am joleen turner, an attorney representing local 261. we have 55 members working in the construction industry in san francisco. one of them is here today representing a local, and like you we were shocked by the gas line explosion at geary earlier this year and it was likely caused by an employee a verizon subcontractor who struck a gas line. he was not in direct contract with verizon. verizon had contracted can math tech and they had subcontracted to a company not licensed in the state of california called advance fiber works. advance fiber works subcontracted to kill fred engineering which obtained the license in october of 2018. it was a kilf r.e.d. employee

who was driving it. we are encouraging the committee to amend the permitting to improve quality of contractors with excavation work by requiring competent contractors with a skilled and trained work force. article 2.4 requires a permit to excavate in public right-of-way. we recommend to amend it to impose clear liability on public utilities and all contractors and subcontractors of all tears and a skilled work force to perform the excavation work. we did provide a memo to the members of the committee specifying 2.4.4 and 10 and .50 where we see an opportunity to improve contracting standards so we appreciate the committees consideration of this.

>> thank you. next speaker. >> i am not used to the equipment. i have to start. i didn't do it right. >> good morning, supervisors. i have a slide show for you, and i also want be to present something on the overhead affidavit i go through the slides that you see. this is in actual time order, and you will see very quickly how this thing went through starting at mid block. that is a brick building to the right of parker avenue. the hoses go mid block up to this time this.

is the traffic congestion and the 38 rapid line. nobody going rapid for sure on euclid at parker. this is a picture of the white fire hydrant at euclid and parker not in use at this time and the flames are still going. pretty soon i see houses 1,000 foot away from the flames, and i see they are full of water. it turns out engine 24 appeared and used the same hydrant. truck five shows the water spray and the same hoses are flat, no water from the hydrant. they are cleaning up. this is the aftermath on the 11th of the hong kong lounge at 3300 geary. this is h&r block. the red circles show where the hydrants are. upper right geary/parker

intersection. overhead please. on the overhead this is the n.t.s.b. report the excavator damaged the natural gas plane. here is a slide of all of the things that occurred, the report from february 26th. it is not the richmond district downtown. that is two miles east. as far as notification, coordination these are the points as to who was notified and who wasn't and how my next door neighbor was allowed in but i wasn't until 5:40. this happened shortly after 1:00. accessibility to the evacuation center. >> thank you. any other members of the public to speak before i close public comment. seeing none, public comment is now closed. >> supervisor stefani: thank you for everyone that came out. please follow up with my office

so we can have a meeting before the next hearing on this. i also want to thank local 261. everything you said is exactly the reason why we are calling for this hearing to see what we can improve. i look forward to working with you on the legislation to determine if we can prevent this from happening. i had great concerns. i look forward to getting into it. if we could work on that before we conclude this hearing, i think we can meet. i would love to meet with you and get started on that. with that, i would like to make a motion to continue this to the call of the chair. >> i think we can take that without objection. all right. mr. clerk, do we have any more items before us today? >> clerk: no further business. >> we are adjourned.

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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 plywood. >> the third thing we'll attach the floor framing of the house above so the top of the

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i have two ways of looking at my life. i want it to be -- i wanted to be a fashion designer for the movies, and the other one, a political figure because i had some force from family members, so it was a constant battle between both. i ended up, for many years, doing the fashion, not for the movies, but for for san franciscan his and then in turn, big changes, and now i am here. the work that i do at city hall makes my life a broader, a richer, more fulfilling than if i was doing something in the garment industry. i had the opportunity to develop relationships with my docents. it is almost like an extended

family. i have formed incredible relationships with them, and also some of the people that come to take a tour. she was a dressmaker of the first order. i would go visit her, and it was a special treat. i was a tiny little girl. i would go with my wool coat on and my special little dress because at that period in time, girls did not wear pants. the garment industry had the -- at the time that i was in it and i was a retailer, as well as the designer, was not particularly favourable to women. you will see the predominant designers, owners of huge complexes are huge stores were all male. women were sort of relegated to a lesser position, so that, you

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basis during the restoration and corrects everything so that it would appear as it was when it opened in december of 1915. >> the board of supervisors approved that, i signed it into law. jeffrey heller, the city and county of san francisco oh, and and your band of architects a great thing, just a great thing. >> to impart to the history of this building is remarkable. to see a person who comes in with a gloomy look on their face , and all of a sudden you start talking about this building, the gloomy look disappears and a smile registers across their face. with children, and i do mainly all of the children's tours, that is a totally different feeling because you are

imparting knowledge that they have no idea where it came from, how it was developed, and you can start talking about how things were before we had computer screens, cell phones, lake in 1915, the mayor of san francisco used to answer the telephone and he would say, good morning, this is the mayor. >> at times, my clothes make me feel powerful. powerful in a different sense. i am not the biggest person in the world, so therefore, i have to have something that would draw your eye to me. usually i do that through color, or just the simplicity of the look, or sometimes the

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good morning and welcome to the san francisco county transportation authority for ma. our clerk is mr. alberto. can you please call the roll. (roll call). we have a quorum. >> next item please. >> clerk: chair report. this is an information item. >> this month we saw another round of coverage in the media of our tnc research after a paper by the university of kentucky was published in the

journal of science advances. this data continues to inform our planning and policy work to help us target where to direct revenues for traffic safety and transit improvement should the voters pass the tnc congestion measure that i'm introducing today with mayor breed for the november ballot. yesterday, i was quite pleased to see reporting in the "san francisco examiner" that a california appeals court affirmed a lower court's ruling that uber must comply with the city attorney subpoena of trip data. they agreed they must turn over illegal parking, disabled access to driver pay and extent of excessive driving. lyfl has agreed to comply last year. while the tnc provide the data to the california public utility

commission, it is unclear what they do with it. the data is still not available to the public or local governments. we liable data is extremely important as this information can help the city effectively manage traffic, potential collision points and equitable access for riders. i appreciate the city attorney's office for leadership in seeking this data. our staff for their work on this and the courts for upholding the city's right to obtain this critical information. it is beyond time for the state to update outdated regulations and ensure the city and public can manage congestion. california public utilities commission i hope you are listing. another area is my work with supervisor wal walton regarding caltrain governance. we will vote on a resolution later today at the board of

supervisors. i wanted to hear from the members of the public following the caltrain businessman which we support. we recognize faster caltrain from santa clara and san mateo and our county and acknowledges the clear coordination to meet ridership demand and support blended high-speed rail plans including the extension to the transbay transit center. as we consider ways to strengthen the agency with revenues discussed in the form of sales tax or measure it is important to establish the principal of dedicated caltrain agency with capacity to undertake expansion with the railroad and coordinate and manage the substantial assets including land assets. we look forward to collaborating

to do this over the coming months to next year. with that i conclude my comments. any public comment on the chair's report. seeing none, public comment is closed. commissioner row ronan. >> i want to thank you for your incredible work on what you are introducing today. i think it was brilliantly handled and i appreciate you for that and would love to co-sponsor to be part of that. >> i would love to have all of you co-sponsor with me and mayor breed. i see supervisors mandelman, brown, haney, row nan, fewer and anybody else that wants on let me know before 2:00 this afternoon. >> commissioner ronan: i'm not done. sorry. that was just the beginning. both supervisor fewer and i sent

our staff to washington, d.c. from april 27 to the 30th to participate in the people's action convention. it was a convening over a thousand advocates from across the country to share information and strategies to address pressing issues including climate change and be justice. our staff and here is the connection to my opening comment. our staff participated in round table discussions how communities are fighting back against private public transit. they shared how local transit systems have begun to partner with ride-sharing companies to perform public functions including ride sharing for seniors and those with disabilities. they shared concerns about this trend towards privatization and discussed pushing back locally my staff participated in the direct action at uber

headquarters in dw demanding better working conditions and wages for uber drivers as a global effort to bring visibility to the low paid ride share workers. it is important to face challenges with ride sharing industry and i'm glad our staff was able to go and hear from the legislatures and community advocates. >> chair peskin: thank you, commissioner ronan. >> commissioner fewer: thank you, i agree. i think this trip was beneficial to both offices to connect with advocates and legislators working on policy issues on transit and energy and environment as we grapple with the challenges. staff learned from legislators and community members to build out division for a green new deal to benefit public transit at the municipal level, giving

ongoing financing challenges that we are certainly sympathetic to in san francisco. they learned about protections for industry workers and made lasting connections with other legislators and policy workers to advance the critical issues at local and state level. i think it was a positive trip and we appreciate the support of the ta to access these kinds of important spaces. thank you. >> chair peskin: thank you. seeing no additional comments from members, next item please. >> clerk: executive directors report item three. >> i have an update at the state level. high-speed rail project hit another obstacle. the federal government through the federal railroad administration are terminating

$929 million grant for the project. this is not surprising. unfortunate but not surprising. this has been happening since the early part of the year. the governor did respond the administration's action they believe is illegal. the state would vigorously defend the grant in court. it has been appropriated by congress. we anticipate it will take time to be resolved. we are continuing to work on planning and the review work with high-speed rail and partners with the city and state as well as making sure elektrification is moving ahead. this will affect further enhancements to the blended corridor. i had the honor of sitting in for supervisor haney at the recent meeting of the transbay joint powers authority.

we did hear a report from the american public transit association invited by the tjpa board to undertake a similar organizational assessment as we are doing here at transportation authority. i do recommend that report to you and i it is on your desk. essentially they found that the projects are very strong projects, however, the administration of these could benefit from both during the internal staffing of the tjpa, particularly in certain areas and overall capacity as well as to understand lessons learned from the phase one project to better understand how the construction management could be better administered and strengthening the oversight going forward for the downtown extension. we would be happy to ask them to come back and present perhaps next month or in the future as

we conclude our report and these findings did inform the deliberations of our peer panel and they did resonate with them. the appeals court ruling that chairman chin was welcome news. we ensure the trip data can be made available for analysis and forming policy on vision zero, this is our major initiative to applease to ensure safety of the streets. we want that to be timely activities that we can bring forward to you. we will hopefully report back in the next month or two about the implications of the new ruling. on vision zero, mayor breed called for 20 miles of protected bike lanes for two years. we want to commit staff to helping achieve that goal. we were set to program over $11 million specifically for

bite network improvements over the next five years over prop k. as you will hear this morning, the connect sf program is set to advance the bike net work through the streets and freeways planning effort. turning to the local level. i want to mention updates on the traffic program. the coordinator hiring is underway to support safe routes to school as well, we have traffic calming residential program taking applications from neighborhoods and those are due on june 28th. there is time to get the application in if you would like to apply for improvements on your streets. finally, the construction management association of america are doing a joint night for those interested in contracting opportunities may 22 and at 5:30 p.m. at the san francisco war memorial

greenroom. we will be there with 20 other agencies to ensure there is good information on the procurements happening in the region. thank you. >> chair peskin: any questions for our executive director or public comment on the item? public comment is closed. mr. clerk please read consent agenda. >> clerk: five to seven were approved and are for final approval. they are routine. staff is not planning to present. it will present if desired. if any member objects they may be removed and presented separately. >> chair peskin: any public comment? seeing none it is closed. a roll call please on the consent agenda. >> could we get pay motion? >> motion by commissioner fewer,

and commissioner yee. (roll call). >> clerk: we have final approval. >> chair peskin: next item please. >> clerk: authorize executive director to execute agreements and documents required for utilities and right-of-way property acquisition for yerba buena island south gate road realignment improvements project including offers to purchase for an aggregate amount not to exceed $5,534,760 and services agreement all with the united states coast guard and utility

agreements with various providers in paamount not to exceed $750,000. >> this is phase two for south gate road realignment project. i want to direct you to the screen that shows the eastbound off-ramp that has been closed for 15 years. the goal is to reopen the off-ramp and realign south gate road from left to right. south gate road from the western slope will come into the interchange area, go underneath the off-ramp. the movements are grade separated. it is a much safer path for cars and bicycles and pedestrians in that regard. the project itself just as a reminder, we are finally at a pint for final approve els on

the design and right away working with all entities, stick leo o particularly coast guard. they have worked with us through complicated right-of-way negotiations and agreements that, frankly, in a lot of respects are allowing us to move forward to the construction schedule this fall. we plan to advertise the project july, award by october, start construction in the fall and complete by the spring of 2021. we have been working actively with caltrans to add more the federal high bridge program and proposition 1b in terms of funding. it is a $51 million project we are right now ready to pursue the final agreements that we need in front of you. let's talk about the right-of-way applications.

it shows quarters 8 and 9 in blue. that, in essence, we need for the construction project. other parcels of 1 are needed. what is important to recognize not only are we buying right-of-way for the project that we are going to construct we are preserving the right-of-way for future bike path on western side of the island as well as forest ready tour to allow access to and from the coast guard facilities. all parcels will be transferred to tida or caltrans. we need them to go ahead to have possession and use and transfer these either during the construction for the tida parcels and at the end with caltrans in the parcel in red. the recommendation is to authorize executive director to

execute the service agreement. they are standard u.s. coast guard agreements we worked details out with them and prepare ourselves for future transfer of right-of-way to caltrans and tida. looking for executions for the deeds here. we have additional utility agreements. we want to make sure we put in the appropriate conduits and infrastructure for future development of the island. that concludes my presentation. thank you. >> thank you chair for the report. i think i know the answer to this question. to get us ready for the future. is there a jobs plan in place in terms of the work force needed across the trades and types of subs for construction as we get ready for construction? >> yes, we are working with that right now. we will implement a jobs program in that regard. we just met with one treasure

island in particular, and we will work towards executing a jobs program in that regard. we have federal fundings. we have to work out the details so we are not in violation of the federal law? >> is that something to send forward so we can see what trades are needed? >> definitely. >> chair peskin: any other questions from members? any public comment on this item? seeing none, public comment is closed. is there a motion to move item 8 made by commissioner walton, seconded by yee. same house, same call. item is passed on first reading. next item please. >> clerk: item 9. horizon and plan bay area 2050 update. this is an information item.

>> excuse me while i get the presentation up. thank you, chair peskin, commissioners. i am a senior transportation planner in the transportation authority to give you a brief update on the ongoing other sidon process we are engage -- horizon process and to 2050 which we are kicking off later this year. we will go through the different components and talk what this is and why it is important to san francisco and get into our process of working with local stakeholders, partner agencies and you our board based on the san francisco priorities.

horizon is this big picture unconstrained planning exercise that mtc and the staff are working on right now to assess how various strategies, policies and investments can help move the region in the right direction no matter what kind of future the region faces. horizon is staff driven with almost no opportunities at the commission level for feedback and no action on the part of this board as well. we have been provided updates through director chang's reports to you and presentations to the cac. horizon's outputs will inform the ultimate plan bay area which is the region's required regional transportation plan and sustainability community strategy. at the beginning of the process in 2018, mtc staff did outreach round throughout the entire bay

area to inform the guiding principals, which are the aspirations of the bay level at a very high level. they are using these to assess how various strategies and policies identified in these white papers in the middle and how various transportation investments. they are looking at-large transportation investments to improve the future no matter what it looks like. they created three divergent futures with different national policies baked into these, environmental conditions and various levels of technological advancement meant to represent the what ifs the bay area is facing. the idea is the strategies and investments that perform well in each of these scenarios would be those recommended for the ultimate planned bay area. horizon is nearing completion

this summer and planned area will kickoff immediately after the start of the fall. what is it and why is it important? this is the required update to the regional transportation plan and community strategy. the previous area was adopted in 17 that is 2040. this is equivalent to the county wide transportation plan that looking at all of the different components at work in this case in the bay area and how we fund it with all sorts of revenue from federal government to local to our transit fares. while horizon was unconstrained planned area has the three components here. the big one is it has to accommodate the projected population growth in the bay area within the confines of the

bay area. plan bay area has transportation investment strategies. it has to be fiscally constrained package. they will lay out the amount of funding the region can expect to receive over the next 30 years and what it can be investing in. so the transportation projects within plan bay area have to fit within that fiscally constrained package. as cma for san francisco we are responsible for coordinating the san francisco project submissions. we are working with the project sponsor and agency partners to identify the projects we would like to see in plan bay area. the first step was identifying tans formative projects. that was part of horizon process looking at major transportation

investments that were identified in the previous plan such as gary brt, better market street, downtown caltrain extension. those are updated from plan bay area and are in mtc hands. we are identifying regionally significant projects, these are smaller dollar amount projects that still have capacity change to various transportation systems. we are are working with m.t.a., port to identify the projects. ongoing mtc reached out to the transit agencies to identify state of good repair needs to make sure we keep the fleets and local streets and roads up to good repair. later this we will identify program categories of investments. this is everything that isn't the big dollar amount projects.

all of those bicycle and pedestrian projects important to safety and communities are included in the programmatic categories, everything with a safety component is included. we have a list coming up. i will wait for that. in order to inform what we put into mtc's hands for plan bay area we brought you a draft list of goals for san francisco. from the previous plan where we identified the goals for san francisco with the board we managed to get a few wins in the plan. it prioritizes funding for operation and maintenance of the existing system which is crucial. it emphasized core capacity transit investments. these are improving the existing systems that we have. we also had a number of projects

submitted that were high performing in the project performance assessment that mtc conducting. treasure island congestion pricing including the management program the top score as well as downtown congestion and cal tran. just to give you more examples the named project on the left from the previous plans are the big project. then we have a number of categories that encompass the other projects in the city including long-range rail work, streetscape improvements. our next steps we are part of a shared public feedback process with connect sf which i won't get into too much. that will be after me.

we are also working with our stakeholders and presenting to you a draft set of goals for san francisco for this entire process. we would like to finalize those goals and have this board approve them in the july meeting, and we are working with our project sponsor partners on the list of regionally significant projects for this planning process and we will bring that to you in july for approval. with that there is a couple of websites on this slide if you or your staff are interested in learning more, and i can take any questions. >> chair peskin: commissioner yee.

>> supervisor yee: i am looking at some handouts and i want to make sure i am looking at the right ones. i don't know if it is part of the next presentation, but i am looking at maps for the next presentation. it might not be relevant to you, and on one of the maps it shows the job and living density. i can see that outside of the core downtown area, one of the areas that is going to have high density, the darkest blue, is in the west, southwest, and in

anticipating that population growth, i don't see any projects that indicate that there is any alleviation for the transportation needs force that area. am i making sense? >> absolutely. it is totally understandable. camille is here for the map. the list of projects is in development right now, but i can tell you the park improvements the commitment of the developer, the project we are working on updating to make sure it is accurately represented in the plan. during the transformative project take page that was -- face was submitted last year as transformative. in addition to that, within the