this meeting will come to order. welcome to the monday, october

second, 2023 meeting of rules of the san francisco board of supervisors. i'm supervisor matt dorse and he i'm joined by vice chair walton and safai is on his way. we like to thank victor young and sfgov.org for facilitying the meeting. before we start i want to honor a memorial honor former politic of the body. today's rules americas the first public meeting of the board since the sad nows that senator diane feinstein passed. elect in the 1969 diane feinstein served on this board from 1970 to 78 when a shocking tragedy aassassinations of the

supervisor and harvey milk. she was first woman to serve as board president in san francisco history and mayor in san francisco history. the first woman to win dem crediteck nomination for good afternoonor in california history in 1990 the year i met her. she lost this year but i worked for the political consulting team 2 years later part of her senate bid and the first women elected to the u.s. senate in california history. there will be more ponent in the coming days everything this she meant to our city and state and our nation. as an expression condolences i ask we observe a moment of remembrance.

thank you. mr. clerk. board and committee allow in person attorneys and public comment and prosecute voiding remote access and public comment via phone. those in personal be allowed speak first then those on the phone line.

items will appear on the agenda of october 17 unless otherwise stated. >> thank you, mr. clerk call item one and 2 together. >> item 1 a motion approving the treasurer nomination of brenda mc nulty. for term ending september 30 of 27 to the treasurer oversight committee. item 2 is a motion approving aimee brown ending september 30 of 27 to the treasury oversight committee. >> 2 individuals are before us today are serving in the role and renominated by jose

cisneros. the requirements for seats is to be a member of the public who has expertise in public finance and diverse and bipartisan. i like to invite brenda mc nulty reenemy nayed seat sxefb ask to cope your remarks to 2 minutes and be available for questions if necessary. welcome to the rules the floor is yours. >> good morning. members of the rules committee. my name is brenda mc nulty. and i appeared before to you seek a second term to serve on this commission. first of all, let me tell you my qualifications. i have a bachelor's in

economics. and i have a masters of business administration degree focus on finance. in addition to that, i like to share that i'm currently full time retired but over 33 years of experience working in the financial services industry. to give you an idea of the types of jobs i had. i had managed cash for i large corporation wl grace, does not exist anymore. i worked for the treasurer in financing. i fan a bond portfolio. managed foreign exchange not relevant to this position. i have also had experience in budgeting and understanding the cash modes and of operations.

an investment add visoror my experience related to [inaudible]. next i would like to share with you my understanding of how commissions work in the city this is my second term, prior to my service in the treasure oversight committee i served on citizen general obligation bonds. and for 2 terms and one of those terms i was chair. so i have an understanding of the role of citizen commissions. what we add input to city governors. and when we can and cannot do. confidential in this committee. our role as public members are the advisory nature.

hose and he his team are managing and doing the daily operations. last but not least. i would like to remind the members of rules committee that i do have 4 more years of experience in this committee. which i did not have when i stood before you 4 years ago. i attended every single meeting. in person. before covid and of course virtually during covid. i -- in the left 4 years i had gained a different type of experience. which i hope will give me additional expertise to carry on a second term. i'm open to whatever questions

you may have for me. i would like now to invite up aimee brown. >> thank you. reenemy nayed for seat 6 and i hope i'm pronouncing that right. welcome to rules and the floor is yours. >> thank you, good morning. similar to brenda i'm up for reappointment this morning. and similar to brenda i have expertise in financial services street and 3 yours i want to call out. the first is expertise in public finance written in the ordinance and involved with state and local financing for 30 years. and during my career, i'm proud to say i served financial add sunrisor to the sfpuc for years and other financings.

including the civic center superior courthouse and refinancing of the mosconi center. i worked for a major investment banking firm for 15 years i'm most proud of the fact that -- i was an owner of initial low recognized women owned and san francisco lbe firm. employing 7-10 people locally. my firm caused mow to experience what is a second qualification for somebody on this committee. my firm was subject to month low andanual audits by the sec, na sd and msrb, which was the board for the municipal industry. i served on that oversight board for 3 years. i also assisted many clients investing bond proceeds. which is i major task of the san

francisco treasurer's office. and lastly, i have other experience serving boards and oversight committees. you can see from my application, it has been wide ranging from public finance boards to nonprofits and small corporate boards. san francisco before the treasure over of sight committee a member of ref now bond oversight for the puc. i served chair for 5 of 8 years to my term. i worked for local nonprofits when now called the bay eco tearium. the pair institute and aquarium of the bay and island conservancy involved with their financial over site and government. currently a board member and treasurer for northern california and the organization as you may know, work with the

youth, neighborhood leadership programs. and there are many graduates who are currently working throughout the city. it is a lit of on the side, you mentioned diane feinstein before a graduate [inaudible]. we are proud of this. i'm interested in the continuing committee the duties much my enters, expertise and experiences and during my semi retirement contributed to the community in which i live. i'm ready for questions if you have them. >> thank you. i don't see anybody on the roster but i would say i think that the lack of -- questions i don't think should be

interpreted for lack appreciation. and i well qualified both of and you appreciate your willingness to serve in this important role. >> mr. clerk. open to public comment. >> yes. members of the public had wish to speak on these items in person line up to speak. for those remote on the call in line press star 3. for those in the queue continue it wait until you have been unmute exclude that will be your queue to begin. there is nobody in the room for public comment and nobody on the phone line for public comment. why public comment on this is now closed. and i would like to make a motion to strike reject where appearing in the 2 motions and send 1 and 2 to the full board. with positive rememberedation.

recommendation. >> recommend the merit as amendod this matter, voice chair walton. >> aye. >> supervisor safai. >> aye >> chair dorsey. >> aye. >> motion passes without objection. >> thank you, mr. clerk, unanimous vote. item one appointment oversight committee mc nulty and oversight committee aimee brown sent to the full board as amended. call item 3. >> item 3 a hearing to consider appointing a member ending april 27 of 24 to the sunshine ordinance task force. one seat, one applicant. >> we are hearing one seat, seat 5 it is nominated by the chapter of league of women voters and for the unexpired portion of 2 year term ending april 17 of 24. the log nominated mackeen

anderson. we ask appointees and applicants to keep remarks to i couple minutes. welcome to rules, floor is yours. >> thank you very much. and good morning to all of you and thank you for where you are public service. i appreciate it. i pretty much said i wanted say about myself and normally brief about myself one thing i want to bring before you is one of the things that got me into working in public service and transparency was i had found this during the dwo 000 election i spent, lot of time yelling at my tv and buzz i was anxiety row and i finally got to the point in 2004 i said yelling at my tv does in the do good i need to get up and may be do something about it. that started my johny doing something other an being a citizen this voted i wanted to

participate in government. how i wound up here like cascading list of thing this is occurred, i started registering verts. i did work with the log of women voters in informing voters i learned when the processes were in government i like many only knew. oh. there is more this goes into temperature and i believe and i -- my belief has been strength emed we need transparency in government allowing ordinary citizens to look at government and say, yes, you are doing had i want you to do or no, you are not doing had i. you to do and have a mechanism to make voices heard. so. which is how i'm winding up here. with the nominee for the sunshine ordinance task force. because i believe it is an

important part of government to have transparency. if i can help push that up a hill, i am willing to work to push that boulder up the hell. that's why i'm here. brevity. i'm always brief. >> thank you very much for considering my application for this position. >> great. thank you very much. i will just say that i am a colleague former colleague of yours and appreciate the many years we work you'd may have left you retired a couple years before i left the city attorney's office we worked together for a dozen scombroers atest to your commitment to our city. i appreciate your wellingness to continue to serve on this body. one thing i ask about this is something i talked to folks about on the committee is i'm

hopeing in the next couple years we can think about ways that we can work on processing improvement to sunshine. one thing i had seen overnight years -- is it would be nice if there could be a way what information technology could have a process for speeding up report of things. not gumming up people's jobs, there are way in this day and age this we might want to think about having a department of technology to handle the questions the responsive e mills. having it go to the city attorney's office. here is had needs to be redacted improve processes i think would unburdensome folk who is get you know -- have other jobs.

and improve transparency. i welcome opportunity to work on this with you. >> okay. any thoughts. thank you very much one of the people in the city attorney's office who would get the sunshine ordinance requests and fasz them to the departments i believe that with the growth of technology there are ways that we can work with the system to make it more efficient. will we get the fund to do that? we may want to but if we don't get the funds to do it people will get frustrated they don't understand the 2 things go together. yes, i agree that there should be ways to able to stream line it. should be ways to get our decisions from sunshine ordinance. in a data base that people

search for. this we can w with departments to make sure we are operating on the same system. hey. i'd love it. i'm sure everybody on sunshine would, also. it is good to see that you have that same thought in mind and i look forward to working with you. i look fared to working with you all making sure that thing can happen. >> i do think when it come to transaarons and sunshine temperature is undeniebl there are costs this are associated with responding to public record requests. it is reminiscent about education if you think education is expensive try ignorance if you think transparency is expensive how about a government that is not transparent. i think this this is principle and will something we had invest. >> i agree. joy appreciate your support itch don't see anybody with questions.

mr. clerk. can we open for public comment special thank you. >> thank you very much. >> members of the public had wish to peek and joining person line up to speak. for those remote on the call in line press star 3 to enter the line. those in the queue wait until it indicates you have been unmuted that is your queue to begin your commentively don't see anyone in the room for public comment and 2 callers on the line for public comment. can we have our first caller? hi. i'm jen. i'm calling on behalf the league of women voters of san francisco to support the appointment of mackeen anderson to the sunshine ordinance task force. mackeen an active member to many of our log committees for decades serving on board of directors of the log of women voters of san francisco and california. she has demonstrated commitment

to the government transparency, gained familiarity with the sunshine ordinance and the brown act work with the san francisco sunshine and league of women voters of san francisco committee during her time as chair. maxen is known in the community as a defender of democracy and advocate for all san franciscans and the league encourages you to appoint maxine anderson to the sunshine ordinance task force. thank you. >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> great. good morningful david pilpel. as you heard mackeen anderson a long time activist with the league of women voters of san francisco and california her passion is evidence i look forward to her serveoth task force i'm sure she will contribute to the spirited debate and discussion.

and i can also assure chair dorsey and the other members and anyone listening the process improvement and changes this you suggested are already in the works and considered. and improving the stature of the task force in the city and with respect to complainants issue respondents and the press in general is a shared goal and one had is very much in the works. i look forward to maxine serving and thanks for listening. >> thank you. this completes our list of phone public commenters. >> thank you, public comment on item low is closed. and i will make a motion to recommend maxine anderson on seat 5 of the sunshine ordinance task force and send it to the full board can we have a roll

call zoom on that motion vice chair walton. >> aye. >> supervisor safai. >> aye. chair dorsey. >> aye. >> the motion passes without objection. why great on an ums vote maxine anderson recommended seat five on the sunshine ordinance task force and moves to the full board, congratulations. >> item 4? >> item 4 an ordinance approving the surveillance technology policy for the d. elections use of social mead why monitor technology. >> thank you, this policy has gone luthe roesz of the committee of information technology. and i believe coit director julian johnson is stand by if there are questions the director john art system here to present. director arts, welcome to rules. >> thank you. good morning. so. the department's request is to essential low require a program to act as a dash board for

social media postings. we could have the twitter, facebook, next door and instagram located in one screen not having to use 4 different programs to do one social postings and can track the response we get from the mead why in one spot instead of 4 different, counts. if we can use this tool we can sync it to on line on our website people can follow what is happening in the department throughout social mead ja and link that to the calendar they request and we can get the information over to our calendar on our website. it is an efficiency tool. i know this gone through surveillance technology process it is not us trying to collect information or use it of individual this is interact with the department through social

media. and just a dash board so everything is in one base and reduce the number of people that work on social media. i can take any questions on this topic. that is the, off shelf product? why yea. >> that is the -- i was going through it -- what is the brand name. we don't vice president it we are waiting to finish this process. the couple out there [inaudible] and other is sprouts. we did downloaded a trial version of sproutos friday i can have an idea of when it could look like prior to the hearing. and it having tiles on the screen with a different accounts. and then you bring a calendar and schedule on the calendar postings happen and which account and you can track

postings and schedule them. as far as tracking we are not tracking individuals we are tracking the number of hits and responses. number of questions or asks to a specific posting we put out there. and this gives a sense, too of what is engaging with the voters and the public. when information is less interesting to them and a topic they are responding or they are guessing questions we get a sense of match topics are important at the moment. >> can i ask when the process started? >> looking back i think this was around march. this was -- this is before merchandise there is actual 3 meetings at coit on this. and started -- i don't remember i don't know the date i think 2022 we started the press the application and have the several

meetings at coit and going through the process. it has been a while to get here. >> okay. >> great. >> colleagues, any questions? thank you. so much. i think it is good. mr. clerk open to public comment. >> yes, members ever public had wish to speak and joining in person lineup to speak at this time. for those remote low on the call in line press star 3 to enter the line. for those in the queue wait until it indicates you have been unmuted that will be your queue to comment. i don't see anybody in the room in line for comment and one caller for public comment on this matter. can we have our first public commenter in >> great. david pilpel itch believe the election department request is a reasonable use of technology. not the type of mass surveillance this others may be concerned b. i encourage to you

support this ordinance and use of the social media monitor technology proposed. thank you. >> thank you. that completeings public comment on this merit >> thank you, public comment upon is closed. >> and i like to sends this item to the full board with positive recommendation. a roll call on this motion? >> on the motion to recommend this matter vice chair walton. >> aye. >> supervisor safai. >> aye. >> chair dorsey. >> aye. thank you mr. clerk on a unanimous vote item 4 surveillance technology policy d. elections use of social media monitor technology moves to the board with positive recommendation. thank you. >> call item 5. >> item 5 ordinance amending the code to clarify the contractor

may be suspended debarred due to labor laws governing payment of wing and unfir labor practices. >> thank you and this is sponsored and authored by supervisor connie chan joining us this morning. welcome to rules. the floor is yours. >> thank you chair dorsey thank you for calendaring this. colleagues one of san francisco core values and source of pride is we are a union town. we prioritize our work and legislations and resources. supporting our workers all cross down. san francisco passed more worker protection laws than know g. the first to impelement our own minimum wage. paid 6 and parental leave laws. we established the country's first municipal labor

enforcement agentment legislation today is intended give us another tool and legislative tool to help us guarantee that we continue this momentum holding emplayers, bad employers account okay and us as the board of supervisors are being good stewards of our dollars this luis to govern and how what the board can do with a bad employer who are contractors with the city. and with existing contractors. what it does is simple. adds wage theft and unfair labor practices or any violation of lus that governing labor practices to the list of criteria allowing the city to seek suspension or deborrowment of a contractor.

they have been tools to disqualify contractors from the city bidding process and has been one that our city attorney's office used against contractor especially those convicted of criminal activities or crime. like fraud. when we have employers found to be intentionally or wellfully violating lus like especially in this case mou with the legislation labor laws like wage theft this . is trong tool to make sure bad employers are actions not manage we tolerate. i'm pleased have the support chinese progressive association. justice for all team and they are the one that brought the concern to our office. and today that what you see is

result of collaborate rigz and discussions to see when else we can do to make to hold bad contractors spending city dollars accountable. i like to thank supervisor walton for cosponsorship and happy to take questions. thank you. >> thank you. vice chair walton. >> thank you, chair dorse and he supervisor chan. i wanted to say for the record how important it is to make sure our workers are protect exclude people po who do business with our city understand we will not to the rit violations of labor law and have yous as a city and it is unfortunate we have employers out there that will try to take advantage of our workers. we cannot allow this in san francisco. i want it thank supervisor chan for bringing this forward and i'm proud to be a cosponsor.

>> thank you. supervisor safai. >> thank you, supervisor chan for bringing this important piece of legislation ford. during the difficult economic times we hear more from people workers this wages are being stolen from them. and people are not being paid and mistreatment in the work place and it is important we stand up and ensure that contractors that are violating and the trust of public as well as violating the trust of the people this w for them are accountable and in the doing business with the city of san francisco. so. thank you supervisor chan and for your hard work and add mow as a cosponsor. >> thank you. supervisor safai and i wanted to add my expression of appreciation to supervisor chan. and to vice chair walton for their work on this. i will say that you know often i

mention my past work you and i are both supervisor chan influenced by time won't spent in verse roles in the city attorney's office i was involved in cases that had debarments. usually for the city i think it is important had your legislation recognizes is -- it may not be the city directly. this is paying the price but indirectly. i think that it is very important. especially when one krrz the people who are met often vulnerable to wage, theft and benefit thefts the crimes against workers. than i are often in vulnerable positions. this is where having the weight of the city and the threat of i debarment, which is you are not able to do business with the

city and county of san francisco anymore this is something that can have an affect i want to be added as a cosponsor. these cases with office and labor in the city attorney's office were closest to my heart because and it was a fight for people to understand why this is bad. it was in the high profile or head line grabbing. for a family that is struggling to make end's meat these things matter. i appreciate it. >> seeing no one else on the roster mr. clerk open to public comment. >> yes, members had wish to speak in person line up to speak. for those remote, press star 3 to enter the queue. can we have our first in person

speaker? >> good morning. i'm hernandez the political organizer for 10 to 1. we support this ordinance. it is logical to us that contractors that abuse workers or treat them unfair low should risk suspension or debarment. we are can have the that the way this is written will be only used for worse actors. workers many of them, of course are members that work for many nonprofits appreciate this mechanism and great low thank supervisor chan for her lead everybodiship and thank you for cosponsoring and hopeful low moving this forward. >> good morning. debbie, san francisco human service network.

obviously, we do notment contractors working for the city who are committing violations of our laws. we have had a lot of i will not say concerns but questions how the deborrowment press works and when safe guards to ensure it is in the used in know unjustice manner to pressure employers. we still have several unresolved questions, unfortunately. we hoped it would be conditioned today so we could get more clarification on those questions. whatever your decision we hope that you will work with us to help us get this clarity and ensure that contractors will not find themselves in the situation like this and make sure in the human services westerlied

something like the threat of debarment lead to cloinlts and threat to viling services that those issues are wed out and we can get the questions answered that we put out. thank you very much. public comment is now closed. thank you. chair dorsey and just want to articulate, colleagues, i do not want to bring up but there were bad apples like unfortunately contractor walter wong and others this were fund with criminal charges and conviction. it took the city awhile to get to the debarment. and so the debarment press and

suspension is agregious and behaviors and in this case there is conversation with the city attorney that we don't take the process of suspension and debarment lightly. we understand of it this is must be something that has proved to be in the office of labor enforcement, california state luand initial labor luthis is violations of laws in order for us to be able to start with the conversation or trigger the process of suspension and debarment. but we understand the human service network concerns and happy to have the conversations and see how we can address them. if necessary, to have language that would do this. given the fact next week, the indigenous people's day and we

will have no rules mittee nor the board hearing, happy to continue that make the motion to move this to full board and allow us to have the next week or 2 to have the conversation and if need be we come become at full board potential amendments if we can figure out a solution. or that we do a better job to continue the conversation to safe guard in the future. we have been having this conversation during recess as well since the introduction, which is in june and july. it will be on going and you know we will keep working. thank you. >> thank you, vice chair walton. >> thank you i like to move that we sends this forward to the full burden with positive recommendation. >> thank you, mr. clerk we will call that motion.

>> on this motion vice chair walton. >> aye. >> supervisor safai. >> aye. >> chair dorsey. >> aye. >> motion aszs without objection. >> thank you, on the unanimous vote item 5 administrative code suspension or debar am of contractors violation of labor laws good to the full board with positive recommend agsz. >> thank you. >> thank you. am call item 6. >> item 6 ordinance establishing the labor and employment code redesignating worker protection ordinance and ordinances related it employees of city condition tractors in the code and the police code and provisions of the now labor and employment code and direct the city attorney to renumber the prosecute visions added unemployment code and update cross reference throughout the mounl code. thank you, and this is authored

by supervisor safai. who i believe is here to speak about this. >> the floor is yours >> thank you. this is per of my effort to improve working conditions for san franciscans. i worked with city attorney's office to draft legislation this helped displaced workers like janitors and security guards. city has an office of labor enforce them ddz does administrate of the city attorney has a labor team to bing affirmative lit gagdz we updateded the law use all the tools. back when the ordinance was written and put in the police code only way to enforcement was making difficult for wars to find when than i need and comply

with the laws. although this ordinance makes so substantive changes at this time, it establishes the labor employment code to join the charter and the felony others this make up our municipal code. division -- will cover worker protection general low for all employees public and private. like laws like the minimum wage. paid sick leave. lactation in the w place. grocery worker retention. 19 in all. division two cover those this impact city contractors 9 scomplus most important wage, compification sa, health care and more. as a clerical matter the law strikes low laws that xroired by operational law related covid-19. i want to thank the city attorney's office. matt goldberg. office of labor standards pat

mulligan and wing on the code clean up. and with this, colleagues i ask for your support and sends this to the board with positive recommendation on october 17th. >> great. thank you, supervisor safai. and i want to express my appreciation to you for your work on this. i know that code clone and up renumbering is thankless but important work and i think this is good change that i am happy to support. >> thanks. no one on the roster mr. clerk, open to public comment. why numbers of public when wish to poke in person lineup to speak. members remote, press star 3 to enter the queue. there is nobody in the room for public comment at this time and

one caller for public comment. can we have that caller, please? >> great. dave you'd pilpel. i heard supervisor sa fei'sing complangz and sorry i don't understand the need for this new labor and employment code and wondering if there is another way i understand that the various laws and prosecute visions are scattered throughout and there is an interest in centralizing them. motive it be possible to create a new chapter in the administrative code and possible low in the police code? to achieve the same intent with the -- whatever is division one and 2? here with respect to employers general low. and city contractors? i am just concerned about adding

a new code like i was not krez about the campaign governmental conduct code and the municipal election's code. i think having the code continue to prolive rit is also not a great idea despite making additions and changes to the various laws. i'm wonder figure there is another way to achieve this goal short of -- creating an entirely new code and moving sections of the municipal and -- existing administrative and please codes. there. so much that's my thought if this is the only or best way to achieve it so be it i wanted to express those occurrence. thank you very much for listening. >> thank you. . that was our left caller on

public comment phone line >> thank you, public comment is closed. and supervisor safai? >> thank you, i'd like to make a motion to send this to the full board with positive recommendation for the hearing on full board meeting october 17th. why grit. thank you. mr. clerk can we have a roll call >> on that motion vice chair walton. why aye >> supervisor safai. >> aye. >> chair dorsey. why aye. >> the motion passes. >> thank you. unanimous vote item 6 administrate ever please code stake the labor and. am code is sent to the full board with positive recommendation. mr. clerk do we have further business? >> this completes our agenda. >> thank you we are adjourned.

[music] welcome to this over vow of san francisco ethic's commission. we are excited introduce to you our work and serve as a resource for city employees and officials. the ethicky commission created by san francisco voters in 1993. to impartial low over see rowel and guidelines for i cleaner

government. we help those work nothing or with local gentleman follow the rules through education, support and enforcement the commission shapes the rules to make them strong, practical and enforceable. the public expects and deserves the government this serves them. this means serving the public without improper influence or seeking personal gain. the government's decisions made fairly and open low. however, this is not always the case. for this reason, rules and guide lines exist to steer people away from violating the law or engage nothing unethical behavior. the ethicky commission provides education and assistness for people working with local government includes city employees, officers, candidates,

lobbyists and others engaged in or with government. here are examples of our work. we create new ethic's policies. help officials avoid conflicts of interest. manage public disclosures, over see campaign finances and including recordkeeping and the administration of campaign financing and aid the registration and reporting of lobbyists, campaign and permit consultants and mirj developers. audit campaign, lobbyist and city filers. we investigate complaints of violation and it is commission's jurisdiction and fines for violation. the san francisco ethic's

commission is lead boy 5 voluntary commissioners. who each serve a single 6 year term. the ethic's commission is here for you. we welcome to you engage with us by phone, on line or in person. thank you for watching. 5 o'clock. >> (music). >> co-founder. we started in 2008 and with the intent of making the ice cream with grown up flavors and with like and with tons of accessible freshens

and so we this is - many people will like it and other people will like you my name is alice my husband we're the owners of you won't see ice cream in san francisco and really makes fishing that we are always going together and we - we provide the job opportunity for high school students and i hired them every year and . >> fun community hubble in san francisco is my district i hope we can keep that going for many years. >> and i'm alexander the owner of ice cream and in san francisco and in the outer sunset in since 1955 we have a vast of flavors liar choke o'clock but the flavors more

than three hundred flavors available and i am the owner of the ice cream. and my aunt used to take us out to eat ice cream all the time and what can i do why not bring this ice cream shop and (unintelligible) joy a banana split or a great environment for people to come and enjoy. >> we're the ordinances of the hometown and our new locations in pink valley when i finished law school we should open up a store and, and, and made everybody from scrap the first ice cream shop any ice cream we do our own culture background

and a lot of interaction and we're fortunate we can get feedback and serve to the king of ending and also >> for us, we wish we had our queue and we created spaces that are active. >> food and drinks. there is a

lot for a lot of folks and community. for us, it started back in 1966 and it was a diner and where our ancestors gathered to connect. i think coffee and food is the very fabric of our community as well as we take care of each other. to have a pop-up in the tenderloin gives it so much meaning. >> we are always creating impactful meaning of the lives of the people, and once we create a space and focus on the most marginalized, you really include a space for everyone. coffee is so cultural for many communities and we have coffee of maria inspired by my

grandmother from mexico. i have many many memories of sharing coffee with her late at night. so we carry that into everything we do. currently we are on a journey that is going to open up the first brick and mortar in san francisco specifically in the tenderloin. we want to stay true to our ancestors in the tenderloin. so we are getting ready for that and getting ready for celebrating our anniversary. >> it has been well supported and well talked about in our community. that's why we are pushing it so much because that's how we started. very active community members. they give back to the community. support trends and give back and

give a safe space for all. >> we also want to let folks know that if they want to be in a safe space, we have a pay it forward program that allows 20% to get some funds for someone in need can come and get a cup of coffee, pastry and feel welcomed in our community. to be among our community, you are always welcome here. you don't have to buy anything or get anything, just be here and express yourself and be your authentic self and we will always take care of you.

>> good morning everyone. welcome to the september 26 meeting of the san francisco county transportation authority board. i'm supervisor mandelman. i want to thank jason from sfgovtv. our clerk elija saunders. mr. clerk, would you please call the roll? chan absent. commissioner dorsey. dorsey absent. commissioner engardio. engardio present. chair mandelman, present. vice chair melgar, present. commissioner peskin, present.

commissioner preston, present. commissioner ronan, present. commissioner safai, present. commissioner stefani, present. commissioner walton, present. chair, we have quorum. >> alright. thank you mr. clerk. i think you have a public comment announcement. >> i do. for members of the public interested in par ticipating we welcome. or watch cable channel 26 or 99 depending on your provider or stream live at www.sfgovtv.org. enter access code 2661, 6292260. and press pound and pound again. you will be able to listen to the meeting in real time. when public comment is called press star 3 to be added to the queue. do not press star 3

again or you will be unmuted. the operator will advice you are allowed to speak. calls will be taken in the order received. best practice are speak slowly and clearly and turn down the volume. public comment will be taken first from members in attendance and afterwards from remote speaker on the telephone line. commissioner chan has entered and present. thank you. >> before calling our next item, i want to invoke rule 3.26 to limit total public comment to 30 minutes. each speaker has two minutes to speak on a given item unless i endicate otherwise at the start of that item. mr. clerk, will you please call our next item? >> item 2, chair's report. information item. >> thank you mr. clerk. colleagues, as you know, september is transit month. i want to thank the

san francisco transit riders. thanks to folks on the board who attended the kick off rally september 5 and participated in various activities throughout the month. it was a joy and delight to join vice chair melgar, commissioner dorsey and director chang this past weekday along with thousands of members at the caltrain event tour of the new electric trains that operate as the caltrain electrification project opening next fall, 2024. thank you vice chair melgar for speaking on behalf of this board as well as supervisor dorsey. high speed rail at sales force transit. the ta provided (4) 100-0000 in prop k and one bay area grant fund to support the electrification

project which usher quite less polluting and faster train service serving communities along the line including the southeast sector through potential new station in the bayview. thank you commissioner walton for serving as director on the caltrain jgb working with caltrain leaders on these exciting improvements. another recent development is the legislature approval of ab645, the speed safety camera pilot bill from assembly woman laura friedman that authorize implementation of speed safety cameras in six cal cities including san francisco. i focused on the need for sfpd to step enforcement of unsafe traffic behaviors and will hold a hearing on that at our pss committee at the board of supervisors this thursday september 28 beginning at 10 a.m. thank colleagues and community members for your support on the effort. i want to thank walk

sf, bay area safe streets, commissioner peskin and commissioner dorsey and broad state wide coalition that advocated to get this speed safety camera bill to the governor's desk for signature. we need this tool along with sfpd traffic enforcement and all the other tools to counter the sad disturbing increase in severe and fatal crashes, including the tragic death of a child and two seniors in the past month alone on our streets. i submitted to governor newsom [indiscernible] vision zero strategies implementing later on this morning agenda. finally, as many of you probably all of you know and experience yourselves, san francisco has seen a steady increase in self-driving cars and now the epicenter of

driverless-the california public utility commission approved expansion of driverless av permits in san francisco. we had advocated for more limited incremental expansion out of consideration for the continued emergency response conflicts among other concerns, crews and wamo can provide driverless service in san francisco 24/7 and no restriction on the size of the fleets. crews did reduce the fleet by half following a crash with responding sf fire department truck at the request of the california dmv. thanks to city attorney david chui and staff working with our city av team to file a motion to stay and rehear the cpuc decision on the av permits. i know lots share the concerns and have questions about this

topic of av policy and note this has been a state wide and national area of discussion within the disability and labor community as well. in particular, i want to thank commissioner peskin who has been very much taking the lead on sounding the alarm on these issues. i look forward to a robust discussion on national state and local regulatory policy at that time and with that, i will conclude my remarks and i see no comments or questions, so let's see if there is any public comment. anyone in the chamber has public comment, come forward and if not, see if there is remote public comment on item 2. >> checking for remote public comment on item 2. chair, there is no

public comment. >> alright. public comment on item 2 is closed. mr. clerk, please call our next item. >> item 3, executive director report. this information item. >> good morning chair, commissioners. begin my report this morning with good news that san francisco has received three caltrans sustainable transportation planning grant awards in the recent months. it was really a pleasure to hear out of the entire state wide san francisco received $2.3 million including $474 thousand to caltrain joint powers authority for climate change vulnerability study to address the impact along the caltrain corridor. in addition, bart received $515 thousand for its embarcadero structure long-term adaptation project to look to see how they might adapt their infrastructure along that corridor and are then the sfmta together

with port of san francisco received over $1.3 million for embarcadero mobility resilience plan, so those will be coordinating along the embarcadero corridor. this is a great outcome and congratulate all four agencies. thank the staff for their investment helping make san francisco infrastructure these areas more resilient. turn to outreach. just wanted to note the bayview caltrain station location study has upcoming outreach. as you recall, this is study to advance a single preferred location of the two remaining options at oak dale and evans. since the closure of paul avenue back in 2005. so, we have been advancing work on the study including preliminary station design options. seeking community input. the team presented so far to the bayview hunter point and ship yard cac and host

oorlth outreach at the hunter point ymca10:30 a.m. october 14. more information can be found at the project website, sfcta.org/bayview-caltr ain. also the planning team are working on brotherhood way safety circulation plan. outreach launch this month and into negative. connecting with community based neighborhoods organizations to introduce the outreach approach and are details about the first round of outreach which begins in november. this will focus on the transportation access needs and barriers. multimodal challenges in that high need and high area traffic area focus. including pedestrian and bike access. so will be incorporating these into subsequent coordination with the state as close to the interchange of highway 1 right in the

southwest sector. next, just want to highlight district 4 community shuttle outreach. this is a shuttle to look at a business case for serving the sunset area with potentially different kinds of on demand shuttles. this could be implemented perhaps in the next year or two following the study and we are right now in the process of serving the community about trade-offs in terms of different service attributes. also include focus group with merchant senior and community based organizations. encourage folks to look for the survey, both online and contact our planning team at the transportation authority as well. we have deputy director for planning who can help engage folks who may need access to that study. we also will hope to bring that report back to you all in early 2024. turning to project

delivery. the brada light rail vehicle overhaul is complete. the overhaul of the prior fleet of 149 light rail vehicles that is being used out and bringing on the scene to replace, about there are still some of them that need to be operating so thank you to sfmta overhauling the fleet. turning to school engineering. prop k funded school audits are complete. sfmta finished walk audit reports and improvements at five schools aptos middle school [indiscernible] loten elementary, mission prep and are paul revers in district 9. 95 potential improvements across all the 5 schools, 20 have

been completed. each school does have a budget of about $50 thousand for their near term improvements. staff implemented starting in september earlier summer of 23 and anticipate completing improvements winter of 24. just want to thank them again. this includes measures such as signs, curb paint, roadway paint and speed humps, raised cross walks and signal timing modifications. turning to additional traffic calming in the bayview. commissioner walton i think sfmta celebrated the completion of 8 new traffic calming devices along gilman avenue and [indiscernible] that is really great news. very much needed. this is near especially bret heart element. this project is funded by a prop k grant of $3 million. golden gate avenue and laguna street paving.

that project is also substantially completed. happy to report it is $3 million grant as well from the prop k program. this would be golden gate and laguna. van ness to divisadero and haight to golden gate and turk to pine street. this is about 36 blocks of pavement renovation, construction, retrofitting of 21 curb ramps and new sidewalk construction so thank you to sfmta for that work and public works. joyce alley district 3, the lighting improvement project a very small modest one, but very key to china town has been completed. this is is to help make the sidewalk inviting and safer near gordon elementary and cable car line and new subway station at rose pac. [indiscernible] the new lighting and ta provided $500 thousand in prop aa vehicle

registration fee funds to support that project. two more. the sfmta bike rack instillation around the city is making great progress. mta completed another traunch,ic about 1400 bike racks installed with funding from the transportation fund for clean air from the air district we administer for the air district. the board approved this round back in june, so want to take a moment to highlight the progress mta continues to make and appreciate that approximately 30 percent of the racks are in equity priority communities over the last few years. members of the public can continue to request instillation of new bike racks by visiting sfmta.com/gettingaround . fulton street safety project completed the last final piece. the speed radar sign on fulton at 16 and 39,

these were the final elements of the fulton street safety project in district 1 and funded by district 1 neighborhood and tip funds from the prop k sales tax and again this started with community driven process to identify safety imprubments along fulton and installed various other improvements including painted safety zones and intersection daylighting and with bike signals along with a new paved path to golden gate park at 22 avenue for cyclists. turning to a few admin updates, i was recently privileged to attend the its australia summit in melbourne as a member of the u.s. dot sponsored federal highway delegation. included panel and discussion with europe and asia on connected and autonomous vehicles and av regulation . ologist talks btd net zero transportation policy.

honored to give short talks on both topics and was able to tour the melbourne tunnel project at 9 kilometer 4 station subway under construction in the heart of melbourne and shared a lot of lessens learned from our tunnel projects as part of that exchange. the long time director of communication eric young departed after 10 years. he is now moving to the port of san francisco where we wish him all the best and so want to thank eric for his tenure and contributions and also note we are now recruiting for a successor director of communication and more information on that position is on the website, sfcta.orgment thank you so much. >> thank you director chang. let's open your report to public comment. if anyone in the chamber who would like to talk about item 3, come forward and if there is no one, let's see if we have remote public comment on item

3. >> there is public comment. let me go to the caller. welcome caller, your two minutes begins now. >> good morning commissioners. i just want to share that i'm extremely excited about the director chang's visit to the melbourne project and i look forward hearing more about what she learned down there. in closing, i would like to echo a comment about eric young. i had the opportunity to interact with eric multiple times over the last 10 years. [indiscernible] launched the autonomous shuttles on the treasure island and as always eric was [indiscernible] he was knowledgeable and

extremely helpful. i will miss him and wish him the best. thank you. >> thank you caller. there is no additional public comment. >> alright. public comment on item 3 is closed. mr. clerk, please call item 4. >> item 4, approve the minutes of september 12, 2023 meeting. action item. >> any public comment on the minutes in the chambers? not seeing any. let's see if there is remote public comment on item 4? >> there is no remote public comment on item 4. >> okay. public comment item 4 is closed. motion to approve the minutes? moved by preston, seconded by dorsey. mr. clerk, please call the roll on item 4. [roll call]

>> there are 11 ayes, the minutes are approved. >> thank you mr. clerk. please call our consent aagenda items 5-9. >> 5-9 comprise consent. staff ist noplanning to present on these items, but available for questions. is there a motion to approve the consent agenda? >> moved by walton, seconded by melgar and think we can talk that same house same call without objection. the consent agenda is passed.

>> i think we have jen wong, the sfmta quick-build program manager. >> hello and good morning. jen wong. i am a transportation planner and also the vision zero quick-build program manager at san francisco mta. today i'll provide a update on various projbects of this program. as i was initially invited to by members of the cac.

i'll begin with valencia street. >> hold up. you have a slide show you are trying to show? >> yes. >> there we go.

>> do we want to take a couple minute break to-- >> sfgov, can you please share the slides? >> are we happy?

we can see slides. it is not the ideal format, but do we want to just go with it? that seems excellent. we had one moment of like--was exactly right.

there you go. you got it. you are good. success. take it away. quickly-- >> alright. great. want to make sure you got the visual here. so, i'll begin with valencia street. again, this pilot project was approved back in april and had been recently completed just last month. this was really a all hands on deck effort to install new protected center running bike ways on valencia street for the first time in the associated on-street parking and loading changes. the project involved a lot of new materials that were new for san francisco streets that were especially ordered just for this project that includes, the k71 balereds and black and white bus curbs. these are materials that are very new for

us. and it seems there might be a delay. i will say that, valencia has been in the spotlight for construction, we do have a couple other projects that were in construction or finished construction. so, we have the bay shore boulevard quick-build project that starts construction last month and now finishing up any day now and this project installed curb side protected bikeways and traffic calming between silver and oakdale. on lake merced, construction started at the top of this month and one of the longest corridors. our construction will be coming in at various phases and taken all together some of the really exciting elements of this project include a protected bikeway protected with concrete kirks, traffic calming and new bus boarding

islands. next up, we have the lincoln quick-build project. that is currently preparing for construction and this project nearly covers the entire southern boarder of golden gate park where we will install new cross walks, painted safety zones, left turn calming, treatments, signal up grades and timing improvements to help people cross the street. during the open house of this project, over 800 comments collected from over 550 respondents. also, waiting in the wings we have the quick-build project which had a open house in april and approved by mta board in july. this project involves protected bikeways and that serves as a valuable connection between the great highway and lake

merced as mentioned earlier. similar to lincoln street, lincoln way, engineers for the project are also in the process of preparing their implementation work orders. and then following slowly behind closely behind, we have a couple projects that hosted open house events earlier this year. the open house really is a major milestone for projects since it is a opportunity for the teams to collect feedback on the proposed designs and make adjustments in response before pursuing final approvals. hyde street is a project where two alternatives were shared during the open house period, and since then the team has been coming over on the feedback collected and they will be making their final recommendations to the mta board as soon as

next month. the 17 street project also held an open house earlier this year and are also preparing for mta board approval this fall, and scope of the project includes upgrading existing bike lanes to protected bike lanes and the team is also working very closely with major institutions along that corridor. so, the project i presented so far are meant to highlight fresh and major milestones and exciting news and recent news. there are many other corridor projects that are in the works so of particular note i wanted to call out these two. oak street and [indiscernible] well under way in design phase and conducting a lot of outreach. the oak street project takes place alongside the pan handle and southern street focus

on the segments between market and polk street. protected bikeways will be key elements for both of these projects. for these ongoing projects and for really any of our quick-build projects, i truly invite everyone to visit sfmta.com/quickbuild to find more information there. and lastly, i just wanted to also share with you all the quick-build pool kit project and this is a new initiative that we are undertaking, which is a effort to install proven core safety treatments on all remaining parts of the high injury network where we still have remaining work to do. based on the study completed we are implementing tools like pedestrian head-start timing and painted safety zones at targeted and specific locations and will be

tracking our progress with a mapping tool in order to visualize and quantify our progress of implementation. we expect this effort to be in the range of 5 to $6 million and we will be returning this fall with a funding allocation request for this effort specifically. i will say that our design work has begun. we currently have a team of 4 engineers who are assigned to complete designs. we are committed to carrying out this initiative along with completing our quick-build corridor projects funded and in progress. thanks to the support of this board and are thank you and that concludes my update. >> thank you.

commissioner ronan. >> thank you so much. thank you for the presentation. i just want to acknowledge very sadly that just last week a 80 year old man was hit and killed crossing valencia street and became the 14th pedestrian in the city. of the 14, 5 have been in district 9, so this is extremely important to me and moving quickly as in the name is extremely important to me. i do want to just clear up any concerns that the pedestrian death was not related to the bike lanes. the vehicle was turning left on valencia street, and the bike lanes were not involved in any way shape or form, so i want to make

that clear. the original quick-build plan was to finish all it the projects by december this year, by the end of this calendar year, and several of those that are underway are in district 9. are you on track to complete those projects by those timelines and if not, why and what do you need to get on track to meet that goal? or that commitment you made to san franciscans? >> i'll begin by reiterating our commitment to completing our quick-build projects by the end of 2024. for any specific projects, in district 9 or other districts really happy to connect you directly with the project team who will have a more detailed

understanding of all the complexities and design challenges or outreach efforts they have been conducting. qu know every quick-build project is very special and they do have a tailored process in terms of who they are reaching out to. the level of engagement and just based on its geography and location. there are very particular constraints and details they need to work with. i'm happy to look into the specific projects. >> sorry. did you say whether or not you are on track to complete all the projbects by thend of the year? >> yes. all of the projects, yes. >> okay. how are you communicating progress for each project? i know advocates have asked for a public dashboard, something where we could

actually follow in real time where you are at with each of the individual projects. >> yeah. the individual projects all have project teams assigned to them and do tailored communication to their stakeholders and to the community groups they are in touch with, so those all usually through e-mail updates. could be one on one stakeholder meetings joining on presentations and providing those updates. in terms of programatically, we do send monthly updates out to a e-mail subcription list where we have i think-in the hundreds of subcribers. we also will push those updates out on our quick-build landing page. again, that is smta.com/quickbuild. i know a lot of our quick-build is one

segment of the work we do and a lot of that information once completed does get rolled up into a higher level vision zero dashboard that quantifys the amount of treatments that we are installing. >> how many projects total are there? left to be completed? >> let's see--i believe there are currently 15 corridor projects remaining. these are the more complex sort of corridor redesign sort of efforts. >> so, the only way to find out and get updates on where each one of these 15 projects is at is to go on to the website and track down--there is no one area that we could go to that has all 15 projects and where they are in the completion process?

>> there is. so, on that web page, we do have a monthly table that we will update that summarizes the entirety of all the projects. >> okay. can you send that link to me so i can check that out and make sure that that's widely known and shared? >> certainly. >> okay, appreciate this. again, with 5 of the 14 pedestrian deaths this year in district 9, i feel more urgency then ever before. i don't know why we are moving backwards, but it is really concerning. let's hope that our governor signs the latest bill to reduce speed and get cameras up. we know that's by far one of the most effective ways of insuring that our drivers are driving safer, but these

numbers are just awful. they are absolutely awful, and we got to double down and are make sure we are moving forward and not backwards. thank you. >> thank you commissioner ronan. if you dont mind, i want to try asking that a little more or again because i think one thing that is confusing to me and maybe i just don't quite get how this is supposed to work, but at least as i understand it, it is more then 50 miles of quick-build work left to do in a year plus a few months, and i guess that works out to like a little more then 3 miles a month, and you are saying we are committed to it, but--am i thinking-that seems like quite a lift. is it quite a lift? is that realistic that you think you can get those 50 plus miles done in the next year?

is that the wrong way to think about it? can you maybe--i think the same question, but--if you could-the scale seems quite significant, but maybe is the scale consistent with the pace--i don't think it is consistent with the pace so far, but if it is--i am misunderstanding. >> i can add a little clarification to that. so, i think there's two concurrent efforts that we are undertaking. one effort is the more complex corridor style projects where we are redesigning streets from curb to curb. the second effort, which was the summary of my last slide is our quick-build tool kit project and we are really counting on the quick-build tool kit on maximizing our coverage and hitting all the locations of that 50

miles remaining. again- >> you will switch them in some way? >> yes, we will. just making sure that they all have the core safety elements and more, so there are locations that we will evaluate for treatments that are little more specialized, such as turn calming treatments, painted safety zones and signalized upgrades. >> sorry, can we look at that slide with the basic tool kit touches?

>> please turn on the slides. thank you. >> i can also name the treatments displayed on that slide. that includes [indiscernible] daylight, continental crosswalks, signal retiming for pedestrian head starts, signal retiming for a slower walking speed. painted safety zones and also turn calming treatments. >> the notion is something in that

neighborhood goes to each of these high injury but the extent of it is to be determined? >> we'll evaluate all the remaining locations for all of these treatments. not just one. >> so it seems you might--is that a good call? because you are now trying to give some kind of coverage in lots and lots of places, but might not be done or close to done with that corridor. >> the goal is implementation. >> okay. i'm sure we'll hear from the advocacy community, their thoughts on that. vice chair melgar. >> thank you chair mandelman. so, i am so glad for this update. thank you very much for the presentation. i'm thrilled we are on

pace to complete the quick-build on lake merced boulevard. there have been two deaths on lake merced since i have been supervisor due to high speeds, and also to [indiscernible] which is right at the boarder of supervisor engardio and my district in front of the zoo which gets a lot of traffic and the way to the great highway. i am really glad about that. there is some things that were not in your presentation that i worry about quite a bit as well. i'm wondering if that will be on the website that you talked about or it f there is a way to figure out timeline. i'm specifically worried about frita callow [indiscernible] because we have had a committee of residents working on the ocean

avenue stuff and the mta did go to the residents about-which i totally support. the integration of that with everything else we are doing on ocean avenue is really important. in both [indiscernible] and freeda callow are in front of multiple schools. city college on one side. active construction and [indiscernible] and in the morning and in the afternoon in front of rearden there is all kinds of stuff in multiple parents dropping off, bicycle ists and kids walking, so i'm eager to understand the timing, when that will be done and especially before we add a bunch of new residents at the balboa reservoir which is going to happen. clarenden is on a hill, people go very very fast and at least once

a week i get complaints from folks in forest [indiscernible] midtown terrace about the high speeds and lack of safety, so also eager to hear about that. even though it is not at my district, forgive me supervisor ronan, but i do take the valencia bicycle lane every day, twice a day, and i do think despite my initial skepticism, i do think it is better then it was before, however, i am wondering if we are keeping track-in the presentation you talked about new materials and you know, getting used to handling them and wondering if there is a assessment of the new materials going forward? at least a third of the ballard are damages or down. i had people in cars like turn around in

front of me on my bike and it is a very very highly trafficked bike lane now. it is a main thoroughfare now, which is great, but i also think that people behave badly and the materials we use kind of enable it. i'm wondering if we are keeping track of that, revisiting it, giving feedback if there is data that we have attached to those new materials. that was a lot of questions. sorry. >> sure. i'll start with freeda callow. i just wanted to reassure that project is well underway and the project team has been having very direct discussions with city college and i think there are very close to presenting their final proposals and will be likely going to mta board soon. some time this fall.

for clarenden avenue, that corridor is also in the works. we have a project team assigned and they will be having discussions with elementary school. that project is also closely coordinated with repaving that will be done, so that-will be ready by the time public works is mobilizing their repaving crews, so those are tied together. for valencia materials, i know that once construction has significantly concluded in august, that kick-starts their evaluation period and i think that material selection or evaluation of the materials quality i think will be a piece of that. i know that for our projects our engineers do very careful

selection of what they are using based on the urban context they are working with, so sort of in contrast, lake merced is as you mentioned is fairly high speed and for that reason for that project they went with the concrete protection, so there is some consideration in terms of what is used. i think one of the great things about quick-build project is that it is meant to be iterative as a defined process and a lot of what we are installing in the first round could -does lend itself to be upgraded later on and modified and tweaked based on our evaluation. >> commissioner dorsey. >> thank you chair

mandelman. first, i want to express my appreciation to everyone for the excellent work done for the report and thank everybody from mta and sfcta who have been working diligently over the years on vision zero. it is appreciated. the report unsurprisingly notes district 6 is one of the city's most dangerous areas and identifies 21 projects for the district. on the high speed one way corridors the report suggest among other possibilities, road diets. i think given how dangerous the corridors are design review and robust improvements would be adviseable. is there a plan and timeline for those streets in particular harrison, bryant, 9th and 10th? those in my experience are the ones i think should be prioritized

so curious if there is a timelibe timeline? >> for several corridors where we have more travel lanes to work with, i think we'll be taking an even closer look for improvements beyond just the quick-build tool kit. the 8 items i had listed. like you refer to, i think road diets could be something we will evaluate for those three locations. >> okay. is there a set of criteria--can i ask how mta prioritize projects that are identified in the report? >> i think that is a great question. there's actually a number of factors that we try to balance and use for prioritization. i think some of the factors include

whether we are establishing a network connection say in the bicycle network for instance. there is also construction coordination opportunities such as upcoming sewer projects or repaving projects we might want to join in on their timelines. there are also other considerations such as schools, whether there are a history of advocacy that has been expressed to us through other projects. we also have maintained relationships through some stakeholders that we talked to for prior projects and they might indicate to us where there's additional need. also, we have equity priority communities where we might want to focus our work, and

funding opportunities as well. these are all factors that we try to balance. >> funding can i ask, given current resources, how many miles of projects do you think we could complete per month? in the time you identify? >> currently we are funded through a combination of tnc tax programs as well as our prop k or perhaps upcoming prop l half cent sales tax and all the corridor projects have been allocated funding through this board. come later this season in fall, my vision zero program manager will be coming back to submit a request in a range of 5 to $6 million for this

quick-build tool kit effort, which is really meant to get us that full coverage. >> thanks. >> commissioner stefani. >> thank you. just a few questions. i am just a bit confused about the report and the presentation. there have been three pedestrian deaths in district 2 this year, 23 percent of all throughout the city and i am looking at the cut sheets in the consultant's report. i'm just confused on how you are going to prioritize the 50 miles of quick-build. i know chair dorsey--commissioner dorsey was trying to get at that too in terms of prioritizing, but i would like to know and we can take this off-line, how you are planning for district 2, how i can communicate to my

constituents what will be done and when. more then half of the 160 touch sheets that had recommendations from the consultant for enhanced pedestrian safety treatments, i am not certain how it is being factored into the sfmta work plan and the $5 million--is everything contingent on that funding? if you can just provide some clarity around at least specific districts. don't expect you to do that right now, but i really would like to know so i can communicate to my constituents when these improvements are going to be made. >> yes. certainly. happy to is set up time and look more in depth of your specific district and look at the work that remains there. we are currently going through work-planning, but i think once we have some clarity about

our shop capacity i will certainly get back to you. >> okay. i just want clarity on what exactly you need to get this done on time. is it staffing or funding or political support? what do you need to get this done on time? >> i would say a combination of all of the above. i definitely think that we have already gathered quite a bit of support. we had a lot of support from advocates who are challenging us and really making sure that we are putting this effort at the forefront. i heard from my leadership that over the course of the year, our field operation crews, they do routine work and something like this will definitely rise to the top and take priority.

>> thank you. >> thank you commissioner stefani. commissioner preston. >> thank you chair mandelman and thank you for all the work on this to everyone involved. i just want to-i think these quick-builds are extremely important part of our strategy. also want to recognize despite some really positive work through the quick-build to date and many of the other strategies we have taken that we are still looking this far into vision zero at last year of 39 traffic related deaths, the highest i think since 2007 if not mistaken, so the more the better in my opinion, and encouraged to see some of the plans here i did want to just comment on a few things. one is, in the tenderloin in particular, to give credit for real progress around quick-builds that i think have been really important in the tenderloin, but i also want to emphasize commissioner dorsey's

point around looking at road diet strategies to especially some of these fast moving one way streets that continue to be a real problem in terms of injuries and deaths, so looking forward collaborating on that as well. i also wanted to comment on the polk street and thank you for highlighting that. the bike lane plan there and just really want to note that as modeled off the fell street parking protected bike lane as in my opinion really a model for how to go about some of these and just want to thank mta and fire department and neighbors and everyone with our office collaborating around pushing that forward, but also the data and making sure it wasn't negatively impacting first responders. it reduced speeds and been a really positive change on fell street and hopefully will

move forward without delays on oak street, so thank you for highlighting that one. i do want to ask about couple streets in my district that i did not see highlighted and are of concern. that is gough and franklin which continued to be very high speed and dangerous stretches both in my district and stretches into my colleague district in district 2 to the north. can you--is there a reason those are not highlighted more prominently here? >> sure. i can speak on franklin for a little bit. that project had been substantially completed earlier this year. however, we-since implementation, we conducted evaluation of that project and i believe the project team is now coming back to revisit some of the

prior proposals that they had been considering, and i think there are specific evaluation measures that they were looking into that came up a little short so i think that project team is in the spirit of quick-build, looking at how that can be adjusted and refined in order to further reduce speeds. so, it is a ongoing effort and again, iterative process for that project. >> thank you. anything planned on gough? >> for gough street, i am currently not aware of any efforts aside from the quick-build tool kit, but i can certainly check with my directors to see if there was anything planned and get back to you. >> thank you very much. >> thank you commissioner preston. i think colleagues if we don't have other

comments or questions we should go to public comment. let's do it. folks in the chamber who would like to come forward, line up on that side. >> good morning chair mandelman and this commission. my name is jody executive director of walk san francisco. i'm so grateful for all of you today to really highlight what is being heard and keep our city committed to vision zero. we need your focus, because this is a critical piece of how we are going to get and end the epidemic on our streets. i am so glad we actually have this report. these are your cut sheets. this is the marching orders for the agency and it does outline what needs to be done. i'm disappointed of the presentation and responses you heard

today. i'm concerned about the lack of detail. of when and how the sfmta will deliver the promise to complete the sizable project in a condensed amount of time. we need a plan. we also are asking for these additional enhanced pedestrian safety treatments like the left turn calming and no turn on red and pedestrian safety zones. they need to be added at the same time, because this is the bear minimum to keep us safe in the crosswalk. the report show where the road diets need to be had. bryant, harrison, 9th, 10th-we need redesign because we have to manage speed in the city. we all should be able to cross the street safely, especially our concern and seniors. and we are here today

to ask you and invite you to encourage the sfmta to make the improvements on the 900 intersections or 50 plus miles and complete on time by december 2024. thank you. >> good morning chair mandelman and commissioners. my name is [indiscernible] i live in north beach, district 3. going to keep this short because i'm angry about recent pedestrian deaths and what i really want to say would offend. i was hit by a car in the city barely survived and by god's grace here in front of all you now with and for those who are no longer able or no longer with us. vision zero needs more vision heroes. from where i stand they

are here speaking truth before and after me requiring your immediate attention. their demands should be yours. please listen, please act, this is your responsibility to be on the right side of saving lives. thank you. >> thank you. next speaker. >> good morning chair and commissioners. my name is [indiscernible] the advocacy manager for walk san francisco. people are being hit and killed cross the street. three people in six weeks, a four year old girl is included. meanwhile, 900 intersections on the high injury network have yet to get any basic pedestrian safety improvements. we applaud the sfmta getting a full assessment of what needed at the 900 dangerous intersections.

but having the information is the first step. today's presentation did not include a slide how the sfmta will deliver now it has details on the dangerous intersections. as you heard today, there is not a clear plan. but we need a public plan for how exactly the sfmta will deliver on the e promise to bring the safety improvements. accountability on this issue is a matter of life and death. it would be heart-breaking if a year from now the sfmta hasn't delivered at niece intersections. let's not look back on this moment with regret. the board must insist and receive a realistic achievable plan soon.

thank you. >> anybody in the chamber who wants to talk about item 10? come forward. >> chair, there is remote public comment. going to the first caller. hello caller, your two minutes begins now. >> good morning chair mandelman and commissioners. my name is [indiscernible] i live in district 6. first i want to restate the last 6 weeks three people have been killed simply crossing the street in our city, including a 4 year old child. i live near forth and king and this tragedy was a scary reminder it can easily happen to me too. i had several close calls across the city with drivers. the streets enable them to drive dangerously. this is not a acceptable state of repair frz a world class city like ours and we all agree the

city should be designed for people not cars. we need to make vision zero realty and urge sfmta to deliver the promise to redesign [indiscernible]. every intersection needs a no turn on red change. sfmta study on the tenderloin pilot showed reduction in close calls and cross walks [indiscernible] should extend city wide to prioritize pedestrian safety, rather then driver convenience. we need left turn calming and pedestrian safety zones. the city needs a strong commitment to the changes along with long-term funding and staff requirements [indiscernible] three people including a young child are dead in six weeks. [indiscernible] our city deserves accountability to insure this never happens again. thank you for your time. >> thank you caller.

>> i ride my bike to work in east mission every day and absolutely love it. it is life changing and want to recommend to more people but it is very scary to do. i thank you for the comments from supervisor ronan. p i appreciated your concern, but i want to make counter-points. the supervisor mentioned that they think this recent pedestrian death was not related to the bike lane, however i think we see from around the world, the way to make crossings as safe as possible is reduce the distance the pedestrian is exposed when crossing, so having the center bike lane increases the amount of time the pedestrian is exposed and makes less visible. the supervisor also

mentioned hoping that we could get a state law to reduce speed limits, but i wanted to say i think that design is much more important then signs. when you are out there as a person oen the street, you are not worried about the average or compliant driver, you are worried about the drivers who are not following signs, so the best way to reduce speeds is not a sign on the side of the road, but rather the street design like narrow lanes, and other calming measures to slow drivers down. thank you sfmta for the quick-build work and hope as we eterate this quick-build we can move to side bike lanes on valencia to make biking safer and the crossings safer. thank you. >> thank you caller. moving on to the next caller.

high caller, your two minutes begins now. >> can you hear me? >> yes. go ahead. >> i'm steven bingum. my daughter was killed by [indiscernible] not in san francisco, but could have been there, and years ago. i have been every since a member of family for safe streets and i want to strongly endorse what jody said and the work that walk sf has been doing and i really appreciate the tenor of the questions of the supervisors. to staff it is clear there isn't a plan. there ought to be monthly plan with outcomes, specific outcomes. 900 intersections, there ought to be x

number completed every month and the agency should be brought in front of the board to concern that those have been done. disturbing listening to the agency put mta presentation is a little bit same old same old. we are all good safe and doing our best and get there, dont worry about it. it is not good for a public agency to be like that. too often things happen immediately as soon as someone gets killed. i remember emily [indiscernible] and all a sudden they put in the bike lane they promised months before. can't be like that folks. it is a question of life and death and i know it from personal experience. last thing unrelated but for everyone listening, please let the governor know to sign ab645, which

gives the city a tool with- >> thank you caller. >> speed camera. thank you. >> there is no more public comment for this item. >> public comment on item 10 is closed. could i get [indiscernible] can you talk about timing on gugairo? >> yes, we are targeting for a late spring implementation. >> okay. and so, we will have-you will come back to us it sounds like you may be asking us for money, but we are going to continue to have regular hearings on this. i guess the challenge in not having a-the challenge i experience as someone who is a funder and trying to provide oversight in

that function is, it is very hard to measure your progress if you won't tell us quhat you are trying to get done by when overall with this plan over the next year. i guess-i think this the concern is how would we know when you come back to us if you come back to us in november or if we have another follow up on this later this year or early next year, at what point would we know that you're not on track or do we not get to know that information until you are not on track if not on track next december? >> so, for our quick-build tool kit project we currently do have a dashboard where we can visualize the progress of implementation and we plan on making that go live prior to the upcoming vision zero quarter 3 update on october 3 and so that

is one tool that the public and everyone can look at. >> what is the metric for following progress that will be--is it miles, intersections, both? >> the main metric for that tool will be in miles. >> that will be when? >> miles by supervisor district. >> no, but that will go up you said this fall? >> in the coming days, so we do have a upcoming update on vision zero, including more information about this tool kit project, but along with other concurrent efforts such as the speed safety bill and multiple turn lanes, so more information on the over all vision zero program will be provided at the october three, sfmta

board meeting that is happening next tuesday. prior to that meeting, we will be making that dashboard live. >> thank you for your work. thank you for your presentation and mr. clerk, please call item 11. >> item 11 san francisco municipal transportation agency active communities plan update. this is information item. >> christopher kidd. >> good morning chair mandelman and rest thof commissioners. thank you for having us. my name is christopher kidd planner with complete streets. project manager for the active communities plan. we want to provide you an update today after a previous information update we provided this past april. so, as a refresher, reminder, the active community plan is

going to be our first plan for rolling and bicycling since the bike master plan. this is a project funded through caltrans planning grant as well as local match from the sfcta. when we have a final plan adopted hopefully in spring or summer of the coming year, it includes a 10 to 15 year investment plan to prioritize our work as a agency and the work across partner agencies at the city and expanded transportation network for active transportation, parking and facility recreation for bikes scooter and rolling devices and new supportive programs and policies to help overcome the barriers people experience to utilize participating in active transportation. project schedule we presented at the cta board in april. we have a 4 phase project over-spanning the 2023 calendar year where we spent the first half of this

year engaging with different communities and understanding their needs and challenges and values and we are now kind of closing out this second phase of outreach and are moving on to the development of a draft recommended network for the city. this will be something that we will be doing in partnership with our community partners and ross the city on the way to the development of a full draft plan this winter. as i mentioned, we have been doing outreach since january this year. we will do outreach past january next year and we are trying to focus two areas specifically, one is we want to be inclusive of all devices that can use the bike network. that includes scooters, power chairs, skateboard, roller blades. there is a broad away of emerging devices. we want to be proactive in the way we plan for this work so we can harness the benefits of the new devices while

helping avoid problems that come with them. but we also need to sener the needs of the vulnerable communities, which includes our black and brown residents, low income residents, service workers, peeping experiencing homelessness and people experiencing disabilities, youth, seniors [indiscernible] these are folks that bear the brunt of changes in transportation and transportation challenges and we need to insure we improve their mobility first and foremost. in terms of who we talked to so far, at this point we are closer to hundred city wide events then 82 listed here. engaging with over 5 thousand residents collecting input and surveys and responses from at this point probably over 3 thousand different residents, and series of public hearings including place s like today, but like the mayor's disability council, and we

produced all of our project materials in four languages. we tried to insure we reached people in a variety of ways, not relying on a single method that includes surveys, city wide events, places like sunday streets and other types of street festivals, farmers market. we have done targeted partnership work with community based organizations and equity priority communities included in language events as well as focus groups and webinars. lead community bike rides and partner with local organizations sometimes including members of this body right here. as well as convening a policy working group of different subject matter experts around the city, cultural district representatives, advocates, small merchants and technical advisory committee of other agency representatives. to put a spotlight on the work in the communities, contracted partnerships with 5 different organizations for targeted work in our equity communities

where we know we need a special level of emphasize and focus in the work we do to align our work with the needs and values and challenges these communities. the end result will be a community action plan for each neighborhood that will live within the larger active communities plan. partners include the new community leadership foundation in western addition fillmore, tenderloin community benefit district in the tenderloin, soma philippinea in soma, [indiscernible] in our mission outer mission and excelsior. bayview hunter point community advocates and working with [indiscernible] range of community partners to reach the chinese language communities that are spread throughout the city. to share some what we learned so far, through our polling work, our survey work, our in-person outreach work, we asked people to respond to the level of comfort they experience when trying to ride a bicycle or scooter on different

types of streets. we want to insure when we build streets, build projects we align with the type of streets people want to use. we hear people are very uncomfortable when asked to share the road with vehicles. when we add a regular painted bike lane on a calm street that comfort level goes up. we also see for many different forms of separation from vehicles there is a high level of comfort that is expressed by the public as well as a fairly high level of comfort the slow streets. to also share what we learned through polling work and data analysis, we know when we build the network people use it. and we also know things get safer. we know that 10 percent of respondents to our polling work, which was balanced for geography and demo draffics across the city, 10 percent of people use active transportation device every day. we also know that all most half of people in

san francisco use a active transportation device at least once a month. when we build quick-build, ridership goes up by over a quarter and collisions for all types of road users go down. but we also know people don't feel safe today, and this creates a undemocratic network in that the only people using the network are the people willing to accept the risk they experience. we know 80 percent of people that we polled want to use active transportation. they want to use the network. but only 23 percent feel comfortable and safe enough to use it today. that is a lower percentage in our equity priority communities. this is enormous opportunity gap for us that we neat to directly address in our work. we also know people are frustrated with the way our streets work and design today. we have a broad variety of different designs for the way our bike

lanes and facilities are constructed and that creates a level of confusion. they can sometimes not be intuitive and we see the impact of that with people on scooters riding on the sidewalk. people not understanding how to interact with infrastructure and see frustuation with people not following perceived rules of the road. we also see that with a prioritization of enforcement from the public in the survey responses we asked from people and we know that first and foremost that comes down to how the road is build and intuitive so people understand what is expected of them and how to operate within it. in terms of what is coming up next, we are working on the development of our draft network which we hope to bring to the public near the end of october. that will be paired with partnering for community events with our contracted community partners to do specific mapping within their communities to insure that the projects we

bring are reflective of their needs. we will be bringing a broad array of option tuesday the public and don't want to have something that appears to have been fully baked. we want to engage with the public directly on what works best for their communities, how we make sure we create a safe and connected network that also meets their needs. that will kind of-engage in a 3 month engagement period across the entire city with events in all districts during that time and in january coming back with a draft plan. revised proposed network that also all our proposed programs and policies help support rolling and bicycling that leads to a final plan document that is coming spring which we hope to have adopted at the mta board in the late spring, early summer that will unlock our ability to begin immediate implementation on the highest priorities of this plan and really start connecting the

city and making active transportation accessible to more people. thank you very much. >> thank you for the presentation. vice chair melgar. >> thank you chair mandelman. thank you so much for this presentation and all the work you put into this active communities plan. i am really excited to see that 80 percent of respondents were eager to use our infrastructure. i am one of those who take risks every day and willing to do it, but i know it is not for everyone and i totally respect that and i am so eager to have that not be our normal. one of the goals you stated is you know, centering on vulnerable communities and communities of color.

i think that is great. i wonder if you can talk about-one of the communities i think is vulnerable in our city regardless of race and income is young people. just because they tend to be smaller and most of them just don't have a choice. they are not driving age and so wondering if that was part of the focus group or survey you did. in district 7 we have a youth council and last year their entire year they spend working on transportation issues, so i love to turn over that data to you, because everything that you said they said and then even more from their perspective. i think young people on the west side are eager to have that be safer. couple weeks back i introduced a resolution

urging you if we have the conversation to include schools, because when i was talking to you and seeing the plan you presented, the thoroughfairs are not necessarily connected to the schools and heard the presentation about vision zero and rolling out 5 schools a year, which is very very slow, and i am eager to just make it safer for the kids to be able to walk. we have like a bike and roll to school day once a year, which is great. i love going there, but it should be every day. it should be a way for kids to get to school, not just good for us. tap on the back thinking this is great, but it really isn't a option for a lot of kids. i'm particularly worried about middle school and high schoolers because that is who i see riding the scooters on the sidewalk and also like

many of them just dont have a choice. i hope that we take that into account and make sure we are connecting schools to the network in a real way with infrastructure, not just putting it on the kids to be safe, know what they are doing. moving forward, i do hope that we have outreach representation responsiveness to the needs of kids and parents throughout the process. i want to make sure we support them as they navigate our very dangerous streets, but also have an option. i tallied up all my receipts and i ride my bike as a main mode of transportation. last year i spent $750 in the year on bicycle maintenance and supplies, which is cheaper then a clipper

card, so i do-not that i don't-transit month, into it too, but i do think for many people getting around on a bike, scooter or skateboard is the way to do it, because it is cheaper. cheaper then every other alternative and for low income people this is thing, so i want to sort of make sure that we do it in a meaningful productive way, because i think it's a real necessity. thank you. >> thank you commissioner. commissioner walton. >> thank you chair mandelman. i want to try to do this as respectfully as possible, but these slides are really a true dog and pony show in a attempt to mislead the board into thinking that equitable outreach was conducted. the survey for this

plan is really a concrete example of mta's plan to overtly mislead communities. the question asked throughout the survey was, are you comfortable with-without presenting the trade-offs, without presenting the realty of what people's comments or statements could lead to. i'm comfortable sitting next to trump, but i don't want to be next to him. you are asking people are they comfortable with something. i cant think of a more simplistic way to lead communities and to sit here and act like you've done some equitable outreach because you have gone to events and walked arounds certain areas of the community, no door to door, no really going into the inner-parts of community most isolated, that's not equitable outreach. we had this

conversation again and it continues to happen, but most certainly this survey is extremely misleading at the very least. it is set up to promote places that will further disconnect and keep people from access and i just can't believe that you touted this as responsible outreach to this body. i had a conversation with mta prior to this meeting, and i couldn't believe you still came in here presenting that you conducted equitable outreach. this has to stop. you have to go into community and have a real conversation about what the trade-offs are when you mention certain plans, certain policies and certain things that you are thinking about implementing and stop trying to lead people in to supporting things that promote inequity

or further divide communities. i want to make sure that this is on record that real equitable outreach was not conducted during this process and this is really an attempt to mislead this board of supervisors into thinking that the proper outreach has been or is being conducted and that we are talking to people in a manner they can completely comp rihand and understand what is at stake, because you are asking if they are comfortable and then force something on people and they will be like, i didn't ask for this. you just asked was i comfortable with it? people are comfortable with a lot of stuff but let's be direct and get real questions and get their real thoughts and opinions and do real outreach to know where people come from and see the things they want in their community, versus trying to mislead and misguide them with words like comfortable.

that's ridiculous. >> thank you commissioner. i appreciate your perspect ive and the survey work we had done is by no means the only work we have done and this is by no means the end of our engagement and outreach work and specifically the work we are planning for our upcoming community partner events in equity communities and events throughout the city for the rest of the year are truly focused on understanding those trade-offs and are express-- >> that's not good enough. you have to go back and do a survey that is real, that gets the real opinions of people, that dives deep into conversation, versus trying to gloss over and say we'll go back-no, you already misleading communities of people with your questioning and just to say you gloss over and let it go, that's a bunch of bs. you are not going to try to turn our

communities into segregated streets like other areas of the city. you will conduct the appropriate outreach. >> commissioner dorsey. >> thanks so much. i want to thank sfmta for their work on what i know is a big undertaking, the active communities plan is important to me as a regular user of the bicycle network city wide, but especially in district 6 and i had the opportunity actually to join mta staff and community stakeholders on a bike ride through my district back in august and it was a great opportunity to review the network and see where improvements are necessary. there is a narrow question that i have, one of the most frequent complaints i hear about mobility options that district 6 residents encounter has to do with scooters. not bikes, not skateboards, it is scooters on the

sidewalk. my own observe egg from this and interested to know if this is something that came out in the research or survey data or something we need to tease out with maybe a more detailed kind of survey like supervisor walton is talking about, focus groups. there is a lot of ways to do this and i think it is always good advisez to explore different kinds of options and trying to gauge public perspective on it. i'm sensitive to some of the sentiments that my colleague expressed. what i would be interested to know from people using scooters, my observation is that do we have surface condition issues that dont make life easy for people using scooters in bike lanes? i know one lane that i use a lot is folsom street where everything you can do to keep a bike upright on the

potholes and things. i don't-wouldn't recommend anybody take a scooter there. obviously they are not supposed to be on the sidewalks. is this something we are hearing from the people who use scooters that we need to do better to improve surface conditions, or is it possible this is a feature of people who use scooter jz they don't care? interested to know. it is remarkable to me how often i hear complaints about just scooters and very little about other things. >> so, scooters complaints is certainly a very large theme of a lot of our outreach and lot of what we have been hearing from the public and i think that there is a number of factors that contribute to that. pavement quality and condition is a significant factor. scooter wheels are much smaller then bike

wheels so they feel the jolts and bumps of poor pavement more thoroughly then people on a bike do. part of our plan and part of this effort is looking at taking a fresh look how we design our network facilities. trying to account for this broader range of users and what does that mean in terms of the way we treat pavement condition, the way we dewrine facilities, the width, how intersections work. we need to take a fresh look how to insure that these facilities are welcoming, inclusive and intuitive for the broad range of users, because certainly we hear especially in soma and plenty other places about the concerns people have, especially the seniors and residential with disabilities about the safety hazards and risks they experience when interacting with scooter riders on the sidewalk, and that is a problem we need to solve and there are tools we have through

the micro mobility providers and permit we have with them to help work on enforcement around those activities, but now we are seeing a growing number of privately owned scooters and i think that also looking at those type of devices, some of those can go very fast and we need to have better understanding and regulation within the city about which of those devices we expect and want to be using our bike lane facilities, because if a scooter can go 35 miles a hour, that is probably not a appropriate device for this network. >> commissioner preston. >> thank you chair mandelman and thank you for your work on this. i want to step back for a minute. this is a issue i have been pushing on this body and the board for i think since 2020 trying to get firm

commitment to the release of a draft city wide network. i think we made progress with some of the close street work during the pandemic, but prior to this effort, i think the commitments have not been that firm around timelines, so i want to recognize that i think it's and appreciate actually laying out and we met prior to this hearing to be briefed on this and i do think it is important that we have the timeline before us and i have said it before and will say it again, that a city wide network of safe streets is only as strong as its weakest link or weakest links and are i think that to approach it as we have often more through neighborhood block by block while those are

very significant improvements they don't resolve the gap you identified that commissioner melgar spoke of of the lack of safety [indiscernible] which can be 80 percent on great protected lanes and if you have 20 percent that is not, it feels like a nightmare and taking your life in your own hands and a lot of people and those can kids, it is those weak links that prevent people from using the network. i do think that it is important that the draft be a draft and be truly a draft and think you have spoken to that, but i want to emphasize this, because a lot of times in city plan, not specific to mta but often including mta and other departments drafts are rolled out, they are really what the department plans to do, and the draft and the community meetings and engagement is just to check a box and say

you have done it. i do think some of commissioner walton's comments get at that this feeling that is grounded i think very much in realty of how major initiatives are planned in the city. not exclusively mta, but certainly at times mta including that--i think the challenge here is staying on a timeline, but also making sure that when you put out a draft in october that gets adopted as a draft or not adopted, presented in january that those draft plans are draft plans that when community pushes back around a particular block or department whether fire department or puc has a plan for that major work in that area or whatever it is, that we are actually being flexible during that period of time. however many months that ends up being to

getting what can really be a final plan that hopefully has more community buy-in from different departments and actually enables us to move fl frward. i think you addressed that. i don't think you need to again. i just wanted to emphasize that i hope that a draft is meant to be a draft, not a fully baked product called a draft so we can check boxes. if you want to elaborate, feel free, but i think you addressed it. >> very shortly. yes. we do plan when we bring the draft network enoctober to focus and emphasize a broad array of options. we don't want this to be fighting whether this one project is the right one or not because that is the only we are offering. we want to give people a range of options of the right thing that works in their community while allowing us to connect the network in a way that is safe and connected and useful for a broad number of people. >> thank you.

one other thing while i have the mic here, the city has been through this before. in 2014 we adopted the green connections plan, which i don't know if you want to be glass half full that provided good groundwork for template for slow streets work and other thing we have done. glass half empty, it has been all most a decade since the planning department and others convened and put forward a city wide plan. what i wanted to ask you, how is this different from the green connection plan and specifically in terms of--i don't want--who ever is in the seat years down the road to be talking about the active community plan the way i talk about green

connection plan as a think from a decade ago that was never implemented, so what is different how you are approaching this that gets us to the finish line in a inclusive way on this timeframe? >> admittedly the green connection plan preceded my tenure. we have a very strong commitment, especially through the street partners towards implementation. we created a board presentation to the sfmta board two weeks ago on september 19 where we laid out some of the implementation strategy that we are building up behind this plan, which will include insuring concurrent proval of a traunch of protected bike lane quick-builds and slow street project in parallel with approval of the plan itself, so we have things that are ready to go and implement immediately. we also are working towards as part of the plan strongly identifying not just

our funding needs and constraints, but also the staffing needs and constraints as well as some of the procedural changes that we will need to make as a agency and city in order to deliver the type of projects at the scale we identified them at for the plan. there is a broad range of needs that exist across the spectrum in order to actually be accountable and deliver on these things. it is not just the money but we are working towards identifying those thing s within the plan document so there is a actionable path forward to resolving them. >> thank you. last thing on this point just in terms of actually getting there on this plan. appreciate before your time before my time in office certainly, but i think it is worth making sure we consult with the folks who were part of that process on green connections and what they ran into. my understanding is

some of the-a number of reasons things didn't come to fruition, but one is the some of the lack of interdepartmental coordination was a big part of it and i said this in response to the last agenda item when we were talking about vision zero and what did with fell street with early involvement with the fire department and monitoring of the data mta lead and really having everyone at least certainly both community and departments involved. i think it is crucial because if the plan comes out there and then and is fully baked and then we are learning a year from now that key route for a slow street is actually a key route for the fire department or the key block low the western addition is a block where people double park because they need to because they come in flaum east bay to go to church.

we need to surface those things as early as possible and i guess just the question on that is, i know all is a technical advisory group, and know some departments are represented, can you elaborate in terms of city departments who is at the table with the technical advisory group in the early stage? >> technical advisory committee has about 25 or so representatives on it, including the sfcta, department of public works and public health, police, fire. rec and park and a broad array of agency representatives within the sfmta because we have transit, livable streets. mayor office of disp ablt and regional representatives caltrans, mtc and others. >> thank you. >> thank you, commissioner preston. thank you for your presentation and your work and we should open

this item to public comment. if you are in the chamber and like to make comment on item 11, come forward. >> i am carol, resident of san francisco district 2. i want to start with a story. when i was doing a long trip in italy, i tried to understand local customs. someone told me a joke that really helped a lot. in malan, traffic

signals are instructions. in rome, they are suggestions. in nap ali they are christmas decorations. in california we enacted the same transition but over time i say about 5 years we have gone from malan to naples and this community plan, this active community plan i really do like it. it focuses on bicycles,b and protected bike lanes benefit all the users of the street, but the diagram at the top of this, if you look at the diagram on the very nice report, it shows three types of non-car mobility. the last being a mobility scooter. so, i don't use bike lanes because i just

don't go fast enough. still like to have the bike lanes there. slow streets are my favorite way of getting around san francisco. on slow streets there is room for everyone to travel at their own pace. i use a slow street to get to the market for weekly shopping but i think they need to be upgraded. the napeal stale drivers come down a 4 lane street and hit a slow street and they have a tendency to ignore that decorative stop sign or paint on the ground, and i think street engineers could fix this. improve slow streets and that would be a great contribution to both vision zero and the active community plan. thank you very much. >> thank you. it looks like we don't have anymore public comment in the chambers so see if we have remote public comment on item 11. >> checking for remote public comment on item

11. there is no public comment for this item. >> alright. thank you. public comment on item 11 is closed. mr. clerk, please call item 12. >> introduction of new items. >> i don't see anybody on the roster. mr. clerk, please call item 13. >> 13, public comment. >> anyone in the chamber who would like to speak under item 13, general public comment, please come forward. i do not see anyone. let's see if we have remote public comment on item 13. >> yes are, there is. let me go to the caller. welcome caller, your 2 minutes begins now. >> hello. good morning. all most good afternoon. this is barry toronto. i was very interested a lot of statements made today. the only thing is, you haven't talked about reducing the number of cars on the road, and

rather then encouraging more use of tnc, it would be great if you actually asked your state representatives to try and get legislation passed to allow the city to regulate the number of tnc allowed to use the road. a lot of these people do not live in san francisco or in the bay area, and they come to the city thinking they can drive the streets the same way they drive their rural communities and suburban community. i beg you to look at the number of tnc using the road. you have a more frequent report on the number of tnc trips out there, and the fact that the behavior is based upon trying to get as much trips in because of the low pay they get are many of the trips. asking you to provide more report on that and more regular basis. more enlightening and see behavior of--i can sit at a night club

for a good half hour as a taxi driver and not get one fare, even though my fare might be less or equal to their fare. also, the fact that some of the night clubs put out block parking lanes and block traffic lanes with their cones and it makes it a problem there. i think there should be [indiscernible] require [indiscernible] during busy nights so they can be easier pick up and drop off. last thing is, regarding gough street. look at gough street during most of the day. it is a parking lot from geary and o'farrel where they connect on the top of the hill--thank you. >> thank you. >> moving to the next caller.

hi, caller, your two minutes begin noz a. >> i got kicked of the queue for active community plan. first of all, i want to thank the mta representative for putting together this plan. i really really hope it gets implemented. as someone who doesn't own a car and gets around on transit mostly, i would love love love to take bikes around the city because i know it is the fastest way to get around the city, but unfortunately doing so would [indiscernible] the way people drive in san francisco. san francisco isn't unique, but you have-just not wanting to ringe risk my life so [indiscernible] fully connected. i think the plan will achieve that if everyone from the mta and on the board of supervisors is able to see the plan through unlike the previous plan from 2014. i like to say, i was

really horrified by come comments and hopeful about other comments, particularly in regards to segregation and the way that the bike plan would further that or not. i will say that the majority of people i see on bikes in the mission and bayview are delivery workers who are delivering on bikes and getting home on their bikes using bart. they are putting their life on the line for their jobs, so i really really would love to see their lives being considered and i think especially black and brown communities should be able to get around safely. the majority of people dying on our streets whether pedestrians or bike riders are actually vulnerable people from vulnerable communities, including elderly people. this is necessary and those who take transit or [indiscernible] use active mobility to get

around we are doing the right thing and be safe doing the right thing. the truth is-- >> there is no additional public comment for this item. >> alright. public comment on item 13 is closed. mr. clerk, please call our next item. >> 14. adjournment. >> we are adjourned. [meeting adjourned]

[music] >> office of initiative start in the 2017 and started as a result of community advocacy. our transgender nonbinary community advocates were really letting our government know that we needed to be heard. we needed to be considered and policy and budget decision and so, then the mayor lee and founding director of spark created officeof initiative that allow us to advocate for equity for transgender and nonbinary communitiful we focus on 4 areas. training, education for the city employees. we focus on civic and community engagement making sure our leaders have a voice and are heard by our elected officials. we work on policies and programs

to make sure our city is responsive to transand nonbinary community and add voice to departments to integrate transinclusion in policies, procedures and practice. >> we still have, lot of work to do to improve and address equity in san fran for our community upon i feel that we are on the right track and seeing how people's lives are improving thanks to those changes. i do think it is unique that our local government is sponsive to transgender communities so i hope that people can remember that despite the work we had, we seat progress. we seat change and there is hope for transpeople in san francisco and wherever we come together and organize to improve our lives. [music]

>> >> >> what say a nice day to build housing in san francisco. good evening, everyone. i'm london breed where we are going to build over 500 units of housing. [cheers and applause] >> man, i don't think i have ever signed a piece of legislation supporting housing that has made me happier than the one i'm about to sign