Clear that it is cheaper and better for citizens of San Francisco to have safe cycling. Thats just a nobrainer. Motorized vehicles and pedestrians and bikes have no business being in the same place. We have to have bike boulevards, pedestrian areas in this city. I ride valencia five to six times a week. I have to say it has been fab seeing so many fabulous seeing so many new people and the growth of bicycles. But it is horrendous with what has happened with cars on valencia. There are countless cars and trucks double parking as everyone has said. You need to weave in and out. You have no choice. These are just accidents like mine waiting to happen. I think theres a toxic mix in San Francisco today. You have a bunch of new people who have very fast cars and very fancy cars and like to go very fast. And then you have a bunch of new cyclists. [bell]. Public and they are all together and thats causing enormous problems. So, i think theres no question in my mind that we have to make things really different and we have to make cycling safe in this city. Chairman peskin thank you. Next speaker please. And if there are anymore speakers, line up, otherwise this will be the last speaker. Public hi. Thanks for listening today. I moved here recently over the summer and i have been biking for a long time before i moved here. I was in seattle most recently and there i was also involved in a lot of bicycle activism. It took people dying in order to get protected bike lanes there and i really dont want to see that happen here. I would rather move faster, put up posts like has been mentioned before in areas where there are bike corrals and make temporary prevent tifr changes fast preventtive changes faster. I have seen bikes and cars and pedestrians coexisting. It is possible. It happens in a lot of places all over the world. Ty dont see why we cant i dont see why we cant have that here. We can have cars and pickup spots for uber and lifts out of the bike lanes and we can have protected bike lanes. All it is going to take is working for it and i think that we can do that. So, i just want to strongly encourage everyone to keep fighting for these protected bike lanes because i know we can. Thank you. Chairman peskin Public Comment is closed. Commissioner ronen. Supervisor ronen yes. I want to thank everyone who came out. It was very eyeopening. Not that we dont know what is going on. But to hear that bikers are using the red lanes for the buses as a safer alternative to what was supposed to be the bike corridor is just insane. And the crazy thing about it is it makes perfect sense. Thats how dangerous valencia has become. I have asked the mta several times to increase enforcement of double parking on valencia. I know supervisor sheehy has done the same. I see dillon in the audience. I think we need to have that meeting again because while we will continue to prioritize and fight for protected bike lanes, thats going to take some time. I share the urgency of all the public speakers today. Im very fearful that someone is going to get severely injured or killed if we just wait to get those protected bike lanes installed. We need to act urgently right now and that means we need to triple, quadruple enforcement and make it known that if you double park on valencia, you are going to get a ticket. And in addition, we need to push these companies especially uber and lift. I know the problem is beyond them. But those companies are a lot to blame for the fact that the corridor in the mission that is supposed to be the bike corridor has become the one to most avoid for bikers. That just makes no sense. It has thrown the entire scheme of how transportation is supposed to work in the mission up in chaos. And we have to do something about it urgently. So, im looking at dillon and would like to schedule that meeting in an emergency fashion. Chairman peskin commissioner sheehy. Supervisor sheehy it is really an urgent situation. Having stood out there, i have personally seen how dangerous it is. What i have is a question maybe for the director and maybe even for mta. Having looked at this been talking about moving on this, im wondering as we get the data from the study, are there things that we can implement because i look at this as really there seems to be some really lowhanging fruit, putting barriers up around the bike corrals, the parklets. That seems like a nobrainer. And from my discussions from mta it seems from 19th to san jose is a place where the amount of work that you need to do in order to move towards that theres a lower level of complexity. Thats before we get all the overhead wires and the street narrows, it seems like thats something that could move a bit faster. I do know that last stretch as you get closer to market thats more challenging. But is there a way we can think about doing this in phases because every bit that we do will make it safer . And the faster that we can improve if we could just get 19th to san jose which is also bike protected all the way around san jose with concrete barriers and get that as soon as possible. I recognize the challenges that exist once we start having the overhead wires. But if we wait to solve for that before we do these other things, we approach this in phases and take it as we show as we start studying. To wait a whole year to start any of this seems im not sure i understand the necessity there. Jamie parks with mta. Overseeing bicycle capital prompts. Absolutely, we want to look at what we can do now to improve safety. Part of the plan is coming up with a phase implementation structure towards how we move towards a safer valencia street. And if we identify something everyone can agree on, we can move right away. Thats part of our study. Supervisor sheehy great. Lets be in contact on this, please. Thank you. Chairman peskin commissioner kim. Supervisor kim i want to thank supervisor sheehy and ronen for seeking improvements on valencia street. Having looked at the south of market and the tenderloin with sfmta we have protected parking on folsom street. I doesnt go as far as we would like it to. But just having that from division through 4th street really is making a big difference and was just installed last week. But i have to agree, i always assumed that valencia was one of the safer streets to bike down and i dont bike down to the mission very often. But my few experiences biking down there as left me deciding not to bike down valencia as a beginner biker anymore. In fact, i feel safer on some of our corridors in the south of market now because we do have parking protected bike lanes on seventh and 8th and division as well as now folsom street. So, i just want to thank all the members of the public for coming out today. I think this is a corridor that is often viewed as one that should be the most biker friendly. So, i really look forward to us being able to continue those extensions into the neighborhood and also want to make sure, listening to the members of what the public said, it did take a fatality for us to move forward on protected bike lanes on seventh street and on folsom as well. We certainly dont want that to be the impetus for any near term improvements going to the ground. You know how quickly mta can act when that happens and how the near term improvements happened on folsom street was almost shocking to me after the fatality we had. Within a month we were painting a green stripe down folsom. I encourage the city to continue to act on these major kor dors corridors the way we do when these tragedies occur. Chairman peskin thank you. Commissioner breed. Thank you. I have some questions about the bike to work day. Maybe someone can answer the questions. Im not sure who. I missed the presentation since i wasnt here early. Chairman peskin we will see what ms. La fort says. Specifically for the bicycle education classes, is this the first time this program has happened . This is not the first time. How many years it has been conducted, i would need to check. We funded it about 18 months ago for one of the semesters. How long has this be in effect . About six years. First of all, i think im confused about the allocation of expenses. It specifies construction and then it goals into detail goes into details about bike equipment and helmets. If the program existed, im trying to runs these things that get funded every single time that we support this program . Yes. So, we buy new helmets and bikes every year . Is that how it works . Yes. Theres a helmet allocation could you identify yourself . Im the Planning Program manager. And we do buy new helmets every year just from a health perspective. The lowcost helmets we provide are given to the students at the end of each class so they have the safety protection. There were concerns about sharing helmets and passing that along to the classes. We dont buy new bicycles every year. The bikes being proposed are the property of sfmta. We would be able to use the bikes year after year. The other question i had is whats the outreach process . I know i have heard about these programs being done before and i think the implication that because they are being done at a specific school would be that the participants come from those schools and i dont think thats entirely accurate. I just want to understand what with some of the past classes that have been taught, whether or not the students in that particular school have been outreached to and for the participants, what are the percentages of the number of students from the particular schools that they have done it in the past have participated in the program . A hundred percent of the students in each class and each school would be from that school because these classes are actually held within the pe class. Got it. So they are not after school or weekends . No. This is in the middle of this is a partnership with the School District as well. Okay. And just a little bit more information. Can you talk about the feedback for this program from the high schools specifically . Sorry. Can you help me understand, the feedback the feedback from the students that participate in the high school program. It has a very high appreciation. We collect data related to students comfort and knowledge of bicycling before and after they take the class. We produce an annual report with a school by School Breakdown of how those numbers change and how the kids have responded to the classes and any feedback that we receive to the class. We could make that available to you later today. Okay. And so, the expenses for staffing like a program director, p. E. Coordinator, program lead one and two, all these people are needed to coordinate a class for absolutely, yes. So, the way this program is organized, we work with the ymca, the why bike program, and they coordinate with the School Districts p. E. Coordinators and with each p. E. Teacher, they come in for two weeks. They provide training to the teachers and then also depending on where the school is, let me step back. Theres a threeyear kind of program in which the first year my bike comes in and shows the p. E. Teacher at a school how to offer the class. The second year it is more of a coled and the third year there are there for support. There are teachers in classes that are now providing their own bikes and their own instruction with no prop k or sfmta support because the program has gone through. So, it depends on where each school is and where the teachers are. So, yes, each one of these people has to theres a lot of coordination that goes into making sure the bikes get on campus and are stored. That the teachers are prepared and ready, et cetera. And then we meet a couple of people on site for the twoweek period as well. So, why is there no line item for transportation . Of the bikes. Im sorry. Of all the things i didnt bring. There is a line item that is related to the transportation that we do pay for essentially the gas. Why bike owns the van and the trailers so we dont have to pay for those. However we pay for the time spent transporting them from school to school. Okay. Thank you. Can someone answer the questions i have specifically about bike to work day . That is also me. Okay. Do you have a breakdown of the budget . Because for the sponsorship, the bike to work someday, the 38,547, theres a list of items specifically but theres no breakdown of those items. I just would like to see a budget specifically for those particular items. This seems like a lot of money. I know in the bigger scheme of things it is not a lot of money. But it is a lot of money for one day. And i wanted to this has been going on for many years, every year. And so, i just wanted a breakdown of what those numbers actually look like. I didnt see a reason why those couldnt be provided in the report that we got. Theres just a generalization of what it pays for. This is literally just a sponsorship. We are one of many sponsors for this. We are the biggest. But it is reimbursed. So, it is implying it is not reimbursed. Prop k reimburses the mta for this. But the agreement that is signed with the bike to work day is for us to we simply sponsor it for that amount. So, it is a sponsorship. Yeah. Not because, for example it lists staffing and support and then it is listed again as construction and then it has all these things. Then it says sponsorship and it outlines what the sponsorship pays for but not specific dollar amounts attached to it. Then it says it is on a reimbursement basis. Item lees we are award it implies that we are awarding the impression im getting is somehow it is a grant but you are saying it is a sponsorship. It is a sponsorship. Which is contradictory to what i think we have in our packets. I think thats where some of my contusion i understand. I think what the staff report was trying to say is we sponsor this. Where the sponsorship money goes from us from mtc is to funds the staff time and the activities. Both the ta and the mta logos are located on the materials. We are listed alongside all the key sponsors. But there is why not just call it a sponsorship and take out the line items at not attribute it to construction which i think is confusing . The construction, my understanding, moniker is just a part of the art process for prop k. I would ask anna to exmra inthat. Explain that. This is the phase that it fits best under. I suppose it could go under a planning phase. But we have certain phases that we fund with prop k Planning Design construction. We are funding a we are a sponsor for this event. We are giving money for a sponsorship and thats just what it is. That doesnt fit in any other category for prop k funding . The only other category is operations and the only operations project is paratransit. Okay. It is confusing. So, thats why i was asking the question. Okay. If i could also point out there is some material in the enclosure to the prop k request item that gives an overview of the classes that were conducted at each of the schools last year. I saw that. Thank you. Okay. I just wanted to understand the responses of the students. And theres additional surveying we can provide to your office. Thank you. Chairman peskin commissioner ronen. Supervisor ronen i just wanted to request the ta and the chair bring back a report on sort of a near term progress on valencia street and if mta can report as well. In perhaps three months. Is that enough time to come and give a Progress Report . March 1st . That makes sense. Supervisor ronen sure. Okay. That would be great. Thank you. Chairman peskin okay. It shall be. If there are no other questions or comments from members, can we have a roll call on item number eight . I would need a motion made by commissioner sheehy, seconded by commissioner ronen. Clerk commissioner breed, aye. Commissioner cohen, aye. Commissioner farrell, aye. Fewer aye. Commissioner kim, aye. Commissioner peskin, aye. Commissioner ronen, aye. Commissioner sheehy, aye. Commissioner tang, aye. Commissioner yee. Aye. The item is first approved. Chairman peskin next item. Clerk item ten. Award threeyear professional Services Contracts with an option to extend for two additional oneyear periods to not to exceed 400,000. Good morning. Im here to seek approval to award professional Service Contracts for modeling as much ass to two teams. The contracts would be for a threeyear period. These would commence after the current on call expires at the end of the year. It would be funded through the other projects they support. The two teams are led by wsp and rsg or are on our current on call. Transportation analytics. Additional sub consultants include the university of kentucky and bowman research. Representatives from wsp, rsg are here in attendance and available to answer questions. The target 5 for both contracts individually. Now about the process. Staff issued an rfq in september. A Selection Panel evaluated and made a recommendation to award contracts to two of the three teams. The current on call has spent about 500,000 in the period between 2013 and 2017. The slide shows what we have used the money for. And for the new agreements we expect to use the projects for sftp and other modeling improvements and applications as needed by work program projects. Thank you. Chairman peskin any questions from members . Seeing none. Is there any Public Comment on item number nine . Seeing none, Public Comment is closed. Is there a motion to award the threeyear professional Services Contracts made by commissioner cohen. Seconded by commissioner farrell. And do we have the same house . Clerk we do. Chairman peskin same house. Came call. Thank you. Next item please. Clerk item ten. Presentation on the San Francisco municipal transportation agent 2017 facilities framework. This is an information item. Ms. La fort. I would like to introduce jonathan from the mta. Thanks. Good morning commissioners. Jonathan ruers here to talk about the Building Progress Program and facilities framework. I want to start off very quickly to note the importance of this infrastructure. If you ride the 14 mission here in San Francisco or the gary rapid network, you should know that a lot of our Services Start at the various facilities that we have throughout San Francisco where we maintain, where we store and where we upkeep the fleet. This is where the majority of our 6,000 employees work daytoday, where they change into their uniforms and take their showers. It is an important foundational Infrastructure Service here. I think everybody is florida with our muni forward with regard to getting a rubber fire fleet. That will go into service this week. And also following through with our 10 service increase around San Francisco. Now we need to focus on the next step and that is modern sizing our facility modernizing our facility and we have started our community outreach. So, a component of that is our 2017 facilities framework. What we wanted to do is we knew our facilities throughout San Francisco which i will show shortly, were in need of reconstruction, renovation and modernization. But what we wanted to do was develop a plan that was both dynamic, allowed us to make continuous immovements across San Francisco and our campus and realistically costed out year over year and we were continuously able to make improvements throughout San Francisco. You will see our facilities. We do have a number and i do believe still we have more facilities than any other City Department in the city and county of San Francisco, minus fire stations and police stations. But significant facilities. So, 20 plus. Nine major maintenance yards. This began with the 2013 vision report and when we looked at it as a baseline, what we found was it gave one option for the mta to pursue with regard to the growth of the muni fleet here in San Francisco. If years passed or situations change, that plan didnt work for us as well as we would have anticipated which is why we wanted to move to something more flexible. It didnt consider all the operations of the sfmta which didnt include traffic operations. It includes all the operations and sets three important goals. One to modernize our facilities for new and more modern operations. Second to slowly move the mta off of leases. So, if we have a permanent operation, we want to make sure to have that operation in a permanent facility, not a leased facility. And to prepare for growth and maintain our facilities in a state of good repair. So, with that, the first thing we did was go to the next level of state of good repair. I know all of you as commissioners are familiar with that term when we look at the age of an asset and the year it needed to be replaced. But we took our state of good repair to another level in which we actually sent out a team of consultants to do an inspection of all the systems in all of our building. While something might last a certain period of time, we reset that date and now we can tell you year over year the investment we need in our building up to windows, doors, air compressors. Things needed to run our daytoday operations through 2036 that averages to about a 7. 5 million per year investment. We have been slowly moving forward with developing a full program to do that. But we do start off with about a 60 million backlog. Second come poeptd was just component was just the growth of our fleet. As you are all familiar with, we have executed the agreements. Both trolley coach and motor coach fleet. We have executed agreements for replacement of the light rail fleet. We have six numbers of delivery and we know over a certain period of time physically with regard to space, we will return out of room at our existing yards throughout San Francisco. You will see the number 77 vehicles by 2025. About 130 by 2030 and 46 light rail vehicles in the 2040 period. Again, this is based on current capacity of the yards as we were designed and this is based on the delivery schedules that we anticipate. We have two options we are currently working off of. One assumes that the mta is successful at securing a new facility. A brand new facility to store and maintain its vehicles. In that case, we would expand the four acres that the mta has at the east facility for the growth of the light rail fleet. We would modern size the presidio yard both for motor coach, hybrid electric fleet, trolley coach and 40 and 60foot vehicles. Moving towards the convergence of both technology and the convergence of the types of fleet that we have here in San Francisco, we would also renovate the kirk land yard to allow for running repair so we dont have to do as much dead heading as we currently do. The second option assumes that the mta might not be successful at getting a new facility. In that case, we would use the four acres currently undeveloped east for a temporary trolley Coach Division and facility. That makes sense because a lot of electrical infrastructure we would need for future light rail operations there we would put in phase. We would shut down presidio and po ter ro potrero and the back end of the program would include the reconstruction of the kirkland yard. Just as a highlight because i dont want to completely focus this on all our transit operations, we are also working to eventually inshert the animal care facility. We have been working with commissioner ronens office on different Housing Options and joint development options. We will continue to look at joint development at all of our facilities throughout San Francisco to maximize the opportunity for both policy goals at the city and county of San Francisco has and both goals we have for our transportation system. We have looked at different uses of the building and now we are looking at expanding the use of that property to see how we can maximize it. Here is the overall schedule. I think what i want to stress with regard to this schedule, typically with major programs such as this in San Francisco, we work through a very steady planning outreach environmental funding and construction type schedule. In this case, we have a back end deadline. We thought that the fleet is going to be coming and we thought we need to be able to maintain these new vehicles that are being delivered. We have to meet certain time points and deadlines. We have developed a full schedule for this. We have had a workshop with the department of public works in august to come up with a project delivery methodology. We have our environmental team. Shortly ready to execute on an agreement early in 2018 and we have got a joint Development Consultant contract that will be moving towards the mta board later this month. General next steps. We just began outreach last week. Just Overall Program wide. We will go Site Specific with regard to potrero in both december and january. We will refine those two options with the hope we will have finalized which option we will proceed with sometime in january or february. We have done a second set of cost estimates and we have confirmed the costs. I will get to that in a second. In 2018 we do want to have all the technical teams together to begin the design outreach. We hope to begin on 1200, 15th street. We would have hoped to complete 1200, 15th street in 2023 with housing plus the permanent headquarters for our enforcement staff that are currently in a leased facility. And we would begin the reconstruction program. We have developed at least a cost estimate for the Overall Program. Between the state of good repair work and the general redevelopment work, it is in the 1 billion range, if you consider all costs are in the 1. 3 billion range. The Critical Path and cost estimates for these three projects have remained steady. Muni east 3 million. Assuming joint development are just redevelopment of that building 12 oh the future regional measure three and we are looking forward to the san fran Transportation Task force. In preparation for that, we have developed a detailed cash flow and all of you were experts in funding. I know you know the difference between an actual cash flow. This is the most consecutive form. Actual Cash Payments that would have to occur on a quarterly basis. Means the last point in time in which we could receive a dollar. You will see that we are completing a significant number of projects this year. Our burke warehouse is being reconstructed with the support of the prop k sales tax to include our overhead lines operations. We will maintain the amount of storage that we have always had at the burke warehouse. Plus added operations crating a more efficient use of the facility. Fast track is adding storage track for the lrvs that will be arriving and continue to work on operator facilities. The cash flow builds up for design work. Promote 1200, 15th street and potrero and you will see it build up for presidio. We are working with the Transportation Authority staff and city and county of San Francisco staff and Mayors Office on a full funding plan for this program. I appreciate the time all you commissioners gave to both me and my team to help us prepare for the public outreach. Thank you. Chairman peskin thank you. And thank you for all of the briefings that you have given each of us offline. With regard to the new facility in scenario one, which obviously is preferable in terms of timing, what is the status of the new facility discussion . So, we are continuing to work on negotiation and scoping. Over the summer we worked with a consul stand to get performance criteria. Meaning any any facility in we were to enter into an agreement needs to meet with our core transportation needs. Part of the reason we did the second set of coast estimates in the sum cost estimates in the summer was to see if the city went it alone and we decided to go into negotiations with a developer, how far we could go. I think with that information in place, we are continuing to see what is out there in the markets. And hopefully we will have more news on that towards the end of this calendar year. Chairman peskin thank you. Any questions from members . Seeing none, is there any Public Comment on this informational item that is going to cost a lot of money over time . At least we are planning for the future. Seeing none, Public Comment is closed. Thank you for that. And we look forward to future updates. Next item, please. Clerk item 11, introduction of new items. Chairman peskin are there any new items . I do, colleagues, want to voice some concern i have relative to a proposal that has just surfaced to stop the california cable car, line an hour and a half early. As our city grows and becomes more late night, im not sure why we would want to shut down a cable car that is not only used by visitors but is a source of transportation in east and west directions. So, i would like to ask staff to work with the mta and figure out why they are doing that. Unless theres a good reason, we will use our Purse Strings to figure out how not to make that happen. Are there any other items for introduction . Seeing none, is there general Public Comment . Mr. Yip. Public good morning. The duties of political leaders will be making well being for our people. National character should return to true morality in culture. The true principle will make unity for our nation. [indiscernible] public we have to cultivate justice for civil rights to have well balanced adjustment in our political system. Our protection of the common good for our people will secure the stability for well managed nation. [indiscernible] public a livelihood for our people. They are to take pathway of kindness and wealthiness. [indiscernible] public obtaining social prosperity we have to take the right path for holiness and morality for all that matters to be truthful and righteous for a democratic system. Chairman peskin thank you. Is there any additional Public Comment . Seeing none, Public Comment is closed and the cta is adjourned. Okay. Thank you very much, everyone, for being here. Im Assembly Member phil ping and 57 was for all of us who spend time driving underneath 101 or 280. You see many spots that we wonder what could we be doing with these parcels, other than seeing them. I think the city was able to envision this many, many years ago with the skate park and dog park, which the city leased for 20 years at 4. 8 million. And our bill allows the city to work with caltrains at a 30 of market rate. And these are not used or not really whew exactly. There is excitement everywhere. We could have the wedding move over here next. So we are very excited to work with our cities so we can make these underutilized parcels of land into parcels of land and open space. Especially these neighborhoods, the land is very underutilized. A lot of this area is highly industrialized. You dont see parks. You dont have spaces where you can go play. I know the dogpatch this district has already taken a lead with the Mission Creek area with their volleyball courts and they have shown how we can do this and how its going to be much more prevalent. Im very excited to have worked with our city and bring this to our residents. It is the district bill for San Francisco. I would like to thank ca ltrains and the mayor has talked about this but there are a couple of parcels that theyve already identified at some point soon theyve negotiated and we can start the process of turning these vacant lots into open space and parks. So, with that, let me introduce our mayor, ed lee, who really worked with me hand in hand and championed this effort. Thank you. Let me say Assembly Bill 857 is a winner. I want to take this opportunity to thank. Phil ting who spent years here and were not only benefiting from his life but senator weiner and david and all those who contributed to making sure this bill didnt have a cingular purpose but multiple purpose. Thats what i like about our organization. When they are creating benefits, its not just about one thing. It is multiple things. Thats why people working in parks like former supervisor Julie Christiansen, people are working with our bicycle coalition, people are working with our Parks Alliance are all assembled together to say what can we get out of space . That, for many of us, has been dead space. You know, when you look at freeway land under the freeway, youre generally talking about assemblymen assemblages of people who are homeless, negative activity, maybe some industrial uses. And in a city as concentrated as San Francisco, how do we creatively and innovatively use space that is kind of dead and inviting of a lot of negative activity in to really opened, creative, vibe rant spaces vibrant spaces . And i encourage everybody to participate. Walk your dog down there. Get a basketball court. Get a volleyball court. Maybe you even want to do a little boating, kayaking along the Mission Creek. If you walk down there, youll see the best example we have today on how we turned space that was going to that has been very negative for all of the residents around there. And in conversations with new residents around that area created space that descamps laments what i that complements that park where everyone lives that is what were doing with spaces around caltrains property and were doing more in the much few years because of scotts leadership and scott and david chu but phil was the one that really turned the corner. Because as kind of small as it might be about the that and how it should be needs to have open space and needs to have it within a 10minute walk, this is the most treative effort creative effort we can share. We have 10 spaces. And, by the way, they dont just get created overnight. With the partnership in the Parks Alliance, these are private spaces that will be taken care of 24 7. And id like more than like. This is absolutely necessary in todays world where the housing crisis is impacting everything that we do. And we need to build more housing in areas that weve never built before. But we need to have for that spacing the comp lap meantary open spaces. But we need to have for that spacing the complimentary open spaces. And a benefit that phil ting has allowed us to have the conversation that, if were in a housing crisis, it is 10 times more of a crisis than those on our streets. An we need to have areas of temporary shelter to serve that. So, as can you tell, im excited about this for all of the right reasons. The people standing behind me informed this, these language changes to make sure that our parks, our bicycles, our way of life can continue with quality of life contributions that our open space has. And the Mission CreekSports Complex is just one of many things that weve done through our recreation and Park Department in creating these opportunities for partnership was our private sector. Because when you when you go down there, youll see people walking their dogs and people doing all of the things that were not done under caltrains property for many years. And now were getting an excitement that we are going to turn pretty dead negative spaces into really positive, vibrant open spaces and connect them up with the critical housing that we need. Its going to be, i think, a gamechanger in San Francisco to work at all of space under the freeway. Some work and some dont, so well be very selective about them. But i think youre going to see a very good transformation on these dead spaces into very lively spaces. This will be i think the positive excitement we have with our delegation in San Francisco that is making a difference, not just at the state level, but bringing back both the language to resources, to innovative approaches to making sure that our housing crisis is dealt with, our homeless crisis is dealt with, our openspace challenges are dealt with in a very positive way. So i cant say enough about how 857s going to benefit from us. But youll see the same thing happen in open. Youll see the same thing happening in san jose. Because they are all suffering from negative uses of the freeways for inappropriate kind of tent cities where its dangerous. Youre going to see Harm Reduction because of the collaboration we have with all of the other agencies to make these spaces vibrant and useful for everyone. So phil ting, thank you for your leadership up there. And, of course, as chair of the appropriations committee, were going to ask for more because we know were going to get a lot out of ya. Thank you very much. Thank you. Thank you very much, mr. Mayor, and to the entire city for working with us. Next i wanted to introduce senator weiner, who was a partner in this every step of the way, myself, senator weiner, and david chiu, so it is part of a team to make this happen. Thank you, phil. So we have we are lucky that we have a very cohesive delegation, myself and david chiu in this era where Southern California has so much population and representation, we really need to stick together so that we can San Francisco can continue to punch up its weight class in sacramento, which were continuing to do. So we look out for each other and we love to partner on these bills. He he want to thank phil for his leadership on 857 and i was happy to coauthor it. This has been a terrific bill. I think in recent years the theme in San Francisco and other cities, were trying to rediscover urbanism, trying to get away from the era where it was all about housing sprawl and moving away from Public Transportation and focusing on the needs of cars, not people. And now we are refocused on dense, compact housing and walkable neighborhoods and bike infrastructure and better Public Transportation, and rediscovering urban public space and one of the things weve been doing is rededicating land that was really car focused into peoplefocused places. So whether it is the paving the Parks Program with Jane Warner Plaza in the castro or the noey town square where we turned the city into a park or what the city did with oct avia turning it into a square. Now this the freeways caused problems in the market, and potrero hill, dogpatch and we know that anything we can do to make them usable is great. And this bill will empower the city to be able to work with caltrain, to create new parks and to really invigorate these neighborhoods. So im really, really excited about this step and i know that San Francisco will take the next step and actually make it a realty, so thank you. [ applause ] thank you, senator. Next i want to bring up those who have been an advocate of the public land and that is around urban areas and for communities that hasnt historically had much recreational space. Mary . Thank you so much. Thank so you much, Assembly Member tang. Im so excited to be here this mourn because somebody who grew up in San Francisco and able to have ocean beach as my neighborhood park. This is a city of innovation. This is a city figuring out next years, the next decade of issues and challenges. Im super excited about your leadership. I like spending time in San Francisco. And you have the cream of the crop in San Francisco. You have innovative leaders who are figuring out ways to figure out these challenges and mayor lee and mr. Weiner are champions of parks and open space. They know that being champions for parks and open space are being champions for climate resolution and champions for all of that. And we have a organization that creates access to communities for access to nature for all. We do that with mayor lee on parks around the city including vodecker park a couple of miles away. And what this bill is starting to figure out is how we solve the issue of population growth, of the scarcaty of land for parks and open space, and the increase of costs for parks and open space. And this bill is solving it is beginning to be a piece of the puzzle to solve all of that an as we do work around the country, we are looking at this as a model in communities across the country and in communities across the state. This is an example of how your leadership in sacramento is responsible for passing impactable policies that are going to make a difference for real neighborhoods. This is something that folks in their communities are going to feel. So were very excited to have supported this bill, really excited about the passage and the governors signature for ab857 and grateful for senator ting, weiner and mayor lees leadership on this. Thank you. [ applause ] thank you, mary. Next, id like to bring up former supervisor Julie Christiansen who is the executive director of the dog patch in northwest potrero green, north district. I think her district has really demonstrated how to make this a realty. Theyve established that in the neighborhood and they were one of the groups to reach out for this legislation to say hey, how can we help . Were very excited about this and finding ways to work together. These were neighborhoods that were historically filled with warehouses, not people. As weve torn down some of these warehouses and theyve been replaced with office space and housing, theyve shown the way how we can do that responsibly. Thank you. Is it afternoon yet . Good morning. So for those of you who want to follow this story a little further, i really welcome you to come to dogpatch to a place called progress park. Its between indiana and iowa between 23rd and 25th. Its ai lovely space. I have pictures of children swinging in it, people playing bocce an people working out. It was not built with the other budgets and clout with some of the other projects that senator weiner mentioned it was done with spit from the other neighborhoods who went to a chainlinked fence, a weedchoked lot where neighbors could gather and have open space. So please come down to progress park. This measure tackles two important issues that those of us involved in positive civic planning struggle with. One is how do we mitigate the negative impact of our freeways that slights through our camping areas . The fires, the debris that collects in these spaces, especially as our residents and workplaces inch ever closer to those freeways. Secondly, how do we provide open space and green space for the fastestgrowing neighborhoods in San Francisco, nearly all of which line those same transit cora ders. So senator tings measure as the mayor said actually tackles two problems and puts this way ahead. We appreciate very much the heavy lifting that ca ltrain caltrain does and we have neighbors when they used to look out on other Family Residences like theirs and they now face chain linked fence and razor wire and encampments. This is an opportunity to knit our neighborhoods back together. My common line is that these freeways severed our neighborhoods twice, once when the elevated freeways went in with their noise and their pollution and trash, but then a second time when the areas below the freeway were consigned to less optimal uses. Potrero hill is cut off from vacant lots and rusted containers. This is an opportunity to get some of that back. Were very grateful for it. So my deep thanks to Assembly Member ting. He said he was going to do this his perseverance and determination paid off. Were grateful to all who have helped with this, mr. Weiner and assemblyman ting, were grateful to have them. Im grateful to the economic workforce and robin abhod is here and all of those who have worked with us and who will continue to work with us. I want to acknowledge jean and allahson from the green benefit district. The gbd is an amazing, amazing construct. Neighbors who voted to assess themselves in order to spend extra funds to clean and green their neighborhood. And dogpatch is the first one that we know is the first to exist, dogpatch and potrero hill. So im happy to represent them. This is a great day. Hopefully, well be having some of these in these parks before very long. Thank you all for your interest. Thank you. Thank you, julie, again. It is proud to author 857, ab857, which now allows the city to transform some of our freeway underpasses into parks. Again, i think julie put it very well. There are not always positive things that are happening under these underpasses. Again, its our opportunity for the neighborhoods, the neighborhoods of dogpatch, potrero hill to take over this land. So i want to thank everybody for coming today. I appreciate it. I know people will be available for individual questions on the side if you have any interest, but again, thanks so much for coming out today. I appreciate it. [ applause ] e calling this meeto order. It is tuesday, november 14th, 2017. Roll call, please