Transcripts For SFGTV BOS Full Board Of Supervisors 20240713

All members are present. I. I would like to acknowledge the staff of sf gtv who record each of our meetings and make the transcripts available to the public online. Madam clerk, any communications . None to report, mr. President. Before we do that, i would like to ask everybody to join me in the pledge of allegiance. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of america and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under god, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Welcome back, colleagues. I hope you all had a great break because im hopeful that this year, 2020, will be as fruitful as last year, 2019. And i would like to welcome our new city Deputy Director who is over there. Shes already busy, ann pearson, welcome to chambers. And i promise that at least, my colleagues promise not to pick on you for the first week, anyway. I also like to make an announcement that in december, at the end of december, there were three positions on the department of public inspection, commission in which terms were up. And i want to announce that i have appointed three people to those positions and one of the things i really look for as much as i can and asked many of you as colleagues how to do this is how do we diversify the commission more than it has been. So im proud to say that weve been able to find people that are well qualified that will diversify this position. The three people that i am appointing are john jacoble, who will represent a member of the general public, jason cam, who will be representing the residential landlord, and elizabeth alexander, who will be representing the residential tenant. And i want to invite all of you, if you like, to their swearing in tomorrow in this chamber at 4 30 and it should be a very short and brief and wonderful ceremony. Colleagues, today we are approving the minutes from the november 19th, 2019 meeting. Are there any changes to these Meeting Minutes . Seeing none, can i have a motion to approve the minutes as presented . Made by supervisor peskin and seconded by supervisor m mandleman. And so without objection, those minutes will be approved after Public Comment. Madam clerk, can you please call items one and two together. Referred without recommendation from the land use and transportation committee. These are two companion items pertaining to the flower mart. Item one is an ordinance to establish the 2000 street special use district, to create additional key site exceptions for the flower mart site on the southern half of the block between fifth and sixth streets and to affirm the determination under the california quality a act. Item two is for kr flower mart for a 6. 5acre site and to make appropriate findings for both items. Ok, supervisor peskin, and you have permission not to have to rise. Thank you, mr. President. If we could take these items separately, i would respectfully request that item two be delayed until later in the meeting, but would be happy to vote on item one at this time. Your request has been made and granted. So madam clerk, please call the role on item one. On item one, supervisor peskin, aye, preston aye, ronan, aye, safaye, aye, stephanie, aye, walton aye, xi, aye, fuer, aye, haineyaye and mar is aye for 11ayes. Item one has finally passed. Please call item three. An ordinance to amend the Green Building code to establish Energy Performance requirements for certain new Building Construction and to adopt the appropriate findings. Can we talk this item same house, same call . Without objection, this has passed unanimously. Madam clerk, please go to the next item and please call items four and five together. Item four is an ordinance to authorize settlement of the lawsuit filed by the city and the people of the state of california against the Stevens Institute and 23 of the affiliated Liability Companies and collectively known as the academy that owns properties in San Francisco. It alleges the academy violated the planning codes and competition law and 17200, et cetera, under the settlement, the academy agrees to bring its existing using into compliance to relocate existing uses or change uses in buildings in accordance with applicable laws and those limited instances where the Planning Department has limited that legalization is not appropriate and to compensate the people and the city for alleged past violations by paying approximately 58 million and work cooperatively with the city for future growth in a manner that account for the urban name of the academys campus. Item five is an ordinance to approve a Development Agreement between the committee and Stevens Institute doing th business as affiliated entities which provides for various benefits. Jessie smith and Kristin Jensen who hopefully is watching this on her vacation, i want to thank all of the individuals at the department of city planning who have played a remarkably Important Role in this and the members of the Planning Commission and the folks at the department of building inspection to bring this very tortured chapter to, hopefully, an end in the city and county of San Francisco where one institution behaved unlawfully in a way that impacted lowimpact tenants in districts three and six. I want to acknowledge a number of individuals who repeatedly told this city about this and dogged it for a generation. I would like to salute miss sue hester, doug ingman and other individuals associated with them for constantly holding the citys feet to the fire and i think that this is a just and appropriate settlement and while the government audit and Oversight Committee could not recommend this during the appeal period, i commend this settlement to each and every one of you and hope that it will pass unanimously today. Thank you, Dennis Herrara and to the City Attorneys Office. Colleagues, can we take these two items same house, same call . Then these two items pass unanimously. Madam clerk, lets go to item 6. Item 6 is an ordinance to amends the planning code to enable the use of Development Project sites during the project approval and entitlement process by authorizing the Planning Department to authorize certain interim activities at Development Project sites as temporary uses up to 36 36 monts and make the appropriate findings. Supervisor hainey . Thank you, president. This is a piece of legislation that is sponsored by the mayor and myself and it is intended to help activate properties that are being evaluated for demolition and development to build housing in the near future and therefore might not be able to attract businesses with a longterm lease. The goat is t goal is to activae proper use and have a goal. I want to thank the land use committee, particularly chair peskin and his staff for working closely with the mayor and the Mayors Office and the Planning Department on amendments. There are some further amendments that wed like to put forward that, its my understanding, are substancive is require a rereferral to committee. So rather than handling those here, we want to spend a little more time working those out. So i want to ask that this piece of legislation be referred to committee. Ok. A motion has been made and seconded by supervisor peskin. Cap we take this same house, same call . This will be referred to committee. Item number 7, please. Item 7 is an ordinance to amend ordinance number 1061, the sidewalk with regulation, to reduce the official sidewalk with the certain locations along the westerly side of pierce street between ofarrel and to adopt the determination and make the appropriate findings. Same house same call . Without objection, this is passed on first reading. Please call the next item. Item 8 to declare a Public Health crisis on drug use and drug overdoses and to urge the department of pu Public Health o present a comprehensive plan on how to address this crisis. Supervisor hainey. Thank you, president. Last month, we held a rally and a hearing on this Public Health Crisis Resolution which would kedeclare Public Health crisis n our city and this is an issue, which you are all well aware of now, because ive spoken about it many times here at the board, is the most deadly epidemic facing our city at this moment. It is absolutely the issue that i hear the most from, from my constituents. People who are Small Business owners, who are residents, people who work directly with those addicted to drugs and the feeling is that there is an overwhelming sense of crisis and urgency on our streets. And, unfortunately, for many of the people that ive heard from and i would share this sentiment, we have not seen the same level of response from our city that matches the crisis on our streets. Its my hope that by, as a board, us collectively declaring a Public Health crisis, that we will begin to see a commensurate response from the city as you al. As you all are aware, there e more people that die of overdoses in our city than pretty much any other unnatural cause of death. In 2018, there were 259 people who died of drug overdoses. This is over six times as many that died of traffic collisions or homicides. Every single death is a tragedy and should be taken seriously in terms of how we respond and prevent those deaths in the future. During the hearing, the department of Public Health was asked to present a comprehensive emergency plan. One, to improve streetlevel Crisis Response to address people using drugs or in psychosis, increase access to narcan, expand outreach is treatment, report overdose deaths, increase support to frontline Emergency Responders and Public Safety personnel, identify and establish emergency detox and dropin facilities and request Additional Support from state and federal sources. I want to appreciate the department of Public Health for the information that they provided and the plans that they put forward. In many ways, they have been in the past and currently a leader on how we respond in a smart, strategic and passionate way. But i think they recognise, and i hope we can all recognise, that there needs to be so much more done to prevent overdose deaths. We expect that the numbers in 2019 will go up even higher than in 2018 and one of the challenges that we identified in the hearing is that the numbers are not regularly shared as often as they need to be for us to understand the extent of the crisis and be able to respond urgently. Were working from 2018 numbers rather than knowing in the most uptodate way how the residents of our city is impacted by this deadly crisis. I want to thank all of the folks who work to prevent drug overdoses everyday. People from the dope project, from st. Anthonys who are saving life. I think we have a responsibility to respond much more urgently and have an Emergency Response that reflects what is happening on our streets and what is happening in our city. This deadly epidemic is getting worse and i hope by declaring that Public Health emergency, we will begin to see a response that is as big as the crisis that were facing. S. Thank you. Supervisor ronan. Thank you. I could not agree more and us to be adds as a cosponsor. Thank you. Colleagues, can we take this item same house, same call . This resolution is adopted unanimously. Madam clerk, please call the next item . Item 9 a resolution to reappoint harlin, jr. , for a fouryear term. Colleagues, same item, same call . This is adopted unanimously. Madam clerk, please call 10. A motion to appoint Charles Peacock for an indefinite term. This motion is approved unanimously. Madam clerk, please call the next item. Item 11, a motion to appoint jr eppler, er ma lewis for terms 2021. Same house, same call . This is passed unanimously. Madam clerk, please call number 12. 12 is a motion to reappoint William Ortiz to the small commission, january, 26, 2024. This is approved unanimously. Madam clerk, legitimate lete call. Supervisor peskin, youre up to introduce new business. Thank you, madam clerk. Its been a few weeks since we last convened and i have a couple of in memoria. I would like to ajourn in the memory of dina boyer, diagnosed with stage 4 cancer and passed away on christmas each. The Community Rallied to support her and funded her fight with cancer, but she passed away surrounded by a few close friends. Dina was many things ranging from a military veteran, transadvocate and Animal Rights advocate and film director in the independent media and Public Television where we saw her on our own channel 29, sanfranciscos Public Television station, where she was the facilitys coordinator and camera person for the awardwinnin awardwinn. She reported on health and labour issues for transpeople, investigating the suspicious death of doxy arundundo who was found dead in a tenderloin motel in 2006. She was concerned at lack of attention on the high rate of violence, particularly against transwomen. She grew up in baltimore where she knew from the young age of 12 she was different but didnt have the resources or information to fully understand or access her true identity. It was not until in her 30s that she was able to fully start her transition to claim her true identity and she ultimately moved here to the city and county of San Francisco to access the support for her transition and found a community of artists and activists that shared her experiences. She used her struggle with homelessness to elevate trans issues, including a file on cnn. She stowe studied film productid photo journalism at sf state. She is survived by her sister, chantel, her son, jeremy, and her granddaughter, who she was looking forward to meeting one day. I would like to ajourn, also, in the memory of michael leonard, who also recently lost his fight with cancer. Michael was a neighbor, a San Francisco artist, a writer and professor of art history at California College of the arts and diabola valley college, nicknamed Michael Angelo lenardo. He got his masters in arts history in sf state, doctorate at usf and widely published as an art critic and art historian and lived his life very genuinely and spartanly and i know that because when his downstairs neighbour passed away, i brought a chair up to his unit and was amazed by just how spartan has existence was. He was a committed volunteer mentor in the Big Brother Program and i want to extend or deepest condolences to dawn, alex, nick and gabe and the rest i submit. Supervisor pr rbgeston. Colleagues, today i am announcing plans to extend rent control protections to the tenants at midtown park apartments. This 139 unitapartment complex located in the philmore is occupied by residents, particularly longterm africanamerican and immigrant tenants and for years, the tenants at midtown believed they were cover bid th covered t control law and treated as such. In 2013, the city abruptly shifted gears. Many received increases, including some as high as 300 of what they were previously paying. The tenants challenged the rent increases but the rent board ruled that the rent control law does not extend to midtown because the property is owned by the city. There are many issues to be resolved, including working out a longer term plan regarding the ownership and operation of midtown. Thanks to organizing by the midtown Tenants Association and allies, the citys original plan to demolish midtown is off the table. I look forward to working with all stakeholders to arrive at a longterm plan supported prints. Supported by residents. But in the meantime, its unacceptable for any to pay rent increases in publicallyowned housing, higher than they would have faced if they lived across the street from their home and privately owned house. They deserve protection. I engaged the City Attorneys Office and i look forward to moving forward with this. Thank you, supervisor p rbgs preston. Supervisor ronan. Im taking us one step closer to the day we leave pg e behind and welcome a new day with clean, green and public power in San Francisco. Thithis is more than 3 millionn Revenue Bonds for the electrical distribution and Transmission System in San Francisco. If a series of preconditions are met to the satisfaction of the board. Weve been moving in this direction for months. The city delivered a letter of interest to pg e to buy assets for electrical service. By overwhelmly passing prop a in june, the voters authorized bonds to pay for the infrastructure we so desperately need. Were aware of the challenges it faces to restructure in a way that satisfies the states, the course and shareholders. The decision about the aspect of pg es future will be made in several months and we must continue to take the steps necessary to position ourselves to be able to respond quickly as alternatives are considered. Each requires a board vote, including further Financial Analysis and a plan for the initial transition with the roadmap for system repair and upgrades, protection for rate repairs, a binding agreement for pg e and a bond agreement approval by this board. The commissioners will review and vote on bond authorization. I want to be clear that as a part of our work ahead, we must also prepare a plan to keep pg is e workers secure in their benefits and pensions while welcoming them in the city family. As the chronicle reported last week, San Francisco is already benefiting from clean power sf and public power. Saving well over 100 million in the past three years and moving us forward towards our Greenhouse Gas freegoals. Im absolutely sure that when we complete this transition, San Francisco will bring even more cost savings and benefits to our communities, investing in green jobs and infrastructure, modernizing our aging electrical grid and tackling our Climate Crisis in ways that would never be possible tethered to a shareholderowned forprofit utility and i ask you to join me. Supervisor peskin, thank you for your cosponsorship. Thank you, supervisor ronan. Supervisor safaye. Can i be referred. Supervisor selfny. Stephanie. Supervisor walton. Thank you. Today, we have one memorium for a miss williemay fykes. She was born in 1911 and moved from st. Louis, missouri to meet her husband, roosevelt, who worked at the San Francisco ship yard for 46 years. They had one son who married claira edwards and she is the grandmother to two grandsons. She has three grandchildren, eight grandchildren, as well as many more stepgrandkids she raised. She lived at 231 south ridge one at Hunters Point for 25 years before moving to garlington court. She was the oldest known resident of the bayview at 108 years old. She loved living there from 1982 to december 24, 2019, for over 77 years, raising her children. , raising great grandchildren. Were proud to acknowledge her for living over a century. May god bless her family and all of us with the same good fortune. The rest i submit. Thank you. Supervisor, xi. Before we go on with role call, its 2 31 and lets go to our special order for 2 30, a recognition of accommodations. Yes, mr. President. We have one offered by supervisor walton. Can we come back to this item . I believe our honourees are taking pictures with the mayor at this point. No problem. Just let us know. Ill go ahead and submit my stuff here. And so colleagues, today i am introducing a hearing request and a motion to hold this hearing as a committee of the whole. The topic of our citys Police Staffing and an expert analysis of the San Francisco Police Departments current strategies around staffing with recommendations regarding changes for us to consider. The analysis was performed by matrix along with the Police Commission and the San Francisco Police Department and will be presented in detail at this hearing. As many of you know, i have been raising the issue of adequate Police Staffing for several years. In june of 2018, the budget and legislative analysts provided this board with a performance audit of the San Francisco Police Department so we could better understand, number one, how the police are deploying police staff that is funded by the general fund and number two, how uniform staff is allocated to administrative versus patrol duties. The recommendations of that audit was that in light of an increase in property crime in our city, accompanying the public demand for more officers in the street, the sanfrancisco Police Department should civilianize as many administrative positions as possible. This is the best practise recognized by major Law Enforcement, including the International Association of chiefs of police and adopted by most major Law Enforcement departments in the country. But San Franciscos racial of swoossworn officers to civilianf remains higher than the National Average or peers. This is why i ask the Controllers Office to provide us with an analysis of the effort to date in which we heard a couple months ago at the Public Safety and neighborhood committee. At the same time, i also tasked the department to work with experts in the field such as matrix to provide the board and public with a report about their staffing needs and the manner by which San Francisco Police Department determines its Staffing Levels throughout its different positions. I have asked in this report and these details to be presented individually to each supervisor beforehand to ensure that questions that any of my colleagues have can be addressed in a final report and hearing itself. Every year during budget time, this board is asked to support departmental budgets and we rely on the department to tell us what they need to carry out their assigned responsibilities. This is important when it comes to the nuts and bolts to running the city smoothly. For example, public works doesnt have enough resources, that impacts the level and quality of service that we are providing to our residents, businesses and visitors. At the same time, we have to be vigilant that we are being efficient with our taxpayer dollars and making the very best use of these resources to get the most value possible for our residents, businesses and visitors. With the financial projections that ar our controller publishe, indicating a Slower Economy here, it would be more important to have a reliable and complete information when it comes to our upcoming Budget Discussions. Sfpd should have a civilization plan in place as a key component to maximize the full manufactury officers providing Public Safety services and give us a basis to determine if we need to adjust the charters mandate of 1,971 fullduty officers. Ultimately, in analysis from matrix should provide us with information that we can then use as policy makers to make the determination, including whether the charter needs to be amended to reflect a more realistic number of police staff necessary for effectively safeguarding the security of our city and all who live, work and visit here. This topic is important and i ask my colleagues support to have this hearing before us as a committee of the whole on january 28th and again, i urge you to sit down and meet with the folks at matrix and the sfpd before that date so that we are able to have a robust discussion at that time. The rest i submit. Thank you, mr. President. Supervisor furer. Thank you. Colleagues, today i am introducing several hearings on the city budget process and related issues, including the mayors budget instructions, the joint report update to the fiveyear Financial Plan and state and federal budget updates. [cheers and applause] so colleagues, today i would love to honor the middleschool owls for their citywide championship victory. The Academic Athletic Association was held on decembee pavilion with every middle school slipping pass the trojans 3837. The lead seesawed back and forth and it was tied with 12 seconds left when the owls, paul antoine, jr. , stole inbound pass and subsequently fouled while driving for a layup. He stepped to the line and after missing the first free throw, he calmly nailed the second, giving his squad a onepoint lead. The trojans had one final shot under pressure and defense that was off the mark giving everette the title and their first since 1987 and second overall. Oftentimes we highlight the negatives around our young people. Today we chose to highlight the positive accomplishments of some of our midschool students. And although every middleschool is not located in district 10, its in district 8, we do have a number of students that reside in district 10 and attend the school and i love to highlight the accomplishments of our young people. So today, and i want to read off the members of the team, some of the coaches and school personnel. Team members, darion craney, christopher jackson, paul antoine, raley dozzle, kadere jewels, michael ray, kamari mclaughlin, tyro loez, angel perry, deshawn landry, gicon z gicon zuniga, jaymon ison, and, of course, some of the school personnel, the athletic director, rubin arbina, their coach, known as mr. C. And corey monroe, who is School District personnel, and also my uncle, i must say. Laugh glamp. [ laughter ] congratulations to the young man for your accomplishments and lets make sure our accomplishments on the court are equal in the classroom, as well, and mr. C. , i dont know if you want to say a few words but congratulations to the evert school for your championship win. [cheers and applause] first of all, im very gracious to be here and very thankful. I would like to thank shamot, mr. Monroe. First of all, ive been doing this since 11 years od years oly block. So i finally get recognised for certain things ive been doing in the community. Today is my birthday and it feels good. [cheers and applause] it feels good. [cheers and applause] this is a good group of youngsters and theyve got a good future ahead of them, so you have to stay tuned. Evert will be back here again and we have a lot more positive things well be doing for the community and a lot more positive things ill be doing for these youngsters and i appreciate it. Thank you. [cheers and applause] i wanted to Say Something real quick. Our School Social worker, her son, desmonds birthday is today and hes a young owl himself. Happy birthday, desmond cheer cheer. So what well do is finish up the role call and go back to item number two. So madam clerk, can you call the next one. Supervisor hainey . Thank you. Supervisor mandleman, ok, submit. Supervisor mar. , submit and safaye has to be referred. Thank you, and happy new year, everyone. So i have three items today. Im going to start with a resolution. This resolution is particularly personal to me and calling on the United States congress to vote on the warpower of Donald Trumps military actions in iran and to mandate the notification sent by President Trump to members of congress delineating the legal grounds for drone strikes as required by the wars powers act to be declassified and shared with the american public. As many of you know, the president made a very Strong Military move, talking out one of the highest ranking members in the military regardless of their position since world war ii, since the japanese general was taken out in a plane in world war ii. This act, seen by many as illicit, many have called it an assassination, whatever position you take on it, theres no question that it has fanned the flames in an area of the world that does not need a lot of fanning. It has put american lives at risk. It has put american citizens at risk and it has escalated a situation to a point where were not exactly clear what our president is doing. Then after that move and lets be clear, the person that was taken out was also in many ways a war criminal himself and had blood on his hands. So theres no sympathy for that individual. But the act itself is not something i think many of the people of our country support and particularly the people that are in that region are also feeling very unsafe and scared. After that, the president followed up by saying if theres any retaliation, hes pushed out 52 cultural sites in iran that he would target if retaliated against. That in and of itself is an illegal war act, it is barbaric and ruled the last group of people to deface and destroy cultural monuments where isis. So this president is following in the footsteps of isis by making statements like that. So our speaker of the house has put forward and has talked about announcing, voting on limiting war powers resolution that would put constraints on this president and force him to come to the United States congress before he made any more military actions. So i submit that today and, again, i do that with the hope that we will not escalate that area of the world and drag our military personnel and innocent people into war. And so, anyway, thank you. Secondly, on a more local note, which i think is extremely important, im introducing a resolution today. Ive working on that resolution with frontline nurses and some are here in the audience today. And this resolution is urging the administrative staff of the department of Public Health, particularly at sf general to include a frontline registered nurses and resident physicians in their decisionmaking process to implement to the extent possible an expedited hiring process to 90 days or less. Once an application is received, and to cease supplementing staffing requirements with a contract of registered nurses and putting a ceiling on that, to provide annual violence prevention, training, disaster training and to support bilingual staff. The basis of this is not my idea. We heard those nurses come into this chamber and they asked for help. Theyve been asking for help for quite a long time. And they are at a dangerous staffing level at our most Important Institution in the city and county of San Francisco. I was receiving texts during the holidays of staffing that had fallen far below what they believe was a safe environment. Staffing being asked and frontline nurses are asked to do mandatory overtime. Theyre working 16 and 20hour shifts and this is not what the city and county of San Francisco should be supporting in any way, shape or form. So this resolution is straightforward and i want to think my cosponsor, supervisor walton. I hope all of my colleagues will support this resolution and i know that we had previously a resolution on the resident physicians. This is in partnership with that, but very specific to the Staffing Levels, the hiring, the understaffing, the chronic use of outside registered nurses for contract purposes, but the idea that we would take 200, sometimes 300 days to hire someone in a position that is very much in need. Im sure many of you have visited the emergency room, usually on sad reasons, called in or notified of things that happened in our district. I visited i had the fortune of visiting the emergency room recently and also being given a tour of the facility and so weve gotten a commitment from the leadership of the hospital theyre willing to work with the nurses and thats why to ensure that that actually happens, were putting this resolution forward and were putting it in paper and setting parameters around that. Secondly, and in pup wit pip pa, were calling for a hearing today to learn more about the staffing, to learn more about the safety training, bilingual services, temporary staffing protocols of registered nurses at the department of public help and specifically at sf general, because we want to zero in on this issue. We want to invite the nurses that have been talking about this for some time to be a part of the solution and be a part of the ways in which we can get this hospital back up to the appropriate level and make sure that its safe for many years to come. And after that, the rest, i submit. Thank you. Thank you, supervisor. Mr. President , that concludes the introduction of new business. Lets go tbefore we go to tht item, i would like to be added as a cosponsor for the first two resolutions. Thank you. And madam clerk, i know i said i submit, one last sentence, if thats ok. I want to make sure that i call out specifically 1021 and the nurses themselves, but also julie, krista, jason, kirsten, heather, for all of your time and effort over the holidays. As i said, this was not my idea. This was coming directly from the nurses themselves. Thank you, and the rest if i submit. Ok, so i believe were not ready for item number 2 so lets go to public 14, Public Comment. At this time, we would appreciate the Public Comment. If you would line up on the righthand side, youll have up to two minutes to share your comments on the board Meeting Minutes and reference to the committee calendar. Please note that Public Comment is not allowed on those items which have already had the Public Comment requirement satisfied at a committee. Please direct remarks to the board as a whole and not to individual members, nor to the audience. If youre utilizing interpretation, youll be allowed twice the amount of time to testify and if you would like to use the projector to display a document, just say outloud to sf gov tv. First speaker, please. Good afternoon. Im krista duran. I am a San Francisco General Hospital Emergency Department nurse and shop steward for sciu 1021. Im actually here at Public Comment after working a 12hour shift last night. And i live in the east bay and i thought it was really important to come today to hear supervisor safaye to announce this resolution. Weve been working in close a lot during the holidays and also with sue ha, his chief legislative staff, i believe, is the correct title. Didni just want to say its a h of fresh air to be listened to. I just want to give a brief synopsis, a little more detail about how our weekend was on friday, the 27th. All of the contract nurses, their contracts ended at the same time and left all permanent staff alone and it was skeleton crew. So on a friday night during flu season, during the holidays, we are supposed to have at minimum per the census of 2016, which you all know has increased by 20 since then, were supposed to have at least 28 nurses and that night we had 16. I walked in to my shift through the front entrances and there were patients lined up in the hallways, getting breathing treatments and iv fluids in the hall, in the waiting room. There were l 45 patients in the waiting room. We were so shortstaffed, were a 58bed er and we closed 29 bed. Were a levelone Trauma Center. So its real. Its scarry and there was a day they had to call in and this is because they were just really, really thank you, next speaker, please. My name is mike him. Hill. Im a nurse in er and i worked last night, as well. Im here in support of my colleagues and thank you so much for listening to us. Sir, please speak directly into the microphone. Im sorry. For listening to us and the resolution that i hope you all uphold. Last night was a typical night. Although, its getting worse every week. We had, again, patients lined up in the hallway. If it werent for the fact that some of the dayshift nurses who had worked 12 hours stayed over 16, i dont know what we would have done. We had, in our recess area, where our sickest patients will arrive, and we have six recess rooms, we had 14 patients. And this has been a daily struggle for us and we havent been listened to, despite multiple attempts to get these needs addressed by the hospital admission. So i think the fact that we are here today and youre listening to us will make a difference for us and thank you very much. Thank you, next speaker. Thank you again for listening to us and being concerned, you should be. This is the map of the emergency room and so you can have an idea. Its massive. The 45 people that krista was talking about were just right here. This is the trauma area that mike was talking about, and these are just little tiny rooms and there are six of them. There are ten to 20 people end up here now. Pes is on condition red, which means they get shut down and they shut documen down to everyg because theyre full and all patients end up right here. All end up in the hallway here and these are severe psychiatric people with suicidal or psychosis issues. This is the other area they end up in. The area that was closed down this weekend and is often closed down due to admissions is here. This whole area, this is pod c, a third of the department. So, basically, what this means is your levelone Trauma Center is, like, full to the brim of backup. And so, when people keep coming in, as they do, because they dont know this is happening, they pile up and thats when they end up in this waiting room sitting forever because we dont have throughput out the other end, basically. Theyve been cited by the state, and just so you know, there are several state agencies coming through the hospital because of safety issues. So there are serious things going on there, but we had to stop some care that was illegal in the waiting room, as well, because theres just no throughput, basically. But im glad that you guys are listening to us. Hopefully thank you for the future and coming into the resolution that the supervisors put forth. Thank you, next speaker. Hello, im maria and im here today because i have a concern about my neighborhood. I live in the southeast corner of bayview Hunters Point and ive been there about 15 years, worked, teach, raised my family there. But its my only perspective on this whole city and so i dont know whats going on in other neighborhoods but when it comes to the homelessness crisis, thats the only thing i spend my extra time on, like, volunteering. And within eight blocks is the United Council of human services, known as mother browns. Theres a lot of word of mouth, so i recently heard that they are theres a fiscal sponsor needing to take over some organizational control and im kind of confused as to why. please stand by these individuals receive support from our agencies as they transition their lives in america in the greater bay area, which is often the place where they only know one other person who actually lives in the country. In the past three years, it has been a small number of of refugees and small visa numbers and individuals who have served with u. S. Forces who actually are resettled within San Francisco city or county, although our agencies have also assisted several hundred others through Immigration Services to obtain citizenship. However, for every single one of those individuals who is allowed to come and join family, this opportunity is lifesaving. We have provided the gamut of new Arrival Services supporting those newcomers and finding housing, enrolling their children in schools, connecting to a medical home, in obtaining employment. As your settlement agencies are deeply committed to the commitment of this city and county in supporting all newcomers, establishing homes here. We think the city and county of San Francisco for your support in this consent to continue settling refugees and we believe that in this process, we strongly affirm with you the commitment to welcoming refugees to our community. Thank you very much. Thank you. Next speaker, please. Linda chapman from nob hill. I saw in the paper today the article about the abigail. Probably none of you know the extent to which it was the symbol of saving the Residential Hotels. I got a call back in the day from gordon chen telling me that chinatown and tenderloin and south of market were organizing to save Residential Hotels and they asked if i would join. And of course, we joined. And then i met diana who was a vista organizer here and you had made the abigail the symbol. The supervisors would talk about the elderly ladies who took tea in the lobby and so forth. I have to let you know more about that. I am hoping that, you know, wherever she is she knows this and if you have some kind of celebration that she should be invited, the way i was invited to the Cadillac Hotel along with the people who passed the Residential Hotel ordinance in the first place. I think that would be very fitting. Having Supportive Housing is so much the way to go. It is absolutely important as opposed to having people in shelters forever, totally inappropriate. We emergency soldiers are needed, but Supportive Housing im so glad you are doing this. Its so distressing when i see how Little People know about what has happened in the past. I see them ingratiating claiming that he is helping homeless people. He made them homeless. After i put all that work into saving Residential Hotels, that man eliminated three in nob hill that i know of including one at my corner where ladies, not all asian, many, many more have a place to live. The whole time i lived there from 1969 until somehow he got hold of it along with the one on bush street and the one on thank you. Next speaker, please. Good afternoon. My name is joshua and im a thirdyear student at San Francisco State University majoring in Political Science and minoring in urban studies. Im here today to discuss the issue of parking, which turns out to be a major expense with students at San Francisco state. In my position in student government, i have had the unique opportunity to learn more about academic institutions and on our campus, as well as the underlying problems that Students Experience during their times s. F. State. The issue of parking, is especially problematic at s. F. State do to the fact our campus is over 60 commuter and many of our students come from various parts of San Francisco, the east bay, and down the peninsula. Our campus only has 1700 parking spots each semester. Because it is required to be self funding through the system, we have the highest prices in the entire straight with a fiveday parking pass costing 640 a semester plus tax compared to the second highest which is 338 at san marcos. The fact of the matter is, students already pay their fair share of taxes, which is 180 a semester on our campus each semester, which gives universal access to all students through munimobile. With thousands of students studying full time and more than one job, 17 of our students are housing and secure and 48 are food insecure. I hope we have financial we have Financial Issues to deal with. We look forward to working with the board of supervisors thank you. Next speaker, please. San francisco government tv . It gives life. The flesh profits nothing. The word that i speak under you are spirit and life. The lord said unto my lord, sit down my right hand and i make my enemies my footstool. The lord shall send the strength to you and rule in the mist of thine enemies. Thy people should be willing in the day of thy power and the beauties of holiness from the womb of the morning. It is the due of our youth. The lord is sworn and will not repent. A priest forever after the order the lord shall strike through kings in the day of his wrath. He shall judge among the heathens. He should fill the places with the dead bodies. He shall wound the heads over many countries. He shall drink of the brook in the way. Therefore, shall he lift up the head. These scriptures have to do with the kingdom of kingdom of god and the kingdom of men and i have the official petition here to recall gavin newsom as our governor. I dont think in all of our history we have ever had as audacious of a governor as we have here in california, the nephew of pelosi. He took trumpets name off the ballot and it took our Supreme Court to say no, you have the right to vote even if you are a citizen who was born here and pays taxes. You do have the right to vote. When we consider these words from the Lord Jesus Christ in the gospel according to john, it is the spirit that gives life, the flesh profits nothing. The words that i speak under the are spirit and life. We should consider thank you. Next speaker, please. If there is any other speaker after this one, please line up, otherwise you will be the last. Thank you. The overhead, please. What i would like to say is if you know what these letters mean , you are ahead of the game and i believe there are enough people here in this room to know what these letters mean, but the reason i put that on his because i wanted to show the people at home generosity. The clerk of the board here allows me the time to park this wagon and allow myself to reach and place a piece of paper there the clerk of the board also is generous to the margins of topics that Public Comment is allowed here. Im saying this because i missed the december the 1st week of december when we had a celebration of the office of the clerk of the board. There is a gentle repair activity that comes when you are here and you were on this side of the fence and you are at this side of the microphone and our clerk has a lot to do with that. It also affects the workers and her staff. I believe nice is nice and they are lucky to have a nice person there. They are helpful, and they have given me a footstool to put my swollen ankles up while i am sitting here waiting. We are privileged, all of us in the room and in the office, to have this clerk for this time. Years ago, i dont know how long ago, there was a painful discussion of words, condemnation that became torturous, selfrighteousness, a book in hand by a public speaker here. I will always remember that time when we were saved by the bell. In the recognition of commendations, there used to be a bell that would ring, and under this clerk when people are presented a commendation and an award and they have a few minutes to speak with their friends here, their workers here , there is no more bell that signifies your time is up. I hope that is a tradition that continues on under new president s and other clerks. That is about all i would like to say, except that, again, the overhead. There is enough people here to know that certified nursing assistants is what that means. And on november 26th, two days before thanksgiving, i suffered a stroke. I got to meet a bunch of these people and the nurses. We are very thankful. Thank you. Thank you. Next speaker, please. Hello, my name is owen cooper i am a physician and a member of the Oversight Council for the senior and disability aging commission. I am here to discuss about the decision to defund mother brown s kitchen. No reason has been given yet that i am aware of. That has been a Community Institution for 30 years. Gwendolyn who runs it now knows the people and many of them are elderly and many are disabled. They are comfortable there. It is a community resource. The new group coming in is from los angeles when looking at their board and at their management. We are going to replace, apparently, a longestablished institution in a fairly Close Community in the bayview neighborhood where somebody who has cared for them for years and years is going to lose that. It is going to destabilize a lot of these people. Its hard for older adults to adapt sometimes. They have been going there for years. I really hope that this board will try and find out the basis for proposing it. Thank you. Thank you. Next speaker, please. On december 11th of last year, the Northern District u. S. Attorney made a Public Appeal for San Francisco Police Officers to rejoin the joint Terrorism Task force. This requires the Police Commission and the board of supervisors to approve the commitment with the police union consensus. Over the past year of the Northern District, they have charged individuals in criminal cases involving 187 firearms violations additionally on the docket are 220 Violent Crime cases and 230 drug offences. Its worth remembering with regards to narcotic cases that unlike retail merchants, the seller does not require proof of age prior to the completion of purchase. A toddler died after being exposed to fentanyl. It is remembered in San Francisco that parents avoid changing the diapers of their babies in public facilities intended for that purpose, owing to their fear of potential risk of surface contamination. A federal initiative for the tenderloin has been established. It is composed of 15 participating agencies, the d. A. , a. T. F. And the u. S. Attorneys office chief among them. All of them whom request that local Law Enforcement available will be selling their services in coordination with federal agencies to develop capacity to engage effective policing. Its suited, tailored and fit to the task. The recent success of this commendation of Law Enforcement agencies is shutting down the market of local stolen items and has deprived drug dealers of unlawful drug steel drug sales. Thank you. Any other speakers . This is the last speaker. Come on up. Mr. President , in about a week, it will be the womens march. I have come up. Before saying that i would need some help with impeachment. I said that a few times. I think the resolution about the war powers act that will be synergistic towards it. We dont know what the president is doing. He himself doesnt know what he is doing. So it has come to pass for me for the past for years that i have become a visitor to several of the Emergency Rooms in the immediate area. That is my lifestyle in the tenderloin. The one the old when a General Hospital and the new one , and the new one at General Hospital really is aspirational and what it attempts to achieve. I see the number of problems that you are addressing today and how far you have to stretch the money. More power to you. Thank you. Public comment is now closed. Madame clerk, lets go back to item number two. The ordinance to approve the developed agreement between the city and the San Francisco flower marked. Supervisor peskin . Thank you. Colleagues, this is a banner day between the academy of art and the flower marked. And those two players are inextricably linked because it was about a decade ago that the academy of art actually attempted to buy part of the flower marked. It is appropriate to be rising to item number 1212. I want to start by saying a few things about the flower market. Its the second wholesale flower market in the United States of america. It employees many, many people. It is one of the most Colorful People places in San Francisco and if you have not been there at the crack of dawn, i suggest that you go while it is currently in his second are arguably third funky spot in San Francisco, you can take it back to the fountain. You can take it back to his first place in the south of market, which i think is on Howard Street before they ended up where they have been for over a century at six and brannon at the entrance to highway 280. There are over 50 different vendors there, but it employees people not only up and down the state of california, but to nevada and southern oregon. I want to salute the vendors and the staff who have stuck with that intergenerational he at the flower market. Many of them in their third and even in one case, fourth generations at the flower market we have all, are almost all of us accept for supervisor preston voted for the everchanging south of market legislation that was the central soma plan that originated under supervisor kim and then was inherited by supervisor haney who is the lead sponsor of both items number one , as well as item number two. The world is changing in the south of south of market and the flower market needs to be accommodated into the dawn of the 21st century. I really want to thank the kilroy corporation, john kilroy who i have met with personally a number of times is his counsellors, and his staff, and particularly the office of economic and Workforce Development and can rich for stewarding what is this Development Agreement that is before us today on its second reading. Since we last voted on this before we went dark for the recess, there have been a number of changes to the Development Agreement and i want to thank the parties and their Respective Council for figuring out those changes, which i think i was very clear would be forthcoming. I would like to ask you to speak to those. Colleagues, i want to be clear, pursuant to what is in the ordinance, these changes to the Development Agreement do not materially increase the citys obligations or liabilities, and with that, i will turn it over to her and she will speak to those changes in the Development Agreement. Thank you. I just have a couple of changes that i want to read into the record related to the agreement. In section 3. 8 of the Development Agreement, we are striking language that refers to a judicial challenge. We are striking the language of any vendor of the existing flower market, challenging the permit outside approvals, striking that language from the agreement and extending 3. 8. 1, and again in section 3. 8. 2. Striking the language related to vendors filing a challenge to any future approvals. And then in section 6. 9. To, which 6. 9. 2 which is the legacy Business Fund component of the document, we are adding language that, in its sole discretion and subject all approvals, the city may consider contributing additional funds to the central soma legacy business and p. D. R. Support fund. So those are the changes. I will make sure to get a copy to the clerk this afternoon. Thank you. Thank you. Supervisor peskin, would you like to make any motion . I dont think any motion is required. It is all set forth in the ordinance and staff from oewd has elicited the changes in the Development Agreement. Colleagues, i would commend this to you on second reading. Okay. We will accept those changes onto the agreement. Without objections. Can we take this item, same item, same house, same call . This ordinance is finally passed madame clerk, lets go to our last item, number 15. Fifteen is a resolution to support the resettlement of refugees within the city and concur in the mayors consent to accept refugees in the city under the United States department, department, states reception and rePlacement Program. Colleagues, the item before us today reaffirms San Francisco s support to the resettlement of refugees within San Francisco. I find it ridiculous that we even have to pass such a resolution, but on september 19 th, 2019, the Trump Administration signed an executive order that tried to require state and local government to consent to receive refugees under the reception and Placement Program before the federal government will resettle refugees. San francisco will always be a sanctuary city and one that welcomes refugees. Now more than ever we stand firmly in our belief that anyone fleeing violence, war, and discrimination deserves a right to find a safe, humane heaven. Executive order 13888 likely violates federal law and is contrary to everything our nation should be standing for. This would be a challenge in the courts and in no way does San Francisco concede that executive order places any lawful condition upon us. We are here to stand in our values that refugees will always be welcome and accepted here. Before we take a vote on this, i would love to invite any of my colleagues to be cosponsors of this. Supervisor ronen . I would love supervisors . Everybody . Its unanimous. Can we take this item same house , same call . Okay. Without objection, this resolution is adopted unanimously. Madame clerk, please read the in memoriam. The meeting will be adjourned in memory of the following beloved individuals. On behalf of supervisor walton, for the late willie may ficus, on behalf of supervisor peskin, for the late mr. Michael lenard, esther prichard, and dena boyer. Colleagues, that brings us to the end of our agenda. Madame clerk, is there any other further business before us today that concludes our business for today. Thank you very much. We are adjourned. Shop and dine in the 49 promotes local businesses and challenges residents to do their shopping and dining within the 49 square miles of San Francisco. By supporting local Services Within our neighborhoods, we help San Francisco remain unique, successful, and vibrant. So where will you shop and dine in the 49 . My name is ray behr. I am the owner of chief plus. Its a destination Specialty Foods store, and its also a Corner Grocery store, as well. We call it cheese plus because theres a lot of additions in addition to cheese here. From fresh flowers, to wine, past a, chocolate, our dining area and espresso bar. You can have a casual meeting if you want to. Its a Real Community gathering place. What makes little polk unique, i think, first of all, its a great pedestrian street. Theres people out and about all day, meeting this neighbor and coming out and supporting the businesses. The businesses here are almost all exclusively independent owned Small Businesses. It harkens back to supporting local. Polk street doesnt look like anywhere u. S. A. It has its own businesses and personality. We have Clothing Stores to gallerys, to personal service stores, where you can get your hsus repaired, luggage repaired. Theres a music studio across the street. Its raily a diverse and unique offering on this really great street. I think san franciscans should shop local as much as they can because they can discover things that they may not be familiar with. Again, the marketplace is changing, and, you know, you look at a screen, and you click a mouse, and you order something, and it shows up, but to have a tangible experience, to be able to come in to taste things, to see things, to smell things, all those things, its very important that you do so. Sustainability mission, even though the bikes are very Minimal Energy use. It Still Matters where the energy comes from and also part of the mission in sustainability is how we run everything, run our business. So having the lights come on with clean energy is important to us as well. We heard about cleanpowersf and learned they had commercial rates and signed up for that. It was super easy to sign up. Our bookkeeper signed up online, it was like 15 minutes. Nothing has changed, except now we have cleaner energy. Its an easy way to align your environmental proclivities and goals around Climate Change and its so easy that its hard to not want to do it, and it doesnt really add anything to the bill. [gavel]. Chair haney all right. The meeting will come to order. Welcome to the january 10 meeting of the joint city, School District, and college select committee. Madam clerk, do you have any announcements . Clerk yes. Please silence all phone and Electronic Devices. Documents to be submitted should be submitted to the clerk. Chair haney thank you. Madam clerk, can you please call the roll. Clerk thank you, chair haney. On the call of the roll [roll call] clerk mr. Chair, you have a quorum. Chair haney thank you. Madam clerk, will you call the first item. Clerk item one is a hearing on how 300 classes impact students of lowincome and people of color. Hearing High School Students who take city college of San Francisco classes to meet College Entry requirements, and any proposed cuts need to be hearing heard. Chair haney president cook, and thank you for calling this hearing. President coo what we also did was make sure that there was opportunity for city college trusties to be a part of this conversation, as well. So we reformed the committee to include the board of education, city college trusties, and the board of supervisors. And the reason why im putting that context into place is because i figured it is imperative that we have this platform to have these discussions about what we do for the education of our students in both the School District and in city college. And im going to talk a little bit about why were here today and what this hearing is about, but i wanted to provide that context about how we fought to make sure that this committee was in place and how imperative and important it is that we all participate and show up to these Committee Meetings because we fought hard to bring this committee back. So i want it to be on record the importance of this committee, i want it to be on record its something important that we had to fight to get back again. And unless we show up and unless we participate, i dont want us to be in danger of losing this Important Committee again. So on december 10, i with supervisors haney, mar, introduced a budget ordinance for 2. 7 million to help restore the 300 classes cut by city college. This is scheduled to be heard on wednesday, january 15, at 10 00 a. M. Today, ive called a hearing to discuss the impacts of these cuts on our lowincome community, people of color, and everyone else devastated by these cuts. Ive also directed the s. F. College administration and everyone else that we consider city educators report on this cut at this joint select hearing. The purpose of this is twofold. One, two discuss the spring cuts of the 2020 semester. The way city college has handled this has brought us to where we are now, with the city stepping in to handle this. We deserve to know how and why these cut classes were chosen and how they will impact our students. We need to make sure that High School Seniors are still able to take classes needed for graduation or college enrollment. We need to be able to make sure our students are able to complete classes needed for job certification requirements, and we need to make sure our Senior Community is able to continue taking classes that provide muchneeded stimulation and enhanced learning opportunities. Secondly, id like to discuss how these decisions are made in general. In order to avoid this type of crisis from happening again, its our responsibility to take a hard look at the process city college goes through to arrive at decisions like these and make sure that city college is making them equitiably and with proper city input, and we need to have a discussion on how we can support city college in the future and over the longterm. However, were missing crucial people. Our city College People that sit on this committee are unable to be here. City college is unable to be here, also, today. Even though this is a regularly scheduled meeting that has been on the calendar for months. For this reason, i am requesting that we continue the meeting until the next meeting date until february 14 at 10 00 a. M. We will still hearing Public Comment on this item if we have members of the public who wish to speak. Im looking forward to addressing this issue so that we can address the needs of all Students Affected by class cuts at city college. So if there are members of the public that wish to speak on this item, you are welcome to come up to the microphone. And you have two minutes. Good morning, supervisors and committee. Im Peter Warfield with elders for sorry, equity for older students, and we can be reached at equityforolderstudents a at thank you for providing Equity Funding for the 300 class cuts, including 90 of the Older Adults Program. I understand that there are only six remaining of the Older Adults Program out of 58, but last year, there were 76 older adult classes, and now were down to six for the spring, so were down to 90 . Its an almost complete destruction. Everybody is affected by the cuts. I was just talking with a latino student who said he cant get the classes that he wants at the time that he wants and that could interfere with a whole range of issues. And as city college shrinks, everybody has fewer opportunities. Im also concerned with what teachers have called the midnight massacre, which was apparently done with no consultation of deans or chairs and literally the night before spring registration began. Weve heard multiple different statements from the chancellor about how he couldnt handle the money, but then, he sent out multiple letters saying dont send the money. So please go forward with this [inaudible] thanks. Good morning, members of the board of supervisors, my name is marie jobling, and im the cochair of the dignity fund coalition, and im here to support whatever leadership you feel you can take on this issue. Were pleased that the department of disability and aging services was able to help begin the process of rebuilding these classes and saving the ones that are at the senior centers, and theyre meeting down stairs and theyre meeting right now, that commission. Its how can we as a city Save City College in the broader sense of the word. I have comments in writing and id be happy to come back when you continue this hearing. Thanks. Good afternoon, supervisors. Happy new year. My name is harris edgeline, and i am a community member. I appreciate you putting this off until we can have a proper hearing on this, and not just he say, she say stuff, you know. I appreciate you holding it all to the next meeting, but is that going to affect when its supposed to go to the budget and finance committee next wednesday . And also, i think were already facing a big crisis in San Francisco alone with housing, alone with the education that gives us proper economics fully living in San Francisco. So if we cant get the education we need to create economics to stay in San Francisco, were challenged. Were facing a homeless crisis of adults, and if the children cant take classes to meet the Economic Needs of the future of San Francisco then were really going to have an issue with more Homeless Children on the street. So thank you for calling this hearing, and i look forward to the full hearing and, you know, giving my support to you guys. And hopefully, this cannot be an issue again. Thank you. Good morning, supervisors. My name is merrill lee hearn. I am a student at fort mason ccsf campus. First of all, id like to thank you for making sure this meeting took place. We werent sure since the trusties were not able to come today that the meeting would be able to go forth, and im very glad to see that you have scheduled another one, a continuance for it, because there are many issues that need to be talked about here. I am representing an organization that we brought together as this unfolded, and its equity for older students, and im very glad to see this group is being represented by this committee. We are probably one of the most permanent of groups, populations at the school. And when you think about it in terms of income, many people, seniors, going to take these programs, are living on pensions, are living on social security, so this is one of the few things that they have that they need to feel connected, to feel vibrant in the community. I also would like you is that pardon me . You have 30 seconds. Thank you. Id also like you to know that as far as getting any kind of warning about things, just last night, since our classes were cancelled under the olad program, the Older Adults Program, the Sculpture Program and drawing program at fort mason decided they would go under [inaudible] thank you. Can you hear me . Hello. Thank you for having this meeting, as well. Im a ccsf student, and i live here in district six. So i take night classes because i work during the day, and i have found that ccsf has been a Wonderful Community for meeting a lot of the other people in San Francisco . But my art and language classes are no longer present. Theyre getting cut, especially the night ones, and that makes it the wait list much longer for the remaining classes. And so i believe that ccsf is really a community college, and as part of that, its really a vital part of the community. I meet so many older students and longterm residents who i otherwise would not have been able to meet because i just would not have interacted with them . And i find it to be a very wonderful part of the San Francisco community. So i find it very painful to see my teachers, such as my parttime ceramics teacher are losing their jobs at the very last minute with almost no notice. And i have friends through my classes that are no longer able to complete their engineering degrees, even, because their classes are being cut at the last minute. So i urge you to reinstate classes and find a more stable and permanent form of funding for this vital part of our community. Thank you. Chair haney thank you. Any other members of the public that would like to comment . Seeing none, Public Comment is closed. [gavel]. Chair haney i also just wanted to make a comment and to thank you, supervisor walton, for bringing this forward and for also reminding us of how important this committee is, and the work that we do here. We will have this hearing, and i think because of the urgency, we obviously wanted to have it sooner, but we will have this meeting in february. I apologize to the members of the public who came, and any confusion about when it was going to happen. And were going to certainly do whatever we can to support city college and provide additional funding as needed to maintain these courses. I think this is an urgent concern for us, as well, and we absolutely agree that these courses are essential for our older adults, four or our communities of color, and to other general san franciscans. I want to open it up for other members of the committee to make any comments, and then, we can supervisor walton, did you want to go first . Supervisor walton well no, i just wanted to say im sorry for not opening it up to Public Comment. Chair haney supervisor fewer . Supervisor fewer i just wanted you to know that i chair the budget and finance committee, and therell be an opportunity to hear it then. Chair haney supervisor collins . Commissioner collins i just wanted to thank supervisors and specifically folks who have made this put this on the agenda, and im just really im very supportive of city college in general but also really want to know specifically how this is going to impact students that rely on dual enrollment and students that are entering ccsf, so i just really appreciate this conversation. Chair haney thank you, commissioner collins. Supervisor walton . Supervisor walton and again, i want to thank chair haney for emphasizing how important it is we have this conversation today. As many of you know, we do know that 300 supplemental or so classes were cut. This is something we considered an emergency and a crisis and something we needed to jump on right away. We did have this actual Committee Meeting scheduled on the calendar for quite sometime. We all knew about it, and the topic of discussion, of course, couldnt be more timely than to address the class cuts at city college and what were trying to do as the board of supervisors to preserve as many classes as possible. So i want to thank everyone for coming out. We will i will be asking that this body continue this hearing to the call of the chair, and hopefully, we can address it sooner or later. I want to thank budget chair fewer for making sure that we got the supplemental on the budget Committee Meeting for next wednesday. I truly appreciate that because this is important. And so with that said, i will make a formal request that we could continue this to the call of the chair. Chair haney great. We will take that without objection clerk is there a second . Chair haney oh, is there a second . Second that. Chair haney we will take that without objection, and are there any other items, madam chair or madam clerk . Commissioner collins i just wanted to put on the record if there are questions we will be able to get answered . Chair haney sure. Commissioner collins id like to know how this will impact certain demographics, and how this will impact certain students, such as dual enrollment. Chair haney great. We will note that and notify city college for that hearing. And we will note the time and date for that. Anything else . Clerk theres no further business. Chair haney all right. Meeting adjourned. Thank you, everyone. Im rebecca and im a violinist and violin teacher. I was born here in San Francisco to a family of cellists, professional cellists, so i grew up surrounded by a bunch of musical rehearsals an lessons. All types of activities happened in my house. I began playing piano when i was 4. I really enjoyed musical activities in general. So when i was 10, i began studying violin in San Francisco. And from there, i pretty much never stopped and went on to study in college as well. Thats the only thing ive ever known is to have music playing all the time, whether it is someone actually playing next to you or someone listening to a recording. I think that i actually originally wanted to play flute and we didnt have a flute. Its always been a way of life. I didnt know that it could be any other way. Could you give me an e over here. Great. When you teach and youre seeing a student who has a problem, you have to think on your feet to solve that problem. And that same kind of of thinking that you do to fix it applies to your own practice as well. So if im teaching a student and they are having a hard time getting a certain note, they cant find the right note. And i have to think of a digestible way to explain it to them. Ee, d, d, e. Yes. Then, when i go on to do my own practice for a performance, those words are echoing back in my head. Okay. Why am i missing this . I just told somebody that they needed to do this. Maybe i should try the same thing. I feel a lot of pressure when im teaching young kids. You might think that there is less pressure if they are going on to study music or in college that it is more relaxing. I actually find that the opposite is true. If i know im sending a High School Student to some great music program, theyre going to get so much more instruction. What i have told them is only the beginning. If i am teaching a student who i know is going to completely change gears when they go to college and they never will pick up a violin again there is so much that i need to tell them. In plain violin, it is so difficult. There is so much more information to give. Every day i think, oh, my gosh. I havent gotten to this technique or we havent studies they meese and they have so much more to do. We only have 45 minutes a week. I have taught a few students in some capacity who has gone on to study music. That feels anaysing. It is incredible to watch how they grow. Somebody can make amazing project from you know, age 15 to 17 if they put their mind to it. I think i have 18 students now. These more than ive had in the past. Im hoping to build up more of a studio. There will be a pee ono, lots of bookshelves and lots of great music. The students will come to my house and take their lessons there. My schedule changes a lot on a daytoday basis and that kind of keeps it exciting. Think that music is just my favorite thing that there is, whether its listening to it or playing it or teaching it. All that really matters to me is that im surrounded by the sounds, so im going top keep doing what im doing to keep my life in that direction. The new friday farmer his market is in the u. N. Plaza. It features the best of San Francisco. Grab fresh foods and veggies from the heart of the farmers market. Shop from marker local vendors. Engage in free diy craft sessions and grab lunch representing cuisine from around the world. [ ] we offer 60 varieties of organic fruit and 30 varieties of conventional. One of our best sellers so sellers is our manager in. It is super sweet. We sell 600 pounds a week. One of the things they like about the market as i get to see my regulars on a weekly basis. I get to meet their families and kids and it is really good to be here. San francisco won my heart. One of our vegetables that is very popular is kale. A lot of people go for dino kale our mission is to make sure we have access for everybody to get organic foods, no matter your financial status. We make greeting cards, invitations, enamel pins, and we do workshops. I am participating in this market because it is a great opportunity for local makers to sell to a really Diverse Community of people in San Francisco. They partnered with the market here and invited us to come out and reach out to the public. We are going to do a full event of workshops where you get to arrange your own bouquet. We will teach you all the tricks and techniques and you will be able to take home a bouquet of your own. You. [ ] we really are wanting to bring opportunities to the community to introduce these local makers to a larger audience. This is my own pakistani recipe. It goes with rice, chicken, lamb we have a very delicious drink. We have a lots of variety of foods. [ ] we do lots of different curries. We do three different types of wontons. Spring rolls, too. Thats right. It is really great they are bringing out local artists from around the city to participate and really help us making our business more successful. Please call the role. Borden present. Eaken present. Heinicke present. Heminger present. Rubke present. Torres present. You have a quorum. Please be advised that brinkman will not be present. Please be advised that the ringing of Electronic Devices are prohibited at the meeting. Any person responsible for one going off may be asked to leave the room. Item 4, approval of the minutes from the december 3rd regular meeting. Okay. Board members. We have the minutes in front of us. I assume there is no Public Comment on this item. Seeing none, comment is closed. Ill entertain a moment to approve the minutes . All those in favor say aye . Any opposed . Item 5. Communications, i have none. Item 6, introduction of new or unfinished business. Board members, a new year, perhaps new business . Dire director heminger happy new year. We all received a copy of the review last month i believe. One thing i noticed, i think it does matter in the real world, the fta is hitting us on the question of how many buses we have spare. This is an issue that im sure many operators struggle with around the country. In this case, what they suggest is Something Like a 20 spare ratio. We have 40 . Double. And obviously, it probably has something to do with the fact that were not putting out the full service, but is it really that big of a gap, that that lack of full service entails . I thought it would be good get a report from staff. Okay. Hopefully that is an answer that can come back. Without objection, well ask the new director to provide an answer to that in his next report. Agreed. Yesterday, i attended the new operator, new operators on board. The new director will talk about that as well, but also supervisor walton was there as well. It was a great day. A very excited and engaged class. Wonderful. Anything else. On that note yes, please, director torres. Director torres in reference to an email that we received regarding the black alliance, i think we need to hear what the progress is on that at the agency. Chair heinicke initial reaction, that is something that should go to them to respond to. But im open to suggestions. Secretary boomer, do you have suggestions on how to address . The email that was provided was actually sent to the department of human resources, thats a citywide issue. I know that our workshop of january 28, there will be some discussion about the efforts with regard to culture within the Organization Diversity and inclusion. This is part of our process during our search for our great new director. Which we discussed in the Search Committee and i wanted to make sure we dont leave it aside and continue to Pay Attention to it. Chair heinicke if the discussion is unsatisfactory, we can take it up in a different form. Okay. While were on the topic of gathering, i had the pleasure of attending my last sftma holiday party. I will be termed out. I will give advice to my successor. If you need cheap applause, give a shoutout to the paint department. Now, without a fancy auditorium and tv cameras, im really thrilled that jeff is still there. Part of the worry was we wouldnt be there. But i knew from the enthusiasm he showed in the interview process and everything, he was going to dig in and has already started doing a wonderful job. With that, let me just for the record, say, welcome director, its wonderful to have you here. I am so honored to be here. Chair heinicke item 7, so we can turn the floor over to director. Good afternoon, directors. I am very happy to be here, my very first sfmta Board Meeting and to be serving this extraordinary board. So my directors report covers a couple of topics and ill probably ad lib at the end. I want to talk about vision zero. I want to talk about a new letter that just went out today. A cease and desist letter for a rogue scooter operator that were going to be responding to. We had some questions and concerns about our parking meters that i want to address. I want to say a few words about our muni art project. Then i want to talk a little bit about foreshadowing of things coming to you in the coming months. Lets start with vision zero. This was not a good year. We lost 29 people on the streets of San Francisco. Most of those deaths were a result of preventable traffic violence. This is a topic that the sfmta staff take very seriously. When we have an incident out on the streets, i and our Rapid Response team and my Deputy Directors are immediately notified by police or fire, whoever is the First Responder to the incident. And my Rapid Response team typically goes out within a matter of hours to the scene to see what is it that we might learn from this. And how could we continually improve upon the safety of our streets . But we lost 29 people. This is a higher number than last year. If there is any good news in this number, it is that the increase in fatalities in San Francisco was less than in our peer cities. If there is any good news in this number, its that the safety performance of the streets that we have paid careful attention to on our highinjury network, the performance has improved, but this number is still way too high. So in 2020, weve got a lot of work to do. A lot of the work will involve expanding upon the Quick Build Program that this board authorized staff the ability to be able to go out and quickly fix streets, particularly on the highinjury network, even when that means having to make tough choices around the convenience of motorists, the availability of parking compared to Traffic Safety. In 2019, in support of this goal, we added about seven miles of protected bikeway and have three miles under construction. Were not only well on our way to meeting the mayors goal of 20 miles of protected bikeways by 2021, but also having conversations with significantly accelerating that process. This is hard staff work. And will involve tradeoff challenges that will come to this board in the coming year. We know from the report that we produced earlier in 2019, the results, the evaluation of our vision zero engineering projects, that these efforts work and that the response to a rise in traffic fatalities is doubling down on what we know to be successful. Another thing i would like to highlight, the work were doing as part of the tenderloin Traffic Safety workforce. The tenderloin is dear too me as a neighborhood that still welcomes newcomers. Its also a place where the most vulnerable populations are concentrated. And a place where we distribute traffic to and from the freeways. It is also the greatest concentration of severe injuries and fatalities in the city. As a result of that, weve been partnering with organizations within the neighborhood and within our own organization to do some rather significant changes to the streets, but also the hundred small changes that really make a difference in safety outcomes. And so youll be seeing more of that coming in 2020 to this board. The second topic i mentioned is the gox cease and desist letter. You should have been sent copies of that by roberta. In summary, we at the sfmta are firmly supportive of using emerging mobility and innovation in order to achieve the public good, move more people conveniently and provide better choices for the people with the fewest. And we want to reward the private providers who uphold the public good and follow our procedures. We have one player, gox, who is not only ignoring the rules, but doing so in fraudulent ways. Our intention is to use what powers we and the City Attorneys Office have in order to make sure that people who dont follow the rules are not allowed do business on the streets of San Francisco. So well be seeing more of this in the coming months. Youve heard Media Coverage as well as the internal work over the last year about broken parking meters. This is coming not as any surprise to us. The problems that were having with broken parking meters are similar to the problems were having with other equipment throughout the agency, including our train fleet. These are acute problems for the agency and will relate to my Closing Remarks where i talk about primary goals in helping the agency move forward. It is essential we fill our vacant positions, particularly in operation and maintenance. And to get ahead of the problem, using our capital money to buy equipment that lasts longer and has less intense repair needs. So this is an issue that were on top of. Were, of course, investing in promoting the use of park mobile and credit cards which continue to work unlike the coin slots which our customers enjoy jamming. The next topic is the muni art project which is i find delightful. Art is something that we use to elevate us and to see things more deeply. Public transit connects us. I cant think of two better combinations than art and transit, particularly given the fact that muni is the best public realm. Its really the only place in San Francisco where literally everyone comes together and where we see our common humanity. So the sfmta has been supporting local artists through the muni art program in conjunction with San Francisco beautiful and Poetry Society of america. Were bringing in images of local artists that will be displayed in 100 buses for the enjoyment of 750,000 muni riders. The artwork is going to be unveiled in a rolling gallery thursday, 10 30 a. M. Just outside of city hall. The theme is the hidden gems of San Francisco. Finally, id like to conclude with some simple goals that i have started to develop on what is this . Day 14 on the job, that will hopefully become key themes for future directors reports. Its become clear to me that my function within the agency is two simple things. There is a group of tasks that i have to do internal to the organization and a group of things externally. My internal work starts with culture change. Making the sfmta the most inclusive welcoming creative collaborative workforce among transportation agencies in the country. This is a pretty significant part of my work and its one of the reasons why in the first week on the job i asked to meet with the black and africanamerican Affinity Group to talk about issues of racism and exclusion and diminishment within the organization. We need to start there to heal the organization and, frankly, to catch up with other departments and other cities whose race and equity work is far ahead of our own. So one of the things that youll be seeing in our Budget Discussion starting later this month is the ask to help us create a race and equity and Inclusion Team that will focus both internally on the workforce and externally on Inclusive Community process. There is another key theme that is internal which is around hiring. Almost every problem for the agency faces is either tied to or rooted in our vacant positions or our lack of succession planning, or our lack of a clear pipeline to bring the right candidates into public service. We have a new h. R. Director, kim ackerman, who is doing a fantastic job, but just like our maintenance workers dealing with decades of deferred maintenance, our new h. R. Director is dealing with a lot of years of disinvestment and Strategic Thinking around hiring. Thats another thing youll be seeing in the budget workshop and likely in performance metrics, how are we doing filling vacant positions and what are we going do do with the fact that when i walk on the shop floor, im the youngest person in the room . Finally, our external work. And this is kind of my primary function is clearing a path for sfmta staff to do their best wo work. Our staff know how to solve the problems, but they need help clearing a political path. Thats partly my job. And frankly, its part of your job as well. Its one of the reasons i signed up for this adventure, because now is the time to actually clear a political path to allow us to have clarity about our values and to make the tough calls that are necessary in order for the Transportation System to cut its co2 emissions. In order for the system to eliminate fatalities. In order to deliver on the promise of economic expansion, but greater opportunity for those who have the least opportunity among us. And that is the end of my report. Thank you. Wonderful. Welcome, director tomlin. Thank you for an informative and ambitious report. Its one of the reasons youre sitting in the chair, your perspective. Is there any Public Comment on the report . Directors, well hear from the public and then if you have questions or comments for the director, take them up them. Welcome, formally, mr. Tomlin. Id like to add about the internal culture of mta, there is a problem of bullying at the work site. Top management have been guilty of it. And this affects Service Delivery. And this clearly has to be addressed. I dont wish to single out sfmta as the only agency in the city with the problem, but it would be nice if they were a pathbreaker in resolving the issue. There is bullies and bystanders. Secondly, in respect to the sidewalks. There are too many scooters on the sidewalks. There are too many cyclists. And it endangers pedestrians, especially the aged and disabled. And some controls have to be put over this. You say i congratulate you on telling people of alternative transportation that they have to play by the rules. And youll be more than willing to accommodate them, but once theyre on the sidewalk, it should not be treated like the streets. We dont see automobiles driving on the sidewalks. We dont see motorcycles driving on the sidewalks, but we sure as heck see arrogant bicyclers driving on the sidewalk. And i think this has to be addressed. Other than that, i welcome you to the leadership of mta and wish you success. Thank you. Thank you very much. Hes the last person to turn in a speaker card. There is one more card. Good afternoon, director, first, happy new year to you all, and special thank you to jeffrey tomlin, welcome aboard. You started to enunciate some of the duties youre looking forward to doing in the first six months. I want to make it clear the need to work for transit first. Great majority of the citizens of San Francisco voted for transit first many years ago. And then they went off and they did their regular thing. You could have clearly and hope that we work on it. As an example, way back, and it shows the kind of thing that can happen, so on presidio drive, because we werent concerned with transit first, we were concerned with moving cars, we spaced the stops every other block, which now has become the standard for stopspacing close to 1500 feet. We didnt do it because we wanted to speed the bus up, we did it because if we had more buses making more stops it would have slowed traffic. Its clear that was the case. And every time its one thing to compromise a little bit for an extra parking place around the corner, but we concede. We just worry about it 0 so much, let them get away with it. One of my compatriots mentioned bicycles on the sidewalk. What about cars parking and blocking the sidewalk . Those things, we have to set standards so that people know that transit is first. And of course pedestrians are right after it. I hope i cant wish you luck. Thats not enough. Its perseverance and battle that we wish you. Thanks a lot. Okay. Im told there is one more speaker card. These are for topics that mr. Tomlin addressed. Yeah, its in there. Good afternoon. Debbie quick. I live in north of the pan handle. I work at one market. Im a bike commuter. Im really looking forward to october 29. I took the train up here midday to speak. I was getting ready to cross at larkin, walking on grove. Car went right through the red light. So i dont see any way were going to achieve goals of safety without cooperation between mta and the Police Department. Im hoping that on october 29, there is Massive Police presence on market because some of the biggest impediments to safety for both pedestrians and cyclists is the crosstraffic. Car drivers are unbelievably aggressive. Its frustrating as a citizen, i love riding my bike, i would only ever ride it in the street, its not appropriate to ride it on the sidewalks, its also not appropriate for the scooters to be ridden on the sidewalks, but standing, chatting with a cop at the corner of market and spear, and scooters are just going by on the sidewalk. And the cop refuses to do anything about it. So i dont know what the mechanism is to coordinate between the two agencies, but it seems to me the Police Department needs to be fully on board and there needs to be consequences for running red lights, endangering pedestrians and bicyclists. Making it impossible for transit to operate safely. And i think that guarantee is exactly the that arrogant is exactly the right word, but arrogant can mean death or lifealtering injuries and thats not something we should be supporting in this community. Thank you very much. Public comment on item 7 is closed. Directors, anyone with questions or comments . I wanted to say thank you so much for that presentation, particularly about culture. I think everything emanates from any business in culture and focusing on those issues most importantly because the agency that has a great overall culture usually does great overall work. Thank you for tackling what i think many of us think is the most important issue for our agency and ensuring that we are best everyone be whole and serve the city. The parking meter issue. One of the things that concerns me, the cash area is jammed. The city did pass legislation last year requiring all businesses to accept cash payment. So i dont know how we treat meters that have that are not able to accept cash for those people who maybe park there and dont have a credit card or other means to pay. I really want to look at how were addressing and dealing with that specific issue, because there are people who dont have a smart phone, or perhaps dont have a credit card and dont want to use it in the meter and i dont want our agency discriminating. I would like to know what were doing around that and what our process is. If we come across a meter that doesnt take cash and someone is parked there, how we handle the situation. Especially people with lowincome, theyre the ones typically paying with cash. Gox, the cease and desist letter, what is spectacular is the crazy permit that illegal. When we talk about the company violating the rules, they have a false permit with the citys seal on it. And the chamber of commerce signed by their c. E. O. That is next level of craziness. Were not even talking about. I mean there is lots of other things of them not paying fines or stopping payment on checks. Its not antiscooter, this company specifically has chosen not to follow the rules. Any other directors, comments or questions . Director heminger isnt that a crime . Shouldnt this be a criminal matter as well . [laughter] deputy city attorney. Yes, were exploring all options with the gox matter, but the cease and desist letter was the first step. Director eaken thank you for highlighting the challenge around hiring and open positions. And it would be wonderful as we move forward to break down the problem, parse it a little bit more. As i understand, these are things that are practices unique to the sfmta, sort of like guidelines and best practices. There are some things we could change in terms of time lines for Interview Questions being approved. There are other things that are broader city rules. And given the mayor has charged mta, helping us, and helping the Mayors Office, they understand that the rules they have control over get in the way our ability to hire efficiently and meet our goals. I think breaking down what are all the different challenges and which ones we control and which others others control. Its helpful to share that information. The second point i wanted to make on vision zero. Thank you for starting with that. And thank you for underscoring the challenge we still have to achieve. I will note, i believe your contract runs through december 31, 2024, which is the vision zero deadline. So i firmly expect you to deliver on hitting that goal of zero. And would love to help to bring us along with you in your journey of discovery as you are evaluating the incidents and sending the teams out there, what are you learning. You mentioned the continuous improvement. In addition to the devastating reporting, help us understand what youre learning every time and what the data, outlier to the data . Whether that seems to be a data point that reinforces a trend . What are we learning about best practices . As i mentioned before prior to the onboarding, i think the Rapid Response team is of course what we should do and to the extent possible be shifting into a more preventive mindset. Where if we observe again and again that a street with a certain width and speed and we keep seeing the pattern of the place seeing the incidents, why arent we looking at every intersection where we can almost predict with science those are going to be the places where the next will occur . Why wait until the next fatality occurs . I know youre thinking along these lines as well, but parsing the problem and breaking it down intersection by intersection and showing us how were getting ahead of the curve in the next what is it four years. Thank you. Anything else. The overunder on how many meetings before we remind you when your contract expires was low at one and amanda hit it. So take that as the motivation it was meant to be. Thank you for a wonderful first report. Like i said, its ambitious, but thats what we hired you to be. Good luck and you have the boards support. Item 8, Citizens Advisory Council report, there will be no report today. Item 9, general Public Comment. This is an opportunity for the members to address the matters within jurisdiction and not on the agenda. Starting with michael cheney, followed by Herbert Winer and then howard stressner. My name is michael cheney. Im retired from the city and county, i worked for muni. It was you who talked about the float and i believe we can answer that. Id like to read this. It is an email that i sent to the mayor. Copy was sent also to the board, but i can only imagine how many emails you get a day. Right . So. To the honorable mayor london breed, december 15, San Franciscos Public Transportation vehicles muni without exception should have maximum braking capability at all times. The above statement should be without dispute but as the public found out from the front pages of the chronicle our city paper of record, that has not been true. Munis new multiMillion Dollar lrvs have been operating since the first day in service on the rail lines, carrying passengers was only one of its three trucks actually having braking capability. I repeat, only one of the three trucks having actual braking capability. How could this happen . Someone decided we would purchase with public funds for the first time in muni history, a vehicle with reduced braking. A condition of acceptance. Vehicle configuration and Critical Systems have been examined and approved by the muni fleet engineering prior to purchase. What could have been the basis fort approval of this . Can i extend my comments to finish reading. You have 30 seconds left. Now 22. Okay. I have less. The thing is that you to make it whole, and there is copies of this for all of you. We need to put the trucks as we had gotten them as ordered from simmons. They can do the work on time. Can i address his . Im sorry. You can address it, but at a different juncture. Everyone gets the same amount of time. Thank you for your service to the city. Mr. Winer, youre next. Herbert winer with critical statements. Muni has been operating on two principles. One, if youre not part of the solution become part of the problem. Two, if you cant solve the problem, keep making the same mistakes and make it worse. And weve seen the upshot of it last year. It resulted in the administrative suicide of the previous executive director. Now, what i am proposing, there should be checks and balances. The executive director should be able to take managers and the board. The board should be a check and balance on management in the executive director. And any disagreements with manager should be made public so we can at least have a dialogue and at least come to constructive solution. I have seen so many programs rubber stamped and its to the distress of the community. Weve seen two wreckages. Van ness avenue and tara bell street. The residents of taraville street are not happy. What im asking for is requesting more democracy within the planning and input of mta. We need to do this desperately, otherwise well have a real catastrophe down the road and it will be worse than last year. Thank you. Thank you. And then following him, christopher peterson. One problem not mentioned is the congestion, great due to tncs, uber and lyft. I know were working on that. One of the easy might have been a congestion fee where people droiv downtown, but were be working on lots of red paint. That will probably help as you cant go on street. Your rider has to walk an extra block. Thats no problem. The other thing we should use more of is bus bulbs. The same way youre going to put them on 28th when we get to that problem to solve it. That would really stop traffic. If youre muni street and there is bus bulb, you prefer not to be on that street. Now i want to go back to longstanding problems. It seems a long time that i came to this board and you approved moving the stop at parks at presidio drive and fulton. This is a stop with lights and you agreed to make it farside. Its over two years and it hasnt happened. I know there is a blue spot on the other side. It would be really important to fix that thing. Its something i use a few times a week with my wife and all that. But that bus has always had to wait for the light. You had 20 seconds for nothing when it could have slipped right through, especially if you use the preempts and priorities to do it. The other thing, please, lets see what the problem is there. And the other thing, 19th avenue, was supposed to get the street fixed and do all these wonderful things to help the buses move better and its dragging on forever. I dont know what the problem is there either. Thats another line that i live close to and use a lot o. And when you get that done, thats going to be an example of no cost except for a few bus bulbs. Thank you very much. Christopher peterson is the last to turn in a speaker card. Is there anyone else who wishes to speak . Seeing none, mr. Peterson, you have the last work. Good afternoon, members of the board and welcome mr. Tomlin. I would like to follow up on mr. Stressners comment about the citys decades long failure to implement the transit first policy. Just as a general matter, it sounds like you have every intent of doing that. Its going to involve tough battles. Exhibit a in my own experience would be st. Francis circle. The k and the m are held up for prolonged periods of time in order to give priority to cars coming from every direction under the sun. So i hope that is one of that is one example of the many different problems that affect not only them, but the entire muni system. I hope you do take a hard look at that intersection along with others that are persistent sources of problems to the system. Thank you. Thank you very much. That concludes Public Comment item number 9. Item 10. Your consent calendar. All matters are routine. Mr. Chair, ive not received a request that any matter should be severed. Well, were getting the new year off to a good start. Directors, anyone want to change that . If not, is there Public Comment on item number 10 . No one has turned in a speaker card. Okay. Seeing none. This is why they call it the consent calendar. All those in favor, say aye. Anyone opposed . Director tomlin. It doesnt always go that way. I dont want you to get false expectations in your new position. Item 11. Regular calendar presentation regarding the municipal transportation quality review of transit operations and performance for fiscal years 2017 and 2018. Chair, vice chair, members of the board and director tomlin. You have heard the review presentation in the past. I think director heinicke has gone through it five or six times ive heard it more than that. Five or six with you. More memorable ones with you. Including a review of the Data Collection reporting methods that we use. Analysis of the please data and recommendations on changes to practice and the metrics. For the cycle analysis, was conducted. It has two parts. Well start with sam who has the findings and then recommendations and details on the performance since the audit period from the director of transit. Very good. Welcome. Thank you. Happy new year. Welcome, director tomlin. Sorry for what we did to your agency, but its for the greater good. Its sad, but its actually awesome, because we cant think of a better place. Hes going to kill it here, so you guys are in good hands. Excellent. So this is my second go round with the quality review. I guess you were here last time. Travis just mentioned the quality reviews are mandated by the charter and so sfmta has over 30 performance metrics that are related to transit alone. And so this task is to review how the data are collected, how the data is reported and then we look at what thousands trends are. And we make recommendations on the Data Collection methodology and reporting, but not on how to change the trends that we see in the performance metrics. So are we using metrics that staff can use for Actionable Solutions . And can the public follow along with what were up to . Since we were last up here, there have been a few changes in Data Collection. First, performance metrics tracking customer opinions have changed. The sfmta is now using an annual survey. Before it was a quarterly panel survey, which may sound better on paper, but in fact, was tracking people with clipper cards only and it was a lot of data, but it didnt fully and accurately depict the full ridership. So this survey is significant and will be able to answer a lot more questions for us. Second, there has been expanded reporting. There should be better clarity on some of the performance metrics Going Forward which will be better both for the public and for planners who are going to be using the data. In the next couple of slides im highlighting some of the performance trends. Metrics ending in number 1 are Key Performance indicators. So i am not going to be reading through all of these, but there is a lot of information in the final report. Im just going to touch on a couple for each goal. So these are all based on the 201318 strategic plan. And each of these metrics falls under one of the goals. Here, starting off, goal number one, create a safer transportation experience for everyone. Just want to highlight that sfpd reported munirelated crimes per 100,000 miles is down and that is continuing to decrease. Were trending in the right direction there. There are fewer collisions per 100,000 miles. So just some things youll see on the page here. Customer ratings on a scale of 1 to 5. And the m. A. Refers to that method logical change that i just mentioned moving from the quarter survey to the annual. In the final report, you can see historical trends, but for the specific table there is no way to compare the two years. Goal two. This is where we have most of our stuff for transit. The goal is to make transit walking, bicycling, taxi, rideshare, car sharing, the preferred means of travel. Just to highlight here that bus bunching was roughly the same during this period, but there was an improvement in gaps in the Rapid Network. And that did correlate with a better or improved ontime performance in the Rapid Network. So just to note, that in the next cycle, the ontime performance and gaps in the Rapid Network will be the the Data Collection will be through the new orb cad system. So were hoping for even further improvements in Data Collection reliability. More metrics under goal number 2. Ontime performance is still very low, but it was steady during this period. So i guess we have that going on. And the mean distance between failure for buses, which is basically breakdowns and just inservice problems, was better per bus and no change for light rail. One thing that did fall with the amount of service delivered compared to the amount of scheduled service. Both in terms of Service Hours and trips. And lastly, we want to point out that bus ridership overall is up. And muni metro in areas just where ridership is tracked was down. Goal 3 was to improve the environment and quality of life in San Francisco. Here we can see that the overall daily ridership for the system was down. However, cost per revenue hour was also down. Which is a good thing. However, i want to point out that a lot of times what that means, when that goes down, is that usually a decrease in service when ridership is low will gilaurentiu givelichiagive. Last performance metric is to create sorry not metric, the goal is to create a workplace that delivers outstanding service. And Employee Satisfaction again is on a scale of 1 to 5. It is still better than the neutral 2. 5, but did see a dip in fiscal year 2018. Absences were also up slightly in fiscal year 18 among operators. Okay. So we do verify that the accuracy of Data Collection and reporting was good. I said that wrong. Muni continues to make improvement in the processes that will help improve operational efficiencies and help the public see what is going on behind the curtain. Our recommendations are that mid cycle methodology changes should aim for clarity. We still want to be able to tell the story, even when things are or when systems are being upgraded. Over the last 4 to 5 years, a lot of systems have been put in place that are really great, but it will look lake blips in the screen for presentations like that, but theyre all for good reasons and should continue to give us meaningful information in the future. So we want to make sure as the upgrades happen, we can continue to paint the picture that we are doing this, not just for data sake, but for reasons that will help the agency. Second, we want to formalize make sure that Standard Operating Procedures as new technologies come online have Data Governance policies surrounding them. I think a lot of that is already taking place. We want to memorialize that is really good standard business operating procedure. And thirdly, to expand to more detailed reporting for several metrics. There is a lot of metrics that the sfmta already uses for planning purposes. And so much of this work is automated in the way it never was before. So now it is not a huge labor effort to go ahead and just publish the metrics that are already being used. And then lastly, we recommend adopting a new metric to track preventative maintenance. The percentage of ontime completion for p. M. S, we call them, is a pretty standard industry metric that could help the sfmta pinpoint where Additional Resources could be very useful. Okay, so with that, i thank you for your time. It has been really great working with a team that cares so much about good data, useful data and are very committed to transparent governance. Im going to turn it back over to the team to follow up with comments on recommendations and then well be available for questions. Thank you. Good afternoon. Transit director. I want to acknowledge this covers through 2018, but most of these trends should not come as a surprise to the board because weve been talking about them on a monthly basis. Some of the trends do capture where we have known challenges, particularly Service Delivery. I think is one. As well as the ontime performance, the nonrapid routes which is so closely linked to Service Delivery and our operator shortage. There is also some trends that at the macro level may show flat or a decline, but when we get into the nuance, i think there are positive trends. For example, what we talked about at the last performance update with the ridership, we know that where weve made concerted efforts to enhance the transit experience, whether thats through more Rapid Service or more protection from traffic, were seeing double digit increases through ridership. We were at the beginning of the l. R. V. Before rollout during this reporting period, but we know now were seeing the l. R. V. 4s at 10,000 miles between breakdowns. As they continue to improve and also make up a larger percentage of our fleet, i see that really trending in a positive direction. Then i appreciate in the report, some of the positive trends. I do want to take an opportunity to celebrate those, because they really are the hard work of the staff that is supporting jeff and tom and i to deliver this work. In particular, the collision reductions, we have, in transit, been in a Strong Partnership with the Safety Division include the collision rate. And its taking a really pragmatic approach, starting with things most in our control. Like hitting fixed objects. Collisions in the yard. And then moving to some of the harder things, like sideswipes. So im really optimistic. We are, on the transit side, living the vision zero mandate today. And we have not had a fatality and i hope to continue that positive trend. I also include that the report is showing increased response to customer complaints. Its another place where the policy Advisory Group has been tracking our Response Rate to complaints. Because its one of our important metrics and were seeing improvements. Then this report just shows the beginning of what i think is an amazing trend in terms of our bus reliability. I think at this point in 2018, we were at about 7,000 miles between breakdowns. Now were in excess of 10,000. And thats really through the leadership of this board as well as the partnership between Bus Maintenance and fleet engineering and our Quality Assurance group to really deliver a highquality program. It shouldnt come as a surprise to you, but we are an agency that really uses data for decisionmaking and so its very heartening to have the opportunity for an outside group to come in and really validate our processes and validate our procedures. For the most part, the recommendations did seem very reasonable to us. And we welcomed that feedback. We did, as she talked about, change to 15 scale for percent satisfied and very satisfied and well take that feedback that we want to be as transparent as possible when we make these changes. Were working closely with i. T. As we bring on new technology to ensure that all the new technology is included in our operating procedures and stateoftheart. And then we do have some metrics like our preventative maintenance that we track internally that we would welcome sharing publicly. One of the things we absolutely track is the percent that are completed in a timely fashion. So with that said, thank you for listening to the report and for your ongoing focus on these trends because they do really add up to what is ultimately going to be Excellent Service and safe service and Reliable Service which is all of our shared goals. Very good. So im told we have one member of the public who wishes to comment. Lets have that. Is there anyone other than mr. Winer who wants to comment . Okay, seeing none, mr. Winer will have the final word from the public. The floor is yours. Overall, i support the findings on it, but i would like to see something more open. Like subjective responses. And those can be rated from negative to very favorable. For instance, one question i would like this see is having walking a longer distance to the bus stop determined your decision whether or not to take Public Transportation . Do you drive as a result of not having having to walk a Long Distance . What is very negative about the 15 ratings in the question, it doesnt leave the flexibility of comments. And when you dont get that flexibility, you get a very skewed perception as a result of the survey. So it really should be more open to all responses. Now, im not trying to point my finger at nelson nye guard, in particular, its to all surveys that are being conducted. When i fill out the surveys, i feel that i dont have very much room to make my comments. I try to squeeze them in. But its not exactly successful. So if you really want to have full input, really want to have a balanced perception and richer perception, you have to make the surveys more open to comments. Thank you. Okay. Public comment on this item is now closed. Directors, any questions or comments for staff . Director borden i want to say, we spend a lot of time looking at these numbers. One of the things i thought was missing on the chart, was showing what the goal was. You had 17 and 18 and then a check or minus, but it was really hard for people to know what the goal was. I would say in the future, when presenting the charts, if you could show the goal number. The goal is to be better, depending on what the number is. In many of the categories i know we have a fixed number that were trying to achieve. So i think it would be more transparent information if the chart showed what the goal number was and what the numbers were so people could figure out how were progressing. I felt if you didnt read the report, it was hard to figure out what some of the numbers meant in the various categories. Anyone else . Thank you, chairman. Two quick comments. The first is a repeat. I added up the metrics here and its 36. I continue to be concerned about having such a large number of priorities. You tend not to have any priorities when you have too many. You know, jeff began his presentation with pedestrian deaths and why were focused on that. And thats an example, i think, of an overridingly important and relevant performance indicator. There are lots of ways to get to an objective and im not sure tracking a lot of them really enriches the dialogue. I think in some cases it can make it more difficult to connect the data to the decisionmaking if there is just so much data. Having said that, one of the 36 really struck me. And that is the ontime performance for the nonRapid Service which is on its way to 50 . Which is another way of saying your bus is just as likely to be late as not. Thats a horrible result. And you know, one conclusion that i would draw from it, we need more Rapid Service. Because those lines are doing better. I wonder where we are in our plans on trying to introduce more Rapid Service, because the result weve got is this segregated system. [please stand by] rooted in the work that sfmta is on the Rapid Network and i want to talk about data. As a manager, i need more data to get into the roots of causality on how its performing on the linebyline basis and investments versus the stuff that were just letting trend according to the status quo. As we look at the data, congestion has increased over the last five years and the buses that are stuck in congestion are performing worse and as a result of performing worse, theyre also suffering declining ridership. Where weve invested ridership is up 17 . Which is extraordinary compared to any other city. Just like in vision zero, the places where director and her team are making investments, they are having the opposite performance every place else and the answer is do more in what the agency has investing in. Where we need improvements, while theres certain data we need to report from a regulatoy or prop e requirement standpoint we need to get better at the story telling. Rather than just reporting 32 numbers and how to use those numbers in order to build trust with the public. To be transparent about the areas where were failing and also to district u direct us whk succeeding. Thank you for confirming our wise decision. All right. Well the overunder on how long it would take for a commen for e that. Youve set two records. Let me address some of the specific on this. The point, which i understand a great deal, theres part of this dynamic or this report that i like because the various metrics are grouped under our Mission Statement goals and i think it was useful to do that and have the one main metric and group everything else. Im not so concerned about the many things as long as we stay focused on the Mission Statement goals. On the performance, were all struck by the same thing and the one sub metric that were barely 50 on time on our non local routes is staggering and as director said, i want the train there when i get there or soon after. Thats the case for most of our Rapid Service and maybe even for some of our local routes that have significant headway. Im gathering from this, and this can be considered b answerr julie, that the reason that were seeing a slide there is because when we have operator shortages, those, by factors of prioritization will effect the non rapid routes the most. Is that what is going on here . Is there another cause for that data point. I think theres three causes. The first is that its an incredibly unforgiving metric. We measure whether or not were running a minute early, up to four minutes late. A minute early every three quarters of a mile. So that is one issue. Is that unforgiving it makes the metrics meaningless . Yes. Thats the single cycle of a traffic light. So hitting an unexpected green light means we fail our metric. If you need the dat need the. Dan , anthe data, why are wt help us . We use that metric because its in the charter but as the director indicated, were much more focused on terminal departures on our infrequent routes, because thats our biggest control point. And headway adherence or service gaps because its how most of our customers experience the service. The second reason that the number is low is because of the operator shortage. You are absolutely correct. And the third reason on our downtown routes is congestion. Some of the these hill top routes, with the exception of a few bottlenecks like what the 33 might experience on clayton, for example, theyre not in a lot of congestion. Getting individuals to operate so precisely to, not the four minutes but the one minute, is really tough. Ok. So, i mean, a lot of this is perception, right. We dont want our riding public to think that were failing and that theyre experiencing if its good is different. I just i mean, maybe were stuck with a metric and the charter that is not a good metric and i feel like ive had this discussion before because i have. I wonder if it makes sense to have more communication around that and more communication of here is why we dont think this mat trick is all that valuable and here is the valuable metrics and conclude them, even if were required to put in a metric that we dont think is all that great. To go ahead and actually front the discussion and not wait for what seems to happen a lot, which is wait a second, this metric doesnt mean anything. So, more of a comment for next year than for this year. And on the metro ridership piece, you said it was through june. So it was this effected at all by the tunnel shut down . It shouldnt have been significantly effected. That surprises me. And is that do we think its more of a measurement issue because were only doing it at fair gate or what is the explanation for why muni metro ridership is down. And a meaningful percent, actually. I think that we should come back at the next meeting and include the current fiscal years. That it did surprise me as well and im not prepared to give you the full explanation right now. We have added a lot of capacity on the system in the last 18 months. We do still have a lot of transit priority work to do on the surface rail system as well as the over all subway reliability. Right. So just to be transparent, let me tell you why thats the metric in this report that concerned me the most. The entire thrust of what ive been doing for the last, how many years its been, and with you and with all of these fine folks, is to build a better Transit System so people will tuesday and get out of their cars. The issue we were facing in the metro was twofold. One, there were not often but frequent enough to be annoying delays and service, significant delay and services and it was unreliable and had people thinking if im driving on that day i do better. The more significant obstacle was crowding. Is that people are being passed up particularly at castro and church stations ochurch stationy home from work. If ridership is declining, that suggests to me that were missing the mark. Our goal is to create more capacity and get more people on those trains off of the streets. If ridership is declining its a metric successor with problems all over the place. I just find it hard to believe, given what i see on a daily basis. I will look forward to seeing the updated figure. I will say, thats an extremely important figure to me because if were losing ridership in the subway, thats a big problem. As a daily k. L. M. Rider, i cant speak precisely to causality but were not providing the level of service that our passengers deserve in the subway. Particularly in the morning peak. Threecar shuttles sound like a great idea. Thank you for raising it. [laughter] we will be bringing that up. A whole package of improvements in this coming year to this board to address the operational problems that the subway faces. I know we have another agenda item on this. On that one specific metric, if you could please come back to us when you can. Whether its in your next presentation on the status of the metro or at the next meeting. And explain where we are currently on ridership numbers and if theres been a decline that a tributes causality to it, please. Absolutely. Thank you. I have two more clarifying questions. So if, as you said in the presentation, part of the point is to make this more accessible to the public and more easily understandable to the public and weve just agreed the ontime performance metric is not the metric that is so relevant anymore. I just would love to have someone sort of explain. I think you mentioned its gaps or something. Could you direct us to the metric that you think is more appropriate for us to be focused on that speaks to that experience of showing up and not having to wait so long. The one with bunching is part of that too, right . If you turn in the presentation to i jumped up too quick. Its 2. 2. 1. You will see that its trending in the right direction. And the reason that were focusing on gaps and not bunching is that while bunching is an operational problem and a red flag for me, from a customer perspective, its not an impact. If two buses show up to pick you up, you are happy if one bus shows up to pick you up. You are waiting for an hour for that bus. The problem is somewhere else in the system, theres a gap. Thats why were focusing on gaps on that 2. 2. 1 on the Rapid Network you can see in 20172018 was 6point 9 and we have been trending lower i think. Our current 90 day goal is 10 . One feeds the other, right. When i see bunching i see a huge gap in service because all the buses showed up at the same time so now i have to wait 20 minutes. It is related. Thats only a metric that describes the Rapid Network. Theres an over all ontime performance across all the network. Is there a headway adherence metric that describes the whole system . We typically have been doing gaps on our frequent service so weve been documenting it for our express, our Metro Service and the rapid bus. And i would advocate for different metrics and different types of service so if we want the metrics to point us towards solutions we need to have the metric differentiate and so the right metric for the High Frequency Rapid Network should be different than the halfhourly hill top service. Which really parents a different approach. I was wondering if you explain that a little bit more. So, some of that is a reflection of the Journey Forward Program so we have rolled out 30 miles of transit priority streets so when the buses can operate more efficiently you need fewer Service House to deliver the same amount of service so part of why you are seeing that improvement has to do with schedule efficiencies as well as some of those travel time benefits. So thats average bus occupancy across the entire network . Thats what that number means . And divided by the total number of Service Hours. Right. Yep, its a good number. Ok. Thank you. Ok. Please. I just had a comment and a question. I feel like i ask this question last time we went through this report. On the escalator and he will veil oelevator, does it includee stations we share with bart or how is that divided . Its a good question that only pertains to the escalator ands elevatorses that are maintained by the sfmta. We can reach out to bart if you think its a valuable metric but this pertains to those maintained by our agency. Great. My comment relates to that point and maybe some of the other districts which i think is it would be useful. I know the report, which was detailed and helpful and i think everyone involved with that, it would be useful to have a good appendix that explained each metric. I didnt know which elevators we were talking about and since we had so many questions about the different metrics and what they mean it would be helpful for transparencys sake. Its a valid point. We have it online and we will incorporate it in the report to help tell a better story. Thank you. Anything further on item number 11 . Very good. Thank you all for the presentation. Since theres no action on that well move on to item 12, approving parking time limits and bus stop consolidation and the extension of towaway zones hours associated with the inner sunset curb management project. Good afternoon, happy new year. My name is hank wilson and i lead the Curb Management Team at the sfmta. In just a moment, ill turn it over to my colleague, alex to talk about the specifics. I wanted to take this opportunity to talk about the Curb Management Team and curb Management Planning and what a curb Management Plan is. For a quick moment. I think the Curb Management Team was created two years ago. It reflects it was born out of the onstreet parking policy team. Were still doing all of the great constreet policy work we were doing like demand responsive pricing, Residential Permit parking and working to on going Reform Efforts for that project permitting car share and moped share vehicles to give people an option other than driving their private vehicle to get around neighborhood parking planning. All those sorts of things. This reflects the growing realization that curb management, that the curb is more than just parking and the curb management is as important as traffic routing or bike planning or other things like that in terms of supporting all of our safety and transit first and Climate Action goals. And so the two additional tasks that the Curb Management Team hat ihey which is a document tht will guide how we allocate curb space. You heard about that and you will be hearing a lot more about that in the coming weeks and months. Also to do some more holistic proactive curb Management Planning and moving away from the space by space parcel by parcel by request system weve had and into a more proactive way of planning. And weve had a few of these that have come before this board. The most prom i am an nant is te center and for paratransit and mission bay taxis and all the folks that need to be there in addition to people who are dropped off going to constructor sets and games anconcertsand ga. This is the first from the beginning to the end and curb management project where weve done the Data Collection and the Neighborhood Outreach and the surveys on the street and come up with something that makes a lot of sense and will go a long way to making the trains and the buses run through and to the much more quickly and working directly with the transit team, this was also initiated by the former Supervisors Office as something they thought would be helpful following on the heels of the inter sunset street scape project that was led by public works. Theres not that many things were asking for this board to approve. To my mind, its one of the selling points about curb management. Its Pretty Simple stuff. Its basic. Its changing curb color, extending color curb zones, adding daylighting and all those things that are not dramatic but can have a dramatic impact on the safety and efficiency of our streets. Thank you for your time. Thank you, very much. Thank you. Good afternoon director. Im a planner with the sustainable parking and Curb Management Team. If we can pull up the presentation here that would be great. So ill talk today about this inner sunset curb management project. So this project started back in spring of 2019 or 2018 when we were approached by merchants in the inner sunset neighborhood asking us to take a look at parking and loading regulations around the ninth and irving area with the completion of construction on the street scape project. At the same time, we heard from transit operators that they were having issues getting through this area due to double parking and illegal loading so we went into this project with the goals of making sure that the curb regulations in this neighborhood align with our larger city goals of transit first, vision zero and promoting vi business vital. This was a communitydriven and databased project. We started off going out and doing Data Collection including inventory what was out there on the curb at the time. We brought on a consultant to do extensive Data Collection on parking occupancy and analyze video footage to determine when and where double parking was happening and what loading behaviors were occurring on the major commercial core streets around ninth and irving. We conducted a trio of surveys, one was a merchant survey where we went outdoor to door asking them about their loading needs. We got 200 responses to our residents survey and also conducted a pedestrian intercept survey to determine how they were getting around the enabled and what kind of issues they were experiencing. We held two Community Open houses at different stages of the project to make sure that Community Input was coming into the project not just after we had a fully flushed proposal but feeding into that propose a we met with inter subset park neighbors and other Community Organizations to help develop this project. So what we found out on the street when conducting this inventory, it was that the curb regulations and the inter sunset reflect how weve done things in the past where we usually have only created loading zones or shortterm Parking Zones or other curb regulations when weve gone to specific request from a specific business or property owner. Which means that we have kind of a patchwork of regulations where some blocks might have a lot of yellow zone and some might not have any and both have a lot of businesses with important loading needs. So through this process, we put together a detailed proposal that makes a lot of changes to the color curb zones throughout the area including yellow, green, white, blue and red and we looked at other changes as well including time limits and transit improvements on lincoln way. So these are the changes that were asking you to approve today. Trance exit new parking on lincoln. Right now it stops along lincoln and our spaced every 600 feet which is below our agencys Standard Guidelines for stop spacing and we found the seventh and 11th avenue stops were low so weve been working with our transit engineering colleagues to consolidate those stops and bring stops spacing on the segment of lincoln up to our standards. Its tow away zone on the north side of lincoln between sixth avenue and 14th avenue from 4 00 to 6 00 p. M. On wednesdays and it creates a travel sane that speeds up and it doesnt cover the evening peak hours so were proposing to expand that from 3 00 to 7 00 so we have heard a decent amount of members of the Community Coming out and opposing that and due to the loss of parking for that extra hour and the evening when they come home. Going out and doing Data Collection we found that not very many people are parking there and just hour after that tow away zone ends right now. The speed improvements we think outweigh the disadvantage to parking along that corridor. We have a two hour time limit that requires board approval. Thats to increase parking turnover and availability as a relief involve for the businesses in the neighborhood as well as for golden gate park, which anybody knows that traffic can get crazy around there with people looking for a parking spot and well extend a few bus zones in the area to meet our minimum stop standard. Most of the portions of this project were approved after engineering public hearing and they run the gamut of different parking and loading regulations we added commercial loading zones and relocated to where they can better serve the types of vehicles that are bringing deliveries to these businesses and we had green zones and reduced the time limit hat the green zones and extended the hours through the evening dinner hours to make sure theyre serving the restaurants and other business thats depend on people picking up food or new Career Network services theyve relied on. We have passenger zones and blue zones, red zones and weekend only tour bus zone. So with that, let me know if you have any questions. I do. So we didnt look at the 44 stops twice. At ninth and irving and it stops at ninth and lincoln but it stops on the same side. It doesnt go into the park side. Did we look into that . Yes. We did talk about that. Both of those stops are serving different nodes in the area. Each of those has a transfer point to a different line so its important to that those. Im just trying to figure out are people going out and i would have for me it seems like it makes more sense of that stop if you were going to keep it and most people get off the bus going across lincoln way to the park so it makes more sense to move into the park and then give people the sense of greater park access despite the fact its obviously still the same did we look at that at all. We can talk to our colleagues about that. They are about to improve that intersection on their park side of the intersection there so talk to them about whether it would be possible or make sense from a service perspective. I dont know how it would due in terms of the speed issue but i would say that 44 stops a lot anyway and 2 comes incorrectly and it doesnt have the ridership because theres large times between the stops. The fact it stops twice on the same block and the majority people are crossing the street and people are driving to the park because theres not enough access to the park. Having that spot close to the academy of sciences and all that stuff creates this it helps people think i can actually take the bus to get there even though it clearly goes right there and theres a psychological thing and people dont want their kids crossing lincoln. It seems weird it stops twice on the same block where you could do better with more loading zones because of all the businesses that are on those blocks as opposed to having two does stops. Totally, yeah. Also its flat there. Its a very slight downward grade. Theyre trying to restrict cars on additional days being able to have the bus go into the park would make a it close tore amenities and it might make more sense. Is there any Public Comment on this item . There is. Herbert winier is the only person that turned in a card. Well continue the board discussion. The floor is yours. One thing thats missing here is the residents in the businesses to discuss this report and i had the lousy experience of walking from nintd irving because the bus stop was discontinued. Its very inconvenient for people. You are doing this on the bases of speeding up transportation. What is needed are more street cars and this whole business about parking and the idea of turnovers, well, if you are in this bar, i believe its on ninth and lincoln way, you only have two hours in the bar. Sorry about that. I mean, you are limiting the drinking time, you are creating ab inconvenience and i would hope that what you would have is this is a Pilot Project so people can see how its working out. Otherwise, you are having another one of these projects where things get worse and its cut in stone and i dont like it. I think it should be taken to a community meeting. I have the suspicion, many of the original plans have not changed at all. Despite the input in the rest of it. Basically, these Community Meetings are dog and pony shows where nothing is changed from the original propose a its a fade out complete. You will have angry residents and believe me, its going to accumulate to the point of an explosion. Were all members of this board and well be under fire i dont live in the sunset anymore and im the only one testifying. Its really a lousy situation. Alex, if you could summarize for us in a few sentences the local outreach and to the business and community you had about this i would say rather modest proposal it would be helpful for the record. Absolutely. We worked closely with the inner Sunset Merchant Association and park Neighbors Group to disseminate these surveys and to talk to all their members about this project from the very early stages through today and we held two Community Open houses and got a lot of input and made a lot of changes based on the unput we received and some are in the staff report. We looked at adding meeters in the area and due to major opposition from neighbors we removed those from the proposal because we felt that the remainder of the proposal was more acceptable to the community and so at the end of the day, we did have a engineering public hearing on all of this a few weeks ago that did get people coming out and what we have before you today has the support of most of the neighborhood. At least of people who ive talked to and i know you have received a few emails about this. I think we did relatively thorough job with this on Community Input. Directors, any further comment or questions on this if not ill entertain a motion. I have a quick question. It seems like a modest proposal so im prepared to support and we did receive a few emails can you discuss the final recommendation to remove it in light of those concerns and particularly i think one email. It is between stops and we estimate that removing these stops will make a time savings of 30 seconds a trip which com signed with the toe away soap and improvements on eighth street, starts to make a real difference in commutes. The other thing with the 11th avenue stop is we have lincoln way on our hand renetwork and 11th avenue is not a signalized intersection so people to cross to that do have to cross and we think its better situation from several different angles to direct people to the stops and ninth and two short blocks away. I do want to say to the point that she brought up, this is something weve talked about before is making sure that we are looking what the is on the street. The senior facility is there and a lot of seniors obviously take our transit, you know, thats something that we should consider and does that mean we should snell eyes that and i dont know. But my only point is that we definitely those are the people that most need our Transit System so ive talked about that with the 44 stopping twice on ninth does not meet our standards and we should have looked at that. All right. Thank you. With that if there are no more questions ill entertain a motion on this. Is there a second. Second. All those in favor say aye. Aye. Any opposed. Alex, you did a nice job with this. Next item. 13 regarding subway performance in a future train control upgrade. Good afternoon. And im here to give you a brief overview of the presentation that i gave to the working group in october and director borden, thank you for the invitation to come back and present to you here. Cherokee lays we can find in the control log its a train broke down and than the acute delays but right now its we dont have the tools available to solve that in terms of getting the actual data to quantify that. So thats something were working on as we speak. That was color coded according to the different causes and you can see the pie chart is essentially showing the breakdown of all the those causes and its the quantity so the number of events, the percentage of the number of events that were attributable to that cause and impact in the number of minutes. The top two categories are vehicle breakdowns and train control and vehicle breakdowns make a smaller number of incidents but they represent a larger number of minutes and that makes sense when you think about it because when a train is disabled it has to it takes longer for it to move out of the way. Vehicle breakdowns is not something that im assessing in this presentation. I am going to be focused on the second highest cause of minutes of delay and thats train control. Which is about of the over all number so its frequent these things occur. If theres good news the train control, the recovery from a failure of a train control is a little bit less its a little bit easier essentially. Just want to give a quick primer of the train control system as we know it today. The automatic train control service was put in 1998 and its based on design from the 1980s and the way it works is theres three portals, ferry portal and westportal and each time the train enters that portal, it has to conduct a handshake with the train control system. If it fails its called a failed entry and that was one of the causes that the delay you will see in a moment. The system then automatically, if it passes the handshake it will route the train to its destination to the mmt, the turn back and it will go out one of the other portals. On the surface, theyre controlled by the operator. Theres no central supervision. Its a first come first serve. When a train approaches a junction or at fourth and king, or at westportal and ulloa, the order in which those trains a arrive is the order they leave. Theres no prioritization. Well this train is behind schedule. This train is in l. None of those factors are taken into account. Its important between surface operation. In the subway we have a control center. They see the lines and where theyre supposed to go but when they get to the subway, they have a limited ability to control everything th or effect. Most changes would have had on the surface in order to keep the train in the proper order and spacing. So, quick train control 101, theres two types of train control systems dating back to the 1860s when they first developed trains. That was the sixth block system and its simple. Sixth block system is a train. Theres a block of space and if a train enters it, nothing else can enter it until that train has been confirmed to leave it in the 1860s they used lanterns and people with flags and they work by councilling the number to say this train is coming over this area and it enters this area and no one else can go in it and the other more advanced type of train control and moving block so essentially thats a train has it does havent to enter a block it essentially creates a space in front of it that the envelope expands if the train is going faster and it contract. Its based on the safety distance and the breaking curve. And so, that allows us to run trains faster and higher speeds and also closer together which is most components lead to a higher spat more reliability Train Network so the question is, the Million Dollar question is what type of train control system do we have in muni and the answer is both and so see all of the above. The reason why this works is we have a moving block system thats super imposed on top of a fixed block system and the moving block system essentially what we use 90 of the time. Its what their schedule is based on. Ill talk about the number of trains per hour that the train control system is capability of delivering and we usually measure that to embarcadero i am bound and thats 42 trains an hour. Thats what our schedule is set to. If we have a failure, they revert back from the moving block to the fixed block system. That first of all the fixed block system trains are running at half speed. Theyre running at 25 Miles Per Hour an hour. The second thing is just like it shows on the diagram, it clears that space. Whatever that space is, it clears all the other trains out of the way so it holds the trains behind it until that space is clear and that train proceeds block by block in the old banner that it did before. The block spacing, i cant say exactly how much because it actually varies when we look at forest hill and castro. Those are very large blocks. When you look at something between civic center and powell theyre smaller. The spacing and its a negative result when we switch from the moving block to the fixed block. That having been said, if we didnt have the fixed block as a back up, then we would have no system at all if the moving block system failed so we would actually be in more trouble essentially because the trinh et system wouldnt function at all so its a inconvenience but its a way that we can continue to operate into the degraded mode following a train control system failure. So this is a simple overview but in the pick bonk up three computers and theyre flowedded by floppy disks and just a highlight that for the record in the age of iphones and flash drives and the internet, and then the Operation Control Center that has the tmc and it has the essentially the video screen that shows were the trains are moving and there are computers at the way side so theyre in equipment rooms along the subway and theyre responsible for the two Way Communications between the train and the Central Computers and theyre responsible for the communication between the Central Computers and moving the switches and lighting up the signals and communicating between the loop and axel counter. That train essentially controls the propulsion, the breaks and it takes inputs from the tack only tetackomoter. The loop cable across the bottom is grown and sometimes its yellow and the way it fixes the position is cross over point where the green and the yellow cross where its able to determine its able to say the train is there and from that point it ducks a dead wreckenning based on the tack ole ter and theres a positional area that gets worse and worse and thats the primary cause of timeouts is a difference between the tackomoter on board the vehicle and where the system thinks it is. The system says these things are disagreeing, i dont know what to do and im not letting you in and it reverts to the six block system. Its responsible for 30 to 40 of our failed entries. This is the control center. It has our trains functioning normally in the system. The key reasons for some poor train control system performance. Having gone to a number of other systems around the world and understanding what are the systems. Our sister city vancouver and lon dor are using the same talas as we are. Bart doesnt have these problems. A lot of other subway system dont have these problems. A main reason is the design of our system. Most metro systems are entering their train control system once per day at the yard and they leave once per day at the yard. They enter and theyre in the system and communicating and they return to the yard and its done. We have each train enters and leaves every time on its run. So it has to do that handshake multiple times so if you think that if you are the train control vendor and you have a 1 failure rate, that might be acceptable if you are doing this once a day but if its 10, 11, 30 times a day then you can see where 1 might not be acceptable for a system of art design. The other issue is the system is old so i highlighted it was designed in the 80s and rolled out in the 90s and were getting memorandums that say that the system are obsolete in different components so were getting more failures as time goes on. We have ridged infrastructure. One of the key issues that came up in february was we had two complete computer failures for the central computer. When it happens, the computers, the time it takes to reboot the Center Computer its about five to 15 minutes and its not that terrific of a delay when you think about how big what were talking about is but it took two and a half to three hours for us to recover all of the trains into the system because in order, when the system came up and said im ready you have to it took us two and a half to three hours to communication again and after that we had a six to seven hour residual delay as a result of that. I want to highlight the impact caused wasnt necessarily the computer needed to be booted back up it was a loss of communication that was the hardest thing to recover from. The last one congestion and i talked about that. These graphs going to the presentation you heard on metrics. This is what were using to see whether the service and subway is doing well or poorly. So, variability what you are seeing across the bottom is the number of minutes of delay so the time and then across the y axis, you are seeing the percentage of trains that are experiencing that travel time. So you want to see a spike at like 20 minutes or 15 minutes and this is endtoend travel time on the knl from westportal to embarcadero so you want to see a spike at 20 minutes or 18 minutes and its a high reliable system. Its indicating theres highly variable travel times and its telling you when you show up for the k. L. M. You could experience a travel time from 19 to the gray is the scheduled so this is just a number of trains that were scheduling to a arrive at embarcadero and i mentioned the speaks its about 40 in the morning and its 42 in the afternoon and and then on a typical day that blueline is basically how many trains were able to deliver on a tip day and you can see its short of that and its around 35 to 34 so so the goal is to mirror each other those precisely so thats speaking to the fact that the number of trains that were scheduling to deliver those trains to embarcadero. This is detailed but its worth it. It shows the impact of a non communicating trained this is tracking the trains through the system so at the top is embarcadero and bat the bottom and time marchs onto the right. Most trains are proceed north a diagonal pattern and they flatten out to stop and they go to another pattern as they speed back up and head through the tunnel. If you see an area where theres a train is moving forward so thats what we want to avoid. So in this graph, were showing the nct, the non communicating trains. A strain that failed or lost communication because of the positioning error that i mentioned, is it was held to increase that spacing and basically they were brought in anyway through the automatic mode and they were backed up wound up at van ness where you can see that area those the delay and also the cueing that resulted as a result of that single non communicating train and even though the non communicating train recovered at one of the reentry points at van ness. This happens about eight to 10 times a day. This aversion of this happens. Sometimes its better or worse and what time of day it is but essentially what i want to illustrate with this graph is the impact of a single non communicating train is devastating to the service and it takes. I want to high lie one of the things were looking at or what weve done is moved the Service Management over to its given us more tools to focus on Service Management and we did a converted effort where we put p. C. O. S in the intersection to help reduce the cueing that occurs as trains are waiting to exit and that had positive effects but its an cater that we cant have people out in the intersection forever so some sort of there would work well to move traffic and allocate priorities and were Getting Better on classifying the causes as you can see to specific points of failure and then trying to attribute those in real time and communicating those with passengers so they know this is a long delay or a short delay because its delayed due to a vehicle breakdown its a long wait. A train control failure we have a rough idea this is where you hear that slowmoving traffic messages that is thats where you get the slowmoving message. How is that message delivered and to whom . The slowmoving message is delivered over the subway science and announcements to the stations. It says excuse us but were experiencing slowmoving traffic in the inbound direction. The trains are cued up behind it. So,. The next few years, we are going to activate the westportal cross over and come along with a threecar shuttle between embarcadero and much of director hine a key. Were going to look i mentioned before my team isnt done with the analysis and well look at subway congest one which is a little bit more pernicious to bring out but if we can highlight the causes, we already know where were looking. Were looking at van ness and embarcadero and were looking at westportal and those are the places and were going to try to attribute of what the causes are and what we can do with the schedule and in terms of spacing and in terms of lines to help alleviate that so we can allocate the trains. Stay tuned for those recommendations. Were going to continue an extended Maintenance Program on the train control assets so that were keeping them in the best state that we can. Were going to increase on the field supervision throughout the rail because when we targeted those efforts that it has had immediate benefits. Were recommending a 10 year upgrade expansion of the train control system and that essentially is a project that will both replace the existing subway and expand the train control area of authority to the entire muni metro system and the way it works is the trains would be in communication but they would still be driving the trains but well get improved visibility in the control center for trains that are out not on the third street corridor. The train control will also be able to communicate with Traffic Signals to better out date priority. It will also achieve that holy grail that the trains will enter at the yard and the green mme theyll maintain communication and there wont be some weird transition between the surface and the subway and theyll be in the same system the entire time. The trains will have expanded are the authority as they do to them. We expect that will reduce subway delays between 20 and 25 . The improved maintain ability is a big factor here. The loop cable and the axel counties are obsolete and we have wifi that we can use for communication. Theyre commercial off the shelf setechnology. They dont increase the burden on our maintenance staff. There are additional concerns. Its not as simple as im making it out but its the standard for monitor cbtc in places like london and new york where theyre using basically wireless Access Points along the rightofway and the train is communicating with those instead of a loop or with some other means. Ex it also means that we can attack some of the causes of delays and congestion. Bunching in gaps earlier. A lot of the analysis that weve seen so far has indicated that if we were able to do a smaller intervention further out on the line in a better spacing, so by the time the trains get on the end, they get to the portal theyre not stacked up five deep waiting to enter which theres not a lot the control center can do. If they were nipped in the bud back at sunset boulevard or at ninth and juda or something liar that wlikethat we could manage a more appropriate manner. So these are some of the technologies that come along. I mentioned wireless communication. Also i mentioned tying in the isolated Traffic Signals and switches so those would be able to controlled centrally and managed centrally and prioritized centrally. It replaces our computers with the latest technology and allows us Central Control to have more tools to manage bunches and gaps. Weve seen other cities is that the automatic trinket runs the train and tells the trains you need to dwell three seconds longer to maintain your spacing or go 22 Miles Per Hour instead of 25 Miles Per Hour to maintain your spacing and those things are either communicated to the driver on the surface or theyre just done automatically by the train if its on the subway. A quick slide showing the intended phasing of the project. We want to look hat doing the test phase on the surface so that would be along the embarcadero and towards mission bay. And including the entry to central subway. The reason for that is that were we would be implementing the system on the surface allowing us to do tests without going into the subway and initiate a complex resignalling project with technology that were not familiar with yet. Were going to install it on the surface, install the central components and all the components and test it on an area where [please stand by] its crazy to try to rent single car trains. Doing that could have a 20 minute delay in the subway. Lo and behold, thats what we got. First its good to try the handshake as early as you can in the system, but another weapon. Inroute coupling. They said they couldnt do it in the early 80s, but im told by your maintenance people you can couple old cars to new cars. The advantage of inroute coupling, you get longer trains and period of time between the train. There is no one else in the world who runs 40 trains an hour on the same track. I mean, it doesnt work. And you also should note on weekends when youre only running 30 cars, the system doesnt have problems. It runs nice. If we can get down 32, 34, the whole system can work better. I even go before 78, i used to get on a streetcar in Market Street. You do that three times and you got home in a reasonable time. We can do that with automation and controls and everybody has a better ride with less bunching and delay. Hopefully, that can happen. Any other Public Comment on this item . Seeing none, Public Comment is closed. Directors, this is an information item. But its also an item on which we can provide direction. So are there questions or comments for staff . I have a question. I know ive heard this report before. I know we do the double berthing of trains and i was wondering if its because the train control system i thought the best advantage would be the train didnt stop twice in the same spot, stop once. Does the control system not allow that to happen . Wed have to redirect passengers, the second or the first, but is our System Limited . Yeah. One of the things that weve been cautioned by some of our consultants is over customization of the product. Doublestopping is a customization we have asked for and they have delivered. Its not typically used at other properties. The way they enforce it, the train must always stop at the lead berth. So regardless of whether it performs a stop at the second berth or not, it always has a stop. So what we determined, because of the queueing, it doesnt hurt anything because the trains are in queue anyway. Frustrated passengers, it lets them get off at powell. Its a customer frustration safety valve. But in terms of operating efficiently, it doesnt play one way or another. I thought if you could keep the trains going and have a new one, there would be a relief . The reason its double berthed is because there is another train in the lead berth. Its speeding up to get into another queue. When that came about, ill give you the history, it was because the queueing was causing a line that either embarcadero excuse me, montgomery and powell. And you had angry customers so close to being able to get off the train, we figured if we did double berthing it would relieve that. Its not anywhere close to a panacea, but an escape valve for passenger satisfaction. Were you done . Yes. I clearly enjoyed your presentation. Youre a man who loves your work. Thats easy to see. The question is the length of the procurement. So youre starting this year and 10year procurement is by year 10 youll have the whole thing installed. Its a 25year. So its a long span of time. And during that time, presumably, there is going to be a lot of advance in the field of Automated Vehicles, whether its trains or buses or cars or whatever. The default operating mode, right, is that when the trains are in the subway, theyre automated. When they leave the subway theyre not. And sometimes theyre not automated in the subway either when you have trouble. Is that accurate . Correct. So i guess my question just to focus it is about when the trains leave the subway. What you represented today, they would continue to operate as they do in manual mode, but there would be advantage to the system of having them tracked and surveiled. But what about a system that would be able to operate in automated mode outside the subway and during that period of time, you know, what thought have you given to that . Im sure you have. It probably keeps you up at night. Because how do you build into a contract the ability to deal with an advance you want to take advantage of instead of being stuck with three generations ago technology . That is an excellent question, director. One of the things that i took upon myself when i embarked on this journey was to be the last train control project manager. Because in the contract, we need to stipulate that the vendor provide us with updates on a regular basis. That wasnt done with the previous system. And meanwhile ive been to their conferences and the vendor has updated their product and they have new and great things theyd love to sell us. We price that in and include that in maintenance support. 10 years down the line, there isnt another version of me giving another update on how we need to replace it. But were maintaining it. Theyre on generation 5 i think and were on generation 2. And theyre rolling out g7. You know, as the new and exciting thing. We want to keep pace with the investments. Whether itthem or another servi provider. The state of the art right now, the groundwork were laying with the system, it will be capable of autonomous. We would have to do upgrades. Things youve heard about with autonomous vehicles, light r. , that is the main problem they have to solve for operating on the street. Sensing all the pedestrians, bicycles, but it would be capable of that if the technology matures. We dont want to be the guinea pigs. We want service proven. So we want to be one step behind the leading edge so were getting all of the benefits, but none of the pain hopefully. So thats the course that im intending to steer us down. Well, nice segue, because the suggestion relates to that. And that is how youre going to proceed with the procurement. I do know that bart is well into one, if they havent already signed a contract. Do you have the ability to invite them to sit on our Interview Panel so that you can learn from each other, because theyre going to go through mistakes . Absolutely. And we absolutely will. Were also using their consultants, so its the same consultants for bart and us. Were going to conduct a little different, but were learning from what they did. Specifically we think our process is a little more streamlined. Theirs took two or three years just to get to ndp. I dont know if theyre there yet. So were going to streamline that. We want to streamline that because were a smaller system, a little less complex, but at the same time were going to learn from them. Thank you. Very good. I just want to comment on one thing before anyone gets too excited about automated trains in San Francisco, i would like to point out that the sfmta has one of the strongest safety records in the United States because we have the most skilled operators who are using judgment every minute of every day in order to ensure a safe environment. And the extraordinarily complex and insane streets of San Francisco. So while i am interested in technology and automation, i want to make sure were not the beta test site and we can continue to rely upon our extraordinarily talented crew. Yes, and its not just safe for the people outside the train, the conductor or operator provides a huge safety benefit for people inside the train as someone monitoring and in charge of the train. I think its very important to be clear, there are no plans to move to Automated Vehicles in the l. R. V. At a time when were having difficulties hiring folks and want to provide people a rewarding and longterm career. I want people to understand if you come to muni now to become an operator, we have every intention of making it a career for you and not replacing you with a robot or computer. I was just wondering if other than i understand the timeline for the train control, but im wondering if other lessons were learning from the Current Operations and some of the kind of challenges were facing, if were incorporating that into our operations for a central subway. Because based on the phasing, were not going to see this new control system in place. Its going to open with the old system, right . Correct. I know its a different tunnel so there are different issues there. Yes, central subway has its own unique challenges, mostly related to how many trains the physical subway is capable of running. So a traincontrol system, the advanced stateoftheart system wont depend on the capacity of the subway itself, due to the limitations. Thats why were targeting the embarcadero, 4th and king and the 3rd street corridor first. It will allow the control center to space out the trains on approach to central subway so theyre not bunched at the portal. Thats the main benefit were going to see. Were not going to meet the central subway opening but try to follow what the first phase sort shortly thereafter to provide the benefits. I enjoyed this presentation and to the extent we can make some version of this available more to the public, beyond those watching or here in the room, that would be useful. Because there is a lot of us train nerds out there. This is great. So thank you for an excellent presentation. Really well done as you know. Personally, this is sort of a passion of mine. Its always helpful when, not just the problems, but the causes of the problems are broken down. I thought the way you did it with the acute versus chronic is helpful and i want to focus on the chronic. Weve been prxt lets start with west portal. Could you give me the date that well activate shuttles . Do we have that date yet . Season, ill take a season. Fall, 2020. Wonderful okay. And let me give a little history. I want to get to the next thing im going to grill you on. When we did the twin peaks tunnel reconstruction and i said ill approve this if the crossover is put in, its precisely the reasons youve been talking about today. Street congestion, subway congestion and handshake. Three of the major problems of chronic delay. That crossover in my view solves all three of those problems. Number one, you dont have a train that has to have a handshake. Number, two, youve taken out the street congestion. And number three, taken out subway congestion because you dont have trains blocked up. Three problems solved with one crossover. Julie knows what im going to say next. The jay church contributes to two problems. One, subway congestion. You have another subway car in the subway and its particularly problematic from a subway congestion standpoint because it turns in the project. So, were looking at fall 2020 for the west portal crossover. Im not going as extreme as saying what if we had the l and m stop and not even come in, because im hopeful we can fix the handshake problems, but i am going to say if we cant fix it, having a Shuttle Service in the subway. Im not there yet. But lets talk about jay church. Is there any reason that we shouldnt proceed as soon as we can with the jay church not going into the subway for the very reasons that were talking about. To eliminate subway congestion and eliminate handshake problems. Im going to let my directors answer that one. We think its really promising to look at surface j that is more reliable for the jay customers and has the subway benefits. It is linked to activating the crossover because we want to make sure if were asking customers to make a transfer we have the capacity to absorb them. When you say activating the crossover, you mean the crossover at Church Street . No, the malcolm heinicke. Explain the connection. By being able to run a threecar shut until the subway, i can say with confidence that somebody going down Church Street will be able to get on the train. So i have baked that into the question. But i agree with you, that once weve made the Subway Service more reliable, so someone that gets off at jay is not going to be one of those people i pass from forest hill to church. Director tumlin. Once we solve that problem, which is around fall 20. Why wouldnt we start now . Planning that change with the jay, its not like in fall 2020, you can snap your fingers and it will happen. Particulate of this is being part of this is being on each other. You have a Market Street closure and lets look at the next street. So we are improving Subway Service with the crossover, why not plan now . We are. So the last piece of it, now were doing the nitty gritty planning of making sure that at the intersection of market and church we can manage both the accessibility concerns as well as the volume of full train worth of people getting off the train and getting safely to the subway. So that is sort of the last piece before we start sharing the proposals publicly and getting input and finding out is this really the right fix or the wrong fix . Were doing the site Design Analysis at church and market on the surface as our last unknown question. And would that effort allow for timing that if this proofs to be proves to be popular or the general conclusion is this is something that should be done, would your current time line allow implementation in say winter of 2020 for the jay church . Yes. Great. So then my final question is a technical one about the handshake. Ive tried to understand this. Ive walked the tunnel, looked at the wires, i think ive got it but want to make sure. Lets take the van ness entry point. The handshake is done sort of as the train is coming down the incline there, correct . Yes. It fails, it goes to manual and its not until van ness that it can repick up again, is that correct . Correct. So in that period where its running in manual as you explained well, the rest of the system, the rest of the subway is effected . Correct, its held back. So why not have two recognition points at the debows portal. Im thinking in my head, the 14yearold boy i am, if the pilot misses the third wire, there is still the second and the first for he or she to catch and stay on. So why are we waiting until van ness to have a second recognition point. Why not have two recognition points there in case the first one fail as soon as simple answer is space. The recognition point needs to be large enough to accommodate two, or threecar train and have to resolve that ambiguity. If we make them closer together, we might only allow onecar train. There is a space constraint in the portal, you dont want it hanging over the intersection and you dont want it obstructing the switch when it reaches the subway. Do embarcadero entry points and west portal have the same space constraint . West portal definitely does because its at the platform and you cant back that up. Im actually thinking ill stop because i realize this is mundane and people are falling asleep. Art said yes and snored in my ear. I was thinking the other way. But we can have that conversation offline. Im wondering if we could have the people looking at that to see in is a quicker way for that second recognition. We have looked into trying to get the train to have a Second Chance your not wrong. This is incredibly complex nut to crack. We found that the causes of failed entry maddeningly are not attributable to one single thing. There are three to seven things and there are three in equal parts. One is the position. There is something wrong with the accelerometer, the tack om ter on the train and its not saying where the train says it is. The train says im here, the system says, no, youre not, youre here, so the train system gives up and says you cant enter. Its not a communication system, per se, the control commission says, youre crazy, im not going to talk to you. The second is i lost communication. 30 . And the other is the magic factor but it has to do with the slope of the entry. The speed at which the operator is driving the train in and the acceleration and deceleration of the train because all of those play a role in slipping and sliding. Its worse in wet weather. Its another instance where it creates the positional error and it gets rejected. So again, new systems they dont do this at all. Thats why were looking in that direction. What we have looked at, in two out of the three issues, the train is actually communicating, its just that it disagrees with the system. So there is not anything wrong with the link, its just that theyre able to they just dont agree, so can you just let the train in with the higher factor of safety and then give it another chance on the other end . So far, theyve said no. But were working that issue and trying to give the train multiple chances to enter because its such a problem for us. Its something were still exploring. Thank you. What you do excites you and its technical, but this has a realworld implication. Kids get to school on it time, people get to work earlier, there are fewer pollutants. Everything youre doing contributes to that. Keep it up and thank you for your passion and i look forward to hearing from you the next time. Thank you. I experience it every day myself. Im sorry. One more question. Maybe more for so for the jay idea of moving it back, you referenced kind of looking longterm planning wise at accessibility of getting those from the jay down into the subway. Im wondering, thats a place where we have nonredundant elevators, correct . I believe so. I would encourage when youre doing budgeting to look at i know elevators are hugely expensive, but if were going to do that, i think we should start planning now for getting redo redone redundancy. The other option is, if and when we experience an elevator failure, we can make the decision to send the train into the subway. Were not through this through this effort, were not prohibiting the movement, were just not doing it on daily basis. Very good. Item 14, presentation and discussion regarding the legal responsibilities of the sfmta. Good afternoon, directors, deputy city attorney. In consultation with the board secretary we decided to do the annual Legal Training which is required financial and Legal Training required under the charter, to do it today to save room on your workshop day to dive deeper into the budget. So im sure, director heinicke, will be extremely excited this is his last Legal Training after many. So ive divided this training this year into two parts. The first will be the role of the sfmta board and Board Members under the charter. And the secretary is update on sunshine and second is update on sunshine and Public Records issues. As you know, the sfmta board has exclusive authority under section 8a, which is unusual and broad. Adopted by the voters under prop e and prop a. So youre pretty well aware of this broad list of issues that you have exclusive jurisdiction over. I wont go through them all. However, the exclusive jurisdiction is has some charter limitations. And two examples that come into play quite often are that the agency does need to comply with ordinances of general application passed by the board of supervisors. So this generally means that the board of supervisors cannot adopt legislation that dictates administrative matters that are specific to the sfmta and that would affect your Core Functions under the charter. But to the extent where board legislation requires general things of all city departments, then the mta generally must follow those ordinances, especially where it does not implicate your core function. Where board legislation requires permits and approval from other city departments, the mta does not need to get the approval of the other city departments, but it does need to meet the specific standards of the ordinance. And very often, the director of transportation can determine the compliance with those standards. So for example, if some ordinances allow for waivers, and those waivers must be granted by a different department, but for the sfmta, the waiver could be granted by the director of transportation. A second area where the charter is limited came up in prop a. But was not actually effectuated until 2018. So the charter allowed kind of two areas in parking and traffic modifications where the board of supervisors would be able to adopt ordinances that would allow them to review certain of your decisions. The board did not adopt that until 2018. That legislation has been in effect since 2018. Youll see when reading agenda items there are certain issues that could be reviewed by the board of supervisors. Interestingly, to date, none of your decisions have been reviewed by the board of supervisors. A member of the public who wants to request review would need to get concurrence by five members of the board of supervisors to get review. Some things they can take review of are installing or removing stop signs, adopting limitations on parking time limits. And then creating or modifying private transportation programs. And private transportation programs include such things as the prior legislation permitting chariot to operate. The board does not have currently review of large infrastructure projects, implementation of bike lanes, or towing away and stopping any time issues. So thats something that is out there. Again, it has not been used to date. But something we might see in the future. Within the so within the charter, its interesting, the charter doesnt differentiate between the mta board and the director. But the board does have the specific roles, provides policy direction, appoints, removes the director, improves settlements, recommended by our office. Approved rates, fees charges. Something i didnt put on this list is also probably one of your primary duties is legislating parking and traffic changes. Which is a pretty unique power of any other board or commission in the city to have that legislative function. Obviously, you approve contracts and collective bargaining agreements. And you can inquire, you have the power of inquiry. So one of the issues that the charter sets up is the relationship between the board and the director of transportation. So the mta board and individual members can seek information from the member from mta operations and with permission, can seek information from staff. But there is concept about administrative interference and designated as official misconduct. So over time, i think there has been a balancing between the board and the director and over time, that relationship has evolved. So obviously now you have a new director. So its prudent to check with him about how he wants to manage this relationship and checking in directly with staff over time. We dont need to do that now. But i think each director has their own protocol. As to how that goes. So, the administrative interference prohibition does not affect your full power of hearing inquiry. So you can call any mta officer or employ before the board to answer questions regarding operations. So another Charter Authority again very unique within the city is the authority over the budget. I think youre all pretty well aware of the authority. You have the authority to adopt a two year budget. It can only be disapproved by the board. They cannot modify they dont have the power to approve it and they need a 711 vote to disapprove the budget. So it does not go through the normal department process, through the Mayors Office and the majority vote at the board like other city departments. There are a few other points on the slide. Your policy direction, you set policy for the Agency Consistent with city legislation and you give direction to staff again through the director of transportation. The board can require the director to obtain board approval of specific actions. At your last meeting you did that, you updated that through the Delegation Authority for contracting, but there are other places where you can set limits as well. An issue that comes up with other boards and commissions as well as here is that you must act as a body and make decisions as a body, as individuals you dont have any powers of the board. You can act only at a noticed meeting and attended by a quorum. So often it comes up if there is any special authority of the chair or the vice chair, and having recently chaired a board, my son asked me the same question. What do you get . I explained it. He said you get to decide if the super boring stuff comes before the really boring stuff . So essentially gets to set the agenda. I will not tell you what category we put you in. Yeah, here i am, between you and the end of the day. I know. You know. Charter mandates, what can i say . The super boring stuff at the end. Anyway, the board has a chair and vice chair annually. The chair appoints any and all committees of the board. And vice chair presides when the chair is absent. Then kind of not from a legal perspective but a functional perspective, the chair and vice chair are in contact with the secretary in terms of functioning between meetings. So im as you know, San Francisco has an even more aggressive or more sunshine policy than the state law. So the right of the people to know what their government and those acing on their acting on their behalf is doing. And thats fundamental to the city. So that plays out in a number of different ways. And you know, i mean roberta can testify to this, but we get a huge number of Public Records requests every year. And its a big time thing for our office and staff. Public records include any writing relating to the publics business, prepared, used or retained by any state or local agency. I think weve talked about this in the past, but there is a number of exemptions, including attorney generalclient communication, trade secrets. Its probably more of a caution for staff, but also for you, sending something to our office or copying our office does not necessarily exempt it from the Public Records act. It needs to be legal advice. So sending something and just asking for cover does not protect it. The sunshine laws and Public Record laws are gradually catching up with technology. The laws have been expanded to include email attachments, Text Messages, tweets. We just telling the director, we got a Public Records request today for twitter accounts of the agency, but also all Department Heads in the city. So those types of accounts can also contain Public Records. Cant they find it on the twitter. Why do we have to give that to them . So, yes, the tweets themselves of both the agency and the Department Heads would be in the public realm, but finding out if youve blocked anyone or if you have private i dont know what theyre called on twitter private direct messages, that wouldnt be obviously seen from anyone may also be yes. Depending, again so this kind of goes to the next thing with the city of san jose case which did say, if youre using a personal account to communicate with the conduct of the public business, the writing can be subject to disclosure under the Public Record act. There is a couple of different points with this. And they cant avoid disclosure just by using a personal electronic device, but it is point number two, only communications that relate to the conduct of the publics business or records. So if someone private messages you about what time youre going to meet with them for something fun, that obviously is not subject to disclosure, but if youre being private messaged in response to a post about a breakdown in the subway, yes, that could potentially be and you respond, that could potentially be subject to disclosure. And you would be required to search your public your personal devices in response. The existing exemptions from disclosure apply to your personal devices. And existing record retention policies apply to Communications Made using personal Electronic Devices. So whatever you would be required to keep under the retention policy, youre to keep on your personal device or transfer it to a government device. I have a question related to that. Like i dont i get a new phone. My former Text Messages disappear. Its not like i deleted them. Is that unreasonable . I cant provide text message was my old phone. I mean so its probably the board secretary might want to update the board at some point on records retention. Messages about setting up meetings and things like that are probably not required to be retained to the extent that youre having a substantive exchange and that had a twoyear record retention policy, then there might be obligation to retain it. The concern is, i never thought about it, and i dont think that really applies, people dont typically keep their Text Messages for years. The main point is Text Messages arent any different from a writing than an email, piece of paper or any other document. The form of text message is short and you know often not substantive, so it may be less likely to need to be retained, but if it is substantive and would need be to retained under the board record policies, which is two years, then would you need to retaken it for two years. There is a lot of practical problems with that. How do you do that . There is no way to really do that. I mean one of the i have a few actually i think the next slide two years, are you referring to the city of San Francisco . Retention policy for any records that is defined as a record is two years. For us, its 30 days. So each agency has a record retention policy and it has different record retention policies for different types of documents. So for the boards correspondence, its two years. Is that correct . Okay. So i think kind of good email and document etiquette. One of the best ways to kind of comply or be succinct and clear and keep one email account that has all of your professional cityrelated correspondence. And then you dont have to worry about whether something is on a text or a tweet or this or that. You know where it is. You can always forward something you think might be important to that account so its documented. Copy and paste it. So you dont have anything on either your personal account or other work account so that if we have litigation or sunshine requests, you know, weve had some issues with that this year. Its just been easier, less burdensome way. I guess the question there, though, in the instance of sometimes people contact you at your work email and its not the email you gave them. So like practically, how do you how does that work . I think Good Practice to have one account that you designate as your city account that can be a Gmail Account or any other i do. But when you get an email, you reply and copy from your work or personal email, you copy that account and then its in there and you can delete it from your personal account. I mean, thats one practical way to do it. So there is a couple of donts. Dont mix work and personalrelated emails and texts. Probably more common with staff, but putting personal thoughts or frustrations into emails often get us in trouble or can be embarrassing. And specific to the director not replying with other directors. And this is little avoid this. This has been one of the overload of paper and documents that our office and mta staff have to review in ponce to litigation and sunshine requests has been really overwhelming. And part of that is inevitable in the course of business, but whatever people can do to reduce that. In conclusion, remember the sunshine act. Pause before sending long or contentious emails or texts and replying all, be careful about that. And definitely dont reply all with other directors. Good email and Document Management etiquette as we discussed, possibly having one particular email account you use only for city business. And then obviously anytime you have questions or concerns, reach out to us. So thank you for taking the time. As always, every year for this very exciting presentation. I will miss it. I am sure you will. Just for the record, no member of the public has indicated they would like to address you on this topic. Very good. Okay. And the good news, we have no that takes us to the end of the day, is that correct . That concludes the business for before you today. And mr. Tumlin is still in his chair which is a success. Welcome. We are adjourned. Hello everyone. Welcome to the bayview bistro. It is just time to bring the Community Together by deliciou deliciousness. I am excited to be here today because nothing brings the Community Together like food. Having amazing food options for and by the people of this community is critical to the success, the longterm success and stability of the bayviewHunters Point community. I am nima romney. This is a mobile cafe. We do soul food with a latin twist. I wanted to open a truck to son nor the soul food, my African Heritage as well as mylas continuas my latindescent. I have been at this for 15 years. 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I was a part of bayview most of my life. I cant remember not being a part of bayview. I have been here for several years. This space used to be unoccupied. It was used as a dump. To repurpose it for Something Like this with the bistro to give an opportunity for the local vendors and food people to come out and showcase their work. That is a great way to give back to the community. This is a great example of a publicprivate community partnership. They have been supporting this including the San Francisco Public Utilities commission and Mayors Office of workforce department. Working with the joint Venture Partners we got resources for the space, that the businesses were able to thrive because of all of the opportunities on the way to this community. Bayview has changed. It is growing. A lot of things is different from when i was a kid. You have the t train. You have a lot of new business. I am looking forward to being a Business Owner in my neighborhood. I love my city. You know, i went to city college and fourth and mission in San Francisco under the chefs ria, marlene and betsy. They are proud of me. I dont want to leave them out of the journey. Everyone works hard. They are very supportive and passionate about what they do, and they all have one goal in mind for the bayview to survive. All right. All right. This is the regular meeting of the commission on Community Investment and infrastructure act Successor Agency for the San Francisco Redevelopment Agency for tuesday, december 17th, 2019. Welcome to members of the public please call the first item. The first order of business is item one, roll call. Please respond when i call your