Transcripts For SFGTV BOS Public Safety And Neighborhood Services Committeee 20240712

Regular meeting of the Public Safety services committee. Im rafael mandleman, the chair of this committee, and im joined by our vice chair and supervisor, our clerk is john carroll. As usual, id like to thank the folks at sfgov tv for staffing the meeting and i. T. In lending their support. Mr. Clerk, do you have any announcements . I do. Thank you very much, mr. Chair. In order to protect the public, board member and City Employees during the covid19 health emergency, the board of supervisors legislative chamber and committee will close v. This was pursuant to declarations and directives. Community members will participate in the meeting to the same extent as if they were physically presentment Public Comment will be available for each item on this agenda. There a Public Comment callin number across your screenful your opportunity to speak and speak during Public Comment speder available via phone by calling 4156550001. Once youre connected and prompted, enter the meeting i. D. Of 1469328582. Then press pound twice to be connected to the meeting. When connected, you will hear the meeting discussion, but will be muted and your line will be in a listening mode only. When your item of interest comes up, dial star followed by 3 to be added to the speaker line. A system prompt will indicate that tough raised your hand. Please wait until the system indicates that youve been unmuted and may begin your comments. Best practices are to call from a quiet location to speak slowly and clearly and turn down your television, radio or streaming device. Everyone should can the for speaking delays and discrepancies between the live coverage and the straoel,. Alternatively, you may submit Public Comment by emailing me, the clerk of the Public Safety neighbourhood and services committee. My email address is john. Carroll sfgov. Org. If you submit Public Comment via email ill include your commentary as part of the legislationive file, whichever youre commenting on and you may send written comments via the u. S. Postal service and the address is 1 dr. Carleton goodlet place. And finally mr. Chair, items the acted upon today will appear on the board of supervisors agenda of october 20, 2020 unless otherwise stated. Great. Thank you, mr. Clerk. Can you call our first item . I can. A hearing to consider the transfer of a type21 offsale general beer, wine and distilled Spirits Liquor license to golden state food and liquor incorporated, located at 1859 market will serve the public convenience or necessity of the city and county. Members of the public that wish to provide Public Comment should call the Public Comment now. That number is 4156550001. Enter the meeting i. D. It is 1469328582. Press the pound symbol twice to connect to the meeting and then press the star key followed by the number 3 to enter the system to speak. A system prompt will indicate that you raised your hand. Please wait until it indicates that your line will be unmuted. Mr. Chair . Thank you, mr. Clerk. Colleagues, we continued this item on september 24. At the time there was some ambiguity about whether the applicant had agreed to all of the conditions of the license. I understand that we have [inaudible] from the a. L. U. Good morning. Good morning. Go ahead. Did we get documentation of agreement of the conditions . Yeah. It looks like as of october 1, the applicant signed and agreed to the condition that we presented at the last p. C. N. Great. Thank you. If the applicant is here, we can give you a moment to say anything else or if the applicant is not here, well go to Public Comment. Yeah, im here. We signed the conditions and we sent it out to the abc. Ok. Thank you. Lets open this up to Public Comment. Thank you, mr. Chair. Operations is checking to see if we have any caller in the queue. Please let us know if we have any callers that are ready to speak on agenda item number 1. If those who have already connected to our meeting via phone, please press star followed by 3 to be added to the queue if you wish to speak to this tome. For those on hold, continue to wait until youre prompted to begin. Those watching our meeting on cable channel 26 or streaming through sfgov tv. Org, if you wish to speak, please call in now by following the instruction on your screen. That would be by dialing 4156550001 and then by entering the meeting i. D. Of 1469328582 and pressing the pound symbol twice. You will connect to our meeting followed by press star followed by 3 to speak. Do we have any callers . Operator mr. Chair, there no caller in the queue. Great. Public comment is now closed. Colleagues, i am prepared to direct our clerk to prepare a resolution to transfer this license and will serve public convenience and necessity and i will move that we forward that to the full board with positive recommendations. Mr. Clerk, please call the roll. On the motion offered by chair mandleman that a resolution [inaudible] necessity be recommended to the board of supervisors [roll call] mr. Chair, there are three ayes. And the motion passes. Congratulations, mr. Sharif. And mr. Clerk, please call the next item. Agenda item number 2 is an ordinance amendsing the police code to make it unlawful to cause a peace officer to contact a person swt specific sfwoenlt discriminate against the person on the basis of the persons race, colour, ancestry, ethnicity, national origin, place of birth, sex or religion or gender identity. Members who wish to provide Public Comment on this ordinance should call the Public Comment number. It is still 4156550001. Then press pound twice to be connected to the meeting. When connected, you will hear the meeting discussion, but will be muted and your line will be in a listening mode only. When your item of interest comes up, dial star followed by 3 to be added to the speaker line. A system prompt will indicate that tough raised your hand. Please wait until the system indicates that youve been unmuted and may begin your comments. We will hear Public Comment before we vote. But i understand that supervisor walton may have remarks that also has a speaker for us. Supervisor walton . Thank you so much, chair mandleman. Thank you, again, committee. As you know, we have two amendments from our last Public Safety and Neighbourhood Services meeting for the [inaudible] and today we are going to close the loop on this and forfeit to the school board. Before we do, we have mr. Sal salvador to speak about Assembly Bill 5050 which is a similar bill that was introduced at the state legislature. I believe yurio is here and mr. Salvador, you are on if you are here. There we go. Yes, a imhere. Sorry. I was on mute. Committee, committee and supervisors. Im a legislative aide and im here to speak in support of item number 2 relating to discriminatory reports to Law Enforcement which is sponsored by supervisor walton. This year at the california state legislature, as the supervisor indicated, we introduced similar measures, ab5050 to address this issue. We subsequently merged with 807075 to join the efforts of our Public Safety chair. The aim was to provide that intimidation by threat of violence, including knowingly or recklessly making false claims or reports to peace officers alleging that another person was engaging in unlawful activity merely because of their particular [inaudible] such as race, ethnicity, racial profiling and so forth. It is an unlawful activity and should not require Law Enforcement intervention and so we basically try to balance not allowing discrimination of marginalized communities for basically living their lives out in public spaces, by providing a disincentive and legal accountability for those residents. The bill passed with strong bipartisan support as to both chambers and got assigned earlier in september by governor newsome. We think that this is very important step to ensuring that we have equity and making sure that our Emergency Responders do work for all of our constituents and i strongly urge a vote for item number 2. Great. Thank you. I want to thank you for introducing this. I want to thank all of my colleagues here on the board of supervisors for sponsoring this legislation, which is important. We need to do everything to fight racism and discrimination and stopping people from weaponizing 911 and using Police Officers against the community. Dining resumed. It is now set to expire at the point of 50 on site dining. But we know even then, as they were before the pandemic, restaurants will be struggling and while before this was about protecting restaurants, now its really about allowing restaurants to giving them the flexibility to build their own model. It sets a cap on the commissions and our legislation originally proposed a 10 cap among the amendments ill make this morning or present to the Commission Committee this morning, is to raise that from 10 to 15 . And then it addresses a whole host of other practices that weve seen emerge over the past year, year and a half. It would allow restaurants to set their own prices in the app on menu items. We were looking at contracts earlier this year, at the end of last year, that were actually setting a 30 cap on commissions and on top of that, prohibiting restaurants from having the flexibility to even recover some of that commission by setting a slightly higher price in the app. And i think what we were missing there was that Food Delivery Services were actually competing directly with the onsite Dining Experience on restaurants. And by saying you cant charge a higher price in the app than you charge for indoor dining, they were actually saying we want to peel off some of your Consumer Base that enjoys the on site Dining Experience for the delivery app and we dont want them to face a higher price and that was kind of a problematic a really problematic point were addressing in this legislation. There were other really key parts in the legislation. This morning ill talk about an amendment that requires third Party Food Delivery Service Companies to terminate a contract within 72 hours of receiving notice from a restaurant, that they would like to terminate. And on top of that, one last piece that actually was the subject that state legislation recently, which prohibits Delivery Services from providing services to any restaurant without first having a written agreement in place. And that addresses the problem that we were observing where restaurants are being lifted on some of these Food Delivery Service apps and their menus were inaccurate. The restaurant would receive an order and have to hustle around and figure out how to make the order that was no longer reflected on the menu. That was because of the accuracy of a informed and apparent written agreement between the Food Delivery Service app and the restaurants. So im happy to walk through the amendments now. We can wait until after Public Comment in the chair prefers. This is genuinely about restaurant recovery to that end, we have i am also proposing and this is the subject this has been the subject of a lot of conversation with our Restaurant Industry stakeholders and the Food Delivery Service companies, a two year sunset in this legislation. Really and that twoyear flash point has become relevant in a few other context. Whether thats shared spaces, fee waivers. Whether thats prop s. That twoyear recovery thing is reflected in a lot of other policies and im proposing we introduce that here. I think this is a fast moving conversation. These are quickly evolving conversations both on the delivery side and i think that two years provides restaurants the space they need to recover while respecting we might live in a very different world and this conversation may look a lot different in two years. With that, ill stop talking or at the chairs recommendation, i will walk through the amendments, or i can do that after Public Comment. Why dont you walk through the amendments . Sure. So first, there is a new finding which we would like to insert at the bottom of page 4, reflecting the rationale of the legislation to require the restaurants express consent and also giving third party Food Delivery Services the option to terminate contract promptly. Moving through this legislation, at the bottom of page 5, the amendments that are circulated reflect our the place where we are at right now, which is to raise the proposed 10 tax to 15 cap. Again that reflects the 15 in the mayors supplemental declaration and the understanding there being that 15 has actually been working for most of the restaurants that were talking to. Moving down on page 6, a new subsection c, this would make explicit an allowance for Food Delivery Services to charge a point of sale processing fee up to 3 of the purchase price. And further require that 3 point of sale be itemized separately in the agreement so that it is distinct from the 15 Commission Cap. Moving down at the bottom of page 6, a new section, 5305, prohibition on Services Without written consent by a covered establishment. Now this was, again, the subject of state legislation, so this merely reflects what the state Legislature Just passed and requires that third party Food Delivery Services enter into a written agreement with a restaurant before offering Delivery Services to that restaurant through the app. On page 7, a new section, 5306, termination of the Services Within 72 hours of notice by a covered establishment. Again i spoke this to this. This allows the flexibility to provide written or oral notice to a Food Delivery Service app and be able to remove themselves off the app within 72 hours of that notice. And in the interest of trying to ensure that there is a person available to issue that communication to, weve issued weve included a variety of options. Whether that is an individual whose name is in the written agreement with the restaurant. I think the bestcase scenario is its an easy Customer Service point of contact in the app itself. Or the agent on the california secretary of states website. I think amendments on page bottom of the page 7 are nonsubstantive, just correcting the code citation, the numbers to reflect the proper cross references and that continues through page 8 as well as page 9. And then lastly, on page 10, as i spoke to, we are proposing a sunset date and that occurs and this will be removed from the police code two years from the Effective Date of this ordinance. Of course, the board can act in that interim two years to further extend this or to modify this based on whatever conditions were observing in this quickly evolving space in the next two years and that concludes the proposed amendments. Thank you. I notice that we have here as well, and wanted to see if you wanted to add anything. Are you just here for questions . [please stand by] [please stand by] there for theo review, but the commission did take action on this item and chose to unanimously support it to give an indication of the direction of which the commission determines that we need to go in to support our Small Businesses. Ive reviewed amendments that mr. Hepner has provided the committee, and these are very much along the lines of these additions are welcome additions and are along the lines of needs expressed by the commission and our Small Businesses. So just to provide you with that information as well. And with that, i will be happy to answer any questions. Thank you. Well, i think we can well, i will just say that i this is legislation, this is the kind of legislation that makes me proud to be a san franciscan. This seems like local government is identifying a vexing and real problem for our Small Businesses, particularly for our restaurants, and stepping in and doing some smart things to try and address those, those needs and those challenges, and i certainly want to thank supervisor peskin, and as come to be known, the lovely lee hepner, mr. Hepner, for all of your work on this as well. And with that, i think we can open this up for Public Comment. Thank you, mr. Chair. Operations is checking to see if we have any callers in the queue. Please let us know. Please press star followed by 3 to be added to the queue to speak if this is your item of interest. For those already on hold in the queue, please continue to wait until you are prompted to begin. You will hear a prompt that indicates your line is unmuted. For those watching online or on tv, if you wish to speak on this item, please call in now. You would do so by following the instructions on your screen, 4156550001. When prompted, you would then enter the meeting id of 1469328582, and then you would press the pound symbol twice. Then finally to queue up to speak for this item, you press star followed by three to enter the line to speak. Could you connect us to the first caller for this agenda item . Members of this committee, good morning. My name is brent wescot and im a legislative policy advisor at a San Franciscobased company which also includes the caviar grand. I want to thank the committee for this thoughtful consideration of this important issue. This conversation is occurring at a critical moment for restaurants, and we know that we have a special responsibility to them, our customers and delivery drivers and Diverse Communities we serve. I also want to thank supervisor peskin for his leadership and willingness to engage stakeholders on this issue. We look forward to continuing this work over the next few weeks. Our goal is to give restaurants choice. Many of our Restaurant Partners offer delivery using door dash drive, which allows orders received directly by the restaurant in exchange for a flat free. Others use the marketplace in exchange for a negotiated percentage of the order subtotal, and through our main street strong initiative, door dash now helps restaurants create their own online pickup or delivery for a flat fee and no commission, and those restaurants with fewer than five locations will pay no fees at all for this service through the end of 2020. These products and services are available today to restaurants in San Francisco and throughout the country. In addition to offering delivery and pickup, restaurants on our platform have the option to pay for a varieties Marketing Program that helps restaurants attract new customers and drive sales. These Marketing Programs are completely optional and door dash never charges a restaurant a fee or commission for these programs without the restaurants consent. Going forward, we hope that this committee and the board will consider clarifying the ordinance for restaurants who wish to pay more could participate in these optional Marketing Programs may continue to do so. Restaurants who choose not to participate would still have the option of arranging for delivery and pickup at the 15 rate. This clarification would allow restaurants to continue to choose the option that works best for their business. And lastly, we suggest that formula retail use restaurants be excluded from the ordinance as in the mayors current order. Thank you for your time. We look forward to speaking with you again soon. Thank you. Next speaker. Good morning, supervisors, i am the director of Public Policy at the golden gate restaurant association. I am calling on behalf of the incredible Restaurant Community we represent. Thank you for hearing this item. We are very supportive of this legislation and the longerterm Commission Cap to level the Playing Field for San Francisco restaurants. We are comfortable with the 15 cap amendment added as it is generally been working during the emergency period. We are also comfortable with this twoyear sunset as we anticipate 2021 to be another year and hope 2022 can be rebuilding. With no federal relief on the horizon, this cap is necessary for our livelihood. We want to thank supervisor peskin and legislative aide hepner for working with us to faunt find a solution to support our restaurants. We want to continue to have dialogue on all sides. We have been working on this legislation prior to the pandemic and im glad to see it move through the legislative process. Thank you for your time today. Thank you. Next speaker. Hey, everyone, i am calling as the president of the San Francisco entertainment commission, but today im speaking as a civilian and on behalf of the San Francisco Bar Owner Alliance and San Francisco Small Businesses. We are very much in support of passing this legislation as it currently stands. Its hard to describe how devastating the pandemic has been for our Small Businesses and for our small restaurants, and in many cases its made them more reliant on delivery apps than ever, and you couple that with the fact that delivery apps have traditionally shown themselves able and willing to engage in predatory practices in price gouging in order to maximize their profits over our Small Businesses, so were hoping very much that you will pass this. And as a final note, you know, i just want to say, everybodys being very diplomatic and thats great, but i have deep reservations about the commitments that these delivery apps actually have to our communities. I think they spend a lot of money on marketing, but when it comes down to it, they are focused on market share and building profit and gaining footing in all costs for their investors, and i would just indicate that one of the largest delivery apps, the person who benefits the most from its growth is somebody who had a Washington Post journalist murdered and cut up with a bone axe, a bone saw just a year ago. So i think that would give anybody some skepticism as to how much they truly care about our small restaurants and neighborhoods in San Francisco. So thank you very much and we hope this will pass. Thank you. Next speaker . Hi, my name is peter, and i live in district five. Please ignore the door dash ad and that the rep cited earlier and delivery App Companies voluntarily for a limited time should exempt them from legislation [indiscernible] forever. Please make that fair Playing Field regardless of what the App Companies promise. Thank you. Thank you. Next speaker. Mr. Chair, that completes the queue. Great. Public comment is now closed. Mr. Hepner, do you have any final remarks . Vice chair stefani, youre in the queue. Great. I do have a question, and its based on enforcement in penalties. It looks like thats in section 53089 c , and im looking at the penalty amounts, and it looks like its 1,000 per violation, and im wondering if thats not enough and how you came up how we decided on that amount, and i ask because we know that weve had penalties in other ordinances that didnt work, you know, with the store front, vacant storefront ordinance, which was just 750 and a lot of people just thumbed their nose on it and could easily afford it which led to another measure, as you know, mr. Hepner. So im wondering how did you come up with the 1,000 per violation . And basically based on other comments as well, is that enough . Right, and you know, i will be the first to admit that the amount of that penalty has not been at the center of the conversation, so i really appreciate the question. I believe that 1,000 amount has been used in other contexts, and i would look to the City Attorney for advice on how high that needs to be. I am happy to engage in that conversation. Really what were hoping is that, you know, we can reach an agreeable point with thirdParty Food Delivery service apps so that compliance is really at the center of this. I mean, i think with all of our legislation, ensuring a seamless implementation of compliance obviates the need for enforcement, and certainly that 1,000 will be a deterrent to bad apps, but i think weve really been kind of focusing on something that people can comply with. Im happy to engage in that discussion over the next couple of weeks before the next committee hearing. Great, and i think it can pass at 1,000, and if there is abuse, then we can revisit it and increase the amount if we have to. I was just curious if there was a rhyme or reason, but i appreciate that answer. And i just would like to make some remarks that i want to thank supervisor peskin for bringing this forward. It is so absolutely necessary based on so many of the Restaurant Owners that i know that have talked to me about this situation, and you know, as amazing as it is to see all of the Outdoor Dining in our streets right now, we know that i think, anyway, and what ive heard, it really paints a deceptively rosy picture of the state of our restaurants. Like our Small Businesses, neighborhoodserving businesses, we know that they are clinging to life, and so many of our restaurants are. According to a report from the chamber in august, restaurant sales are down 91 compared to last year, and half of our restaurants dont have any sales at all. Delivery we know is one of the few lifelines available, and it could continue to be that way until our residents feel safe to eat indoors and employment returns to normal. Food Delivery Services that engage in price gouging will destroy the industry they rely on for survival. Prior to the emergency order limiting delivery fees, all of the restaurants ive heard from say that they are powerless to stop these Delivery Services from siphoning off what little they make from each transaction. So i think putting up more permanent antigouging controls in place is incredibly necessary, and i would like to be added as a cosponsor. Thank you again, mr. Hepner. I think this is very legislation, and thank you to supervisor peskin for bringing it forward. Thank you, vice chair stefani. I do think a thousand dollars per violation if the App Companies dont get their act together could add up very quickly to quite a lot of money, but anyway, it sounds like that conversation will continue. So with that, i will make a motion that we accept the amendments brought to us by supervisor peskins office. On the motion as offered by chair mandleman to accept the motion, vice chair stefani . Aye. Member walton . Aye. Chairman maendelman . Aye. So the motion passes and then those are substantive amendments and i believe we need to continue this item, and so i will move that we continue this item as amended to the october 22 regular meeting of this committee. On the motion that the item be continued as amended to october 22, regular Public Safety Neighborhood Services committee meeting, vice chair stefani . Ayn. Member walton . Aye. Chair mandelman . Aye. Mr. Chair, there are three ayes. Great. The motion passes. Thank you. Mr. Clerk, can you please call our next item . Agenda item no. 4 is a heerg on essential frontline workers in both the public and private sectors and to explore their working conditions and treatments with an emphasis on the covid crisis and Racial Disparities. Members of the public who wish to provide Public Comment on this hearing should call the Public Comment number, 4156550001, enter the meeting id for todays meeting, 1469328582, press the pound symbol twice to connect to the meeting, and then press the star key followed by the number three to enter the queue to speak. The system prompt will indicate that you have raised your hand. Please wait until the system indicates that you have been unmuted and you may then begin your comments. Mr. Chair . Thank you, mr. Clarke. Do we have supervisor safai here . I do not see that he is connected to the meeting, mr. Chair. The chair so items four and five are supervisor safais. Why dont we recess for five minutes and get supervisor safai over here. And so well, lets say well be back at 10 55. 10 55. The. We are reconvened. Item 4 has been called. This is supervisor safais item. Supervisor safai has joined us. Take it away. Thank you, chair. Thank you, folks. I was just clicking on when you called the recess, so i appreciate taking a moment to give me a time to join. But todays hearing is about we have been going through this crisis, as all of you know, for the past eight months, and theres been a lot of conversation at this committee and at the board of supervisors and with the department of Public Health talking about our frontline essential workers, the treatment that they receive by the city, the treatment in terms of how they have been impacted by covid, looking at the Racial Disparities, but there hasnt been a lot of conversation really about private sector essential frontline workers, and so we called our hearing. We had to postpone it a couple times because committees were canceled or a little bit full, and i know that folks have been waiting for this for some time, so i appreciate your patience, but those frontline workers have a story to tell, and they have questions to ask, and they would like to see what the citys response is as it pertains to private sector frontline workers. Today were joined by jim araby from local 5 that works with our retail clerks and frontline essential workers in Grocery Stores all across the city. They are joined by siu local 87, janitor. Were going to hear from vicepresident theresa rutherford. We are also joined by local 2015, daisy mccarthy, inhome health care workers, support service workers. We will hear from [indiscernible] 15, multiple sclerosis kayla samborn hums, and shes going to talk about some of the experience of workers at mcdonalds, along with we drive progress, mckayla edwards, a gig driver, talking about the treatment that she has and her experiences. Were also asked the department of Public Health to come and present, as well as the office of labor standards and enforcement. So were going to start with the two departments today, ask them to say some to give some opening remarks, and then we will go to the folks that i mentioned. I just wanted to underscore that we want to hear directly about the existing working conditions of these workers, of their treatment in the workplace, any Racial Disparities as they help us navigate and survive this ongoing coronavirus. And as you all know, folks, covid19 is on track to unfortunately take the lives of over 211,000 individuals in this country, and as we learned in the past week, even our nations current occupant of the white house is not immune to this disease. So we know that no one is immune or exempted, but unfortunately there are many millions across this country who dont have the same resources that many of us do of funding, the protective equipment or the ability to stay home and work remotely, like we all are right now. And to shelter, to either quarantine, recover if they have been exposed at all. And the folks that im talking about, as ive mentioned today, are our frontline essential workers. And so we have, as i said, we have antors, Grocery Store clerks, service providers, weve asked all of them to come today, share their story and ask questions. So were going to start with mr. Pat mulligan, the director of the office of and standards. Well have him speak, and after well have the principal environmental inspector from the department of Public Health go, and then well hear from the respective folks in the different groups that ive mentioned. Before director mulligan starts, because there are so many speakers for this hearing, which is important, we have worked with supervisor safais office to agree on some time constraints, and so director mulligan, i think you should be aware that were going to ask you to keep your remarks to eight minutes or fewer and a little alarm will go off, and if youre still going, i will probably ask you to try to wrap up at that point. Thank you, supervisor mandelman, Deputy Walton and supervisor safai, i assure you i will be brief and make myself available to respond to any questions that come up. Just as kind of some background, in october 2000 San Francisco board of supervisors voted unanimously to establish the office of labor standards enforcement, so its 20 years this month as an action of the board of supervisors. We enforce local labor laws adopted by San Francisco voters, like the San Francisco minimum Wage Ordinance, currently 16. 07 an hour, one of the highest in the nation, as well as San Franciscos paid sick leave ordinance, the first of their kind in the nation, as well as laws passed by the board of supervisors, approximately 30, including San Franciscos Health Care Security ordinance, paid parental leave ordinance and retail employee rights ordinance as well as many others. Many of the laws apply citywide with various thresholds of employment. Some apply to all employers, and employers of five or more, employers of 20 or more and recently with one of the emergency ordinances of 500 or more. So various thresholds of application. Other laws apply specifically to city contracts, leases and others doing business with the city. Those would include San Franciscos Health Care Accountability ordinance, San Franciscos living Wage Ordinance or mco, and prevailing wage retirements, both the traditional prevailing wage as well as the ten classifications that are unique to the city and county of San Francisco. For San Franciscos contract laws, we do proactive outreach and monitoring as there is a higher standard for any businesses that are directly contracting with the city or using City Services or resources. For all other labor laws, osc enforcement is complaintbased. Typically the complaint is made to our office. There is an initial assessment and intake of those within one business day. So thats typically same day or within 24 hours, depending on weekends or public holidays. Theres additionally there is some assessment complaints come in from outside San Francisco, people trying to assert that, you know, San Franciscos paid sick leave law in alameda law or san mateo, certainly its not within our jurisdiction, and theres always special circumstances. Once weve determined that there is potential violation, well initiate a comprehensive investigation and audit that would be businesswide, and with a threeyear audit period for those periods. At that point we would make a determination for penalties and restitution. Employersupported due process through an appeal hearing or [indiscernible] one or the other, and then finally collections and distribution. Regarding essential workers, which is the topic of todays hearing, San Franciscos office of labor enforcement is very busy during this period of pandemic and state of emergency, so the only workers that have been active through much of this time has been essential workers. In addition to that, we are implementing several new policies established by the board, and one from emergency provision by the mayor, including San Franciscos Public Health emergency leave ordinance, the employee protection ordinance, health 10 requirements for specified covid19 essential service contracts, and covidrelated employment protection ordinance, and then also as youre all aware, pending board of supervisors the healthy airport ordinance. I am excited to say that just during this period of state of emergency that the office of labor standards enforcement has issued over 8 million in restitutional workers for labor violations just during this state of emergency. And thats my summation. Thank you, supervisors. Thank you. Mr. Mull began, director mulligan, you can just hang tight because were going to have questions. So the next person that were going to hear from i think is the Principal Environmental Health inspector Terrence Hong, and i know we also have dr. Jessica bloom and dr. Susan stokes. Is dph here . Oh, we cant hear you. Youre on mute. Oh, i hi, sorry about that. Youre going first, jessica . Present is can i share my screen . Okay. Great. And again, were going to ask you to keep your presentation to eight minutes. Sure. Thank you all for allowing us to present today. My name is jessica bloom, and i have been working with the department of Public Health within Community Mitigation branch on the workplace response to covid19 and will be presenting some of our work with Terrence Hong today. So just a quick overview of the Community Mitigation branch. This is a branch that works with impacted areas in the community to provide education and Technical Assistance in covid19 prevention and mitigation. And you can see workplaces and businesses are one of the hubs within this group. Not every workplace is covered by this hub because some groups of special populations, including home care workers, workers at senior facilities for Health Care Institutions are followed by other groups. So the workplace hub has several activities. The Overall Mission is to work with employers in San Francisco to implement department of Public Health recommendations to reduce the threat of covid19 in workplaces. The hub has been very busy since march following up on workplace exposures, meaning when someone who tested positive for covid19 worked during their infectious period. They are bay area jurisdictions in calling every workplace that they are notified about to provide mitigation guidance in this instance. They also staff the employer and workplace phone line to answer questions and provide guidance. They follow up on workplace outbreaks, which we define as three or more cases within 14 days at a San Francisco workplace. They follow up, investigate and provide consultation to reduce transmission and protect workers. They also refer [indiscernible] of two or more cases to Environmental Health, and Terrence Hong will speak more about their inspection protocol. Finally we follow up on data to help guide our answer. So how do we identify workplace exposures . The main source of data for this work are people who test positive themselves and their voluntary cooperation. So when San Francisco residents test positive for covid19, their laboratory provider is required to report to the department of Public Health. These cases are assigned for an interview and a trained case investigator will call each case. We reach over 80 of people who test positive. They are asked about exposures, including whether they worked during their infectious period, and if they consent to have their workplace notified, the workplace hub will go ahead and follow up on that exposure notification. Thats the main way that we find out about people through work. Other sources of that information include other Bay Area Health departments for people who live outside of San Francisco. We also hear directly from employers who find out about their workers who tested positive, and of note, construction cases in San Francisco, we require their general contractor to report. We also sometimes hear about cases through complaints to 311. [indiscernible] about exposures in the workplace, they follow up. Once the case reports that they worked, they are asked to provide permission to contact their manager or hr supervisor. Once that permission is granted, the workplace hub will follow up and provide prevention and mitigation guidance to their provider, including advice on masking and social distancing. Importantly identifying close contacts in the workplace to the case, as well as the San Francisco guidance, including mandatory employee system and contact screening, isolation and quarantine guidance, returntowork guidance, and mandatory reporting of outbreaks. Finally, the employer is asked to send a list of close contacts to our Contact Tracing team who will follow up and ensure that contacts are tested and offer them resources to assist with their quarantine. This is a summary of exposure notifications on a weekly basis since march the shelterinplace first started, and you can see the workplace hub has been very busy calling workplaces and providing Technical Assistance to employers since the very beginning. I will note again that this is not a comprehensive list of all workers since we rely on people selfreporting and on other local Health Jurisdictions reporting about their residents. Im moving on to workplace outbreak identification. We follow the California Department of Public Health definition of a workplace outbreak of three or more cases in a 14day period. We also follow up closely in the case after two or more cases in a food preparation facility. We in San Francisco have decided to do that based on concerns about the risk in food preparation facilities. And on the right you can see a summary of outbreaks starting in july. The most impacted industries have been construction and restaurants or some other Frontline Industries. So workplace hub response to outbreaks once they are reported. Two or more cases in a food preparation facility we immediately refer to Environmental Health who will conduct an inspection site visit. In the case of outbreaks of three or more cases, hub [indiscernible] and provide consultation, primarily focused on determining whether the plethora of cases workplace transmission or Community Transmission and provide Mitigation Strategy to reduce ongoing transmission, including assessing the physical space and ensuring physical distancing is implemented but industryspecific guidance is implemented that employees are notified and supported and that close contacts in the workplace are referred to testing. And finally if there is any evidence of sustained transmission in the workplace from a site inspection, an interview or epidemiologic data, the Outbreak Management Team is notified, and once we have staffing we plan to also conduct site visits in addition to the Environmental Health inspections. And with that, ill turn it over to Terrence Hong to present on the Environmental Health aspect of the work. Thank you, jessica, good morning, supervisors, and thank you, supervisor safai, to bring this important discussion to the topic of discussion. Most of you already know who the Environmental Branch is with the various theres 45 articles in the sf health code. This branch probably touches on all of them to some extent, and we have 30 programs here i think just a twosecond overview, the most notable ones are the ones that are kind of in the media the most, the cannabis program, the massage program, Hazardous Materials and then [indiscernible] probably the most [indiscernible] is the food Safety Program, and today i will talk about our involvement with covid. The first screen you see kind of indicates [ alarm ]. Our involvement in a variety of ways. You see there are 524 single occupancy rooms that were inspected, sros were inspected by this department. I think thats an underreported number with 2,808, but that was the most recent number i could get, food facilities. The phone calls should probably be switched. The number i want to highlight first is the 43,000. Those were all the food facility correspondence we made in sharing the health order and sharing the Health Directives with them, with the operatives out there, where the frontline workers work. And then the free mask distribution was also something we participated with them, and that was distributed to any of the food facilities that may have had a need for such. Can i trouble you to move me to the next slide . Thank you. So you know, in our background with food safety, you know, whats been helpful is that we do have a multilingual inspector base. Not only can we give our food safety presentations in spanish, english, chinese, arabic, russian, punjabi and hindi, but we thought this would be good use too in this covid time. So when we go out to the facility, we are more than happy to explain something that didnt translate properly in an email. Some of the orders and directives get translated by the covid command center, but even that might be too comprehensive for potentially a mom and pop i dont want to stereotype, but our services are open to any of the people that we regulate and try to help. The next bullet point speaks about noncompliance food facilities that might be issued cease and desist orders and permit suspensions. This is true to the extent that we have a recalcitrant operator. The first mode of operation is always education. Were [indiscernible] jessicas group, and we go out there and we try to see the real world conditions out there, because you can you know, you can sort of academically understand that everything jessicas group is teaching or explaining to you and receive all their documentation, but unless youre actually implementing it, it doesnt do you any good. And because we have a relationship with these operators out there, we sort of for the purposes can go out there and start this dialogue with them and answer their questions. And then to the extent that we really do have someone who may be choosing to operate willfully against the orders, we do involve the city permits. And i have one more slide, jessica. Can you get me to that one, please . And so how do we respond to you know, so we havent since day one, the eighth months that supervisor safai [indiscernible] we ourselves are essential workers. We have not there is not one day where we havent been out of this. We are boots on the ground. We are in those same locations with all these essential workers, so theres a lot of empathy and understanding on what risk they expose themself to, because in many ways we expose ourselves to those same risks. When do we go out there . We go out there for any public 311 complaint. We do that typically by the order that it comes in. That could be from the public or it could be from an employee, and im sure well hear more of that from the frontline workers in a moment. The City Attorney referrals do jump the line to some extent. What this tells us is that this is a recalcitrant owner or operator, and they are getting closer and closer to enforcement. Again, our this is new to everyone, the new normal, so we do want to focus on education. But there is a point where Public Health trumps the learning curve and we have to cite a permit, like we saw in the previous slides, that the City Attorney plays a role in that regard. The biggest one that jumps the line is Community Mitigation. Thats part of jessicas group. Now were not talking about someone complaining. This is a labtested, confirmed, covidpositive case. For all the reasons i mentioned earlier where you really need someone at the facility because they are not cookie cutter, the information jessicas group gives them is excellent and if they follow all of that i really believe that, you know, we would be able to mitigate the spread of this disease. But sometimes understanding it academically is not the same as implementing it. So when we go out there, we do a complains check, and we would do this for any restaurant, but on top of that, were talking about referrals from the Community Mitigation center, were also talking about making sure that they understand what they have to do with Contact Tracing, that they understand the difference between isolation and all the different parameters of how many days, because it can get a little it can get a little bit complicated when they are also trying to run a business as well. I think we play a role we are aware a lot of [indiscernible] so were the familiar people because we do their food safety, but were also trying to usher in this kind of unknown information that is relevant and important that allows them the ability to stay open. With that ill switch myself back on mute. You may be muted. Is anyone else from dph going to present or is that everybody . I think susan may have something to say. Youre on mute. Thank you. No, i dont have any additional presentations, but i am here to answer questions if thats helpful. Okay. Well, yes, please. We will there will be questions. Okay, so were going to start with the first speaker, the president of sciu local 87, also the secretary treasury of the San Francisco labor council, if shes online. And i think were asking the remainder of the speakers to try to keep themselves to four minutes, if they can. Yeah. Thats right. Hello . Oh, there she is. Can you guys see me . Well, what a great morning. What a great way to start the day. Im standing here with our members who are getting ready to go out and picket. Hi, good morning. We figured that in the fact that they couldnt speak, at least they could get behind me when im doing this presentation, very brief. I want to thank supervisor safai for doing this, calling for this hearing. I also want to thank chair mandelman, vice chair stefani and also one of our resolves as well, i would say its just really incredible that the work that we have done. I know that our supervisor walton has been somebody that is all about community and family, and the signs that people, our members are holding is today were going to be doing a commemoration of ten of our members that have already passed away in the industry. Its not something that we wear the crown or something were proud of. These are things that could have been prevented. Right now we are in the middle of a huge Contract Campaign with Building Owners in San Francisco and the San Francisco Contractors Association. I want to be able to tell you that two minutes cannot i cant wrap up everything that our members have been going through for the last eight months. I can tell you you have four minutes. Thank you. I cant tell you how challenging and difficult its been that my position as a labor president has evolved into also helping families plan for the whatifs and a lot of funeral arrangements. We are essential workers, and we have been sent back to the buildings to clean. We believe, and it is our opinion, and experts have also confirmed this, that the reliance and opening of our industry is going to really rely on the hands of the janitors. We want to be able to work to live, but we should not be fighting our employers able, abm, genesis, we should not be fighting them to give us gloves, to give us face masks. A lot of the members standing behind me have had to bring their own gloves, their own masks. There are a lot of protections that they are being afforded, and right now we have members, as i mentioned, that have passed away, and i can tell you that all of that could have been prevented. Employers are soo scared to want to be too scared to want to be able to tell a Building Owner that there are people that need these supplies. Right now in these contract negotiations, Building Owners have said that they will give us six shirts, but they are not willing to give us a raise. They are not willing to give us gloves, protections on the job that we need. Its embarrassing that the majority of the covid19 cases, the numbers for latino, black and minority immigrant communities are the highest numbers, and think about who is cleaning those buildings. That is us. Building owners and the San Francisco Contractors Association have to do better than just give us shirts. We appreciate that the board of supervisors is having this hearing today. We celebrate that, but at the same time, our families are being put on the a sacrificial, whereas other people who are more affluent and rich have been able to take to the hills and leave us to be able to clean everything up. We understand that after every national epidemic, after every national tragedy, it has been immigrants and people of color that have rebuilt this country, this state, this city. But what we are asking today is nothing unreasonable than to be able to get a fair contract, fair pay and protections on the job. We want to be able to assure Office Workers that they should be able to come back to work safely, and that is going to be reliant on workers. [ alarm ]. Like our members to be able to have what they need. We, our families, are also on the line, but we want to be able to reassure Office Workers that they too should deserve to have those protections because we will be taking care of the hygiene and cleanliness in the building, and in order to be able to do that, the Companies Instead of leaning in and being leaders of industry, they have ran for the hills and do not want to be able to offer these protections. And its not just our city. We are asking San Francisco, our board of supervisors, to be able to have a resolution on being able to offer these, guarantee these protections at every industry. Only then can we really reassure that workers can come back to work safely, that they wont have to be able to kiss their babies and not sure if they can come back. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you, president miranda. Our next speaker is going to be mr. Jim araby from ucfw local 5. Youre on mute. There you go. Thank you. Can you hear me . Yes. Thank you, supervisors, supervisor safai, mandelman, stven and walton for holding this important hearing. Its hard to follow what what olga just laid out for the workers that she represents. I think she made a very compelling case of what all essential workers represent, so we represent grocery workers and cannabis workers who have been on the front lines of this pandemic since the very beginning, and just to give a little taste nationally, about 13,000 grocery workers have died, have contracted the virus and died inside of Grocery Stores across this country. Within our jurisdiction, weve had over 200 members that have contracted the virus and five members that have passed away, and i will break it down into three markets. One is the health and safety of the workers. Two is how are they rewarded with, they are putting themselves on the front lines, and the third thing is how the business is actually changed because of the covid crisis, especially in the grocery industry. And what has happened is primarily 95 of our employers have provided p. P. E. And proper sanitation procedures, but within that 95 , about half of our members report that these procedures, they do not have proper training on, that they do not quite understand how to actually implement some of these procedures, and then they struggle with customers coming in to stores and fighting with them to put masks on, even in the liberal bay area there have been many instances where customers have gotten into fights with our members. We have had many members actually get into physical altercations in front of the store trying to enforce Mask Policies, and most stores ask the 17, 18 and 19yearold members to try and enforce these Mask Policies for customers, and you know, for the most part there is compliance, but there are instances in which, you know, a 40yearold man will come in and will deny the imposition of the mask and feel like were putting them like were impacting their freedom to choose to come in or not. And so thats been a real serious issue for a lot of our members. You know, the other big thing that has happened is within the grocery industries, theres been a lot of issues of mental health. We have a lot of our members who have reported high levels of anxiety and mental and depression as it relates to sort of coming in and putting themselves at risk on a daytoday basis, and worried about coming home to their families and have it passing on, passing on the disease to their older relatives that they may live with. So these have been real big issues within the grocery industry that our members have faced. That being said, we have appreciated the responsiveness from both the local counties, such as San Francisco and the state, that have passed multiple levels of measures of protection, including extending paid sick days for workers. We now have through our unionrepresented trust funds and statewide, grocery workers have access to 14 days of paid sick time. If they contract the disease or if they have a Family Member or loved one that has contracted the disease that they need to take care of. Even though those laws have been passed, over 70 of our members report that they didnt even understand that they had the access to these laws and to these benefits, and thats only union members, and so the union, were able to go out and talk to our members about these protections, but there are over 70 of grocery workers in the state of california are actually nonunion, and so they dont even have an organization for themselves to advocate, and so its really important i think for policymakers such as yourselves to sort of understand how we not only pass these great pieces of legislation but how we implement them and how we educate workers on what their rights are at work as it relates to benefits that you all actually helped pass to protect workers, and its a big issue. As we think about moving ahead, i think theres a real need for a real Public Education program as it relates to the benefits workers currently have. [ alarm ]. I would say the other thing thats really important to understand is when workers contract this disease at work, notification of all the other workers is really critical, and for a long time employers were keeping it under wraps and when notifying workers in the immediate area and vicinity, we had a very inconsistent approach with employers as it relates to if someone were to contract the virus at the workplace. We had some employees that were out of the entire store and some of the department. Because of that, we worked at the state level to pass a law that was just signed into law 685 sponsored, and that requires every employer to notify all employees who worked on a shift to notify if someone had contracted the virus while at work, as well as notifying public departments of local health and also calosha. It gives calosha the ability to shut down noncompliant employers that dont do this. We feel like were continuing to advocate on these issues, but we always could use more cooperation and collaboration with both local Government Agencies as well as state agencies in working with our employers. And i would just say theres two last things to think about, not only the working conditions inside of the work, when the covid crisis first hit, Many Employers paid what was called hazard pay or appreciation pay. That would give workers, you know, 2 additional, minimum an hour when they work because they are putting their families at risk. Well, when we started to reopen the economy back in july. [ alarm ]. A lot of employers cut that, and when they cut that, our workers decided why are we still going to work . Only one employer still pays that, and thats lucky state part in the area. They are continuing to pay in addition to their hourly rate, and i think thats an important thing. The final thing i would say is its also the impact on the Business Models that the covid crisis has had. More and more people, its interesting to hear last agenda item, because it relates. More and more people are relying on grocery delivery because they dont want to go into these stores, so delivery has gone up quite astronomically over the last months. Albertsons has reported a 267 increase in the utilization of delivery service. In the sector, these jobs, the retail clerks jobs, some of the highest, they get paid an average of 24 an hour. The delivery drivers on average dont make that and dont have the benefits. Thats the other thing we have to contend with as we think about the change in behavior as it relates to this covid crisis. Thats sort of a general idea of whats going on in the Grocery Stores, and i am thankful for you having us here. Thanks, jim. Just before we go to the next speaker, i just wanted to underscore what you just said, how many Grocery Store clerks have died . Over 13,000. Wow. In the bay area we havent had as many, but across the country there have been a lot. Just to put that in context, theres about 2. 5 to 3 million grocery workers nationwide. Okay. All right. If you want to hang around, i know you have to go, but appreciate your presentation. Were going to call the next speaker. The next speaker we have is vicepresident of sciu local 1021, ms. Theresa rutherford. Okay. Thank you, asha, for doing this. I also want to thank supervisor mandelman for taking this on. You know, its a righteous cause. Its a just cause. Essential workers, you know, whether youre in the private sector or the Public Sector, are actually the workers and the people, the human beings who are protecting our community, who are, as olga has highlighted, and i think jim also highlighted, you know, we are the workers in health care. We are the workers at the supermarkets, we are the workers at mcdonalds. We are the workers at uber. We are the workers who are keeping this economy going, and were the answer to reopening this economy. And so as we look at this, also lets remember that as we talk about racism and we talk about systemic disparages, lets realize that these very essential workers, myself and my brothers and sisters, in the private sector, in the Public Sector, many of them not even unionized, are the demographic of people who have been experiencing the systemic racism, black, brown, immigrants, yes, we are the uns who are doing the most essential work in this country. It is very sad to realize that, you know, as we are here we come to work, we go home every day, not sure if were going to bring that virus home to harm our families, and its sad that uber spends millions of dollars, is spending millions of dollars right now, you know, fighting a basic requirement to give health care and basic protections to workers, that they are spending millions of dollars doing that but have a problem in doing the basic thing. So what were seeing, what covid has shown us is that we already knew, that there are major disparities, that there are basically two me, or three americas, that the workers, ordinary workers who go to work every day, or two, and then there is the 1 who live off the services and the benefits of everybody and treat us as if were disposable. Well, we are not disposable. Every worker deserves proper protection as they go to work. No one should go to work and be struggling to get something as basic as a mask, a glove. Those are basic things that should be happening. Olgas team should not have to be fighting with an employer for that. Thats just basic humanity. Lets also remember that when an essential worker has no protection or has very little protection and gets covid, the entire community is exposed. When a mcdonalds workers doesnt have p. P. E. And is serving food, you every person who comes in contact with that mcdonald worker is also vulnerable. So no matter what our economic status is, no matter who we think we are, if we dont protect the people who do the work, we are all going to go down the same path. Its just like the person in the white house right now. He is Walking Around without mask and this and that and exposing the very essential workers who are in the white house. [indiscernible] board of supervisors, thank you. You know better. Lets [indiscernible] make sure that whether workers are in the private sector or the Public Sector that they are treated with dignity, with respect, and lets treat every worker with value. If we are fighting racism, lets fight [ alarm ]. Lets start the basic thing of just treating workers with respect, giving them the pay that they deserve to be able to take care of their family and giving them the protections they need to do their job and go home and take their we all have the same goals, take care of our family and to live and succeed and let the next generations be better. San francisco, board of supervisors, we know better, do better. Champion this cause and bring it to an ultimate productive resolution for all. Let this be a country for all, not just some. Thank you. Thank you, theresa. Really appreciate it. The next person were going to call is ms. Kayla samborn hums. Shes going to read the system of a mcdonalds worker and leader in the fight for this team. Hi. Good morning. Yes, my name is kayla samborn hum, and i actually just wanted to update that. Ill be delivering remarks on behalf of and thank you very much for this opportunity. Can you say her name one more time . Yes, her name is kristabelle ayala. Just for the record, thank you. Hello, i am a leader in the fight for 15 in the union and i work at the carls jr. At Halladay Plaza in the tenderloin. Thank you for taking the time to hear me and San Francisco essential workers today. For workers in fast food, covid19 has presented us with two parallel crises. One, a pandemic that is disproportionately affecting the same communities of color reflected in our workforce, and two, rampant corporate irresponsibility that places profits over workers and customer safety. On monday i filed a complaint with San Francisco department of health detailing the workplace conditions many fastforward workers in our country face today. Our store is staffed by workers of color and immigrants and managers tries to divide us along racial and cultural lines. The manager has learned enough spanish that if we call in stick she calls us stupid and says you are trash, do you understand . You are trash. Carls jr. Has also created a culture of abuse and retaliation that has forced my coworkers to stay silent about having to work sick, work unpaid through breaks and being too afraid to request sick pay. While many of my coworkers have been too afraid to speak up about these issues in our store, i am here today to give you a clear picture of what fast food workers like us are going through. Workers are afraid to speak up about problems like being forced to work sick, a lack of [indiscernible] a lack of social distancing and extreme heat waves where coworkers pull down their masks to breathe. This puts us, our families and vulnerable populations, including our homeless customers, at increased risk for covid19. In my Health Department complaint i shared how during the heat waves and increasing covid numbers of the past few months the air condition systems did not work, making the kitchen and restaurant so unbearably hot that my coworkers and i felt like we were going to pass out. I also share how throughout the pandemic carls jr. Has failed to provide us with masks. We have to pay for our own. And how it is impossible to safely distance from one another in a tiny, tight kitchen. The conditions in my store are not unique and, frankly, we are lucky we have not yet had positive cases in our store. Early in the pandemic mcdonalds workers in San Francisco reported being told to use coffee filters as masks. Managers tried to intimidate workers who tested positive for the virus to not notify their fellow crew members of their illness. And after San Francisco fast food workers spoke out about the issues in their stores, some faced retaliation in the form of cut hours or managers even telling other workers to file complaints against them. These are not the conditions that essential workers should have to face as we continue to rest our health and the health of our families to feed our neighbors and communities. No matter who you are, how much you make or what you do, everyone deserves safety and dignity in the workplace. Across San Francisco, fast food workers remain at risk for covid19 because the companies we work for dont feel like they have to follow the rules. Together we can hold large employers, like carls jr. And mcdonalds, accountable. I hope that our work today doesnt end at just hearing our stories but that the supervisors and Health Officials continue to invite workers to the table to help shape the policies that will ensure dignity and safety for workers across San Francisco. Thank you very much. Thank you very much. The next person we are going to have present is ms. Daisy mcarthur. Inhome support service worker. Okay. Good morning. Good morning, miss daisy. First of all, supervisor, i want to thank you for coming to our office a couple months back, helping us hand out the p. P. E. S. Youre welcome. Okay, thank you very much. Has everybody knows, my name is miss daisy, thank you. I am a home care provider. Also i am a member of the eboard of local 2015, and also im on the board of directors of Public Authority. Okay, we as home care workers, we take care of seniors with disabilities so that they can live independently in their homes. We take care of the handicapped. Our jobs are essential, very essential. We need p. P. E. S for both providers and clients. I want to thank Public Authority for getting us p. P. E. , but we need more. We just cant depend on Public Authority. We need other easy access so we can get p. P. E. We put our lives in danger every day when we go to and fro to work. Also some of our workers have to walk. As you know, there is hardly any transportation. I come before this board today to ask you all three things. They need a way to get to work, like cab vouchers. I see them walking all the time to the tenderloin. We talk, they call me, they have to take their clients to the doctor. Also they have to go shopping for their clients. Also we need easier access to the covid19 test. There are places, but they have to work because if they dont they cant make a living and take care of their family. It is not easy for us as home care workers because we are out there on the front line. I must use up half a box of gloves or masks a day because i have a highrisk client. He is 99 years old. I know other workers that are taking care of very highrisk clients. I know workers that have to go way far away to take the covid19 test. We need easy access to those tests. Im not jumping on you all today, but as you know, we are at high risk. We are. I pray for the workers every day, the city officials every day. I look out my window early in the morning when someone is on their way to work, up the street to the hospital, or down the hill to the tenderloin, or to the mission, out mission, and they are walking. They are walking. I see them when they are coming back. We need help, so i come before you all today because my heart is aching for these workers. They call me up all the time. I help them all i can. I call the unions. They do all they can, and most of our clients live in apartment buildings in this areas. [ alarm ]. We need stronger protections when we go to and fro to their homes every day. [ alarm ]. We need easy access to p. P. E. , Public Authoritys doing a great job. You have to make an appointment. We go tuesdays or fridays. Some of them cant get there on time. So im asking you all to reach out to the Health Care Providers and make our jobs a little easier for us because we are at risk. Thank you, miss daisy. Thank you for taking the time to present today. We appreciate it, and thank you for all if you work youall provide for our seniors and those who need inhome health care support. Okay, the next person were going to hear from is from Michaela Edwards, and she is a gig driver. Hi. Hello. Good afternoon, everyone. Thank you for having me today. My name is Michaela Edwards, and i am a driver for uber. Sorry, i messed the name up. Thats okay. My name is messed up all the time. Im sorry. Safai. Close. Please start her time now. Thank you. So my name, again, my name is Michaela Edwards and im a driver for uber. Ive been driving for over a year and a half, and im also a leader with the driver advocacy group. We drive progress. Gig workers like me have played a crucial role during the pandemic. We bring medical professionals and bay area residents to hospitals. We take our fellow essential workers where they need to go. We deliver food and groceries to some of our most vulnerable neighbors when there are no Public Transportation options available. This pandemic and our upcoming election has revealed that gig drivers, what gig drivers have known all along, and that is that Gig Companies are getting rich from exploiting drivers and violating our rights for years now. Once the pandemic hit, it became painfully obvious just how dangerous their greed truly is. I first heard about the virus in january with no direction or support from uber and lyft i started disinfecting and cleaning my car every few hours. Weeks later uber finally said theyd provide cleaning supplies and Hand Sanitizer for drivers, but within hours they closed their green light hub. These are supposed to be the green light hubs are supposed to be a resource to their drivers, but they remain closed while drivers continue to pay out of their pockets for cleaning supplies and protection during this crisis. Time and time again these corporations have turned their backs on us, even during a global pandemic. When we went to shelter in place in the bay area, i continued to drive. I didnt know how atrisk i was until i told my doctor that i was still working. And she was floored. She told me that if i was to be exposed to covid19, i had a 15 chance of dying. I am now in selfisolation and unable to work. Ive been out of work for over six months now, and i and countless other drivers have been faced with an impossible choice. We either keep driving to make ends meet and we put ourselves at risk for getting sick or even dying or we stop driving. And now while we are barely getting by, uber and lyft and other Gig Companies are throwing 180 million at their ballot initiative, proposition 22. I want to take some time to set the record straight about gig drivers, because im sure you all have seen the ads paid by uber and lyft that try to downplay what drivers are going through. So according to Research Conducted by uc santa cruz, the majority of gig workers work fulltime. 71 work more than 30 hours a week. 50 actually work more than 40 hours a week, and 30 work more than 50 hours a week. Gig work is work that is predominantly done by colors, black, brown and immigrant workers who communities have been especially hard hit by this pandemic because so many of us have tried to continue working during the pandemic. [ alarm ]. 20 of its workers earn zero dollars after the insurance and maintenance for our car. 15 gig workers have to rely on assistance to make ends meet. Uber and lyft claim that proposition 22 will make things better for drivers, and lets be clear about one thing, proposition 22 wasnt written for the wellbeing of drivers, and proposition 22 is for companies, for the companies that are making a power grab to get themselves out of a law that will give their gig drivers employee status. Did the right thing in passing legislation that protects workers, but now gig corporations are trying to undermine that the proposition 22. I googled the word technology and what it says is that technology can be broadly defined as the entities both material and materiale. They are created to they create the application of mental and physical effort in order to achieve some value, and in this Usage Technology refers to two of the machines that may be used to solve real world problems. [ alarm ]. But there is nothing new and innovative about worker exploitation. There is nothing of value for workers in this proposition. They have simply copied and paste the same old policies that they are currently peddling and pasted it into a 180 Million Campaign to delete themselves from the following law. Three workers should have access to basic Labor Protections such as paid sick leave, employment insurance, overtime, but drivers like me dont have access to these protections because uber, lyft and others think they are above the law. 78 of uber and lyft drivers are people of color. If uber and lyft really cared about the drivers, who we are, they would do the one thing that they are supposed to be doing, which is to follow the law. It wouldnt be spending millions trying to take away our rights. Gig workers are essential workers, and we deserve to earn a living safely and to have access to benefits that will allow us to care for ourselves and our families if we get sick. Or if we get hurt. We drivers are hardworking mothers, fathers, sons, daughters who are all trying to make a living out here. [ alarm ]. We are essential workers. We are doing our part to keep california working. We are struggling while Gig Companies are getting rich off our hard work and misinforming voters about proposition 22. Thank you for listening to at base drivers and to my fellow essential workers and thank you for having me today. Thank you so much. Okay, so were going to go to questions now. I have a few questions that i would like to start out with, mr. Chair, and then if any members of the committee would like to ask some questions, im happy to. Mr. Mulligan, director mulligan . Yes, supervisor. Thank you. So i have some questions here. So one of the kind of the consistent themes, you know, we passed the legislation to ensure that the companies would have to provide sick leave to their employees, private Sector Companies operating in San Francisco would have to provide sick leave, 80 hours of sick leave to their employees. I know that were pushing for protections in the workplace, but can you talk a little bit about that in terms of any other calls that your office might have received in terms of the requirements of companies informing their employees of their rights . And what kind of calls and follow i know that youre a you are a complaintdriven department. That is the main function of the office of labor standards enforcement. You dont do not go out and seek enforcement, but you respond to enforcement requests. So i would like to know if you can clarify some of that information for us. Certainly, supervisor. And thank you for the opportunity and also for all the speakers for bringing this important measure or this important issue to attention. So with regard to the use of personal protective equipment, much of it is required under Public Health orders. There are some areas of legislation, like specifically the employee protection ordinance, which expanded it to ondemand Delivery Services and ride share employment and kind of redefined the nature of employment under that ordinance. Even though our enforcement is complaintbased for private sector laws, we do proactive outreach in terms of information to the public. We did send out notice to all affected employers under the changes in that legislation, and we did receive some complaints about two gigbased employers, you know, without getting into the details around the corrective action, but we had corrective action with two employers, and it was a systemic problem for both of them. It had to do with reimbursement for personal protective equipment and also compensation for cleaning vehicles, say, after ride shares or after Delivery Services. So let me ask this question. So are employers required to provide personal protective equipment such as gloves and masks . Is that a requirement in our Health Orders . Whatever is necessary to yes, so gloves, as needed, face masks as needed, any essential personal protective equipment also depending on the nature of your engagement with the public. So for instance, individuals who telecommute, theres no such requirement. No, right, im talking about we have pretty clear rules when it comes to our public employees. Even then weve had to push hard to make sure that everything is appropriately delivered and provided, and i think weve done a pretty good job of that here in San Francisco. Theres always room for improvement. But what ive heard today from janitors, from Grocery Store clerks, from gig drivers, from inhome Health Care Providers, from a whole broad range of private sector workers, they do not feel that they are having personal protective equipment fully provided to them and they are having to advocate for that. Thats one thing. The second thing is access to sick leave and then employees not being informed of their rights of access to sick leave, so we want to ensure that, one, employers are informing their employees of their rights, and then when they do have those rights, that they have access to that. [please stand by] thats what i was referring to. Yeah. They should not be denied for any reason. I think the terms are very generous around how they can be used. Theyre not required to provide a doctors notice or formal justification. It could be used for matters of taking care of a child who cant attend or school or a Family Member affected by this in some other manner. Right. Im aware of that. I was one of the original cosponsors on that. What im asking is what calls or complaints have you done around sick leave or personal protective equipment . Much of that sits with the department of Public Health. Okay. We work collaboratively with them, especially with the employee protection ordinance, where we were involved specifically on that was mostly for gigbased employers, around restitution and compensation for any expenses associated with individuals we did provide. How about sick leave . What kind of calls have come in, any enforcement that youve done, any followup that youve had to do, can you talk about what kind of access sick leave has looked like in your office . Well, sick leave is, you know, something were constantly enforcing. And it just changes. Now its a paramount enforcement, as is the Health Care Security ordinance, access to health care. With the sick leave i will say weve had literally thousands of calls coming in regarding Public Health emergency leave ordinance. Mostly because it is new and as an emergency ordinance, it was passed on i think approximately ten days. So we did concerted outreach. I think Mail Communications to the public was 40,000 different employers. Ill add that 15 of our budget is dedicated to communitybased organizations, solely for the purposes of worker outreach, with a focus on nonenglishspeaking, multilingual and immigrant workers in San Francisco. With regards to the actions, i dont have the total case log around that. I will say a lot of it has been managed solutions. The is such that there needs to be some clarity. You have administrative guidance in the form of i think 50f. A. Q. S, of which we do revisit every few weeks, affecting a lot of employers. Supervisor safai okay. So what i would say then to the individual representative groups that are here today, if their members are being denied access to sick leave, if theyre having problems with accessing some of the rights that have been afforded to them by emergency order or previous legislation that weve done, they should contact your office, is that correct, with regard to sick leave . Right. Thank you, supervisor. We have a dedicated phone line and a dedicated email address for each of the labor laws, including sick leave. And we are aware of the specific case that was mentioned before you. We received notice of that two days ago and are actively investigating. Supervisor safai is that the one at mcdonalds . No. That was carls jr. Supervisor safai oh, got it. Okay. Thank you. Maybe we can ask d. P. H. The question about personal protective equipment then. Ill come back to you, director mulligan. Thank you, supervisor. I dont know who wants can you clarify the question about p. P. E. Supervisor safai the question is we heard from a number of speakers today that said that they have not been always given access to personal protective equipment. You heard from the janitors union, you heard from a number of the different representative groups here. And i wanted to know what action d. P. H. Is empowered to take and what these groups should do to work with your department to ensure that these employers are providing whats required by law. Who wants to take this . The Community Exposure hubs are function as Technical Assistance providers. And enforcement is more so under Environmental Health. So maybe ill let karen speak to that. Supervisor safai okay. Great. So usually, supervisor, when we go there we people usually have masks or putting masks on, because like jessica noted, we are the enforcement branch. So they want to comply. But we know the flip side of creating these two ordinances. One was, of course, citywide that was 2020 im sorry, c1912. And then for the workers, they all have to have it as well. The flip side of that we also offer masks. So theres a group within d. P. H. I can provide you with that their email address. I dont have it at my fingertips. If anyone in San Francisco doesnt have the resources to provide the p. P. E. , especially face coverings for their workers, i think theres a huge stockpile that the city does control, the mwere musconi center. Thats accessible to any Small Business in San Francisco. Supervisor safai heres my question. Okay. I think that what i heard is some of them are providing p. P. E. , some of them are not. And when they dont, you know, we need to have what the proper channel is if theyre not doing it or theyre making it a cumbersome to access or theyre not providing enough. You know, were talking about frontline janitors, were talking about frontline Grocery Store clerks. We are talking about people who are front line. They should not worry about coming into work and thinking am i going to have a mask, do i have to buy my own mask. Do i have to buy my own gloves, my own cleaning supplies. Those are the kind of things were talking about. Has your office gotten complaints, have people contacted you from the Respective Industries . If they havent, its probably a matter of them knowing how to contact with complaints, so that you all can follow up. Sure. I think theres probably two routes that they can go. So the traditional route would be, you know, cal osha, that protects workers safety. We can also do it in terms of an ip direct route. I want to be honest about that saying that. The focus for us would be to make sure that the public is wearing the masks there, the management staff is wearing the masks there, and also the essential workers. If we go there and theyre not provided the proper p. P. E. , its a violation on the agency. So in that way, the indirect way we can play a role and call that out, whatever Small Business doesnt isnt providing enough or sufficient masks for the workers. Supervisor safai i think most of the people today are not working for Small Businesses. Theyre working for large corporations and large businesses. Has your office received any complaints and have you followed up on any of those complaints . Yes. The vast majority of our complaints are public not wearing masks. Weve had a minority of complaints with the workers. They said they werent provided p. P. E. When we show up, like i said, in every case we showed up, they had masks. But if theres a violation only that it wasnt being donned properly. So we started dialogue with the operator, who was in management. We said do you provide masks. And if we see that everyone is wearing a mask and they say, yes, we do, you know, were trying to build partnerships with the people who control the business, be it big business or Small Business. Supervisor safai right. Theres some trust there. What we see is what we see when we arrive on site. Supervisor safai i would imagine that by the time you all come out for enforcement and folks know that youre coming, that everyone will be provided with something at that point. But usually what youre responding to is something happening prior to you being there. How do you deal with that . Yeah, i dont disagree with how you depicted it. Again our role is indirect. In some ways, you know, the focus of protecting the public, thats why we need everyone in that business to wear a mask. I guess we dont bifurcate the enforcement. To us thats one entity. It is disappointing to hear that there seems to be this back and forth between employer and employee. But when were going there, were trying to uplift that whole business in terms of education and the necessary enforcement. But i guess i dont have a good answer for you on how d. P. H. Specifically gets in between the employer and the employee. We can again offer them to have a sufficient supply of mask, if thats the issue. Supervisor safai do you require them to show you, okay, in this particular building theres lets just say, for example, theres 50 janitors or this particular spot theres 50 Grocery Store retail clerks. Show us your supplies, show us how many masks you have, show us how many gloves you have, show us how many supplies you have. Prove to us that you have, not that you just show up and everyone has a mask and youre like, okay, great. Everyone is wearing a mask. Im not saying thats what you do. Im asking you to go a little bit deeper. Do you ask them to prove that theyre actually able to consistently provide p. P. E. . Yeah. I think its somewhere in between the two extremes you depicted. If, for example, you see that theres maybe someone could be wearing a mask wrong and you say give them a new mask. That would lead to a second question, where are the mask supplies, can they access them themselves. Is there a checkout policy . I want to be honest with you. That doesnt always theres a lot of other things were looking on the check list for covid inspection. But if, in fact, that dialogue leads to, you know, it can be a domino effect. Its not on the check list to have them show us their supply. You know, the same way that i mentioned in the beginning of our presentation, i feel the inspectors are essential workers. Were given masks, but we you know, we dont necessarily check our own supply. It is provided for us. So, i mean, if there is an issue, if you run out, then we would definitely follow that kind of a line of logic. Supervisor safai i guess what i would say is it seems to me to make sense that if someone files a complaint, they send an email to you and say weve come to work three days a week, they didnt provide us p. P. E. We dont feel safe. Theyre not giving us access to y, xand z, wouldnt it be make sense when you go out and do a site inspection, that you would say to them, this is what we heard. Great. Everyone has supplies today. Show us where your supplies are. Show us where your p. P. E. Is. We need to know that you can actually consistently sustain the right amount of p. P. E. For this workforce. I think thats a very reasonable suggestion. I think, you know, its something that we should and probably will incorporate into an investigation of the similar nature in the future. Supervisor safai okay. You guys dont get into any of the sick leave conversations, because thats really what olsc does . Correct. Were not involved in that. Supervisor safai what about cleaning supplies or do you ask them to show what their plan is for social distancing in the workplace . Yeah. So thats even independent of someone a confirmed case. So for every restaurant in the city that we go out to, we have a check list and cleaning is definitely one of the, you know, top four, five. Social distancing, of course, facial coverings, they have to provide a health and safety plan. And so all of these things are for the most part documented, but again not to repeat myself too much, but you do need a physical person to go out there to verify that those plans are being implemented. Supervisor safai okay. You just said restaurants. So were talking about more than just restaurants here today. Were talking about all different types of services. Okay. I just want to be clear about that. Second thing is what about if you get a call that someone comes in and says, you know, management someone contracted covid in the workplace, but management didnt inform the other employees that someone had contracted covid in the workplace. There might have been exposure. If we got that call, it would be a red flag. Because typically how case comes through is through jessicas group. What we can do or what do and have done is we quickly refer it back to her group. Because once in a blue moon, you know, the information comes faster through that route. But 99 of the time, weve always found that its for the workplace hub is pretty accurate, in terms of getting the testing. I guess a possibility that someone got tested out of San Francisco. And then that way we would initiate is back to her group to get the epidemiologist information first. Because thats key in terms of educating the entire facility, and then play role in the physical site inspection. Supervisor safai what about the issue about people having access or being able to take time to go get tested, if they feel as though theyve been exposed . Have you had any complaints about people not feeling as though that they can take the time to go get tested or even have access to testing . I mean, i know weve done a phenomenal job in the city. We need to do better, obviously always. Weve done a good job of making testing accessible. But can you talk about the access to testing and those that again were talking about, you know, someone that has to be up to a 9 00 until 5 00, someone thats coming into the workplace, franciscan frontline essential worker. We did the mandatory 80 hours of sick leave. They have the ability. But then theyre like, well, i dont know where to get tested. How can i get tested. Is there any requirement on the employer to facilitate access to testing . Its always mentioned as part of the dialogue. I think that, you know, just as a slight tangent, i think because the protocols are based off time restrictions, whether were talking about isolation or quarantine, based off science, we dont want people to only rely on tests. We totally encourage and San Francisco is pretty good advertising in all of the multiple languages in very social media, all of the different platforms that people have access to. So were pretty comfortable that people know about the various places they can get tested. But when were there and were having the dialogue with the operator, a lot of times were talking about the time restrictions. We just dont want them to get confused, meaning theyre cleared. They have got a passing test. We want them to be informed of the safety requirements, based off time. Supervisor safai okay. I dont have any particular any additional questions right now. Colleagues, do you have any additional questions . Right now . Well, i guess i might have one or two. Im curious what d. P. H. Is seeing in terms of changes in workplace since if different types of workplaces seem to have been a focus for transmission at different times over the last eight months . And that graph i mean, all of our numbers are encouraging now, it seems like transmission is going down and parallel in whatever graph you showed about workplace transmission. But what are i mean, whats going on . Are employers and employees getting it . Or what are you thinking is happening . Are you what are you sort of primarily concerned about going into the fall . Well, when we look at areas of where we see cases and the location of their employment, it parallels where were seeing cases in the city overall. So its not a shocking map to look at, because its the same neighborhoods with cases. These are the most densely Populated Areas in the city. More businesses and more construction sites downtown San Francisco. As i mentioned, construction is an industry that started opening up in july. And since then weve seen large numbers cases likely due to that being one of the primary Frontline Industries that opened up after food service workers. And i anticipate, as more Industries Open up, well see diversity as different types of workers that are testing positive. I think as you saw on summary of case exposures, we have actually seen numbers of exposure events at work going down. Which i think is a positive department. , given we continue to open up. And i think its been mentioned that many of the frontline workers, who test positive, have multiple reasons to be at risk. So there is a higher proportion of essential workers who live in housing with five or more people in their household. Higher proportion of frontline workers from Latinx Community and other communities with higher rates of test positivity. And so i think its intersectional risk as well that we see. And it really requires an intersectional response, which i think were doing at d. P. H. , where theres a neighborhood response plan. Theres outreach to different communities. And theres outreach to the general public, because essential workers are not only working, theyre getting exposed at home and in their communities potentially as well. So hopefully that answers your question. Yeah. And i guess youre not i mean, what you didnt answer, but you may not have an answer, if there are trends, if there are some industries that have seem to have gotten better or worse over the last eight months, become more or less problematic . I mean, i checked with Environmental Health. The restaurant and food preparation industry overall has become more proactive i would say. Its one of the areas where we get more proactive reporting, even though its not required by the health order. And more voluntary shutdowns of restaurants to enable workers to test voluntarily. So that they can protect their workers. And i hope thats a trend that, you know, as Industries Open up, employers learn more and become more proactive in their mitigation response. Thats what the hubs are all about, is helping provide guidance and Technical Assistance to do that. I guess my last question is about our contact tracking and tracing. Because our numbers are now down to a very theyre fairly theyre really low. And yet were still kind of low 80 , you know, contact and then low 80 , you know, following up with county kas of the people with contacts of the people we talk to. All together, i dont know, i see the numbers together and you get something in the 60s, low 70s. 2 seems like were still like missing a whole lot of were not were not running everything aground and getting into contact with everybody after, you know, after transmission. I guess im wondering like how you know, whats that going to look like . Thats more problematic if our cases start surging again. I mean, now would be the moment and thats better than most other jurisdictions in the bay y area. Recently a study that came out, i believe in n. C. , and they were reaching about 50 of people who test positive. Given the challenges of reaching every single person, every day were getting closer to the 90 metric. But i think that that you know, that regime of tracking and tracing was sort of set up to i mean, there are other countries that have been seemingly far more effective and are really able to kind of push down, sort of identify a pocket and then follow up on it and control the pocket. And it doesnt seem like our numbers are vast. It seems like our numbers are we will mitigate a surge when it happens somewhat. But we arent doing tracking and tracing. Im not a doctor. You guys tell me. It doesnt seem like were doing tracking and tracing at a level where were going to be able to snuff out little fires if they pop up. Do you want to comment on that . Sure, if thats all right, supervisor mandelman, ill try to answer that question. You are right. There are other countries, particularly asian countries, that have really have really been able to get very high proportions, 90 plus percent of people. They have utilized some technology, some tracking mechanisms that may not generally be acceptable in this country and in this city. And so we are also trying to navigate around what is what is acceptable to peoples privacy and other things like that. As dr. Blum was saying, the numbers that we have are equivalent or better than other jurisdictions. As supervisor safai was just saying, we can always get better at everything were doing. We are as a team trying to be tests of changes, should having the shifting the hours we reach people, recognizing people work during the day and things that enable us to get to that number. There have been modeling studies as well and the medical journal lancet said that 80 is in general what is modeled to have an impact on bringing numbers down. We have tried as well, as you know, to focus our efforts primarily in the communities at highest risk, which include people who were potentially exposed, because theyre essential workers. It is a combination of things. As dr. Blum says, its a continual process to get better. As you said, now is our time to train the staff that we have. Supervisor mandelman all right. Thank you. Mr. Chair, just in case theres any additional callers that wanted to Public Comment, can we go to Public Comment and come back to this discussion . We should have a few more questions for d. P. H. Clerk yes. Public comment. Thank you, mr. Chair. Operations will check to see if we have callers in the queue. Mr. Coup, please let us know. For those who connected to the meeting via phone, please press star followed by 3. If you wish to speak for this item. For those already on hold in the queue, please continue to wait until youre prompted to begin. You will hear the system inform you that your line has been unmuted. For those who are watching our meeting on cable 26 or via streaming link or through sfgovtv. 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And im going to be writing about this topic because when you write, then, you know, nobody can tell you how many minutes to talk or not to talk. So i heard the essential workers. And essentially theyre not going to get any help from people who are just like they listen to them, but they do nothing to them. We have three people from the San Francisco General Hospital. I think they shouldnt be called to ask the questions. You should call people who are involved with logistics. In your district, we should have four hubs. Four centers to provide the masks. And they cannot do that, then i can do that for them. I was talking to [indiscernible], our state treasurer provided me with 500 masks. She came right where i live and provided me with 500 masks. Here we have three people from the General Hospital who say, oh, you know, we have access. I know you have access to them. You do not know anything about logistics. They have to be distributed. Because i have time to go and call somebody to do it. They have to be distributed. There should be a mechanism with nonprofits and others to do the communication so that everybody every essential worker gets a mask. I dont have to educate you here on public television. Thank you very much. Supervisor safai thank you. Next speaker. That completes the queue. Supervisor safai that completes the queue . You got cut off a little bit . Mr. Chair, that completes the queue. Supervisor safai okay. Well, then Public Comment is now closed. That completes the queue. Supervisor safai Public Comment is really closed. And back to you, safai. Supervisor safai thank you. I appreciate your question, chair mandelman. I think that what i heard today so far is that what surprises me is that, you know, we have two sides of a coin. One side of the coin are the frontline workers saying theyre having problems in the workplace. And theyve been battling with their employers. And the other side of the coin from Public Health saying that they really havent heard that much. Theyve had a few cases of complaints coming in. So i think we need to do a better job of ensuring that that information is out there for people to have access. I also think that theres a difference between the beginning of this pandemic and where we are today. I heard dr. D. P. H. In terms of the Contact Tracing. And we all have the app that we can follow and theyre only at 80 followup. Around the globe is higher as we said. Weve expanded, and every single one of of us today as working with the mayor and Public Health, have done everything we can to access. One thing that we didnt get a lot of conversation about, but it was kind of undertone, was some of the Racial Disparities in terms of how treatment in the workplace, in terms of how theres access to sick leave, informing folks of how to access protective equipment, people being encouraged to come into work sick, in some cases, and or others not notified when others are exposed. I dont have further questions. I think it was important to have this conversation. I think that were going to my office is committed to working more with Public Health to ensure that when there are complaints, that they do come in, one of the things that they should be looking for is to ensure that people actually have on site the appropriate protective equipment. And second secondarily were working with the representative groups to let their members and their employees know that they have access to mandatory sick leave, as we work hard to pass. So thats it for me. Chair mandelman, unless anyone else has questions or comments. Supervisor mandelman thank you, supervisor safai. Is your desire that we file this or continue it . Supervisor safai can you continue it to the call of the chair. We can come back and hear from these groups and we will follow up with each of the representative groups here today. And lets see what kind of progress weve been able to make, in terms of the many of the things that we talked about. Supervisor mandelman okay. I will move that we continue this meeting to the call of the chair. Clerk the motion offered by chair mandelman that the hearing be continued to the call of the chair. Vice chair stefani. Supervisor stefani aye. Clerk member walton. Supervisor walton aye. Clerk chair mandelman. Supervisor mandelman aye. Mr. Chair, there are three ayes. Supervisor mandelman the motion passes. Mr. Clerk, can you please call our next item. Clerk agenda item 5, is an ordinance amending the police and transportation codes to establish a city policy to protect the health and safety of residents by enforcing state laws prohibiting reckless driving, Motor Vehicle speed contests, and exhibitions involving stunts and tricks with vehicles and to provide that vehicles that are removed for violation of such laws shall be impounded for no less than 14 days, for the first incident, no less than 15 days for the second, and no less than 29 days for the third, with no impoundment lasting more than 30 days. Members of the public who wish to provide Public Comment on this ordinance should call the Public Comment number now. It is still 415 6550001. Enter todays meeting i. D. To connect meeting, that is 146 932 8582. Press the found symbol twice to connect to the meeting. And then press the star key followed by the number 3 to raise your hand to speak. The system prompt will indicate you raised your hand. Please wait until the system indicates you have been unmuted and you may begin your comments. Mr. Chair. Supervisor mandelman supervisor safai, this is your legislation. The floor is yours. Supervisor safai thank you. Thank you, chief scott and diana for joining us today. I want to say, first and foremost, i want to thank chief scott for working with me on this legislation, along with mayor breed. And i want to mamie cosponsor my cosponsors supervisor walton and peskin for supporting us on this. This is an extremely important issue for our community, but we find it to be pretty straightforward. I really dont you know, often times we can get into conversations about how we work in the margins and the grey area. But at the end of the day, when people are doing stunt driving, theyre putting their own lives at risk and theyre putting the lives of others at risk. And as we saw in sacramento, not too far ago, there were individuals that were hit by vehicles and injured by vehicles when these things are happening. And then in the workplace scenario, what happened in our community a couple of about a month ago, an individual was killed. Not yet clear if the individual was killed as a direct result of the stunt driving, its something thats bock plague many neighborhoods in San Francisco, not just the excelsior or outer mission. I believe thats why my cosponsors supervisor walton and supervisor peskin signed on so quickly. Because this is something that has seen a major increase in covid. Many people call shes sideshows. And there are some that have said potentially lets look for a way to make these safe. And im just reiterate that i said the day we introduced this legislation. This is not skateboarding. This is not something where we can create a skateboard park, where people can go and practice and learn how to skateboard. These are things that people in hollywood, professional race car drivers have all the training and protective equipment to ensure that their lives are not lost. This is not something that we can tolerate. And its something that has begun to disturb the peace and well being of so many people in my community. It compels me to introduce this legislation. In the end, what weve done is weve looked at the state vehicle code. Theres some existing laws that are on the books. And weve asked that they be enhanced, because we need to send a message that this is not something that San Francisco that should happen in San Francisco. Its also not a coincidence that some of the stunt driving has shifted from other parts of the bay area to San Francisco, because i think some other areas in the bay have also sent a message that this is not something thats safe or will be tolerated in their communities. So ill just say that. In this legislation, essentially what we do is we say that were going to, for the first offense, mandatory that a car, anyone thats involved in aiding or abetting, basically setting up and facilitating the event, they would have their car seized for a minimum of 14 days. I think we make some allowances for the second day. I know the chief and i have talked about potentially saying that the second incident would be going up to 29 days. The way its written right now, no less than 15 days. I want to paint a picture. This is this is when 30 to 50 cars show up an intersection. Sometimes between 100 and 200 spectators will congregate. And then at the end of the day, people begin to do their stunt driving in the middle of the intersection, essentially shut down traffic and shut down the ability for those to pass by. And often times its in the wee hours of the night. Often times its at midnight, 1 00 and imagine being in your home and all of a sudden theres 20, 30, 40, for one hour you hear tires screeching at a very high decibel and people putting their lives at risk. So for the residents of district 11, im here to say that this is not something that will be tolerated. Were moving forward. I want to thank chief scott for joining me on this. And i will hand it over to him to say a few words. Hopefully hell have evidence for us that maybe and taken some vehicles. I believe supervisor walton has some comments. Supervisor safai sorry about that. Walton thank you, chair mandelman. I want to thank supervisor safai taking the lead on this legislation. District 11, district 10, district 3 and other parts of San Francisco have really seen an influx in increase of sideshows over the past few months. I and i just want to let everyone know in the community, that these are dangerous. These are activities that have less to loss of life and can really be harmful and hurtful to people who are around sideshows. And so i just want to make sure that everyone in district 10 and across the city knows that we take this seriously and were going to do everything we can to stop these sideshows. Weve been having conversations with m. T. A. About trafficcalming strategies we can use and other things that we can do. But this legislation is definitely a big step in doing everything we can to seize vehicles, trach them away longer within the law, because of the dangers sideshows. I want communities to know were going to do everything we can to stop the illegal activity. It may seem fun to young people and exciting to young people. But these sideshows are very dangerous. And we take this seriously. And we want this to be a public announcement to everyone out there, who may participate or who may think that these are fun activities, that these are, in fact, very dangerous. They need to stop and well do everything we can as lawmakers in San Francisco to end this really violent act of dragging cars, driving crazy in the communities. And people live in these communities. People walk and cycle in these communities. We cant have them [indiscernible] thank you. Thank you, supervisor walton. Vice chair stefani. Supervisor stefani thank you, chair mandelman and thank you, supervisor safai, for bringing this forward. Thinking a lot about this. I know as a city we have always fallen short when it comes to our vision zero goals. Recent increase in reckless driving coming right at a time when we need the outdoor spaces more than ever. I, too, have heard from my constituents about wildly reckless driving along hightraffic corridor, marina boulevard, a sideshow there at goth and geary. Where mark burman was killed while walking in his neighborhood by a reckless driver. And i mentioned mark burmans death, because its incredibly important to talk about the influence that social media is having on this uptick in reckless driving, including the side shows. The driver who killed mark burman was driving at an extreme speed, to entertain his hundreds of followers on social media. And, in fact, he was recording his driving on august 11th, the night he killed mark burman. So i know this incident isnt the only one done for the benefit of those gawking on social media, that many of the sideshows we see are recorded and shared in the same way. And what social media followers dont see is what has just been mentioned by supervisor walton and supervisor safai is the damage that comes after. The destroyed property, injuries and death as we saw in supervisor safais district, that results from these incidents. And i hope that we combine efforts in this legislation with increased investment in building out safe street infrastructure, like speed cameras, timed traffic lights and speed lights on crosswalks forcing driver to decrease speed. Im trying to work with the sfmta on. But this legislation is an important first step to curtailing the harm that this totally unnecessary activity has brought. And i think San Francisco absolutely has to send a message that this will not be tolerated in San Francisco. And again supervisor safai, thank you for this legislation. I would like to add my name as a cosponsor. Supervisor safai thank you, vice chair, stefani. All right, chief scott. Thank you, chair mandelman. And i also want to thank supervisor safai for his leadership and supervisor walton and supervisor, stefani, thank you for adding your name to sponsor this legislation and for your leadership. I do want to highlight a couple of other incidents, just for the viewing public. About how dangerous these events and the stunt driving can be. As supervisor safai and walton and stefani now have mentioned, incidents have resulted in tragedy. I have some specific examples to let people know how dangerous these events are and the reckless behavior is. As supervisor safai mentioned, on september 7th, on a late night event, there were approximately 50 vehicles in the excelsior neighborhood, which resulted in over 100 calls from concerned residents about the activity that was taking place. When the officers were dispatched, unfortunately there were three victims among that crowd who were suffering from gunshot wounds. One of the victims a 21yearold male suffered fatal gunshot wounds to his head, while the others were transported to the hospital, local hospital with nonlifethreatening injuries. The day before this homicide occurred, on september 6th, there were several events in the same area in the bayview district. And what is referred to as roving exhibitions of stunt driving. However, there were no reports of gunfire on september 6th. On september 20th, more recently at 1 04 a. M. In the morning, an event where bayview drew over 100 vehicles. And during this event, numerous people, that were assembled to watch this reckless and dangerous activity, began firing guns. When the officers responded, over 70 casings were discovered. It was really fortunate that nobody was shot or killed in this incident, including innocent bystanders and people in their homes, minding their own business. The following night, over 100 vehicles participated in another event in the area of russia and paris in the ingleside district. The crowds dispersed, luckily with no gunfire erupting. But again another dangerous event that could have been fat fatal. Stunt driving exhibition with large crowds of people. And it resulted in a shooting. The types of events that these cause, confrontation and often gunfire. On august 24th event, at one point a participating driver lost control of the vehicle and forced spectators to quickly jump out of the way to prevent another tragedy. And again we narrowly escaped a tragedy in that. There were spectators all around the intersection that actually blocked the access of entry to officers responding or anybody else that wanted to get to that intersection. So these events are very difficult to police and respond to. And they take up a lot of our polices resources, that really could be going to other things. But we have to divert resources to deal with this activity. The driving is a risk of death. And this is a violation as mentioned by all of the supervisors [indiscernible] really no place for that in our community. It has to stop. And we have to hold people accountable. I really want to thank supervisor safai for his leadership. And reiterate that we support this proposed ordinance and well do everything in our power to protect the health and safety and reinforcing state laws to prohibit this type of behavior. I also want to point out, weve had to step up our game. Because our response, the San Francisco Police Department has not been at times met with public approval because of the amount of resources and coordination and all of the things that it really takes to police these events and prevent from happening. We have reached out to neighboring agencies. Its been said that these events are happening all over the bay area actually. Weve learned some lessons from other jurisdictions and cities that have had to deal with this. We want to incorporate those into our response. And weve done that. Weve actually put together a training with our officers and we refined that training. We believe we have a much better response now. We have officers that are stepping up our game to really support this. Weve done that and resulted in citations and impounds. Its also resulted in opensource social media, some of these participants saying,. Commissioner haney , San Francisco is now responded to these much more effectively and much quicker. Thats a good thing. We believe that will discourage this activity. For those who choose to do it, this legislation will help us hold people accountable. I think to thank the supervisors sponsoring this legislation. And thank you, chair mandelman, for giving me a few minutes to express our support for this. Supervisor mandelman thank you, chief scott. Supervisor safai, shall we go to Public Comment . Supervisor safai yeah. I think ill come back to the chief then. I had a couple of things. Yeah, lets go to Public Comment. Thats fine. Supervisor mandelman mr. Clerk, shall we see if we have . Clerk thank you, mr. Their. Mr. Coup, please let us know if any callers are ready. For those already connected, please press star followed by 3 if you wish to be added to the queue to speak for this ordinance. For those already on hold in the queue, please continue to wait until you are prompted to begin. Youll hear a prompt that informs you that your line has been unmuted. For those who are watching our meeting on cable channel 26 or via streaming link or through sfgovtv. Org, if you wish to speak on this item, please call in now. You would do that by dialing 415 6550001. Enter the meeting i. D. 164 932 8582. Press the pound symbol twice and press star followed by 3 to enter the queue to speak. Mr. Coup, do we have any callers for agenda item . Operator yes, i will cue the first caller. Speakers have two minutes. We ask you to state your first and last name clearly and speak directly into the phone. If you have prepared a written statement, we encourage you to send a copy to the clerk for inclusion in the file. Please begin. Caller hello, supervisors. My name is keegan and i live in district 10. And im calling to ask that you do not recommend the ordinance to the board of supervisors. Calling for more policing, more criminalization and more targeting of San Franciscos black, brown and working class communities. Stunt driving has been a part of the bay area and oaklands culture for decade. Theres a an article quoted as a thriving place, part improv performance and the only place to catch this. The targeting of these sideshow is coincided with gentrification and even more criminalization. For months now, san franciscans have taken to the streets and in meeting after meeting, hour after hour of Public Comment stated their opposition to policing. The demand was to disarm, disband. Instead the city is treating things like they are business as usual. By creating legislation that further polices and further criminalizes people. The exact opposite of what we want. This legislation to further police and criminalize is another example of the broken tough on crime policy over the last few decades. These policies do not work and serve to destroy communities and families and make us all unsafe. This legislation does nothing to respond to the demand san franciscans to end policing. It does nothing to reduce Motor Vehicle stunt driving, nothing to create alternatives for Motor Vehicle stunt driving. And it does nothing to protect the safety of people participating or not participating in the events. This feels like a policy founded on the nextdoor app and not on how to be better nextdoor neighbors. Again im asking that you please do not recommendation this for the full board. We do not more policing, criminalization or more target of our communities. Thank you. Supervisor mandelman thank you. Next speaker. Caller thank you. My name is willan martin. I reside in district 11. I completely disagree with the previous speaker. I support the legislation to help the police gain better control over illegal and dangerous sideshow events. The recent sideshows that impacted me directly and personally. I have not been able to leave my home in district 11 and safely travel on city streets, due to these events. If there were a fire or medical emergency at or near my home, First Responders would have been subject to dangerous conditions, potentially leading to loss of life because of illegal and dangerous sideshows. The proposed legislation is a reasonable step in the right direction, just passing it will send a message to the perpetrators that San Francisco is serious about stopping these events. The proposed legislation can be amended, if in the future we find that additional legislation is needed or what was passed needs to be changed, we can do that. The point is to get moving on solving this problem before more people die. The one area that could be improved in the monitoring of how the law is applied and what we can see from it. The Police Department needs to report to this committee and the police thank you very much. [ please stand by ] guilty. Due process be damned. If you need it for anything, too bad, so sad. A cop decided you were guilty and that is all that is required. We can send Public Safety messages and encourage safer alternative activity without passing redundant laws granting Unconstitutional Police powers. Please reject this unconstitutional overreaching are proposal. Thank you. Thank you. Next speaker. I strongly agree with what the last speaker said. Why arent the existing laws already being enforced . Why do you need this extra law . And why how broadly is this going to be interpreted that, you know, anybody who helps with a side show is going to also have their cars, you know, taken away. And why does this law talk about, you know, gunshots being fired near sideshow. How is that relevant . When we talk about legalizing cannabis, were not concerned about whether or not maybe people selling cannabis on the street might have been involved in gangrelated activities. You know, the issue is, is cannabis a safe drug . So the issue should be, is this stunt driving safe or not. Not whether or not somebody fired gunshots nearby. And so existing laws to enforce this, then we should be using the existing laws and not creating new laws that will that seem to be targeted certain populations. Especially now during covid19. Especially now that Public Transportation is a lot worse. These neighborhoods you mentioned, the bayview, Public Transportation there is not good. So taking somebodys car away in those neighborhoods is a major especially if its somebody who needs to go to work and they dont have a car anymore. Now what are they going to do . How is this fixing any problems . It seems like its creating more problems. Next speaker. Good afternoon. My name is michael garcia. District 11. I would like to speak in strong condemnation of the proposed legislation. This proposal criminalizes young people. It criminalizes brown people. It criminalizes poor people. Its effectively a civil asset forfeiture. And weve seen all over the country how strongly americans have come out against that. As san franciscans we should be leading the way, not following. And we need to think about creative ways of solving these problems that dont just involve more of the same mistakes. As one caller pointed out, this is unconstitutional proposal and it will cost the city a ton of money to defend the lawsuits that will come as a result of it. So i would encourage you to listen to the city of San Francisco and reject this proposal. Thank you. Thank you. Next speaker. Hello. I support the legislation. Its warranted. Dangerous activities. Weve had three sideshows within our neighborhood. Seven within 10 blocks from february to september. One of the problems is when you call 911, you get put over to 5530123. I certainly hope in the future well be able to call and get prompt response. Everybody in our neighborhood im in district 7 everybody in the neighborhood wants this legislation. So i thank supervisor safai and the others who have signed on to this. This is definitely warranted legislation. Thank you so much. Thank you. Next speaker. Hi, this is judy. Im in district 11. I want to disagree with the person who spoke before me. Not everyone, at least in the district of 11 wants the legislation. I agree with previous callers this is a redundant piece of legislation. As we see in the previous examples already cited, people call 911 and there will be police showing up. If were trying to send a message, i think the message has already been sent by the call to 911. It doesnt seem very necessary. And its just another attempt to overcriminalize black and brown people in the district. I feel sorry fort person who doesnt feel comfortable Walking Around the neighborhood in district 11. I dont believe that the sideshows themselves are the issue. In the end its the poverty and the little attention paid to the immigrants in the district that is causing the frustration. I staunchly do not recommend this legislation. In the end, its pushing people unnecessarily in an overreach over wanted manner and i dont think think this is reasonable whatsoever. Thank you. Next speaker. Im theodore, resident of excelsior, and im in favor of enforcing laws against sideshows. Cars are always deadly and using them for doughnuts and racing is especially dangerous. The sideshows are directly harmful. Theyre spreading more fumes and particulates that have been exacerbating Health Issues over the years. They have well over 100 decibels of noise in the neighborhoods. I urge you to move this forward. Thank you. That completes the queue. All right. Public comment is closed. Supervisor safai . Supervisor safai thank you. I want to say i want to say a few words in response to some of the callers. I really appreciate the fact that this is something that has been completely communitydriven. I heard from hundreds and hundreds of neighbors, longtime neighbors, people who have lived in district 11. And then after talking to my colleagues, i found out this was something that the same. That theyve heard the same. This is nowhere near anything that has to do with gentrification. I just want to be clear on that. This is not displacing anybody. This is not transforming a neighborhood. This is about protecting Peoples Health and safety. I had people call me that have lived, born and raised in the excelsior, saying that people were parked in their driveway, sitting on their doorstep as they watched these events. I had people to say to me these are First Responders, folks. Lets keep that in mind. Lets remember what district 11 is all about, lakeview and what my district is about. These are working families. These are First Responders. These are essential workers. These are working and middle class families. When somebody tells me theyre a nurse coming home from a long shift and they cant get to their house for an hour because someone is doing this sideshow. When i hear someone driving their senior parent home because theyre trying to get them drugs at the drugstore or groceries and they cant get into their home or got trapped into one of these. This is not about overpolicing. This is not about targeting any one community. This is about restoring peace, safety and health for a neighborhood. These are dangerous. And this is not about targeting anybody. In fact, i think chief scott talked about this earlier. There has to be a preponderance of evidence. They have to have video evidence. They have to have documentation, license plate numbers. They have to have clear evidence that someone has been involved in this. As the caller said, there are already laws on the books that govern the way in which people operate vehicles on the street. We are enhancing this because this is something that has increased dramatically. Dramatically in my district. Nd i know in other parts of San Francisco. So i can tell you, i heard from hundreds and hundreds of people. And this is not hyperbole. There probably have not been one issue in my district that i have heard from more people across the board that said, you need to do something about this. This is something i have never seen happen in the 30, 40 years, or my entire life, these are their words, that ive lived in this neighborhood. We are responding and were responding with a strong message. As supervisor walton said, we want people to understand this is not okay. This is not safe. We dont want to take anybodys car. We dont want to seize anybodys car for any amount of time, but if you continue to do this by the way, people are coming from sacramento, san jose, theyre coming from all over the bay area because theyve been invited on social media as part of this organizing tool to come conduct this activity in San Francisco. So im sorry. If you do that, and you participate in that, and you endanger peoples safety and your own, if we have the evidence and preponderance of evidence, were going to seize your vehicle for 14 days on the first offense. Thank you, mr. Chair. Thank you, supervisor safai. Supervisor walton. Supervisor walton thank you so much. I do just want to reiterate some of the points supervisor safai. I know we had at lot of callers talking about how this may criminalize. I am one of the major leaders of Police Reform here in San Francisco and i will always continue to be. I also live in a black community. The community where we have the most people left. Black people are fed up with these sideshows. We want our kids to be able to walk down the streets and play. We want our families walk down the street and not have to be in fear of being hit by people driving reckless. As a black person who talks to black people 247 and has had several complaints from black people, this is not an antiblack law. This is a law that protects all. So i love when people try to call in and say theyre speaking for us, but if you want to speak for us, first you have to speak to us. And this is definitely san franciscans, including black people. We do not want sideshows on our streets. I live on a street where they actually come to my street. They have sideshows. And this is not safe. Our community and were going to do what we can to stop them. So i want this to be a message to everyone that this is dangerous. It may look exciting on film. It may look exciting on youtube. It may look exciting on tv, but weve literally had people die from it. This is not one of those pieces of legislation that are encouraging police to attack or do anything outrageous. But if you are caught on video and on camera and you are participating in the side show by the way, like stated, a lot of folks of course not all, but a lot of folks are coming from other areas, other cities. And making our city more dangerous. We cant tolerate that. So i would appreciate it if you talk for black people, you actually talk to the black people. I live in a black community 247, and we dont want this in your neighborhood. I have emails, phone calls, that we need to stop this. This is one of the things that [inaudible] this pandemic and this crisis that im hearing a lot of complaints about. So i want again to thank supervisor safai. It is responsible and important. And it is one step toward what we need to keep our streets safe from sideshows. Thank you, supervisor walton. I will just add, you know, i think back in february, there was a couple of these sideshow events and my constituents were terrified. They are scary. They are lifethreatening. And the events that happen in my district i dont believe were anything near what is happening in supervisor walton and safais district right now. And it strikes me as a little bit rich some of the callers calling in, demanding that the some of the less affluent and more diverse parts of the city be required to accommodate themselves to people coming from around the bay area to conduct these events. If thats somehow social justice, thats not social justice. I would like to be added as a cosponsor to this as well. And i will unless supervisor safai, you have more to say, ill move to forward this to the full board. Supervisor safai no. Thank you for your support. I dont know i just want to be respectful. I know the chief had to leave. I dont know if deanna wanted to say anything. I appreciate you being there to listen. And i know that you work with our office as well. So i wanted to recognize you, appreciate that. Oh, chief, youre still here. Still here, yes. Okay, good. And thank you, supervisor walton, for your comments. That is exactly the kind of thing that i have heard from all sectors of my community, lakeview, excelsior, all different backgrounds as i said. And thank you, supervisor mandelman, for cosigning on. Thank you supervisor stefani for sharing the story and you signing on. And thank you, chief, for working with us. And i think that i just want to put it out on the record that chief scott was very sensitive to wanting to approach this the right way. Wanting to ensure that people arent being targeted. Wanting to ensure that we did this and that it was very clear that there would have to be a preponderance of evidence and that we were very careful in the way we approached this. I just want to thank you for i dont know if you want to say anything, chief, if you want to say anything before we close out . No further comments. I just want to again, thank you all the supervisors. Thank you. Thank you, chief. Thank you, deanna. I will move that we looks like our City Attorney has something to say. What is going on . Good afternoon, members of the committee, deputy City Attorney. In reviewing this legislation during the hearing, i realize there is a small mistake in the font that was used. Its on page as you know we use fonts to indicate how dare you use the wrong font [laughter] . My apologiieapologies. But we use fonts to indicate what is changed. They are italicized, but they should be also underlined. If i could ask the committee to make a motion to amend. Its not at all substantive, but i want to make sure we get the right font. While i have you, madame City Attorney, i do have a question for you. If we were to strike make amendments on line 14, 15 and 16, so that the second offense, instead of it saying no less than 15 days, if we changed that to 29 days, would that be a substantive amendment . Because we talk about 29 days on the third offense. We dont talk about it on the second offense. We talk about 15 on the second offense. The chief and i had talked about it. We had presented in such a way when we rolled it out that the second offense would be 29 days, but i just want to ask a point of clarification. So my recollection is that under state law, the city can for up to 30 days and this established a floor of 14 days for the first offense. And now youre changing the floor from 14 days to 29 no, no, not on the first. On the second offense. On the second offense. Second offense so 15 to 29. So it would stiffen that second offense by raising the minimum . I do think that would be substantive . Okay, all right. I just wanted to ask the committee members. We can leave it the way it is. We talked about it as the second offense being 29 days. If the committee is fine with 15 days, im fine with leaving it the way it is, but just wanted to get your feedback. Any feedback . I would be okay with moving forward with it as it is and revisiting it if it looks like we need more. But i dont know. I would agree with that. Leaving it the way it is . Yes, and revisiting if we have to. Got it. Okay. Thats fine with me, too. Okay. So, thank you, mrs. Chair. If we can send this to the full board with a positive recommendation, i would greatly appreciate it. And i dont know i think amendment, right. I will do that. Mr. Clerk, could you call the roll . On the motion offered by chair mandelman to enact the clerical amendment on page three . Supervisor stefani aye. Supervisor walton aye. Supervisor mandelman aye. There are three ayes. Great. I will move the legislation as amended to the ill move that we send the legislation as amended to the full board with positive recommendations. On the motion offered by chair mandelman, vice chair stefani . Supervisor stefani aye. Supervisor walton aye. Supervisor mandelman aye. Mr. Chair, there are three ayes. The motion passes. Congratulations. Thank you, everyone. Thank you for your support. Appreciate it and thank you for your strong comments and sharing your own stories from your own districts. I think this is something that is timely and i appreciate you guys moving it quickly. Thank you. Mr. Clerk, do we have any more items before us today . There is no further business. Well, then we are adjourned. Thanks, everybody. Thank you, chair. Good morning, and welcome to the september 29, 2020 meeting of the Vision Zero Committee. I am commissioner norman yee and i will be chairing todays meeting. Im joined by vice chair commissioner stefani and commissioner peskin. The Committee Clerk is britney milton. And will you please call the role . Yes, commission peskin . 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 closed. Madame clerk, are there any other things any other agenda . That is all, chair. Chair yee the meeting is adjourned. Thank you, everybody. Really going to miss you two on this committee. [laughter]. It is 1 00 p. M. And this is the regular meeting for the commission of investment and infrastructure. I would like to welcome the members of the public who are following the live stream as well as the staff who will present for us. The members of the commission are meeting remotely to ensure the safety of everyone, including the members of the public. Madam secretary, please call the first item. Clerk thank you, mr. Chair. 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Im not sure if you want to give everyone a quick pause, but lets wait for jamie for a few minutes. Ladies and gentlemen, lets hold on tight for a quick minute while we get this i. T. Issue straightened out. Im going to give her a call on her cell. Thank you. Everybody on zoom, this happens quite a bit. Miguel. Yes. Does your screen show that we need you to sign in again . No. Is yours showing that . Yes. Dont worry about that. Thats the shared screen. Im on. Go ahead and reshare the powerpoint when you get a chance. Ill reshare. Clerk sorry about that. The vote was three ayes and one absent. Madam secretary, please call the next item. Clerk the next item is regular agenda 5 c workshop on proposed amendments to the redevelopment plan for the Mission Bay South redevelopment project, the design for development for the Mission Bay South project area and the Mission Bay South owner participation agreement collectively Plan Documents and the basic conceptual Schematic Design related to a proposed mixeduse Life Sciences facility on parcel 7 of block 43, Mission Bay South redevelopment project area. This is an amendment to the redevelopment plan to give an overview of the proposed project and that would allow up to 170,000 of commercial and industrial [indiscernible] on the property. They are excited to come and give a preview. I will turn it over to nicky who will be presenting on the item. Thank you very much, director. Good afternoon. As was mentioned, my name is nicky henry, assistant Development Specialist with the team. There is a workshop on the proposed amendments to the mixeduse Life Sciences facility on parcel 7 of block 43 of mission bay, including approval of a basic schematic and concept design. Next slide. Im sorry, if you could give me a second. Okay. I look like im asleep, but im not. We could have caught you yawning. [laughte [laughter]. As you know, mission bay has been over 20 years in the making, and standard the lease square suite for commercial development has been built leaving no additional square feet available for new development. Today well be going over the history of the parcel and the proposed project i think were getting a jump on the slides here. Today well be going over the history of the parcel and the proposed project, following a review of the development. We will then talk about the Public Benefits accompanying the project and well end with a summary of the proposed actions necessary to facilitate the proje project. Are, the largest Property Owner in mission bay who specializes in serving the life science industry is proposing additional project in the area. The proposed project is approximately 170,000 leasable square feet on parcel 7 of block 43. Today is a workshop and we plan coming back in front of you in november with the following actions to facilitate the project, including an amendment to the Mission Bay South redevelopment plan which amendments the allowable square feet, a Development Agreement between o. C. I. And the developer and which will redefine the obligations of the project. Approval of a basic concept and Schematic Design for bcsd for the design base. The proposed projects on parcel 7 of block 43, as shown, is located on owen street, bound by a future active recreation Public Open Space to be designed to the north, a street, a private street to the south, and the raised i282 freeway. The parcel was acquired by a. R. E. In 2004. A. R. E. Submitted a permit for a building approved by the agency in 2008. The current allowable height is 39 feet. A. R. E. Chose not to move forward with the project and the parcel is being used as a temporary Service Parking lot. As mentioned earlier, the project is nearly built out and well served by neighborhood amenities. A. R. E. Is now proposing a sevenstorey, 100foot high mixeduse building with an allowable penthouse. The proposed project consists of the research and laboratory space, conference space, and ground floor retail space. There are a number of Public Benefits, including financial contributions, which i will go over in more detail later in the presentation. I will now introduce the project sponsor, tracy nemit, to present more details on the proposed projects. Thank you. Its a pleasure to be in front of you today. I have been in front of your Commission Many times since the beginning of mission bay. We are providing here an opportunity to bring new development to a site that has been long been unused and will create a very nice entry point to mission bay as well as capping the project commercial side of the project and enhancing what we have jointly all created, which is a real life science district in the city and county of San Francisco. We are happy to bring this to you because the the Life Science Department is strong. We work in Great Partnership with all of our tenants, many of whom are working on covidrelated therapies, vaccines, testing. So it is very much of the moment to think about enhancing life science facilities for these companies to do their research. So the site is unique in that as was pointed out its right next to the freeway, and also next to the future park which is next to the top of the slide, it is shaped by those two components. Its also shaped by owen street, which has a setback required to allow for a very large storm and sewer line that runs from downtown San Francisco south bound to the southeast treatment plan. So the site is an oddshaped pie. Therefore, we have challenged ourselves to create enough interest on the ground floor by providing a good lobby as well as retail space to front a plaza that fronts the street. The back of the house uses take up a lot of the floor. You see the gray area. Life sciences require very large loading spaces as well as support spaces for all of the Laboratory Functions that are needed. Then in the gold color is a concept that we have to bring some meeting spaces, not so much big conferencing, but some gathering spaces for the Life Sciences community because that is something that is needed. We have with us today the architect for the project. This is a local womanowned business. Lisa wamoto and craig scott are partners. Lisa was to be here today, but unfortunately she isnt here, so craig is going to be here. Craig, if you are able to join us, perhaps you could describe the Architecture Design of the project. Sure. Thank you, theresa. With this irregularly shaped trapezoidal site, it has unique conditions on each of the four sides. So were responding to that with the design, in particular the sides that face owen street and the freeway are all built on this side that weve developed. The first initial idea is to break down the massing and then to create a kind of continuous wrapper of the fins and the reveal that have a subtly undulating pattern. This is a view looking south on owen street with an open space to the right. If you go to the right there is a view shifted towards the caltrain. This shows the two, that threestorey spaces. These move back and forth along the stacked volumes. If we go to the next slide, from the 280 approach heading north into San Francisco, you can see this kind of inflection on the facade that gives the further depth and animates that facade facing the freeway direction. Then we see the opposite side facing east. This is a view looking west on Nelson Rising as youre approaching the intersection with owen street and the front of the building. Its facing open space, which if we go to the next slide we zoom a bit closer and here we can see in that setback zone that theresa described which is indicated by the underground sewer line, weve been working with a design firm to develop this open space as a public plaza where the cafe can spill out, there is a beautiful landscaping feature and it is articulated by a recessed portal. So this is a summary, facts and figures on the building again. So in floors, 109 feet. 15foot ground floor and then the six upper floors are above that 15 foot 6 due to the requirement. So this is a summary of the facts and the figures of the building, 109 feet, 16foot ground floor, and then the six upper floors are 15 foot 6 due to the requirements of lab space of minimum floortofloor height needed. Next slide. So we worked closely with the community and stakeholder groups. As is condition of the view north to the skyline, and then the next slide shows in this light red or pinkish tone that in title projects and actually the ones on the far left are beyond entitled. Theyre either nearing completion or far along construction, will go from left to right in terms of what that represents. The new dorm of the fcca is just getting completed. These three in the background are all in the central zone of plan in part of that set of developments. The next one over to the right from the flower mart, which is the kilroy development is on the east. To the right of that, the tallest is the creamery. So our project were talking to today is just beneath that. So it might be helpful to click back one and forward now that were situated. In this coppery color, its the 14 and 15 project that were talking about today, just below the creamery taller buildings behind it. With that, im finished with my portion. Nicky. Yes, thank you. This slide shows the impact required in order to build the project. These are in addition to the existing Community District zones. The first section shows the onetime funds that would flow through. It is acknowledged that the current rate would allow for Research Space and proposed a higher rate of payment for the office space. In total, the onetime fees total approximately 12. 2 million. The bottom portion of this slide shows that the extra maintenance meant to offset the usage by the guests. It is to be paid annually through the project. Have been working with the city directly on an operational endowment project. The project is still being finalized and there will be a contribution. The school is estimated to be complete in 2025. The project will comply with the south opa project in diversity and economic development. Airy is currently exceeding the participation goals at 66 for professional services, including 40 San Franciscobased s. B. E. S, 40 minority womenowned business, 3 p. M. Owned firms. A. R. E. Has agreed to provide those unless otherwise stipulated excluded from the program. A. R. E. Is committed to working closely with o. C. I. , including local hire and permanent jobs in the program administered by the office of economic and workforce development. A. R. E. First pursued a recommendation in 2018 for a taller project at 183 feet high. The c. A. C. Had concerns over the proposed height and requested a. R. E. Request an additional hearing. There was a request to return to the c. A. C. On july 9, 2020, with a proposed height of 120 feet. The c. A. C. Voted unanimously in favor of the proposed project and associated Plan Document amendments. As mentioned earlier, this item will be coming before you in november with the following actions. The commission would be required to make environmental findings pursuant to the air quality act, and to increase the Square Footage of the project. An amendment to the Mission Bay South honor participation agreement defining the augmented child care fee and open space financial contribution, also an amendment to the mission base design for developments to increase the height on the parcel from 39 feet to 109 feet, along with an increase in the controls and other amendments to the proposed projects. Lastly, approving the proposed bcsd for the project. If the project is approved in november, it will go before the Planning Commission or supervisors and Oversight Board as well as the department of california finance. This concludes our presentation and we can answer any questions you may have. Also on the line and available for questions is mark sluskin, george bridges, and laura shifly, and tracy amends, and jay powell. Madam secretary, do weve anybody from the public wishing to speak to this item . Clerk at this time members from the public who wish to make a Public Comment should call 4156550001, enter access code 1464367015, then press pound and pound again. If you are listening to us by phone, press star 3. If you would like to provide a comment, the operator will let us know if there is anyone on the line. Well let the public have a few moments to call in. Operator madam secretary, there are no callers on the line. Clerk mr. Chair, at this time there are no members on the phone wishing to comment. Thank you. Hearing no public on the phone, ill close Public Comment. Ill turn to my colleagues for any questions or comments they may have. No questions. Just completely in awe as i went through your material. Your team, i commend you and it just brought tears when ive been dealing with and thinking about all of the recovery thats needed, this presents so much hope. Just for a brighter future. I am just pleased with all the thought that went into it. Thank you. I did have a couple of questions. The first couple of questions are regarding the fees. If theres trouble hearing me, let me know. On the child care fee, for instance, and jobs, housing, linkage fee maybe im misreading this, but are those two onetime fees . Yes, they are both onetime fees. The job housing fee, the impact fee said it right in the planning code, and then with the child care fee areas agreed to expand that to pay the office rate because the research and Laboratory Rate is a much lower rate. Yes, i got that. I commend a. R. E. In offering that. I guess my question is because i just dont understand if how are the moneys received this one time and how are they implemented . How did it go 351,900, how is that utilized for child care in a project like this . It goes into helping fund the city it goes into a city pool which i dont think we have testified yet whether they can flow back into mission bay or the city pool. I think the thought is we want them to flow into mission bay and fund further child care facilities in mission bay, custom will be proposed in future housing sites. I would say unless there is no need for Child Care Services in mission bay, that we would want it to be project specific, which raises another question in my mind. Ive just lost track in mission bay. I think there are possibly five Child Care Service programs in mission bay. Do i have that correct . I cant remember off the top of my head, but there is one under construction at the uber site and one under Mission Bay South block, which is an Affordable Housing project, one in the north at ridge sorrow Housing Projects. There are a few inhouse family care within the mercy Housing Project at block 13 east. [indiscernible] and of course the ucsf one which is a rather large one, which is between 100 and 200 spaces. [indiscernible] thats fantastic. Just as a commentary, i remember when i started on the commission now seven or eight years ago, mission bay was representative as a place where no one really expected a lot of kids, so they got that one wrong. So i do have a related question on the job housing theme. Does that one also go to the city for workforce developments . The jobs housing fee goes into the pool thats administer administered by the city to help with Affordable Housing. The jobs housing were going to keep in mission bay. Thats even better. Thank you. Then i got a question about reference to neighbors serving retail. Do we have a sense of what that might be . Commissioner, on the project its a fairly small chunk, about 2,500 square feet. We think it would be some sort of a cafe or food service. Along owen street we have implemented four cafes or Food Services in our projects from starting on 16th street north to this site and they are very well utilized in great part because there is a keizer permanent clinic in the middle of that block and a ucsf orthopedic clinic that has a lot of patients coming and going. There is quite a demand by people for eating establishments, staff dining as well. My next question is that i would recommend the program be amended to include these types of programs in the future, but my big question is just from a dollar value of the project, can you tell me what the anticipated budget for the construction proje project . So the construction of the project, the current shell is in 400 a square foot and laboratories tend to be at least 400 a square foot. Okay. Great. Those are my questions. Thank you. Thank you, vicechair. I just want to say that this is really exciting that this is happening. I know that lot well. We had a lot of discussion it over the years. Given the fact that we are living in a world where there are pandemics, one that has completely uprooted our lives, that we need more of this because more of this is going to happen because this is the next step. If we can find the vaccine or the cure for covid because it is what it is. In regards to the architecture, im usually a stickler for the design designs, its actually quite nice and it looks airy, which flows with the fact that theres a lot of low buildings there. So it doesnt seem overly huge. So i just want to commend you all for putting that together. This is very exciting. When do we are we looking at completion . Well, we are hoping to complete our entitlements here. I think march is the time frame because your actions and then it flows to the Planning Commission and it goes to the board of supervisors and all that. I believe march is that time. In the meantime were working on the design documents. Hopefully around that time we would submit for a Building Permit which takes six, nine months to get a Building Permit. So were probably and then the construction is about two years away. So were almost three years away from getting a building, im afraid. Well, this is an essential service because we need to find cures and vaccines for some of this work. If you need folks to testify, i appreciate it. This is great. Thanks to the staff for all the diligent work that you always do. Its just a workshop, so were not voting on this item. Thank you for coming and presenting. Well close this. Madam secretary, the next item. Clerk thank you, mr. Chair. The next order of business is item 6, Public Comment on nonagenda items. Do we have any speaker cards . Clerk at this time members of the public who wish to present Public Comment should call 415655001, access code 1464367015. When you get in, press star 3 to be placed in the queue. If you are already in the queue, please press star 3. The operator will let us know if there are any callers on the line. Operator madam secretary, there are no callers on the line. Clerk thank you. Mr. Chair, there are no members of the comment wishing to comment on this item. Okay. Ill close Public Comment. Madam secretary, please call the next item. Clerk the next item is item 7, report of the chair. I have no report today. Clerk the next order of business is item 8, report of the executive director. I have no report either. Clerk the next order of business is item 9, commissioners questions and matters. Mr. Chair. Thank you, madam secretary. Are there any questions or matters that the commissioners want to bring up at this time . Seeing none, hearing none im sorry, i was referring to commissioner scott. I would like to raise not a question, but perhaps the executive director to explore the program to reach improvement work. I dont know how many more projects we have that would call for tenant improvement work, but i do think its an easy or easier access to opportunities for our Small Businesses if we can include it in the Small Business program. Do you want to respond . No, well take it under advisement back to the commission. Yes. Can i ask, mara, is that referring to the maintenance of the facility, is that what youre suggesting . When we have buildings, Office Buildings or any development that may have some tenants, the tenant improvement is simply the buildout of the space so that, for instance, theres a park tower where facebook went in, in trans bay, then our program would have been applicable to facebooks interior construction of tenant improvements. Right. All right. Madam secretary, please call the next item. The next order of business is item 10, closed session. There are no closed session items. The next order of business is item 11, adjournment. Commissioners, ill need a motion to adjourn. I move that the meeting be adjourned. I second. Thank you, commissioners. We are now adjourned. Thank you very much. Thank you. [ ] we are definitely pioneers in airport concession world a world of nationally if not entirely or internationally everybody is cop us right now. The people that were in charge of the retail this is where that began. I didnt think we would have a location at the airport. Weve set the bar higher with the customer commerce. Telling me about the operator and how you go about finding them and they get from being in the city to being in the airport. So first, we actually find a table and once we know what we want a sitdown we go to the neighborhoods in San Francisco and other people seminary of the retail let us know about the rain water and are excited to have the local operators in the airport. We have to go going through the conceive selective process and they award a lease to the restaurant. They are planning on extending. We that you could out the china and the length evens and the travel serve and fourth your minds and its all good. How long for a vendor to move through the process. I would say it could take 80 up to a year from the time we go out to bid until they actually open a restaurant. I dont know what we signed up for but the airport is happy to have us here. And, you know, even taking out the track simple things theres a learning curve with once were here they are helpful. Its an awardwinning program. Were prude of your awards we have won 11 awards the latest for the best overall food address Beverage Program and. Like the oscars laughter . The professional world. Tell me about the future food. All the sb national leases are xooirz and were hoping to bring newer concepts out in San Francisco and what your passengers want. Well, i look forward to the future laughter air are we look fofofofofofofofo great. Commissioner chung is here too. Yes . Mr. Chung commissioner chung thank you, i thought it was a statement. Clerk so all were doing is waiting for commissioner christian but i spoke to her and shes on her way. So lets move on. Move to item 2, commissioner . President bernal yes, you have the minutes from the tuesday september 1st meeting in front of you, thanks again to dr. Lloyd green for chairing that meeting in my absense be