>> look at all of these beautiful people. before we get started, i just want to get a shout out to all our women. [cheers and applause]. women's history month, we've got to represent. hello i'm dr. llena miller. i'm a third generation san franciscan. and i am the ceo and cofounder along with the fabulous bayron wilson of urban alkamy. who is urban al chamy. we're 400 strong through here and portland.

the time is catching on all across this country. over 90% of our staff were either formerly incarcerated or experienced homelessness, over 90% are black and people of color. and our practitioners are dedicated to using their character, courage and emotional intelligence to improve the lives of people they serve every day here in san francisco. we are creating jobs, more importantly a career path for people who now have a different role in society. we are creating peace so that some of the most vulnerable people in our city, no longer have to suffer a wild west type of environment. we help people in crisis get connected to service sxz support and we intervene if somebody is asking in a threatening way if kids are walk to go school and disabled

and elderly walk the street in the streets. and for knows who live in the tenderloin, you know what we are talking about. we literally save lives in overdoses, we have done about 800 overdose reversals, that's 800 people here because of these women and men standing behind me. that's something that you never read about in the newspapers. we pickup trash, we pickup needles, we clean toilets, we provide showers, we staff the sip hotels when nobody else would and we're still staffing some of the most innovative models are saying, which many are saying what are you guys doing down there? we need to do something. these men and women who you see

behind me, the beginning of a revolution of how we provide social services, and it's time. because it's been stagnant for about 50 years. we're here today at this oasis, how many remember what this used to look like just three years ago? i'm not going to say it because i don't want any weird sound bites but you know what i'm talking about. i think this is symbolic of what we're working for every day, to create a change in this city. it's been two months, mayor breed you said, enough is enough for this bull shit. and that resonated with everybody because everybody felt it in their heart, i know you took a lot for it but it needed to be safe. urban space is for and by the community we work hand and land

in the tenderloin community to build this space, we serve coffee, tea and water in the morning, a dog park over there because so many people have animals but there are not any dog parks. so it's a place for the community to gather. this is what the men and women of urban alcamy put together a love letter to the community. so today we're here to celebrate and to embrace a new model for public safety. san francisco has always been a bedrock of creativity and innovation. that was for the music, we look at tech, and now we're looking at social services. things are changing. things are shaking up. our city leaders have answered the call, to help build a new and needed model for public safety. a creative model that provides

inclusion and opportunities for folks who traditionally have been counted out but who we know have been part of the important solution. this model is providing a blueprint that other cities are start to go follow and implement. this model is designed and being implemented by those who are most impacted. it recognizes the people who have been closest to the problems and closest to the solutions. we know that not every issue or emergency requires police response. sometimes people just need to be patient to talk to them provide advance deescalation and connecting to services. let police work to prevent and intervene in people committing crimes. that's what they want to do. that's what they're trained to do. society as used them as a de fault for everything, but now it's time to resolve. we have heard it across the

country, we need another model. our mayor, our police chief have been brave enough to say we're going to try something new. we heard all over the country, we need another model, right here is where it started. right now, urban alcamy is the largest community base public safety in this country and it started here. because these leaders were brave enough to do something different. and it has not been easy, we know there is been a lot of criticism and stuff like that but it's changing the reality for the people who live in this community. we have eyes and ears on the streets. so people think twice before doing something that they shouldn't be doing. or people there who are intervening and talking to them before a situation gets out of control, we made it safer for families and kids to walk to school, for businesses to operate, for people to just

walk down the street. i remember when we first, when we first cleared the street, there was a man who walked out and you can tell he was struggling with some mental issues he came out and started dancing. dancing, and singing, i can walk down the street, i don't think people who don't live here really don't realize how serious that that is or how it's been. i want to talk this opportunity now to thank my partner, my coo mr. wilson. this is the man who makes it happen every day. i get up here and say speeches but this is the man who is doing all the work. i want to thank, artie lou, jeff, because they designed this program. [applause] these are the men who designed this program.

not a bunch of social workers or politicians or whoever else sitting somewhere and doing it, this men designed this program it came from them. and i want to make sure that i thank the city for really believing in us and having the courage to do something different and stand with the community to create a new model for the rest of the country to follow about how to improve public safety and outcomes for people. it's easy for people to criticize those who try something new. jimmy hendrix, got criticized. prince got criticized, you name it, jesus christ, anybody who did something new and innovated, gets trashed. this is not easy, it is hard. but we got to do something different. and we are not going to bow down in the face of criticism

when you talk about changing the lives and outcomes for so many people. with that, i want to thank and i want to introduce a woman who i look up to, who i've watched grow and who i really admire and hope to be like one day. mayor breed, thank you. [cheers and applause] >> mayor london breed: thank you, thank you to urban alcamy. i'm filled with so much emotion here today because so many of the people that are joining us are people that i've interacted with at one capacity or another. whether it's something that i grew up or somebody i saw go through hard times. i know why people say that san francisco is a place of opportunity. a place of second chances, a

place of hope and an opportunity to turn your life around to have a better future. and that's what today is about. because the fact is, the city with all of its open and all of its possibilities, it's also a political city. and politics are being played at some of the worse levels that i've ever seen. you know, the fact is, i know there are a lot of people that don't like that there is a black woman that grew up in the projects and is the mayor of san francisco. [applause] and so you often times have people and not just two years in the projects over 20 plus, we know what it's like to live in hopelessness and despair and the drama that comes with that. so i come from experience of living in that, and seeing the

lack of opportunities for people that i grew up with. why do i say all of this in light of what we came here to talk about today? because there are not many programs that actually when they talk about a second chance, when they talk about an opportunity for somebody, they talk about it. they aren't about it. they don't do what urban alcamy does every single day. you can walk the streets and you say, help me, and urban alcamy says here i go, what can i do. every supervisor should be falling all over themselves to make sure that the contract gets extended so we don't have to layoff all of these people who put their lives on the line every single day to protect the tenderloin community. people have been stabbed in you

areurban alcamy and they still show up as alternative to police station to this community. every day. so i want to thank the board of supervisors who are actually joining us today and who believe in this program and have been strong advocate for public safety in san francisco including supervisor matt dorsey, longgorio, and sadly the supervisor of tenderloin is not here today and that's a problem. but we're not going to let that stop us what we're going to do. here's the thing, at the end of day, who does not want to walk down the street and feel safe. a lot of folks from hunters point live here now, people who

immigranted from other countries looking for a better life and opportunity. there are a lot of people who choose the tenderloin for hope, to start a new business, to work a new job, to get treatment and turn their life around to do something that will lead to something better. that's what the tenderloin represents. and when i hear the stories, when i hear the stories about my own friend who was gunned down in the tender line, trying to stop folks from selling dope down the block where he has become clean. where they're trying to look out for the community. when i hear about the stories about the mom who what was attacked in front of her six-year-old son and left for dead. about the merchant who is giving back to the community and her window is broken time and time again. why is that okay for that to

happen in the tenderloin? it's not. and i know that a lot of people have their philosophies about police officers and this city has developed a lot of measures to policing, our street crisis response team, ambassadors including urban alcamy, we appreciate that. but at the end of the day, if you get hit upside the head you're going to need a police officer to come and deal with the situation like that. if your son is gunned down and killed in the city, you want justice and that requires a police not only responding to the call but the investigation and the work to make sure that the perpetrator of that crime is brought to justice! [applause] all of this goes hand and hand. safety is struggling in this

city and especially in this community. and people have taken over in a way that has pushed a lot of fear. because i know living in the community filled with violence, i know how scary it can be. when you know when you know who is doing the crime, but you're scared to be the one to stand up against it because you're life is on the line because you've got to live here every day. you've got to live here and work here, i get that there is fear. and so guess what? i'm not afraid, i'm not afraid to stand up against what is happening in the tenderloin. i'm not afraid to a pos the advocates who are constantly opposing the policies that will help around safety but they don't live here. they don't work here. they don't understand growing up and being forced to be a

part of this experience. they don't understand it. but i know many of the people joining us here today is because you feel it and understand it and you have to live through it every single day and that is not okay. and that's why we're here. because i'm fighting for this city. no one is going to push me out of the city that i was born and raised it. nobody is going to stop me for standing up for what i believe in. because i was that person that was afraid growing up, worried about what might happen to my family. going to too many funerals. this is not okay, i get an alert every day about some sort of assault in the tenderloin, somebody was shot or something was killed or somebody was stabbed or somebody was beaten. we have to change this. if not now, then when? so the reason why we're here

with so many of our various coalition so you can hear them about their experience the tenderloin coalition, the china town khaim chinese chamber of commerce, china town merchants association and benevolent association in china town, so many groups saying enough is enough. we care about public safety. we don't want to see our grandmas knocked down and beat down. we have to do better and protect them. and better means we have to make changes. there are four things that i am here to push for. and i want the board of the members of supervisors who sadly are saying no to these things, who sadly are being obstructionist, who sadly will not even calendar the items to give it a chance to be heard in the public, that we need this.

we need you to be better than that. we need you to put politics aside and think about the people's lives. what if were you? what if you had no other choice? that's what today is about. we have no other choice. we need change. so the first thing i'm asking the board of supervisors to do, stop playing games with the urbanalcamy contract and pass it. stop playing games with these people he's lives who are out here. the same people who claim and believe in second chances, but when it come to urban alcamy all of a sudden, they got amnesia about what they said. that's number one. the other thing that we're asking the board of supervisors to do is approve calendar and approve the budget supplemental

that will allow the city and county of san francisco to cover the costs of basic police service. we are short 541 cops and we're feeling it. because as i said, it's not just about showing up in the arrest it's also about the investigation. we wonder why we need police officers to do that. to maintain our basic staffing levels. if the board of supervisors does not calendar or rejects this 27 million dollars supplemental, then you think it's challenging to get police officers in this community now, it will be virtually impossible and you think that our city is unsafe, it will be terrible for the city and county of san francisco, absolutely terrible. the other part, the other part

of that is also the support for ambassadors. so right now, that the facts that this is not even calendar means we have to freeze all hiring. we have to freeze hiring for police, we have to freeze hiring for ambassadors so we need their support. we need it to be heard. we need 8 votes at the board of supervisors. there is a lot of work that goes into this. and what we're looking for today is your help and your support and your understanding as to why this is so critical. we need change. especially in the tenderloin and the last thing i want to also say is it includes additional resources for our district attorney to specifically prosecutor fentanyl drug dealers. [applause] now i'm sympathetic to the fact that some people, you know,

feel as though they have do what they have to do to make a living. but when we have less than 3% unemployment, we'll hire anywhere to hire almost anything legitimately. so there is no excuse for what we have to endure, because we saw more people at the height of the covid pandemic die interest fentanyl than we did for covid, and we shut the downtown for covid. what does that tell you? we have work to do. we have work to do in the city. and that's why we came to the tend ir loin today. often times we're trying to do this work and people are like what are you doing? what are you doing? and stuff happens at city hall and you're like, how did that happen. i'm going to tell you, if these things don't go through, you'll know how it happened.

we have to put on the pressure of supervisors minus the four that are cosponsored rafael mannedleman is not with us today. the future of the city depends on it and safety of the community depends on it. and we want to thank you for today for being advocate and most importantly for putting your lives on the line to make sure that people are safe and protected, because i know it's not easy, walking up on somebody even though you know they have a weapon, asking them not to stand in front of a playground. i know it's not easy when you have somebody in mental illness and you're trying to get them help but then they're sitting in nr own feces. we appreciate that you're hanging and helping us. it's time to change the city and we're hopeful that the board will have compassion. i'm praying, i am praying that they see the light and they see

the need and they see the understanding of what this community is going through. and they have compassion and understanding. and that they do the right thing and push aside the politics, the future of the city depends on it and again we're grateful for all of you who are joining us today and with that, i want to introduce our district attorney brooke jenkins. >> we love you, mayor london breed. we love you. >> good morning, everybody, when i took over just 8 months ago, i started off my speech at my swearing in saying that the tenderloin would be one of my priorities, one of my top priorities. that a eradicating the drug situation we have in san francisco would be the number one priority. it remains the number one priority, that has not changed. i am here today to advocate for

this supplemental budget. as a part of that, as you just heard, my office is in desperate need of additional prosecutors. thankful to the san francisco police who have done everything to make sure that the arrest are increasing in this very neighborhood regarding drug dealing. that has lead to almost a double increase in the amount of case that's we filed. almost double, the same time period of last year with the previous d.a. i should not have to take prosecutors off of murder cases, i should not have to take prosecutors off vicious assaults in order to staff these cases. that's why i'm standing here asking for you to advocate and push for my office to get these additional resource that's we need in order to make sure that the drug dealers in the city

are held accountable as they should be. [applause] as i've gone around the city and met with community members, i have yet to hear one community that says, we feel safe. i have yet to say to hear one community that says we don't want police. i hear the office, we don't feel safe, we need greater police presence, we need to you do more district attorney than what the last one did. but in order to make that happen, we need this supplemental budget. we need the support of everyone in san francisco to make sure that every single neighborhood has the resourced it needs from the police department so that my office can do what it needs to serve every single community, not just the ones

that we believe deserve it, every single community. as a mother of two small children, i owe it to the mothers of this community not to have to drag their babies through drug dealing to take their children to school. i owe it to the mothers in this community, to make sure that their sons and daughters don't die of overdose because those are not throw away lives. those are human beings. those are human beings that need our protection as lawsuit. law enforcement. and if they can't save themselves, we need to step up. it requires the arrest of these people who are selling deadly poison to some of our most vulnerable on the street. that's why i will continue to stand with this community and continue to fight for communities like the mission, like bay view who are suffering through some of the same issues

where drug dealing has spiraled out of control, they deserve a police officer present also. they deserve my office to make sure that accountability is fair across the board. i will stand with you, at all times to make sure that this community improves and na it's not the safe haven for criminal activity. and so again, thank you for your support. i'm going to turn it over to chief scott who has been a tremendous support and somebody who is equally educated in making these streets safer. >> good morning, district attorney jenkins and mayor breed. community, community, that is what this is about. when i look behind me, i am encouraged that tenderloin is a

very challenging area and it's been that way for decades. i cannot tell you how many times i heard from many of the people standing behind me that we've had enough. i cannot tell you how many times i've heard from officers, we need help. i cannot tell you how many times and how many conversations i've had with people like dr. miller who said work with us, we can do this together. that's what community is about. as i look behind me and around this circle, i'm excited. i'm excited because there is hope. things are changing, things are changing and we need to sustain that effort. when we talked about drug dealing, gun violence when we talk about assault and some of the things that have been mentioned by the mayor and district attorney, that's our job as police officers to take care of those problems.

we have to have the people to do it. anybody running an organization at 75% will tell you that that is challenge. our workload analysis, that's where we are at. by proposition e that the board supervisors says that we need 2182 officers. as i stand here today, we have about 1600. you do the math. the only way, the only way that we temporary bridge that gap is through overtime. and we need the funding, that is what the supplemental is all about. now let me tell you how the money is being spent. i've heard so many, so many

criticisms about you're dumping all the money in the tenderloin and union square to people who have money. i would argue with that. the majority of that overtime has been spent back filling stations, the ten district stations all across the city, that impacts all the community. that is where the majority of the overtime will go. yes the tenderloin is a challenge and we have committed to providing the resource to see had this community to address problems that have been here for decades, we cannot accept to continue the status quo. we cannot accept it. [applause] complaints about union square, let me tell you something. the embarrassment that we saw in november of 2021, put a black eye in the city that will take us years to erase. but i will tell you this, this

past holiday season, things were different. i heard it from hundreds of people, things were different, there was a different feel, people felt safe when they came to our city or the people that live in the city, when they came to our shopping corridor to see shop because we invested the resources to make sure that that happen. that's how we change this black eye of what this city is seeing. people who live here, they know this is a great city. but people that don't, what they see is news articles about people getting assaulted, news articles about needles in people's arm in every corner and you know and i know that that is not true. but that's the image that is is being portrayed. and we provide resource to see sustain what we're seeing in the tenderloin right now. i have hope, i have hope.

it's an investment. it's an investment not only in public safety but it's an investment of hope because we have to change that narrative and we as is of san franciscans we need to write our own narrative about a city that knows how, a city that is bold enough to take risk even when somebody says, that's a crazy idea, because you know what, how many people copy what we do here in san francisco. [applause] let's be bold. let's do what we need to do. let's make sure that san francisco changes the narrative. and let me tell you one other thing before i close about hope. this police station is about 500 police short. here's what gives me hope.

we have doubled the number of applications 3 months or 2 months into the year than we did last year. we've had almost 1,000 applications since november. which is a tremendous up tick from where we were in 2021, that gives me hope. because people are seeing, i believe, that the city leaders are willing to invest in this police department and the policing component of public safety in this city and they're serious about it. that gives me hope. people are seeing that we're willing to work with dr. miller at urban alcamy to do something differently and people are seeing that this can be really really good because the outcomes of what we have done are positive. people are seeing that i can come to san francisco and shop. people are seeing that when i

go to lumbar, i'm going to see police officers there. we still have challenges. let me be clear about that. these problems did not happen overnight, they will not be solved overnight. but we have a commitment that we're going to do what we need to do. that's why we need your support. that's why we need your commitment and that's why we need everybody to do their part to work together to make these problems better. so thank you, mayor breed and now i will introduce supervisor matt dordey. [applause] >> thank you so much chief scott, thank you mayor breed. you know, it's still a little weird to be here with chief scott who, just a little over a year ago, i talked to him about i said chief i want you to know i'm going to consider asking

mayor breed to appoint me to her board of supervisors and the reason i wanted to do that is not because i had the resume but because of my recovery from drug addiction to consider me for this role for a job that i never thought i would want let alone want. when i look at the possibilities about the city, when i city the people struggling with substance use disorder on our streets, i see human beings, that's what mayor breed saw, when she gave the bull shit speech. human beings, people struggle with substance use disorders we're seeing. and i make no apologies that i am fighting for the lives of drug addicts and not the livelihoods of drug dealers.

i make no apology for it. let me just say, we have a police staffing shortage in san francisco. and one number that chief scott left out is that 500 of the police officers we have, are eligible for retirement right now. we have a lot of public safety challenges that we need to solve and we're not going to make much progress solving anything if we can't solve our police hiring and under staffing crisis and that start with this. we need this budget supplemental, i urge my colleagues to support it, i urge all of you to put the heat on city hall and understand that this is necessary but not sufficient because the next thing we have to do is bring in more cops. this is a world class city that deserves a fully staffed police department and we've got to get to work on it. thank you so much.

and now, i want to introduce my colleague, joe longardio. >> good evening everyone, i i'm joe longorai, i want to talk about the sunset, from golden park to daily city, 32,00 thousands. on my given night, there is 7 police officers for 32,000 people. to would be lower if not for the overtime. just four years, we've lost half of our police officers serving the sunset station. it's vital that we pass this funding supplement so we can do

the base line support for our police officers. and it's not just about the money, the last police academy only had 12 graduates. and the current academy are 8. we have a shortage of over 500 officers. so yes, we need more resources, and we need to pay a competitive wage and retain police officers but we need to know. our police department has implemented 90% of reformed, it's honorable to be a police officer in san francisco today. we need to tell people that so people are willing to apply. our city leaders need to support our police department, because it's what our residents want, the residents in the sunset want public safety, they want more police officer. we just had a cadalltic theft

and the owner came out and he was shot at in the sunset. we need to support the police department and we need to fund what they need so residents can feel safe, thank you. [applause] >> hi everyone i'm catherine stefani, i'm the district 2 supervisor for the west side of san francisco. and i want to say thank you for everyone for being hered. --here today. i want to thank the mayor, you have my vote. thank you for creating safer streets and we need more of it and to chief scott, thank you, thank you, thank you for continuing to persevere under very hard times in san francisco. you know, i want to say i'm also a mother, i have an

18-year-old son and 13-year-old daughter and sometimes they say things that i don't understand. like that's fire, and i'm like, what does that mean, cool. and they say things like you're so basic, okay is that a bad thing? i'm so basic but when i think about public safety as a san francisco city supervisor, public safety is the basic foundation of all of it! and if we are not doing everything we can to make sure everyone in the city all crime victims feel safe, then we are failing san francisco and we are failing all of those who visit and all those who live here. right now, in southern station, which is the station that covers most of district 2, we are 50 officers short and that plays out in many different ways. all our neighborhoods are suffering and i don't know a colleague of mine who have not

asked chief scott or the command staff for more officers in their district because something is going wrong that requires a police officer. and in district 2, i'm sure you heard about the pal of fine arts, iconic place in san francisco, a tourist destination that we advertise all over the world and yet if you go to the palace of fine art for your wedding photos is your photographer is going to get held point. and i'm not kidding, that happened nearly four times recently. and also 82-year-old was walking to his daughter's house in the middle of daylight and jumped by six people, they beat him up and took his watch. i went to his house and his black and blue and nose broken and he said why?

i had no answers for him. my answer is we continue everything we can for public safety. the fact that we're almost 600 officers short, i don't understand why people that translates into we don't have the enough officers, the investigationing and everything we do. and this formula to come up to determine how much police officers we need, what is this? the voters agreed to, the board of supervisors has agreed to it, and the police commission has agreed to it. and based on the 911 calls, we're close to 600 officers short and that tells me we better dam well do something about it. we only had 12 people in the last graduating class, we make sure that we fund overtime so

we have officers out there to do the basics, keep san franciscans safe. i am proud to support this supplemental, people need to feel safe, it's a basic right it is it's the foundation of everything. we talked about downtown recovery, we talk about converting commercial do residential. we talk about all of these ideas but you know what everybody says, clean and safe. that is the foundation of everything. and this supplemental is so important and i'm tired of playing politics with public safety. it's time we put an end to that. at this point, i want to introduce the people from the community that tell us their experience and i want to hear from hareland wong and oslina, a small business owner in the tenderloin. thank you again everybody for being here. [applause]

>> in the last six and a half months that i lived in tenderloin i have been caught in two cross fires, three break in attempt while when i was working inside at 8:00 am. and one public murder with drug dealers using machete all at front. i came to this country for a better life twenty years ago. i have been running my business for 12 years and still considered a low income business owner in san francisco. i pay multitude of taxes, permit and ridiculous fees in rent. it was doable before pandemic, but now, i'm hanging on by the thread.

my father reminds us we can all have our version of pursuit of happiness, i cannot have mine because san francisco is too worried about idea of limits and drug dealers by allowing open air drug you're giving permission for aggressive behavior that is causing people and reframe people to come business like mine. this is noting compassion, this is usery. tenderloin is famously known as

contentment zone, difunctional, but we forget the beating hearts of children, mothers and fathers and sisters and brothers embodiment of economy. we want change now, not tomorrow. tenderloin disease is spreading throughout the city which has been going on for decades. my job is to tell stories through my food, and i'm not trained to protect and preserve life. these are the jobs of police and policy makers. we desperately need enforcement and policy. things are changing in tenderloin with focus on increased police activity. this small police enforcement are making an impact. we need to keep consistency with our uncommitted opinions.

we can't continue spending billions for safety short lived effort. it's a fundsment agreed upon civil right flt it's time to keep our sleeves up and not succumb to the complex. people ask me, why here? i remind me, my country birth me but this place made me. thank you. [applause] >> good afternoon, everybody. thank you for all being here to address a very important concern that our very issue that concerns our city. the funding for the police department. i'm sure you heard about cities having sister cities. well for san francisco china town, tenderloin is a sister

community. san francisco, china town, our chamber of commerce, presents the largest celebration of the lunar new year outside of asia. hundreds and thousands of people spend millions of dollars and fill all of our hotels during the celebration. due to the resent gun shooting, the question on everyone's mind was what will be done? to ensure that the environment for all participants, a safe environment all our attendees and all our parade volunteers. before a single fire cracker was lit, i reached out to captain farmer and he

coordinated with police officers to work overtime to ensure a safe environment for everyone. to support our short supply of police department, the short supply to the police department, we must provide a budget so we can train new officers. i urge the board of supervisors to approve the mayor's proposed budget for fund the overtime pay to our police officers. this will will ultimately benefit our communities. thank you. [applause] >> i want to thank you all for your patience, i know this has

been long program but i have one more speaker before we wrap it up. many know that my grandmother raised me when i lost my grandmother there were a lot of grandmothers in china town that adopted me and it filled my heart with so much joy, especially the next speaker who basically lead the charge, embraced me and i'm going to tell you something when i saw all of the uprising around the challenges that were happening where many of our elderly, mostly chinese grandmothers were being attacked, it broke my heart because i couldn't imagine how their families and communities were feeling especially if something like would have happened like that to my grandmother. i don't know what i would do. so ms. wong spends a lot of time in china town, on the 30 stockton and on the subway but she goes to visitation valley,

china town, she is all over the city and i think about her often and always happy and encouraged to see her. she never asked to speak but when i invited her to this press conference, she said, i've got something to say. ladies and gentlemen, welcome my grandmother, ms. wong. [applause] >> [speaking chinese]

>> my name is tuka wong, i live in the apartment building near the subway station on 4th and 5th street.

just a few days ago, i saw some drug dealers outside of the sub station and one of the suspect almost followed me home and i discovered that i decided not to return to my apartment. i was fine after. i'm here to express my support for police department and support the work for public safety. thank you. [translator] >> mayor london breed: and before i wrap up, i got emotional and i forgot. what we're asking the supervisor to do four things. number one, make sure that they approve the urban alcamy contract so we continue the work that they do. [applause] number two, we want them to approve the supplemental for 27 million dollars that will not

only support the overtime to support basic services in the department but also help us with retired police officer as ambassadors in the community. number three, we are asking for the support for the supplemental for the district attorney's office to prosecutor the people who are dealing poison fentanyl in this community and all over the city. [applause] and last but not least, you heard a lot of conversations about the police department. and i know that you know, even my own history with the department has not been the best and as the mayor of the city, i want to make it clear, taking care of the city means taking care of this workforce and means being responsible and taking care of the police officers who serve and protect the city every single day. we need them but we also need to show them kindness and compassion, it's been a hard time for law enforcement we

know throughout the country. but here in san francisco i'm so proud of the reforms and the work that we're doing. i'm so grateful for many of the officers who go the extra mile providing narkan for those overdosing, who pay for those sleeping on the street out of their own pocket, trying to connect them through services. i'm introducing today through the police association a wage increase that will allow us to be more competitive with the entire bay area region and retention bonuses so we don't continue to hemorrhage police officers. we know we're short and we want them to show up during the challenging time, yes we want to hold offices accountable and change our reform to make sure that there is fairness. but we also want to make sure

that people who experience crime get the support and services that they need, that we have police officers who feel confident that they have the support of the community, so they can be proactive when somebody says, hey i need your heap, something is going on here. there is a lot of work that we have to do. and the fact that we have people from urban alcamy who many did not have good interactions with police, they want to work together, that is testament to a significant change in this city that is necessary in order to improve public safety. so it's time that we listen to the people of the city, it's time that we put aside our ideaology and politics and the community of tenderloin and

entire city, depends on it. thank you for being here today. [applause]

>> board of director's parking authority commission to order >> good afternoon starch and members of public. can i have who's phone is ring put on silence so we can start the meeting. thank you for joining thus is held if hybrid format room 400 broadcast live am march 1 was a sunset of emergency order that suspend meeting laws. this board advised by the mayor's office upon to provide time limited remote comment. nenlts on each item set and noticed for this meeting. members attending in person will have an opportunity to provide in person comment move to public

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>> present >> director yekutiel is walking in. present. director boarden is not expected director hinze is attending remost. she must appear on cam are to vote on any item. item 3 the ring and use of cell phones and electronic devices are presented the chair may order removal from the room of anyone responsible for reasoning of a no one or sounds prugs electronic device. item 4, approval of minutes for march 7 regular meeting y. directors are there changes to the minutes? >> we will upon open public meant for those in the room. on the minutes from match 7th. open the phone secretary silva j. remote public not to exceed 10 minutes.

any members wish to comment press star 3. i see no one in the queue joyful will take a motion. >> moved. we will take that as a second. call the roll. motion to approve the minutes director cajina. >> aye >> director heminger >> aye. >> director hinze. >> aye >> yekutiel. >> aye >> eakon. >> aye >> item 5, communication. colleagues are there any communications today? i will note for the public we are going to change update order of the agenda. slight low we will switch take the visitation valley community fan first and equity plan and the climate road map. >> thank you. i will open public comment in

porn item 5. >> go to the phone. members on the phone dial star 3 for this item. seeing no speakers. >> okay. close public comment and the next item >> item 6 now or unfinished business? directors or director hinze, any new or unfinished business? okay seeing none we don't need public comment. item 7. >> the director's report. >> director tumlin. >> great. good afternoon board members. i have a bunch. interesting news to cover. on saturday, march 18th it was transit operator appreciation di. as you well know, every single

day rain or shine with all kindses of people our operators keep people moving 400,000 people every day. we are so grateful to their work and i'm grateful to muni director and our chief transportation officer brent jones who were good sports and joined me on saturday on [inaudible] bikes visiting 2 dozen of our transit term untils for bus, street cars special cable car lines to thank our prirts and when we can do to remove obstacles so they better serve the partial something they they appreciate doing. it is a rep mindser that while saturday was transit operator appreciation day we can appreciate our operators every day of the year. i enthink courage you and listeners to go to

sfmta.com/feedback. and access the muni feedback form. we are there to complain direct resources to fixing problems you can praise any staff. any time we get praise, a baptist priz for operators or anyone throughout the agency they get a letter in their box. and something for their file it makes their dachlt please, do appreciate. all of the people who make it possible to deliver muni service. next i want to talk about the storm. as you know we had an atmospheric river event 2 rivers ago that hit muni hard we had flood and can subway stations and issues throughout the city. i'm pleased say that our teams learned from the challenges they faced and prepared for this

winter's storm. they have been preparing all aspects. system to make sure this there is preplace am of sand bag in flood prone areas so we stop the problem before it occurs. inspection of storm drains, way side drainage and will plumbing system during last year's fix it week. we replaced the pump facilities to make sure there was capacity to keep our stations driechlt. and despite the fact there were learning number of tree this is came down and damaged the over head line and infrastructure the rest of the system has come through the storms limp i'm grateful to all of our track kig significant until lines mode of power and mechanical system crews hard at work this year preparing for what am likely be a regular pattern of more

extreme weather due to the climate change in san francisco. grateful for those team usa. brings you to a related topic, fix it week. i hope you know, we are in the middle of another quarter low fix it week allows you to complete important maintenance work in the subway. we do this by replacing subway service after 9:30 p.m. with surface bus which dramatically expands the maintenance for crews to get down. when we shut down the subway we deenergize and a safety check and crews need to be deploy exclude need to set up and dot process in reverse to restart subway in the morning. it expandless the maintenance window. our crews go in the subway and stay up all night long catching up on work. and i continuing has been one of the most successful things we have done on try to catch up on

the severe deferred maintenance the system experiences. next meeting our crews will show a video had they accomplished during fix it week runs through thursday and for more information you can visit sfmta.com/subwaymaintenance. next is golden gate green wachl i'm sure for those who visited in front st.an monp thony they have been doing extraordinary work in the street providing community services to most vulnerable populations. they have been success envelope partnerships with urg community based organizations andments to xanltd service offerings and requested we extend the sharad space program in the block of golden gate green way 100 block

of golden gaechlt expand the hours sick a.m. to 3 bham it it is now to sick a.m. to approximate 6 p.m. and we will likely be coming to you for approval of that in about 6 weeks. that will include a program for additional partnership and activation of the space. and is set beingum greening that 1 hung huh block of golden gate avenue we have been work widthed firefighter, community based organizations, mayor's office, other city departments and st. anthonies in order to address get all the design details right so streets work for many functionings. next is the potrero yard modernization project. the project is advancing through the predevelopment agreement phase. construction will start in 2024

and to be completed in 2027. we received the city [inaudible]. design on march 8. and many of the design elements revised. based upon feed become from internal sfmta workshops issue planning department and the project's neighborhoods working group. we conducted a series in reach events with our maintenance staff at the current yard to really understand their needs for a functional maintenance yard that will improve efficiency compared to the current yard. provided input on decision point and we received positive feedback from the inclusion of maintenance staff am we held a community open house last approximate saturday across the street. this was a partnership with us and the developer teamful of the event include family friends low

activities yard doors and lunch and childcare to make sure neighborhood parents could attends and held in english and spanish. keep dpop gift board an update in late may or early june. anymore approximately be scheduling updates to the commission as limp if next vision zero task force based upon feedback from the city the sfmta convened the vision zero task force for discussions of many of the topics staff presented here to the sfmta on march 7. the task force will meet quarter low moving forward. and finally and importantly, i want to acknowledge that last sunday, march thenth, was the of 50th anniversary of the san francisco board of supervisors adoption of

the city's transit first policy. the board doomentd transit first on march 19, 1973, 50 years ago this week. not only passed boy the board back in 1973 but reafirmed by voters 2 dksdz later. this visionary policy was born out of the. freeway revol in the 60s and 70s amid an office boom in downtown san francisco n. upon 70s san franciscans realized they could not demolish low income neighborhoodses to widen streets and reads to accommodate growth. that in order to accommodate the on going growth and economic revitalization we needed to focus as a city on the most space fortunate modes of transportation. it is often times misaudio as transit only it is in the p. i

encourage torn read the policy temperature it is irrelevant about how to make the over all transportation system work in a way that acknowledges that basic just a moment tree constraints of urban transportation. when i drive a car, it is convenient for me. i go from a to b any time of i have my tunes and storage and car seats and whatever i want. i take up more then and there 10 times as mump roadway space as i do when i walk or bike or take muni. transit first is a prodriving policy. in order to make it possible for people had need to drive to be able to drive in san francisco, we got to prioritize the most space fortunate modes of transportation to accommodate growth, we need to make surety next generation prioritize

walking and biking and transid so people who need to drive can continue top drive and the city does not strangle itself on unrelenting traffic congestion we will see transit first at play in am the projects from our redesign of tervalto van ness bus ripped transit. the vaness transit planned in the 90's. and transit first is a great policy it has not been implement in the san fran it remains an aspiration. if we want to make transit first work it cannot take 30 i don't knows for every bus way project to prioritize the mode of transportation that moves the most people in the least amount space. transit first is a lot just a

moment tree we have been --00 we need to make sure as we add the new families we welcome to san francisco that we provide them options for not stuck in a car and strangling the city in traffic. you will hear later today transportation represents 44 percent of green house gas and 70% is private vehicles. if we want our city to be survivable we need to make sure we electrify the float and making mobility the least [inaudible] and most fortunate. this means prioritizing walking, biking and muni. we than our busied need 10 thbld steps or pushes of a wheel chair a day to function. and we need san francisco to be design in the a way that allows people to achieve health without

forced drive to a jim and run on a treadmill. city needs to be built ooshldz everaround safe and joyful walking for all ages and abilities. all of the will walking devices we prioritize. and i think we need to remember in a time when our society is divided that is the last accomplice we come together it is on municipaly. muni serves everyone. people of all ages and abilities and jendzers of all ethnicity and all walks of life. the place where we are reminded that we all share something in common. municipaly continues to welcome everyone in san francisco employs we talk about the climate plan these require this

we make really hard choices as an agency. very hard for a staff to make because we operate in a context many san franciscans don'tment change or have a hard time making a trade off with personal convenience and our climate health equity economic recovery goals. stake holders see it conflicting with their desires for the staechl our task here is to explain the tensions and trade offs and make recommendations to you approximate hopeful low support you in make the tough calls this will be necessary in order for us to achieve our goals. i'm hopeful it has taken 50 years that transit first will not be an aspirational policy but be the rules by which we do all of our work. that some my report.

thank you. why thank you. director hinze is on the phone. >> yep. >> just a few quick comments. one thank you for your work on transit operator appreciation day? i know this operators [inaudible] post accommendationos twitter? [inaudible] day? and i wanted to thank everyone for the w on golden gate freeway? it has been a long time coming for the community and they have worked hard on it. i know that the [inaudible] has been through a lot and it hen a long road to get here. i want to thank our staff for collaborate ritting with [inaudible] team? and the fire department. and i know there is a phase 2 talk more about and staff is

working to identify upon fundses and looking forward to having that item before us soon. am and congratulations had a question on fix it week. i asked every fix it week to see how the communication about fix it week has gone special to make sure that we are hitting all of the places that we need to hit for letting people know about [inaudible] the fix it week. communication is important. we are fortunate we are able to have ambassadors in the stations to direct our riders upstairs to the bus stops. we have announce ams and signs to make sure people know to expect that am after 9. . 30 p.m. to use the bus to connect to service trains.

>> all right. thank you. thank you, madam chair >> thank you director hinze, other comments or questions? >> okay. i have a couple of comments and questions for you director tumlin. very ej courageed here you went to visit with the prirtos operator appreciation day and talked about asking for feedback from them about how to improve the service. aye so happy you did this i believe thez closest to challenges had the best ideas. am if there are themes that e merge you want to share now we welcome them ownership happy to take thatum later. >> your preference >> their feedback was extensive. one thing i appreciate is it does in the take nouch get them to be fully honest about their needs.

so a lot of the needs were very detailed. which we took notes o. on a corridor travel time increased since the last time we laid out the schedule they needed time to be able to use restroom and take a break the end of the line. a lot of comments we heard were details like that. along with details about changes we should make at the curb to help facilitate turning move in accident, et cetera . a lot of operators understand have been concerned about the increased rate of violence in the system. you have seen we had headlines of i have lent incidents that occurred on muni. we spent couple of hours yesterday the major's office and school district pulled together a meeting with about a dozen different city agencies to understand what can we do to stop the problems at the root.

problems in our schools related to stres and mental health issues that students face as well as the mental health and addiction issues on the streets. that ends up on muni. we brain stormed way in which agency consist work together in order to provide better wrap around services in san franciscouneified school district as well as the addiction and mental health issues out on market street. it was a productive meeting. and that allowed us to be able to the rethink how we are partnering with agencies in order to make a birth difference. those issues. >> okay. thank you. let's continue that coming from the operator and i wills share that director cajina and i attended the safe prirt awards dinner i know last saturday

evening and to the seat dozens of operators who have 15, 25 and 35 years safe driving record is so astonish and makes us so proud. the only last thing, is thank you for raise being the transit first policy about the 50 year anniversary. i wanted to quote a piece of transit first policy i ritread and the language is unambiguous. the decisions rather the use of limited public street and sidewalk space encourage public rights of way by pedestrians, bicyclists and transand i strive to improve traffic and public health and safety t. is fitting we go familiarize ourselves with the policy and reminds ourselves when we make the difficult decision you are speaking about. with this we will open up for public comment for those in person. >> i have one card anthony

balster. good afternoon i'm pedestrian local 258. cochap cable dar, light rail. and i 99 wait to come up but the director tum dlin in the bring up snaft his comment that's the reasonable i'm here. our members are out here every day doing the tough job and unprotected prosecute. and they are w the will battlefield. sunday evening the passengers was shot you know -- and -- i had [inaudible] the operator monday morning and about 5

[inaudible] conversations broke down and crying. after that the shootings and upon people robbed. you know -- a lot going on. day in and day out and they did not deserve i appreciate that -- director tumlin [inaudible] saturday and people were text. [inaudible]. i said [inaudible] that's okay [laughter]. will and so i [inaudible] feel for the operators. every day [inaudible]. and it is tough on them. you know we goo the show compassion. weep can't protect them oust there but may be we can give something extra. something boost cost living.

[inaudible] and thank you for upon listening they do a hard job every day someone assaulted and operators are being assaulted. one left thing [inaudible] 38 line [inaudible] she was assaulted [inaudible] and so she went out on. [inaudible] and out to this day. and so this was sunday morning. and you have been i feel for the members. thank you [inaudible] [inaudible] we give an open [inaudible]. thank you. thank you for your service. other speakers in the room? i'm dill fran san francisco transit riersd i'm proud safrn fran is a transit first city but there is a lot to be done.

in order to be transit first dmoit reducing congestion special green house deaths >> latoya: must focus increase ridership on mine dom this bring back prepandemic service increasing to new popular nondowntown destination and not increasing fares. increasing fares nould be asking ride torse pay more for less. . really for new local funding source. but any local funding measure to be successful >> latoya: needs to show what great public transit can look like. continue putting transit first focusing on ridership. clear with riders in expect to see service restores and developing policies that make it easy and cheaptory ride muni.

thank you very much. >> thank you. other commenters in the room? of >>. hi, board members [inaudible]. first thank you for the update on golden gate green wait a minute i'm glad to see it move forward and grateful to staff and the folks at st.an thonys to advocate for the space over 2 plus years and our colleague worked create the space and work it through seemlessly and endless bureaucracy from the fire department. the space creates open space in the most open space depride neighborhoodsless in the city with highest rates of car free households and highest rates of fatalities on streets. i want to thank supervisor

preston. regarding vision zero task forcive want to thank staff and highlight a few things that were discussed the need to create more protective bike lane expects transit only a tool for increasing speeds and safety and shg cellerating mode shift weave could do more and faster to reach vision zero in the mode share goals and the transit first policy director tumlin poke about and stroll line project this is moves toward the goals. thank you. >> no other speakers in the room. secretary, open the phone.

thank you. good afternoon. upon [inaudible] show and her. i enjoy [inaudible] meaningful. report. i am appreciative of transit workers i did get to meet fwhon central subway at the china town station. am who helped me not the layout of the elevators. i went to subway central subway and enjoyed it and my purpose for using it not to get from union square to china town but practice riding on the long escalators i'm afraid of long escalators. i did find i will be red for

grand upon central next month i'm appreciate i have had to that. and i believe in transit first. it does not mean transit only i use muni. i used bay wheel and appreciative jeff and the group going out to make the visits. awking and electric ride share. i need all of the option in my life. transit first is a way to helprous congestion and allow people like myself get about in a safe manner. so again, i'm appreciative of jeff i did meet in person. and i ask that we ton do this work as mentioned in the director's report. thank you. >> thank you.

next speaker, please. jury room good afternoon will commissioners i wanted to about the vision zero i listened to the 5 hours last month and went to the meeting last week. there is a conflict between muni [inaudible] and pedestrian safety. [inaudible] east of upon [inaudible] avenue. street division set the lights to favor the go faster at the detriment of people will who cross [inaudible] street. a pedestrian died there in may. and they have done nothing on improve that intersection. one thing they could do is address the count down they have not set [inaudible] it is shorter if you don't press the

light and i seen pedestrians across without counting the light. i can't see why they can't go out and fix temperature you know. you have to think of pedestrian and senior safety. that's yet street is put in safety improve ams on streets where is there is bus service. you know the favorites answer circumstance no, they put one on second and clement. otherwise, they don'ts want to put safety on fulton and geary. you need to balance t. wham is more important me walk across safely or the bus running faster? get your priorities straight. thank you. >> thank you for sharing your comments next speaker, please. >> hello. good afternoon this is bari toronto i want to address regarding golden gate green way.

i participated in the meeting where the fire department is stressed no uncertain terms that it would go to 6 p.m. was going to work for them. i would great to find out what you did to mitigate the issues brought up by the fire department representatives at the meeting. it is the traffic is horrible in the afternoons and golden gate is the leads the way to a sickth street to the freeways. the problem is there is one lane going that direction toward sixth street. can you imagine the back that you want am crets and inability of the upon fire department to get to emergencies in the area during that time. other is about if you are looking for the the transit first policy how about taking the time to do more enforce am on the transit lane and bus and tax emlanes there is so much

abecause on market and geary and i don't see very little enforcement. more time enforcing against illegal scooter ping than they do in dealing with making transit move. and the [inaudible] upon taxicab worker alliance in support of brothers [inaudible] [inaudible] [inaudible] >> and approximate the safety problems they deal with. this will responded to fatality on an intersection. you should respond to violence on the buss to make sure the safer ways to ride the bumps thank you very much. thank you, next speaker, please. jury room good afternoon director eakon and tumlin i'm the executive director of walk san francisco.

i want to call your attention to the letter walk san francisco sent you last friday after the vision zero task force last thursday. glad to have the meeting back up and rung. detail and shortcomings of the sfmta plan releaseod march 7. we neil is not a plan but a summary the agency is doing now. and that is the problem. the sfmta degree now to address the big threat is not enough f. sfmta needs an approach to [inaudible] and need it now. we are asking for the develop will of a details outcome based flan defiance actions will prioritize. a mraj with dead lines and way to measure and track progress on streets and lowering the out liar speeds on all corridors should be the goal of the as a

task force the staff said the plan is a work in progress. that will not get us to the progress we need to save lives we are asking to you hold sfmta accountable for a real plan to address dangerous speeds. thank you. is that concludes online. we will close public comment. next am item >> item 8 the citizen's council report we have no report today. accomplice you on item 9 general public comment. members may address the board directoros matters in the jurisdiction in the on today's calendar. >> we will open public comment for those in person. for matters not on our agenda today. >> i have one card upon anthony balster. no. okay. he has spoken. for those in the room who want to speak you can queue on the tv side of the room, please.

i'm heimy organizer in the tenderloin and traffic safety pass ports. closed the public comment before i can talk about golden gate green way i will comment on good example of what trust would look like. i think the way it went know was good and this t is our priors for a task foefrms hopefully we can do more and across the establishment i see folks with slow streets here. i want to show appreciation to everyone especially st. anthony, mta and the residents of tenderloin. thank you. >> thank you. next speaker, please. upon in the room under general public comment. >> good afternoon board of directors. i am wilford from south of market community action network to advocate for soma slow

streets with me are russian residents slow streets which are were [inaudible] am in the south of market. and we are advocating for the safety of the community because they want slow streets based on sfmta's survey on saddam 21 that 81% of the residents including them have voted they want permanent slow streets and advocate for reinstate am of the slow streets and major use through walking and biking and equity issue december 6 of 2002 slow streets made permanent in well to do and you know -- nice neighborhoods while most of the south of market is low income

and as well as working class neighborhoods and there are no slow streets in the south of market it is an equity issue and urge to you reinstate soma slow streets, thank you. >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> upon good afternoon i'm ruby. i'm speaking today as a communities researcher and a parent. fact updatey in department of public health at san francisco state you looked at air quality and traffic impacts in the south of market. look at vision zero data and saddened seat neighborhoods has the highest traffic related injury and fatality rates in staechl looking closer of the majority of pedestrian deaths are elderly. we will hear from elders today. the soma slow streets project

[inaudible] streets is a step in the right direction and create safer spaces for the neighborhood. especially for elders that live in the senior housing. this is not enough board neats to calm traffic on entire south of market neighborhood. i have 2 kids that attends pill penalo education center 5 days a week we took the bus to school. we know how speeding cars made us will feel unsafe. please make the soma slow streets project permanent and urge the board to work on creating a pedestrian friend low neighborhood so our kids, families and seniors feel safe in south of market. thank you. thank you, next speaker, please y. good upon afternoon i'm upon [inaudible] and i'm [inaudible]

[inaudible] streets in the soma were part of the slow street network and urge to you include them in the slow street plan of the district 6 is a gate way to freeways and pedestrian scombrrs fatalities the so many am is an entrance and exit to major freeways and bets carmichael arrive by the freeway. pedestrian, bicycle and transit vehicles share streets with trucks and traffic. the soma neighborhood faced pedestrian safety and open space made this inequality more approximate evidence. am and thankful during the pandemic until now. we hope we count you on to close the gap of our neighborhood constantly over looked centering decision around equity for most vulnerable. soma bears the bruvenlt new

development city forgets about it with safety and resources. thank you again. thank you and again i urge to you include the original so manial slow street in your slow street plan thank you >> thank you, next speaker, please. >> hello i'm theresa i live in the south of market. and i -- justment to share with you i have been hit almost hit several times i live on folsom and 10th you can imagine a nice street and eighth stleet it is a freeway corridor. we have at least and i think you guys than soma alone has 8 freeway entrance and exits we are in a major freeway corridor. we if urge you to remember soma

don't forget don'ts just drop us off bout telling the communities what it is happen happening in the city and our neighborhoods. in the soma we live there approximate work there and know better so if you can please open up to us roach out to us. before canceling us. and this is just a beginning. you know for slow streets we want more. and i want to share with you. that safety plus peace of mind equalize noncompromise. when you come to residents. you know that, all of you. and it it is very important you than when you hear the voice of the people police consider us. thank you.

good afternoon i'm lollita [inaudible] and live in soma [inaudible]. in soma part of the [inaudible] and i urge to you include them in the permanent street plan. it is noise and he dirt. homeless sleep during the day [inaudible] they 3 garbage in the street there is no peace. thank you and include the soma slow street in your slow street plan. thank you. next speaker, please. il read more names somewhere in line.

[inaudible] i live in the soma

part of of first network of the slow street. and [inaudible] i encourage everyone to make the slow street permanent. i am asking for your support so that just like us in seniors we walk safely and safe from fear [inaudible]. thank you. next speaker, please. [inaudible].

i'm elmira i don't live in the soma but all my activity is in the soma. i'm a senior and can't walk fast.

sometimes i get left behind and if you can make the soma street plan permanent tell be great for us like me who is a senior and can't walk fast. [inaudible]. next speaker, please. lollita and [inaudible] and lucie. i am [inaudible] i live at clement tina street in soma district. i want to main taint slow streets and include the whole so many on district for slow street most apartments are in soma district. and what is that street. and also we more seniors more

seniors have already physically challenged slow and movement [inaudible]. hearing, seeing, walking. [inaudible]. [inaudible] slow streets for the slow seniors. [laughter]. all we want for seniors is slow streets. all we want is a slow street for the slow seniorsch slow seniors! [laughter] slow seniors. all we want for slow seniors is

a slow streets for slow seniors. take care of the traffic. the traffic is and the sidewalks the bicycles are there and while i was walk somebody just struck my head i was walking slowly and riding a bicycle in the sidewalk. where does it belong the street or the sidewalk? [inaudible] thank you for your comment. next speaker, please. >> hello i'm kristina and work with soma cultural heritage district the latina in support

of [inaudible] streets included in the slow street's plan. lack slow streets is an example of key example inequity with priors and safety. other areas of the city enjoyed slow streets soma yet to see anything. soma has the lowest rates open space in the entire city with dense housing types no streets create in the soma. dense housing projects approved at planning. and for equity tow exist soma must have extended slow streets. i urge you include the original soma slow street in soma planful

thank you. next speaker, please. [inaudible]. part of the slow street network and urge you to include them in the permanent slow street again. the >> latoya: disqualified many street in our neighborhood. however, our neighborhood has the most protected staff for

transportation than other neighborhoodses. i will read a few postcards collected from nerve san

francisco. mostly also residence denials, workers and residents so i will be reading some response that they i'm jegsy a soma resident i bike to work 3 times a week a driver cut me off in the bike lane. i'm a soma worker and want a soma street i seen many operate vehicles recklessly we had to be aware of.

we if we could minimize the danger in the street tell make soma a better place. i'm am mar >>. i work -- soma work upper. i want permanent slow streets because -- kids and elders we need more safe street in soma. and then -- i have another postcard if a soma residents and a worker. i want permanent slow soma slow streets our street need to bes safer for seniors. >> so many safety issues in the soma and streets should not be one of themful thank you. >> good afternoon board of

directors i'man jell cai'm here with over 300 postcard says from our upon community urging you to include in permanent plan the original soma slow street removed on your december 6, 2022 meeting. under the current program adopted by the sfmta. this qualifies many streets in the neighborhood but yet we are the gateway upon entrance and exit to the major freeways. most of our streets do not meet the 15 miles per hour speed limit. when we tried to slow down our get 15 miles per hour at the bets carmichael which is on fourth, 7th and harrison, we were in front that cannot be done because the school even though all the other school has 15 miles per hour. our school is by the freeway and there needs to be more emphasis

on moving the traffic than schoolchildren walking. so as you see, this disqualifies us on the matrix you put together and unfair and not equal in our neighborhood. vision zero [inaudible] we are the highest fatality and bicyclists has not stopped or slowed downful so we urge to you please put back our streets in the permanent slow street. in the december meeting there was what is equal is us in the permanent slow streets plan. we are part of the meeting and your staff being addressing

those and designing those areas. that's what equity means to you. we urge you to include us and put it back. thank you. >> thank you. are there other speakers in the room. testimony hi board members first i support the so many slow streets and hope you staff and supervisor dorse prioritize slow streets to the soma organizers and residents when is came out for safer street in soma, thank you. and next i want to bring your attention to valencia and a need for curb side protected bike lanes and cycle track design present in the 2 weeks and urge you to ask staff to prepare an if design as soon as possible no later than