i'm hava cronenberg.r yee, i think it's been about nine months since we were here, so i'm going to go through beliefly some of our current statistics about vision zero and the progress we've made on our current action trot gee. very high overview. i know we have a packed agenda, so i'm going to move quickly. we report to you, as well as our committee -- community and committee vision zero task force, which has been meeting quarterly quarterly. i know you've seen this slide, but this is our fatality report from 2017, which was our least deadly year in san francisco recorded history, with 20 fatalities. pedestrians of those fatalities were still overrepresented, so we have a downward trend. motorists still continue to be overrepresented, and bicyclists as well. just looking through midway through this current calendar year, we're continuing to trend lower on average, but we still have eight recorded fatalities this year. we're hoping to see a downward trend as the year continues. really important, and again

i'd like to now bring up hava cronenberg, the program from the smtda who will start with a brief overview and go ahead and introduce the speakers as they come in from the -- in order of the presentation. >> thank you all, and thank you, supervisor yee for calling this hearing. we as a city, as a team of vision zero staff we really appreciate the opportunity to talk about the work we're doing and to give a real showcase to the efforts that we're making as well as to sort of highlight the critical issues that you have just raised. i'm go through quickly through my overview because i felt that you did an excellent job, speaking to all of my slides. so i'll be fairly quick. so some of you are new on this board so i'll do a refresher. which is in 2014, the city along with agents and our board of supervisors and mayor lee adopted vision zero as a policy to end the traffic fatalities in san francisco and to reduce our severe injuries. this is a picture of ninth and division, our new protected intersection. but supervisor yee has pointed out that this is a public health crisis. and just like any