will require a major shift in policy and resources. major straight redesign is one part. we need authority for tools and current proposals are speed cameras and lowering speed limits. this will give us a closer look at equity impacts. moving towards active shared transportation modes and using tools like pricing. if you have a question about pricing jamie is here with me and he can speak to that if a driver is not paying attention. some of the policy advocacy suggestions include housing density especially affordable housing for those unhoused to

make sure they are not as rit be on the street these are no longer draft actions but our active actions. we have the policy focus for these next couple of years. our safe streets, lowering vehicle speeds. safe people and making sure they follow the law and safe vehicles. ensure city fleet are safe and if they are autonomous they are safe. a note about autonomous vehicles. i have a note here we do have -- the san francisco police department has an interim crash database that collects information if the vehicle was conventional, auto pie let, an anonymous vehicle operating under control or operating in

autonomous mode with a driver present. we do have some of data ta. we are exploring how to analyze the data. some examination has been put-on holds hold. we have partners between dph cochairing this initiative. we are looking at the data. next slide, please. >> part of vision zero and data science in providing the data we must make sure we are evidence based. we ra responsible for transbased which is the public facing dashboard for all crash data. it linked the police department collision data with general hospital data as welcome as the hospital of

medical examiners in addition, we collect both the police department, medical examiner, and collectively we put it in a transportation related injury surveillance system tifs as i said before we expect to have that later this year. we have monthly reports and severe injury report that came out in september of 2021. this is current try 2024. we are envisioning how to go

beyond the surveillance and really looking at how the leverage the data for providing deeper recommendations for turning the curve on fatalities and injuries in the city. thank you for your time. i really appreciate the opportunity to be here with you. this is a brunch of our partners within the hospital and department of public health present and past. this wouldn't have been possible without assistance, thank you. >> thank you doctor for this presentation. before we go to commissioner comments or questions. do we have any public comments? >> if you would like to make a comment press star three. star three. i see no hands. >> any comments or questions. >> commissioner chow has his hand up.

>> commissioner chow? commissioner chow you are on mute. >> okay, there we go. i'm impressed with the work the data center is doing. also the strategies they are talking about. so, i'm wondering, you know, they said no one will be killed. as if we look across on your slide 7. when we adopted vision zero at 2014, i'm just wondering from a statistical standpoint, what is a you are looking at 2017. the other numbers are within one or two of each other.

what is the significant of the work being done. when i look at the data the regression analysis didn't show differences overtime but the trend showed decreasing floats overtime. there is a lot of work we need to do to find a sigg any of dance difference. overall by mode of transportation. it's not just about count. the interventions that were in actively pursuing and implementing on our streets do take time. i have data here, one moment. about how much has been done to date. if i can find it quickly, hold

on. something like a 200% increase in the quick build project. they have been engaging in this. it's been an i think crease commitment to the quick build progress. now it's on the entire high injury network. that's 20 projects per year. some are not funded. some of them are grant funded. they are time limited they move quickly as possible. similarly, we have an increasing -- let me see if i can find that. increasing influx overtime. 2010 and 2020, 150,000 new

resident and 107 new jobs came to san francisco. there were over 630 miles of increased daily vehicle miles traveled. including those by transportation companies including uber, lyft, and scoot. that accounts for 47% of the increase. we are working as quickly as possible to make sure the interventions keep up with the challenges happening every year in the city. we could intervene with our quick built projects. we might not see a change in the trend but keeping up with the trend so to speak. >> so, why didn't you talk about the population and changing. i know it might not show up

with the numbers per 100,000 residents. would it show we have a trend and it might be a difference. then, my second question actually is related to in your slide on the major shift in policy politics and culture. all of the items on here seems to me things we have been talking about. the shift was within the past year or ten years from the point that we start vision zero. maybe with vision zero we won't do street designs but increased housing. i wonder if you can explain how we come to the pacific percentages and what type of changes they are and we are not duplicating the same thing. i'm impressed you pointed out we had a huge increase in populations and the injuries

per is thousand. they might in fact be on a significance. >> good afternoon, commissioners. i received the vision zero policy program and implementation of many of the transportation safety projects across the city. with respect to the major shift in policy and politics that are included in the action strategy. the percentages are approximate and based on research that we found. i think there is a report called the road map to zero that looks at different policies that cities around the world have taken and what the impact on traffic safety has been. the mayor point we would like to make given the percentages are approximate. the things we control are the

street redesign. it's a very important portion with vision zero. we need to improve state policy changes and safety cameras in particular we in the city have pushed very hard of the state legislature. we push the bill for a few sessions and a new bill introduced this year that will allow safety cameras that we ra supportive of. then, i think, commissioner you mentioned a lot of these have been talked about for a while congestion pricing has been studying this for san francisco for close to a decade. we didn't have congestion pricing. if we talk about the number of vehicles on san francisco streets and if reducing the number of vehicles is a critical piece which i believe

it is we feel congestion pricing is one of the best tools we have in the city as the city and regional population growth. that's a long-winded answer but it might have gotten to the questions you are having. >> well, it does and, you know, we heard some of this in different iterations supporting i'm not sure we formally supported the speed cameras. this was by a statement made many of these in your report about the injury. people are not abiding by the law. if willower the limit as we are in the tenderloin -- do we really expect in terms that would normally speed any way.

the fact that without speed cameras we won't catch them, right. >> dr. mentioned we are a data driven approach. one of the core pieces at the vision zero program is we have an evaluation program that that that evaluates this. we are doing a fully valuation of what is happening in the tender lion tenderld what impact that had on speeding. we did no turn on red restrictions last year and without any additional enforcement we found compliance was over 90% and the number of vehicles coming into the crosswalk deceased by 70%. there are tools we can apply

without increasing enforcement. we have improved behavior and the last point i'd mention our general approach to street design is be forgiving and we know people are fallible. we want it to encourage safe behavior. that's why you see core components on the tool kit and removing excess travel lanes that improve visibility at crosswalks so people can see each other. we try to have a design that's safe and recognizing the enforcement can't be everywhere and people didn't make the best choices when traveling on streets. >> i have one last question that i thought of right now. it's a local question. prior to the pandemic i used to cross stockton street all of the time. having the crosswalk change did make a significant

difference in terms of safety. people didn't make right turns or left turns while allowing people to cross diagonally. where is this because stockton street is the major street in chinatown. it's being torn up for the subway. it's put together with new designs with the increase more of it safety and always following stockton street as a safety issue. we expanded that recently and had 15 to 20 in the tenderloin.

we are looking at innovative tools whether it's no turn on red, sped scrambles. ways to slowdown or make a lift turn in traffic. you know, stockton specifically are often the focus of those innovative tools. >> well, i thank you commissioners for your patients. this is a topic i have been following and interested in. i really encourage that we continue to do this and wanted to appreciate what both mta and now the department and the fact we'll have more robust database on this. so, i look forward to new reports on this. thank you for your work. >> thank you, commissioner.

commissioner geraldo. >> thank you for excellent report. i'm curious about the autonomous vehicles we had crews autonomous cabs since february in the late night. do you have any statistics on any fatalities or any kind of information on concerns with that? is that still in the process. >> i don't have that with me on hand. we have that summarized in the fatality report in review in the mayors office. >> can you forward the data to me when it's publicly available. >> absolutely. >> thank you vary much. >> thank you. >> secretary moore, any other

comments? >> commissioner chung. >> you are on mute. >> my pets are not getting along these days. i'd like to know if there is any data about when the fatalities occur. is it during the day or night? so, i think, you know, while the numbers might still be similar but might actually translate to different strategies. >> in the fatality report we talk about time of day. the data trends show between 6:00 p.m. and midnight they are more likely as opposed to did daylight hours.

any other comments or questions? >> i do not see any other hands. >> all right, doctor. thank you for your presentation and we look forward to having you again. >> thank you for your flex ability and patients. >> yes, thank you. >> lack of technology. >> our next item is the finance and planning committee update. for this we have the chair. >> the finance and planning committee met right before the commission meeting and we had a review three contracts on the contract report and one new contract and also had so,

allow me to go from one to another. in the counsel contractt the first one is the region of this is for the alliance health project. it is just an extension from 2022 to 2026. i think it's the one that really stood out. the second contract on the report for the asian pacific islander wellness center. if you look at the annual

differences in both mon tarry terns and percentage. it's over 1200 percent increase. the mayors new tenderloin care initiatives. so, also, you know, translate to really trying to build the capacity, you know, for the services in a timely manor. we raised the question what will happen after 2032 whining, you know, a new contracts is being drawn. would this be sustainable and if, there are discussions

about other ways to continue the work in the tenderloin especially those houseless. so, for the second, the new contract with the deloris community center. it's a very interesting contract because it is retroactive to last year. july 1 of last year. although, they did not actually submit a scope of work until february of this year. so, we were a bit confused because that means they cannot invoice there is no actual

scope of work being defined. it's kind of created a gap in terms of, you know, how we fund the services. on paper, it's like two years but in actuality, eight months out of the two years services being performed. so, hopefully, there will be better ways in the future to address these discrepancies. i appreciate, you know, the staff for recognizing that as well. we also have a presentation on, we have a presidenttation

presentation on a new proposal of agreements and solicitation waved process. this will actually be coming to the full commission on may 1. we have the chance to review the information. these are all contracts with nonprofit service organizes. you can say at least up to 6 months to a year of time for this contract to be approved

and signed off on. that's the end of my report. >> thank you commissioner. before we go commissioner comments or questions. do we have any public comments on this item. >> folks on the line if you would like to make a comment press star 3 now. item nine, star three. >> i see commissioner chow's hand. >> commissioner chow. >> thank you. i wasn't able to be at the finance committee meeting to make this point. we will look at it on may 17th 17th. this has been a real concern and interest of the, i would say our administration of

services throughout different mayoral administrations and boards of supervisors. it comes in different forms and formats. one thing that i believe is important is that the commission remains alert and aware and approves the contracts. certainly, it's impressive that we could decrease our workload time. that's been something we have been talking about for a long time. this makes sense. we give to our executive secretary the power to approve things. what i think could be helpful but allow the commission to have awareness of which ones are being given.

we look at a new type of contracting then the sole source is not as you do now but a whole listing of who the sole source were. now, we'll go to individual sole source and allow our secretary to help expedite the process. it should be a report in some sort ofification. i'll leave that to the department and chair of the committee and president to workout a process in which there could be a meaning report back to the commission onto be granted soul source on different services. it's similar to the annual report we go. it would come out to say they

were following soul source. it's a very controversial issue with the board and mayor. i would like us to get back into that. >> sorry, we look forward to your comments at our next meeting. >> thank you commissioner chow. any other comments or questions? all right, seeing none we can move to the next item that's a reaction item request for approve val to consent calendar, back to you commissioner chung. you are on mute. average i respectfully ask the commissioners to approve the consent calendar that consist of the contract reports as well as the new contracts for services for deloris community

center. >> do we have a motion to approve? >> any public comment >> seeing no hands. roll cal. [roll call] >> do we have any other business to raise during the meeting? all right, seeing none, and nothing to make comment on we'll move to the next item discussion item summery of

item 26 general hospital jcc meeting. for this we'll go to the chair of the commissioner chow. >> it's commissioner green this month. >> thanks for attending and making such useful comments. we reviewed the regulatory affairs report mondaying the success and notification of primary care physicians when patients were admitted to the hospital. it's a remarkable improvement and interpreter use documentation. we'll discuss the quality goals the beauty of unifying quality in patient settings. five key metrics lower level

of patient care and 21 days for new patient visit and outpatient specialty care clinics. we reach goals and progress as been made in every area except the clinic time wave. the achievement of the metrics should improve our cms far ratings. the ceo report gave us great news and the human rights campaign foundation honored the lgbtq ep forts at the county. identifying the county as an equity leader. we also discussed staffing shortage on bed availability, the challenges of discharging patients in the sack at trick beds and skilled nursing beds and other level of care beds. in the hiring report, nurses

are in training to philly emergency -- fill emey vacancies. there is an adequate pool despite the number of individuals we hired to complete the final openings. they approved new qualifications for allergy and immunology physicians to bring a full-time specialist on-site. in a closed session we approved the report and reviewed the achievements at the urgent care and equity work at the family health center. >> all right, thank you vice president green. do we have public comment on this item. >> if you would like to comment on item 12 press star 3. also i guess commissioners too. i see no hands. >> any commissioner comments.

>> i do not see any hands at all. >> thank you vice president green. the next item is a closed session. do we have a motion to enter a closed session? >> so moved. >> second. >> i'll take public comment really quickly. if you would like take public comment on item 13. no hands. i'll do a roll call vote. [roll call] thank you. give us a few minutes to get the room cleared and get us in closed session. thank you for your patients with the technological issues. folks on the line you won't be able to see or hear us if you would like to wait for the open session to come back.

i'm not sure how long it will be. all right, we have a motion on the table from commissioner green to notice close the contents of the closed session. do we have a second? >> i second. >> all right, i'll do a roll call vote. [roll call]. you will right, we are under consideration for adjournment. >> i'd like to take the privilege to move to adjourn in memory of former congressman norm and thank you commissioner for speaking so eloquently about contributions. is there a second. >> second. >> all right, i'll do a roll call vote. [roll call]. >> thank you the meeting is

now adjourned. >> we worked very hard with the san francisco venue coalition,

the independent venue alliance to advocate for venues. put this issue on the radar of the supervisors and obviously mayor breed. the entertainment commission and the office of small business and we went to meetings and showed up and did public comment and it was a concerted effort between 50 venues in the city and they are kind of traditional like live performance venues and we all made a concerted effort to get out there and sound the alarm and to her credit, maybe breed really stepped up, worked with matt haney, who is a supervisor haney was a huge champion for us and they got this done and they got $3 million into the sf venue recovery fund.

>> we have represented about 40 independent venues in san francisco. basically, all the venues closed on march 13th, 2020. we were the first to close and we will be the last to reopen and we've had all the of the overhead costs are rent, mortgage, payroll, utilities and insurance with zero revenue. so many of these venues have been burning $1,000 a day just to stay closed. >> we have a huge music history here in san francisco and the part of our cultural fab lick but it's also an economic driver. we produce $7 billion annual' here in san francisco and it's formidable. >> we've been very fortunate here. we've had the department of emergency management and ems

division and using part of our building since last april and aside from being proud to i can't tell you how important to have some cost recovery coming in and income to keep the doors open. >> typically we'll have, three to 400 people working behind the teens to support the show and that is everything from the teamsters and security staff and usualers, ticket takers, the folks that do our medical and the bar tenders and the people in the kitchen preparing food for backstage and concession and the people that sell key shirts and it's a pretty staggering amount of people that are out of work as a result of this one verne you going tarkanian.

it doesn't work to open at reduced capacity. when we get past june 15th, out of the into the blue print for our economy we can open it it 100% and look at the festival in full capacity in october and we're just so grateful for the leadership of the mavor and dr. coal fax to make us the safest ♪ america and this is been hard for everybody in san francisco and the world but our leadership has kept us safe and i trust them that they will let us know when it's safe to do that. >> a lot of people know about america is military stuff, bullying stuff, corporate stuff. when people like me and my

friends go to these foreign country and play music, we're giving them an american cultural experience. it's important. the same way they can bring that here. it sounds comfy buyia, you know, we're a punk band and we're nasty and we were never much for peace and love and everything but that's the fertilizer that grows the big stuff that some day goes to bill graham's place and takes everybody's money but you have to start with us and so my hope is that allel groups and people make music and get together because without out, hanging together we'll hang separately, you know. >> other venues like this, all over the place, not just in the san francisco bay area need to exist in order for communities to thrive and i'm not just talking about the arts communities, even if you are here to see a chuckle bucket comedy show and you are still experiencing humanity and in

specific ways being able to gather with people and experience something together. and especially coming out of the pandemic, the loss of that in-person human connection recovering that in good ways is going to be vital for our entire society. >> it's a family club. most our staff has been working with us for 10 years so we feel like a family. >> what people think of when they think of bottom of the hill and i get a lot of this is first of all, the first place i met my husband or where we had our first date and i love that and we love doing weddings and i expect there to be a wedding season post 2021 of all the make up we haddings and i hope that many people do that because we

have had so many rock ep role weddings. >> i told my girlfriend, make sure you stand at the front of the stage and i can give you a kiss at midnight. at this got down on one knee at the stroke of midnight. it wasn't a public thing, i got down on one knee and said will you marry me and is he she had are you [beep] kidding me and i said no, i'm dead serious and she said yes. we were any time homicideel of the show. we just paused for new year's eve and that was where i proposed to my wife. this is more than just a professional relationship it's more than just a relationship from a love of arts, it's where my family started. we'll always have a special place in my heart. >> venues, you know, represent so much. they are cultural beckons of a

city. neighbors can learn and celebrate and mourn and dance together. venues and arts and culture are characterized as second responders to crisis and they provide a mental health outlet and a community center for people to come together at and it's the shared history of our city and these spaces is where we all come together and can celebrate. >> art often music opens up people to understanding the fellow man and i mean, taz always necessary and if anything, it's going to be even more necessary as we come out of this to reach out and connect with people. >> we can sustain with food, water and shelter is accurate and does anybody have a good time over the last year? no. >> san francisco is a great

down. i've been here many years and i love it here and it's a beautiful, beautiful, place to be music and art is key to that. drama, acting, movies, everything, everything that makes life worth living and that's what we've got to mow proteasome no san francisco and that's what is important now. [♪♪♪] >> one more statement. we are the one. that is our first single that we made. that is our opinion. >> i can't argue with you. >> you are responsible please do not know his exact. [♪♪♪]

[♪♪♪] [♪♪♪] >> i had a break when i was on a major label for my musical career. i took a seven year break. and then i came back. i worked in the library for a long time. when i started working the san francisco history centre, i noticed they had the hippie collection. i thought, if they have a hippie collection, they really need to have a punk collection as well. so i talked to the city archivist who is my boss. she was very interested. one of the things that i wanted

to get to the library was the avengers collection. this is definitely a valuable poster. because it is petty bone. it has that weird look because it was framed. it had something acid on it and something not acid framing it. we had to bring all of this stuff that had been piling up in my life here and make sure that the important parts of it got archived. it wasn't a big stretch for them to start collecting in the area of punk. we have a lot of great photos and flyers from that area and that. that i could donate myself. from they're, i decided, you know, why not pursue other people and other bands and get them to donate as well? the historic moments in san francisco, punk history, is the sex pistols concert which was at winterland. [♪♪♪] it brought all of the punks on the web -- west coast to san

francisco to see this show. the sex pistols played the east coast and then they play texas and a few places in the south and then they came directly to san francisco. they skipped l.a. and they skipped most of the media centres. san francisco was really the biggest show for them pick it was their biggest show ever. their tour manager was interested in managing the adventures, my band. we were asked to open to support the pistols way to that show. and the nuns were also asked to open the show. it was certainly the biggest crowd that we had ever played to. it was kind of terrifying but it did bring people all the way from vancouver, tee seattle, portland, san diego, all up and down the coast, and l.a., obviously. to san francisco to see this show. there are a lot of people who say that after they saw this show they thought they would start their own band. it was a great jumping off point for a lot of west coast punk. it was also, the pistols' last

show. in a way, it was the end of one era of punk and the beginning of a new one. the city of san francisco didn't necessarily support punk rock. [♪♪♪] >> last, but certainly not least is a jell-o be opera. they are the punk rock candidate of the lead singer called the dead kennedys. >> if we are blaming anybody in san francisco, we will just blame the dead kennedys. >> there you go. >> we had situations where concerts were cancelled due to flyers, obscene flyers that the city was thought -- that he thought was obscene that had been put up. the city of san francisco has come around to embrace it's musicians. when they have the centennial for city hall, they brought in all kinds of local musicians and i got to perform at that. that was, at -- in a way, and

appreciation from the city of san francisco for the musical legends. i feel like a lot of people in san francisco don't realize what resources there are at the library. we had a film series, the s.f. punk film series that i put together. it was nearly sold out every single night. people were so appreciative that someone was bringing this for them. it is free. everything in the library is free. >> it it is also a film producer who has a film coming out. maybe in 2018 about crime. what is the title of it? >> it is called san francisco first and only rock 'n' roll movie. crime, 1978. [laughter] >> when i first went to the art institute before the adventures were formed in 77, i was going to be a painter. i did not know i would turn into a punk singer. i got back into painting and i mostly do portraiture and figurative painting. one of the things about this job

here is i discovered some great resources for images for my painting. i was looking through these mug shot books that we have here that are from the 1920s. i did a whole series of a mug shot paintings from those books. they are in the san francisco history centre's s.f. police department records. there are so many different things that the library provides for san franciscans that i feel like a lot of people are like, oh, i don't have a library card. i've never been there. they need to come down and check it out and find out what we have. the people who are hiding stuff in their sellers and wondering what to do with these old photos or old junk, whether it is hippie stuff or punk stuff, or stuff from their grandparents, if they bring it here to us, we can preserve it and archive it and make it available to the public in the future.

>> chair mar: thank you. welcome to the april 28, 2022 public safety and neighborhood services meeting. i want to thank the clerk for

staffing this meeting and for sfgovtv. madam clerk, do you have any announcements? >> clerk: yes, i do. the board of supervisors and its committees are now convening hybrid meetings that allow remote public comment. the board recognizes that equitable public access is essential and will be taking public comment as follows. first, public comment will be taken on each item on this agenda. those attending in person will be allowed to speak first, and then, we will take those who are waiting on the telephone line. for those watching either channel 26, 78, or 99 or on sfgovtv, the public comment number is streaming across the stream. the number is 415-655-0001. once connected, you will enter the meeting i.d., which is

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dr. carlton b. goodlett place, room 204, san francisco, california, 94102. items acted on today are expected to appear on the may 2, 2022 board of supervisors agenda unless otherwise stated. >> chair mar: thank you. i'd like to make a motion to excuse supervisor haney. madam clerk, can you please call roll. >> clerk: yes. [roll call] >> clerk: and we do have a

quorum. >> chair mar: great. thank you, madam clerk. can you please call item number 1? >> clerk: yes. item 1 is an ordinance amending the administrative code to require the police department to create a community policing plan, c.p.p., at each district police station, that among other strategies incorporates a foot and bike patrol deployment and also includes a community process for eliciting input, and to require the public posting of the c.p.p.s with a yearly update. members of the public who wish to make public comment, lineup by the curtains or if you are listening remotely, dial

415-655-0001, meeting i.d. 2492-077-7440, then press pound and pound again. press star, three to enter the queue, and wait until the system indicates your line has been unmuted before you begin your comments. >> chair mar: thank you. supervisor stefani, at our last committee meeting, you led a very important meeting on sfpd staffing that really highlighted the staffing shortage that we're facing in the department and that's having great impacts on public safety throughout our city. one of the city impacts for me was the lack of ability for the department to assign officers to more proactive crime prevention and community engaging policing. this is an issue that's been of high importance to me, a need of our city to address our public safety challenges, so this legislation that i've

introduced would require the sfpd to have community policing plans for each district station with input from key stakeholders, especially merchant associations, neighborhood groups, and community organizations. i have been working with the department on some -- a set of amendments for this legislation that unfortunately are not quite ready to be introduced today, so i will be moving that we continue this item to the next psns meeting on may 12, and i'll hold off on my further remarks on this right now. okay. madam clerk, can we go to public comment? >> clerk: yes, we can. at this time, if you would like to make public comment, please lineup at the curtains. i am not seeing any in person,

and there's nobody in the queue -- virtual queue. >> chair mar: great. public comment is closed. [gavel]. >> chair mar: so i'll move that we continue this item to the may 12 psns meeting. madam clerk, can you please call roll. >> clerk: on that motion -- [roll call] >> clerk: thank you. motion passes. >> chair mar: oh, is there public comment on this item? number 1. yeah, we're not at item 2 yet. yeah. so this can be continued to the may 12 psns meeting. madam clerk, can you please call item number 2? >> clerk: yes. item 2 is a hearing on the san francisco public utilities commission's emergency fighting water system 2050 planning

study and the status of the efforts to expand the city's high-pressure fire protection water supply and distribution system to cover all unprotected neighborhoods by 2034 as called for in board of supervisors resolution number 484-19, file number 191029, requesting the sfpuc, fire department, and office of resilience and capital planning to report. >> chair mar: thank you. so this item is really to continue our public discussion about one of the most -- our city's most important response infrastructure project, which is the emergency firefighting water system to all unprotected neighborhoods in the city. these high-pressure water pipelines are critical to

fighting fires, especially after a major earthquake. we know we're going to be having one in the coming years, but the e.f.s. is important to fight fires not related to climate or earthquake events. approximately a third of our city does not have the protection of these high-pressure water pipelines and are vulnerable to big fires, especially when the next big one hits. so i want to thank the p.u.c., the fire department, and the office of capital planning for their work on developing plans and moving forward with work to expand the efws, particularly

on the west side and the southern neighborhoods that remain unprotected. and i also want to thank the dedicated neighborhood leaders that have pushed the city and the departments to address this vulnerable in our neighborhood response system. the purpose of the hearing today is to hear from the departments and particularly the p.u.c. and the lead on the study that they completed last year on the efws citywide and what that plan would look like and how much it would cost, so we're going to hear a presentation from the p.u.c. and the departments on that. and we're also going to hear a presentation from the advocates that have really been pushing the city and leading on this issue on the community side,

and -- and, again, this is really intended just to continue our public discussion and moving forward the important work on expanding the efws citywide. so first, i want to invite john scarpolla from the p.u.c. to present on the recently completed efws 2050 planning study. mr. scarpulla? >> good morning, chair mar. thank you so much for having me here today and for your leadership on this item. also, good morning to supervisor stefani. i am joined today by colleagues from the p.u.c. as well as from the fire department and office of resilience and capital planning, so they're available to answer any questions that i

cannot, and with that, i will jump in. as supervisor mar mentioned, i'm going to talk about the objectives and the development of an emergency water pipeline and water supply sources to all of san francisco, and really to help develop this plan we used studies that we submitted to the board. one was on the neighborhood firefighting water requirements study. we submitted that in june 2021, and the feasibility water supply that was also submitted to the board in june 2021. so as an overview of the study, what we did was we looked at the existing system, and as supervisor mar pointed out, much of the existing system is located largely in the northeastern part of the city. that's where it was built over 100 years ago, after the 1906

earthquake, and it's focused on the eastern corner. you can see in blue the existing pipelines, and you can see that the west and south and southeast areas of the city don't really have pipelines -- high-pressure emergency firefighting water pipelines. when the p.u.c. started working with the fire department -- when we started working with the p.u.c. and the fire department, we tackled this issue using the eser bonds. we'll talk about that going forward. one of the things to note is

the current system can supply about 80,000 gallons per minute. that's g.p.m. so when you see g.p.m. throughout this presentation, know that that's gallons per minute. when we look at 2020 demands, and that's demands now, 2020, 2022, 2035, 2050, what we're looking at is we actually need about an estimated water supply of 255,000 gallons per minute for fighting fire after our model earthquake of 7.9 on the san andreas fault. so you can see we've got to go from 88,000 gallons per minute to 255,000 gallons per minute. we're going to do this by additional water sources, increased system capacity, and one of the things to note is

this plan assumes fire department resources will increase with the increase in population of san francisco. so i talked about the study we provided in june 2021 to the board. this is a pattern of fire demands throughout san francisco in a 3-d visual. you can see while there are a lot of demands in the northeast, obviously, the richmond, the sunset, and the stonestown merced park area, you can see there's a lot of lines there, as well. again, this is after the model earthquake 7.8 -- excuse me, 7.9, san andreas. so what are we looking at?

coverage and capacity. as you all know and i'll reiterate for the committee and for folks tuning in, the existing pipelines now in the northeast of the city, potable water is the primary water source for it, so the water comes from twin peaks reservoir, and the hetch hetchy water system, that's the water that's primarily used. the large fires that the san francisco fire department puts out on a routine basis, it's potable water that's used in that system. in the 110 years that the system has been operating, there have been two recorded uses of the secondary water

system, which is sea water, in 1983, and in the 1989 earthquake, at around 10:00 p.m. as we know, the 1989 earthquake occurred around 5:30 p.m. we have the additional benefit of after the firefighting is done, after we flush the lines and reduce the pressure, they are able to provide post earthquake drinking water in areas of the city, and areas that don't have this system won't have this benefits. we need to increase the amount of gallons per minute available, and we need to look at efws improvements.

these are valves, pipelines, etc., so you'll see those improvements, as well. so let's start with the pipelines on the map. i'll walk everybody through it. let's start with the gray lines. the gray lines are lines that are already in the street. that's our existing system, what we're looking at. the existing system is the light gray pipelines. in the red is the phase one. these are funded, and these are funded with the 2020 eser bonds that is just starting to get underway here, which is very exciting, so we are moving forward with this project as we speak, so it's exciting to be able to bring this pipeline to

the eastern part of the -- to the western part of the city. the black is in the western part of the city, and it's unfunded. and everything in green we are also proposing to install through this plan, and so these are green and blue, and that's what this lays out, additional pipelines, and those are also unfunded at this time. you see a lot of lines on this map. let's talk about what they do. on the left of this slide, they connect water sources. to connect to the new and existing pipelines, we need some new lines to do so, so you'll see new pipelines

connecting water sources through the city. you'll see some pipelines in the area. we're also putting pipelines in landfill areas which do move quite a lot during earthquakes, and you want to make sure that they're in backbone areas, so you'll see they're in landfill areas in san francisco.

if there was an earthquake, when there was an earthquake, the pressure to these pipelines are increased to support firefighting, and then after the firefighting subsides, again, they provide the public water supplies. this is the same system used in japan, in tokyo. they have the same system where they up the pressure for firefighting, and then after drop it. they're one of the countries in the world that has the seismic challenges that san francisco has, and they used this system after the 9.0 earthquake, which is significantly larger than the one that we had and the 7.9 model earthquake. on the left, we talked about

phase one and two of the west side project. the red is what's funded, and the green is phase two. you saw there was quite a bit of demand in the inner geary corridor, and also to the presidio, like, along the wall in the presidio to provide fire protection there. in the south areas, both the middle south and the -- on the left side and then further south in the southern area, a significant amount of new pipelines to put fire protect in those areas where firefighting lines are currently lacking. there's a lot of pipelines, and again, it's to make sure we're covered throughout the city. but what's important is we

extend pipelines without the water supply. that's a key. you can't expand and expect the same performance in the existing areas if you don't provide additional capacity, additional conveyance, additional pipelines, which is what those water lines do. in this image on the right, what you'll see are all of the blue squares are water sources that are either already connected or funded to be connected, whereas in the pink, you'll see water sources that we need to -- we are -- the plan proposes to connect. so it's a mix of in-city reservoirs, sea water, lake merced. so it's a diverse array of water sources, and that's important.

water diversity is important to make sure that you have a lot of different sources that are available and on-line to fight a really large fire after a post seismic event. other improvements are enhanced -- pefws are data, for example, pressure monitoring with data so we can see it and make a fix. and reliability improvements throughout the system to existing facilities. so what are the results of this plan that we put together? first, it meets the demands of the report that we put together in 2021, following the demands up to the year 2050.

it meets those demands. we want to make sure that the fire department has the water that they need to fight fires, and that's what it does. whenever we do analysis on a water system, through hydraulic monitoring and system response modelling, it's key to the performance. we don't install a system that performs great on one side of the city and not the other.

we want to make sure that it's working all over the system city. the darker the blue, the better the performance, you should note that it's a white square. just mean there's no demands there, and that comes from the report from a world renowned expert, dr. charles cawthorn. but you can see this system performs, and it meets the fire demands throughout the city in

a robust way, so we're really proud of this planning work. some things to consider when it comes to west side sea water pump stations, one is that plant-well pump stations are likely required. the california ocean plan, which is issued by the state,

basically said that the plans state that you cannot install open water intake pump stations in the ocean unless slant-well pump stations are unavailable. basically, ocean beach and the conditions out there, we don't think that we can state that slant-well pump stations are infeasible, so if we can't state that they are infeasible, we can't just jump to a sea water open intake, and that's because open intake pump stations do have consequences, and we do have marine life out in the ocean, and that's why the california ocean plan is very specific in that. based on the type of capacity that you can pull from the

sand, we estimate 9,000 to 10,000 gallons per minute, so that sounds right. based on that, we would need quite a few pump stations on the west side. the west side system provides about 90,000 gallons per minute of water, and so that's the demand that that system feeds, whereas the conventional system needs to feed about 150,000 gallons per minute, so each station requires housing. they can't just be hidden in the sand. they require housing, and i can show you examples of that. putting anything on the beach is a lengthy permitting process. it's not something that can be done overnight. it can take decades, depending on what we're proposing and where we're proposing.

tsunami zones with shifting sand, that needs to be taken into consideration. and another thing is sea water cannot sit in pipes and hydrants due to the corrosive issues. the last thing we need is to open a hydrant and we can't use it due to massive corrosion. when we need it, we pull the sea water in, we fight the fire, and then immediately, we flush the pipes and the hydrants. on the west side, you would use

hetch hetchy system water first, and then in an absolute emergency, post require, then, you use the sea water. i wanted to be clear about that. you can't just have sea water sitting. this is ghirardelli square. fire department headquarters, that's pump station number one, and it's at fire department headquarters, in the basement. they cannot be hidden in the sand, the pump stations, so we need to keep that in consideration. 90,000 gallons a minute, that's what the demand is for the green lines in this photo post

earthquake. we're estimating about ten well stations with collector pipe. it's the yellow pipe connecting to the existing green pipelines at three locations. the emergency water supply backlog function, where we can provide drinking water supply would not be available immediately after an earthquake. it takes a lot longer to clean them after there's been sea water in them. there's a lot more things in terms of maintenance required.

they talked about completing this by 2024. it's about $3.4 billion for the five options, and if we looked out about 25 years, we're talking about 2.9 billion, 4.4 billion, and 6.1. as you get deeper into the planning, you'll get much more refined numbers. and with that, chair mar and

chair stefani, i'm happy to take any questions now or later on in this hearing. >> chair mar: thank you so much, mr. scarpullo, for the presentation and for all of your work, yeah, on this project, and particularly this report that you just presented on for the planning study. i'm going to hold off on questions for now, and i think we should go to the presentation from the community leaders who have been raising the alarm bell on this issue for years and have been pushing the city to more urgently address this major infrastructure project. so we have nancy warfull and dick morton who are leader from the citywide coalition for efws expansion, and nancy and dick, you have ten minutes for your presentation, and i believe you

have some slides that the clerk can run for you. the floor is yours. >> good morning. i am nancy warfull, presenting the views of the 67 retired firefighting experts for unlimited water supply to save san francisco, in addition to my own comments for this meeting. my background includes working as a government fiscal analyst for ucsf, at san francisco general for 22 years, researching, coordinating, auditing reimbursement programs for the federal, state, and local resources. i've written many ors for the west side observer. i've been appointed by three

district 4 supervisors to be their representative for nine years on the firefighting board. the sfpuc has only provided a planning study with no commitment to provide equal protection in all neighborhoods. the mayor has not produced a detailed plan from her executive branch units for the board to consider. valuable time that be spent building needed infrastructure to be completed by 2034 has been wasted because there is no plan. the presentation does not demonstrate the urgent need for a system. surprisingly, the project stretches out the p.u.c. project to 2050. also, the p.u.c. proposes using

potable water for firefighting. there's no plan b if the model is wrong. if not protected now, then none of the progress we might have made by spending $38 billion on projects in the ten-year plan when major parts of the city burns down and the tax base is destroyed. the board should request that the firefighting and water expansion projects should be included in the top tier of funding with a place holder for the funding. your packet contains a copy of the report on the status of implementing the civil grand jury's recommendation.

even recommendation four to purchase 20 new host tenders indispensable to filling the gaps in fire protection will not be available even though the mayor could have chosen to state that recommendation four will be implemented in the future, but she did not do

this. she did not sign the board's unanimously approved resolution. she failed to include efws funding in the plan. she failed to support reasonable actions to protect all the neighborhoods equally with unlimited infrastructure and expanded sea water. there is no plan to include equity to the western and southern areas of the city comparable with the high pressure water supplies in the eastern and northern areas that they have enjoyed since 1913. are not all lives and businesses equally worthy of the very same fire protection? i ask that you reject the

inadequate 2050 report submitted by the p.u.c. i ask that you direct the mayor to direct her departments to develop a fully comprehensive plan to protect the full city and to submit it to the board of supervisors by july 15, 2022. we need a plan b if case all the modelling is not correct. thank you for considering my comments. >> chair mar: thank you, nancy. and dick, did you have some brief remarks? yeah. >> good morning. my name is dick morton, and i represent a citywide coalition of individuals and groups that want the emergency firefighting

water system expanded citywide, not just on the west side, where i live. the emergency firefighting system study done by the p.u.c. does not comply with the board of supervisors request for a comprehensive plan and for funding. if you were grading this in college or something, they would get an f for lack of responsiveness. there's no state of emergency. they project continuing to work on this after 2050, whereas the usgs believes that we will have a major earthquake before 2043. they have no rationale why they didn't go further. you have to recognize that 80%

of the damage following a major earthquake will be fires. i am baffled why the san francisco fire department is not a major advocate and speaking on behalf of getting adequate water citywide. there is a minor notation in the ten year capital plan for a bond in 2027, but it's only for the west side, not citywide. the city estimates there will be 130 initial fires after a major earthquake, but the study says they will contain the fires within 24 hours, yet 52 fires in 1989 took three days

to contain. it does not really give in to the loss of provide residential properties, commercial facilities, lost revenues, the cost to rebuild. it does talk about that they have a significant deficit between existing demand and water supplies they failed to mention that state water code 73503 requires san francisco to take roughly two thirds of the water out of the three main terminal reservoirs and ship it south. it wasn't spoken of today.

it has never been in any documentation. following the big one, the fire department and sfpuc should not rely on sunset reservoir drinking water or other potable sources. the existing 1913, a 2013 grand jury recognized that we have sea water on three sides of this city. it is critical that we actually utilize that unlimited source of water. the study fails to add the critical ocean beach open water intake. the board of supervisors called for a comprehensive plan and the financing mechanisms. this study fails to provide

that. there is no study of the acquisition and the financing of 20 hose tenders, so we can outsmart disaster if it we extend citywide independent the salt water emergency fire system. do not tolerate further delays, do not continue the disastrous mistakes and false starts. the board of supervisors must reject the planning study because it did not comply with the resolution and provide a comprehensive plan and financing mechanism. we recommend the removal of the efws from the sfpuc and putting it into the city administrator's office. after 11 or 12 years, sfpuc has

almost done nothing toward extending the system. we also recommend that we have, for the fall 2022 ballot, a bond to be voted for citywide efws. we should also have funds to acquire the 20 hose tenders. supervisors, after the big one, there will be an after-action report. this board could be positively

memorialized as working toward a rapid expansion of the emergency water firefighting system, while others will be noted for their dereliction of duty, failure to expand citywide. i urge you to look at the article in the chronicle just recently. it may give a flavor of how we will be seen by future generations. thank you, supervisors. >> chair mar: thank you, dick morton and nancy warfull, for your presentation, and we wouldn't be at this point of discussing what is needed without your efforts, so thank

you. i do have some questions, but supervisor stefani, i wanted to see if you might want to ask some. okay. great. so yeah, i had some questions for mr. scarpulla and perhaps the other representatives from the fire department and the office of capital planning that are here. again, thank you for -- for moving ahead on efws expansion. i forgot to mention it in my opening remarks, but i think it was referenced a number of times in the presentations that this really came about through a resolution that the board of supervisors adopted in 2019 declaring a state of emergency to extend the efws to all unprotected neighborhoods in the city, and it also called on

the departments to develop a plan to complete this really important project by 2034. mr. scarpulla, because the board of supervisors set a deadline of 2034 to complete the project, and that was also the recommendation from the civil grand jury, but the sfpuc presentation and department presentation uses a 2050 timeline. i wonder if you could speak to

that. >> thank you, supervisor. john scarpulla. that is the time that we're using is in terms of the system. we're not building a system that's looking at 2034 demands, we're using 2050 as the demands that the system should be sized for. and then, on my slide presented, you can see we have two different build out timelines. we did note that to meet that timeline, we would need additional city resources. it's a very large project to complete in a 12-year timeline, but we do give a price, and we note this would be the price to do it in 2034, and we give additional resources that would be needed. we give a more realistic timeline, so 2046, in terms of another timeline for building

that, and you would see a cost for that. [please stand by]

for all the different contexts. those are laid out in the capital plan so when talking

about this level of investment we have to go higher than what we have to necessary for the next 10 years so that's why we have this process of putting together the capital plan and weighing the pros and cons of all the different bonds and proposalsthat are coming forward . those are the discussions we will be havinglater this summer and early fall . the plan will be presented to the board of supervisors march 1 of next year and that will be after extensivediscussions at the capital planning committee . >> thank you director strong for that helpful update on the next 10 year capital plan where the esw expansion project will be a high priority but it's also good to know that we are not going to be into fully fund this major urgently needed

infrastructure project through the 10 year capital plan given what yousaid about the total amount being $1.2 million . that would be available in any of the other urgent priorities that we need to besupported through that as well . my question i guess final follow-up question would be what is it going to take for us to create a financing plan for the esw project where the geo bonds and 10 year capital plan will be a part of it and it's going to require other creative financing mechanisms as well including looking at adderall infrastructure funding potentially or state funding and other creative ways to financethis . what will it take to call with a financing plan for the efwf project?

>> asked me if i'm aware of an revenue sources that can cover thislevel of investment, i'm not . can we come upwith , in developing a plan , it's going to require taking the information we have and having to make decisions aroundhow we prioritize things . it's similar to how we approach how we retrofit buildings in san francisco where our buildingprogram is over he years now we're moving on to concrete buildings . think as much as i'd love to get with you in five years or even 10 years, we're going to have to have discussions with the community and fire department and puc and other experts around what are the highest priorities that are most important that we can get

done and what are some of the other projects that we may need to hold off until we identify or find out the source? i would be a strong advocate and i'm sure o'connors with the fire department and puc would be as well trying to secure federal dollars to do this type of work. so far we've not be six been successful in our discussions with fema for those organizations. they tend to only fund large infrastructureprojects after a disaster has happened . so getting money from the federal government for this type of program has been challenging . the states, there are dollars that look like they're coming from the state the next year or so. those have been primarily focused on wildfire prevention and they're also talking about

sea level rise and climate resilience. so again, i'm happy to follow up with you and follow up with our lobbyists and other folks on approaches likethat . but that's really ... anyway, that would be my response. the only other option we could do and we could spend time out would be looking at if there are ways. are there other sources of funds wehaven't thought about ? utility or taxes, community districts. there are some of those things and we had discussions that i don't knowthey would fit with this but that would be the only other option i'm aware of . >> thank youdirector strong . i really appreciate you sort of starting to outline what it would take to come up with a

real financing plan to get this importantinfrastructure projects completed . with the urgencythat we're calling for and we really need . one final question on these issues is who's really looking at these potential other sources offunding . federal, state and other potentially funding mechanisms? is that something you're doing or is the puc lookinginto this ? or if not, what would it take to really get our departments to focus in on this and come up with a financing plan?

>> i think it's fair to say almost everyone is looking at all the environments that have infrastructure or who needed infrastructure are looking at different ways to fund things . so i do think we're all looking at it. in terms of putting it together for the capital plan, that would be something we could coordinate around. i think to some extent it would be you know, if it's something the board requests we could potentially work with ... again, these require resources so we don't have a lot of staf . the mayor has legislative people as well so it would be getting those people together and having a discussion and seeing if there's something we can do outsideof the regular capital planning process .

>> that's an important next step not to happen as it is urgentlyneeded . we will need the city department to focus in on and work together to come upwith a financing plan . and that's something i'mpushing on and calling for . as soon as possible later this year. it seems like it's a good time and that as you mentioned we're going to be starting the planning for the next year and capital plan this summer . i did have a just a few other questions around the plan or the outline of the plan as reflected in the planning study.and so the first one is

i just find it a little confusing where the outline of the plan talks about the big conventional the fws which is kind of what existing right now with the proposed expansion to that. and then a separate potable esw

>> what kind of aplan is proposing a new start sea water pumping system in bayview, is that correct ? >> not exactly supervisor. it's proposing additional

pumping on the east side. it's likely that it will have to be it could be multiple sea water pump stations and it is notnecessarily situated in bayview. we have to find the right location in the east . for placement or placement of the sea water pump stations . >> so the location is not determined but the plan right now does plan for is it one or more pumping stations on eastside? >> it's likely itwould need to be more than one due to the amount of seawater needed on eastside . >> got it. and again, these would only be used as a backup to the potable water sources in the event of a really major fire incident? >> that's correct supervisor. >> got it. can you explain again why we

don't need that on the west side because i think this is one of the key sources of contention with the neighborhood advocates on the west side is that we also need to have that unlimited seawater available in major fire incidents which we know is coming up in the coming years. >> supervisor, the reason is because of late merced. lake merced provides the same backup the seawater does on eastside. if there was a lake merced on the east side would be we would be happy to go there first but there's not so latemerced with its large volumeprovides disability that if worst-case scenario , huge fire , post seismic , we have to use every good water source we