good morning and welcome to the february 18th, 2025 meeting of the treasure island mobility management agency committee. i am matt dorsey and i serve as chair of this committee. our vice chair is rafael mehlman. thank you to me as shivani from s.f. gov tv and the entire team there for facilitating and broadcasting today's meeting. our clerk today is amy salem. madam clerk, will you please call the roll chair? >> darcy. present darcy present vice chair mandolin mandolin present

show darcy we have quorum. >> thank you, madam clerk. >> i believe you have a public comment announcement for members of the public interested in participating in this meeting. we welcome your attendance here in person in the legislative chamber room 250 and city hall. or you may watch cable channel 26 or 99 or stream the meeting live at s.f. gov tv.org. >> for those wishing to make public comment remotely the best way to do so is by dialing (415) 655-0001 and one prompt to entering access code 26640951609 and then press pound and pound again. you will be able to listen to the meeting in real time when public comment is called for the item you wish to speak on press star three to be added to the queue to speak. do not press star three again or you will be removed from the queue when the system says your line is unmuted the live operator while advise you that you are allowed two minutes to speak when your two minutes are up we will move on to the next caller. calls will be taken in the order in which they are

received. best practices are to speak slowly clearly and turn down the volume of any televisions or radios around you. public comment for items on this agenda will be taken first from members of the public in attendance in the legislative chamber and then afterwards from the remote speakers queue on the telephone line. >> thank you. thank you madam. thank you, madam clerk. before calling the next item as chair i'd like to invoke rule 3.26 from the rules of order to limit total public comment per item to 30 minutes for today's meeting each speaker will have two minutes to speak on a given item. madam clerk, would you please call the next item item to approve the minutes of the june 11th 2024 meeting? this is an action item. >> thank you, madam clerk. we have i don't know if there's any public comment on this. we people for remote public comment looking for a remote check in for a remote public comment on this item. there is no comment. okay.

>> public comment on this item is now closed. we have a motion to approve the minutes moved by vice chair amendment. thank you madam clerk. >> and we have a roll call on this item. chair darcy i darcy i vice chair mandolin mandolin i. >> the are two eyes the minutes are approved okay. >> the minutes are approved. can we please call the next item? item three recommend authorization of the executive director to execute sub award agreements with one treasure island in an amount not to exceed $2,382,935. the san francisco municipal transportation agency in an amount not to exceed $4,788,248 and the san francisco bay area water emergency transportation authority in an amount not to exceed $3,200,000 with us environmental protection agency community change grant program funds for transportation

improvement projects on treasure island. this is an action item. >> thank you, madam clerk. and we have wanted to show the assistant deputy deputy director for planning and also i believe lily yu is going to be available remotely. she is the finance manager. before that however, i did want to just mention that last month at the transportation authority board meeting i had the pleasure of announcing a $20 million united states epa grant for treasure island that we were awarded in december for a multi-part transit program called tai connects. this was very exciting as it was exactly what was called for in our community based tai supplemental transit study. it's a great partnership with one treasure island and what we need to get to serve the growing community on the islands. i would also just mention if i don't say it enough how great it is to work with one treasure island and over the weekend i was out there for that for the graduation of their construction training program. but the grant before us would have would fund much needed

transit improvements such as the free island shuttle and a micro transit service to sfo eastern neighborhoods and an on island transportation resource center housed at one treasure island. although the grant has been obligated, we unfortunately have been put on administrative pause by epa staff and so the grant may be subject to various executive orders coming out of the trump administration and may therefore be at risk. i appreciate staff bringing this item forward even as we work with our city attorney david chu and his office together with other cities and states to protect our funding. and i will say as a former member of the city attorney's office, they have done great work and successful work under the 10th amendment because local governments do have a constitutional basis for having sanctuary city policies. with that said, we now have 2012 assistant deputy director for planning to present this item so i could have floor is

yours. >> good morning chair dorsey vice chair mailman s.f. governs sharing my slides. >> as chair dorsey mentioned we were awarded this $20 million community change grant from the u.s. environmental protection agency for a package of transportation projects for treasure island in december. we have an award agreement and the grant is considered obligated. no local matches required and the period of performance is three years starting in this past january. the grant is funded through the environmental and climate justice program of the epa. so funded by the inflation reduction act. so there is some uncertainty around it at this moment. however we're moving ahead with this action item in anticipation of being able to move forward. the treasure island connects program delivers priority recommendations from the treasure island supplemental transportation study that we

conducted with one treasure island which was funded by the transportation authority. we work very closely with one treasure island and the treasure island community to review existing services and how those could be improved as well as new initiatives that would benefit the existing residents and workers on treasure island. >> treasure island connects also includes several of the priority of includes several of those priority recommendations as well as components of the core transportation program such as the on island shuttle and bike share that were part of the overall development program approved. treasure island connects has six component projects that expand the transportation options for available to from and around the islands for residents and visitors and it helps support the growing population on treasure island and the new destinations. the first is a pilot of an on demand micro transit service to

destinations in san francisco beyond the salesforce transit center. micro transit is a service that provides point to point public transit service usually on demand with an app for or a phone call with this service. the riders will be able to go from treasure island to points in san francisco such as ucsf grocery stores and community services and things that are not readily available on treasure island. the service will be modeled on sfm ta's bayview shuttle service which launched this past november and has proven very popular. the second project is a free on island shuttle serving treasure island and yerba buena island. this service can take riders to destinations around the islands including the ferry terminal. the new parks on your boat bueno and the sailing center that are a little more difficult to access. >> the third is the enhanced muni service on the t5 line

which serves treasure island and the procurement of an additional battery electric bus for use on a 25 line. that project will be delivered by s.f. mta. the program includes the construction of electric charging infrastructure at the treasure island ferry terminal. this facilitates the transition from the diesel service that is currently operating on an interim basis to fully electric and this project will be delivered by rita will expand the bay wheels bike share system to treasure island and our project also includes memberships for residents and workers on the island during this period. and finally one treasure island will launch and operate the transportation resource center which combines three priority recommendations from the supplemental transportation study community ambassadors travel training and marketing and communications regarding affordable transit options. >> looking ahead, assuming approval of this item and

better clarity at the federal level will sign a sub award agreements with one treasure island s.f. mta and we will also start to mobilize to engage with the community to refine the projects and begin procurement for operators of the major transit and on island shuttle services. >> so this is a reminder of the action item before you today. it's important to note that the execution of the sub award agreements is contingent on the availability of the epa funds. that concludes my presentation and i'm happy to take any questions. >> thank you very much. director cho i don't have any questions myself. i really appreciate this and we will keep our fingers crossed for how things move forward. i don't see anybody on the roster. should we open this up to public comment?

>> chair champions no public comment for this item. >> thank you. public comment on this item is now closed. can i get a motion on item number three moved by vice chair amendment? >> madam clerk can we have a roll call in this item on the motion to approve item three. chair darcy darcy i. vice chair mandolin mandolin i. there are two eyes. >> the motion is approved. greg thanks. the item is approved. >> madam clerk would you call item number four? item four recommending acceptance of the audit report for the fiscal year ended june 30th, 2024. >> this is an action item. thank you, madam clerk. we have cynthia fong, deputy director for finance and administration here to present on item number four is fong. >> the floor is yours. thank you for the introductions. >> i'm always happy to report when we have a clean audit for the tema program. our audit was conducted by ide bailey. as the clerk mentioned, this is for fiscal year 24 2324 as of

june 30th 2024. the auditors have issued an unmodified opinion which is a clean opinion. they had no adjustments to our statements and they had no findings in at the end of the year. >> we had a we were under budget by 266,000 and with that i'm happy to report or asked for this audit to be accepted by the committee. >> thank you. great. thank you so much and congratulations on the clean audit. i don't see any i think we have a need for discussion among the colleagues but can we open this up to public comment? >> is there any public comment ? >> there is no remote public comment. >> okay. public comment on this item is now closed. can i have a motion to on item number four moved by vice chair amendment i think we can take that same house same call. the item is adopted. >> madam clerk, can you please call the next item item five

internal accounting report for the six months ending december 31st 2024. this is an information item. >> thank you, madam clerk. and staying with us is cynthia fong. thank you very much for your time. thank you. i should note that since the committee has not met over the past few months this is a consolidated internal accounting report for the six months ended december 31st, 2024. at this point of time we had assets of 1.3 million liabilities at 1.3 million as well revenues at 368,000 expenditures at 170,000. overall we are under budget in expenditures by 1.9 million. really due to the slow activities for the ferry terminal enhancement project and a total affordability program it's both programs are proceeding more slowly than anticipated since we're indices closer to season four budget amendments will be taking a look and taking stock of this program and making any adjustments as necessary and bringing it back to to my committee for recommendation.

with that i'm happy to take any questions you may have for this report. >> okay. there's no questions for me and i don't see anybody on the roster but why don't we open this up to public comment? >> is there any remote public comment? >> there is no remote public comment for this item. >> thank you. and public comment is now closed and as this is an information item we don't need a motion or an action. >> madam clerk, would you call the next item? item six introduction of new items this is an information item. >> okay. i don't have anything and i don't see anyone on the roster with new items. >> madam clerk when we call the next item item seven public comment this is for if there's any general public comment on matters that are germane to the work of the tema committee. madam clerk, can we open this up to public comment? >> is there any remote public comment? there is no public comment for this item. >> thank you and public comment is now closed.

madam clerk and call the next item. >> item eight adjournment. thank you everybody with no further business we are adjourned

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being here. >> i appreciate it. i want to welcome although i don't see him so i'm not going to welcome our board president rafael mandolin. but if he was here, i would welcome him. uh, supervisor melgar. supervisor chan. supervisor chen. supervisor jackie fielder. supervisor matt dorsey. one month in. >> thank you all for being here. this is a really, really important day for san francisco. about a month ago i was walking down sixth street when a group of police officers and firefighters arrived to respond to a corner with heavy drug use. one man named terry had been using fentanyl. when they arrived the officers instructed terry and the other

men to gather their belongings and they offered a range of services. it seemed likely in that moment that terry might enter a treatment program. and when a reporter who was following me asked if he would you know what he said god willing i see interactions like that almost on a daily basis. i saw it with supervisor fielder in the mission last week and they make me hopeful that we can tackle the drug crisis on our streets. on sixth street and across the tenderloin in soma in the mission. >> our neighbors need help. and every day officers and outreach workers offer that help. >> but what happens when someone says yes? for decades that person has been back out on the street using drugs a week. a month. a year later it is a new day in

san francisco. we are going to be a national leader in public health in behavioral health treatment, addiction recovery and health care access. it's going to take creativity, compassion and collaboration. and that is exactly what danzhai brings to the table. and i am proud to appoint him as the new director of the department of public health. >> dan's career has been defined by a deep commitment to public service and improving health outcomes for those most in need. he has nearly two decades of experience transforming health care systems at the state and national levels. most recently running the federal medicaid program where he helped enroll more people in health coverage than at any point in history.

he led efforts to strengthen mental health and substance use care and make public health care systems more efficient and effective. before that, dan was the medicaid director in massachusetts leading reforms that improved access to care for millions of people. and before that he worked in the private sector designing and implementing innovative models to improve health care for all americans. he understands what it takes to make a public health system work not just in theory but in practice. his experience is broad but his commitment to patient and communities is clear throughout. now he brings that expertise and dedication to san francisco . and in our last meeting i will say that he walked into city hall and i looked and i said can we go walking? and we got up and we walked

through the tenderloin and seeing him and his compassion right then and there knew it. i knew that he was the right person to lead this department. the work ahead is urgent. and dan and i agree we cannot afford to let bureaucracy slow us down. but while behavioral health is critical, it is only part of the mandate we are going to bring a whole of government approach to supporting providers and the patients they care for. we are going to build on s.f. general's reputation as a crown jewel of our country's health care system and we are going to be there for the frontline workers in our clinics like maria martinez clinic right here in san franciscans of all ages rely on the services we provide. and dan will work every day to improve all of those services. before i close, i want to thank dr. naveen baba who stepped up

as the interim head. >> thank you, doctor. i appreciate it. >> thank you for your leadership. and thank you to all the professionals and the entire team at h. i'll end with this. government works best when every department works well together. i've seen it in my first month as mayor and i know kunal puts it in action every day as the chief of health, homelessness and family services services. when you hear how dan's former colleagues talk about him as a person and a professional, it is clear that the spirit of collaboration is core to his work as well. the department of public health needs a leader who is ready to break down silos at decisive and offer innovative solutions that meet the challenges that we face. dan is that leader. with that i'm proud to announce introduce the new director of

the department of public health dan simon. >> thank you. thank you mayor, for those very kind words. my wife kathy is here and my boys elliot and ali. hello, boys. elliot is six. >> allie is three. kathy has had to deal with ten years of around the clock public service already. >> so here we go again. thank you. and to the board of supervisors i look forward. i don't have all the names down yet. i look forward to getting to know everybody and to to working and partnering together and getting some real common sense things done for the city. to commissioners of the health commission who grilled me for two hours in the evening. i enjoyed the discussion. i have to say it was thoughtful as provoking as it was it was great and i'm i'm excited i, i

am beyond thrilled excited honored to be appointed by the mayor in this role to be joining this administration and to be joining the fantastic team at age and here in san francisco with really a stellar reputation across the country as the mayor said, i've spent my entire career trying to make health care better and to better serve people that would otherwise fall through the cracks. and i've spent the past decade in public service at the national and state levels and this work excites me. it gets me up in the morning when the kids don't and i love moving. solving intractable problems with the great team but i also love being able to walk the streets and see people look people in the eye and understand the impact of what we do and the meaning of it. and i feel that same level of excitement i think as i look

forward to working with the mayor and the whole team here in san francisco and i'm also excited that when i explain to my boys what i do for work for 410 years now i've just said daddy helps people make sure they can get access to a doctor when they need it or help whatever their life situation is. and i think the team here at h continues that. so i'm deeply excited. and one of my first meetings with the mayor that that walk that you mentioned with council as well where you outlined your vision for the city and why a world class health care public health care and health care system is so vital to that. i also i asked you some pointed questions you answered them correctly. >> no, but i remember leaving that meeting feeling this tingling sense of excitement. i called cathy actually afterwards i was ready to roll up my sleeves and that's what i feel now and i'm very privileged and honored to be able to join the team here. san francisco has such a legacy

in public health between the general that the sort of clinics like the one we're standing in now and staff that really are among the nation's finest. at the same time there's opportunity to build on that strength and that foundation with new approaches and we have i believe the opportunity to continue to build a world class premier health care delivery system right here in the city that delivers world class patient outcomes and an experience that every one of us for ourselves, our kids, our family members we should want to get all of our care through the san francisco public health system. don't worry. i'm not saying everyone's going to be able to but that is the sort of bar you want the public health care system to be the finest. and we also are here in the bay area in silicon valley where there are so many startups trying to solve giant challenges and health care. many of them don't have the ability to focus on the safety net or do things at scale. when you look at what san francisco has in the public

health care system, it is unique. it has all the elements we have the ability to build and pioneer and show both the city and the nation what we are capable of and that's deeply exciting and of course front and center right now is tackling together the opioid and homelessness crisis and making real tangible progress around that compassionately effectively helping the folks on the streets and in this community. there's so much to do there. i'm ready to dig in and roll up our sleeves into the staff and i'm excited to get to know you all to partner together and with the community as well. so with that, thank you mayor, for this honor. thank you to all of you, kathy and the kids thank you as well. >> so i'm going to turn it back to the mayor. thank you. >> i happy to take a few questions in the media questions just raise your hand . so i want to i have a question for me so i think that this

year is one of highest priorities of how we use your background as a federal director of public private partnerships that address this local crisis here i think i'm making progress on the fentanyl crisis is priority one, two, three and four and making clear common sense improvements, making sure people can get access to treatment that we have sufficient treatment capacity. we have the ability to get people into a whole continuum of care and i think certainly having moved things at the federal and state level and seeing things as a systems level that is exciting and i think i bring some of that but the work ahead i would emphasize it's difficult and it's execution. it's putting one foot ahead of another and making sure we get the building blocks in place to get treatment in place and to get people connected to treatment. >> and let me just add this is

where collaboration really is critical,. we need all of our departments working well together behavioral health, law enforcement everyone needs to be working well together and that's what he brings to the table. >> yeah i remember you mr. mayor. you know we talk about continuum of care that the issue of people getting back out onto the streets after going through this rehabilitation process. are there any models national league or in other cities that you were looking to that have kind of a good success rate because it seems to be a problem that no one has been able to solve. >> so i think you're exactly right and from a federal standpoint, we spent a good portion of the past four years debating working with states and counties all across the country on exactly that. i think there are few things that are clear. number one, especially for fentanyl addiction, the path to treatment and recovery. >> it's not linear and so folks

make forward progress make backward progress and the type of clinical capacity and supports we need need to be able to account for that and someone having being able to move forward and back around that. the second thing that i think that's very clear is generally speaking our health care system is good at dealing with someone when they are in immediate crisis let's say a detox or figuring out how to have someone stable housed maybe affordably housed once there's the right structure in place there's an entire middle piece that i don't think anyone across the country has fully figured out. that's why this is both such an exciting but important and momentous challenge ahead of us that the mayor is really assist with. >> so thank you. and then mayor laurie with the approval of your fentanyl ordinance, have you started the process of soliciting donors to address issues like this? >> actually it hasn't been approved. it goes today i believe and so it'll hopefully be passed today. we have not approached because

the law an ordinance has not been passed before people in mind for once that is approved . >> next question. yeah, go ahead in the back of this side, can you tell us a little bit more about your background and what did you probably i'm sure all right. i know you probably go to mama i'm sure my chinese name is taiwan. um, so my daniel way hence i. i am let's see, i've got two kids oliver and elliot. i was originally born in new york. don't hold that against me. spent many years in massachusetts and i now live here in the bay area and so i'm really, really excited to be starting on this journey together. >> thank you. mayor you have obviously set ambitious goals to both expand

behavioral and addiction treatment and expand shelter capacity as the process for finding locations for those services began. >> and where are we at with that because yeah kunal and i are going out and seeing sites existing shelter locations that could we could add capacity to and additional sites as well. we continue to do that in a number of places. kunal can get more into that in details but we're excited to press play tomorrow once this is passed and start reaching out to those that want to support us outside of government. but i also want to really once again thank every single one of the supervisors here all working very well together including with supervisor chan on getting a ten one vote and it shows that we're all lying that this is a crisis. it demands us acting with urgency. dan understands that he's

compassionate, he's tough and he's he knows how to get big things done and that's what we need to do here. this is a crisis the likes of which we have not seen before i mentioned before. but i want to say it again i walked with supervisor fielder in the mission last week. i went back to the same place to day that we walked just last week and it was not good. we have so much work to do. i am not going to give up you know i talk about this every single day. what we are seeing on our streets is not dignified, it's not humane. we have to get people the help that they need. and dan, i can think of no better leader in this country to help lead the charge . this is, you know, a huge challenge for all of us and we have the we are getting the right people in place to attack it. >> so thank you, adam mr. president, for your photo i gre

cuisine mixed with american cuisine, and grew up cooking with my grandmother. as i grew older, i really found a lot of joy and fulfillment in cooking and coming up with my own recipes. once i got into the fire department, it was a really easy transition to cooking on a daily basis. my mom said, if you love to eat, you will know problem learning how to cook.

it's like cooking for your family especially since this is a blue collar job and regular people food. that is a lot of things that go on into preparing firehouse meals. we pay for our own meals. we go, we shop and we spend divided upon the amount of people in on the meal. in the morning, there is a sign up board and you can sign up for lunch and dinner.

my name is figueroa and at station 5 is pillar. when we go in typically, we sort of span out in our meals situation and whoever is cooking dictates to what we are going to eat. we are going to take care of the pasta, bread, heavy cream, eggs, a pound of butter. three polish killbasa and onion and garlic. >> you have a lot of people hustling.

>> we are doing this technique on the chicken where we are going to cook it in high heat for about 15 minutes and turn it down. we started at 425, and dropped the temperature at 375. >> my name is oj leonardo, a firefighter first, always, for the city and county of san francisco. >> it's unique. one of the few houses where the officers cook. they are on the cooking detail. so cooking is a big part of our tradition here in the fire department. when you cook for your folks, you are showing how much you care for them. you don't have to be an excellent cook, just show that you care. when you are at home, you put whatever you want together and people will eat it. there are

no rules. in the firehouse, it's a different story. now, whoever is cooking, the first thing we ask is, no. 1, are there any diet restrictions because one of my firefighters is kosher and vegan. here at 12, we make sure that everyone eats. >> when i'm planning my meals, i tend to weigh it, i guess is the best way to describe it. i don't make a list, i don't typically go from recipes. i will sort of go into the rolodex in my mind and think of what possibilities i have depending on if it's cold outside, if it's hot, do you want to barbecue, do we want a soup, a salad, go light, heavy

and decadent. when i first came in, i had some experience in cooking. i think the big difference for me was knowing how to cook for many people and how to shop. that was a pretty big deal because i had no idea how many chickens to get to make roast chicken for 11 guys. luckily, i had some really cool people help me along the way. when goaledberg, who was a staple here at station 5 was we me the first day that i cooked and he said, look here kid, you are going to be all right. we are getting this many salad, chicken, pasta and you will be all right. don't worry about it. he was throwing things in the shopping cart and i could barely

keep up. i thought how is he going to turn all this for a meal for the guys. that's really where i had to wrap my behind around this is how we do it here. lloyd, and all the people here at 5, when i first came in were nothing but helpful when it came to that and everything and parting knowledge to the next person, the next generation is being part of being in this fire department. they for the most part know and every once in a while something new. >> when we get dispatched to a call, we'll put everything on hold and will do whatever duties we need to fulfill and then

we'll come back finish cooking and go on with the day. >> the biggest challenge for me is to make sure that i have a meal that everyone likes. that's the biggest scare. if they don't like it, one guy is on the phone calling for pizzas and the rest are scraping their meal. that has happened. it's really important to pass on traditions. station 5 is famous for setting up the linen, the cloth and tradition. once you have caesar in the firehouse, you won't have it again outside the firehouse. >> i'm filipino and had my grandmother in the kitchen. we learned how to cook because we were always helping my mom in

the kitchen. my mom never measured anything, neither my grandma and i had to always watch because when they turn their back, that is where they made their move. now with cooking, i use simple ingredients and let them speak for themselves. >> i think there is something to be said about coming together and sharing a meal. there is something that happens, some kind of magic that happens spinning across the table. you know, it's a moment where everybody has something in common. the next thing you know people are talking and engaging and there is a sense of community, and that's important whether it's in the firehouse or outside of the firehouse. that's why it's important in my family that we eat together. >> the biggest thing that the

food that i cook for them and we do together is to show how much you love your fellow firefighter. that's our bond. we do it through food. it's more than just the food. i remember we had two of our firefighters pass away in a fire that turned into something. we were together at that moment, and we were able to talk about them and think about them before we started our meal and during our meal. and we would just sit there and just be together and have a moment. in the end, being a firefighter, is all about people. if you love people, this is the job for you. if you see people in need and respond to people in need, and then you are sharing meals with your fellow firefighters, it's a

people business. so, that food just makes that bond even greater. if you are eating, you are paying. so all of you guys, i hope brought enough money to pony up. [ laughter ] oh, this is something. i told you, who needs to measure. [ laughter ] in the fire department, everyone is willing to help. you have to bring your a game.

good good morning and i call the san francisco department of disability and aging services commission meeting of wednesday february 5th, 2025 to order i am the dallas commission president janet spears. this commission meeting is being conducted pursuant to the provisions of the brown act as noted on the agenda. members of the public may observe this meeting via s.f. gov tv.org or s.f. gov tv channel 78 and they may offer public comment by calling the public public public comment phone number. i'd like to welcome the members of the public and staff who are watching us on s.f. gov tv to eliminate background interference all