>> good evening this meeting will come to order welcome to the january 30 regular meeting of lands use and transportation committee of the san francisco board of supervisors i'm prierz melgar chair. joined by vice chair dean preston and president aaron

peskin. the clerk is erica major and i would like to acknowledge matthew at sfgovtv for staffing the meeting. >> the board of supervisors and committeeers convening hybrid meetings allowing in person attendance and public comment and public men via telephone. equal public access is essential and taking public comment. public comment will be taken on each item on this agenda. those in person will speaker first then move to the remet call in line. for those watching channel 26, 28, 78, 99 or sfgov.org you can seat public call in number on your screen. the number to call in is 415-554-0001. again, 415-554-0001.

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dr. carlton b. goodlett place room 244, san francisco, california 94102. items acted on today will be on the february 7th agenda unless otherwise stated. madam chair? >> thank you, call item one. >> item one is an ordinance amending the planning code allow night time entertainment as permitted use on properties fronting foalsom 7th and division street. in the folsom street commercial transit district the regional commercial and western so ma general district. and approving findsings. member who is wish to comment call 415-554-0001 access code: 2480 676 2073 ## thank you very

much clothes we continued this item. it sat for a bit we have madison here from supervisor dorsey's office. and if we don't we should take public comment on this. thank you. are there members when would like to speak on item one. approach the podium and we have 2 minutes those online if you have not, press star 3. welcome. >> thank you. i'm [inaudible] the executive director of the lbgtq+ cultural district and urge to you pass

this legislation. the night life venn use are the life blood of our district and they represented the safe space for our community for historically and today. our community was one point located on embarcadero and through police raids and development pushed to so ma. the folsom street fair was founded. zoning does not allow for any new night life venn use. essentially in most of so ma. and this legislation would amend that is allow our businesses to flourish and open in the neighborhood. and i urge you to pass the legislation.

thank you. public comment on this item is closed. >> i would make a motion we approve this with a positive recommendation and sends to the full board >> on that motion supervisor peskin. >> aye. >> supervisor preston. >> aye >> supervisor melgar. >> aye. >> you have 3 aye's >> that motion passes. call item 2. >> item 2 ordinance waiving specified requirement in the code to allow food space on a sidewalk bulb out on valencia curb side shared space subject to requirements and affirming promote findings. members who wish to provide comment on item 2 should call 415-554-0001, access code: 2480 676 2073 ##.

and if you have in the done so and would like to speak press star 3. >> thank you, madam clerk. we have [inaudible] from supervisor ronen's office. we also have robin a bad -- on the line as well as john from the city attorney who are available online to answer questions. so. thank you. >> thank you chair melgar and good afternoon supervisors preston and peskin. the item before you concerns 2 shared space parklet in district 9 operated by 2 loved establishments the [inaudible] restaurant at 546 valencia and blondies bar at 540 valencia. the neighboring parklets are located 16th and 7 on the volunteer street corridor on the

western side. the straupt operated by the mexican american family for over 50 years. blondies on valencia for over 30. both women lead small businesses have operatored before much of the gentification and changes to the valencia corridor and like many, bear low got by during the pandemic. did, with thankings to the city's shared spitz parklet program. issue it address system both businesses parklets are not on the curb side parking zone like their neighbors and are on a mid block sidewalk bulb out. this has been allowed during the temp refer pandemic program, this is in the permitted under the permanent shared spaces program. that is why this legislation is needed permit the parklet use on the sidewalks moving forward. the bulb out was nonoperational before the pandemic.

the bulb out is not in an intersection and the city never activate today for mid block crossing or other traffic or pedestrian designed to make it functional. on the other hand the parklets aif i canned to the bulb out are fully operational. and both of the establishments applyed be part of the permanent legislated shared space parklet program. thank you to robin and planning and public work for supports this and thank you for considering this item. i'm here for any questions. >> thank you. out of curiosity. what is happening on the other side of the street of the bulb out? >> it is in the has regular sidewalk businesses. >> thank you. >> any questions, colleagues.

go to public comment on this item. >> thank you, madam chair b are there member who is would like to speak on item 2? you have 2 minutes. >> and those online you can press star 3 if you have not done so already. hello. thank you supervisors and everyone for supports our businesses. here on have 11sia. i'm [inaudible] i'm leave my family with [inaudible] our family business for 50 years. my dad start today more than 50 years ago with us and taken it over and are operating now and hopeful low will sends it down to our third generation family members. we had to shut down for many years and the year in business we never encountered anything

like that and that was new to us. we did not know huwield open or how to shut down and how to open up again. we were able to figure that out. and make all the adjustments that were required by the city including inside you know the space program terse we had to get a pos system, which made us lose tables inside. when everything opened up and allowed serve outside, that was a blessing. another blessing and in our direction. and so it made a huge difference. our instruct with others along valencia and -- to have this shared space there, we have been around everaround for 50 years and provide jobs for community members and family member and people in the community over 5 years we have been there and appreciate everything this everyone has done to support us and to grant us this that will

help us our business here in the city with our community. thank you. that was the bell. >> thank you. >> good to see you. >> i'm nikki and my nom and eye opened blondie in 1991 it has been beneficial for our business and irrelevant hard to do business if you are a mall business owner in san francisco. it is incredible low hard. having the extra space outside helps out i bit and irrelevant makes a difference and we hope that you will agree to pass the legislation. thanks. >> thank you. >> thank you for your comments we will move to the remote call in line. it looks like we have one

listener. with no callers. again if you are listen and like to speak press star 3 that will indicate that to us. and -- it does in the electric like the listener wants to speak >> public comment is closed. i any questions or comments, colleagues? i'd like to propose we send this as a committee -- with positive recommendation to the full board. >> and on that motion supervisor peskin? >> aye. >> supervisor preston. >> aye. >> supervisor melgar. >> aye. >> you have 3 aye's >> that motion passes. >> madam clerk do we have anything else >> that concludes the agenda for today. >> we are adjourned. thank you.

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ability to pump water in a buildings that is on fire. >> a fire truck shows up and does what? >> the fire engine will pull up to the upon front of the building do, spotting the building. you get an engine in the area that is safe. firefighters then take the hose lyoning line it a hydrant and that give us an endsless supply of water. >> wow, cool. i don't see water, where does it come from and where does it go? >> the firefighters take a hose from the fire engine to the dry sand pipe and plug it in this inlet. they are able to adjust the pressure of water going in the inlet. to facilitate the pressure needed for any one of the floors on this building. firefighters take the hose bunked and he will take that

homes upon bundle to the floor the fire is on. plug it into similar to this an outlet and they have water to put the fire out. it is a cool system that we see in a lot of buildings. i personal low use federal on multiple fires in san francisco to safely put a fire out. >> i thought that was a great question that is cool of you to ask. have a great day and nice meeting you. >> thank you for letting us know what that is for. thanks, everybody for watching! bye! [music]

>> who doesn't love cable cars?

charging emissions and we're free which we're proud of you know, it's not much free left in the world anymore so we managed to do that through donations and through our gift shops. you got a real look and real appreciation of what early transit systems are like. this was the transit of the day from about 1875 to about 1893 or later, you know. cable car museum is free, come on in. take a day. come down. rediscover the city. you can spend as time you want and you don't have to make reservations and it's important to be free because we want them to develop a love for cable cars so they do continue to support whether they live here or other places and people come in and say, yes, i have passed by and heard of this and never come in and they always enjoy themselves. people love cable cars and there's none left in the world so if you want to ride a cable car, you've got to come to san francisco. that what makes the city. without the

cable cars, you lose part of that, you know, because people who come here and they love it and they love the history ask they can ride a cable car that has been running since 1888 or 1889. wow! that's something. can't do that with other historical museums. rarely, have i run into anybody from outside who didn't come in and didn't feel better from knowing something about the city. it's a true experience you'll remember. i hope they walk away with a greater appreciation for the history, with the mechanics with people are fascinated by the winding machine and i hope the appreciation, which is a part of our mission and these young kids will appreciate cable cars and the ones who live here and other places, they can make sure there will always be cable cars in san francisco because once they are gone, they are gone. it's the heartbeat of san francisco that founded the cable and the slot and without the cable cars, yeah, we would lose something in

san francisco. we would lose part of its heart and soul. it wouldn't be san francisco without cable cars. [bell ringing] >> it's great to see everyone kind of get together and prove, that you know, building our culture is something that can be reckoned with. >> i am desi, chair of economic development for soma filipinos. so that -- [ inaudible ] know that soma filipino exists, and it's also our economic platform, so we can start to

build filipino businesses so we can start to build the cultural district. >> i studied the bok chase choy heritage, and i discovered this awesome bok choy. working at i-market is amazing. you've got all these amazing people coming out here to share one culture. >> when i heard that there was a market with, like, a lot of filipino food, it was like oh, wow, that's the closest thing i've got to home, so, like, i'm going to try everything. >> fried rice, and wings, and

three different cliefz sliders. i haven't tried the adobe yet, but just smelling it yet brings back home and a ton of memories. >> the binca is made out of different ingredients, including cheese. but here, we put a twist on it. why not have nutella, rocky road, we have blue berry. we're not just limiting it to just the classic with salted egg and cheese. >> we try to cook food that you don't normally find from filipino food vendors, like the

lichon, for example. it's something that it took years to come up with, to perfect, to get the skin just right, the flavor, and it's one of our most popular dishes, and people love it. this, it's kind of me trying to chase a dream that i had for a long time. when i got tired of the corporate world, i decided that i wanted to give it a try and see if people would actually like our food. i think it's a wonderful opportunity for the filipino culture to shine. everybody keeps saying filipino food is the next big thing. i think it's already big, and to have all of us here together, it's just -- it just blows my mind sometimes that there's so many of us bringing -- bringing filipino food to the city finally. >> i'm alex, the owner of the

lumpia company. the food that i create is basically the filipino-american experience. i wasn't a chef to start with, but i literally love lumpia, but my food is my favorite foods i like to eat, put into my favorite filipino foods, put together. it's not based off of recipes i learned from my mom. maybe i learned the rolling technique from my mom, but the different things that i put in are just the different things that i like, and i like to think that i have good taste. well, the very first lumpia that i came out with that really build the lumpia -- it wasn't the poerk and shrimp shanghai, but my favorite thing after partying is that bakon

cheese burger lumpia. there was a time in our generation where we didn't have our own place, our own feed to eat. before, i used to promote filipino gatherings to share the love. now, i'm taking the most exciting filipino appetizer and sharing it with other filipinos. >> it can happen in the san francisco mint, it can happen in a park, it can happen in a street park, it can happen in a tech campus. it's basically where we bring the hardware, the culture, the operating system. >> so right now, i'm eating

something that brings me back to every filipino party from my childhood. it's really cool to be part of the community and reconnect with the neighborhood. >> one of our largest challenges in creating this cultural district when we compare ourselves to chinatown, japantown or little saigon, there's little communities there that act as place makers. when you enter into little philippines, you're like where are the businesses, and that's one of the challenges we're trying to solve.

>> undercover love wouldn't be possible without the help of the mayor and all of our community partnerships out there. it costs approximately $60,000 for every event. undiscovered is a great tool for the cultural district to bring awareness by bringing the best parts of our culture which is food, music, the arts and being ativism all under one roof, and by seeing it all in this way, what it allows san

franciscans to see is the dynamics of the filipino-american culture. i think in san francisco, we've kind of lost track of one of our values that makes san francisco unique with just empathy, love, of being acceptable of different people, the out liers, the crazy ones. we've become so focused onic maing money that we forgot about those that make our city and community unique. when people come to discover, i want them to rediscover the magic of what diversity and empathy can create. when you're positive and committed to using that energy,

january 24 meeting of the county transportation authority board. i'm rafael mandelman i serve as chair. melgar is our vice chair. i want to thank michael with sfgovtv our clerk is elijia saunders. will you call the roll y. commissioner chan. why present. why commissioner dorsey. >> present. why commissioner engardio. why present. why commissioner machine man. why present. why commissioner melgar. >> present.

where commissioner peskin. >> commissioner peskin in >> present. why commissioner preston. >> present. commissioner ronen. >> present. >> commissioner safai. >> present. >> commissioner stefani. >> present. >> commissioner walton. >> present. >> we have a quorum >> thank you. i believe you have a public comment announcement >> for the public interested in participates in the meeting we welcome your attendance in person and the which i am ber room 215 in city hall or cable channel 26 or 99 or stream it live on sfgovtv. for those wish to comment remotely dial 415-554-0001, acess code: 2483 810 3364 ##

when your 2 machines are up we go to the next caller. speak slowly, clearly and turn down vol um televisions or radios around you public comment first from the public in the chamber and then remote. >> thank you. >> as chair i invoke from rules of order to limit public comment to 30 machines i will give each commenter 2 minutes unless i indicate otherwise. for this item. with this, mr. clerk. call our next item y. chirp's report an informational item. why colleagues the new year surrounds way with a string of

burglar events if the central subway t third full opening where i attended and spoke with our vice chair peskin and our new vice chair melgar. to yesterday's golden gate event with nancy pel lose competence department of transportation secretary with mayor breed and several board members including steph no safai and melgar. thank our federal delegation and the biden administration for their decades of support for central subway and for the 2022 appropriation package included 400 million dollars for the golden gate bridge seismic retrofit project and 42 million dollars in grant funds for caltrain electrification from the federal transit administration. we want to thank our senators

feinstein for championing the yerba buena bridge grant the tw.2 million and federal highway administration funds to complete that funding plan. these projects are important for safe access, reliability and e mission's reductions on regional transportation system. with the historic rain and storm damage, i want to rescue noise and thank president biden and the govern for emergency declarations that will help our city rebuild and repair infrastructure from floods. a changing climate mean more severe storms and importance adaptation plan and investment as we look to the future. i hope the transportation authority can clan rit with sister agencies to strengthen effort in this your. also, we saw the governor's proposals to trim state transit transportation capitol funding program its lower budget submit.

i thank senator wiener for advocating for state maintain transit investment and find solutions to address our transoperation fiscal cliffs at mounty, bart and cal train. thank you to metro transportation commission and our rep to that body commissioner ronen for making bridge funding for bay transit agencies a transit priority. our agents recover ridership and ref mou. thank you for working with the state legislative delegation find a path forward. i did prosecute void an update on the annual meeting back in february feld in anaheim, california i should provide an update to this body since the t. a. helped funds that the theme

was advancing change. meetings focused on what can be done to support county governments e merging from the pandemic and facing challenges including the sluggish transit system cross the state and country. wildfire challenges. mental health and homeless challenges the implementation of care court ands host of other issues i attended the general session where membership voted on a new executive committee state and federal legislative and communication priorities. the conference i attended workshops and met with counterparts in other counties to discuss the state of transportation in their communities and other priors. i will say that folk hos participated in the state wide bodies are surprised to find san francisco participating. i think it is important this we make ourselves there although california is a very blue state we have many, many, many red

counties it is important for our san francisco and l.a.'s and other urban can coastal communities to show up for organizations are i'm glad i was there and thank the ta. and i or others and i and others should attends future c sac gatherings. and i will leave the leaving california cities for someone else. i want to thank also and recognize executive director trees mc mullen retiring through her work on behalf of the bay area as well as service to our nation as acting add administrator under the obama administration. we thank you, director mc mullen and wish you the best in an earned retirement. with that, i will conclude my remarks i don't see my colleagues interested in

questions or commenting i appreciate. and -- we should open this to public comment if there is anyone in the chamber when feels compelled to comment on my chair support come forward. i don't see anyone. see if we have remote comment on the chair's report. why checking for remote comment on item 2. special dlm is no public comment. >> all right. public comment is close period we can move on. mr. clerk call item 3. >> item 3 approve the minutes of january 10, 23 meeting. this is an action item y. don't see comments. take public comment on the minutes. if anyone in the chamber has comment in forward. do we have remote comment on item 3? there will is in public comment. >> is there a motion to approve the minutes item 3?

why moved boy melgar. a second? by dorsey. mr. clerk the roll. >> commissioner chan. >> aye. >> american dorsey. >> aye. >> commissioner engardio. >> aye. why commissioner machine man. >> aye. why commissioner melgar. >> aye. >> commissioner peskin. >> aye. >> commissioner preston. >> aye. >> commissioner ronen. >> aye. >> commissioner safai. >> aye. >> commissioner stefani. >> aye. why commissioner walton. >> aye >> there are lefrn aye's it is approved. >> thank you. call consent agenda items 4-6. staff is not plan to present on these but available for questions. >> thank you. is there a motion to approve the consent agenda? moved by preston. a second by ronen. mr. clerk call the roll. why commission charge.

>> aye. >> commissioner dorsey. >> aye >> commissioner engardio. >> aye >> commissioner machine man. >> aye. >> commissioner melgar. >> aye. >> commissioner peskin. >> aye. >> commissioner preston. >> aye. >> commissioner ronen. >> aye. why commissioner safai. >> aye. >> commissioner stefani. >> aye. >> commissioner walon. >> aye. >> there are 11 aye's consent is approved. >> thank you. call item 7. >> item upon 7 final pattern allocate 190 in prospect k with conditions to the san francisco municipal transportation agency for slow and skyline improvements this it is an action item >> commissioner melgar. you wants to hear the presentation. you was not aware you were doing another presentation y. go through it quick if you like.

>> sure. >> okay we have the one request this morning which was continued from the december sixth meeting a remindser this grant was done from design for the significant untilization of the skyline intersection. 1.2 million dollars earmarked for construction. and since the december meeting transportation authority and sfmta staff met with commissioner melgar and engardio to provide details. sfmta staff explained factors to recommend the proposed design rather then and there a full redesign. cal trans guidance and future traffic. funding availability and time constraints to get it going before the great highway exception closure for the organization beach adaptation project. we have a graphic of the locations of signal.

we have sfmta staff on the line as well. >> thank you. commissioner melgar p. >> the way you said it was different then and there what mta said to me. >> which is what why i asked for a continuance to this. i thought i was okay and the way that you just articulate today makes me nervous again. if you could put this slide back up. this we know what we are talking b. this intersection you see is a hot mess. it is very wide. on the left corner bottom left of is the parking lot. the excess park lot for the zoo which is empty 95% of the time. then during christmas there is -- christmas tree lot or whatever. and -- so for the last 2 years i have been working with mta,

there were 2 designs one to put a traffic circle in the middle and one to straight 10 out and do a t intersection. this intersection will be really stressed witness we close the great highway south of the zoo. because traffic from 280 will get redirected to get off on 19th avenue make a left and around the lake. and so and go so -- this is going to be stressed. with cars turning rit to go on sunset to get up to district 1. and so -- had i was worried side that we will put up light and call it a day. and so after i met with tom mc guire and the staff they assured mow that was not the case. we were not abandoning the t intersection design which was approved boy cal tran but an

interim step you know because with a closure of the great highway will happen this coming year we need that to protect the coast. that's what i understood. in you were presentation you said this was going to be it. that's not hi had understood. >> i have no information on future -- designs for this your. you did in the money to put you on the spot. this is was why. really important it me and that's why i had asked to be held. men we can hear from the mt ah that is the assurance i got we were not abandoning when we have the fund to do reconfiguring would buy us a bunch of allow you to regain a bunch land top do something else. may be affordable housing. it it is a wide intersection that needs reconfiguring. >> let's hear from mta?

or mr. homes, bring mta. you have a concerned vice chair. upon vice chair melgar is correct in conversations with her. regarding the solution, it was clear as to the urgency of the [inaudible] over the the intersection, [inaudible] correctly characterize third degree area will be stressed. the south is closed. we get a preview of that already because just a couple weeks ago that new roadway was closed doo to erosion. she is correct this was the best solution we could do in the time

that we have to mitigate the upon occurrence. it is not the end of us look at this intersection and making improvements. certainly we have a couple of quick builds this will be be connecting. this are on the way. and it is not the ends as you put t. i think we are trying to characterize here is the urgency of doing improve ams here in time before the roadway is closed south of slope. >> all right. >> vice chair melgar is reassured. i guess, though, it would be noise to have an alignment with our ta staff understanding of the path forward and hamta is telling our supervisor melgar and vice chair melgar.

i don't know if t. a. if -- yes. >> chair mandelman and vice chair melgar, yes. we are in alignment. i had a similar meeting with tom mc guire. >> all right. commissioner engardio. >> when i was presented with the situation it was explained we needed it up as soon as possible to mitigate the december closing this was not the ends of the story thank you, commissioner melgar for raising this issue. >> members of the t. a. will look forward to hearing more about the work done at that intersection. thank you, mr. pickford and open this up to public comment if there is anyone who would like to come forward? don't see anyoneful is there remote ment on item 7.

checking for remote comment on item 7 -- caller, your 2 minutes begins now. this is maggie valentine i'm calling as a concerned citizen [inaudible] on skyline and [inaudible] i support this intersection improvement because i had so many almost near death experience crossing the street there. and it is for years i feel like not much has been done. i'm hopeful to see something to make a change happen there. and there is a lot of family go there and elder low who use the crosswalk as well. [inaudible]. >> thank you, caller.

thereupon is no approximate more public comment. >> public ment is closed. vice chair melgar. why chair mandelman i would like to make a request for staff to continue to work with the mta. and the puc. and it just to make sure that as we progress and looking at the designs and further steps agenda everbeyond this step we are all in alignment. thank you. >> nodding from t. a. staff. is there a motion to approve item 7? >> moved by melgar. a second? >> by dorsey. call the roll. >> commissioner chan. >> aye. >> commissioner dorsey. >> aye. why commissioner engardio. why aye. why commissioner mandelman. >> aye. >> commissioner melgar. >> aye. >> commissioner peskin. >> aye. >> commissioner preston. >> aye. >> commissioner ronen. >> aye. >> commissioner safai.

>> aye. >> commissioner test neil. >> aye. why commissioner walton. >> aye. well are are 11 ayes. call item 8 >> final approval on first appearance adopt 22 annual report an action item >> executive director chang. >> good morning. my pleasure to present our highlights from 2022. the annual report. as you recall we have several irrelevants. >> are you supposed to show the slide. these are various roles funding. agency which is learning low a planning and coordination and also has funding and the project delivery roles we have as well. snapshot from the planning side starts with long range county

wide transportation plan thank you for approving this and this is a companion as to all of the products of the connect sf long range planning program with sfmta and planning this included streets and freeway strategy it go with the transit strategy delivered earlier in the year. going become to april we held hearing and presented our jfk access study. this we had i busy year at the california puc providing comment on a number of issues relating to motional regulated by puc and continues. and foible low we supported link 21 which is transbay rail planning lead by bart and capitol corridor. going forward, we continue to focus implementation of the plan 2050. as well as completing school access study that was then

requested by the commissioner mar and has city interest and i number of planning studies from broorth hood way to the bayview study and geary 19th subway study by vice chair melgar. the next slide is a shot of the neighborhood program which it is very much a product of your leadership and staff coordination. thank you for your support left year on the left are planning studies. and the prior year and many of which will come for approval this year. the right other capitol projects that are in various stages of design and construction. major project delivery highlights includes the once here and many others. it was a very exciting year we saw decades long and long-term projects come to fruition from the vaness brt to the central subway tunnel had 2 top openings

with the presidio trust and cal tranls the first electric train set in the bay area. bart for powell street station modernization a set of improvements there and many other grafit activityy last year. fund and programming lead lie our deputy for policy and programming and her team allocated 56 million dollars in prospect k. really it is including other funding coordinated around the prospect ks we do the leveraging whether other funds sources we manage. prop aor d the congestion the tax. it amounts to a bit of funded administration. we got 800 million dollars in open prop circumstance guarantee and monitor the sales tax rising as the city recovers to bring the benefits to the public. last

year we had the wonderful will result of prop l passing i want it thank vice chair mandelman for your leadership approximate many others on the board. of the whole board and the community certainly the plan committee that worked hard and dillien low and staff supported by many others at the t. a. 72% was broad based we are happy to see there was support and we are grateful to voters for this and continue now this year to implement the prop l plan and hear an item later this morning about the early activities from michelle. the funding in 2022 were many. there was not only the approval of the prop well program but directed millions of other funds we managed shown on the left side including funds for bart

elevator attendance. this is important to folk and it made a difference to the users of the bart stations downtown. and 20 million in prop a avoter approved vehicle registration funds. as well as 53 million dollars of 1 bay area grant program this is a huge postfunds we hope will be then flow to projects the next 4 years thank you for the approval of those. as well as the support for west side bridges. moving to 2023, you will see that the focus is on the big projects such as bart and muni core capacity projects. these are fleet expansion and train control systems caltrain and electrification and dun town extension of cal trin now known as the perral. thank you to the chair who serves on the trans bay upon joint powerhouse authority it over see that project i will in become in a moment.

left year we held hearings here at the transportation authority. on the economic recovery activities of sfmta, muni and bart. we held capitol projects items on caltrain electrification and brt. and better market street. vision zero met several times we held hearingos that and will do so this year. other topics i'm aware of interest on the board to discuss include the transis operations and funding fiscal cliff. not only in san francisco but happening state wide. and in the region. accelerated discussion happening because of the again, funding,

the traffic and the congestion and climate issues that topic can address. so we do propose to bring that this year and tnc and am vehicle continuing regulation. and the irrelevant this we play locally part of the state and federal process to develop a useful framework. thank you you to you the board and supervisor peskin for the legislation that it was adopted at the board of supervisors which was the first autonomous vehicle statement from the board. capitol projects the focus will be on the major mile stone expected for the downtown extension. headed to a mobile home in the sumtory apply for major federal funds through fta new starts program. we continue to help offer support in roleos mtc and bay

area quality management district and the bart and caltrain golden gate bridge district for those serving on this body. thank you. why turning to to the project deliver. we have been long time coordinator and supporters and partners the sponsor sfmta for their major project and bart and caltrain. this year i think we will be spending i bit of time cell brit and doing opening and ground breakos yerba buena. department carl homes has been working with tida and city partners opening the south gate road project. red to go. and open to the public soon. as well as break ground on west side bridges project the 115 million dollars infrastructure project connecting travelers from the bay bridge down to treasure island. [speaking fast] the core

capacity programs light rail vehicle delivery under way at mta the potrero yard rebodies we heard about in december and other projects lead boy public works and caltrain. >> downtown extension is our most important major capitol project folk ulgsed this year as well as the largest project single project in the prop l plan. we have been supporting the multiagency team and partnership and expect to bring another update as well as funding requests from tjpa next month. we have been coordinating with high speed rail and hope that will be brought forward in the coming months as we need to continue to strengthen funding for this project which did come out with a new project cost sxf

delivery strategy. look forward to this and ator board next month. >> turning to the muni fleet program. this statute status you see so men of the now vehicles cross the types of new vehicle float are delivered including with the support from this agency previous i think the lrv was the largest allocation from the prop circumstance program. a few years ago 131 million dollars. last year the money for purchase of paratransitit vehicles and other hi bred shuttles. active transportation and vision zero last year. thank you for holding hearingos vision zero to keep the focus how to improve the delivery of protected bike ways and active transportation facilities. we moved 13 million for those types of projects including

embarcadero and many quick builds on the high injury network now has a now mapful thank you to public health and mta for developing this. and we have fasill uts at evans avenue and other places around the city high your network. 1300 bike racks. thank you to commissioners vice chair melgar and commissioner walton for sitting on air district which it is around important partner for delivery of projects for e biking. and then we seen pedestrian safety projects the buchanan maland sickle al men competence balboa plaza is a prior for commissioners safai and melgar. the delivery of traffic safety and system management projects. street constructions and major street redesigns all overwhelm

mission geneva. taylor. howard and curb ramp signals around town of thank you to you and staff for leadership to keep the focus on the small and important neighborhood level improvements this are going to help save lives. >> on traffic congestion mitigation the prom d program this front we put those toward the quick build projects to boft the capacity we are help to see nel rising. this is again 3 penalty 25% de feo on roadway hill trip in san francisco. and our agency programs and allocates the traffic safety portion the sfmta takes half of funds for municipal and he improvements. tell be important to continue to monitor and actively piment in the rule making process at the puc and dmv as we see

acceleration of permitting of commercial passenger service including [inaudible] we commented on yesterday together with city per ins at titail. again happy to bring more updates to you all as the process continue this is year. on the prop aa vehicle registration fee. these are 5 million dollars of funds knowualy you all fund you will see we completed lighting projects in western edition or some of those western edition pedestrian lighting project and oakdale lighting that was great to see. it is a need city twhoid is a funds source available. and the 29 sunset improve am projects phase one that is the western north/south lake of sunset the [inaudible] the transportation funds for clone air.

air district funds 4 dollars per vehicle gone to bicycle parking and emergency roadway home and to alternative fuel taxicab incentives and early express service at bart and emergency ride home. electric challengering we are funding but has been challenges to even accessing the electricity. that we need for chargers. we will machine torthis. audit and financing continued. we got another clean audits and win fifth year of excellence award from the organizations. and aaa rating this was great the sales tax bondses which are done administer with sfmta on

the receiving end of the bond revenues. we continue it machine torthe needs to draw down the revolver to keep up with those reimbursements the over all agency, our racial equity continued making sure public out roach is at a high level and ensuring contracting upon opportunity are promoted. and in the region and on the hiring side we updated job descriptions to renew qualifications. workforce excellenceful thank mar raand cynthia are if the smooth reopening of the agency and transition of staff and board process through the past year and going forward we come become in person more. we conducted saul row surveys

and hired key staff. we are pleased we have a full team to continue to implement prop l and other w we are doing. i appreciate this we did receive honors and recognitions the agency will i thank them and appreciate them. we were named agency of the year from american council of engineering and got the equity champion aworried it is nice thank you to the near cal conference of minority transportation officials for this. and i was named person of theier from the california transportation fundsation none of that happens with moiz a11 i want to hand it to staff without whom we would not do this great w and you and your staff deserve thanks and grad tude. thank you very much to our sponsors and the consultants who help us do the work he were at the t. a. i'm happy as well the community

add sunrise we mittee they dot work monthly and we do appreciate all of their support and advice throughout the year. thank you. thank you for actual of your work this left i don't remember and to your team. i wanted say thank you for your humility and competence. you are so inspiring in terms of leadership and also just sort of the like you are lifting very heavy. i'm grateful that you are there. thank you to staff for being a pleasure to work with. and all of your kudos and achievements professional low are well earned. thank you. why thank you very much. proernlt this. >> thank you. >> let's open this item to

public comment. if there is anyone who would like to come forward and talk about item 8. and if not see if we have remote comment on item 8. i'm [inaudible] she and her. autonomous vehicles don't discrim nit. and i am intrigued and encouraged about downtown

extension. [inaudible] we have a similar project in new york city called grand central madison opening tomorrow. it is 8 track under ground terminal. check it out that could be a temptlet of what ours looks like hope we get this open a lot of good things i'm seeing we can do with prospect l. muni work. and i heard cents roll subway i did roadway there over the weekend. it was engiable the elvirts cope up with those i have a fear of escalators you in. trying to work on. i like the fact we have an aspirational program here. electric vehicle charging is important. i think best in the to drive car in san francisco. people should they should be

electric and places for people to charge there are so many who live in apartments and [inaudible]. and lots of bikes [inaudible]. are thank you, caller. caller, your 2 minutes begins now. good morning. this is bari toronto. excellent presentation. by director chan. i'm -- want to concerned about the mention. mention of a taxi. and now that you have machine freprop l great to increase for the taxi drivers who have a huge commitment in the program. so they buy new vehicles.

that you buy the big mans provide actual machiney for buying for supporting the purchase of new veterans they are getting olds or they manageal issues become greater and more expensive. they put them out of service they are the spare vans available at the cab companies. what you do is -- provide subsidies so well is a spare vehicle at the cab company that where they operate. so i appreciate the supervisor director chan who takes taxis and helps support them more with the funding visible through her agency. thank you very much for your time. also autonomous vehicleers a problem you need a program penalty program for blocking traffic. it is a major program.

in the everything is upon reported. thank you. >> thank you, caller. >> there is no more public comment. why public comment on item 8 is closed. is there a motion to approve item 8? >> moved by walton. a second? seconded by dorse. and mr. clerk? commissioner chan. >> aye. >> commissioner dorsey. >> aye. >> commissioner engardio. why aye. why commissioner mandelman. >> aye. >> commissioner melgar. >> aye >> commissioner peskin. >> air. >> commissioner preston. >> aye. why commissioner ronen >> aye. >> commissioner safai. >> aye. why commissioner steph no. >> aye. why commissioner walton. >> aye. >> there are lefrn aye's, motion is, proved. item 9 community based transportation plan update an

informational item. >> thank you. and i believe we have jay pan her employs i'm going to pull up my slides. transportation authority release the community based transportation plan. in 2020. the plan was per commissioner peskin's request referred by the improvement project lead by rec and park department. the plan is for the transportation circumstantial ligz long the park andan likewise the new park design and also prioritize the

transportation solutions to improve pedestrian safety and modernize ad a facilities the perimeter of the park working with the choina town community. the improve am project lead by rec and park department is actually complete park renovation project which is currently under the detail design and [inaudible] review. rec and park [inaudible] plan its open construction in winter of 23-24 and start construction in 24-26. based on the recommended transportation solutions, and the prioritized by the china town community. transportation authority wing close low with rec and park department top impelementation of the transportation solutions for of the park.

especially to for safety and access improvements for people wing on the park this shows the garagent row and exist improvements on kearney. design is proposed by mta and incorporateed rec and park department. so, on the garagent row and areas there will be curb extensions to shorten pedestrian krszing distance with one vehiclent row lane and exit lane. also there will be a dedicated left turn lane on kearney street for meritists entering and existing the garage. there will be now landscape and signage in the your to provide walking space for pedestrians on the sidewalk and also guidance for motorists entering the

garage. the plan the design has been reviewd and supported boy port smith plaza parking corporation board. rec and park they are going to install all new ad a compliant

curb run and sidewalk along the perimeter of the p and also [inaudible] will be applied to the existing curb r.s actually nondirect crosswalks for people who have vision impairments. reshg and park will conduct a street upgrade work and repaving work water [inaudible]. including the transportation improvements for pedestrian safety and access to the park. i mentioned previously. a new crosswalk will be built at clay and water intersection to provide better connection for the new building on the northwest corner of intersection to the p. pedestrian lights will be installed on walter in the park and also the [inaudible] in the park at entrance and exit yours. shown here the small [inaudible] the pedestrian lights along water [inaudible] the small [inaudible] are the [inaudible] in the park and also the [inaudible] the existing street lights around the park. >> i mentioned the transportation improvement on water [inaudible] will be per low -- [inaudible] the project -- improvements will be founded by the state [inaudible] and the cost be over 1 million

dollars and the improvements will be partly funded by 1 million from teams fong and other transportation improvements by others with scour boy rec and park department. with this i can answer questions and we have mr. [inaudible] project manager, beverly and deputy director of policy and public affairs from rec and park for questions available. >> thank you. >> thank you. >> commissioner peskin. i have finished my presentation. thank you. why thank you. >> commissioner peskin. thank you chair mandelman and the t. a. staff for this under

take and thank you to the t, staff for the report this was done years ago this lead to the kearney street pedestrian safety improvements at the sfmta has now implemented in large part significant untils at jackson and at clay and -- at the pacific -- which have been quite effective -- and this builds upon that. i wanted to also acknowledge the members of the china town community who have -- been working with ta staff and rec and p and my office and gently reminds other interested parties from north beach that this is china town's show and -- while efforts may be well meaning that

the supervisor is going to follow the lead of the china town community and china town trip relating to improvements. i want to join t. a staff in thanking our assembly member does in the represent this district for his successful efforts providing more money above and beyond had the voters provided in bond financing for this and this is a complicated project. this is -- a garage on top of one of san francisco's original 3 parks. as people are aware and as this board and most members previously voted t. is connected boy a concrete bridge. to the -- once was -- holiday in now hilton cross the street approximate this bridge is going

to -- be removed which will turn utility to the park. and i wanted use this opportunity because i have been trying to conduct meetings between the various agencies ranging from dpw to rec and park to the mta ask mr. leafy, i know that -- we have been waiting for [inaudible] cost break downs from rec approximate p and i understand this it is over a million dollars but i wanted to use this opportunity to find out where rec and park is on the cost estimates? >> mr. levy. >> good morning. supervisors i'm noah levy project manager with rec and park department. will regarding the cost mates for the walt or improve ams, we have done estimates all inclusive for those improvements

this jalyn mentioned the raised crosswalk. new walks and planting. new asphalt and paving the slew of improve ams estimated those to be 1 million dollars >> that is -- that with order of manage tude is helpful and mr. levelef who i we have you here. i got covid the second time in 2 months. as relating to the bridge, i saw in online publication halooked like reasonedering how the park side of kearney street but the private side of kearney on the

investors hilton property would look like i had not seen those do you know where than i came from? those were exhibits in the draft eir deteriorate in the january of 22. this is in the the final plans we are working with the hilton to figure out haare the final plans there likely will be a work width planning department for final permit approval for what -- the other improve ams with bridge removal. so -- those are a bit out dated

but from the 2022eir. thank you it has been a long time since i looked at the final environmental impact report. i will state for the record no city funds or public upon monies from the bond or member ting can or will be spent on private property i want today state this for the record. i endeavour with rpd and dp w and the city attorney to resolve the bridge removal matter i'm optimistic will be resolved to everyone's satisfaction or lack therefore soon. and thank you mr. levy for your w on this matter. and i have in further questions other then and there to mention to exit say this with kindness

to staff that is i was going through the power point online yesterday. the only orientation of the plans in different pictures or some -- iterations kearney strept is on the right and some at the top on some the bottom. it would be helpful for the vower if they were all in the same direction. >> thank you for tolerating me. thank you. commissioner peskin. are there further comments from board members? >> seeing none open this item to public comment. anyone had would like to talk you to about item 9, seeing no one. see if there is remote comment on item 9.

hi, caller your 2 minutes begins now >> i'm maggie dawn. wanted to show support for the transportation improvement that has been in the works from the [inaudible] 2018 and i then and there was done separate low but this is an important upon lead to implement improvements. there is a lot of foot traffic. in this historic ports smith square. so i wanted call and show support and we hope to see this happen. thank you. >> thank you, caller. hi. caller your 2 minutes begins now. >> hi. i'm amy i'm a senior planner at

choina town wellness center speaking on behalf for better park and recreation. thank you for the presentation you gave you to being my speaking points. i wanted dmaul to support the transportation safety improvements [inaudible] will the [inaudible] [cannot understand speaker] the vision the result of decade's worth of community engagement and new studies, plan and design the park improvements sprit low from transportation but obviously it is related in the thought of the general [inaudible] of the area. the walt are improvement include the crosswalk and pedestrian lighting provide greater accessibility and safety. and for all [inaudible].

support of the community based transportation plan and thank you for your work and look forward to continuing our work with rec and park >> thank you. caller. there is no more public comment. >> public comment on item 9 is closed. thanks again were for your w on this. thank you commissioner peskin for your work as well and -- let's call our next item >> 10. prop l implementation prop an informational item. >> michelle. >> good morning chair and americans i'm michelle here to talk about our approach to the impelement of prop l. and i want to echo the remarks to everyone thank you to

everyone who supported probable l it passed with 72% of the vote and extends the existing helpful cent sales tax and establishes a new plan alcohol be effective as of april first. now we have to roll up sleeves and begin transition to implementing the new measure. of. prospect well directs 2.6 billion dollars over 30 years to transportation improve punishments city ouied and neighborhood scale. there are 5 major categories in the plan you see here like transit, maintenance and streets and freeways. and within the categories are programs. there are 28 total programs cross the 5 categories. the plan includes details about the kindses of projects this are eligible for funding. and identifies the eligible

project experiences like the sfmta, bart, public ws and transportation authority. it does in the establish the individual projects. a lot of the programs in prospect l are more to prospect k there are now programs as well. so i'm not going to read the slide. it gives you a sense of the 28 programs. i will flip through a few that illustrate the investment types eligible. first set of prospects are major transit projects design today make system ouied improvements to ease crowding and improve reliability. the funds suggest critical to trek approximate leverage state and federal funding for projects. transit upon mince and enhance ams like prop k. the learningest per of the prospect suspicion.

bart and mount and he ferries are eli didn't believe for reper se and up grid and funds enhancements. transit operation bunkham prop l dedicates more paratransitis than k did. streets and freeway this is it is a big category with broad eligibility will continue it invest in street safety for all road users. the upon types of projects eligible are bike safety. and signs. the plan and reconnect communities where freeways cut through. foiblely we have transportation system development and

management program which has a handful of programs within it that will be given by transportation authority. this includes the successful nishgd transportation program we heard an example of. and credit a new equity priority transportation program and new development oriented transportation program. in this way prospect well bumps up funding for nishgd and community planning seek to set up pipe lines of projects for implementation with prop well funding leveraging other funds. for each of the 28 prospects the plan tells us the projects we funds expect which can receive the funding but does in the list the protects to be funded. how much money is visible for each program over 30 combroers allows you to advance funds to support timely delivery of a project benefits to the

community. in short the expenditure plan sets up the book ends for the sales tax program and includes >> reporter:s huwe administer the program we will talk about 2 requirements the strategic plan and 5 year prioritization program. these are tools the board is required adopt before we are able to bring you allocations for prop well. >> what is the strategy plan the main tool uses for daily implementation. provides transparency how we administer the sales tax programs. and it service as a key financial planning to the for the measure. and there are 3 compossibly in thes plan. the inch if is establishes the policies for the administration of the measure. established the sales tax ref now forecast for the 30 years

and look at revenue forecast included in the proposition and may make revisions to this forecast based on the best available data. and finally includes expenditures including the cost to administer the program. but funding for projects. including debt this may be required to advance project deliver. faster than pay as you go with support. >> who i the strategic plan sets the picture. the 5 ip p's focus on the projects that will be funded the next 5 years of the program this . is just a by the sized picture of increment of the 30 year program known no one can know what a specific project will be for in the future the 5 ip p's updated every 5 year over the course of the measure. enables transparency about how the projects are funded. gives the board and public town

top provide input early. and had the board adopts them it creates programming commitments for specific projects. the multiyear project lists credit a steady pipeline of projects enables sponsors to plan ahead and facilitates ability to secure matching funds. when the individual projects are red it advance, they come become to the board for allocation of funds. the 5 ip p include more than a lives projects to be funded they also include information about the press used to select those projects. and includes brief scope, schedule, budget, cost and funding plans. and also includes performance measure this is can be used to inform future [inaudible].

>> i mentioned important per of the documents is guidance on how to select projects use prioritization criteria come are here they are required by the plan to be used for every one of the 28 programs. we used most of these before for prop k. i wanted highlight the plan committee provided feed become on the last 2. reflect the importance of community support and equity considerations to the public. the committee. and can also add additional criptoryia it each program. motorbike different for different programs for the safer and complete streets we motive want to consider whether a project is on the high injury network. i'm going to pull together the prior slides.

it is an process. so first we establish the strategy baseline determines how much funds is available for each program by year this is setting the sales tax budget for each of the 28 programs. we oyst projects. for the next 5 years. collect information from the board and cac and public engage export use the criteria to identify those projects. then we analyze the financial information. so how much sales paks tax funds requested. and when are they requested for. and to make sure it is fits within the program budgets. this is request from experiences to advance funds to accelerate project deliver.

we put this in our strategic plan financial model. that will help estimate financing can have thes. and prosecute void this information become at this time project sponsors to see and see if there is more money visible for programs or if had we are where the program is within the fwhj is step 3 and the board can adopt the final strategic plan [inaudible]. so speaking of advancing funds we have 2 major projects we know already are going to request significant advancement of funds due to near term mile stones. first the caltrain downtown rail extension seek 3.3 billion dollars from the transit administration and need to dem strit they have secured matching

funds and need to demonstrate that by august of this year. so the tjpa needs to know how much sales tax funding is rib and when we convert the year of dollars because the expenditure plan is [inaudible]. that's the first the bart core capacity program. than i have an option on their vehicle condition transact that will need to be executed in july in order to avoid a gap in the production line. bart is working with mtc and cannot upon are costa and us to help funds had option. so the board can, prove the acceleration of the funds for the projects but also attach conditions to the funds. so n. past board has approved conditions like upon full funding groement or adding oversight requirements.

last but in the least i have a few on out reach approach. our goal to ensure we have inclusive planning for all of the work. won't want to provide an opportunity for folks to weigh in on the project priors themselves and also on the policies to guide the administration of the program. and our i will mention our committee made it clear it is important to the success of the plan that we have an inclusive process. here are a few tools i will not read out that we plan to use to support the planning process. few of them we would tloik have i targeted equity rounds table and provide an opportunity for the plan add sunrise we committee members to come together in an optional meeting and broader efforts such as virtual town hall and surveys. we are target action in john for

the strategic plan. we acknowledge we may to extend past then. prop l effective april first the board can only approve prop circumstance allocations through the end of march before the board can approve prop l allocations we need the, proved plan. there will have to be a puz in sales tax allocations until the documents are approved. but the first prospect l allocations can be made with the approval of the strategic plan. we have given the experience head's up beg your pardon this likely freeze to facilitate transition to prospect well this . is a tight schedule but want to minimize that because in allocations to the except we k. we know possible some of the 5 ip p for some of the 28 programs mitake more time to develop and so this schedule allows for it to pill in fall where we can

amend the strategic plan to reflect final 5 ip p's. if a program has an approved 5 ip p the board can allocate funds from the program even others are not done yet. you will see a lot of us over the next month. we will bring this presentation it our ca c tomorrow. next month we will bring an information item on the plan base line and guidance before we seek approval in march. and then we are targeting that june approval to begin the process of approving five in the strategic plan. you can get more information about the plan at our website and condition tact us at prop l. and that concludes my presentation if you have questions. >> vice chair melgar. >> thank you for the presentationing that is grit i

like you have ambitiously accelerated plans. i was wondering if the prospect circumstance funds are all spoken for our sales tax ref now is higher than we had. but i wrndz am wondering if that is the case? >> thank you. thank you for the question, commissioner melgar. the we have a lot of prospect k requests nawe will be presenting to the board next month. in particular for the neighborhood program to ensure that the neighborhood based funds suggest allocated and this program will reset i year early under prospect well. we are w to get the funds allocated. there are certain category this is have funds remaining. there are category this is have

funds this are already fully allocate exclude there are some category this is by end of merchandise will be fully allocated. it varies. thank you. and seeing no further comments or questions to this open to public comments anyone in the chamber? . do we have remote comment on item 10? 2 machines begins you in. thank you will chair machine man show and her. [inaudible]ing its a good plan [inaudible]. paratransitit is essential. make sure we do this. i don't questions of law foil for paratransitit but i have been some who do i want that

equity per is taken care of. i think there should be a transit and shared transportation protocol. everything is snuff should buy or should use decarbonization such as electricity and hydrogen. in the construction of projects emphasize that. such as construction equipment. that does not use diesel. recycling. hydrogen and electricity. i do want to see the downtown extension finished this would be

a big help. because i see greater connectivity especially the transbay buses. and the bart is essential. i ride better a bit and i'm in the getting on the cars often i want to make sure they keep coming. so, equity and ensuring in the probable well everything we do keep in mind the diversity of the community. people like myself whom have disabilities and are differentment to make surety dollars are spent to benefit the most people and i'm one had [inaudible]. your time is lapsed. thank you. >> thank you, caller. there is no more public comment. >> okay. public comment on item 10 is closed. thank you. and we will look forward to following the prop l

impelevenation activities this year. mr. clerk. upon call item 11. >> item 11 introduction of new items an information item. >> i don't see anyone popping up on the roster. so. call item 12. >> public comment which we received one has been posted to the website. >> are there members in the chamber headline like to address the board on a matter of general interest in see if we have remote general public comment. >> checking for remote public comment. caller, your 2 minutes begins now. good morning, [inaudible] san jose thank you for the opportunity. i would like to touch on the letter in your packet not intended discourage the outstanding progress director

chang and the team made moving the dtx forward in any way. the issue at stake is a project that designed by tjpa specific low the cost, impacts on soma and muni. and the [inaudible] am as designed the transit center would in the be able to accommodate 2 high speed rails let alone a future extension. that is the bad news. the good new system this the change from 3 electronic its 2 is a game changer. we have people who know how to deliver a 1 and a half mile, 2 track tunnel on time and on budget for 238 million dollars. and in closing. my recommendation is to revise the government's model approved by the board left we're.

keep the accountable for the project and the transfer is responsibility for delivery to a per inship from consisting of the -- study and muni and dpw. thank you. >> thank you, caller. >> hi. your 2 minutes begins now. >> thank you. . i appreciate your approximate [inaudible] speak general low. good meeting today. i come with a broad based perspective. i ask this you uphold the tradition of hearing the public. of remember in a reason meeting i heard about limited comments to 30 minutes. i, sure you had i spoke i'm not trying to keep you from your lunch or watching your next

favorite episodes of strolling on television. but the same limit comment then this means we pick and chose. i might be shoved to the side because i'm different of i ask you hear the voices of all who choose to engage with you on the issues of sudden fran transportation. am i enjoy san francisco transportation. i really liked my short roadway on the central subway over the weekends. i would like to do that more and you have helped make that happen and the work with clipper and i have met several of your staff members. who have been very welcoming to me. and to share excuse me a baked something. how things make san francisco a transportation better. >> i don't think that i know i

never met any of you men. i hope to be back in the room son and you see what i electric like as a person who is different. and even though i'm not like you i impress with any agency to be willing to accept and include those who are different from you. i ask you in the have favorite constituency advocate for san francisco transportation that welcomes everyone. >> thank you, caller. hi, caller your 2 minutes begins now. >> good morning i'm eric i'm with [inaudible] district and the lifetime residence devenlt mission. discussing the kregz of transportation plan that is rotted in [inaudible] equity for the mission district. similar to portola

transportation plan, bay vow and visitation valley. we have a fee project piecemealed in the mission. . and creating confusion and creating safety issues. plan make streets safer and inclusive of all we look forward to working with everybody. thank you. >> thank you. the prop well funding you include the pair transit coordinating cubs through the sfmta.

of the ma is being presented. so appreciate you taking the time to roach out to the paratransit counsel i believe than i have a meeting tomorrow morning. thank you very much. and have a great day. >> thank you, caller. hi. caller your 2 minutes begins now. >> i'm maref a mission resident last night at a meeting about the new project mtaments to do putting lanes down the middle of valence why. we had suffer through the red lane and other whims this mta inflicted on the mission. i wish this we had a comprehensive transportation plan that is similar to had they have now in the bay vow and choina town. we need to stop piecemealing and experimenting on the mission and

have something this is truly comprehensive and something tht neighborhoodments. thank you very much. why thank you. caller. there is no more public comment. why all right. public comment on item 12 is closed. mr. clerk call the next item y. adjournment. >> we are adjourned.

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the people are nice. >> it is a place where it embraces all walks of life and different cultures. so this is the soul of the tenderloin. it's really welcoming. the. >> the tenderloin is so full of color and so full of people. so with all of us being together and making it feel very safe is challenging, but we are working on it and we are getting there.

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association every year. and before the lion dance you might have heard master wong, entering the city hall. is also a beautiful chinese instrument and we are happy to have david wong and line dance to kickoff our celebration. get them a round of applause. now i like to say a few word in chinese. [speaking chinese] [applause]

good evening i'm claudine chang pedestrian heritage foundation the heritage month in may is our priority, throughout the years we always look for know opportunity and special occasions where communities are coming together. and this evening is one of those occasions. at the beginning of this year, we are all so very excited welcome the now year. this january is spchl we have 2 new years to celebrate aside from the regular january first, lunar new year is early this year. we would be excited 2 bragzs throughout the whole among. however, before long, we found ourselves saddened by one tragic

news after another. whether the loss of life from monterey park to half moon bay and more recently in memphis. it did in the matter had the victims were the color of their skins there was loss of life approximate affected all of us. >> we pause during the lunar new year celebrations to pay tribute to the victims to remember all those who lost loved ones. we pause to think about what can we do as a community, as a city, as a state, as a country; to address all the issues that surfaced in the first 20 days of the new year. and we paused to think about heeling how we can better come together. it irrelevant has been a very sombering 2 weeks.

however, we are here tonight and together tonight because i believe all feel we must carry on. we must carry on and celebrate as a community. i remember the first day of lunar now year where we were chinese of chamber's event, and there was the day after the tragedy in monterey park took place. i vivid low remember mayor breed's words reflecting am the tragedy and our mayor said, this is the time the community should get together. this is i time where we need to treat each other with mercy, with kindness and love. mercy, kindness and love. that is the spirit of this evening's celebration, we thank the mayor and the city officials are bringing us here and without further adue, welcome mayor

london breed. [applause]. >> good evening, everyone. i must say, that it feels so good to be here. and it feel it is good to be here because not only do we have a packed house but we have so many people from so many different places around san francisco, around the bay area and around the world. i want to start by thanking claudine chang for her words and reminding us of challenge this is persist in our country. but also highlighting how we continue to come together. we continue to come together to support andup lift one another in san francisco because we know

that although the tragedies have occurred and although we know that there was losdz of life and sadness. we also recognize the significant cans of the resiliencey of the various communities who have been faced with various changes. i applaud our diversity and strength and how we come together and celebrate lieutenant area new year today in city hall. we celebrate black history month on friday in city hall. come together toup lift one another, that is a part of why san francisco is so spchl i want to thank claudine for her work and bringing a community together and thank my cohosts for the celebration. including people you will hear from later carmen chew. our city attorney daved chui.

our public defender. our sheriff paul miyamoto and connie chan, thank you to leaders for being hosts tonight to celebrate ap i heritage in san francisco through lunar new year. [applause] >> now i know upon it is the year of the rabbit, which represents kindness and mercy. and my hope is had as we celebrate the year of the rabbit and for those who are in our vietnamese community the year of the cat, we remember the trait and how we work together and how we do things here in the city and county of san francisco. when you talk about togetherness i want to take this opportunity to appreciate our chief of protocol mir miriam and the

council core people who represent the world including our counsel general from china the philippines, japan and singapore being, indonesia and korea can you stand. thank you for your work and partnership in san francisco. san francisco has amazing sister staechs i want to acknowledge those manila and seoul can you please, stands the chairs of our sister city committees. mrauz so many amazing people who care about the community located in various parts of san francisco but how they connect to the rest of the world. san francisco and our asian community has a rich history.

the so ma with the filipino community. japantown a known japantown. or events we celebrate in china town and especially our lunar new year parade. san francisco brought together the communities and traditions over the years to make sure we never forget the tradition and huwe celebrate and support one another. i want to thank all of you and appreciate the chinese association. the chinese chamber and the various members of our asian communities who show up and to celebrate and come together during the challenging times. as well as our elected lead and department head and officials. tonight, it it is irrelevant a celebration. and it started with lion dance me. because the challenges of the world what we are not -- what we

should not do is allow it to dampen our spirits. to dampen our opportunity to celebrate. to come together. and to uplift. tonight you will see various performances from a number of people. you will have various uplifting speeches. you will see elected officials what it boils down to is the despite our difference, we still come together to celebrate one another and culture and history and togetherness. on behalf of the city and county of san francisco, thank you all for being here and i want to take one quick opportunity carmen chu will acknowledge the elected leaders later on today. i wanted congratulate and thank our treasurer fiona ma for the state of california. thank you for your service and the work you do and for joining us tonight. and thank you, everyone for being here to celebrate.

[applause]. >> all right. i do have another responsibility today. again i want to thank everyone for being here and at this time to complete the program and introduce our various elected leaders and officials is -- oh . i thought you said introduce carmen chu. >> at this time according to claudine i am going to ask the members of the councillor corps to come forward so we can take a photo with me and other elected officials part of our host committee. thank you.

>> thank you, mayor breed and members of the councillor core. notice a very special performance for you from the students from gordon jay lou elementary. let's go golden jay lou! [applause]... ... ...

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[applause] another round for gordon jlau elementary school! [applause] i don't know about you, we are sitting there i was next to our city attorney and threatening he will do a routine. a dance routine. i can't wait until he puts on bunny ear and does hopping around. we are waiting for this, david.

hello i'm carmen chu and i'm pleased to be here today. seems like the celebration grows skoal many people are here. feels like we are multiplying like rabbits! that will be the only joke i will tell. i do want to a very happy new year to everybody here. it has been a challenging time as many of you know the past few week and seen this in communities. and really the reason why events like this are so important and why i thank our mayor london breed for hosting the heritage event and making sure that she brings us together is it is know tounlt for us to recognize the diversity in our city and how special that makes san francisco. thank mayor breed and all of the folk who is helped to coordinate this. claudine chang we could not do this without her help. lion dance me and other when is

came together for this. i want to say, happy new year to everybody. [speaking chinese] [applause] i will recognize some wonderful guest hos share their time with us today. before i do that i want to invite my cohost to come up, of course we brought our city attorney we want to hear from our sheriff paul miyamoto. public defend are mano raju and connie chan, please, come on up. >> happy new year, everybody!

so, i am the audience i think of that -- san francisco we often have said we are truly the asian-american capitol of our country. this is an event that show cases it as we do every year. i want to thank you for being part of the incredible per of our culture, history and our community of activism. and it it is true during this lunar new year season, this has been a challenging time. but as our mayor said and city add administrator said, in the year of the rabbit this is i time where we will leap xup stands for peace and prosperity and moving on to hopism thank you for that. the last thing i say is carmen did mention we were ways persian gulf as the performances were happening i want to say, that i heard a recent joke about lounar

new year that only in san francisco could the following people walk in a bar. the japanese-american sheriff, the indian public defender. your chinese city attorney and our chinese elected officials because represent the world. i will tell thank you next year mano raju and sheriff are dawn what costumes to dance with the kids. i'm committing that now. if my fellow electives will join he. i will turn it over to supervisor connie chan wrochl it is grit to be here. i'm honored to be one of the 2 members of the board of supervisors representing the chinese-american and ap i community. i obviously am one sdpt the other is chinese supervisor

representing china town, aaron peskin board president. and we are so glad to be be all of you here today and honor to be part of this effect. i must say i had the honor and privilege this last thursday to visit the white house where president biden hosted the pifrpt historic lunar new year celebration at the white house. i'm grateful to represent all of you. to join that event. i have to say, madam mayor you should be very proud. i say that united states, we, in city hall of san francisco; have a glorious dome, better lion dance and better community gathering in this place and should all be proud about that. better than the white house i'm a witness to that.

>> in awe seriousness, i am grateful to see that you know, having our mayor, having our colleagues here together, just bringing everyone together beyond the ap i community bum the communities of color come together to celebrate each other. and to thank our foreign partners from over access the asian communities joining the asian-american communities in san francisco and the bay area to come together at the end of the day, we say that this it is our culture together that we want to celebrate together. thank you for joining us and i'm honored to be with you here today. thank you and here is our sheriff, paul miyamoto. >> good evening. everyone i'm -- very happy to be here. this is a celebration for the lunar new year, year of the

rabbit. i want to point out i was called out to wear rabbit years for next year. every year when we have the parade the lunar new year parade i make it a point to perform and participate with the lion dance team and carry a dragon head i challenge to you come with me on the parade route and take part in our lion dance team. which represents sfpd, sheriff, different law enforcement agencies. i want to take a mobile home when we speak about the lunar new year of the rabbit, signifying kindness, patience and responsibility is our responsibility in law enforcement to keep people safe. and as mentioned by the mayor and others, we stand here in celebration during a time with mixed emotions as we celebrate together and truly together we do this. there have been instances which

affect us together. hate and instances of transgender deal and i want to make sure we reassure everyone, public safety the police department and sheriff's office; we are as frustrated with the behaviors we have seen. i want to reassure all of you in the communities that we are one here with everyone. our responsibility to protect people and defend people against dang and harm. our responsibility this is we don't take lightly and hope to hold and perform with high standardses of integrity and he honor. have you that come myself, chief scott and awful us in law enforcement in san francisco and stand with you in sharing the pain we saw together. we stands with you in keeping us all safe in celebration as we move forward tonight and the days to come and protect everyone in san francisco.

thank you. [applause] one of our partners in the justice system and public safety and public defender mano raju. >> thank you. sheriff, happy new year. you know as a defense attorney the thing i think about is often timeless the best defense is good offense when we whispered the city attorney you got called out by our city add administrator and of course hearing that, city attorney got here first and called us out observe we got a chance to responded. you know -- my first legal internship in san francisco was at the asian caucus in the civil right's division we worked on bringing together communities

and rounds tables to facilitate collective understanding. last weekend, i was at the beautiful event in the bayview y, which was celebrating lunar new year and african-american history month. and black history month. when is caused me to think about even though i know with the events a lot of communities are going through trauma and a lot of the trauma is upon generational, we also in this country and the city have a tremendous amount of inter~ generational resilience. events like this and last saturday are that kind of demonstrate that. every time i come to city events like this and see that i'm reminded of the resilience and the beauty in the city and excited celebrate this new year with all of you so thank you so much.

[applause]. thank you very much to everyone. i will ask them to stay up i like to invite all of our elected officials to come up and i will say your name come up. as i mention you. our treasurer of the state fiona ma. >> bill ching. jose cisneros. brook jenkins. nancy pelosi. gavin newsome and supervisor aaron pes pechls supervisor mandelman. supervisor walton. supervisor engardio. supervisor dorse. gent lamb, a lita fisher. lisa weissman ward. have i got everybody? recorder joaquin torres. now college trustees come on up. now you are probably wondering

my goodness are all of the folks going to say something. what can they say? but we are not going to do that we will do a big group picture and group chant. okay. all of you electives up here say, our greetings can you say [speak chinese] that was not good enough, louder. [speaking chinese]. carmen is the best. kidding happy new year, everybody! [applause] [applause]

>> now a very special treat for you. our dancer from indonesia, it will be a special treat.

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>> let's give i round of

applause. thank you for this performance. every year we are trying to feature different performance. if you are interested to participate next year let us know. >> and now -- um -- we have a couple of community speakers with us. representatives from the chinese consolidated organization and representatives from the chinese chamber of commerce. please, join me. together they are over 2 huh human years old the longest standing organizations in san francisco china town. and we like to invite the presiding president of the chinese benest lan association president to give you new year

greetings. [speaking chinese]. [applause] [speaking chinese].

thank you and next we have the president of chinese chamber of commerce. [speak chinese] >> thank you. [speak chinese] madam mayor. thank you for hosting this event. every year. every year is better and bigger. congratulations. and member representatives of

asian-american from asia, thank you for being her to celebrate lounar new year with us. greetings. emyear of the rabbit or cat for you many blessings. at the chinese chamber of commerce set brills now year we reminded of the tragedy in monterey park and i'm sorry. in half moon bay. asian communities throughout the state. again condolences to the victim families, may they be comforted and find peace. i will go back to history of the choin ease new year parade in the 1860s chinese american started lunar new year to show case our traditional and our people and the culture against a

challenging back drop. fast forward it today we as a community are facing challenges. most reasonable antiasian hate and the challenges recovering from the pandemic. from this humble beginning the parade is the largest event in the region and the biggest chinese new year parade outside of asia. it is part of upon also part of the asian-american community parade. it is part of the fabric of the city. and asian-american in san francisco pride. this celebration is the most significant economic evenly for china town bringing a third of the annual ref now to china town. also to the surrounding neighborhoods. with the opening the central subway we are hopeful that more

people will attend the parade through the new subway stations and more individualors throughout the year. this year i'm happy to announce that -- coming saturday this weekend we have in the street fair 100 vendors and in the parade we have over 120 units 26 of them will be sold. 5 will be community and this year we have more community than ever before. finally, mayor, i am and law enforcement chief -- sheriff, thank you for very encouraging word about additional security for the upcoming winninged parade. thank you, mayor, thank you. [applause].

>> we are not following this we are getting out of the script a bill madam mayor would you like to join us we have a special presentation and like to invite the volunteers that have participate al perez the produces the show. and commissioner al perez. thomas li. and kevin chan, please, join us. mayor. new year -- [inaudible]. [applause] make surety city is

blessed with good fortunes the know grand final welcome back sing here for us before. floora will sing 2 songs to sends us off and here she is. [applause]. hi. everyone. how is everyone doing? doing good? i like to wish everyone happy new year. i'm grateful to be here at the mayor's lounar new year celebration. it is my honor to sing for you tonight. because it is the new year i want to share with you a chinese song called [speaking chinese]

music, please. [music] [singing] clap your

hands. there we go! [music] [singing] thank you.

everyone having a good night?

time to have a dance move am here are you ready to dance! yea. i would love for you all to stand if you may. and let's get this dance party started. this it is i want to dance with somebody. here we go. of [music] [singing] [music]

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