Transcripts For SFGTV Government Access Programming 20171120

Distributing any language and sample letters or postcards that people could submit for people to submit their experiences with accessibility issue with the t. N. C. S. Thank you, is there a general time frame for a Comment Period . It varies and theres 34 sets of comments and reply comments as part of this rulemaking so its going on for quite some time and it varies in terms of getting notice when the comments are due. But id anticipate that wed have a good amount of time to, you know, before the cpuc gives the deadline and because in this current rulemaking there are multiple tracks and the accessibility track is number five and theyre still working on the earlier tracks. Thank you very much. Thank you for notifying me. And well open up to comments. Theres someone on the bridge line and my apologies, we had technical difficulties. Sorry bridge line holder, thank you. Go ahead. Go ahead. Can you hear me . I cant. We cannot hear you at this time due to technical difficulties. We have some speakers here for Public Comment. First one . Well, we have mr. Lanholt, but can this gentleman go first . Im howard shapner. And two quick comments about this. Number one, chariot is owned by ford and i have written to ford several times about chariots lack of access and didnt really get a response, and i understand that very recently that chariot settled a complaint by the u. S. Justice department, and its disappointing that m. T. A. Would have partnered with ford on the go bikes, they should have done their Due Diligence and recognized that ford owned chariot and that chariot was not providing Wheelchair Accessible service and the analogy is that i think that it was back in the 1990s that s. F. O. Required airlines and other partners that were using s. F. O. To provide partner benefits which is the right thing to do and they basically said that were not going to do business with you people and let you land unless you do that. Even though that was beyond what the law really required. So i really hope that, you know, m. T. A. Or any other city agency would not partner with someone that is that owns a company that is basically discriminating against people with disabilities. Thats number one. And the second comment has to do with the hop on hop off buses and other privately operated tourist type buses. I have written to several of those, and probably half of them are not accessible. And, you know, i have written to m. P. A. And so forth and basically been told and i think to m. O. D. A while ago that, you know, s. F. Has no jurisdiction and thats california p. U. C. , well, again, as the San Francisco allows those buses to park, in fact, gives them designated Parking Spaces and theres other forms of leverage they have. And so even though there may be gaps and there are gaps i believe in the a. D. A. , in terms of the coverage of those type of buses, i think that, again, that San Francisco has some practical effective leverage in making those companies go beyond what the law may require and, certainly, if its a gray area, interpreting the gray area to provide more access, rather than less. Thank you. Thank you. Im bob planholt and i want to point out two areas where the Public Utilities commission is oblivious or neglects to respond to disability access, even when prodded by advocates and first when years ago we pointed out that these t. N. C. S didnt have vehicles that accommodated anybody and everybody, cpuc said, so the t. N. C. S now have to keep track of all of those people who call in saying, i need an accessible vehicle. And right away you say, if you know that they dont have accessible vehicles, why are you going to call in . The cpuc set up a survey counting system guaranteed to have low numbers and not measure the demand. That was just so grade school obvious. But, secondly, and this goes beyond the cpuc, these t. N. C. S are public accommodations and yet they failed to provide what is required of a public accommodation. Public accommodations are supposed to be available to all. If you dont have a smartphone you cant use your home phone to dial or touchtone phone you cant contact them to make a reservation and even a simple regular cellphone, its not smart enabled, you cant get their service. You cant write a cheque, you cant pay with cash, and theres a variety of barriers that t. N. C. S have that say theyre not fulfilling this and cpuc ignores this. But im going to say so does our City Attorney. City Attorney Says they cant sue cpuc for failure to enforce, but theyre ignoring they can sue the t. N. C. S for violating the public accommodation requirements. So even within the city we have people shying away from and sticking their head in the sand, avoiding, responding to disability access. And im going to be very direct because the cit City Attorney hs sued agencies on behalf of other disenfranchised and discriminated communities but theres a real low number, almost a silence, regarding continued advocacy through legal complaints and suits on behalf of people with disabilities that is not arising from our City Attorney. Another issue that maybe the council can take up. bell ringing . Thank you. Were going to go ahead and close Public Comments and go on to information item number 10. Vision zero. San francisco and people with disabilities and id like to thank our presenter for waiting and welcome megan l. Weir, d. P. A. Director and program on Health Equity and sustainability, cochair of San Francisco Vision Zero Task force. Thank you for being here today. Good afternoon, council, and thank you so much for the opportunity to be here to share more about vision zero and thank you to nicole for the invitation and i hope that this is the first of a longer discussion with respect to how vision zero can increase our engagement and address issues of concern with respect to Traffic Safety for people with disabilities. Again, im megan weir and im the cochair and i also work for the Public Health department. So traffic injury has and is a real problem in San Francisco with respect to Public Health. Recently weve had approximately 30 People Killed each year on our streets and another approximately 500 people hospitalized with severe injuries at our public hospital, zuckerburg San Francisco General Hospital. We estimated that approximately 35 million in medical costs alone per year and our city surgeons respond to a serious traffic injury approximately every 17 hours. We are working closely with the hospital as a part of vision zero and rebecca plevin, a doctor at the hospital, i invited her to come today to just, again, this is an important issue and to better understand the concerns specifically of the Disability Community. Half of the patients at our Trauma Center are people injured in traffic collisions and in doing this work and thinking of being here today, from vision zero is fundamentally focused on eliminating traffic deaths and prevention but we also know that many people sustain lifelong disabilities in traffic injuries so, again, this is a really important area for discussion. Nationally we know sure okay, okay, im sorry. Nationally we know that traffic fatalities are actually increasing, so while in San Francisco we havent seen the same increases and nationally weve had 14 increase in traffic deaths in recent years and this is primarily driven by increases in deaths of people walking or rolling, biking and on motorcycles. Vision zero was launched in 2014, and its led by our mayor, with the leadership from our board of supervisors and also with Strong Partnership by the city family as well as our Community Stakeholders and we released our second tier Action Strategy earlier this year and vision zero really focuses on creating safe streets, safe people, and safe vehicles and im going to share a little bit more about that. Sorry, im like i apologize for my lack of sincei coordinath my slides and talking. They focus on prevention and preventing severe and fatal injuries and saving lives and on addressing ecowa equity and focg on reducing fatalities and it leads with designs and creating safe people and safe vehicles and so education and enforcement and education and policy are all important pieces of creating the safer streets. And vision zero is fundamentally focusing on slowing speeds down on our streets because speed is a predictor of whether or not people are injured and killed. And its a shift in Traffic Safety. San francisco was a the second city to adapt vision zero in our country but now theres more than 20 cities in the United States who have adopted vision zero and as opposed to previous Traffic Safety paradigms which have really focused on individual responsibility, vision zero as i think that janice articulated earlier, focuses on creating a safer system. So we need to anticipate human error and accidents and our accidents are not accidents, theyre preventable, and we need to anticipate that people will make mistakes and that we need a system where the consequence of a mistake isnt a death. Equity is a core vision of vision zero and so its not just a social or moral issue but a Traffic Safety issue and understanding that we really need to consider equity as we design safer streets and that means prioritizing our most vulnerable populations, including the Disability Community. And our core group took the time to define equity so its, you know, its increasingly common term used with respect to policy and planning and Program Decisions but we need to all be on the same page about what were talking about. So with respect to vision zero we defined inequities and severe injuries as avoidable disparities and injuries that are from unfair differences and social and economic and environmental and political conditions. With respect to the communities that were focusing on that experience or are at risk for inequities and they include seniors, people with disability, youth, lowincome people of color, and immigrants, nonenglish speaking people or marginally housed residents and people walking and biking and as well as people motorcycling. Our fourth year on vision zero were focusing on deepening our work on equity so that means increasing engagement with vulnerable communities and thats an important reason that im here today and also maintaining and expanding our data systems that can inform the targeted investments and monitoring impacts and im excited to share the developments with respect to understanding disability and traffic injuries in San Francisco and implementing targeted initiatives informed by this data. And im now focused on some of our current efforts on vision zero, i cochaired the Citywide Task force and we meet quarterly here in the city hall and its comprised of both city agencies and Community Stakeholders and i cochair with the municipal transportation agency, mta and we have partnership with our Police Department and the public works and the Transportation Authority and a number of other city agencies as well as rock San Francisco and the Bicycle Coalition and senior and disability action, bob planholt is a frequent participant and many people in the room are there on a regular basis and i invite you all to attend if youre ever interested and we also have a mailing list that id be happy to add people to if interested. And the mayors opposite of disability is an active member of the task force and their work on this, of course, even predates the adoption of vision zero and prior we had a Pedestrian Safety task force which the Mayors Office on disability was a key member. And San Francisco department of Public Health, sorry, im just want my brain is not thinking apologies. And the San Francisco department of Public Health launched last year this safe streets for Seniors Initiative and i wanted to share that today because we know that a number of seniors also have disabilities and the focus is on educating seniors and Service Providers about vision zero as well as getting input to bring back to the city departments. So this includes multilingual presentations to seniors and senior Service Providers and our program has reached over 730 seniors and staff at 25 locations. And also the program and administers many grants to engage locally more around these issues and address the specific concerns. Last year seven organizations were funded and funding was Just Announced for eight communitybased organizations this year. And in addition to cochairing, i lead work on evaluation and this map depicts the high Energy Network and the network comprises of 13 of the streets in San Francisco where 75 of the severe and fatal injuries are concentrated and its important because it really helps us to understand where targeted investments could fundamentally save lives and d. P. H. Conducts the analysis and compares it with other departments. And the yellow part of this map is what the regional metropolitan Transportation Commission defines as communities of concern and these are communities where lowincome residents and people of color and seniors and people with disabilities and other populations who are reliant on walking and Public Transportation are concentrated. And what we can see on this map is that while those communities comprise about a third of our streets in our city, half of the High Injury Network is in these communities. So in using the High Injury Network we prioritize improvements and taking steps to address the historic disparities in the Traffic Safety conditions on our streets. When the Pedestrian Safety works that i began partnering with the Mayors Office began in 2011, one of the main concerns that was raised was a lack of data on people with disabilities and injury. We know that theres not a category in the Police Reporting forum to collect data on disability, and that was one of the main reasons that we began partnering with the zuckerburg San Francisco General Hospital to link the police data on collisions with Hospital Data on injuries. The hospital is our level one Trauma Center in San Francisco and that means that the most serious injuries that occur on our streets are transported to the hospitals that we know that are an important source of data to have a more complete assessment of injury. And we know that historically approximately 25 of injuries to pedestrians and cyclists are not captured in police data for a number of reasons and so this year we completed our first linkage of three years of police data with this Hospital Data, and we now have data that were working to analyze on disability status and the trauma system collects data on hearing impaired and visually impaired and whether people will use a walker on a wheelchair or a cane at the time of injury and im working with the citys Attorney Office to best understand how we can share that data with the public, while also protecting patient privacy and confidentiality and i hope to come back to share the findings with the council next year. And we have a summary of the areas that the target safety investments could improve safety for people with disabilities using this new data and were going to be working with sftma and the Community Stakeholders to develop recommendations of prioprioritized locations both n and off the main network and i am excited to say that sfmta is working on a new problem am to address the collision patterns with seniors and people with disabilities off the network and we look forward to reaching out to the council and engaging more around or engaging more as that work progresses. That concludes the presentation that i prepared today but im interested in understanding the questions or concerns or experiences or interest that you have with respect to vision zero so thank you so much and i am happy to provide my Contact Information as well for more information. Thank you. Thank you, and open it up to council and Council Member alex madrid. Thank you for coming. Two questions. And then you have any information on how many people are disability or seniors are injured by collisions. And how and i see the map, how do you see addressing those areas with respect to changing any stoplights or anything like that . By now or in going forward, do you guys have any plans on improving those stop areas . So i would i would be happy i can share more written information but briefly the the search fmta is using the network to inform priority engineering improvements to address the safety concerns using a whole range of changes, depending on the injury patterns and the context on those streets. We have some maps that i can share in more details regarding the specific projects which i would be happy to share. And th the analysis that i just described well look deep or that network and as well as citywide where people, seniors and people with disabilities are injured and then, again, working with m. T. A. , and conducting outreach to better understand what what improvements could address the issues that were seeing in those locations. Thank you. Thank you. Council member Sally Macdonald has a question. I have a question, if neighborhoods have a concern about a particularly bad area, is it something that they come to vision zero or to the m. T. A. Or how how do the citizens get their input in . Yeah, i mean, if the neighbor has a very specific concern and i apologize that i didnt say 311 in the last stage, but its where you can lodge specific concerns and the sfmta will route them to the correct person because theres technically trained staff, that depending on your issue, can help to address that and vision zero though is another the task force that would be a place to come to talk, you know, more broadly i think about safety and citywide issues with respect to safety and how we can address them. Yeah, im wondering also because you see neighbor against neighbor and a lot of these things are going to be do something at this corner and not that corner and how are those decisions made . I mean, i think that is obviously like a project by a project basis and i think that the importance of engaging more in outreach etc. Is really important. You know, your comment does bring to mind i think that one thing that vision zero and the high end network has done is to help to orient orient the city more towards corridor patterns of injuries as opposed to locationbylocation fixes and i refer to that as the whackamole problem where a whole street has probably had similar issues along the same intersections and if we fix one it might pop up at the other but id be happy to connect with you the right person if you have specific questions. Thank you. Council members, okay, sorry. Close Council Member questions. Staff, any questions or comments . This is nicole, thank you very much for being here and we are looking forward to look to look at what weve done so far with vision zero and to start to line up what some of the specific disabilities are and some of the potential solutions might be and i encourage the council if you have specific desire or an input or thought into that process to please be engaged with this because we really need feed diagnose back from as feedback from as many sources in the Disability Community that we can have so we can have a really robust response book now. please stand by so fort. Thank you. The interpreters will be leaving soon. I will make this quick. Information item 12, any correspondence, staff . 13 announcements anything . Okay. I am going to adjourn. Thank you for our presenters, Public Comment people for waiting for our technical difficulties. We ran over. I wish everyone a happy holiday. We hope to see you at the party on december 15th at the Mayors Office on disability from 4 00 to 6 00 and or regularly scheduled meeting on januar january 19th, friday. Happy holidays, goodbye. Good morning, everyone. I am elaine 23 orbes and i am the executive director of the port and its good to see everyone here today. This is a very important moment for the port of San Francisco, for the city, for the dogpatch neighborhood and for the future of our city, and this moment really started a long time ago. 20 years ago, port staff began a master planning process, and i see some of the folks that started that process in the room today. When i first sat up here seven years ago, i thought interesting place, very beautiful. Lot of different maintenance. How in the world will we get this rehabilitated for the public . How will we protect the Balance Sheet from the deferred maintenance, but we had some people in this room where people saw beauty where others say decay, and that was very important to this place. We have the tenacity and the creativity and the believe that something that takes 20 years to complete and to do it right, so im very proud of the collaboration of court staff with all the city departments to make this a reality that were at the point where we can sign documents today, and i want to say before i turn it over to our vip guest, a very special thank you to ken from dwd. Ken really took a lot of time to understand the ports points of view, and others points of view, the developers and to find solutions when things got hard and you never took your eye off the ball, and you were a great partner, ken, and i am so proud that you were leading this effort and the collaboration between our city departments. So this thing that started 20 years ago is going to result in affordable housing, connection to the bay thats been lost to the residents for 100 years, art spaces, creative spaces, pdr, and primarily, its going to be a beautiful space for everyone, the kind of thing that you demand our departments create, so were very proud that we kept faithful to your project for the city, and with that, i would like to introduce the mayor who has been instructal in seeing this through to the end. Mayor lee. Well, thank you, elaine for not only your leadership, your work here at the port and to all the staff and commission because the ports really an exciting place. A lot of things happening, and i want to let you know that ill be working very closely with you as we talk to the public about one of the most important Infrastructure Projects that the ports going to lead, and thats of course the protection and rebuilding of our seawall because thats something that we will find very near and dear if we get information out. But the port has become not just a place for business, it really is a place, because of this leadership, byron and all the others working, ben, mr. Benson here, and so many others, that its now become a place for families and people to really enjoy the entire city, and our signing today, because of supervisor cohen, because of jack sylvane, because of all the others, allows us to do something that often times we dont get to do. You know when you go down to pier 70, views and access are basically blocked by abandoned historic buildings, and that blockage has not been very good for us, and i know a few years ago when jack was working with kenneth matz, he got me down to a concert of all places, some music concert down there, and then, we walked around the area, and we got excited with made in sf and some of the other events we held down there, we finally for ourselves was discovering how beautiful it was and planning. And thats why were here because the role of the port and planning working alongside for the city and jack, by the way, wanted to praise him, we worked with Treasure Island for many years, but hes in that spirit that we really wanted to get things done here that finally opened up access for everybody, and pier 70 project is all about that. Its about rediscovering what San Francisco is and bringing all the people in that area together to enjoy nine additional acres of parks and rebuild with a lot of respect those historic buildings, make them useful. Theres a lot of quiet artists out there because nobody paid attention, and so we want to bring attention to the fact that theyve been out there, and were going to work with forest city and theyve committed to make sure that theres an arts center out there, Community Center will be built. And of course as part of my agenda, along with supervisor cohens agenda, were going to building a lot of housings in that area, 30,000 units of housing. A lot of commitments that were made by forest city, let me take the opportunity to thank kevin ginter and forest city, making sure that if we were going to introduce a project of this magnitude, its r had to have the amenities that we all enjoy. Theres a really basic commitment that were going to see through, and that is a lot of residents of district 10 are going to get to work on this, just like were getting the work on the chase arena center among others. This project is not only going to be great for housing, for land use, for art, for open space, but it also will create the kind of jobs that we want. Itll also create revenue to contribute to the Sea Level Rise challenges and the seawall. In fact, i think were estimating maybe over the ten years, probably 1 billion of contributions to the seawall, and i think theyre going to support us on another Ferry Service at the end of 16th street. These are all wonderful, wonderful attributes that i have to attribute to the people that have been working on this for over a decade, and i want to say thank you because this is why it was fairly easy for supervisor cohen to get a unanimous vote, because all she had to do was get in there, get the benefits. You know, its easy, like all the proms that she does, so i want to say thank you to her, because everybody does get the benefit from this, and i feel strongly about this because we havent opened up a lot of this area of the southern waterfront to everybody. Its been closed out, you know, you know, later on after this and of course, were looking at Treasure Island, as well, but we also have other projects that will open up the waterfront. Theres mission rock, the potrero power plant to the south, the parklands that were beginning to identify with the bluegreen trails that will dot it all the way through. Youre going to see multiple transit opportunities for people to access, along with the housing and the jobs, so were very excited about this. Theres a lot of great benefits, but it took a while, and it took a while to make sure that everybody respected the historic buildings, that everybody used them. It takes a while tor Historic Preservation to also catch up with development, and in this area, its not only catch up, were going to pay a lot of respect because that is our citys history, and to respect that also means to reuse these buildings and respect the architecture and design of that history. I mentioned jennifer matzs team intentionally because she was part of the team on the port that worked so well and brought so much enjoyment to these projects. Jack had a good time working with her on the same team, and thats the team that ken rich came from, all of that Team Continues to do wonderful work with the port, so theyve given me a list of names that i make sure i mention, because i should, as the mayor, to recognize people who have minimally, six to ten years, working on a project and brought to it the final conclusion that has not only the unanimous vote at the board, but a continued for the next ten years, Phase Development that i think will be honored by not only the immediate residence debts, but the entire city will be welcome to come down here and enjoy all of the assets that have been associated and be part of it. Elaine forbes, christine maher, ken matsuda. From the office of Economic Development workforce, ken rich, sarah dennis philips, cat daniels, mark majors, patrick mitchell, john ram, of course, beg dan siders, job switsy, melinda cooper. City attorneys office, theyve been working a lot on language. A lot of things had to be balanced, a lot of things had to make sure, and in fact, i want to thank them because they just got some lawsuits on this, nothing to delay us, everything to go forward, and so thank you to the City Attorneys be there with us and working on drafts. People like andrea ruiz, kriss tom and kate stacey. They had a whole host of other agencies who assisted them. Our Public Utilities agency, our public works, and of course our Contract Monitoring Division all had dedicated staffers that contributed to this project. All in all, the best projects are the ones where theres a tremendous amount of collaboration, a good trusting relationship with the developers so they know were not trying to rake them over the coals and take money that isnt from there deservingly, but they will be honored from this project. We cant get projects done without a supervisor whos going to champion it along with the mayor, and let me introduce our supervisor, malia cohen. Thank you. Oh, my goodness. Todays wednesday morning, which means that yesterday was tuesday, which means we had a board meeting. Im still in shellshock right . But good morning ladies and gentlemen. Its good to see everyone today. Weve really come to celebrate and kind of pass ourselves on the back. Its been a tremendous lift. This project has been in development for ten years, and i have been a part of it, certainly in earnest for the last three years. Everyone looks good. You look good in a suit. I love it. And but i really wanted to tell you what youve heard you know about the economic benefit to San Francisco, and were really fortunate to live and to work in San Francisco, but i really want to talk a little bit about the community impact, what a project of this magnitude actually means. It means, coming from a native San Francisco resident, that we have an opportunity to interface with a beautiful shoreline that really has been locked away. When you go into the dogpatch neighborhood, its almost like youre relegated to just the 3rd street corridor and maybe one block, block and a half, did he fe depending on what side of 3rd youre on. You can see the water and the bay in the distance, but you cant touch it. Youre not able to bring your kids to experience it, and this project begins to breakdown those man made barriers and open it up, and the significance of pier 70 is its going to be connecting where we are in the embarcadero all along the southern waterfront past the Bayview Project into the community. This is a tremendous project to get through, and i want to recognize the mayor already gave the names called the names cause we remember, but i dont think you guys understand how many hours of Public Comment, how many hours of neighborhood meetings, and then, just right before you get to a vote, you literally spend the weekend with the City Attorney drafting amendments, making changes, and then, thats when you begin to talk to the colleagues excuse me, youre incident being with colleagues prior to this because you need to bring them along to make sure theyre nothingable about the project so that they will vote for it, and that is where the challenge really lies, balancing your colleagues perspective and what they want to see with the reality of what can actually be done, with the reality of what your constituents want to see, and i think that is where the rub is. Im very proud to be on the team that has steered this ship to make this come to fruition. This is a significant accomplishment. Pier 70 will deliver. This project will deliver a tremendous asset in public space, open space, office, retail space, affordable housing, i mean, you name it, and ive got to admit, i wish there were more Development Projects that got it. This team got it right out the gate. They got it correct. They went to the constituents that were affected in the area, and they said, what do you want to see . How can we help you what can we develop thats complementary to your neighborhood . Everything from drawing figures, which was an interesting way to take notes, but its a new fad, to beating back an appeal. If you all most of the people in this room have dealt with development, and you know how challenging it is. I dont want to belabor the issue, but i just want to come out here and to pay my respects because many of you have lost a lot of time in your life on this project. Its the truth. This is this was not easy, and i dont know where kevin is. Wheres kevin . Is he somewhere around here . Okay. I spent a lot of time on the phone with him as the project lead. The port, entire team and family is phenomenal. Elaine, you have a Phenomenal Team here. Mr. Mayor, you have a great team with the city, not only the planning department, but your Economic Development thinkers and workforce builders, and we need this. This change is moving and changing and we need to make sure we dont leave people behind. That is a fear that people have, particularly a little south of this project, and i think the mayor and team in this project has demeonstrated that were not going to leave anybody behind, were allowing everybody to speak and be heard on this project. It gives me great pleasure to be able to come out and to celebrate, to christen this project. Its been an incredible, incredible contrary to what the mayor said, he made it sound easy, and im sure from his Vantage Point it was, but im here to tell you this stuff was hard. Its hard. Its difficult, but you know, when you have a team of professionals, it makes it a little bit easier, so i wanted to just say thank you to everyone who worked on this projects, from the lobbyists on down to the person that was at the neighborhood meetings. Thank you. Thank you so much, supervisor, you said so many important points, and you led a process that was not appealed at the end, an Actual Development project of 28 acres that did not have opposition, so it was hard getting there, but my goodness, we certainly got there, and thank you so much for your leadership. So to do this, we certainly had our vision and our plan, but we absolutely needed our partner to do it, someone put at risk capital up, to find private investments, to endeavor with us through all of those hard meetings and plan a benefits package that i really think is bar none, Something Worthy for other projects to see, and i say its a 20 year process because we did the planning process first, but ten years ago we selected forest city, and that was the moment where everything really got going, and we began to see what was in our heads to something that could be real in the ground, and were so fortunate to have selected forest city at our development partner, and id like to introduce jack sylvan who has led the development project. Jack . This is really happening. Thank you very much for all the kind words for our team. Where weve gotten to, this really is a special opportunity, and the chairman of our board, james ratner tried to get out here from new york last night, but he wasnt able to, but when i asked him, what do you think is really important for you to communicate from you, he said please pass on that we think this is one of the greatest projects, the greatest opportunities in the country. They see some projects as theyre traveling around. Its been said, just the the amazing amount of people and energy and time that goes into getting the project, a project like this, just to this point. The collaboration, the dead indication, the commitment, the the fighting, the haggling, the finding Common Ground as we get to a place like this, and mostly, i just want to pass on from forest city the gratitude that we feel for being at this point, the opportunity to to jump in and take what has been on paper and turn it into a reality. That started, really, with the mayor, thank you for your unwaivering support from the beginning of the process. Its crucial to get to this point. It will continue to be crucial as we start implementing the project. Supervisor cohen, youre right. It was a lot of really challenging work, and youryour commitment and your leadership along the way was crucial, and it actually, i would thank you all for being here today, and thank you, particularly, to mercay for catering the event. Lets give them a big hand. [applause] we look forward to the start of their cafe soon. Lets have a call for the order. This is the november 15, 2017, Treasure Island Authority Board special meeting. Item one call to order. Director sun. Here. Director richardson. Here. Director samaha. Director moss. Director giusti. Here. Supervison kim. We do have a quorum. Its so great to be on the island. Im so glad that we do this twice a year. It really brings us back to what were all about, which is to develop Treasure Island into a real neighborhood, and its just great to be here. And thank you all for coming tonight. I think we have the next item general Public Comment. Item number two general Public Comment. This item is to allow members of the public to address the Treasure Island Authority Board on matter that are in the subject of the Authority Board is do not appear on the agenda. Members of the public may address the board for up to three minutes. Youll hear a single chime when there are 30 seconds remaining. Prior to making your comments, plead state your name and the organization youre representing, if any, for the record. So are there any people who would like to address the board on matters which are not on the agenda . You can step forward. State your name, please. Hi. My name is jeff cline. Im an 18year resident of Treasure Island and i want to thank the commission for hearing my Public Comment. Im here to inform you during the last five years, John Stewart Company has signed over 200 market rate households to a controversial post dda rental agreement, and this im going to abbreviate is for you guys. Pdra. Its identical to the addendum rental dwraement which is the John Stewart Company failed to force on marketrate tenants at start of 2012. The board needs to understand this pdra is contrary to the john stewart sublease, contrary to the intent and practice of tide to follow the spirit of San Francisco rent control law and contrary to federal and state relocation law. Back in 2012, many residents strongly objected to addendum re. Some petitioned the board on the february 20, meeting