peskin: the m.t.a. budget is adopted. and on the balance of items 15-29, a roll call, please. >> clerk: supervisor kim aye. supervisor mandelman aye. supervisor peskin aye. supervisor ronen aye. supervisor safai aye. supervisor stefani aye. supervisor yee aye. supervisor brown aye. supervisor cohen aye. supervisor fewer aye. there are 10 aye's. >> supervisor a. peskin: all right, the annual appropriations ordinance annual salary ordinance and related items are adopted on first reading. congratulations. >> president m. cohen: madam clerk. it is almost 3:00 but i want to go to 2:30 accommodations. i understand supervisor safai has a 2:30 accommodation? >> supervisor a. safai: thank you, everyone. today i rise to honor captain hart in our entire ingleside police station. captain hart has been at the ingleside police station for a little over a year or going on a year, in the short amount of time one of the most vexing problems we have had to deal with over a decade plus in the ingleside community excelsior parts of the lakevi

i stood here before the m.t.a. board about six years ago and >> like last night, the sign states that the one california would arrive at vanness and sacramento street in 28 minutes. it arrived about ten minutes later, to my relief. one night, i had to wait close to 50 minutes for the 1 california. as the bus sign predicted, i was going to catch the 43 at presidio and california to go to geary street in order for it to circumvent this. and suddenly, a 1 california swoops by, and i waited close to 50 minutes, after all. now this is really disgusting. you are not keeping on your routes, you are not fulfilling your obligations. and we can have all these wonderful projects like vanness avenue and all these other places, but if the buses don't run on time, if they don't break -- if they breakdown, if they're late -- [bell ringing]. >> -- or they're missing, what's the sense of it all? and basically, you're missing the main threat of concern. basically, m.t.a. has not addressed the basic need of buses running on time and k

it's in the best interests of the m.t.a. that a dedicated director/manager be installed for the maintenance and operation of the historic fleet. the force needed to maintain the fleet has to be highly skilled and resourceful as mechanics of these cars vary in scope. because these cars are historic and the numbers are limited, an in-house, specialized crew is needed to fully maintain the cars as outsourcing firms are becoming rare. that's it. >> chairman brinkman: thank you very much. thank you for your service. and please pass our thanks along to the c.a.c. and all the committee. thank you. do i have any public comment on the citizens advisory council report? >> just briefly, wanted to support in particular the second motion regarding the disposition and encourage the board to consider the vote on disposing of the cars. i think as the motion indicated, they may have value in the future. it's really unfortunate that over the last 35 years, they were left to sit and rot and deteriorate and be exposed to the elements. at geneva

the m.t.a. you know hired a consultant which has produced a draft report on how to improve the health of the taxi industry, and they do address briefly in their report some of the issues that medallion holders are having in terms of struggling to pay their loans. what i would like to propose is instead of doing a separate study on this, is that i analyze the m.t.a.'s report and other work that has been done in this area and come up with our own list of recommendations on how to help these drivers. so i'm proposing to do this separate from the study on emerging mobility services and labor. and lafco is authorized to do this work under our special studies authority. so with that, madam chair, i'll turn it back to you. >> supervisor fewer: thank you. commissioner ronen. >> supervisor ronen: thank you. that might work. i -- what i -- i want to provide some relief to particularly the group of taxi drivers who bought their medallion at a very high cost, right when its value basically plummeted. and i

and through the m.t.a., i think we can bring a unique perspective. i think that there's been some gaps in the city's work. so, first, let me address the gaps. and one of the gaps that my colleague commissioner sandra lee fewer has been working on is taxi drivers and the fact that the industry has been decimated by the t.n.z.s and the fact that many working-class cabdrivers who saved up their entire lives to purchase a medallion and right when they were able to do so and put their life savings into it, hoping that that would give them a secure retirement and profession for the rest of their lives really had the rug, you know, pulled from under them. and are in dire straits right now. and as a matter of fact these drivers come almost every week to the board of supervisors meeting to testify about the desperate situation that they're in and despite supervisor, commissioner fewer's attempts to go to the m.t.a. board an and, u know, to find a resolution so far there's not been one. so if we could add -- because it's absolutely related to this topic -- to y

and with the s.f. m.t.a. wheat do you want to start reducing the on street impacts that we are having? do you want to offer low income individuals at san francisco state a discounted rate? i don't think that public dollars should go into that. this authority has not thought that. that is why we voted last year to restrict funds from the guaranteed ride home. not to go to t.n.c. i don't want to penalize low income students at san francisco state but i think they have the wherewithal is a $7.5 billion company to do that. i respectfully would oppose that motion. let's see where the votes are out. i'm sorry, there's a whole bunch of folks. [please standby]

i'll get ahead of this too is that we have been working with the m.t.a. again to harmonize all of those structures to address the gaps that we're identifying. so we'll see it through the new permits and circling back to the old as well. does that answer your question? >> vice chair pollock: i think that it does. so you're saying that it's a permitting process rather than a contracting process? >> that's my understanding is that would be the contract with this company. so if they have any business with the city that's one way to enforce it. and, on the other hand if we wanted to conduct a pilot with any one of these companies that doesn't necessarily have a permit with us and that's another way to, you know, increase that viability there. so an example in our research and in our payment section would say, you know, let's seek out partnerships with companies that are good actors in these other ways. so if we did a pilot in the bayview which is something that we managed a while ago, can we not find a partner that has good labor practices and has union employe

the m.t.a., the municipal transportation agency needed to up that number, and they upped it to 80. so now our strategy is 0-80-100 routes, and we're going to be hearing about how we did that and celebrating in that success. so what's interesting is if you look at our greenhouse gas he mission -- so here's my wonk slide. so this is looking at the transportation sector, so transportation alone is 46% of our emissions, and so that's a huge amount of co2 emissions coming out of the transportation sector. the red on this chart is vehicles. so while b.a.r.t. is about 5%, caltrain is about 2%, really what we're going to have to do is tackle cars and trucks. so in order to tackle the car part of cars and trucks, we need to get pea people out of their cars. and in fact, our department, the department of the environment works very hard on this issue. we are a small but mighty team in the commission on the environment. we support our agencies in another wonky term which is called transportation demand management, so transportation demand, we're managing the demand for transportation and hopin

and with the s.f. m.t.a. wheat do you want to start reducing the on street impacts that we are having? do you want to offer low income individuals at san francisco state a discounted rate? i don't think that public dollars should go into that. this authority has not thought that. that is why we voted last year to restrict funds from the guaranteed ride home. not to go to t.n.c. i don't want to penalize low income students at san francisco state but i think they have the wherewithal is a $7.5 billion company to do that. i respectfully would oppose that motion. let's see where the votes are out. i'm sorry, there's a whole bunch of folks. [please standb -- at the same time, what that does is gives them free advertisement. and eventually, capitalize on that free advertisement to have other people essentially pay for the services. so my question was in considering offering initially $56,000 to lyft, do they have a matching fund in this? do they have anything that they're putting into this? >> so the grant is going

small amounts for safe routes to schools initiatives or multimillion dollar projects to replace the m.t.a.'s radio communication program. ments for your capital projects, again with not even half of the prop-k time passed, we have two projects that are open to the public. three projects that are nearing completion and one, the downtown extension, that is in design. a similar picture for the 21 programattic categories where $958 million has been allocated through the end of last year and on this slide it shows the allocation status for the 2 -- 21 categories for the time passed and the 30-year lifetime. as you can see on average allocations align with the time passed. but there are some categories shown in red fonts with fewer activities. we looked into a couple of those categories that seemed to have a slower start but did not find anything out of the ordinary. for example, programattic development has only been allocated $4 million through december 2017. but exenss pences this fiscal year 18-19 are expected at $2 million. se it appears that activities for this categoris are ramping up in

this is what we need in the m.t.a. when sen drank fewer had a meeting and a number of us one of the highlights of her comments were there's no place to go that can tell us everything that the m.t.a. is doing in our neighborhood. so, we were there about the eighth avenue project. but, then we had concerns about the gerry which has changed names a number of times for us but that they've taken the bus stop on ninth away, which leaves us going to park precidio or up to sixth avenue. i'm glad that you admitted to not having looked at all the information on the diversion plan because if you had you would see that eighth avenue is one of the few places on gerry that you can make a left-hand turn on to eighth avenue. that's part of the problem. the only place you can get in and out of the park and the only place on gerry street you can make a turn. so where is that going to leave people? now you will ask them to zigzag across streets, which is more dangerous than having them go direct. [ please stand by ] >> director brinkman:

and for that year we had work with the m.t.a. and the national park service to put up the following sign welcoming people to the fisherman's wharf and we refurbished a similar sign at the taylor street cable car turn around. and some of the other accomplishments that year, we launched a retail tax force and website. we published a leasing and brokerage report and had brokers open to help to fill in the vacancyies and to create a better retail mix at the wharf. we maintained tree lights at the park with the m.t.a. and fully funded the scrims on the bus yard fence. and continued work with s.f. rec and park to add much-needed lighting to that park. and purchased a caboda car and pressure washer for our ambassador program. on the pier safe side this is our emergency readiness and we focus here on emergency preparedness and also safety and security for the wharf. we hold a monthly s.b.d. community meetings with the district attorney and the community district attorney charlie besto, and the captain yepp. and i also serve on the central

why don't we discuss this more with the planning department and the m.t.a. and see what we can propose. i think it's a very good conversation to have, and we can update the commission after having that conversation in more detail. >> but i really do want to thank you because this is phenomenal work, and we are so happy to get warm water cove upgraded and 24th street improvements. we thank you so much for including us in this piece. >> absolutely. i would like to just add that the other thing that will be coming in front of the commission later this summer is the india basin project that's -- that's -- that closes a part of that gap, as well and includes interagency coordination with the planning and rec and park and oewd. that's specifics for that area, and we're talking about geography that becomes a little bit smaller, so thank you. >> thank you all. commissioner adams? >> david, i don't know if you want to answer. maybe commissioner -- director forbes. are these projects so massive -- even like the seawall, we just took a certain part. are these projects s

we have regular monthly meetings the directors for public works and the m.t.a. and periodically the p.u.c. join together every month to go over issues between the departments, ways that we can more effectively coordinate projects and the delivery of much of our capital work. in addition to that, we have design and paving meetings and transit meetings, to try to limit the resources available with all the agencies. finally, we have what was referred to as envista and now accela to provide coordination and notification of all of our construction work, as well as private utility construction work so everybody understands where the potential clashes are and work to coordinate those efforts to make sure that they're done in an efficient manner. some of the things we've talked about throughout the day have focused on just the sheer number of construction projects that we have out on the city streets today. we have been working to coordinate, as i said earlier, these projects, but we have been impacted by the bid environment. there's been a supply-and-demand issue, with

the clock. they've been doing a great job, contractors, m.t.a. and other city staff. to give you more detail, half of the seismic retrofit work is done. most of the drainage system work is done. we think it's the original from 100 years ago. so it's important to replace that because it was no longer functioning. two of the four crossovers are installed. and the track removal and replacement continues largely on schedule. from the community side, they have twice a week office hours in west portal. and we've been beyond the office hours staff walking up and down the commercial streets and engaging on an ongoing basis with the merchants. there's been a lot of on-the-fly flexibility to accommodate loading. last time i was there, i saw one of the business owners talking to one of the construction reps to facilitate loading, so the team has been accommodating and ensuring that the loading needs of the merchants can be met. and we've also for the riders had ambassadors, very heavily deployed, particularly at the beginning, and a lot of signage to make sure that everybody unde

the five point team are also here today as well, as well as representatives from m.t.a. and planning. i would also like to acknowledge that the chair of the hunters point shipyard citizen's advisory committee who has worked very closely with us on this project is here as well. i want to also thank supervisor cohen for her leadership on this project. with that, we're all available to respond to any questions you may have. >> supervisor safai: thank you, director. supervisor cohen, do you have any additional comments before we open it up to the rest of the colleagues. >> supervisor cohen: thank you for the offer. no, i don't. we can dig in. >> supervisor safai: any colleague -- oh, supervisor yee? >> supervisor yee: yes. just a question for the -- on page 6 of your slides, the housing where it talks about 32% -- well, of the 10,500 housing units, how many of them will be just renovating the existing versus how many will be brand-new. >> so the alice griffith, that is the housing component, i believe there's 256 units that would be 1:1 replacement and affordable housing unit