a city that represents hearts while all of our hearts are broken here in the city because of this recent rash of homicides and violence. we can do better. we elected you all to support us on a journey to have a safer and better san francisco. the mayor's response to this is an atrocity. he has not reached out to anyone or said anything about these homicides or even said anything in sympathy towards the families. we will take this to our attorney general harris if we have to and we're you encouraging everybody to write a letter to here. we're going to take it all the way to the capitol and if necessary to the president. so we hope that the board hears us and takes action on this item. >> thank you, miss scott, next speaker, please. >> tom gilbertey, spare the air is spare our lungs. we need our ventilation systems upgraded constantly. you never thought that a 65-degree in january and february could be as dangerous as it is. bathrooms. it's time, muni opens up, bart opens up the bathrooms on market street. time has come. muni needs toing to and bart needs to clean up the elevators and take

i'll start with a quick profile of collision statistics and speeding information in the city. first of all from 2011 the number of vehicle collisions was 3111 of those 844 involved pedestrians and 630 involved bicyclists. of the -- another statistic is the number of collisions with fatal ities and that number has gone up respect respect ively and 622 collisions in in 2011 and over 21 percent of the drivers in the city exceed the speed limit by five miles per hour or more. this map shows where those streets are and when i say over 21 percent, this was some information com piled by the department of public health, that range is from 21 percent to a hundred so we could have significant numbers of drivers exceeding the speed limit. >> let me ask you to repeat that. i think this is highlighting the culture of speeding and unsafe driving in our city so at least 21 percent of the drivers are driving over the speed limit and it's on over 88 streets that are identified by that map. >> that is correct supervisor mar and as you can see they are scattered throughout the city. no neighborh

and commander ann mannox working hard on the vision zero processes in our city and the audience nicole snider and tyler frisbee and many others. with that colleagues i'd like to ask if you have any opening comments supervisor christensen . >> supervisor campos. >> i just want to thank you and thank supervisor yee and kim i look forward to the presentations and suggestions and thank you to the budget analysts for their work as well. >> thank you with that i'd like to invite you to present your findings. >> good afternoon. supervisor mar supervisor campos and supervisor christensen i'm fred r from from the budget and analyst's office. i'm just getting this prepared. today i'm going to summarize the report that we completed at the request of supervisor mar on reduction options in san francisco. i'll start with a quick profile of collision statistics and speeding information in the city. first of all from 2011 the number of vehicle collisions was 3111 of those 844 involved pedestrians and 630 involved bicyclists. of the -- another statistic is the number of collisions with fatal ities and

cities are doing and we'll also discuss how enforcement and engineering and education interplay with speed limits to make streets safer and the status quo, according to the report from what i see from the data clearly is not working after dropping significantly in the nineties and early 2000's the rates of collisions have largely leveled off i'd frame it as they haven't decreases as we might have wanted to over the last decade. that's not what a modern san francisco or a global city like ours should be feeling like as people are on on our streets. over the past 5 years i've had really good conversations with our department of public health staff especially our director of environmental health but also other staff on a vision that looks at reducing speed limits as improving the public health and our department of public health continues along with the mta to lead on making our city safer especially with our vision zero processes but san francisco i fear is falling behind new york portland and other cities in america according to the report and in places like bristol and london and par

falling behind new york portland and other cities in america according to the report and in places like bristol and london and paris that are taking boulder and faster actions than we are in our city and we can really learn from these practices from other cities and apply them to our unique conditions here in san francisco i'd like to acknowledge with us today are fred ro u.s. seo and from the mta we have a director of sustainable streets mr. tom maguire from the department of transportation in new york where he worked for years improving safer streets in new york and our sustainable streets division and from the department of public health we have our co-chair of our san francisco vision zero task force and commander ann mannox working hard on the vision zero processes in our city and the audience nicole snider and tyler frisbee and many others. with that colleagues i'd like to ask if you have any opening comments supervisor christensen . >> supervisor campos. >> i just want to thank you and thank supervisor yee and kim i look forward to the presentations and suggestions and thank you

to offset the city's cost to clean up at the city of lake merced as we note the puc is subtract is to the regional quality control board and ultimately responsible for the water shed land our recommendations on page 7 we recommend that you amend the proposed ordinance to the $9 million on budgeted and financed reserve pending the selection of the contract to complete the work relate to the contaminated soil and the reminded of the clean up soil at the lake merced property and we accept the promoted an amendment to be acknowledged by the board of supervisors. >> okay mr. rose colleagues any questions for mr. rose. >> okay. at this point we'll open this up to public comment anyone wish to comment only item 3 seeing none, public is closed so colleagues, we have a recommendation by our budget analyst and could you have a motion or supervisor tang. >> i didn't wanted to say in closing i know this is kind of an interesting situation we're in with the puc having to front the cost for the mitigation aforementioned i just want to note i'm glad that the puc has updated they're releasing guideli

, eps and all of the teams that bring large vehicles into the city. in closing i would like to thank nancy george who has lead this effort and out there anytime something happens and how and why it happened and the best way to solve that problem and thank you all for coming out and i am again very confident we can reach zero fatalities by 2024. thank you. [applause] >> thank you muhammad. the two year plan that muhammad referenced is the vision zero action strategy that the mayor is releasing today. this vehicle training program is one piece of it, but the strategy is kind of an action plan for the next two years in the areas of education, engineering, enforcement, evaluation and policy, and it tasks many of the departments here and others in the city family with specific goals and milestones and things that we are seeking and the mayor is directing us to achieve in the next two years, so that we can get closer to that 2024 goal, so we do have -- it's up on our website and i believe we have copies here for the media or we will make copies available if

the city state our state of the city is strongest and getting stronger. (clapping.) it is is a unique moment in our history the city is busing with energy and pride not just because the warriors have the best record in the nabbing or the giant or world champions again and again and again (clapping) you know the ideas that conceived no incubator that microbe to the bayview from south of market to central market has spurred economic prosperity in our city our neighborhoods bustle again with young families and thriving small businesses our skylines 2r06r78d with the commercial towers 5 new hospitals under construction today soon to be joined by the central subway and chanted moscone center for the golden gate warriors a wastewater treatment plant and new neighborhood along the central waterfront that employees thousands of construction workers well, thank you to the hard working men and women to the construction trades the laborers and operating engineers and entertainment and electrical workers all the trade for rebuilding our city thank you (clapping) my f

net of our city this services the most vulnerable and needy people in our city in august of last year saurm the full board passed a resolution that had an unanimous u amount to fund the cost of nonprofit agencies that contract with the city and the funding was con 2i7b9 on the above prejudged or projected stimulates of the 2014-2015 to be funded like the local tax and real estate transfer tackles city's recently comprehensive report caper we call it for the fiscal year mentions a year-end inappropriate surcharge of $21.6 million but the caper showed the city has a 134ur as mentioned in the resolution that was passes? august that came from again the unanticipated end revenue the board of supervisors made the commitment according to the resolution because many of the 45ird working organization provide in some of the critical serviced and that they've been chronically under contemplated over the year from 2008 to 9 the nonprofit organization received the funding from the san francisco budget & finance committee despite absorbing the high costs and in many cases not on there since 2007 or

contracts if there's something that the city can do to address that city i know there's 09 challenges fits the reality we're dealing with that also does not enable us to keep with the health care costs and all the other increasing costs so really appreciate our consideration without many of our services expensive things will go up. >> thank you, ms. >> i work for the health client we do the go health serviced so 6 years i've been in this work in the city we had support important the hotels people and most at risk for as long as i've been at any of the agrees i have a comprehensive staff and seen cuts we see nonprofits getting increases and this moment i realizing realize in the absence of a cost of living increase not only the absence of an increase is is cut because everything is getting more expensive this past beyond a reasonable doubt people are displayed out of the tenderloin and sow we werelism hotels ourselves and were almost not able to find a home because of the fear of the neighborhood but one of the things we helped them understand the services that concludes my report is a

city commissions. we are giving formerly tier 2 departments until next fiscal year to comply with the parts specifically regarding interpretation and translation. we recognize they may need to make some budget asks to comply so we want to encourage them to do so. we are clarifying telephonic messages do not include employee mailboxes. we are including -- for complaints received through city boards, city commissions and advisory bodies they will be part of the complaint process. we are adding additional information that ocea will provide specifically on complaints to the irc, and so again i know that supervisor yee has additional comments but we really want to emphasize that our goal is not to overburden our departments with these requirements. many of them exist already but we want to make sure that everyone has the ability to access whatever it is they need with san francisco city services. with that first i will let supervisor yee make some comments and then like to invite up adrian pon from ocea and

we just want a show as any major city should. we're the largest city in the country without a team.t seems we ought to have a shot. >> in fairness the owner of the a's does not support this lawsuit. it doesn't threaten me at all. but i think that one thing we need to learn from each other is that the days of government subsidizing sports teams is over. and we cannot afford to have a race to the bottom in these ill-conceived stadium deals and maybe oakland learned its lessons from the past. >> will you work together to try to get the olympics? >> oh, yeah. i mean, as brief of the ability well had to start talking about it when the decision was made we got a sense from each other that when it comes to such an important international event like the olympics, it's something that brings our cities together. ultimately us mayors realize not just sports but academically -- >> transportation. >> transportation wise, economically, our bay area is now having to compete with the likes of london, paris, shanghai, other places, where if we don't work together then we all lose. i think this is wh

moment so i say that to say the providers represent a cross section and serve the diversity of the city in terms of the be 4rsh9 community and seniors and we are so grateful i want to acknowledge and commend ca me and the fact she and the colleagues took the time to visit the facilities and there are times they took to look at the neighbors neighborhood and the element of the district in san francisco and recognizing we want the facility serving those to have access to transit and other shops we take for granted i appreciate our consideration. >> thank you very much mr. duffy and your work on this. >> okay. we will now on opening it up for public comment i have a few public comment cards (calling names) come on up public comment is 2 minutes. >> good afternoon, supervisors and general public i'm daily receptionist the homeless board c-2 this is a great piece of legislation that needs to be done and i'm aware of some of our supervisors feel their district is un235ish8 burdened by the services for the homeless folks i myself for the people in the avenues and the parts of the city that don

that's why affordable housing is so urgent in the city. >> the request about poverty in the city are we setting up such a invading poster levels of poverty is is higher. >> i believe the recited rate a higher but the distinction of poverty didn't fit our city we have another problem a number of people and it's hard to kind of get the demographics but people that are lower income to move out of the city it's reasonable to look at the data and conclude that people come to san francisco when they're very poor work here for a few years and move out it tend to be the people that move out tend to be lower income than the people that move in thank you. >> commissioner dooley. >> i wanted to go back to the housing situation with the middle-class housing in terms of it's hard i know in north beach my area for people to find employees that don't want to commute i have seen all the traditional housing that will house those people say boric acid out and being sold to people who don't live there and the merchant in my area are noticing that also those folks are not getting their dry cleaning done

at city hall c announcements of prohibition of sound like producing sound please be advised the ringing of and use of cell phones mrs. bradshaw please be advised that the chair may order the removal from the meeting room meeting room responsible for the ringing or use of a cell phone, pager, or other similar sound-producing electronic devices. c announcement of time allotment for public comment please be advised a members of the public a has up to 3 minutes to make comments on each agenda item i'm available for questions it is strongly recommended that the members of the public fill out a speaker card and submit the completed card to the secretary the the next order of business is item 3 report on actions taken care of at a closed session there are no reportable items the next order of business is matter of unfinished you business conditionally arthur's the director to enter into a amendment with the city and county of san francisco for use up to $526000 for street light pedestrian improvements per obligations for the scheduled item 384 subject to approval by the oversight board and dep

do the role call i need to make a note due to technology complications beyond the departments and city's control the agenda did not get poefd on our website so we need 2 hours in advance the agenda was posted at the library and the room on time in execution with our da because we don't have any action items on the agenda i said it was our discretion to move forward with the meeting i want to be clear with the public and perhaps we can just call and see if there's call for any public comment on that. >> let's call the meeting to order if there's phenomenon or anyone from the public that objects please let us know substantially we'll take that matter up at the later meeting there's no action so we're on to addressing any items but we'll precede with tonight meeting seeing no objection can we have the role call. >> so commissioner president adams commissioner dooley commissioner dwight commissioner ortiz-cartagena is on his way commissioner white commissioner riley and commissioner tour-sarkissian mr. president, you have a quorum. >> all right. so the first matter of business as also the ge

it's a shame people can work in this city but they can't afford to live in this city chl that's kind of troubling to me. i don't think we can put it all on the mayor, i think this needs a coalition of city hall. i think business, the tech companies, the citizens, i think we all have to have a coalition to work. this is a city-wide program. sometimes you hear it's up to the mayor, no, it's up to all of us. the businesses need to ante up, whether it's bonds, we're the best city in the united states, how can we afford to have senior citizens that lived their whole life here and not able to stay here any more. it's unacceptable. look at the homeless problem we have in the city, it's sad. you probably have more rich and wealth in this city than almost any city in the united states and we're having this conversation and just morally we have to do something about it and put a task force and work with the mayor and get the businesses, even if it's a bond. i mean i look out here and i see a lot of the san franciscoa th., even though the average age is 67, one day if you live, you will be an o

their employment-based hiring in the city. i then programmers and developers in the city. and further scrambling to find enough space so for example salesforces hopefully going to be moving into a new office tower within the next couple of years and even bloomberg is opening r&d facility south of market being near the tech corridor door. so medical research biotechnology along with social media and apps are really fueling this group growth. along with university of california, san francisco medical school is expanding its research and clinical footprint. let me briefly mention a few others. austin the second and is the most consistent performer in our top five. it's a night dynamic generator of jobs in the technology sector. just to give you a sense of the consistency among it ranked first third and ninth in job growth respectively from 2008 through 2003. in 2003 and year-over-year in august of this year. also it has very high wage growth. another part of the country, also in the west about polo was in the top three and really between san francisco boston and provo they we

to be done this agreement shapes the way that the housing authority the federal government and the city will work together to make this all possible. >> at this time it is my pleasure to introduce a very special man yes he's my boss he's very special (laughter). >> as part of his 2013 state of public safety address speak the mayor said we must do something to help our public libraries residents and called for the revitalization of the housing authority which were struggling loan to try to serve san francisco neediest residents as the mayor likes he like the big issue led by the naomi kelly of the city metrics administrator's office and that work group helped to identify the challenges that were faced by the housing authority and it also identified some of the opportunities that we in san francisco, california pull together to assist the housing authority and it's residents to have a safe descent sanitary housing to implement this work the mayor district automobile cities departments not only the housing and urban development to work with the housing authority to towards the goals of the

continue making a great city. thank you for being here today. [applause] >> i will introduce the treasurer tax collector jose cisneros. >> thank you mr. mayor. thank you so much for your kind words and your dedication and your partnership on launching this important new tax. as you mentioned mayor prop e was passed over two years ago, and i am here to report to you and to the entire city of san francisco that we are now at the point we can say we have successfully deliver the gross tax receipts system on time and on budget. [applause] so believe me a lot of people deserve credit for that success and i will be honest it's not an easy road. our previous tax system was not just built to accommodate this kind of a measure and therefore we executed an agreement for a new tax system which configured almost all of our taxes including the new gross receipts tax. i would really like to recognize our great vendors on the project who are us today and let's acknowledge them for their great work. thank you so much. [applause]

it was no picnic in crystal city. >> let's watch a little bit of an overview of crystal city, the cap the sun shines practically every day of the year with a cool breeze from the gulf in the evening. originally, it was a mandatory labor camp of approximately 1000 housing units, utility, and recreation buildings. to provide for a population of 3600, we added more than 500 housing units, school buildings a hospital, and maintenance building. we tripled the number of streets and extended electric and sewage facilities. this is the perimeter over which armed guards kept a 24-hour watch. at night, the illumination on top of the fence was visible almost to the mexican border. >> you said they voluntarily went in a but could not get out voluntarily. >> absolutely. as you can see, those guard towers, they were always under armed guard. everyone knew the penalty for an attempt to escape was death, and in the entire history of the camp, no one ever attempted to escape. for one thing, where would you go? you are in the middle of nowhere. despite the fact that they said there was a cool breeze fr

city agencies. so what they are looking to do before amending chapter 6, which is the code section that governs construction contracts, looking to set up a system like in other counties where we understand how to evaluate prior performance and we can look at that across city departments. on time, on budget there's a place for the contractor to make comment to that city-wide system but there's actually nothing prohibiting us from looking at prior performance now. so as brad was describing in the rfp we can look at prior environmental compliance, virpb vurpbal program as a scoring criteria. >> so it can be included as scoring criteria. just in case they show up again. >> i had a couple of questions. i mean in terms of the number of bidders, thin there was no response in 2007, would we even anticipate that the other two will say, well, we'll expand our facility. >> let me break that into two. >> and i have one more question after that. >> we actually had quite a few companies that came and kicked the t

staff it is the whole city that works on this (laughter) federal reserve the mayor's office the citydministrators offers and naomi kelly is critical in the task force and the departments of all sort of lined up behind the mayors directive assist the housing authority i know tom from dbi and planning and dpw and the human resources we're all working targeted a common goal this is again, the whole notion that the housing authority are no longer a island in san francisco i want to thank the enterprise list and the other people we're working with the developers and the cohorts and thank our housing developers we're uniquely blessed in san francisco to have 5 eco system they've step up to the plate and it is continuing to be difficult they'll do it t and last but not least i want to thank my staff who have been working on this lydia and others who have been leading the charge (clapping.) again, thank you all we will all do this together and hopefully, all see each other in he 12 months for the groundbreaking for the first one or the completion of the late last - at this point we'll on the

>> yes cities and municipalities yes. so all of those comments are just to say that again speed matters. we know that speed is probably the most important driving behavior that we need to get under control but it needs to to to be pursued in both policy context at the state level and also needs to be paired with the education and enforcement efforts that we're working on with everyone in the city family to move forward. so before i turn it over to ricardo, i would just put in a plug and hope that you will find a way to help us make that case in sacramento about automated safety enforcement this year and to begin to lay the ground work for some changes to the speed limit over the course of the session. thank you. >> good afternoon supervisors. i'm the city traffic engineer with the sfmta and i'd like to commend the legislative analyst 's office for for the report they made a complicated subject very understandable. and i think the board putting attention on this will help us as well as the public to understand some of the

san francisco was the first city in the country to do this. families do not need to sign up for the program. they are automatically once their kids are enrolled in our public schools, they are enrolled. accounts are held by the city of san francisco which is ultimately the custodian of these accounts. funds are held by city bank who is partner of this program. there are actually no fees that are related to the account. on a personal note i feel there is something about knowing once you start your education that there is an expectation that you are going to go to college. the fact that a kid enters a public school system knowing that they are not on the expected to go to college, but the city is making an investment in their college education is very powerful. more than 8,000 students in all of the 74 almost schools of the unified school district have accounts. more than 18000 students. this includes two charter schools, thomas edison, charter academy and greater arts charter school. more than 2100 families have made deposits and ooefr the -- o

a live look at center city, philadelphia. expect the winds to pick up a little bit later as well which will make it feel much colder out there. right now, 11:00, light snow is moving through the poconos this morning, and let's go right now to brittney shipp with a lip lil' bit more on little bit more on what is going on. >> where is the closer look at this? it is moving in from the north and it is going to continue to push a little bit closer to our suburbs, just near norristown along the i-95 corridor maybe the next hour or so. here is the live look outside of our studios, we are seeing a few snow flurries coming down and our temperature versus windchill. it is not too bad now. our wind speeds are going to pick up as we head into the afternoon. that's going to make it feel a lot colder as you head home from work. 35 in pottstown. but the feels like temperature at 30 degrees. we're tracking two shots of arctic air and so as we head into the rest of today, our temperatures or tomorrow will drop down to 21 degrees. if you look

we don't have that charge before you from the city. we've had savings in insurance costs and we're allowing for a small increase in our it costs. that maybe related to refreshing our server and possibly using -- we're still negotiating with the city over we will virtualize our servers with the city or do the work ourselves and we are trying to build in sufficient to maintain the it infrastructure. turning to debt service there's 37 million total of which 25 million is a property tax which i mentioned before. it includes the full years debt service on the new refunding bonds and there's also the non property tax items as we still have the hotel tax bond that is money passed through from the city and we also have south beach harbor bond that we are getting funds from revenues. we are also include r including in here allowance for this if we can sell bonds on mission bay and we built that into the rops authority and we are building a team for that and bonds and new issuances there. you will see that soon coming before you. yes, as i menti

the city hosts pope francis for his first visit to the u.s. in september in the world meeting of families. and we invite you to stay with "action news" for continuing coverage as philadelphia prepares to host the democratic national convention and we'll have live reports beginning today at 4:00 including a look at security measures and you can find the latest online at 6abc.com. >>> now, to accuweather and the temperature plunge headed to us this weekend. lets head outside to sky 6 hd showing you philadelphia international airport you may want to book the flight to florida now. we could see below 0 windchills tomorrow and first another shot of snow. david murphy is outside with the latest from accuweather. >> it started out okay but doesn't want to give it upright now, february has featured a lot of these nuisance and sometimes more than a nuisance events. this is south of philadelphia where a morning batch of snow showers in the process of pushing south and off the coast most of this is highlighted in lighter shades of gray and it's not all t

workers have to ask and foreman the city of san francisco has a policy they don't want to invest in fossil fuels when you vote to invest in hedge funds they are investing no fossil fuels nerds they can violate the city and county of san francisco rules and lastly officer is being suited by a black officer in the city and county of san francisco who arrested a fellow public defender who was defending african-american clients and sued her of agreeing what's the pension board is supposedly representing the city workers for doing her job when he should have been in a hearing instead arrested a city employee you should recuse users and not be talking about this we have to stop the hedge funds slchlt and most of the employees are hurting they can't live in san francisco we need to protect our hedge funds and protect the public and we don't have another bust of our pensions thank you (clapping.) >> good afternoon tom o core president of the san francisco firefighters this is a tough act to follow i'm not here to to personal acquisitions against the board i'm here to say thank you for the e

my concern is based on the city attorney's office described i'm not that it is realistic to talk about doing it within the time to get it on the november ballot because it strikes we me need draft language of what the provision is going to be we're proposing before anybody either pro or con can really start making presentations why it is necessary to adapt that language to avoid corruption and to make the political process more transparent on the other hand those for those say who want to oppose it to be specific in their language so i guess i envision it is more of a at least two or three step process the first being asking the staff to draft the language that in her opinion what is being talked about in this memo under item 1 and present that to us and get some all the time on this language that is commission he believes should be adopted and set up a campaign to support it and let those who oppose it set up their campaign and make the record we have to make in other words, to meet anyling legal challenge down the road >> mr. chair you and commissioner andrews have convinced me of th

some fled the city, either voluntarily or at the request of city officials.ome moved in with friends and family. some rented homes that had not burned, or even just rooms that had not been destroyed. some had to camp outside in public parks. others even took refuge in the buildings of the inner city of south carolina. even more pressing was the fact that the fire destroyed so many of the provisions of the city. so starvation and suffering seems to daily stalk columbia. sherman actually left 500 cattle grazing in the city, but the mayor complained the cattle were so skinny that they were just dying rather than feeding anyone. other columbians complained, for example, one wrote, there is little food to be hired, and we have all aims in common, drawing rations from the free market and living on the charity of those who have more than we. a columbia woman writing to her daughter in charlotte concurs, saying, what we are to do for provisions, i don't know, and nothing doing to make any money and no prospect of anything. i wish you would send potatoes, because i ca

of the city. i have worked in legislative office making decisions on a myriad of different issues that affect millions of people's lives instantly and very proud of the work there and since then working to bridge communities, bringing people together in the same room to work on partnerships that really help strengthen the city whether it's around seniors and aging issues, adults with disabilities, poverty and homelessness, affordability, eviction, working with youth internships and access to opportunity in san francisco, and essentially that's been my life's work since then. i really do see the industry as a touch stone for every neighborhood in san francisco. i see it as not only an economic engine for the city but an anchor to keep culture and sustained culture in san francisco neighborhood by neighborhood, and i also see it as a place of opportunity for activating communities, activating spaces, bringing diverse groups together as a real meeting place to do that. i am very proud of a lot of the