covered uber from a critical perspective. i'll turn it over to him. >> chair fewer: thank you. >> commissioners. >> chair fewer: hello. >> thank you for having me. so you probably heard that assembly bill 5 passed and it was signed into law on wednesday. so what does that mean? beginning on january 1st, it is -- sorry -- beginning on january 1st, the abc test rather than the previous test for whether workers and employer or contractor will go into effect, it's codification of a california supreme court ruling from last spring. so this is already technically law. it's just now reinforced by

state law or state code. the three-part test is broken down here. the worker is free from company control. and the second is that any person that is performing work that is outside of the usual course of the hiring entity. and the third part is that the person is putting themselves out in a market and offering their services to -- other than to the hiring entity that they test, like, do they advertise for their services. and do they -- are they truly an independent business and are they more directly an employee of that company. so workers are considered to be employees unless they fail this test. and unless all of these conditions apply. and put a caveat there that as

a.b.5 was working towards the legislature many exemptions were added to the bill. gig workers were explicitly not exempted and as we said explicitly many times unless they're targeting this particular sector. so that brings us to enforcement which is a little bit less clear. there are basically four -- they're all labeled one -- but there are four avenues for enforcement. and the first is the courts through private action that is already, you know, there are already many litigations in process. the second one which was added to the last minute is that now that the attorney general or the city attorneys and jurisdictions with greater than 750,000 residents can bring -- can bring

on behalf of the people of california actions against the companies for misclassification. the third one is that the e.d.d., if it determines that companies are misclassifying their employees and, therefore, evading workers' compensation payments, they have audit powers and they can enforce penalties and restitution. and then finally the california labor commissioner's office and the san francisco office of labor standards enforcement can likewise do investigations as to whether companies are misclassifying their employees and they can also assess penalties, restitution and fin fines. so since 85 passed just a week

ago there's been -- since a.b.5 passed and there's a number of movements and some are significant in their own right and some are indicators of the things that we'll be looking at in the future and going forward. and a driver from pittsburg filed a suit in federal district court last week citing misclassification and using the standard which is the court case that first stepped that standard. and then also invoking a.b.5. and the city attorney this week brought a suit against incitycart and interesting that she is suing for retroactive pay. so that's one element of this is, you know, these companies have now been in operation since 2011 and that could be a -- they could be on the hook for a lot of back pay.

lyft and uber have publicly -- the chief legal officer for uber gave a press conference shortly after the passage of a.b.5 and says that uber doesn't believe that their workers would qualify as employees under the a.b.c. test, that has previously -- that argument is previously not held up well in court. but, you know, obviously they're getting out ahead, you know, trying to influence public opinion. and a late piece of legislation made it to the legislature, giving a one-year exemption for newspaper carriers to the a.b.5 test -- or the abc test. and that's an interesting possible avenue that gig work companies might take is trying to win some sort of stay for a period of time through the legislature that. would be one avenue that we might see them contesting this.

and lyft has also been messaging its drivers and this is cited as potentially illegal under legal code 96k and 98.6 and they're trying to enlist driver support for an exemption or writing campaigns and things. and lyft and uber and door dash have each contributed $30 million towards a ballot initiative for the 2020 fall election. that would -- that would, you know, directly go to voters to ask for an exemption or to ask for some special package that would apply. you know, third classification of employers -- or of workers or something. and one aspect of when -- governor newsom signed the a.b.5 bill and he included a message and the final part of his message had language as to

suggesting, you know, i'm willing to continue negotiating with labor organizations, with the companies -- the companies, and, you know, to work out something. so that indication is kind of perhaps indicative of what we might see when, you know, the legislature reconvenes and as this goes into effect next year. but another aspect of that which is something along the lines of i want california to step up where the federal government has not and provide these -- provide workers a right to collective bargaining. kind of an interesting statement because if the workers were classified as employees they would have that right. so it's unclear what is kind of being indicated there. so unrelated, but relevant -- last week in new york city, lyft

and uber both began putting restrict jobs when drivers could log on into their apps and saying it's because of the new taxi and limousine rules, so that's something that we're going to see absolutely in california and in san francisco where the companies start to put restrictions or -- or, you know, challenges for their workers and then blame it on the new laws and say, you know, write in if you don't like this. so it's the kind of diname that i can we can expect to see. -- dynamic that you can expect to see. and the u.s. house of representatives passed a bill that would invalidate arbitration clauses. probably not going to pass the senate. but uber currently in its s1 filing claimed they had 60,000 ongoing arbitrations with their drivers and arbitration is a way

they have avoided class-action suit coming from their drivers. so movement on that at the state level, and nancy pelosi did not vote on it but it did pass the house this morning. so just an interesting added thing. how does this in fact our study? on one hand it makes us study a lot more time critical and crucial. as i said in the governor's signing message, he said that he wanted to work with labor organizations and he said that he wanted to work with the companies. but, you know, it's important that the voices of the drivers themselves are present in those conversations going forward and in our study, you know, we will capture those voices. also, you know, even if -- ab5 will not immediately make all of the drivers workers -- or employees, rather. so even if they were to become

employees though, there would still be plenty of opportunity for these companies to mistreat their employees. there's still amounts of information between, well, the drivers and the companies, you know, moreover the companies have a very privileged and direct line of communication on each driver, and they could message different drivers. they have many potential means of continuing to treat these workers less than as what they should. and then also just because of the timing, we might believe able to collect real-time data on how these companies are making adjustments based on the bill coming into effect. and as it comes into effect our phase two -- or our survey will still be ongoing and so we might see some real-time changes in, you know, the labor conditions

that these people are working under. that's it. thank you. >> chair fewer: wow. comments, questions? yes, commissioner haney. >> let me turn my mike on. so are we the first jurisdiction to have a law like this or it sounds like new york has something similar? >> you mean a.b.5? well, it's a new york city rule that instituted a minimum wage before and has put certain caps on how much persentage of a driver's time they can be deadheading or driving without a passenger. and they're trying to bring that down. and it's not -- drivers are not classified as employees in new york city and they have certain protections that were written by the taxi and limousine

commission and are a rule but they're not considered employees. >> so i know that, obviously, there's a role for a lot of different bodies to provide the regulation. but is there -- in terms of the city attorney or our own sort of office of labor standards, is there a plan to have a more proactive oversight in regulation? and a related question to that is, does this at all -- you mentioned a minimum wage in new york, has there been a conversation or does a.b.5 allow for any sort of opportunities for us under our minimum wage ordinance to provide more enforcement? >> yeah, i mean the labor standards enforcement would be able to, you know, to investigate whether these drivers were not being paid a minimum wage and if they were misclassified as independent contractors. you know, if they're being

misclassified that means they are due the san francisco minimum wage if they drive in san francisco. and they're due, you know, parental leave. they're due paid sick leave. they're due -- you know, all of the protections that employees are due. so both the state and the city labor standards enforcement could investigate claims and assess penalties. but it is mostly complaint driven. there's not as of right now like a clear proactive avenue. >> have we heard about any of these companies that have said, all right, we're going to come forward and make all of our folks employees? [laughter]. >> no, no, in fact, we're not likely -- >> well, obviously not uber and lyft but there are smaller ones. >> in the past there was a company called sprig that made all of its drivers employees in the past. and there have been a few

others. a couple of them are currently out of business. and, actually, that's part of our survey and i'm hoping to include case studies of how -- when they did that, how they did it. because it's not -- it's not necessarily clear what kind of employees there are. and there's different wage orders for transportation employees and there's a specific wage order in the state of california. would they apply for that? and they say they're not transportation companies, so, i don't know. so, yeah. sorry. >> chair fewer: commissioner. >> yes, i think that commissioner haney asked most of my questions but i just wanted some clarity on -- from my understanding from the remarks from uber's chief legal officer, whatever his title is, is that they're just going to pretend that it doesn't exist as far as -- >> they will pretend --

>> so i guess what i'm commenting on is the fact that i doubt that they're going to make any changes at all during the lifetime of the survey, probably not. do you know -- do you have any thoughts about any who might? this is purely conjecture? >> companies that might? >> companies where we might actually see potential changes in their treatment of workers over the course of this study. speculative. >> the smaller companies when they see -- because uber and lyft and door dash are going to be fighting this as -- and it's kind of their bread and butter. i mean, they do this really well. they're going to be fighting for the future against, you know, the bureaucrats and stuff and they're going to cast themselves as gated. so, you know, they like to do that. but also they're in a place of real financial desperation now and, i mean, they never made a profit and they're now public companies.

so there's going to be other companies that will see that fight and how that fight is going for them and say we're not going -- i can see that happening. that's just speculation. >> yeah. and the only other thing that i wanted to flag to you is that as far as there's still a lot of ambiguity and just speculation around door dash has changed its tipping policy and i know that we're still looking into that. so i would be interested to see -- they haven't really responded to the fairly large amount of public backlash they had gotten for pocketing tips. now they're saying that they changed it. but that remains to be seen if they actually did. it doesn't seem like it. >> right. and san francisco oalc has an ongoing investigation into that. so that will be interesting. >> chair fewer: great. and my question is, that if we would able to use any of our survey findings as any kind of

evidence? >> i can't imagine why not but it's just whether we have yet released those findings. >> chair fewer: well, thank you very much. thanks for your work. public comment? (please stand by).

>> we would be able to make sure as many of the workers are as local as possible. we would plug it into the plan and in that way, we would be able to basically get rid of everyone left and run it by the city program. so let's plug that in as a potential and if it requires legislation, meaning if fact that this bill just passed shows us we can pass legislation that uber doesn't like. so we can get senator or either of our assembly members to put forward legislation that would allow the city of san francisco to create its own municipal program and that would not only give all the workers everything they deserve, but we could also make sure that the program is scaled to the idea of making

sure that people are mostly taking transit and riding bikes and walking in their communities. thanks. >> thank you mr. brooks. yeah, i think the goal would be for people to take public transportation after billions of dollars of investment. public comment is now closed. [gavel] >> thank you very much. we don't need an action item on this. madam clerk, will you please call item number 5. >> to approve the new california association of local agency formation commissions dues structure and appoint the executive officer as a voting delegate at the upcoming annual calafco conference. >> on the structure change for calafco, the new due structure is based on population. it use to be based on urban, suburban, and rural, but this provides a reliable source of

income for calafco, which operates with a structural deficit. it mean as $2,300 increase in our dues each year. it would become effective in the next fiscal year. i do want to let you know that not every lafco, especially medium sized lafco are supportive of this structure because some will be hit harder than others and they think the calculation is unfair. it's a rather complicated issue. i do believe however that it's important to support calafco. a lot of the issues it works on doesn't directly relate to our work, they did step in a big way during our transition and during my on boarding. they are also on the front lines in sacramento when there are continuous efforts to curtail local control. i also learned a great deal from pamela, not a full time

employee. i'm supportive of the increase. i think calafco does a great job of advocating on behalf of all lafcos in california. i was going to ask you to appoint me as a delegate to attend the calafco conference, but we have been made that the hyatt regency in sacramento is on an active boycott list by unite here. for that reason, and it's not in my memo, i recommend that we honor the boycott and not attend the conference. pamela miller did talk here and explain to the membership that the conference was booked several years ago and it would be very expensive for calafco to change it. we already paid the registration fee. it's about $500, but we're eligible for a refund. so instead of attending the

conference, i am asking you to go on record in support of the new due structure, but we will not get to vote on that because i'm recommending that we not attend the conference because of the boycott. >> okay. so, you're requesting today that we approve the new corrals association of local agency formation due structure. >> that's right. >> so we have a motion? >> moved. >> great, i second it. >> we need to take public comment first. >> oh, public comment. public comment is now closed. [gavel] we can take that without objection. thank you very much. madam clerk, can you please call item number 6. >> item number 6, authorization to amend the 2019 lafco regular meeting schedule. >> commissioners, this item would amend the regular meeting schedule so all future meetings begin at 10:00 a.m. instead of

11:30 a.m. we only had two meetings left this year, october 18th, november 15th. at our next meeting, i will be bringing you a proposed schedule for 2020, and also recommending that the meetings next year begin at 10:00 a.m. this was with the input from the chair. i recommend your approval. >> thank you very much. making a motion to approve the meeting schedule. >> public comment. >> oh, i'm sorry, public comment. seeing none, public comment is now closed. we take it without objection. thank you very much. [gavel] >> madam clerk, can you call item number 8. >> item number 8, an update on the request for qualifications for a renewable energy expert. >> thank you madam chair. i'm happy to say that our request was finally posted last month. i outlined the potential scope of work in my memo to you.

the consultant or consultants will bring in, that we'll bring in, that will support our oversight work with cleanpowersf and make recommendations on a local build out of renewable energy projects, and also work to identify proposed programs for communities of concern. the deadline to submit is next friday. i already have three firms that i know are submitting proposals. i may very likely extend the deadline because it was a very short turn around and i'll continue to do more outreach so we get more proposals. i am hoping we have this process wrapped up by our november 15th meeting and at that time, bring a contract or contracts to you for approval and also to consider the exact scope of work that you would like to see from this consultant. >> great, thank you mr. goebel. no action is required. public comment on this item?

>> good afternoon again commissioners, eric brooks, cleanpowersf advocate. i wanted to bring up something in this process because it's really hard for the public to be involved in the selection. i want to bring this up ahead of time so it's in the mix and that is that something experts have talked to us about, both in public and behind the scenes and in meetings. that is that whoever we hire to help us do all these things, especially plan the local build out, needs to be somebody who understands the dynamics of what is called a virtual power plant and how that works. i talked about that a long time ago, but i'll explain it again. it means you are in your local area, like that 9 county bay area region that was shown to us by the sfpuc. you're building renewable

resources, battery storage, demand response devices, and you know, offshore wind. you're creating a very diverse system of efficiency and renewables, so that once you built out that network, or that big area network, you have the equivalent of a power plant that's on 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, without hiring an expert and future experts that understand how a virtual power plant needs to work and the economics around it, not just logistics, but the economics on how to build that system out, without that expertise, we're going to be behind the ball. so, it's important that as your staff pursues this, definitely ask the bid respondents and r.f.q. respondents about this

issue of understanding how to manage a virtual power plant for the area. thanks. >> thank you very much mr. brooks. any other public comments? seeing none, public comment is now closed. thank you very much. yes commissioner goebel, item number 9 please, madam clerk. >> i'll be brief. >> oh, and just to clarify, no action was taken on item 8. item 9 is the executive officer's report. >> madam chair, and commissioners, i wanted to point out that we had two pretty positive stories in the media recently. there was a feature on lafco in the san francisco weekly called lafco, the nerdiest commission you ever heard of. [laughter] >> i thought the report did a really good job explaining lafco's history and our mission to a broader audience. there was also a story in the national online publication city lab, mentioning the work of our

labor study and driver seat cooperative, specifically it was a broader story about how drivers worldwide are fighting for access for their personal data, so it included quotes from the driver seat app and myself. so two positive stories in the media. you already met dan, but i wanted to welcome dan to our intern team at lafco. i'm excited to work with him. he's worked as a reporter in san francisco since 2012. he was the editor-in-chief of the city of san francisco, city college of san francisco student magazine. he's covered a lot of policy. he's covered uber from a critical perspective. he's lived in san francisco since 2006 and he is going to be keeping tabs on ab-5 and assisting with our labor study, particularly around ab-5.

we're concerned that the enforcement is not as proactive as it should be. >> yeah. >> so, anyway, welcome dan. >> welcome dan. thank you very much. okay, we don't need any action taken on this. public comments please? seeing none, public comment is now closed, [gavel] >> now we have item number 10 please. >> item 10 is public comment. >> seeing none, public comment is now closed. [gavel] >> item 11. >> future agenda items. >> thank you very much. any ideas, future agenda items? seeing none, public comment on this item, please. >> yes, so eric brooks once again. just a couple of things on future agenda items. i assume that the governor is going to sign it into law. we just got legislation on the state level that allows san francisco to have a public bank. that effects everything that lafco is working on and lot of stuff that the lafco isn't

working on yet, but should. so, i hope that you have hearings as soon as we know the governor has signed that legislation that we start having hearings here on how are we going to use the public bank to do the objectives of lafco and the city of san francisco. the other one is very serious. i have talked with your staff chair fewer about this. we really need this year to get out ahead of legislation that's going to come forward again next year, specifically ab-235. so ab-235, you may remember, ab-1054 was the sort of 10 to $20 billion pg&e bailout. it's a terrible thing. it happened so quickly that we couldn't stop it. ab-235 is a pg&e bailout on steroids. the public is on the hook for maybe $10 billion or more because of 1054, the public will

be on the hook under ab-235 for potentially $40 billion or more. it could be up to $50 billion if pg&e is held accountable for the tubs fire, and they could be sued on it. so this bailout of pg&e, if it passes, would make it so we would never get a chance to buyout pg&e locally because it would make them too protected financially and it would perpetuate them existing as the terrible company it is right now. i ask that next month you bring forward ab -- and proactively this year. >> oh, i think our attorney has that comment. >> oh, the adjournment. okay, thank you for the public comment. public comment is now closed. [gavel] >> madam clerk.

we have one item. should i call it now? yes, yes, please. >> i don't know, is this working? i just wanted to mention that we will bring back a resolution that formally changes the meeting time of the commission to 10:00 a.m., but until such time, can you adjourn the meeting to 10:00 a.m. on october 18th, just so we can put that on the record. >> oh, okay. a motion to adjourn the meeting until 10:00 a.m. on october 18th. okay. >> second. >> second, we can take that without objection. thank you very much. [gavel] >> madam clerk, we don't have any other items today. >> that concludes our business for today. >> thank you very much. [♪]

>> 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 i live through the construction and understand the merchants and the pain you went through. but boy, did this turn out beautiful! i've been to many scape improvements in different commercial corridor and i have to say these seats and planters are some of the best i've seen

in all of san francisco. so you all did a great job on that. [cheers and applause] >> again, i want to thank mohamed nurue and john thomas is completing this project because it was done on time. public works delivers many key construction projects throughout the city and having it done on time so we're not disrupting the merchants for longer than we should is very important. you heard this specific project was $21.3 million and it's connect the to residents and we're more resilient. as chair of the ten-year capital plan committee, we have done a lot to make sure that we have coordinating our projects.

it was putting in our new sewer lines and water line and that's important for someone who lives in this neighborhood because i can tell you where every sinkhole was. i was drawing diagrams and handing it to the sf puc saying these are the most important parts to touch in the sunset. underground, we've put in more than 4,000 -- the mayor is right. that was the large effort budget item at 7.$3 million. , along for the water and sewer line to appreciate upgraded protection for this community in case of a potential earthquake.

also groun underground, we put n municipal fiber providing secure signals to this community. at the street level, pedestrian and muni riders will see improvements as you can see with the curb ramps and that was approximately $5.7 million. but not just here in the inner sunset aisles, but public works have resurfaced 644 blocks across the city this year and we work together as one city, connected, and i'm pleased to introduce tom maguire, the interim director of transportation. [cheers and applause] >> it's great to be here and celebrate the puc, public works, city administrator and the elected officials who helped get

the funds together and get the wills together to make this happen and the street scape is basically but when i look at it, i don't just see beautiful planters and trees but safety. i see muni riders getting on and off trains going by and we see them getting off on a nice, safe sidewalk. they're not getting off into traffic like they do elsewhere in the city and this is the experience we want. we know this is the lifeline of the sunset, one of the busiest corridors and the streets in this area are some of the streets that are high injury vision zero and we want to make sure transit riders are safe, not just on their journey on the trains but when we get on and off on beautiful street scape. so thank you to the community for your patience as we have been working with our fell let's agenciefellowagencies to get thd thank you to everyone who fought for the funding and fought for the design to get this project done. thank you.

>> now after listening to all of us, after i'm sure you're bored, i want to bring up andrea jabli to give her viewpoints of this project as a neighbor, thank you. >> to the people who live here and work here and the merchants who come here, we didn't just do this as a photo-op. we did it because there are two important reason for people in this neighborhood to have this happening and one is the muni, the end juda will be faster. you'll get to work faster and home faster and anyone who does that everyday understands how important that is. it's also going to be safer for you. now you're not going to be hit by cars trying to squeeze in between the boarding ramps. most importantly, ninth avenue and irving is an intersection

that is painful for people who walk around this neighborhood on a frequent basis. you're sometimes stopped at a light for up to two and a half minutes while waiting for trains to come and go and bikes, muni, all that stuff. now that the stops have been reconfigured so that the buses get through the light before they have to stop, that intersection will be so much more pleasant for all of us to experience. so that's why we're here and why we did it and everyone who has put up with the noise and all of that, give yourself a round of applause. [cheers and applause] >> thank you, let's give the project is big hand. this is a great improvement. our mayor is challenging us to continue do more projects like this and public works and the partnership with all of the agencies will continue to deliver for you. so with that said, we will cut the ribbon and so, where is the ribbon-cutting team here?

we have behind us. >> and would the folks like martha, barbara and other community members feel free to come up and cut this rib bin. ribbon. this is for your community and we want to make sure you're a part of it. are we ready? >> yes! >> we sure? 5-4-3 -- you're not even counting. are we ready? >> yes clam 5-4-3-2-1!

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