on october 17 of 2018, the california transportation commission programmed $2.3 million in these funds to our project and the project will actually repay $2.5 million in residential streets -- 2.5 miles in residential streets in the sunside and parkside neighborhoods. this construction work in conjunction with our asset management strategy decrease the lifetime maintenance and repair costs, while also providing safer and reliable roadways for multi-modal transportation. i'm joined today by our project manager and we'd be happy to answer any questions >> chair fewer: thank you very much. any questions from my colleagues? seeing none, let's open this up for public comment. any members of the public like to comment on this item? i didn't call on the bla. let's have the bla report first. i'm so sorry. >> this accepts the senate bill 1 grant for the sunniside and parkside streets. these are street pavement programs. the grant amount is for $2.3 million. the city is matching $2.6 million. the total project cost is $5 million. we show it on page 10 of our report and we recommend approval >> c

for the fair chance ordinance, it would be potentially preempted by the california public utilities commission for transportationcompanies. that would apply to transportation services, but not necessarily delivery services, which sa large part of the gig-type economy. and to make it clear that the office of labor standards enforcement holds these workers are employees and eligible to these rights and protections under the law. so office of labor standards enforcement process, this would be for private employment laws, and it would vary slightly for san francisco contract laws, where we're more pro-active. there is a higher burden and different array of laws that might apply. complaints come to our office many different ways: by phone, e-mail, walk-in, snail mail, or any other type of delivery method. they may u come in by affected workers, co-workers, worker advocates, labor organizations, occasionally completeing businessescompetingbusinesses. and intake is an initial assessment to make sure there is a violation of the law. it is not uncommon to receive complaints from outside san francisco. most of the laws i

the commission is broken up into several divisions that regulate particular industries throughout the state of california, some of which include communications, water, energy, rail, and transportation. one of these divisions is the safety enforcement division which serves as a commission's regulatory enforcement arm and has the authority to issue notices of violation, directives, and citations to regulate utilities who potentially violate a commission general order. within sec we are divided into four branches which include both gas and safety. this diagram can be used to explain items that are on poles and the various companies, energy versus communications. just as a quick note, this schematic includes transmission, which you trls would not find on our distribution pole. in the supply space, a transformer steps down the distribution power to 120 or 240 volts, which is then transmitted to service drops to the customer's homes and businesses. the poles might have other equipment, such as lighting or service reclosures on them. this schematic does not show wireless antennas or other supporting equipment. antennas can be attached to the top or the side of the pole in the communicatio

california. i'm still not sure i want to get in one of these. susan: it will be fun in the future. google has gotten permission to transport passengers in the robo-taxis. the california public utilities commissionfficult from other government department basically given out shall we say licenses to test ride hailing in california. 60 companies have been given this. waymo itself can in the south bay area in san francisco, of course can use their chrysler minivans in the future. they hope the jaguar electric cars to transport, starting with own employees to the waymo campus. they're doing this in arizona. they already have the robo-taxi service up and running this is for corporate. walmart is part of this as well, to shift their employees back and forth from the transit locations but waymo of course wants to expand that in the future, maybe across the country. david: can you man these cars in the streets of new york with all of the stop and go and lane shifting or l.a., for that matter? forget about it. susan: uber has a self-driving program as well. they say that will not be available in the next 20 years or so. depends on the traffic situation. david: maybe in a quiet, not as city suburban in lo

transportation commission says the tax is necessary. >> what you are going to have is a car repair bill, that is more expensive than paying a little few pennies at the pump. gallon in california is in nsiv southern california imperial county for $3.58 the most expensive is in the sierra, alpine county, that's over $5 a gallon. >>> starting today, increase for the golden gate bridge. most tolls including fast track and car pool rates will go up $0.35. fast tracker ands will pay $7.35, fares on the golden gate ferry and transit bus are going up. they were approved to close a $75 million budget gap. >>> other agencies increasing fares, single-ride cash fares increasing by $0.25 to $3 >>> fares increasing on ac transit in alameda, adult fares going up to $2.50. clipper card receive a 25% discount. they plan to use the revenue to improve service and address rising operational costs. >>> san francisco's sales force transit center will partially re-open. it was closed back in september after cracks were found in the steel beams only six weeks after the transit center opened. it will re-open in two stages. this morning, the public rooftop park will re-open. food trucks and public ins