and it hen become even more complicated because now the buses coming from vaness down south vaness and then doing a turn on to mission street. across 2 lines of traffic perform this is not pattern to -- pedestrians. they are having and it it is a bad planning and the simple solution that i would suggest is -- that at all the intersections there you experiment with changing the signals and putting island crossways in the middle of the road with rails so that people can cross into the center and then crossover. because at present, it seems there is so much priority for traffic. you might as well not try to cross there at all because it is very dangerous. thank you. next speaker, please. i have lived in san francisco since 1980 and i have been driving a taxicab in san francisco since 1974. 84. of theive think that since move here the city has become ug low and dirtier than before. and i think this the new group of city planners are protecting their own job without enough information how far to make decision on behalf of the majority of the people of i'm talking about silent majority. beca

big projects like vaness and central subway provide person lessons on how we approach our p and how we identify and assess risk. sfmta's technology projects like the radio replacement are also a source of information. as well as the very small handful of domestic nears have this technology and then broadly looking at canada for examples. what is buffer today is basically giving us the authority to ask the board of supervisors for the ability to do 2 things. one is to have a negotiated procure am. which is -- best practice. and how we do our vehicle contracts. it is really -- extremely helpful when the suppliers is doing the design work but you are trying to push the industry. because -- instead of having to anticipate everything up front in the first,ed round of the rfp we put out our intent. learn from the proposals we received and then if we need to, put out a second rounds of proposals while keeping all of the potential bidding firms in the process. it allows us to get the best potential partner for the agency. the second piece is ask the board of supervisors to wave restriction tha

sometimes when we are dealing with the mta i understand you learned lessons on third and vaness brt i don't know if this is the first i hear this. this might require further conversation. but a 30 year contract request is significant can. when there it is no precedent for it. >> yes. thank you. to clarify the construction portion of this of is only 8 years. the remaining there is a 10 year period we are getting support from the vendor. it is like all the installation is done that pieces is taken away. now support. soft weir updates. providing pers and technical supportful only the train control system supply are can provide. and when we have done in the past. contracted for construction and the procure am this gets closed and over and 5-8 year contract and we go become and do a separate condition transact for passport this support is always sole sourzs. the lesorn we are trying to learn. or heed is that -- when we come become to the supply are for the negotiations on support terms they know they got us. we are trying to have them negotiate with them up front in competition with pores

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ktvu tom baker reports in the wee small hours of the morning residents of 100 vaness, a 29 story apartment building. were awoken out of their sleep resident emily siegler is one of them around 5 22. we just hear this beeping. um and a voice says there's been a fire detected in the building, and it sounded serious. so we got out of bed and i noticed all of this water just on the floor in here with five inches of water in her apartment, she opened the door were allowed noise was coming from water was gushing out there was like a six ft. tall massive spread of water coming out of 10 ft. down out of the water main, according to tenants. this is the scene of the crime. something here got open and it had such pressure, literal. blew a hole through the wall. many tenants went to a nearby starbucks, where the events had more light shed on them, and where many also from the 11th floor, told ms eichler how a neighbor intervened. he physically stopped him from attacking the pipe. and then i guess the man was attacking the pipe got taken away, and i guess he was taken away in an ambulance. it seems li

there's no eggs left in your forte there were two rolling around in there the names of charlotte andea vanessat is a growing percentage of women in this country too. the point is, because i learned to listen to women specifically i was able to draw on that in these different conversations and tables it only included men very started to do that. because so many of those men in the old and the new boys network were excluding me being able to pitch certain business of their pop republican national this company and that company. it forced me too go and find work elsewhere. i had major clients like martha stewart living on the meteor major league baseball. major clients. that allowed me too elicit not just to what likely voters were saying, but to what all of america was doing. how are you making your decision? and how do you spend your time how do you spend your money question and show me what you do on the weekend. going to have professional sporting a kid sporting event? are you as a woman who doesn't have children of your own, i guarantee a woman like that you and i have been there, are spelli

written comments sent to me michaelly at planning 49 south vaness suite 1400, san francisco 94103 orls c pc. sfosppeir at sfgov.org. with david kim the project manager. tonya and i will be available to answer questions. thank you. >> thank you. >> member of the public this is your opportunity to comment on the draft eir in the chambers come forward if you are call nothing press star 3. again you need to press story 3 if you wish to submit comments if you are calling in. seeing no requests to speak. public comment is closed. and this merit is before you. >> commissioner diamond. thank you. incredible amount of work and the eir was fascinating. the division of work to reaches made it understandable. and the organization was extremely helpful and allowing us on this major project to get our arms around the extent of the work river exclude the importance of the w that is required. my questions all relate to process. if you are able to answer them now that would be great but i understand than i are in the required and you may choose to answer in the response to comments document. were was

this department wide initiative for staff from both operations 49 south vaness came on and brought in kaiser to administer 134 flu shots and health care providers gave out information on various benefits they offer. we organize fun workshops including cardiofitness, dance and self defense. give out fruit and healthy snacks. we want employees to leave work healthier than they started the day. the health fair tool we use to reach this goal it is fun for team building. is this was the first health fair since covid and we had a positive feedback and than i enjoyed it. . speak of employee engagement i happened to thank the d. latino employee group organized the hispanic heritage month celebration. they did an amazing job. discussions about art, food. language, dance. observation. last week was festive and delicious food for a pot luck. we take pride in our staff and the heritage month among many black history, lgbt and asian-american pacific islander inspiration, education and community building. that's important to our staff. of it was a great time last week. that's all i have to report.

the larkin brother's tire company on south vaness avenue. hotel bo hem on columbus avenue. cafe labo on 24th street. club deluxe on haight street. and that concludes those updates and reports. >> if there are no questions we can move on to -- general public comment. at this time the members may address the commission on items of interest to the public that are within the jurisdiction of the planning commission with respect to agenda items the opportunity will be afforded when the item is reach in the the meeting. each member may address the commission for up to 3 minutes. >> good afternoon. full house, congratulations, welcome back commissioner tan and welcome commissioner braun i made a copy. everyone got one in the mail a time line. i'm georgia shootis and it was started by staff and ended in 2006 then i pick today up to today. what it is about section 317. we can run through it quick low you seat staff starts 1988. and goes through the different ordinance. and then i pick it up in march of 2007 when finally passed by the commission and then 2008 the board passed t. and t