[off mic] i didnt even know i was going to be speaking today but i want to say thank you all for coming to stag and manor. Its such an honor to serve this community which is my community, the community ive lived in for many years now. Its been such an honor to have the shop open for a year this saturday with incredible customers coming through every day with so many wonderful things being a part of it all. And i hope we are all just sharing these experiences with all our friends and neighbors to get more people out, because now is the time to really support Small Business. Im so happy, andrea mentioned the friends i was going to mention to make sure they got a shoutout. Ill add crystal way, another long time Small Business that does wonderful work. Come out on next thursday for the castro artwork at one of our Wonderful Community events. Also the following saturday our neighbors are going to be hosting the rocket Dog Rescue Group next door as part of a promotional event to show our community and the way we Work Together. So again, thank you everybody, such a pleasure. Come on up. The cookies that [off mic] finally. So everyone gets one. These are from hot cookie . Yes wow, look at that. Doesnt look like a cookie, it looks like a cake. Wow. Thank you. All right. Thank you, again, thank you mayor breed. Such a pleasure to have you in the shop. Thank you, seth. [off mic] well, as was mentioned by the supervisor earlier, unfortunately there was a fire that happened just a few weeks ago. And the amazing men and women of the San Francisco Fire Department did an incredible job. And afterwards, the people from the office of economic and Workforce Development did a extraordinary job stepping in, meeting with people, working with the tenants as well as the Small Business owners to provide whatever support we could. We know that experiencing fire oftentimes you lose everything, but then its not just the people, its also maybe the employees and meeting payroll and how you get up and running. You run a Small Business, you know, youre probably you know, again, the person who is the owner and the employee and sometimes you are lucky if you are able to hire other people. And then to add a fire to a situation makes it even worse. But im really excited that the city has a Disaster Relief fund that provides an opportunity to support our Small Business community in a way that gives them what they need to not worry so much. I mean, its not a lot, but it is more than what it used to be, which was nothing. And this is an opportunity to support our Small Business community, because what we want during the time of rebuilding and dealing with all of this, that we provide a little bit of support that will help in whatever way possible to at least keep those persons on their feet as they go through this most challenging process. And so i want to thank Joaquin Torres and his office for working so hard. In bureaucratic years, this is really fast to happen. [laughter] supervisor, you know, to have checks ready to go. We are going to be presenting four checks today to osaki sushi. Mr. Wang, thank you so much. And they had to do work for this. They had to fill out a whole application and everything else. And sam from cafe mystique. Met sam on the way in. Thank you, sam. Thank you. I appreciate it. And let me tell you, some of these businesses, you have been there since who has been there . There was a business thats been there, body oil or body since 89. And body. Andrew. Come on up. Isaiah oh, who is andrew . [off mic] oh, well, body, since 1989 this business has been in the castro. And how amazing is that . So we are so happy that you were opening right away. So make sure you stop by and purchase some items. Im so glad to have you. And last but not least, q bar, john . Are you here from q bar . Here you go. Thank you, really. And let me just say how much more important it is that when these businesses that arent back on their feet get back on their feet, that we support them. And that we go and we visit and we spend money as much as we can, because this im sure was difficult. It wasnt just the merchants. There were other People Living in the building. I think four are back in their apartments. But there are another eight people that arent. So very difficult time for all of you. We are glad to have you here today. We are hopeful that the rest of the businesses will open and then that you would get a lot of business so the merchants association, the San Francisco chamber of commerce, you got work to do to advertise for this community, these Small Businesses, lets support our incredible merchants in San Francisco. Lets have a good time in the castro. And lets eat these cookies, because they look good. [laughter] [applause] thank you so much. Go. Shop and dine the 49 promotes local businesses and changes san franciscans to do their shopping and dooipg within the 49 square miles by supporting local Services Within the neighborhood we help San Francisco remain unique, successful and vibrant so where will you shop and dine the 49 hi in my mind a ms. Medina. Working for the city and county of San Francisco will immerse you in a vibrate and dynamic city on sfroert of the art and social change weve been on the edge after all were at the meeting of land and sea worldclass style it is the burn of blew jeans where the rock holds court over the harbor the citys Information Technology xoflz work on the rulers project for free wifi and developing projects and insuring patient state of at San Francisco General Hospital our it professionals make guilty or innocent available and support the house Senate Regional wearout system your our employees joy excessive salaries but working for the city and county of San Francisco give us employees the unities to contribute their ideas and energy and commitment to shape the citys future but for considering a career with the city and county of san francisc lets get started. Welcome. Yeah. You can be excited. You should be. Welcome to the beautiful new playground, everyone. [ cheering and applause ]. My name is phil ginsburg. I am the manager of the recreation and Parks Department. Were so pleased to have everyone here to celebrate what is really a transformation for this playground, a place where childhood memories will be created and opportunities for imaginative play are endless. There are a lot of Community Supporters and folks that made this happen. Were going to introduce and recognize all of them during our short program, but im so honored to introduce someone who has kept her eye on this playground for many years. As District Supervisor and now as mayor, she is our park champion and chief. Our kids do not need an advocate, because theyve got mayor london breed. Mayor breed thank you so much, phil. Let me tell you, i cant be more happy than to be here today. I remember a couple years ago when we cut the ribbon on the new basketball courts and there were conversations going on and on and on about the playground and the next to do something better. The parents who bring their kids here on a regular basis reflects what we see here today. As much as i love. I grew up in sands, so im a big fan, but the fact is these kids are going to have a great time. We are so lucky in San Francisco that we have so many people in this community that are so generous and were actively engaged to shape what this playground looks like right now. We have amazing contributors who have invested so much money into supporting and making this happen. Our incredible partner, the Parks Alliance, thank you so much for your continued alliance and this playground. Thank you were jody pritzer for your major contribution to this project. And brian baker who hosted. Thank you so much for your work and for your advocacy. The work that you do to raise the funds and contribute to make this possible makes it happen sooner rather than later. So thank you, because the kids that are here today are going to be able to have a good time and enjoy this amazing playground. I know they dont want to hear a bunch of long speeches. I know they cant wait to get started with playing. Thank you to the nopa community and the ashbury community for your work and advocacy. It is so great to be here today to have this incredible experience. I know you are wondering why is sheriff vicky hennesey here today. Shes not here to take anyone to jail. Her granddaughter is a lover of this playground and we are happy to have her as a supporter, so thank you for your service to San Francisco. Fill, you say that i am the park champion, i tell you no one works harder to bring in the resources and move these projects faster to get these done so that you have these results today. Thank you and your team for the work that you continue to do. [ applause ]. Mayor breed last but not least, i started that and she finished it. Valley brown has been an amazing advocate for this community for decades and she made sure that we got this project done. I will say in absolute record time. We just broke ground on this project last year and in bureaucracy time, this is fast. Ladies and gentlemen, the person who was making it happen and doing the work for this community, your supervisor, valley brown. [ applause ]. Thank you, mayor breed. I remember when this was a twinkle in your eye, phil. I see the ashbury council is here. People have come here because this is an amazing park and the way that it was done with the contributor contributors made it what it is now. Look at everything. I was looking around. I cant believe how cool it is, and im going to take a slide down that slide. I dont know if anybody has done it yet, but i want to go and slide down that slide. It looks so fun. I have to say that the city is like a tanker in ice. Every time we try to do something, it takes that long. This is something that went fast because of community support, because we had private people coming in and saying lets make this work, and we can turn faster than a tanker in ice. Thank you, everyone, thank you, mayor breed, and lets play. Supervisor brown said it perfectly, lets play. The mayor has keys to the city and gives proclamations at the board and we give away park signs to true park champions. Thank you for all of your incredible support. [ cheering and applause ]. The mayor alluded to the fact that this was a Big Community effort. We need partners and friends. Government doesnt do it all alone anymore. We need the support. Im pleased to bring up our closest friend, drew beker. The alliance of Parks Department have worked together since 2013 or 2014 on lets play s. F. Which is our campaign to renovate the 13mo 13mostdeserving playgrounds around the city. It is a 30 million effort that has a significant amount of public money, but that wasnt enough to get it done. We are the Parks Alliance and is the San Francisco recs and Parks Department Work Together on so many things, including our 150th Golden Gate Park celebration. This is part of that. The panhandle itself was practice for building Golden Gate Park. Around the park are 80,000 trees that were planted to figure out what would work best down the road. Im so pleased to bring up a special partner, drew beker. Thanks, phil. I want to give a shout out. Thank you, mayor, thank you, valley, thank you, phil. The Parks Alliance is so happy to be a part of this wonderful event. I would like to give a shout out to the civic committee. Thank you so much. You helped make this possible. I want to give a shout out. Thank you, liz, for everything you do. Also brian baker held an event before this. Thank you for you and your family to support us and the San Francisco Parks Alliance. Thank you so much. And the rec and park commissioners, we couldnt do this without them giving the okay to make all of this happen. We have partners with rec and parks and they dont get shout outs that much. I want phil, lisa, and abigail to know how much we appreciate what you do. It is so amazing to have one of the top rec and Parks Departments here in San Francisco. You have no idea how important it is to push these types of projects forward and make this happen and thats because it comes from the top. Your amazing manager, phil, ginsburg, lets give it up for him. This publicprivate partner that was alluded to, we raised about 11. 3 million for 13 playgrounds across the city. Our goal is to raise 14 million, so we have a little bit more to go in order to make this playground and close out this program and have the most equityfocused Playground Initiative in this country called lets play s. F. Lets make sure you visit lets play s. F. Make sure you are part of this movement to bringing this movement to 20,000 kids across this city. Its about making parts a part of each and every community. Parks are part of the big puzzle, about keeping the parks part of our story. We need to move neighborhoods forward building parks. Thanks for being a part of this movement and lets play. Thank you so much. Thank you, drew. This playground is about play and its about community. So representing our community today, we are so pleased to welcome 45 preschoolers from steppingstones preschool. Your granddaughter is here, but steppingstones has a spot in my own heart. Representing steppingstones and speaking on behalf of the community, im pleased to welcome a few members to share the importance of lets play. Hi. My name is rakoia. Im a director of a local preschool up the street, but more importantly im a mother of a 2 year old who is up there right now. I actually came here from l. A. I went to ucla. When i came to San Francisco and looked at the preschools for work and realized none of the preschools have outdoor spaces or if they did, it was tiny. So steppingstones uses the community for their playground. What a resource to have playgrounds like these. This is an amazing playground just for the preschoolers, but also now that im a mom, for communities like this for playgrounds that inspire community and imagination. We were just here in april for the ground breaking, and now its november and its incredible. Thank you so much, everyone. [ cheering and applause ]. Before we do our first slide with our steppingstones preschoolers and supervisor brown, we have some gratitude. I need to do some closing acknowledgements. We have a lot of gratitude for all of our supporters. Without their help and support as i said, this wouldnt be possible. Let me echo my thanks to the pritsker family. For brian and lesley baker, thank you so much for your support. For the folks from kaiser permanente, they have been big supporters. This weekend we lost an advocate for health and equity and diversity and true supporters of playgrounds and someone who understood the very important experience of play. We would ask you to take a quick moment of silence in mrmr. Permi mrmr. Permi mrmr. Permi mr. Permit permanentes honor. Thank you. Lets give a round of applause. Were also pleased to be joined today by sheriff hennessey and her granddaughter. Vivian liang, and then dmitri barstani is here with his mom, georgia. Are you here and can you raise your hands . Theyre over there. Thank you, dmitri and georgia for being here today. Were honoured to be here. His memory and gus memory will live on. I would like to thank niko and marie who helped to work on the bench plaque that i believe are here. Tim sieford and michelle welsh. Steve courier from the parks and recs open space advisory. And then to the design and construction teams, you have an inspired design and project. They deserve our thanks. To the landscape project. Jeff cooper from c. P. M. Services. And then to my own amazing team, the project managers for this effort, it takes a village, karen rupert, brett emerey contributed to this project. Thank you, lisa branson, to your team to make this dream come to reality for our kids. Were going to have some honorary preschooler that is are going to join us. Supervisor brown, if you want to join us too. The mayor is going to lead us in a countdown. Mayor breed okay, supervisor brown, youre going to have to put a kid in your lap. Are we ready, kids . Five, four, three, two, one, lets play thank you, everybody. In the words of our mayor, lets play. [ ] im nicole and lindsey, i like the fresh air. When we sign up, its always so gratifying. We want to be here. So im very excite ied to be here today. Your volunteerism is appreciated most definitely. Last year we were able to do 6,000 hours volunteering. Without that we cant survive. Volunteering is really important because we cant do this. Its important to understand and a concept of learning how to take care of this park. We have almost a 160 acres in the district 10 area. Its fun to come out here. We have a park. Its better to take some of the stuff off the fences so people can look at the park. The street, every time, our friends. I think everybody should give back. We are very fortunate. We are successful with the company and its time to give back. Its a great place for us. The weather is nice. No rain. Beautiful San Francisco. Its a great way to be able to have fun and give back and walk away with a great feeling. For more opportunities we have volunteering every single day of the week. Get in touch with the parks and Recreation Center so come good morning, sfgov tv. If you can cue us up. [gavel] good morning. And welcome to the San Francisco county Transportation Authority meeting for today, tuesday, december 10th, 2019. Our clerk is mr. Alberto quintanilla. If us please call the roll. Commissioner brown . Brown absent. Commission fewer . Present. Commissioner haney . Present. Commissioner ronen . Ronen absent. Commissioner safai . Safai absent. Commissioner walton . Present. Commissioner yee . Present. Yee present. We have quorum. Thank you, mr. Quintanilla. Could you please call the next item. Clerk item number. Citizens advisory report. Commissioner stefani is amongst us. Mr. Larson. Good morning, chair peskin, vice chair mandelman and commissioners. Im here to report on the november 20th meeting of the c. A. C. Starting with item 5, allocation of 3. 3 million for better Market Street. Critical to the success of the project. Smta noted the project working group, which included business along Market Street and the planned turnaround. As well as coordinating with developers on large projects for midmarket. C. A. C. Members also reacted favorably to the elimination of private vehicle traffic on all of Market Street, in the project area below 10th street. Seeing this as an advantage to reducing congestion and moving transit in this crowded area. The c. A. C. Recommended approval of this item. Turning to item number 7 on your agenda, the projects in the bayview, the comments centered on the transit assistance role. And the muni transport Assistance Program or mtap coming out of the bayview Transportation Planning process. Members were very supportive of the transit assistance and the mtap, given the vital role they play in deescalating and providing a safe environment for the riders. Funding associated with this item will go toward allowing mtap to increase the transit assistance presence on bayview lines during their working hours. Members approved the item both because of the worthwhile program itself and its prioritization through the participatory budgeting process in the community. And hope the lifeline transportation grant helping to fund the initiative will identify Sustainable Future funding sources. The c. A. C. Was also presented the 2019 San Francisco Congestion Management Program. The data and metrics used to inform the Congestion Management Program or c. M. P. Were of particular interest to the c. A. C. Members. One member was interested to know whether the data could be use for other projects and evaluations. Staff noted that data had been used already to support the freeway Corridor Management study and most recently the San Francisco downtown congestion study. Reporting back to the c. A. C. On the policy Advisory Committees activities in the new year. On that note, i would like to say that the c. A. C. Looks forward to the new projects and updates. The c. A. C. Will welcome two new members, who will join several new members who joined the c. A. C. In the past year. Im happy to report that the c. A. C. Not only represents the citys geographic diversity, but also the diversity of the people who live in San Francisco. In particular more members who are younger, along with those who are older. Id also like to take this opportunity on behalf of the Citizens Advisory Committee to thank the hardworking staff, whose expertise and professionalism make our role to advise that much easier and effective, both in this year and every year. And that concludes my report. Thank you, mr. Larson. Are there any questions for the c. A. C. . We will address some of the things you brought up relative to better market, when we deal with item number 5. Are there any members of the public who would like to make any public testimony . First speaker, please, on the c. A. C. Report. Yes. On the c. A. C. Report. Ive been following s. F. County Transportation Agency for ever since its inception. And the older c. A. C. S would address issues all over the city and county of San Francisco. So when it comes to congestion and when it comes to increased in the carbon footprint, this commission hasnt addressed it in realtimes. And im going to theyre doing some documentation on it, so that to address it in real times. So its very easy to say that a new committee will be formed for the bayview and the southeast sector. But let me tell you that congestion is getting worse. And the best way to find out about that is for you all to go and visit it, not talk about it, spewing diatribe. That doesnt help at all. And more, if youre old, more if youre physically challenged. So the c. A. C. Does play an important role, but the c. A. C. Has to have empirical data. And the c. A. C. Has to have solemn pathy and compassion for our population, more the Elderly Population thats suffering from the adverse impacts, be it on Market Street or van ness, which you know about, but do nothing about temperature thank you very much. Chair peskin thank you, any other members of the public wanting to make comment . Mr. Quintanilla, could you please read the consent agenda. Items 3 and 4 consent the consent agenda. Item number 4 is being considered for final approval. Staff not planning to present. Chair peskin are there any members of the public who would like to comment on item number 3, approval of the minutes for november 19th . Seeing none, Public Comment is closed. Is there a motion to move the consent agenda, made by commissioner walton, seconded by commissioner yee. On that motion made and sected, roll call please. Commission haney . Aye. Commissioner. Commissioner peskin . Aye. Missioner ronen . Aye. Commissioner stefani . Aye. Misser yee . Aye. We have final approval. Chair peskin thank you, next item please. Allocate approximately 3. 3 million in prop k sales tax funds with conditions, to San Francisco public works for better Market Street. Anna la fort,. Ill make a few quick remarks and invite the project manager for better Market Street from the department of public works to come up and give a presentation about the project itself, which is a requirement. Its a condition of the one bay area grant, that was programmed by this body to the project, that the project has a quarterly update to the board. This is for final design of the segment from 5th to 8th street, which is otherwise known as phase 1a. And this scope of work is suppose to be completed this summer. Youll hear more details about it from christina, which would allow the project to proceed to construction around this time next year. The requested funds are also for an installation and evaluation of a sidewalklevel bikeway along the south side of Market Street, between goth and franklin streets and the installation is planned to start in march of 2020, to be open for use by july of 2020. And, yeah, the chairs pleasure, id like to invite christina to present. Good morning, commissioners. Christina olaya. The better Market Street project manager. Im happy to report this morning that since the last time we presented, we have obtained our environmental clearance at the state level, environmental clearance. Weve also received a project approvals. So on october 11th, we had a public works hearing and mohamed approved a public works directors order. And then on october 15th, the m. T. A. Board heard all of the project changes, all of the parking and traffic changes. And approved the project as well. Our next step is getting environmental clearance at the federal level or mepa clearance. This is our schedule for the next few years. Our focus right now is in four areas. First, implementing the Quick Build Program of better Market Street, so that we see some of the safety improvements right away. Were also developing the construction mitigation plan, to support businesses along the corridor during construction. Were completing our environmental clearance, as well as completing design for phase 1a. We anticipate advertising the construction contract for phase 1a, between 5th and 8th streets next summer and hopefully Start Construction before the end of 2020. Starting with the quickbuild program, there are three main components of quickbuild, first full implementation of the carfree zone east of 10th street. Well also be adding 100 new loading zones, thats both passenger and commercial loading zones on the side streets and parallel streets to support the carfree area. Munionly lanes will be extended east all the way to main street. And where we have extra street or extra roadway space, there will be new painted safety zones. Heres a map of the quickbuild implementation. You can see that from 10th street all the way to main, in the inbound direction, will be carfree. And then westbound from stewart all the way to van ness. This is our timeline for quickbuild. Prior to opening day, well be coordinating with all of the Transportation Network companies to make sure that their apps are geo fenced and ready for the extended carfree area. Were doing a lot of outreach to the community, as well as to media. Youll see a lot of signage going up, that will be bagged until the opening day the opening day is at the end of january. Thats when all of the signs will be unbagged, carfree, Market Street will take effect. And the restrictions go live in all of the apps. After opening day, well be finishing some of the remaining work at intersections, as well as the transit lane extension, which has to be done at night. As anna mentioned, part of our request for prop k funding today is to pay for our pilot project. Currently there is a raised cycle track on the south side of Market Street, between goss and franklin. Its in the inbound direction. But its only raised inches and 4 inches from the roadway. Its not our better Market Street design. So what we would like to do is actually raise the bikeway all the way up to sidewalk level. And install the pavers and the bikeway separations, the detectable bikeway separation along these two blocks as a pilot of our better Market Street stein. Moving to phase quickbuild, as i mentioned, its between 5th and 8th street. This is a full reconstruction of Market Street, full redesign from building face to building face. Were rolling it out in segments geographically. The first segment is 5th to 8th street, as i mentioned all of the sidewalks will be replaced, instead of the brick, we have more accessible pavers, followed by the sidewalklevel pike way. And were leaving two lanes in each direction, the curb lane will be for transit vehicles, taxis, delivery vehicles, and emergency vehicles. The center lanes will be munionly. So the sline as well as some buses. Heres a closeup of the design of our sidewalks, using larger pavers that will be oriented in a linear fashion along the sidewalk. So youll only be encountering the joints every two feet. There will be new trees, new street furniture. Heres some of the trees that were proposing. Well keep the london plane as the primary tree throughout the corridor and also adding some diversity of tree species, adding cork or elm trees along the way. Our streetscape features we have coordinated with bart and were coordinating with muni and clear channel, j. C. To have a consistent streetscape look along the the corridor, Something Like a stainless steel design. And you can see the proposed j. C. Toilets in the bottom right, some seating in the bottom middle and then some leaning rails for bicyclists in the bottom left. Having a consistent look and feel throughout the corridor. This is just one quick slide on our construction mitigation plan. Were working closely with our partner departments, m. T. A. And p. U. C. , as well as the office of economic and Workforce Development to develop a construction mitigation plan to support the businesses along the corridor during construction. Weve talked about marketing campaigns, adding ambassadors along the corridor, providing incentives to the contractor to finish the project ahead of schedule. We know that the least contract duration the better for everyone, the less disruptions for the city. Directed business support will have a project office with Business Hours where people can come and request or apply for services. And then were also working on a pretty detailed transit support plan for construction. Heres the funding plan. You can see our prop k request, as part of the list. We also have been here before for our build grant, which we were awarded last december, as well as our obag funding. The majority of funding, however, is coming coming from r m. T. A. Prop a general obligation bond. Were also looking for other funding to fill the full corridor costs. Were looking at future federal Transit Authority dollars, future build grants, other obag calls for projects. Weve applied for regional measure 3 and also other local funding sources. With that that concludes my presentation. Thank you. Chair peskin thank you, ms. Olaya. Questions or comments from the members the sfmta . Okay. Ive got a few. Ms. Oleia, number one i want to start out by saluting you. One of the most competent project managers that the department of public works and the stet could have. Thats widely acknowledged and this is this is a phenomenally complicated project. This body and in our other incarnation of board of supervisors have been wrestling in modern times with mega projects, the central subway, as it relates to impacts to both Small Businesses, as well as residents. And weve been trying to wrap our hands around this. There have been many policy conversations, both at the sanford and the board of supervisors that has resulted in some cases in relatively modest, this may be a controversial term, reparations payments to Small Businesses. And we all or actually were talking about older and younger, the older members of this body lived through the development of Market Street, as it related to digging it up for bart and later on for the subway. And the one thing i want to get right and what i heard from our c. A. C. Is about aggressive in advance stakeholder engagement. And so while we approve these mega projects, and this is going to be a huge project thats going to make taken years. I cant wait until january of 2020, that is a nobrainer. I dont think theres any policy disagreement about what were trying to do for the grand boulevard of San Francisco. But making sure that we take care of and engage these people and there are differences between departments. Im not picking on the sfmta, i mean, lets be real. Van ness, b. R. T. At last count was 567 days behind schedule. We all know the stories. Theyve appeared before this body from people who literally have cried in front of us, as theyre losing their businesses and their livelihood and their employees. So i want to make sure that, number one, everybody in the Franklin Goss area has 20 15 vision. Im not picking on kate mccarthy, i believe shes done the best job that she can do, with the resources that have been allocated on the van ness. But the reality is we didnt engage stakeholders early enough. Eewd was not dealing with sfmta. All of these things came after the fact. They were way too late. Frankly it has been more than a challenge, if not a borderline embarrassment for the city and county of San Francisco. So simply put after that monologue, what plans do you and other departments and the city at large have to make sure that we have learned from our past practices and arguably our mistakes . Thank you. So we have a few strategies to address impacts to businesses. First off, we are breaking the project into small segments. Three blocks, 5th to 8th street, the second phase is 5th to 2nd. So another three blocks. Again trying to keep construction tight and fast. And were still talking about two years. And were trying to work on the construction sequencing to see if we can get that done more. Were looking at twoyear segments in three blocks, full reconstruction. And trying to get in and get out of those blocks quickly. And as part of that, as you mentioned, aggressive community involvement, Community Outreach. We have to date held five rounds of Community Outreach with large open houses. Were also planning, you know, doortodoor outreach in the next starting starting in ja, adding additional staff to go doortodoor to talk to each of the businesses impacted by primarily phase 1aperform franklin to goss will be one side of the street. We think we can get in and get out in a matter of 2002 to three month of two to three months. We have a lot of development in the 58th to 8th street. Weve held hundreds of meetings with local businesses, as well as some of the residential buildings and some of the developers. So i think outreach, involvement, getting input, working with once we have the contractor on board, as part of our contract documents, making sure that our contractor is also conscientious and aware of the impacts to businesses and working with the city to help minimize disruptions. Were looking at where can we stage, where can we put materials, that dont impact businesses. You will always be able to walk up to businesses along Market Street. Right now theres no private vehicles, theres no parking. So we wont see impacts to parking. But we will, you know, try to provide as much access to buildings and properties as we can, throughout construction. And providing for deliveries and other access on side streets and parallel streets, the alleys behind Market Street. So short construction duration, project office, providing services, going ecuadorian doortodoor, getting input and working with our contractor. Those are a lot of lessons weve learned from the other mega projects that youve mentioned. Ms. Oleia, i appreciate that. I believe you. But knocking on doors isnt enough, mr. Rurzit is what you give them when you knock on those doors. When we knock on the dor and say, haney, youre going to be inconvenienced and im not worried about the two, threemonth thing. Im worried about the phase one, phase 1a, im worried about phase 2. Im talking about the major sticks and bricks. When when we knock on the door and say this is coming, prepare yourself. Thats insufficient. If we can actually get our act together and say here are things that the city can do for you, whether its technical assistance, whether its financial assistance, whether it is temporary relocation. All of these things are expensive and are going to make this already very expensive project more expensive. The sfmta and mr. Rurz is whispering into your ear right now, has actually been thinking about that, because they have suffered through a project, that is way beyond schedule, and the same thing is now happening to that organization, as it relates to van ness, b. R. T. And people are suffering. It is just a true fact. And i had the Controllers Office actually analyze sales tax data on the van ness corridor and shockingly, like every poll i have ever seen, it told us actually what we would have thought. The second we proceeded with construction, sales taxes on van ness avenue plummeted, right. So there you have it. Real live data. And i just want to make sure that we do everything that we can do. I would like Joaquin Torres from the office of economic and Workforce Development and as of december 16th, jeffrey tumlynn from the sfmta, mohammed nuru, the president of this board of supervisors, the chair of this sfcta, our best staff to actually gain this out, far in advance, im not saying this knocking on doors and getting ready. Thank you, commissioners. Jonathan rurz with the m. T. A. So as a partner with the department of public works on this project, i do want to remind all of the commissioners that the city does have a construction mitigation program, christina did go through a lot of preconstruction elements that we would include, as part of that project. We now are at a point with design, where we do know where some of the construction impacts will occur. And chair peskin, you are exactly right. We should take the Lessons Learned from the larger projects and van ness and apply some of the tools we have put in place to prepare in advance on better Market Street. So as an example, we should execute our partnership with the office of economic and Workforce Development now. They should do a Business Survey along the corridor and blocks in advance. So we know what businesses are there. We can identify businesses that might be impacted directly by construction. Meaningthey might lose sidewalk access, we might see the staging right in front of their business and start working with them now on some of the tools that we can implement. One thing that we did do with the funding that the board of supervisors supported was, as part of that, we set aside 1 million in a Revolving Loan fund in advance. Not specifically for sfmta projects, but in projects like better Market Street, where the m. T. A. Does have applicable scope and is a partner in the project. One of the reasons we did that, and we got feedback from this body, was so in advance of construction occurring, if businesses feel they will have a cash flow or other issue come up during the course of construction in advance, they may work with the office of economic and Workforce Development to access those funds. In addition, we did this on van ness. We might want to get like a business Advisory Committee together of people who know what businesses will face and can advise us during the course of construction. So to that note, i feel that the city does have the tools and protocols in place. We should take advantage from the projects that we have seen across the city and start putting some of these things in place now, before construction occurs. I commit on behalf of the m. T. A. That we will definitely work with both oedw and the department of public works to have a very detailed plan in place, that we will execute prior to construction beginning. Chair peskin thank you, mr. Rurzgenerally, the way get compliances is by metering out money, because this is primarily a funding agency. I dont want to do that. I want to give you this money. But generally the way we get your attention is we say time out, no more money until you have this in place. We dont have to do it today. But id like us all to think about how were going to make sure that in all of these busy agencies and all of these busy peoples lives, this rises to the top. So i want to put that marker out there, which is this plan has to be as close to bulletproof as is possible. I am done with balming the village to save it. Ms. Oleia. Absolutely. Jonathan and i were speaking, we can develop the plan. I think our reports are quarterly. I think we can have the plan, at least a draft plan, for our next quarterly report. Chair peskin okay. I appreciate that. And id like staff to think about what are triggers and what are things that we can do, not to hold you accountable, but just to make sure that this rises to the top. So lets continue that conversation. Are there questions from members. Miss haney . Supervisor haney thanks, chair peskin, for all of that. There was some comments i was going to make around the businesses there in particular. Thats an area that already has a lot of challenges, with a lot of vacant storefronts, a lot of Public Safety issues there. And i would really love to see with some more specificity on what the plans are. I mean, you mentioned some of the things that are being thought about in terms of ambassadors and other types of support. I also really want to recommend that you include sfpd as part of this. There are a lot of foot beats on Market Street, particularly in that area. And as youre thinking about some of the impacts, if some of the stores there that are already or vacant areas that are already having a lot of challenges in terms of safety issues are impacted, then, you know, we want to make sure that theyre included. I appreciate what chair peskin said. If theres a way for us to have a bit more detailed p
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