marked and protected bike lanes represents an opportunity to include signage, indicating bike lanes are also used for -- i'm sorry, also used for use by e-scooters riders. [ please stand by ]

>> finding number 5 and 6 are interwoven. five the pilot terms require them to im demfithe city from injury and damage claims. scoot and skip terms put responsibility for injury, damage and equipment inspection on the user. finding 6. current terms and conditions and the skip agreement expose a delegation of responsibility for scooter inspection and maintenance to their independent contractors, called skip rangers, who receive no specific training from skip. scoot, however, hires and trains employees to provide inspection and maintenance services.

our recommendation for these two findings is the s.f.m.t.a., city attorney and service providers review all related agreements to assure responsibility for risk management is allocated to the parties best able to manage the risk. this review and modification of terms should be initiated prior to the end of the existing pilot, which is october 19, 2019. these revisions should be incorporated and implemented in all agreements for replacement program to follow at the conclusion of the pilot. finding number 7 requires a response from the board of supervisors and before our finding and recommendation i would like to add a few

comments. the pedestrian safety advisory committee has a potentially important role to play regarding pedestrian safety. established by the san francisco charter, administrative code chapter 5, article 4, peace act was formed and given an ambitious agenda touching on policy and planning issues related to pedestrian safety. our san francisco grand jury members attended three monthly meetings, reviewed past meeting minutes from 2017 and 2018 posted on their website and annual reports and our findings found the following, as of june 27, 2019, three of the 17 seats are vacant.

in 2018 only four meetings had a verified quorum, five did not, one canceled and two had no minutes to verify if a meeting had taken place. in 2017, only eight meetings were scheduled and seven of the eight had no minutes to verify if there was a quorum in an attendance or if they met. they are required to report to the board of supervisors on an annual basis. the reports are to include pedestrian injury and fatality statistics to recommendations for changes. the most recent annual report was submitted in 2011. we want to revise that to 2014. information came out after our term ended june 30th of this year so that is the correction.

the last report was issued in 2014. our information was provided through e-mails with several members through our review of the website and what was posted at the time of the investigation. those were the two main areas. i will go back here. our finding number 7. a key obligation of the pedestrian safety committee is to prepare and submit annual reports to the board of supervisors. these are to include pedestrian injury and fatality statistics and root call analysis to recommend changes in policy, funding and enforcement. the report has not been prepared or submitted annually since

2014. our findings are documented on pages 26 and 27 of the report. our recommendation number 6. the board of supervisors should allow the public -- i'm sorry. the pedestrian safety advisory committee to terminate effective october 1, 2019 as designated in the san francisco municipal code. this completes our presentation. we would also like to mention how much the interviews we had with pernell from the -- assisting us in writing this report. thank you. >> thank you so much. now, i wanted to invite up the

presentation for the department's responses. the m.t.a. pedestrian manager and co-chair of division zero task force. >> thank you. i am from m.t.a. joined by my colleagues from the department of public health. we all enjoyed working with the civil grand jury and appreciate the attention they have given to vision zero, which is very important to the board of supervisors. i am going to go to response to the civil grand jury findings and recommendations specifically brought up today. wwe will look into additional signings and markings for scooters. we currently have a limited

palette at our disposal. bike lanes are goffed by traffic -- governed by traffic control. it is currently limited to a bicycle stencil and the word bike lane. absent a change to that we will not be able to put scooter markings within the bike lanes, however, we are able to look into any additional signs as recommended by the civil grand jury specifically on sidewalks. the department of public health continues to support all of the s.f.m.t.a. work relating to infrastructure and education through the annual injury and commission analysis. the most recent version was published a couple weeks ago including the first annual findings on e-scooters that presented themselves to the san

francisco general hospital. our police department continues to do work on focus on the five, and it has recently enhanced their traffic company through vision zero enforcement team. i cannot speak to the findings related to the city attorney office because i am a transportation planner and not a lawyer. i defer to the city attorney for recommendations and findings related to i to those questions. >> do you have any questions? >> thank you. >> why don't we go to public comment. are there any members of the public to speak on this item? if so, please step up.

>> i am emily. i am a local resident for the last 33 years. as a public employee you talk about government accountability and pedestrian safety. 2016-2017 i was appointed by former supervisor david campos for the committee. from the committee we know that the website was outdated, people were not fully participating in the process, which means that we need people who really meant what they want to do to be in that committee. the civil grand jury members are volunteering 500 hours per year. nonpaid. you, the board of supervisors in here are paid. please, take some time to read

the recommendation, work with department heads to do the work. started from the effectiveness from the information, website, safety working with the police and the san francisco m.t.a. we talk about recommendation, and we also know that there is no accountability. whether people do it or not the civic grand jury members the former or current one will not be able to come in after you or the board of supervisors and department heads to implement what we recommend. so we are asking you since you are paid and elected and you wanted to do the best to prevent death and safety for people in san francisco, i urge you to

follow the recommendation and findings. thank you. >> next speaker, please. >> hello. thank you very much for having me, supervisors. i am the vice chair of the pedestrian safety advisory committee. i think that this body is wonderful. i am happy you wrote a report. i am happy you got it out. we just passed the 2018 report last week on the committee, and i hope that you will accept most of the recommendations, just that last one is not really a very good one. i can't speak to reports prior to 2018, but i can say that in

2018 it was a rebuilding year for the committee, adding and replacing memberships with passionate pedestrians embedded in their communities. this year we are trying to streamline the process of apappointments through connections with the board of supervisors. there have been 22 fatalities from collisions this year. let that sink in. 14 were pedestrians according to the last traffic report. this is higher than any number in recent memory. i want to point out we are volunteer. it is completely volunteer. we have one person who is from the m.t.a. i hope that this information -- if you want to speak to committee members contact myself

or the manager and you have my contact information. thank you. >> thank you. anyone else to speak on this item? seeing none, public comment is closed. once again, thank you to the civil grand jury members to focus on such an important issue. as stated a number of times, pedestrian safety and stronger regulation of sort of new mobility options that are emerging here in our city are issues that are of high priority to the board, the m.t.a., the mayor and our entire city government. this is such an important issue and also a very timely that the report came out highlighting this issue, given the surge in

tragic fatalities on our streets this year, and that we are all grappling with and the fact that we are -- m.t.a. is preparing to greatly expand the pilot program for e-scooters and it is going to expand to other neighborhoods that it hadn't been present in, including the sun set district. i am in full agreement with your findings and recommendations and the urgency for us to address these issues. supervisor brown. >> commissioner brown: thank you. i want to thank you on this because it is something we need to focus on. district 5 alone i have had five pedestrian deaths. i don't remember it ever that high. with all of the cars on the road that we have, the ride shares,

you know, it just seems that people are agitated when they drive, and we have seen a lot of that when people make left hand turns. they are trying to get through four-lane highways, they are trying to get through the two lanes of traffic coming at them, and a lot of times they are not focusing on the pedestrians walking on the other side of the street. we need to address a lot of these things. one thing i want to clarify, though, president yee had introduced an ordinance to extend the pedestrian safety committee for a year and a lot of us signed to that. sf walk is committed t to workig with us over the course of the next year to determine the best path forward because i feel it is so important to have that kind of input moving forward,

especially with vision zero, what we are doing. we need community input. when we go out to these communities and i see this in my district and we look at taking parking spaces away for daylighting. a lot of times we have push back. we need to educate the community why we are doing this. when you talk about taking a parking space away at an intersection and explain because actually spending $200,000 for a bulb out is so important, i think they start to understand. i feel like with that community engagement and having the public pedestrian safety committee there to help us with that kind of language and outreach and engagement and how we should be doing it is really important. i want to thank everyone for participating. this is alive and death

situation. >> chair mar: thank you, supervisor brown. in terms of action on this, we have a resolution with the board responses. there was just one finding and one recommendation in the civil grand jury report that the board is required to respond to. i shared draft language for the resolution for the response with supervisor brown, i want to read it for the record. first regarding finding number 7, that the board of supervisors reports to the pr presiding jude that they disagree with finding 7. annual reports were prepared by the pedestrian safety and advisory committee for 2012, 13,

2014 and 2018 as the vice chair reported. regarding recommendation number two, the language is in the draft. that the board of supervisors reports recommendation r2 will not be implemented because the recommendation is unreasonable in light of the pedestrian safety committee progress over the last year in addressing quorum issues, state of emergency for pedestrian safety advisory committee and they are the seoul advice -- the sole advisory committee on in. they will extend for an additional year during which time the committee is advised to review and remember changes to improve the efficiency going forward. i would like to move that we

adopt the amendment. we recommend the resolution to the full board and file this hearing. can we tap that without objection? thank you. thanks again everyone for all of your work on this report and this issue. mr. clerk, please call item number 8 to 22 foreclosed session. >> clerk: agenda items 8 through 22 are authorizing settlements of lawsuits against the city of san francisco, lawsuits and claims, excuse me. >> chair mar: for the closed session are there any members of the public who wish to testify on items 8 to 22? seeing none, public comment is closed. do we have a motion to convene in closed session? thank you.

we are now in closed session.

>> good morning and welcome to the street scape project and muni project. i certainly as the public work's director for the city and county here and i want to thank you for all coming out to celebrate this very exciting project that will improve the lives of the many people who use this inner sunset corridor. the project which spans all the way from aguelo to 19th avenue

will improve the quality of life and transit services of this diverse neighborhood, which serves families, students, merchants and tourists alike president the street scape improvement is a collaborative project with the ms works and the utility's commission. for the past two years, they've been working together to make crucial improvements to the inner sunset street scape and nearby transit services that not only make the area more vibrant and more accessible, safe and reliable. when you look around the surrounding streets, you see the vibrant landscapes that add to the neighborhood's charm, improve seating, as you can see, visitor striving, new street trees. all of this creates a healthy

environment and a great carbon footprint. what many do not see are the upgraded traffic signals, the repaved roads and all of the help to improve thed safety and transit service. there's many components to this project that has not been seen. we have improvements to the underground sewer line and improvements to our water lines, our firefightings were upgraded or replaced, all to increase capacity and to minimize any destructions that will provide more reliable service to the community. also, as a part of this project, there's more than 3,000 feet of

pipe that was installed for the department of technology for future fiber optic cables and this is a great partnership. as we do many projects on patrero we're installing pipe and we'll have the pipes electric in and, of course, less destruction to the neighbor while the projects happen. with all of that said, it brings me great joy to see the work that all of these agencies are doing together and how we come together to improve the quality of life of this diverse neighborhood in san francisco. san francisco. i want to thank john thomas and our project manager, johnny farm, harlin kelly and his team from the puc and mr. maguire and, of course, our contractor, who was out here everyday making

sure that we got this job done. and now, the person who helps to make all of these projects happen, the person who makes our neighborhoods better for everyone, the person looking out for the future of san francisco, without future delay, let me introduce our mayor, london breed. [cheers and applause] >> it's so good to be back. i remember when we first set on the path to do this project for this neighborhood, andrea, i just noticed you were over there and it's great to see you and martha and so many folks from the community. you all did the work because you wanted something better for this community. we have kids everywhere and these kids from stepping stone preschool are joining us today. and you'll get your snacks in just a minute, so don't worry. [cheers and applause] >> we have kids, we have families, seniors, people who, basically, love this community

and so many amazing restaurants, so many amazing places to shop. this is like really a jewel in san francisco and, in fact, when improve was supervisor, i came to this community a lot to hideout and relax. and it was great. what was so important was to make it a lot offer annua and dl with safety and public infrastructure improvements. one of the things that i spent time with some of the neighbors doing is standing on the corner of ninth and irving and many of you know the familiar sound of some of the onl old muni trains which still come through this way, how loud and heavy they are. remember i said the new trains will be much quieter. did you just hear how much quieter the new trains are? a loa lot of the promises to ths community are finally happening

and it was because of your patience. we know that it was very challenging to come in and the construction and the loss of parking and tearing up the streets and digging in and you all, through this whole challenge, you were very patient and we really appreciate that, because now we are here realizing just really a dream for community, an improvement to the sidewalks, an improvement to the infrastructure and an improvement to our water pressure system so that when there is a fire or emergency, the pressure -- i know this is not probably that interesting, but it makes all the difference when dealing with any emergency that water suppression and our equipment and the systems actually work when we need it the most. the fiber optic cables, improvements to the sidewalks, all of the amazing things that will make this community not just safer but more boost and

sobeautiful.i want to thank thet park neighbors, at the time of the leadership of andrea yaguin, that you pushed us to give some attention to this community and shine a light on the challenges that exist here is why we're here, as well as the inner sunset merchant's association. the merchants here who serve the community, this is really not just a place where so many neighbors enjoy and eat and go to the hardware stores and pick up glasses. people from ucfs spend a lot of time here during lunch and people from the park spend a lot of time here and this community has come together as a force to make amazing projects like this happen. so i'm really excited. looking forward to doing even more, because i have not forgotten about the wires over

on ninth and irving and what we need to do to underground those wires. i know that's important and we're talking about right down the street, the gateway on gaten lincoln and ninth and to really transform this community because it's a jewel in our community. thank you to the department of public works, to mta, all of the contractors, all of incredible workers who basically not only worked in this community but spent money at the restaurants and this was definitely a great effort and took time and here we are, a celebration of just really an amazing project that is going to change the quality of life for the residents who live here. so enjoy it and next up, i want to take the opportunity to

introduce your supervisor, valley brown, who as you remember was out here on a regular basis working with you all to move this project forward. she drove me a little crazy because she was running out of patience with the city bureaucracy and trying to get it done. and now she gets to enjoy the fruits of her labor. ladies and gentlemen, your supervisor, valley brown! [cheers and applause] >> you know what they say what doesn't kill us makes us stronger and that's how i feel about this project. i want to say i'm sorry to everyone. it was her fault. she started it and then i had to come in and finish it, right? [ laughter ] >> yeah, i'm not going go over everything we've done because i know mohamed nurue gave you all of the sexy details.

but what i see is this neighborhood coming together and saying, ok, this is painful and especially the merchants, but we know once it's finished, it will be amazing and $21 million later, yeah, it looks pretty amazing, i'd say. i want to thank people and i have to read this because i always forget one person and then i get in trouble after wars. afterwards. so thank you, mayor, breed for starting it, city administrator, naomi kelly and mohamed nurue from public works. i mean, this is something i have to say was -- he really jumped in and said, let's make this happen and let's make it as less painful as we can. acting director for sfmta, tom mcguire and san francisco's puc. i would call everyone on this list and said if there was a pile of dirt and they couldn't

park their car at 7:00 at night. so the responsiveness of their teams were amazing. i want to thank all of their teams because every week we had an issue, whether it was the veterinarian or people getting dirt in their driveway and couldn't park their car. park driveway, this is all things that they really stepped up. i put 75k into budget so we could do a pilot programme called curb management. and this something i would think about because barbara, i don't

know where barbara is from the neighborhood, she would tell me everyday when i walked by her house how we had people parking in her driveway or double-parking to run in and get the ubers and stuff to get the food from the merchants. we said, how can we solve these issues? they said, parking is so horrible here. i heard that, no -- [ laughter ] with these parking, so really having to look at creatively looking at curb management, so we're in the process of right

now of actually having a community engagement of this curb management and how do we make it easier for people to park and easier for businesses to have people be able to come in and get what they need and get out so they're not parked there for hours. how do we, you know, get the uber eats and all of the other deliveries, where they have a place to park and can get in and out so they're not parking in barbara's driveway? so this is actually happening now and once again, the inner sunset park neighbor and merchants are at the tables saying we'll work with you and this is the only way i like to work because i came as a neighbor activist and i didn't like it when people did things in my naked an neighborhood andt when i walked out the door that it was done. so thank you to everyone for being here today. i'm really excited for all of the work that's done.

it's amazing. and should i bring up naomi? naomi! so now i would like to introduce naomi kelly, a city administrator. this was her baby to manage, all of the different people to make sure it was done right. and so naomi. >> thank you. [cheers and applause] >> thank you, supervisor brown and mayor breed and director of public works. this project has more meaning to me because i live in the neighborhood. i spend so much time here on these corners, going to amazing fantasy with my kids, burn sf, jamba juice, you name it, so

>> we are now back in open session for government audit and oversight. the committee acted to recommend agenda items 8 through 22 to the board of supervisors with consideration with provision 9 and 10 will be committee reports on september 24th. >> do i have a motion not to disclose proceedings from the closed session? >> so moved. >> any further business? >> from is no further business. >> we are adjourned.

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>> the teams really, really went above and beyond and is continuing to do that today. this past year, the san francisco public utilities commission water quality division started receiving many more requests to test for lead in the public school system here in san francisco as a result of legislation that had passed from the state requiring all of the public schools to do lead testing. and so as a result, the public utilities commission and the water quality team in particular was asked to meet with the san francisco unified school district to begin to prioritize which schools to test to meet that state mandate. >> the team that tests, we're a full service environmental laboratory, and we take care of both the needs of the water quality division and the waste water enter price. and on the water quality

enterprise, we have to also have drinking water that meets all federal and state quality regulations. and lead in schools, we're playing a problem in remediating this problem of lead in schools. >> our role here in communications is being able to take the data that we have that we know is protective of public health and safety and transmit it, give it to the public in a way they understand we are really doing our jobs well and making sure that they are safe always. >> the public learned very quickly all the accurate facts and all the critical information that they needed to know, and it's up to these individuals and their agencies and their commitment to the city. >> i enjoy the work because i can help people, and i can help the utilities to provide a better water quality, make sure that people feel that drinking hetch hetchy water is actually a pride. >> hats off to the water

quality team because between them working on late nights, working on the weekends when the schools are closed, and working as a partner in the school district for the times they found a higher lead sample, they worked through to address that, so the team went above and beyond and is continuing to do that today.

[♪] >> i just wanted to say a few words. one is to the parents and to all

of the kids. thank you for supporting this program and for trusting us to create a soccer program in the bayview. >> soccer is the world's game, and everybody plays, but in the united states, this is a sport that struggles with access for certain communities. >> i coached basketball in a coached football for years, it is the same thing. it is about motivating kids and keeping them together, and giving them new opportunities. >> when the kids came out, they had no idea really what the game was. only one or two of them had played soccer before. we gave the kids very simple lessons every day and made sure that they had fun while they were doing it, and you really could see them evolve into a team over the course of the season. >> i think this is a great opportunity to be part of the community and be part of programs like this. >> i get to run around with my other teammates and pass the ball. >> this is new to me. i've always played basketball or football.

i am adjusting to be a soccer mom. >> the bayview is like my favorite team. even though we lose it is still fine. >> right on. >> i have lots of favorite memories, but i think one of them is just watching the kids enjoy themselves. >> my favorite memory was just having fun and playing. >> bayview united will be in soccer camp all summer long. they are going to be at civic centre for two different weeklong sessions with america scores, then they will will have their own soccer camp later in the summer right here, and then they will be back on the pitch next fall. >> now we know a little bit more about soccer, we are learning more, and the kids are really enjoying the program. >> we want to be united in the bayview. that is why this was appropriate >> this guy is the limit. the kids are already athletic, you know, they just need to learn the game. we have some potential college-bound kids, definitely. >> today was the last practice

of the season, and the sweetest moment was coming out here while , you know, we were setting up the barbecue and folding their uniforms, and looking out onto the field, and seven or eight of the kids were playing. >> this year we have first and second grade. we are going to expand to third, forth, and fifth grade next year bring them out and if you have middle school kids, we are starting a team for middle school. >> you know why? >> why? because we are? >> bayview united. >> i am calling the meeting to order at 5:36 p.m. hello and welcome to the tuesday, september 17, 2019 commission. if you are a member of the public there are speaker forms on the front table or come to the microphone. we do ask everyone turnoff cell phones or put them on silence. we want to thank sfgovtv and media services forha