Transcripts For SFGTV TA Vision Zero Committee 20240712

Commissioner peskin present. Vice chair stefani present. Chair yee present. We have quorum. On behalf of the committee i would like to acknowledge the staff at sfgovtv who records each of our meetings and makes the transcript available to the public online. Clerk, madame clerk, do you have any announcements . Yes. I would like to make an announcement about Public Comment. Public comment will be item via telephone by calling 14156550001. And when prompted, entering access code, 146 771 7365. Once you join, youll be able to listen to the meeting as a participant. To make Public Comment on the item when the item is called, dial star 3 to be added to the queue to speak. When its your turn, youll hear your line is unmuted. When the two minutes are up, well move on to the next caller. Calls are taken in the orders received. Best practice to speak clearly, slowly. Please allow for a lag time during the course of the meeting. That concludes my announcements. Chair yee okay. Thank you, madame clerk. Before we get started, this is a friendly reminder for all the commissioners to mute your microphone when you are not speaking to avoid audio feedback. Before we get started, i wanted to start state that the Vision Zero Committee is set to expire at the end of this year. It will come up to all commissioners to reauthorize this committee and vision zero has to remain a top priority for our city. Weve made significant progress, but we have a long ways to go as at the end of august, people have been killed on our streets, 18 of them have been killed. Again, we started off the year very poorly in terms of the number of fatalities that were recorded. Its slowed down somewhat to get this number. And hopefully, we can keep it at 18 for the rest of the year. This is really absolutely a tragic and these are lives that have been cut short and families that will never be the same. We have so much more work to do to literally save lives on the streets of our city. These deaths are preventablprev. I keep saying that and will keep on saying it because they are. The 463 severe injury collisions reported this year were also preventable. We need to be forwardthinking and creative in our approach to education and enforcement strategies to improve Pedestrian Safety. And we need to ensure that there are clear time lines and measurable goals in place to keep us accountable. We absolutely cannot let up now. Madame clerk, will you call item number 2 . Yes, item 2, approve the minutes of the june 25, 2020 meeting, this is an action item. Chair yee okay. So is there any Public Comment on this item . Clerk let me check, chair. This is a reminder to everyone on the line that you press star 3 if you would like to comment on this item. And seeing the call list, there is no Public Comment. Chair yee okay. Seeing none then, can we im sorry. Im having a hard time commissioner peskin mr. Chair . Ill make a motion to approve the minutes. Chair yee okay, motion made. Do we need a second for three persons . Vice chair stefani second. Chair yee roll call, please. Commissioner peskin aye. Vice chair stefani aye. Chair yee aye. We have three ayes, minutes are approved. Chair yee okay, then motion is passed. Madame clerk, please call the next item. Item 3, vision zero progress update. This is an information item. Okay, ryan reeves. Good morning. Good morning. Britney, can you confirm that you can see the power point . I can see a white screen. Can you see it now . Yes. Okay. When i have a full screen, i lose it. So hopefully, the slides are large enough for you to see. Okay. Good morning, my name is ryan reeves and im our Vision Zero Task force cochair. And i will be sharing with you today a progress update on vision zero. Really focused on the work over the past quarter. So through august of this year, weve had 18 traffic fatalities, including eight people walking, two people biking and nine People Killed riding in vehicles. This is similar to the fiveyear average in fatalities, but we know even one is too many so we have much more work to do. Although the goal is eliminate fatal crashes and reduce severe injuries, we have seen a 50 decrease in injury crashes during shelterinplace as compared to the same time period last year. This is just comparing police data year over year, so its not comprehensive because it doesnt include serious injuries that are only reported at the hospitals. It includes all injury reports, so without hospital data, were not able to obtaject obtain the obtain the severity of the injuries. We did want to share this trend information which has been requested in the past. So next ill provide a few highlights of our recent work across our program, starting with our legislative agenda. So in terms of our legislative work, we continue to work towards our transformative policy agenda, focussed on how speed limits are set and getting state authority for automatic Speed Enforcement. Our third is pricing which is led by our partners and will be reported on by walk sf later in the agenda. We continue to participate in the task force. This was convened by the state to identify how to change how speed limits are set. Weve been working with other members of the task force, including oakland, sacramento, san jose, l. A. And others, to really continue elevating the recommendations from this report. And we recently coordinated with the partners on a policy letter to the secretary to encourage prompt action on these recommendations. So the recommendations are focused on changing how speed limits are set, including moving toward a safe system approach that would go outside our current 85th percentile speed limit setting process. They released a guidance document that charts a path forward toward a safe system approach and we participated in the guidance that again reaff m reaffirms these critical recommendations. Weve also been monitoring news from seattle that found recently that even speed limits, even without additional enforcement or education, they were able to reduce crashes. Were looking at this to reinforce how these legislative policies could change how speed limits are set. Lastly, with automated Speed Enforcement, were still in exploratory conversations around legislation for next year. Again, looking at how we can reduce dangerous driving behavior, especially with a racial bias and equity lens. Weve been participating in the u. S. Department of transportation work to update the federal guidelines for implementing speed Safety Programs. So were expecting the guidelines in the next six months. Next, for brief highlights from our streets team. So we continue our work on our quickbuild program. Weve had 14 projects that have been completed and the remaining 17 are on the way. Including 14 in design and 3 in construction. And the projects that are under way are implemented in neighborhoods that have historically been underrepresented in Traffic Safety such as the bayview and excelsior. Theyll account for 50 miles of quickbuild improvement. In terms of completed projects, just to share a few highlights. On 3rd street, we added a twoway protected bikeway connecting the protected infrastructure. And the San Francisco bay trail. And on townsend we completed a multimodal project, including a new walkway, transit bulb and bikeway. There are others under construction, including 5th, 7th and embarcadero. We also have 14 projects in design, including our work in the bayview for the Hunters Point boulevard. We recently completed an open house. And while the design is still in process, the project will include increasing pedestrian visibility and safety as well as slowing speeds. And other projects include alemany and beale street. A key part of the safe streets work has been the evaluation to assess preand post project data and understand the impacts and effectiveness of our work. My colleague will be giving a full presentation in the agenda on our results. So you can see here, highlights from our recently released 2019 yearend report which includes data. In terms of quickbuild moving forward were committed to investing 2030 million over a fiveyear time period, including prop k and the new tax made available this year. Weve looked for new ways to conduct outreach. For projects that are in the Public Outreach phase, we have started to use features like story maps, survey tools for people to learn more about the project and provide feedback. You can see a few images here of the recent outreach conducted in both the folsom and bayview. In addition to the quickbuild work, weve been working hard on our Covid Response work which has including, our slow streets program, our shared spaces program, including full lane closures, and our emergency transitonly lanes. So looking ahead for our safe streets work, were continuing our quick build and Covid Response work, but we wanted to share other updates. Were planning to advance a citywide daylighting program on the network. Weve submitted a 500,000 request for prop k funds that we expect will achieve about 500 in our intersection on the hydro network. And the approach will be corridorbased, building on the Lessons Learned from our recent work in district 4 as well as the work in the tenderloin several years ago. Well be focusing our daylighting work on areas of high crash. Were going to be implementing speed reductions near senior centers, building on some analysis that identified seniorserving facilities. There are about a dozen locations weve identified that meets the criteria to reduce to 25 Miles Per Hour which we company to m. P. By the end of the implement by the end of the year. Weve identified the prop 8 location for your red lights and listed here on the approaches that will be prioritized. Based on the data for injury crashes. So weve committed 2 million to expand our existing Camera Program and designing of the expansion will begin this year. Commissioner peskin mr. Chairman, if i may jump in on the Camera Program. Ms. Reeves, mr. Chairman, is it okay if i hop in, or do you want me to hold my questions until the end . Chair yee how much more do you have . Just a few minutes. A few more slides. Chair yee why dont we finish up, because i have questions, too. Commissioner peskin okay. Okay. So a few quick highlights. In terms of our safe people work, our vision zero outreach is largely on hold due to shelterinplace. That includes the street Team Outreach and post fatality outreach, however we do have updates for looking ahead. For safer intersections, by the end of october, well be launching our safer Intersection Campaign which focuses on reducing leftturn collision and this Education Campaign is funded by the active Transportation Program grant. We also are coordinating with the Youth Art Exchange which is a recipient of supervisor yees participatory budget grant, so well be working with High School Students to develop vision zerorelated visuals to run on transit vehicles. And last we received another office of Traffic Safety grant to continue our Motorcycle Safety program, so well be partnering with the Police Department to provide Safety Training next spring and summer. And then finally, our just a brief update on the data systems team. Weve expedited our data process to share more quickly the commission information. Its been updated to reflect data through the beginning of this year, which is an accelerated schedule. You can search for information and this is something that our planners and engineers use. That concludes my presentation. Im happy to answer questions. Chair yee thank you very much, ms. Reeves. Commissioner peskin . Commissioner peskin thank you, chair yee. I just want to drill down a little bit into the light enforcement and if by way of background, how many cameras are there now . My recollection is that there is about a dozen. We had an old program that used to be done with the old thing called film. That took a long time to develop. Then we went to a digital system a few years ago, but can you just remind us and the folks who are listening what the current state of the digital red light Camera Program is . How many we have . And what the numbers are . And both as to enforcement and as to reduction of crashes . Sure. So i dont know im going to pause for a minute and see if my colleague is on the line that leads our red light Camera Program. I dont think he is. Jamie, i just want to invite you in, if you have any summary of behalf of ricardo. I believe we have about a dozen or so cameras and that we have moved to a digital program. Commissioner peskin and those things are true. Yes. So jamie, sfmta, so ricardo, the city traffic engineer would have the most detailed information, but i can provide a Little Information as well. Commissioner peskin, youre correct, i think its 13 cameras we have and the transition to the digital system was completed in 2019. So that was a fairly capital intensive process and the red light Camera Program is capital intensive. Its like building a new traffic signal next to your new traffic signal, its about 300,000 for each intersection we do. We have committed 4 million. So that is the list of locations that ryan shared earlier. Commissioner peskin so through the chair, mr. Parks, what im really looking for is data as to those 13 intersections relative to the improvement of pedestrian and vehicular and Bicycle Safety. We have 2020 year to date numbers. Thats what im trying to drill down into. Do we have a map as to where those 13 are . I assume that those were the same locations where we had the old lane things that used to stick out and flash. I assume we replaced those at the same locations, which is primarily on the east side. Many of them in the corner of the city that i represent. Chair yee i think there was an earlier slide that indicated the locations. Can you pull that up . Yes, let me figure out how to get back to the and, yeah, i think this is the list of the eight commissioner peskin thats the expansion. Of the 13 we have out now, we do have a list on our website that we can send out. But around eight of those are preexisting locations, already zonebased systems. And i think four or five were candidates for new locations. And for the previous ones, i think we did do a presentation maybe last year on kind of crash data so we could share that again and well be doing a similar analysis on the new locations once we have one year of full data. Commissioner peskin presumably, when in 2019 did the 13 digital cameras go in . I dont have the exact date. It was toward the end of 2019 that we finished it. Commissioner peskin presumably, we have one year of data as were toward the end of 2020. This is ricardo. Hi, can you hear me . Chair yee yes. Yeah, we have the data for the locations that are now active. We activated the last few locations this year. This system as a whole is giving about over 800 citations every month. And well be looking to see how that impacts safety in the next few months because crash data typically lags a little bit. So but i think that my colleagues have covered most of the details. We can provide more information to you, commissioner, on the locations. And the data of how many citations are given by each location. Commissioner peskin yeah, i think if chair yee will indulge me, i think it would be really helpful to have that particularly as were talking were all 100 in on automated Speed Enforcement and have vested time to get the state of california to give us that authority and try to get Law Enforcement statewide and in San Francisco to get out of the way and allow that bill to pass in the state legislature. But, as we are deciding what to do with our ever increasing amount of capital money as were expanding by eight intersections, which intuitively sounds like a good thing, i really would like to hear what the data is 800 a month across 13 cameras sounds robust, but if that could be broken down . And insofar as the Vision Zero Committee doesnt meet that often and insofar as the champion of the committee for the time being has been my colleague, commissioner yee, if commissioner yee would indulge me, i would love to have that at our next full Transportation Authority meeting in october. Just an information item on redlight cameras. I think that would be really helpful. And relative to the crash data that lags, i still think we should have a snapshot of data as to how it is improving or not pedestrian or Bicycle Safety. I would really like to drill down in that and if chair yee would indulge me, i would ask our staff to calendar that as an information item at our first meeting in october. Chair yee i definitely support the motion here for your ask. Knowing that vision zero doesnt meet all that often and opportunity for the next one. Im also interested in the effectiveness of these cameras. Im going to go further with this discussion. Its not only so you have the intersections where cameras are at and a lot of these streets at least the ones that i can see for the expansion are on streets where there are a series of signals either before or after the signal where they actually have the camera. Is it possible to even go further in terms of the analysis, whether that one camera, lets say ill take a golden gate at franklin does that impact other intersections . Because you know, slow down possibly . Cars that might be running the signals there, it might also have impact on drivers not wanting to run signals a few signals away. So the question is, can we actually figure out if there is impact on the particular intersection . One thing i want to add is that the red light Camera Program is within a larger Safety Program that emphasizes the use of other engineering methods to reduce redlight running, so the cameras are a measure of last resort when weve tried Everything Else. One thing we can also discuss is other tactics we have to reduce redlight running. Some weve done engineering improvements, so the idea is that the red light camera as an investment and enforcement mechanism is kind of the last resort to make sure that people obey the traffic signals. Chair yee so which is the same question then. In regards to effectiveness, its the broader strategy using the red light signal cameras as part of the strategy. Can we measure the impact of that particular strategy overall strategy . Yes. I think we can make a presentation to discuss the overall strategy, overall red light running in the city has declined relative the trend. So i think we have a successful approach in terms of engineering and enforcement as far as redlight running is concerned. Obviously, we can do much more, but as commissioner peskin pointed out, we have limited resources, so in choosing to make enforcement for engineering improvements, we want to make sure we have the right mix. The expansion were proposing i think is a relatively reasonable approach to the locations weve singled out. Theyve already had engineering improvement. We have a Capital Project where we continue to make signals upgrades, make them prominent. Removing that element of i didnt see the signal, i was distracted, i ran the red light. That is something we can explain how cameras fit into the overall Safety Program. But again, there are safety measures, theyre not a revenue measure. Were always looking to make sure the program is basically foundational on safety. Chair yee thank you. I mean, that would be very interesting to hear. Commissioner peskin, anything else . Commissioner peskin i do have other questions, particularly as it relates to the quickbuild program which were all very pleased with, but also want to drill down into understanding data relative to the success of those programs, particularly at it relates to pedestrians safety. So i wanted to drill down into that set of data, too. Chair yee is that a question for right now . Commissioner peskin well, to the extent that it can be answered right now, yes. And to the extent that it cant, we can also make that part of the item for the first full t. A. Information item in october. Chair yee great, okay. Staff . Can you respond . Sure. So i would actually suggest that we i think we can cover a lot of that through item 5 on the agenda, on the safe streets Evaluation Program. So we do comprehensively collect before and after data for the quickbuild and evaluate the safety benefits for Pedestrian Safety, Bicycle Safety and people driving. So hopefully well cover questions as item 5 and if we can drill down into more there. If thats okay, commissioner . Commissioner peskin thats great. Chair yee thats fine. Commissioner stefani . Vice chair stefani yes. I have [inaudible] chair yee youre breaking up a little bit. Vice chair stefani can you hear me now . Chair yee yes. Vice chair stefani i am wondering why we have not included or id like to know whether or not its being investigated whether or not to have a redlight camera expansion geary and gough where one of my constituents was recently killed. And we just had a huge zoom meeting with this with m. T. A. On that and i believe jamie park is on that. I want to know if its something that was brought up, and its very necessary, so if someone can respond, i would greatly appreciate it. The locations were looking at are based on fiveyear crash trends, so we have the outliers. Im aware of the geary and gough incident. It was a horrific and tragic event. The locations have not been selected yet. Were trying to do other improvements there to improve redlight running, including making signal improvements. So we have other measures we could do short of a redlight camera. Theyre already in construction. So like i said, there is various approaches we can take to reduce redlight running and what we can do is make sure all the signals are prominent and we feel there are changes that we need to do at geary and gough that would be short of a red light camera. Vice chair stefani thank you for that. Would you stay in touch with my office, what improvements will be made and when . Yeah, we can inform you about the schedule of the improvements at that location. Vice chair stefani thank you. Chair yee thank you. So in regards to the seniors zones that we were talking about, can you provide us with at least provide me with a list of where they are . Yeah, ricardo, i think that is something we could send after this meeting, is that right . Yeah, we can provide the details of the location for this first round of lower speed limits around seniors homes. Chair yee when is that going to be implemented . I believe were were hoping go ahead. I believe that our team is planning to implement those by the end of this year. Chair yee and basically, posting speed limit signs around the area . Or what would you do . Ricardo, ill let you answer that. Yeah, the signs would be posted on the street with the speed limit over 25 Miles Per Hour and it would be a 25 mileperhour posted speed limit, similar to what is done around schools. So its a lower speed limit allowable by the california vehicle code on the street that is affronting the senior facility that has a speed limit over 25. Chair yee i know that commissioner fewer had mentioned several times in terms of connected to the senior zones would be implementing a program that would be similar to safe streets to school or something. And is there some similar were doing with maybe making a pathway for seniors that would be safer than not . Im not aware i think that the project that ricardo is doing the signs is focused specifically on signage. Im not aware of any other type of other efforts. So, no, i dont think we have any. Chair yee okay. Im curious if there is any thought at all. I think its called safe passage to schools. Talking about safe passage to senior centers. Maybe it was not emphasized as much as i thought. Im going to ask one. So in regards to the daylighting and rolling out the next many, is there a plan . What are the plans . What are the locations . Has this been determined yet . No. Thats going to be the project that started. Well work with the supervisors to identify corridors in each of their districts. So we have not identified an initial set of locations yet. Were working right now on getting the funding lined up with t. A. And we are planning other locations. Like i mentioned, the locations will be selected based on the network, but the locations have not been selected yet. Chair yee these are the 500 intersections that was part of the legislation that was passed last year . Is that correct . So in response to that resolution, we have continued to make progress on the daylighting since that resolution was issued in 20 i believe it was may 2019. And weve done about 500 since then, so these are a new set of locations. Chair yee fantastic. Thank you very much. Any other questions . Seeing none, is there any Public Comment on this item . Thank you very much, ms. Reeves. Yes, this is good morning, everyone. Im from m. T. C. I hope youre all doing okay in this these challenging times. In terms of an introduction, i oversee two areas, one is the regional Safety Program and the other is the regions Asset Management program. And if i could call on my slides to be put up, please . Great. So i was requested to talk about the recent adoption of the vision zero policy. The m. T. C. Moved unanimously in june for the first time ever. Apart from the policy itself, my presentation today will discuss m. T. C. s role in providing regional leadership to promote safety. The need to apply a datadriven approach to inform regional Safety Policies and the importance of promoting equity in regional Safety Policies. And id like to start with the quick background, please. So this slide is mainly to give you an understanding of the severity of the problem at the regional level. This is something that most of you may already be aware of. Over 400 people are killed and more than 2000 people are seriously injured on the bay area roads each year as result of traffic crashes. Now, traffic deaths and life changing injuries impact the lives of friends, family, neighbors and community members, but us as policymakers, they have a Major Economic cost estimated to be at least 4 billion for the region. And this was a long time ago, so im sure the amount of 4 billion has gone up considerably. Triplea found that costs resulting from crashes are three times more than that have of congestion. Unfortunately, these traffic deaths and serious injuries in the region, disproportionately affect those in communities of color and lowincome communities as well as our vulnerable population, which is those biking and walking. What this shows is that our active mode as community are concerned are disproportionately accident zones, are disproportionately represented. To again make things worse, these fatalities and serious injuries in the region have been increasing. Over the last decade, the bayview fatalities have increased by 50 . As a practical matter, they are down this year because of covid19, but we expect the Traffic Safety to return as soon as it increases. It is important that we continue to plan for the future. By the way, when the shelterinplace order was issued around mid march, as of the end of april, fatalities had plummeted to zero in the bay area. But theyve been increasing over the following months and increased over 50 so far. Now, this is not just a regional problem. It is a national problem. And jurisdictions across the nation are adopting the goals of vision zero. You all know that vision zero means that the only justifiably traffic fatality number is zero. San francisco is a leader not just in the state, but around the region as well. Now, m. T. C. Believes that safety should be a top priority for our region. Safety is very much a regional issue. And we wanted to supplement the by the vision zero in the region, but help the smaller jurisdictions that do not have a Safety Program in place or resources to have one. In talking with stakeholders, it is our belief that a strategy and approach can promote improved safety and potentially eliminate costs among the jurisdictions, allowing cities to redirect the dollars towards implementing Engineering Projects and policies that enhance safety. Now apart from this main reason, there are other reasons why its important for m. T. C. To take a role. There are some things were qualified to do under federal and state policies, under the fast act and bills required to adopt. M. T. C. Has adopted three rounds of targets so far to be adopted. Our 2018, 2019, 2020 targets in line with the by 2030. These were aspirational targets to send out a message that safety is important to the region. Now there is also increasing focus on safety at the state level as well. Cal translaunched a second phase. And has added safety plans as a requirement for receiving funds which are major source of safety funding. M. T. C. s role is very important here to work with the state and federal agencies to help us focus on safety, as well as in our region, as well as to bring in additional response to our acts. Additionally, the Regional Transportation Plan has been the goal for 20 years. There are lots of benefits with m. T. C. Taking the role in regional safety as safety is definitely a regional issue. The basic idea is that dramatic results in roadway safety are more likely to result from a collaborative effort among stakeholders than from a single agency. And we also believe that collaboration with many minds across the city and our regions. And tackling traffic fatality is a major equity and ask that m. T. C. Can strive to keep focus on equity in the regional safety report. Now it ties into key planned areas by encouraging active transportation if it can make the region safer for pedestrians and bicyclists. Reducing Greenhouse Gas and addressing the significant equity issue hopefully. So one of the first steps. This is new to m. T. C. One of the first steps and mainly what the presentation is about today, is we wanted to take this step, this first step, of adopting the vision zero policy for enhancing safety in the region. This would be a foundational element as it would help us establish a vision for safety for the region. And make sure that regional leadership is on board, as political will is very important. Now the statement listed here. So the regional leader establishes a policy of for m. T. C. To work with Partner Agencies to create and support equitable and datadriven action toward eliminating traffic death and serious injuries in the bay area by the year 2030. 2030 is in alignment for the safety targets. Now the focus here, as you can tell, is working together. M. T. C. Taking the leadership role and encouraging and supporting actions toward enhancing safety in the region. As self of the Safety Policies and projects have to be implemented by the cities themselves. And this would also help m. T. C. To prioritize the safety lens in the work that we already do. Now, this policy also establishes a framework of principles and actions to guide m. T. C. Staff in working toward these policy goals as summarized on this slide. The first is regional Safety Leadership and the hope is to promote safety to foster a culture of safety and engage and incentivize to prioritize safety and work to aligning funding policies with safety goals. Later, the main focus, data driven approach and strategic use of the available funds and resources. Equity will be under the as ive been mentioning and we will focus on promoting regional Safety Policies by analyzing impacted communities of concern. Then m. T. C. Would hopefully go on to support these Safety Policies and legislation that advance evidencebased solutions to safety problems. And finally, the education and engagement piece recognizing that this needs to be collaborative process, m. T. C. Will engage stakeholders with safety policy implementation and collaboration and safety best practices. So the hope is to provide education and Technical Assistance within budgetary constraints. And overall, were hoping to do as much as we can and it will depend on the availability of resources. This is a starting point and we plan on coming back with specific proposals to help achieve the goals. So to complement this vision zero policy, m. T. C. Staff is working on establishing a regional Safety Program that would rely on a three pronged approach to inform or enhance safety in the region. Now data would be the critical and foundational piece since vision zero and best practices around safety and data driven. We need to have data to make a systematic approach to safety. Were working on building out this data system that would integrate multiple safety data and how regional safety data at m. T. C. , so that local jurisdictions can benefit from consistent and reliable actually, if we could jump to slide number 10. Thats the next slide. I can show you a quick visual, sort of similar toward safety visualization would be like. But hopefully, this would integrate safetyrelated into a single data depository. The smaller jurisdictions can rely on this for making informed decisions. Theyre also hoping to use this local map to better identify isolate and analyze these critical safety issues. And apply specific targeted investments. If we could jump back to the earlier slide, side number 9, please. Thank you. So secondly, so thats the data aspect. Secondly, m. T. C. Is hoping to use data to integrate the regional policies on safety and hopefully support legislation that has proven to be effective. Such as lower speed limits. And also aligning funding policies you know, safety goals and hopefully leverage federal and safety and bring in additional dollars to the region. Finally, on the resources available, we hope to support the jurisdictions that are providing Technical Assistance around safety planning. The safety data would be a key aspect of the Technical Assistance. Maybe provide training, resources like consulting and assistance with smaller cities that are adopting their own safety plans. Again, this may be useful to smaller cities that may not have access to the data of large cities. Were hoping these three combined websites, the leadership will be a huge step for Traffic Safety around the bay area region. If we can move on to slide number 11, two slides, please. Great. Thank you. So as we worked on the developing the vision zero policy and program weve been engaging partners and collaborating toward this end. In terms of steps taken so far, we organized the exchange a year and a half with regional, state and National Stakeholders to learn from and share best practices. We presented the regional Safety Program, a policy concept and framework to state and Regional Stakeholder groups and convened in the cities as well to identify how to support their ongoing efforts. And the framework for this policy and program that i presented today is informed by those meetings. We applied for and received funding for the development of the data system i was talking about and developing the state of safety in the region report. So we received half a Million Dollars in the fund. And then we, as i mentioned, we adopted regional safety targets in line 2030. Weve done one more thing. Up until now, it was convincing our leadership to adopt a regional vision zero policy to develop a brand new program. And im glad that weve seen that now, but we also have to take steps to enforcing Safety Policies around the region. And then recently, we awarded a contract to develop the safety and we will be forming a regional Vision Zero Task force, a working group that focuses on enhancing safety in the region x needs of the regional level, but then we would also be focusing on sharing best practices around the region and working on policy and legislative initiative that will be most useful. Next slide, please. I think that brings me to the end of the presentation. We are hoping that we can leverage this time of Public Health in the region to prioritize safety and equity on the roads in a long lasting way. Im happy to answer any questions and take any feedback on this. Thank you. Chair yee any questions from the colleagues . First of all, i want to thank for the presentation. Im getting a lot of feedback. Are you hearing feedback . Echo sound . Okay, just me, then. I wanted to also commend m. T. C. For the work around vision zero. And im kind of glad that were going to take a regional approach on this. Not everything that happens in San Francisco and elsewhere are done by the local drivers themselves. People coming in and out of town. And people from San Francisco throughout the bay area. And to me, like Everything Else we do in the bay area, its always best to have a regional approach. One of the questions i seems like wasnt covered. Whether or not m. T. C. Could use their influence in asking the other bay area cities and counties whether or not they would consider maybe making a policy statement or a resolution to support our San Francisco and san jose attempt to allow us to use automated speed cameras for enforcement . I think that the time is right. We have not been able to get through state legislation. But my feeling is that if we were to reintroduce it again to our state legislator david chiu, there is probably a little more support at this point and hopefully we can get it going. Yeah. That is definitely noted. And one of the areas that we wanted to again make progress in once the regional vision zero policy is adopted, is to have our commission lend to the initiatives. And then through the Vision Zero Task force were convening soon, hopefully these issues, or legislative ideas can be brought up to the group. Were hoping that several cities and jurisdictions will attend. Im seeing a lot of interest around the region towards Something Like this. And hopefully we can combine our efforts in order to make Something Like this happen. So ive noted that as well. Chair yee okay. Thats happy news [laughter]. Once again, thank you for your presentation. I dont see anybody else on the roster. So, madame clerk, anybody for Public Comment . Clerk there is no Public Comment. Chair yee okay. So Public Comment is now closed. This is an informational item, so its closed. Madame clerk, the next item . Item 5, please. Item 5, safe streets evaluation. This is an information chair yee hold on a second. Commissioner stefani, im sorry, did i miss you on the roster . Vice chair stefani no, that was an old chair. Chair yee thank you. Continue, please. Clerk item 5, safe streets evaluation, this is an information item. Chair yee okay. Kalia from sfmta will be here to present. Yes, hi, everyone. Im sorry, i think im showing up as someone else because i had technical difficulties. And i. T. Got me in the back door, so im showing up as s. H. , but im kalia wang from the sfmta. Hopefully, you can see me. I dont know if we have the presentation up . Lets see. Lang. Im on livable streets in sfmta. So, hi, everyone. Thanks for listening to this presence today. Presentation today. I wanted to cover today, first of all, im the manager of the safe streets Evaluation Program which tracks performance as our bicycle, pedestrian and trafficcalming project. So commissioner peskin, a lot of what you were referring to earlier, were going to cover today. And we had a year and report that covered some of this stuff you brought up and we continue do this every year. This is a continual process and this is findings that we are summarizing for 2019. So today im going to go over some of the top for 2019. And im specifically going to talk about our project that prioritized pedestrians, people. Some of our projects that really helped increase a lot of the safety for biking and bicyclists. Some of our projects that pushed the envelope and put out innovative designs. Were going to talk about how people feel about our project. Some of our Public Perception surveys. Commissioner peskin youre frozen, ms. Lang. Chair yee youre back. Ms. Lang, when you get frozen again, try turning off your audio, maybe that would help not audio. Video. Video, sure. I think someone else is projecting the slides. So ill take off my video so it helps. So here we go. Key findings over the last year. Very similar to some of the things we found out in 2018. Our protected bike facilities are increasing ridership, reducing the blockage of bike lanes. Our safety projects are reducing vehicle speeds and improving our loading experiences. Same goes for some of our proactive neighborhood traffic calming which is leading to reducing vehicle speeds in the residential neighborhoods. The separated bike signals, reducing close calls between throughmoving vehicles and rightturning vehicles and turning bikes. And our quick build projects have been successful. They cost a fraction of the large Capital Projects and can be quickly implemented and are effective. Lastly, we heard from a wide range of voices and while we have some things to improve on, our new and improved facilities are making people feel safer and more comfortable. We also started to learn about some of the things that we need to improve on. This is really important because we need to tweak our designs continually and get better and better with how we put forward our projects. So we learned that our partially raised projects, especially in commercial corridors, may still require barriers to stop vehicles from entering. Some of our sequential bike signals have issues. Were still finding they help with avoiding the interactions between bikes and vehicles, but some of the compliance isnt there when the timing isnt right. Leftturn restrictions need enforcement and our large Capital Projects have long time lines and high price tags. They should be accompanied by quick build efforts to make changes as soon as possible. Lastly, we need more reporting on equity. While weve better represented a wider demographic, our program can go further to report on our process and our projects and how were doing with the most vulnerable communities. Next slide, please. So first, well review the projects completed in 2019 that prioritize pedestrians. Some of our major capital wide projects, like polk and second street. Sorry, i have a dog next to me making noises. Sorry. Different world right now. Sorry. So back to this, some of the major Capital Projects, resulted in lowered vehicle speeds. So on second street, we saw a 13 decrease in 85 percentile speeds and on poke, we saw 80 decrease. One of the quickbuilds we saw 20 . That shows you that both the capital and the quick build projects are having major effects on vehicle speeds. Commissioner peskin if you could for this ignorant commissioner, explain what an 85th percentile speed means. 85th percentile is different from the average vehicle speed because it is looking at what the vehicle is moving within an 85th percentile. [inaudible] commissioner peskin oops, weve lost you. [inaudible] chair yee so you were breaking up as you were making the last couple of sentences. We still cannot hear you. Youre still frozen, i believe. Commissioner peskin you might want to log in and log out. Or log out and log in. Chair yee, would you like us to move to the next item and come back . Chair yee i think so this is jamie, given the issues, i can try to give an abbreviated version of the presentation. I dont have as many details, it would be slightly shorter. If that is acceptable, i could give the rest of the presentation as she works on the technical issues. Chair yee i appreciate your offer. Were going to be asking a lot of questions. Talia, are you back yet . I am here. I can see you, but i dont know if you can see me. Chair yee i can see you and hear you. Okay. Great. So im going to keep going. Sorry, guys, for the pause. Not sure what is happening. Chair yee commissioner peskin had asked a question in terms of 85 percentile . And you were trying and we didnt hear anything. Okay. Yes, so 85 percentile basically is what is used to determine the speed limit. It kind of looks at the higher end of the egregious and takes that into account, rather than average speeds where it looks at the lower end and higher end. I dont know if it can be explained better, but i can come back with a detailed definition. What it is getting at is the higher end of the speeding issues rather than an average speed that looks at the whole range. Chair yee if you could explain on the 8th avenue neighborhood neighborway. Commissioner peskin the previous slide. That works, too. Chair yee yep. It has parentheses, 5 Miles Per Hour. So the excelsior neighborhood traffic calming there was 18 reduction in the average number of vehicles traveling over 20 Miles Per Hour. That gives you an indication of what is happening at the higher end of the speeds and the reduction that is happening there. Then it gives the 1 in the 85th percentile speeds, so the 10 different streets. What it is telling you, overall the speeds went down significantly in excelsior. For Golden Gate Park Traffic Safety, its similar. We put in crosswalks and speed humps and saw the vehicles traveling over 30 Miles Per Hour fall 42 parkwide. In 8th avenue, we saw 18 decrease in 85th percentile speeds and that was a decrease of 5 Miles Per Hour. So that is john muir boulevard we put in three raised crosswalks and we saw 85th percentile speeds full by 14 Miles Per Hour, or 43 to 29 Miles Per Hour. Thats a significant drop. And i just wanted to note that vehicle speed is perhaps the most single effective thing we can do to make pedestrians safer. Even small reductions in speed can dramatically affect the severity of the collision. The greatest thing to do to increase Pedestrian Safety is reduce speeds. What were seeing is the projects where we removed the lane of traffic and those really helped to reduce the speeds. And then our neighborhoodwide traffic calming projects are really doing this. Theyre really making a dent in reducing speeds and thats going to help with Pedestrian Safety. Commissioner peskin mr. Chairman, if i may, through the chair, is there any cross correlation to data relative to actual numbers of reductions in those thoroughfares or neighborhoods as it relates to crash data, injuries and fatalities . So, our program specifically doesnt look at much at the collision data because that takes a while to come through. Usually look at a fiveyear span. So were trying to look at the immediate beforeafter effects of the project and understand right away what is happening so we can make tweaks and changes to the next project or the same project. But, yes, as our projects have been in the ground for longer, we will go back and start to look at the collision data and see what is telling us well. Sometimes as well. Sometimes its inclusive of many things going on. For instance, the pandemic and the drop of vehicles out there. So some of our metrics that we use in our program really look at the specifics of what is out there, speeds before and after, and then some of the conflict data, so that we can understand in realtime what is happening and what the effect is. I can add to that as well, that while it may take a little time to get into the crash data to have a full picture, we know that reducing speeding is the number one thing we can do to improve Pedestrian Safety. If a pedestrian is struck by a car at 40 Miles Per Hour, they have Something Like a 95 chance of being a fatality. At 20 Miles Per Hour, they have a 95 chance of surviving. So when we see speed reductions on the project, we know that is going to result in a safety outcome as we look at the crash data down the line. Chair yee by the way, i personally have witnessed the slowdown around john muir boulevard as i go around it all the time. Its substantial in terms of the slowdown, so this data supports what ive seen. Great. Next slide. So looking at more loading behavior, in looking at one of our quickbuild projects, in the before condition, we saw 40 of loading occurring through double parking and after that, we saw 100 reduction in double parking due to the ample loading zone. On 6th street, we saw 9 reduction in double parking and 76 reduction in loading time. Again, another quickbuild project. As weve implemented the innovative projects, including our bike lane protect d like lane projects, were monitoring to make sure there is safe access to the curb for safety [inaudible] chair yee so youre breaking up again. Okay. Sorry. Is that a little bit better . Chair yee yeah. Okay. Sorry about that. Okay, so just mentioning that with a lot of our new projects and our innovative design, were making sure to continue to monitor how they perform in terms of access to the curb for our most vulnerable populations, including seniors, children and people with disabilities. And in light of that, we looked at valencia street closely to understand how that new boarding island worked with the School Children and the cyclists in terms of any conflicts. We observed no close calls at the new boarding island and we observed those during the peak times of the school hours. While the number of interactions did increase, the parties still yielded to each other, with pedestrians yielding to cyclists. Were continuing to look at that in detail. And starting a study to look at specifically our transit boarding islands and other features of accessible design and how theyre working with our new projects. And well have some more information about that over the next year. Masonic avenue is another project we looked at the transit boarding island and saw that the observed that bicyclepedestrian interactions were insignificant to the overall volume and there were no close calls observed. A close call, so everyone [inaudible] is a nearmiss. Weve tried to delineate how to observe certain interactions and a close call means there is something close to happening between a pedestrian and vehicle or a pedestrian and a bike. Next slide, please. So again looking a little deeper at safer taylor and the pedestrian yielding behavior happening there. We made some changes in the west crosswalk at taylor and ellis where we put in a new signal and we saw that the number of vehicles yielding to pedestrians during the morning peak increased by 58 . And close calls dropped from 14 to 0. Overall, the number of vehicles yielding to pedestrians increased by an average of 25 on both taylor and ellis greets and taylor and greery streets where we made signal changes. Next slide, please. So, when we incorporate a lot of our large corridor projects and we which usually include some sort of lane reduction, one Significant Impact is always vehicle travel time. And so understanding that and understanding the needs of the the balanced needs of the communities. Were trying to just understand what this does to travel time when which put in our improvement. And so on polk street, we saw that the vehicle traffic time increased by 3. 4 minutes during the morning peak. A note there, though, is that polk street was under construction at the same time that van ness is, so that increase could have been due in part to the van ness construction. On safe route taylor, the quick build, we saw a 35 second increase which is only a slight increase. On 6th street, we saw a vehicle travel time increase [inaudible] [inaudible] chair yee um. So so kalia is has a bad connection. Can you go ahead and complete . I can step in. Were running short on time. My lack of detailed knowledge will run through the additional slides quickly. So on the one of the things we were measuring for in the Evaluation Program is travel times, so even though our primary goal is safety, we want to make sure that the streets are working and not creating massive congestion. While we do see some increases in travel time, theyre pretty moderate. And far outweighed by the safety benefits of the project. Next slide. So im going to talk a little bit about some of the some of the specific findings from our bicycle project as well, because weve been investing a lot in protected bike facilities. One of things weve found, not surprising, when we put in protected bike facilities we see more cyclists using those streets. In particular where with eupgrade we upgraded from standards bike lanes to protected bike lanes to valencia street and 7th street, we saw increases of 50 in cycling over the next year during commute times. Next slide, one of the reasons were seeing that is because the experience of riding a bike on protected bike lane is much better than on the standard bike lane. We can see that in terms of the number of times you have to swerve around a vehicle that is blocking the bike lane. In valencia, 90 of the loading is taking place in the loading zone where its supposed to, where previously a large portion of loading was happening in the bike lane. Similarly on second street, we saw 90 reduction in blocking of the bike lane after we installed the protected facility on 2nd street. Because of partially because of the improved loading behavior, were seeing significantly reduced bike and vehicle conflicts. So on valencia street, a 99 reduction in interaction. If you were in the middle of the block, you had to worry about the double parked car, or the ups van, now with the protected facility, it doesnt happen. The close calls have been reduced as well. Commissioner peskin if we can go back to the last slide on polk street. The one thing that i am seeing is the delivery vehicles actually pulling into the bike lane through the starchens. I see it a lot, but on the lower part of polk street and it kind of raises enforcement questions. What is happening relative to enforcement of that kind of behavior . So, okay, first, we try to lead by providing appropriate loading goals. So on polk street, providing additional white and yellow zones. But where that does work, certainly enforcement. During shelterinplace there was a reduction in april to july in terms of what our ppos, our officers were out doing. I think they are enforcing doubleparking again now. So i dont have data if that changed behavior of polk. Commissioner peskin all you have to do is walk out of this building that im sitting in and walk three blocks up north of turk street and you will see it all the time. They just pull right through the stanchions, park in the middle of the bike lane and it happens with impunity all the time. Yeah. We can certainly pass that along. Ill say one thing we learned from valencia where we increased the number of tickets by 400 , that didnt see a significant reduction in double parking, its a design issue. So its either providing loading zones somewhere where people can use them, or changing maybe we need more posts on top. I dont know what it is, but sometimes its the importance of the flux of the design. We can look at that as well. Commissioner peskin commissioner haney and i are happy to do a site visit with you. Leave the building and walk up the street. Yep. One of the things that weve installed with a number of our recent bike projects is bicyclespecific signals. While theyre not perfect, theyre significantly better than the mixing zones weve installed previously. So weve seen over 80 of people biking complying with the signals. And over 90 of people driving are complying. And more importantly, were seeing a 90 reduction in the close calls that were observed at the signals through the mixing zones. The mixing zone suggests, youre mixing bikes and vehicles. You end up with a lot of close calls. So we found that the bike signals have improved things significantly. Next slide. So were continuing to tweak things and add innovative features where we can. Octavia, we closed the block. We put in a twoway facility on indiana street on the strained intersection there on 25th street. That is working there. Weve seen less illegal riding there. And we put special bike slots in on 8th avenue and observed that most cyclists are using them. And Going Forward well be using the bike slots as a standard feature. One thing mentioned earlier, in add to data, we want to understand how people are using the facilities and how they feel about it. We want to build streets that people want to be on. Generally were finding after the project, most people report feeling better on the street than they did before and that is regardless of whether theyre biking, walking or driving and thats true on valencia, as well as masonic. So Going Forward, this is an annual program we run for vision zero, so we want to continue building on the work that weve done and kalias team has done to evaluate every project we do. Were also challenged in 2020 to figure out how to do that with covid19, because its changed so many things. So were trying to figure out how do beforeafter data there. On our surveys, we wanted to make sure were getting a diverse Cross Section of all of San Francisco. And what we found is that maybe the people who are more transportation geeked than others are likely to fill out the surveys and we want to make sure were getting to everybody and getting true results of how people are feeling. Including new metrics on how were dealing with equities and serving the communities. Next slide. I think thats maybe all the slides. So i did my best there. Im happy to take questions and if talia is back on, she can help you out. Again, i apologize, im not sure what is going on with the connection. Thank you, jamie, for taking over. And im here to answer any specific questions and i can also followup individually with anybody that needs more information. We have a lot more detail than what is shown in the presentation. We also have our yearly report which is on our website which was listed in the last slide. So im happy to get you any more information if youre interested. Chair yee first of all, i want to thank you for the presentation and certainly in regards to these are concerning bike riders and traffic, a great presentation how it impacted that. Maybe im missing something here, but for the report, i felt like the discussion around pedestrians in general was kind of lacking. It talked about it a little bit, but it doesnt really indicate what kind of impacts any of that stuff is having. And so hopefully in the future when you do such a presentation, that it can be balanced a little more with some of the things were concerned about in regards to Pedestrian Safety. I think part of it is when you talk about all these projects, it doesnt really i dont know. Im not getting a sense that its almost twothirds of the presentation is about bike safety. And so i didnt get much of a sense what were doing for Pedestrian Safety. Are there things you didnt report on that youre doing . Would you know about . So i can try to speak to that, commissioner yee. Thank you for the comment. Yes, so you know, one of the major aspects of helping with the Pedestrian Safety is what i had mentioned before about decreasing speeds. So some of our projects are really our pedestrian focused projects are focused on that, the traffic calming work and the lane reduction work where the major move was to reduce the lanes of traffic to help reduce speeds. And that is probably the most significant thing we can do toward pedestrians. However, i hear you. There are other aspects were working on. I just wanted to remind, if you havent seen it, we did do a lot of work on evaluating painted safety zones and r. S. B. S, rectangular flashing beacons in our previous report. And daylighting as well. We looked at daylighting in the tenderloin and we continue to do so. As i said, this is sort of an iterative program, were continually evaluating things. Were going to look at pedestrian scrambles and how those are faring. And just another note is that some of the things that we have gotten asked to evaluate, such as leading pedestrian intervals which gives pedestrians a head start crossing the road, those are great features and were definitely incorporating them in our work as much as we can, however, those have a lot of nationwide Research Backing them up already. And so we can do some work to look at countermeasures across the city here, but we already know nationwide through indepth studies and that give us a wide range of statistics, that have a big sample size, that those kind of features really do work. But, yes, to your point, i mentioned this before, probably went in and out, but were looking at access to the curb in the next year. And in terms of how that affects seniors and people with disabilities. And seeing how our projects relate to that work and, you know, how theyre performing and how people feel about them. So well have even more information to come and we can take that note focusing more on pedestrians and specific features and try to improve on in the next year. Chair yee one of the comments that you made was that when you looked at some of the these situations where there might be close calls with collisions between bicyclists and pedestrians . And you said that the majority were you said the majority of the situations were there was a conflict, that the bicyclist yield to the pedestrian. Stop fort pedestrian. So im wondering when you say majority, is it 50 versus 95 . And the question then, do bicyclists that pedestrians have the right of way . Well, so that number varies from project to project, but its usually a significant majority, so not 50something, but Something Like in the 70 to 80 range if not higher. Generally speaking we see bikes yield to pedestrians. Almost all of the time. So we can do some more work in terms of understanding exactly what the education is around it, but what were seeing in our data, bicyclists do understand that they need to yield to pedestrians. Chair yee i would appreciate we do more work on that. Im seeing bicyclists go through and they know that pedestrians are crossing the street and it can get a little bit dangerous. One last question, i see that commissioner peskin is ready to ask some questions also. In regards to the streets that you did a lot of engineering and you saw there was a slowdown in the movement of traffic, were the signals in particular the oneway streets were they actual lly timed to slow down t traffic at all . So we did have some projects that incorporated signaltiming changes. Either to just help movement along during congestion periods and they sometimes make changes just to help the progression of the street, both for slowing down and helping with congestion. The project managers for those projects can answer that more specifically. But, yeah, usually there are signaltiming changes that occur as part of our larger corridorwide projects. Chair yee you may not have the answer for this, but i certainly would be interested. Would you make those adjustments on these signals in terms of how fast were timing things for . Are we seeing any difference in terms of vehicles trying to run or speed up to make these signals . Or is there a reduction . That information would be really important for me, because im thinking of some policy around signaltiming. Got it. So you want to understand if people are making sudden movements because of the signaltiming changes. Chair yee yeah. Theyve always done that, but has it increased, decreased or what . Thats what im curious about. We did do a study i think two or three years ago of how changing the signaltiming affected speeding. And we found that there was a measurable, but not huge benefit to it. So we can share that information. I think generally you one of the challenges im hearing from the program, data over years, but were presenting just one year of data. So i think we need to find a way to present the full body of what we learned and not just a year at a time, but well share the data on the signal timing changes that we have. Commissioner peskin thank you. Actually, the discussion just had was exactly where i was going to go, which is i think its very important to kind of standardize these reports as we gain more information. And to look at this longitudinally, because as this entire field is evolving, were getting snapshots and it would be really helpful to see if over a period of time. We saw some of those graphs that went back ten years, but if we could standardize that and start moving that forward with 2020 evaluation, i think that would be remarkably helpful. So it would be a gamut of things from daylighting to the the assessment of traffic signal upgrades. If we could see that longitudinally, that would be really helpful. But the reason that i put my name on the screen, mr. Chairman, is that it is possible, but unlikely, that we will have another Vision Zero Committee before you retire from this commission and this board of supervisors. So i just wanted to use the moment to thank you as a matter of personal experience that you survived, that you have really led the commission and board of supervisors on and have personally imbued into my policy thinking and came at a great personal tragedy to you, chairman yee. So i just really wanted to thank you for being a champion of vision zero, holding us all accountable. And i wanted to note that today, as we reach the Third Quarter of 2020, i just wanted to thank you for your leadership. Chair yee i appreciate it. Okay. Any Public Comments on this item . Yes, chair, there is Public Comment. Chair yee go ahead and invite the speaker. Welcome, caller. Your two minutes begins now. Go ahead, caller. Yes, your two minutes begins now. Yes. Go ahead, caller. [inaudible] [inaudible] chair yee could we go to the next call . Hello . Hold on just one second, chair. Caller, can you please hold on a second . Okay. Thank you, caller. Okay, the caller has moved on. Chair yee any other callers . No, chair. Chair yee Public Comment on this item is closed. This is informational item. So madame clerk, go ahead and call the next item. Clerk chair yee . Sorry for the interruption. This is the director of the t. A. Given the hour, i wanted to see if you wanted to continue the item to the full t. A. Board in october . I think this might be actually of interest to many colleagues, walk sf, deep outreach and engagement work on the congestion pricing topic. And i wanted to check to see if that was an option youd be interested in . Chair yee i think that is an excellent suggestion. I think others would be very interested on the topic. I will ask my colleagues. Do you feel we can move this item into the full Board Meeting in october . Commissioner peskin from one chair to another, actually, when i saw this on the agenda earlier, i think this actually transcends vision zero. I think it is a much larger area of Public Policy discussion. I really want to thank walk sf for the outreach work theyve been doing, but this goes well beyond vision zero and i think the appropriate forum even if it wasnt the late hour, i was going to say this earlier, would be the full t. A. I think this should involve all 11 members and the public at large. So, yes, i would be absolutely happy to accommodate that on our calendar for the first meeting of the t. A. In october. Chair yee okay. Commissioner peskin i see executive director chang giving me the actually second meeting, or its the peace symbol. So whatever staff thinks. Vice chair stefani i concur, yes. Chair yee well go ahead and move this to the full t. A. Meeting. All right . Move on madame clerk. Call the next item. Item 7, introduction of new items. This is an information item. Chair yee thank you. There is no new items. So we will any Public Comment on the no new items . There is no Public Comment. Chair yee okay. Lets move on then. Lets go to item number 8. Public comment. Clerk there is no Public Comment. Chair yee Public Comment is now