in areas identified as areas of concern have shorter commute times. in the future we see the commute times for those cocs are getting longer and the share of cocs with access to high-quality transit declines. in addition we also see that everyone is increasing their

jobs access but communities of concern ar are not seeing as lae of an increase as areas that are noncocs. now let's take a look at how people get around the city. the city has a goal of having 80% trips by sustainable modes by the year 2030. according to the model, overall mode share doesn't change drastically. this shows that we are not going to get close to meeting this goal. what the model says is that trips by all modes are increasing due to the increase in the number of people in jobs. the greatest absolute increase in trips is on transit, which is a good thing. trips using auto modes increases more than trips using sustainable modes.

the greatest relative increase in trips are by tncs. when we look at the neighborhood level we found we are losing ground in neighborhoods with the highest sustainable mode usage. continuing on the topic of driving, we know that san francisco already has low personal miles driven per capita. that helping the bay area achieve its reduction goals by the year 2050. while personable miles driven is still lower in san francisco than the rest of the region, we see this increasing while it drops significantly for the bay area overall. since the personal miles driven are low it is challenging for san francisco to do better in the future. of concern is that we are losing ground in neighborhoods that have typically been doing the

best and have the lowest personal miles driven per capita as shown by dark red on the bars. we are doing better in neighborhoods with the highest personal miles driven per capita as represented by the white portion of the bars. this slide represents miles driven and greenhouse gas emissions for all cars driving in san francisco whether they are residents or not. overall driving is projected to increase, emissions are anticipated to fall. this is primarily due to improvements in technological advancements and fuel efficiencies. the see has ambitious goals for eliminating emissions that we will not meet. it is no surprise that congestion is to get worse in the future. roadway speeds drop during peaks

and midday. this shows the change in speed for all roadways in san francisco including freeways. we see the greatest speedy lines in neighborhoods experiencing the greatest growth on and also on the freeways. transit is also getting more crowded despite the planned service and capacity increases mentioned earlier. the share of passenger hours on muni that are crowded increases from 18% to 23%. when we look at muni service by rail or bus, we find buses are the workhorses of the system with more than double the passenger hours of rail. muni crowded is worse on muni rail than bus. the share of passenger hours on muni rail that are crowded increases from 24 to 32%. the transit crowding continues

to persist for access to downtown. it is expected to be pronounced for the market mission, central subway and transbay corridors. in summary we see plan growth increasing housing and jobs. we also know the gap between jobs accessed by transit versus car is closing with residents gaining a significant increase in jobs they can access by transit. it is good that average commute times are not changing city wide, growth is uneven across different parts of the city. through the statement of needs, we recognize the planned investments won't get us where we want to buy by 2050. we see uneven outcomes for communities of concern, failure to advance toward sustainability goals and continued unpleasant experience for drivers and transit riders.

this means that we are seeing challenges to equity, environmental sustainability and economic vitality. we have just shared a snip it what will be in the full statement of needs report released at the end of the summer. there are some areas of study we currently do not model in the future such a fatal collisions and injuries on the industry or demographics. we can track those for today and historically, and we have added that to the collection of present day data to present in the statement of needs. this includes the progress towards vision zero and maintenance wand re-- and repair needs. the statement of needs raises many concerns for the future. in the next stage of this phase, we will be going into the transit corridor study and streets and freeway studies

where we will identify major project concepts for new investments and policies that will seek to address the challenges we describe today. as michelle mentioned through connect sf we will identify the san francisco priorities that will feed into plan bay area. it is important that these priorities be included from the regional plan to ensure eligibility for state and federal funding. we have a number of ways to get engaged in connect sf. we have just released a number of interactive maps with some of the data presented today including the growth data, jobs accessibility. transit crowding and miles drive -- driven and in the fall we will have workshops on the transit corridor study and streets and freeway study.

we are also offering to provide presentations to the groups we engage previously and welcome suggestions for our groups to reach out to. thank you for your time this morning. i will take questions. >> chair peskin: are there any questions? any public comment on this item? seeing none. thank you for the very thorough presentation. i know some of us have an event to attend a at 11:00 which you e all welcome to attend. we will close public comment. any introduction of new items? any general public comment seeing none. we are adjourned.

>> i went through a lot of struggles in my life, and i am blessed to be part of this. i am familiar with what people are going through to relate and empathy and compassion to their struggle so they can see i came out of the struggle, it gives them hope to come up and do something positive. ♪ ♪ i am a community ambassador.

we work a lot with homeless, visitors, a lot of people in the area. >> what i like doing is posting up at hotspots to let people see visibility. they ask you questions, ask you directions, they might have a question about what services are available. checking in, you guys. >> wellness check. we walk by to see any individual, you know may be sitting on the sidewalk, we make sure they are okay, alive.

you never know. somebody might walk by and they are laying there for hours. you never know if they are alive. we let them know we are in the area and we are here to promote safety, and if they have somebody that is, you know, hanging around that they don't want to call the police on, they don't have to call the police. they can call us. we can direct them to the services they might need. >> we do the three one one to keep the city neighborhoods clean. there are people dumping, waste on the ground and needles on the ground. it is unsafe for children and adults to commute through the streets. when we see them we take a picture dispatch to 311. they give us a tracking number and they come later on to pick it up. we take pride. when we come back later in the day and we see the loose trash

or debris is picked up it makes you feel good about what you are doing. >> it makes you feel did about escorting kids and having them feel safe walking to the play area and back. the stuff we do as ambassadors makes us feel proud to help keep the city clean, helping the residents. >> you can see the community ambassadors. i used to be on the streets. i didn't think i could become a community ambassador. it was too far out there for me to grab, you know. doing this job makes me feel good. because i came from where a lot of them are, homeless and on the street, i feel like i can give them hope because i was once there. i am not afraid to tell them i used to be here.

i used to be like this, you know. i have compassion for people that are on the streets like the homeless and people that are caught up with their addiction because now, i feel like i can give them hope. it reminds you every day of where i used to be and where i am at now.

>> good morning, everyone. apologies. [laughter] the meeting will come to order. welcome to the may 23rd, 2019 regular meeting of the public safety and neighborhood services committee. i am the chair of the committee. to my right as vice chair stefani, to my left a supervisor walton. our clerk is john carroll. i want to think matthew and corwin at san francisco government t.v. for staffing the meeting. do you have any announcements? >> thank you, mr. chair. insert you silence your cell phones and electronic devices. completed speaker cards and

copies of any document should be cemented to the clerk. items acted upon will appear in the june 4th, 2019 board of supervisors agenda unless otherwise stated by motion. >> please call our first item. >> agenda item number 1 is the hearing to consider the promised apprentice -- premise -- beer and wine and liquor license, during businesses a market located at 168 to 186 eddie. >> great. colleagues, we continue this item from the main ninth meeting to allow for the applicant to work out some conditions and get a signed document to the alu. i think we will hear from the alu first. so where are we on this? >> good morning, supervisors. i am with the alcohol liaison unit at sfpd. we have come to the agreement

the conditions for this type 21. the sale service and consumption of alcoholic beverages shall be permitted only between the hours of 7:00 a.m. and 12:00 a.m. each day of the week. petitioners should actively monitor the area under our control in an effort to prevent the loitering of persons on any property adjacent to the licensed properties. these conditions were signed as of may 16th. >> can you explain the issue to me between a 7:00 a.m. opening and 8:00 a.m. opening? >> that was our recommendation is to have them start. >> it is hard understand why you need to be selling alcohol in the tenderloin at 7:00 a.m. >> it is difficult for us to agree on this as well, but working with a.b.c., ultimately they hold license, it is a state license. we just provide our recommendations and after looking at, you know, the

letters of support that came in the fact they are in the community and they do operate at a good level what we expect them to operate under, we were able to agree on the 7:00 a.m. start time to help them out being that they are part of the community and they do well for everybody there. >> thank you. >> supervisors, this was pretty much heard the other day, i want to say if we could have the overhead, what we have here is one of the good players in the tenderloin who has been part of the community, part of the bid. the tenderloin neighborhood developments corporation, you have a letter in the file from dawn fault who is the c.e.o.

they have a building where my client is now at 200 ellis street -- eddy street, they are moving across taylor street into a larger space in the hope is that we can create a community grocery store in the tenderloin with fresh produce. they have fresh produce now, but larger produce section and healthier foods for the community. >> can you maybe explain, i mean it was enough of an issue that you wanted to negotiate whether the start time should be, the start time for the alcohol sale, but whether the alcohol sales should start at 8:00 a.m. or 7:00 a.m., and i'm curious why it is so important to start selling alcohol at 7:00 a.m. >> thank you for the opportunity to explain. we have been in the business for many years and we have tried to

manage the way it should be in the neighborhood and provide everything to the customers. this is not everything we did not want to have any confusion or any kind of conflict for the employees fresh food tends to be open at 6:00, but they can sell alcohol until seven. even if we open at seven, two hours is a little bit of a gap in between for the local community. for some people, they do buy alcohol in the morning. some stores, most of the stores open at 6:00, but we don't. we open at seven and that is a reason why there would be no problems with this or confusions >> great. all right. i don't see any comments or

questions from my colleagues. thank you. it appears that we have some public comment. i am seeing john mccormick and shelley dyer and anyone else who would like to speak can line up over here on the right side. i am going to say a few things about public comment before he let you start. speakers have two minutes. we as he state your first and last name and speak directly into the microphone. if you have prepared a written statement, you encourage -- you are encouraged to leave it with the committee clerk. no applause or booing is permitted. in the interest of time, we encourage speakers to avoid repetition of previous statements. >> my name is john mccormick thank you for having us here today. i just wanted to say that it is a corner store that is a staple in the community and it is a

neighborhood that does not have access to healthy foods and vegetables. unfortunately, it is a reality that the viability of the business depends on selling liquor, and we wish that was in the case and we wish we didn't have to ask for this license, but we want to increase the amount of fruits and vegetables that can be sold in the neighborhood, and i just had a resident in the other day tell me that if he could buy more produce, he would, but the case that they have right now is small, it is not a very large unit, and if he was able to buy more produce, he would. this is amanda and s.r.o. who does not have access to healthy vegetables or access to healthy food in the neighborhood. this would give us more access to the healthy fruits and vegetables that create healthy

lives, that create healthy brains, that create educated citizens. this is an investment, not only in the tenderloin, but in san francisco. when we have healthy people, we have healthy, educated citizens i can help us create a sustainable future. please, please, please help us translate this liquor license in order to get more healthy produce into the neighborhood. >> thank you. next speaker. >> good morning, supervisors. i am a program supervisor for the healthy corner store coalition with the tenderloin develop and corporation. i work very closely with him to support him and in increasing the accessibility to produce within the tenderloin community. we are in support of them transferring this liquor license one of the positives of this is it is not a request for a new license, even moving from his current location just across the street to the new family housing

building. this means that residents that are living above the building will have access just below the residential units to have affordable and fresh produce. within this plan, he is planning to expand the amount of produce that he is selling and just over the past year, or small business consultant round numbers were he selling four times more produce in the quarter one of 2019. being willing to participate in any community engagement effort around nutrition and availability of fresh food that he has been able to increase himself and we are confident we will have even more fresh produce when he moves to the new location. he has assessed the financials and we do agree that he does need this liquor relations to survive.

he is also providing more fresh produce. thank you for the opportunity. >> fifty% of me agrees with what you're talking about. the other 50% of me is furious. >> i was just fine when i walked in here and you said his name and you assign the contract to him, and before i get started, i agree with everything that was said before hand and as far as liquor is being sold, you have to keep in mind that you have wiener wanting alcohol to be sold all the way to 4:00 in the morning. is that clear? don god damn fault, you've got threats of violence and verbal abuse against staff and tenants. we are going on six years of living in a hostile environment.

[ bleep ] i'll kill you, [ bleep ]. that is how i am being treated. i had to represent myself as my own attorney and restrain the courts against tenants and even actual one staff that work for him. he didn't do a god damn thing about it. [indiscernible] all of them like, the compliance monitor refused to give me equal opportunity in housing. you breached that contract. if you've got zero tolerance for threats of violence and verbal abuse, you are being arrested in there and [ bleep ] on the god damn premises where we live. then we are not demonstrating and complaining about it. understand me, they don't do a god damn thing about it. if you start whipping on them, then you'll be charging me.

i go through all the legal procedures get restraining orders and put them in jail, when they get out, they come back to the building. -- [indiscernible] >> thank you. >> mr. chair, the speaker's time has concluded. [indiscernible]. >> thank you, michael. [indiscernible] >> we can't let you talk more than public comment, but we can talk with you off-line. okay.

are there any other members of the public would like to speak before i close public comment? seeing none -- maybe there was someone. nope, you will be back. okay. public comment on item one is now closed. colleagues, first i want to thank the a.l.u. and the applicant for working together to get the concerns that we had last time resolved. they have clearly brought community support for this. we have documents in order. unless anyone has had concerns or objections, i think we can direct the clerk to prepare resolution and file public convenience and necessity for this application. i will make a motion to send this resolution to the full board with a positive recommendation and we can take that without objection.

mr. clerk, please call the next item. >> number 2 is a hearing to consider the issuance of tape 64 special on sale general theatre liquor license to the centre for new music incorporated doing business at the centre for new music. >> hello again. >> before you, we have a report for the centre for new music. they have applied for tape 64 license, and if approved, this would allow them to sell special on sale general here and wine and distilled spirits for the theatre. there are zero levels of progestin one levels of support. they are located in plot 180 which is considered a high crime area. they are in census tract 125.01 which is considered a high saturation area, and the police station has no opposition. the alcohol liaison unit approves the following recommended commissions.

conditions. they should actively monitor the area under their control in an effort to vent the loitering of purses under any under any property as depicted on the most recently certified a.b.c. 253. no noise should be audible at any nearby residents and lastly, the petitioner shall be responsible for maintaining free of litter the area adjacent to the premises over which they have control. it should be noted that the conditions have been signed as of may 16th by the applicant. >> great. thank you. >> i think we have the applicant here. >> no public comment yet. but it is coming. >> hello. >> hey. i am brent miller, the executive director of the centre for new music. >> and i am wryly, the project manager. anything you want to say? >> we are a nonprofit organization who has been in

existence for about six and a half years now and we have about 150 concerts a year in our space we have a lot of people who come to our events and who would like to have a drink with their concert, and so that is why we are applying for this license. >> thank you for the work that you do. >> thank you. >> i don't see any comments or questions from my colleagues see you guys can sit down. >> all right. >> now if there are members of the public would like to speak on this item, we will open up public comment. >> fifty-five taylor street. the concentration of a lot of economically disadvantaged people. combination of mental and physical disabilities. people that are amputees. people that are in wheelchairs, homeless people, they are in

that area. that is an example of the shortage of housing and an example of each and every apartment application an opportunity that comes out of that damn near's office on housing that is hired in the income that they they're making. then we are out there on the street and if you go out there and wonder why. you start discharging your bowels on the street, you sit up there and you are the belly of the joke of every educational channel standard t.v., and the ministration is part of it. you've got 8,011 homeless people in san francisco. and you want to talk about no laundry, where is it going to go when you open up this place, people are already down there." you want to tell them to move? where are you going to move to? that is why i say make those demonstrations about building an apartment building complex

instead of a god damn navigation center. navigation center and the embarcadero is nothing but 170. you call it a shelter bed, that is not a bed, that is a mat on the floor. it is not even a bed, it is a mat lying on the god damn concrete that is 10 inches away with another mat of another homeless person. he only get 60 days to stay there in the near put on the street again. those are the kind of conditions that you have of the county jail that is not supportive housing. this is a derivative of why you have that problem on the street. so you are going to be blaming people for loitering when they don't have anywhere to go. >> thank you. are there any other members of the public who wish to speak on this item? seeing none, public comment is now closed. there we go, now we are really closed. all right, so supervisor haney

is also in support of this item. we have all the documents that i think we need, so i think if you are both all right with this, will direct the clerk to create a resolution, and i move that we forward that to the full board with positive recommendation and we'll take that without objection. and mr. clerk, please call our next item. >> number 3 is a hearing on safety improvement plans for public works streets cleaning truck operations. >> this is president president he's hearing. welcome, if you like to start by saying a few words? >> sure. thank you. good morning, colleagues. i call this hearing on a safety protocol of the street cleaning provision of the public works. i want to thank my cosponsor for this -- for his support on this hearing, supervisor walton. as our concern arose from

several incidents involving the operations of the street cleaning division followed by a citation given by the state agency responsible for worker safety. violations that were reviewed by an investigative report by in b.c. bay area. these violations included unsecured loads, overloaded trucks and other unsafe and unhealthy conditions that employees were being forced to work under while our public works department is one of our workforce departments that we rely on daily to keep our city clean and orderly, it is serious concern that the department was recently investigated by cal osha for practices that were putting both employees and our public at risk. i watched the in b.c. bay area

reports on this issue and it was disturbing to know that microwaves, wooden pallets, televisions, were all left and secure on truck beds as they were being transported to the dump and even more concerning, that the top management seem to be unaware that this was in violation of state law. san francisco spends $72 million a year on street cleaning, which is more than what larger cities like los angeles and chicago spend by millions. we have to make sure that our operations justify the expense and that we are operating with the public safety in mind at all times. the kind of debris that can fall off the moving vehicles accounts for about 50,658 crashes.

9,800 injuries and 125 deaths each year according to the 2016 study by aaa. these numbers are not san francisco numbers, obviously, but just to get the scope of the dangers when we don't actually comply to the safety regulations so therefore, i called the hearing to basically determine a few things. first i want to walk through the investigation. after the citation, my understanding was that public works was found to fail to have corrected and implemented changes in according to -- according to a follow-up report. the question here is, what is the status of the citation, and the follow-through to correct by

public works? are there other -- any other investigations that are in progress by the company regarding any of the department divisions department divisions, not just street cleaning? number 2, what changes have been made by the department of public works since that investigation to come to full compliance? number 3, and finally, how has the department been able to keep up with their ever-changing landscape of state regulations and laws that impact their operations? how do front-line staff get wind of these changes? how do you ensure that all employees are aware of the code of safe practices and are practising those safety rules? how are they enforced? do you have spot checks or internal audits? or is this compliance -- complaint driven? this is probably a question, not

to your department directly, but since we have the benefit of the deputy city attorney here at this hearing, i would also like the city attorney to address the last question. what is the city attorney's office's policy and for how each department, citywide is informed of the most recent developments so that they can be sure that they are in compliance or can come into compliance as soon as possible with laws and regulations? that govern their operations, whether it is public works or any other department? so i will turn it over to larry, the director of operations and the department of public works and jeremy spitz, the department of public works, director of government and legislative affairs. >> good morning, supervisors. i want to start by saying i am also the deputy director of

operations, but also responsible for the fleet of the entire department. public works is strongly committed to safety. it is our top priority, and we work every day to build a safety culture. within the department, we have a departmental safety committee that meets quarterly. we have an operations committee that we -- meets quarterly, made up of employees from the file, all the way up to the managers, to do safety evaluations, recognize problems, but also we have campaigns that we do for safety both through operating the vehicles, as well as their own employee vehicle safety, as well as the safety of the public we do employee accident reviews where the -- for employees. we have a committee that reviews each vehicle accident, and then it is reviewed a second time by the managers and cause is determined for whether it was

preventable or nonpreventable. we also have monthly bureau wide safety meetings. there are four bureaus that do work in the field in san francisco every day. all of the members of those bureaus meet once a month and have a safety discussion. they also have tailgates every two weeks, and during that tailgate process, the cover safe practices for both operation of vehicles, but as well as other operations that we do on the field. those are all documented, they are also required by the company i think related to that is -- we do have a strong commitment to when we find something wrong, making changes to make it better , whether it is with equipment, whether it is types of operations that we do, and we do evaluate root cause for accidents and injuries, and in

particular, injuries, is reached care strongly about our workforce. i do want to thank environment of services. they pick up about 1 million pounds a week of debris. we will -- last year we picked up 26,000 i believe it is, tons. we also have gone up to 145,000 surface requests. that is all in a day. it is a 24/7 365 operation, meaning they don't have a day off. we do not take a day off in the city. this includes a band in waste of illegal dumping, and mechanical sweeping services. the accident that -- the actions

we took since we received the citation, we updated the code of safe practices related to overweight vehicles, we found when we did the reviewed that that was -- there was not in there about overweight vehicles. that is not included in the code of safe practices for all the vehicle types that we have. there were also tailgates done and reviewed with all staff. we placed wait descriptions for all vehicles and all trucks, so they understand the right size truck for what they will be hauling. we held training on proper loading of vehicles with offstreet cleaning staff, and i issued a memo related to proper loading of vehicles, we also automated with recology and we now have an automated report for tonnage of all the vehicles that go to the dump, and that is reviewed weekly. we have it set up so we automatically identify if there is a vehicle that is overloaded.

just a little bit about the whole in b.c. news and everything, we provided them with a spreadsheet of all dumping that was done for an entire, i believe it was close to a year. there were 29,000 dump entries during that time, of which we determined that 103 of those vehicles were overweight. forty-seven of those entries were sweepers, and we determined the root cause of that. at one time, we do sweeping on the great highway, almost seven days a week, and the vehicles that were overweight were the ones that were sweeping sand off the great highway. we had a change in procedure. we lost the area where we could dump, and so we used to dump there at the beach, we had an area, and the front end loader

would pick that up. we lost that, so they have been going to the dump, and that is where the majority of those entries were. the front end loaders was the front end loaders actually -- we keep the sweepers from going everywhere so the front end loaders have designated areas where the sweepers dump, and the front end loader loads it up and they take it to the dump. they are responsible for least two or three routes that they will pick up, and that is for efficiency's sake because we cannot have a sweeper going all the way to the dump and coming back. the 42 tracks, that was the total number of tracks that we found overweight out of the 29,053. nothing to be said about that. they were overloaded. some by a couple hundred, and some by as much as eight or 900 pounds.