Transcripts For SFGTV Transportation 20240704

Present. Commissioner safai. Absent. Commissioner stefani. Present. Commissioner walton. Present. Chair, we have quorum. Thank you you have an announcement. Members interested in participating we walk here in person in the chamber room 250 in city hall or channel 26 or 99 or streaming live. Wish to make comment remote dial 4156550001, access code 2591 446 2834 you will upon listen to the meet nothing real time when Public Comment is called press star 3 to speak. Do not press it again and you will be removed from the queue. Public comment for items on the agenda be taken first from the members in attendance in the chamber and after from the remote speakers on the phone line. Thanks we might have a line we need to mute, may be . I have a note excuse commissioner chan that is wrong. I see her. I do need to excuse vice chair melgar. I will do that unless there are objections and before our next item rule 3. 26 to limit the comment 30 minutes. Each have 2 minutes to speak unless i indicate otherwise at the start of that item. Mr. Clerk. Will you call our next item. 2. Report an informational item. Great. Colleagues, i want to start today by acknowledge and appreciating the work of the inner agency dtx portal project team they prepared items coming to the board in august that represent mile stone in governors and funding. This includes the blueprint document the 6 Party Memorandum of understanding agreement. Which lays out how all am agency Work Together through the Implementation Phase of the project and tjpa consider the funding applications to Transit Administration new startings program and seek a positive rating in the white house budget next year. Well is a lot of work. Filling occupant the project local mapless at the state and region. The significance of this accomplishment by the tjpa, caltrain and Transportation Authority efforts of our agency ltd. S. Our rail Program Manager and our executive director tilly chang working with city staff and the High Speed Rail Authority. This approach was the outcome of the peer review of the project 3 years ago adopted under the Transportation Authority chair supervisor peskin cooperate to bolster capacity and yielded good results so far. Megaprojects are challenging and we want to apply Lessons Learned to the project and others for San Francisco. Which is why im pleased see and looking forward to our transportation project study on todays agenda of the we implement our prop well Sales Tax Program come leverage historic levels of funding. It is important we improve our project delivery using principles and models that came before. Look ahead, im cautious low hope leave are on the right track to improve project deliver and he thank everybody for work and collaboration. And that concludes my remarks. And is there if there are no questions from clothes anyone in the chamberments to speak on item 2, come forward. And seeing i dont think no Public Comment. Is anyone remote who wants to speak on the chairs report . Checking for remote Public Comment. Chair there is no Public Comment. All right. Public comments on item 2 is closed. Mr. Clerk, call our next item. Item 3 executive directors report an informational item. Good morning chair mandelman and commissioners. This morning im pleased to start my report with an update from the state level am the California Transportation Commission approved 5 Million Dollars in local partnership Incentive Funds for San Francisco. The june 23 meeting. This is Incentive Fund to reward San Francisco for passing prop l last fall. Thank you to the body and voters. They are one time fund and wills be supplementing formula fupdzs that will be receiving from the lpp program 3. 44 million that is 8 Million Dollars worth of lpp funding. Well bring local priorities to you later this fiscal year to program the funds. Am at the state level there was part of the transportation trailer bill the governor sign third degree month a provision i wanted update you on reduce costs for protect delivery with cal trance. Senate bill 125, upon sponsored by the self help coalition which i chair director costs recovery rate to 10 of projects. And this recognizes partnership with cal trans and sales tax agencies our leading project on yerba buena island. Thank you to the count and he cal tran and legislator for that helpful bill. Next. We were pleased to help post the autoon mus vehicle conference thousands from all over the world talking about avs and in that we are the epicenter of role world deployment. Folks took a ride and talked about the topic. Ta staff and sfmta staff participated in a number of venues peeking on issues the ready knows. The readiness of the technologies for expansion and deployment and how the federal, state and local frameworks can be hormononizeed support this time activitiment our standpoint presented on the treasure i upon land shuttle Pilot Project and we are pleased this will be starting in early august. It is expected to Begin Service in the next couple of weeks with our chair dorsey coming. We make that announcement very soonful on the exact date. We expect it to be early august. And i wanted note during the puc delayed the hearing to consider approval of the expansion permits until august 10 this was scheduled in july. The date does continue to move out in august and we are appropriateed participate in that hearing. Final low as part of that conference, within a meeting the highway Transportation Agency i was inviteed join with sfmta staff United Nations working Group Developing guidelines for av manufacturings. There is a lot of work. Experts frommishia, Europe America the at Google Office in mountain view. We had side meetings to discuss the specifications for the vehicles but the reasons for and need for the why, how we need them to be on board the vehicles to promote Data Collection and system forms. Next. Il note this locally we have a number of sfmta updates. You may have seen in the news. Sfmta approved a contract with a company that installed red light cameras throughout the city. That program be extended by 8 additional location in districts 2, 5 and 6. And the contract will be extended by 5 years to 2028. Knowing that this is a topic of high interests on the board i wanted note these epiforce 19 approaches at 13 intersections today. Once this expansion occurs zeal 27 approaches at 21 intersections and mt assay theys result in the 56 drop in injury collisions from red light running the 15 years with 97 and 2022. Sorry. Also. In sfmta has noted that they are offering and continuing to conduct bike rides with the community and all of the districts. There is a series of the bike ride in support active communes plan process. There have been in districts 1, 2 and 40 past few weeks, 2 more in districts five and 7 and 11. District 5 will happen at turk and fillmore friday 2 p. M. And in the omi7 11 august fifth at temple u noticed everybody i invited. More information at their website sfmta. Com project active communityplan. Project delivery. Im happy to join caltrain leaders san jose station this weekend. To tour caltrains new train sets this have arrive exclude there will be wonderful public event. Celebrate and test them out and check them out. Ta provided 41 Million Dollars in prop k and one grant funds to support electronicification including the new train sets. Tell be saturday july 29 other 202 p. M. The public able to see and board the new vehicles more spacious intear years, wifi plugs. Communication and baby changing stations in bathrooms. The new electric float be quiet are, less polluting and faster prom meeting more stops along the corridor. R. S. V. P. s are recommended. Visit their website for more information. Again. Project deliver u. S. Sfmta has been making Good Progress on a few frequent projectses one in district 8. They are wrapping up construction at the Neighborhood Program intersection improvements. This project includes 4 curb ramps. Sidewalks and bulb outs. New march crosswalk and flashing beacons for safety for folks acrossing the street. And thats great. It is in the park and Community Center there. As well, quick builds making progress. The lake merced quick build and bayshore projects are preparing to enter construction. And last month the hide and 17th held open house for design proposals funded by prom a on valencia acvagz of bike signals 15th and 23rd. With an initial other impresumes well look forward to updates on the projects in the next few months. Turning to updates in our office. We remember processed host 3 Summer High School interns from San Francisco schools. The summer we have enjoyed tony lou a rising senior at george washington. Grab riela at bay will school and anthony a graduate of lowell high school. Thank to them for would like with our staff and they are researching a Group Project folk ulgsed on bus stop and transit safety. Conduct surris and out roach and potential solutions. Thank you. To singsia fong and eric young for running that program for us. Enterprise Research Planning system migration is my last update. Internal project as well that sing why is manage. Going limp this is so we update our whole erp system which is Business Management software allowing you to manage all financial management. Accounting and prescriptional over site. And this is a once in a 10 year process. It is a big effort and want to appreciate the Team Including cynthia, staff. Thank you very much thank you very much, direct chang. See if there is Public Comment in the chamber on the executive directors report. Jury room good morning. It is not going to work guy. It is looking towards lockup looks [inaudible] we have to step the executive director [inaudible] i said the mayor. Mayor, you have to push conresponsibility and Critical Thinking where is this in the executive directors report i dont hear it. The best as to where be responsible. Not mask advice you cant choose Critical Thinking with [inaudible]. Does not work. You have to you can look down but not going to work. I upon garnt you it is not going to work. Im here. I told you, you are with me to change the course of humanity includes transportation. It is in San Francisco. It is not a [inaudible] you dont understand you cant fight temperature i said we use responsibility. S we use the everybody so hello. You will not stop temperature nobody is going to stop it. Please in dont waste time everybody willpate mur miss [inaudible]. The more you will say. Pub labored what you did or did not do. Pay attention. You Pay Attention. Im sorry of thank you. No further comment in the chamber do we have remote comment on item 3 . Checking for remote comment. If you like to make Public Comment press star 3. We do have Public Comment. Hi. Caller your time begins now. Thank you for putting cameras on streets. To steel the more in the coming years. Thank you for all you dochlt thats all thank you, caller. Thank you. Executive director chang. Call item 4. Item 4 aprove minutes of july 11, 2023 meet thanksgiving is an action item. See if there is Public Comment on the minutes. Item for you in the chamber. Lets see if we have remote comment on the minutes. There is no Public Comment. Well, public ment on item 4 is closed. Is there a motion to approve the minutes. Is there a second. Seconded by walton. Mr. Clerk. Call the role. Commissioner chan. Aye. Commissioner dorsey. Commissioner engardio. Aye chair mandelman. Aye commissioner supervisor peskin. Aye yoochl commissioner preston. Aye. Commissioner ronen. Aye. Commissioner stefani. Aye. Commissioner walton. Aye. There are inner929 ayes thank you. Call our item 5. Item few through 9. Item 5. Final approval state and federal legislation update. This is an action item. Thank you, mr. Clerk. Is there a motion to approve item 5 . Moved by dorse. Is there a second. I will second it. Mr. Clerk call the roll on item 5. Do we have to take Public Comment we called off consent. Okay. Thank you. On item 5. Commissioner chan. No. Commissioner dorsey. Aye commissioner engardio. Aye. Commissioner chair mandelman. Aye. Commissioner supervisor peskin. Aye. Commissioner preston. Aye commissioner ronen. Aye. Commissioner safai absent. Commissioner stefani. Aye. Commissioner walton. Aye. There are 9 ayes the item is approved. Thank you, mr. Clerk. Call the remainder of the consent. Item 69 comprised consent staff is in the here but available for questions we received comments which have been posted our website. Commissioner supervisor peskin you are correct there are 8 ayes with children chan dissenting. Thank you. Thank you. Commissioner supervisor peskin and seconded by preston. Thank you mr. Preston. Mr. Clerk call the roll. Commissioner chan. Aye. Commissioner dorsey. Aye. Commissioner engardio. Aye. Chair mandelman. Aye. Commissioner supervisor peskin. Aye. Commissioner preston. Aye. Commissioner ronen. Aye. Commissioner safai. Absent commissioner stefani. Aye. Commissioner walton. Aye. There are 9 aye avenue on the Consent Agenda it it is approved. 69. Thank you. Call item 10. Item 10 sept transportation Capital Project delivery study an action item. Okay. In months this body at the board of supervisors has taken the important steps to improving capitol project deliver in prosecute board opted a civil grand jury recommendation the biggest construction protects dont do to less qualified bidders due to lowest bid. We took a step to improve contracting processes lowering costs up to 20 and saving tax payers millions a year. Our work to [inaudible] on time and budget continues. Todays report also come a critical mobile home we implement our prop well Sales Tax Program and historic levels of infrastructure funding i and recommendations from staff and the next steps thed registration and the board take to get future transit projects done right. I want to thank commissioner supervisor peskin for leadership in calling for the work and Mayors Office and city report directors and staff to participate. Thank our prior deputy for capitol protects eric cordova lead the Transportation Authority now over seen by carl homelessness. And with that, deputy direct homelessness. Take it away thank you, chair mandelman. Carl homelessness. Deputy direct capitol projects and i want to echo chair mandelmans acknowledgment of cordova who lead this effort and the current, cystant Deputy Director wadman who was instrumental in the process. I i take this presentation with great joy. Even though i was not part of the effort in getting this to the point. It is something this is near and dear to my heart with 30 Years Experience in projects in delivery. On the contractor side or owner side. Or in the over site realm as well. This point we could share the presentation. And if we can go to the next slide. So, the purpose of this presentation is to share what was learns in the effort as well as when we want to focus on going forward. Recommendations for this body and the public and the other San Francisco departments. This is talking with contractors is they put a 10 premium on their bid when is they do business in San Francisco. That is something we had not take lightly. In regards to trying to find ways to not only harass that spirit in getting contractors to bid on work but also with that competitive spirit allow for the price of pressure to be reduced. Next slide. Objectives in this effort uncover barriers of capitol project deliver. Identify process in policy improvement opportunities. Increase communication and collaboration with project partners and the public and improve measurement and, countability. Now this was focused on large projects complex projects. Or high risk project its is not every project. But it is looking at the projects that likely get, lot of exposure amongst our various City Departments. Or in the mead enthusiasm or in the project engineering and construction industry. Next slide. So, we could not do this alone. It took multiple agencies, organizations. Group in in order to make this happen. And making this meaning coming up with the collective study. And recommendations and findings. And so i want to thank all of the organizations that are listed ranging from this board and the Mayors Office. City add Administrators Office to public works, mta and puc. There were 2 groups that were part of this effort. A round table consisting of then individuals. All throughout the organizations and then there was a management working group, which consisted of over 21 individuals. We look at the organizations that are listed i wanted give highlight on the number of individual this is put time and effort in not only giving guidance but putting hours and months of effort into getting you to this point. Next slide. So the approach started with that executive round table quick off short low after this board issued the directives. And then consisted of multiple work shops, surveys. There were 3 workshops this were highlighted. But the approach was to look at case studies and, projects to try to garth up Lessons Learned. And translating that to common themes. There was a capitol project survey. And there was also surveys in third Party Interviews amongst the different organizations but also with certain individuals that might have had positions with the city in the past. Then, after all of that collaboration the effort was translateed recommendations, which you have seen in the in the packet and we will provide in our draft report. Next slide. So some of the case studies and initiatives occurring in the past. You see them on the slide. There are 4 that are highlightd and then there is a couple of others that are listed on the slide. One is the van ness avenue brt Lessons Learned and the focus of that was to look at utility investigations. That are needed in order to make sure there is good knowledge when unforeseen utilities are encounterd and how to handle them to reduce delay costs and Risk Management over all be cannot be emphasized on any project. Risk is often 4 letter word andune considered to be a fearful 4 letter word if you say risk. People think of you are trying to be a nay say and trying to think of a negative perspective on a project f. You dont identify the prick and manage it, when things go wrong, it the prize factor usually increases the time it makes to make decisions increasing the cost of a project. Risk management cannot be lie lighted must have. Second the delivering of exceptional projects out of the San Francisco interinitial airport. They focused on trying to utilize the expertise of Industry Experts in the private sector. The sfmta cap tom programs audit focused on stake holder collaborations. And i will say the same for the San Francisco partnering field guide, a theme was collaborative partnering and team building. The additional documents that are listed there, the first related dtx is the peer review study that combreelded the result of the current mou chair mandelman upon referenced a clan ragdz of 6 agencies and i will say more about that later in this presentation. The last 2 were surveys done one was specific low to contractors. And that is where we heard from them about the 10 premium they accomplice on bids doing business in San Francisco and then the last is the staff Partner Survey brought up the theme of collaboration. Next slide. Key points from the workshop and survey in our areas of improvement. There is the hiring of stamp timely hiring of staff. But it it is also the retention and training of staff. So that we can make sure that projects have the right individuals this are leading the projects that are supporting the projects and that that training should be continued throughout their career at the respective organizations. Coordination with stake holders starting at preconstruction phase. It is often projects will send out red alerts of needing assistance on issues from different departments and it is easy to say that you reached out to a certain City Department for help. But if you not allowing the department to get and look at that the risks are. So they are not surprised when the project issue occurs, you are increasing the risk of not getting their bein and getting the right individuals to help support the projects. Again, having this stake holder collaborate rigz occur during the preconstruction phase and getting them on board so that when construction is starting and you have crews that are on the ground, if a delay should occur this is when the hour low cost of a delay is significant. If you are able to handle things at preconstruction phase it is you will find the costs will be reduced. Um go to the next slide. Insights from executive leadership. It is in the the individuals on the projects but making sure that off the respective departments hear from their executive directors and leaders that the importance of it. They as one city family we are doing the right thing by for all of our projects to make sure that problems get solve the quickly. Another area of this on this slide is there was the am if the office that allowed for colocation of staff and,llowed staff from different departments focused on the project and less on the individual departments for the sake of the project. I adopt to highlight there were 2 individuals that were also interviewed and getting leadership one ed herrington. And rudy knockenberg former stele city add administrator. Key findings . One stream lining the Decision Making process. 2, provide additional training for project managers. 3, expand access to project management tool and software. 3 accel rit hiring of staff. 4k cellerate hiring of project needed staff. And 5, improve collaborative risk identification. Next slide. Our recommendations and we have 5 of them. One is establish cap tam to the management offers. Strengthen the construction process submitting process. And invest in rightofway and utility investigation programs. Expand departmental risk rerues and management. And facilitate structured collaborative partnering. Next slide. This project Management Office concept. The key functions are looking how we standardize our design qualities. A 35 design, making sure it is clear amongst department when is is expected the each phase of design. Also enabling the Decision Making to happen throughout that process. So that if we are asking diameters to be involved you want to make sure they are being heard and they are comments are addressed. We also i will share some of the Pilot Program them with some suggested projects for the future. Next slide. The case study project examples focused on the dtx and the mou that was established. There is also the sfo partner model and geary phase one. Geary phase one is a small are project but a lot. Good things that happened with the lopbard project, thenth avenue and taraval light rail a. A lot of good credit this should be shared with this group. Not just looking at problems but looking at had went well. And then potential projects for the Pilot Program are the dtx in delivery phase x. There is an effort to look at the next phase governing structure for this project. And better market street. And then other future large complex departmental projects. Next slide. This san example of what consists today in dtx with the structure. You see at the top, there are 6 organizations that are part of the project. Delivering it however it is important the 6 departments Work Together in order to ensure a successful project. I will go to the bottom of this structure and you will see this tgpa the driver of the project. Cta responsible for the plan and funding. And then we have listed other project to the right that can feed in or integrate with the delivery of the dpx project. Measures of success this we strive for are higher degree of on tien and on budget progress. As well as good quality good quality from a bhig picture making sure there is in rework after if sillities are improved or constructed. And improving the collaboration amongst all the departments and again manage that happens early and this it also has to be managed and continued throughout the life of the project. All of that can decrease the number of change order and cost change order this is projects sprjs. And then being more open to sharing out of project risks and not only the identification phase but continuous management of risks along the way. This concludes the presentation and i will turn it become to chair mandelman. I will say, one, when are we doing now . Even on our west side bridges project we had i partnering effort this past friday and i want to acknowledge the City Department this is showed up. Had San Francisco public works and sudden front mta and we had puc. And they did not have one individual from each they had multiple vsed in person partnering effort that occurred at our office. I want to give a shout out to the departments. And i will say that the factor on this project. Will not just what is on the slide recent as a few days ago. I wents contractor was paying attention how we are going to Work Together and so at least we model that at the table and look forward to the work with them on that project and others. Thank you. Thank you. Director homelessness. Commissioner chan thank you, i think my question is when you suggest recommendation. I have a series of questions. When you suggest this one recommendation have capitol project Management Office, could you e will beerate. Current structure as a city other than transportation projects peeking capitol improve am project. Especially larger scales. Typically they would go through the d. Public works and they go through sort of this cost estimate and scope work and determination of contingance and he budget. And so are you saying that we should have a different direction and establish a new capitol project Management Office . And instead of the existing model or saying in the existing structure we have as a city we should clarifying we have a cap fol project Management Office . I would say more of the clarifying. And its k can be useful when different departments are trying to solve a problem on any given project. So if an ct aproject wont finds a utility we cant understands when it is or not shown on the drawings not in as builts no oneness. How do we make sure to roach out to whether puc or if it is public works. Making sure we understand who to go to if a decision need to bes made on what to do with that utility. Then we need to and there is a disagreement in a decision. We need a body this can over see that process this is what our recommendation is. More of i clarifying. Not to take projects, way from different departments but to allow for a smoother collaborative effort with projects. As they are delivered. And i think one recommendation which is strength and Construction Costs. Challenge now and i pol make are not a person when have been doing this for 3 decades and e mersing in the construction process. I think for pus often time we have staff come before us and now is the amendments of existing contract. Because the scope of work change and often time we near a position we dont have expertise and make those decision. And we want to ask those questions and often time it seems it is difficult to determine a few things. One is the scope of the work this was determined original low. And then why is not at that time. How do we make sure in the Construction Cost estimate process they have a clear decisionmaking process that is also not only objective over site and accountability and transparency between contingency budget and change orders. Often time this is my question. If we are understand we have i clear scope of project. And we know what it is about, i understand that you know the bidding process in San Francisco with the lowest bid is makes it more difficult. And seems like we create a pull for change order its in in long the way and we like hurt ourselves along the way with our budget and therefore our project and cannot be on budget. Through your sxeflgz your recommendation, how do we make sure we are clear with putting together a percentage of contingency budget and i think we could and should anticipate change orders im not saying we cannot have change orders how do we tell the deference with a reasonable cost estimate and reasonable change orders versus this is the moment i know the policy maker we should say, no and figure out where did we go wrong and where does accountability come in. I will attempt to answer and feel free. In regards to estimating. The and change orders. And as you mentioned change orders are going to happen on projects. How do you manage it to where you get the most bank for budge you are guesting the work that is necessary to complete the project done. But you are getting it at a fair process. Thats where it is important the inspect estimate done by owner is reliable. So this mate is used as often times a negotiating tool to try to reduce the price of the actual work. When both sides are at odds or really far apart on numbers sometimes you have to get the work done and electronic it hourly basis and that way you are holding the contractor accountable for what is the trough cost of the work. You dont the a math debit on the value of an effort if it will cost more to not dot work later. You nine mine as well dot work if you have a way to manage it using the estimates and sometimes having not one but it is a second estimate to help the costs. The way the market is today, i have found that some estimators are quick to say tell cost this much more as an estimator this person also is being held, counselability. So, if the person is providing an estimate and they are way off. The next mate is higher they dont want to be looked upon you dont know how to mate a project this is role or a scope of work that is real. We have to try to put that pressure back on the Mary Lou Retton to not just have your next be higher but give your best estimate and a second estimate can be good. And thats manage this is i Good Practice organizations are starting to do. That cost of a second estimate is minimal compared to the value of the work. And i will ask. Looks like director chang is jumping out of her seat. So. I had to carls excellent answer. Refers back to questions earlier the cpmo office the practice is carl mentioned are right the idea of a cpmo court nayed Management Office is to standardsize that prg practice. Some agencies are doing it. On the regular others are now starting to experiment with the project mechanisms. Or that can be the use of a change management board. The slam of a certain size men a peer review of the organization this is might have decision rights wh we saw that and implementd that for electronicification. It is in the governors report for dtx a side body of senior people empowered review changes. Claims and of a certain size and threshold before you go to the board. Have you lots of tool and mechanisms. Everybody struggles with the same problem. The question is how do you manage it and bring peer review and costmation and those Standard Practice its is in the one Agency Versus another had you have 3 on the same project they have a common base for the practice. I understands. This previously the Controllers Office issued a report this is sfmta in terms of management of capitol project that give a specific threshold of 100 Million Dollars and more. We start to see a break down in cracks in terms of the construction contract management over 100 million for sfmta in the city and county of San Francisco, we see that there is a problems like arrive with how do you manage the construction projects. That kinds of guess back to trying to again understand upon the recommendation of the capitol Management Office. The department of public works function nothing that role for the city of San Francisco for a time. It is almost a standard if you have work on capitol project in San Francisco you will than the public works always tell you if you come xup they assist you through the process. Cost mates soft and hard costs and either 1 you put in 10 of contingency for each. But when we have found may be that the design work for 10 works time and time again what when we see that project are over a certain threshold that does not commode a problem with change orders and men other things to follow. I wanted help me understand. About the recommendations which i appreciate. I think that this is for one i hope autopsy all of us who dont do this daily to understand and when these decision contract coming before us and we have to vote on it the question is we need to ask. And understand. At this moment i you know kinds ofmented see how it does play out. With cost estimates and change orders down the road. Thank you. Thank you. Commissioner chan and director homelessness. As you indicate third degree report adds to a rich literature that has been prepared over years address being a problem this remains. Im grateful for the work of upper who participated in this effort. I think we have been aware on the Transportation Authority side about this. Really in some ways the executives will have to grapple with the issues. And im hopeful they will do this. And and anticipate that they approximately be announcing something soon, perhaps today to try to build on this work and think about whether or not there are ways to address the problem San Francisco having thisment scattered scylloed set of agency and departments that share responsibility dont coordinate well. And end up sometimes with projects this comelet and are more expensive than folks anticipated. So. Thanks to the ta for your work. To everyone who anticipated. And should open up to Public Comment. If there is anyone here withhold like to speak, come on up. Im sorry. Just you can [inaudible] solve the problem it is easy based on something that is wrong, you guys. Common on you can stole. Keeps getting to [inaudible] and complicated the rules of the thing is wrong. It is not working for everybody. Up in happiness it makes it complicated for nothing. I waste of time. I know you dont want to Pay Attention it is krez. You are going to have to which because there is no way around you guys are responsible otherwise. You are work against your own happiness and asked to step away because dont need you you are supposed to be responsible for the people. Please, it is very easy to understands that is complicated. I think your problem is that you are under estimate your ability to understand what happiness or beauty s. It is krez you are working against your own happiness. Now it will not work. Thank you. Do we have remote Public Comment . Check. Go to the first caller. Hello caller your 2 minutes begins now. Good morning, [inaudible] san jose. I would like to associate myself with the [inaudible] [muffled]. Say good news with you is that [inaudible] i recall the contingency for the dtx is 30 . Not 10 . And let me [inaudible] with from the High Speed Rail Authority project. On the current budget is was 20 billion dollars. With 20 contingency 4 billion and what happened is this even though the report was available, people were not money trained the amount contingency being learned as the project was progressing. And once the project reaches 10 billion dollars mark. They have completely exhausted the 4 billion dollars contingency gone. In other words than i were running double the rate. 40 and nobody knows. Upon thats my remarks we move forward we dont exceed the contingsancey. Thank you. Thank you, caller. Hello, your 2 minutes begins now. Supervisors, have not mentioned politic control. You need an orientation. Before you ask somebody some stupid questions, on how you are going to control the spending; you have to have an orientation on Quality Control. A lot in the city we did not have Quality Control. Ton have bafoons doing the construction. With the people who are fallified not work for the city. Ure have to reflect on why we got rid of [inaudible]. Stop this bafoonary. We need Quality Control aspects to give yall an orientation on every level. Thank you very much. Thank you, faller. Public comment on item 10 is closed. Is there a motion. I have been asked to use supervisor fasay. Motion to approve item 10 . Nowithout objection. Mr. Clerk call item 11ch introduction of new items an informational item. Why dont see anyone on the roster. Mr. Clerk. Call item 12. Why Public Comment. This is the Public Comment. Holdup. This is my lost one for the afternoon. We did this again. What i just said earlier i think it is important. Do not please dont under estimate your ability to understand the future. Because you are putting your happiness at stake. Unhelpness you lose your resentful being all together. Happiness is your reason for being. If you are responsible, hold the position in the city to be responsible for all the appointments. You have to connect the dots. If you can be happy you cant make what you call the people. Happy is does in the work. We have to stop this it will be okay. Dont worry. I have been putting in charge. You understand do not under mate your ability to understand beauty and happiness. For example in the [inaudible] mta you dont say what aresment. No this is already harassment there is no. This is so. It leads to ug liness. Look up not down on your smart phone. Against your happiness to smart phone it is easy to understand. I hope you Pay Attention. Because it is not going to be good for you otherwise. Im with you. Please, understand me here. We are together. Unite. Remote Public Comment . Under item 12. Going to the first caller. Hi. Caller. 2 minutes begins now. This evening chair mandelman and commissioners. It is a quick ask through the chair. Im wondering possible for a remote call tors be given the gental toot at the 1 minute 30 seconds or 30 seconds before your time is up. Thank you. Thank you, caller. Hello caller. Your 2 minutes begins now. So, all of you present in the chambers, i want you all to do your home work how the money was spent in the left 3 years. Lot of mopy from the frivolous money you wasted now we are in dire straights. In San Francisco, also got a lot of google and other operations to help our students and took that for granted. You supervisors have done nothing in doing Needs Assessment to that yall can compare what really happened and had a lot of money and how yall waste today. Not only on transportation. But on health and other yours. And we are going to be in dire straights in a another 6 months. And you have no solutions. No solutions because yall are novelty educateod issues i have been saying this for the last 30 years. Stop hood wink us in broad daylight. Do your home work as im talking the connie chan is talking to somebody else. Public comment is 2 minutes and yall are having side bar conversations. Thank you, caller. Hi. Caller your 2 minutes begins now. This is patricia aircraft im a senior and disabled and need extra time i cant come to the chamber i want to talk about reducing tossile fuels today you, proved rebates for taxi drivers who get had electric vehicles and ask youing consider doing this for low income drivers of private cars. They should also be able to qualify for the break and asking to you put in more charging stagsz. And well is recentsment on work and eldexerts disabled. You are spending so much money on bike riders which are 3 of population. Last year in 2022, stay sfmta requested 3 pen thousand dollars for bike racks. Tacked on another half Million Dollars. And the total 857 thousand dollars. Today you thursday another 422,000. So 22 and 23, you have spent 1 million, 280, 000. I think that there should be a financial audit. Of sfmta. I think that you should have a multipronged approach toward Climate Change and reducing fossile fuel and help out people get nothing electric vehicle hos cant roadway a bicycle to work. So, im asking for 2 things. You consider using [inaudible] for electric vehicles and charging stations and also for a financial [inaudible] of [inaudible]. Mta. Thank you very much for listening. Thank you, caller. There is no additional Public Comment. Public comment on item 12 is closed. Mr. Clerk, call then. Adjournment. We are adjourned. clapping. the airport it where i know to mind visions of traffic romance and excitement and gourmet can you limousine were at San Francisco inspirational airport to discover the awardwinning concession that conspiracies us around the world. Sfo serves are more 40 million travelers a year and a lot of the them are hungry theres many restaurant and nearly all are restaurant and cafe thats right even the airport is a diane designation. So tell me a little bit the food program at sfo and what makes this so special well, we have a we have food and Beverage Program at sfo we trivia important the sustainable organic produce and our objective to be a nonterminal and bring in the best food of San Francisco for our passengers. I like this its is inaudible i thank my parents for bringing me here. This the definitely better than the la airport one thousand times better than. I have a double knees burger with bacon. I realize im on a diet but im hoping this will be good. It total is San Francisco experience because theres so many people and nationalities in this town to come to the airport especially everyone what have what they wanted. Are repioneering or is this a model. Were definitely pioneers and in airport commemoration at least nationally if not intvrl we have many folks asking our our process and how we select our great operators. The food option in San Francisco airport are phenomenal thats if it a lot of the airports yeah. You dont have the choice. Some airports are all about food this is not many and this particular airport are amazing especially at the tirnl indicating and corey is my favorite i come one or two hours before my flight this is the life. We definitely try to use as many local grirnts as we can we use the goat cheese and we also use local vendors we use greenly produce they summarize the local soured products and the last one had 97 percent open that. Wow. Have you taken up anything unique or odd here. Ive picked up a few things in napa valley i love checking chocolates theres a lot of types of chocolate and caramel corn. Now this is a given right there. Im curious about the customer externals and how people are richmond to this collection of cities youve put together not only of San Francisco food in San Francisco but food across the bay area. This type of market with the local savors the highend products is great. I know people cant believe theyre in an airport i really joy people picking up things for their friends and family and wait i dont have to be shopping now we want people take the opportunity at our location. How long has this been operating in San Francisco and the late 18 hours it is one of the best places to get it coffee. We have intrrnl consumers that know of this original outlet here and come here for the coffee. So lets talk sandwiches. Uhhuh. Can you tell me how you came about naming our sandwiches from the katrero hills or 27 years i thought okay neighborhood and how do you keep it fresh you can answer that mia anyway you want. Our broadened is were going not irving preserves or packaged goods we take the time to incubate our jogger art if scratch people appreciate our work here. So you feel like out of captured the airport atmosphere. This is its own the city the Airline Crews and the bag handlers and the frequent travels travelers and weve established relationships it feels good. When i get lunch or come to eat the food i feel like im not city. I was kind of under the assumption you want to be done with our gifts you are down one time not true we have a lot of regulars we didnt think wed find that here at the airport. People come in at least one a week for that the food and service and the atmosphere. The food is great in San Francisco its a coffee and i took an e calorie home every couple of weeks. Im impressed i might come here on my own without a trip, you know, we have kids we could get a babysitter and have diner at the airport. This is a little bit of things for everybody theres plenty of restaurant to grab something and go otherwise in you want to sit you can enjoy the experience of local food. Tell me about the future food. Were hoping to bring newer concepts out in San Francisco and what our passengers want. I look forward to see what your cooking up laughter today weve shown you the only restaurant in San Francisco from the comfortableing old stand but you dont have to be hungry sfo has changed what it is like to eat another an airport check out our oblige at tumbler dating. Com[music] San Francisco city clinic provides a broad range of Sexual Health services from Stephanie Tran medical director at San Francisco city clinic. We are here to provide easy access to conference of lowcost culturally sensitive Sexual Health services and to everyone who walks through our door. So we providestd checkups, diagnosis and treatment. We also provide hiv screening we provide hiv treatment for People Living with hiv and are uninsured and then we hope them Health Benefits and rage into conference of primary care. We also provide both prend post exposure prophylactics for hiv prevention we also provide a range of womens reproductive Health Services including contraception, emergency contraception. Sometimes known as plan b. Pap smears and [inaudible]. We are was entirely [inaudible]people will come as soon as were open even a little before opening. Weight buries a lip it could be the first person here at your in and out within a few minutes. There are some days we do have a pretty considerable weight. In general, people can just walk right in and register with her front desk seen that day. My name is yvonne piper on the Nurse Practitioner here at sf city clinic. He was the first time i came to city clinic was a little intimidated. The first time i got treated for [inaudible]. I walked up to the redline and was greeted with a warm welcome im chad redden and anna client of city clinic even has had an std clinic since all the way back to 1911. At that time, the clinic was founded to provide std diagnosis treatment for sex workers. Theres been a big increase in std rates after the earthquake and the fire a lot of people were homeless and there were more sex work and were homeless sex workers. There were some Public Health experts who are pretty progressive for their time thought that by providing std diagnosis and treatmentsex workers that we might be able to get a handle on std rates in San Francisco. When youre at the clinic youre going to wait with whoever else is able to register at the front desk first. After you register your seat in the waiting room and wait to be seen. After you are called you come to the back and meet with a Healthcare Provider can we determine what kind of testing to do, what samples to collect what medication somebody might need. Plus prophylactics is an hiv prevention method highly effective it involves folks taking a daily pill to prevent hiv. Recommended both by the cdc, center for Disease Control and prevention, as well as fight sf dph, two individuals clients were elevated risk for hiv. I actually was in the project here when i first started here it was in trials. Im currently on prep. I do prep through city clinic. You know i get my tests read here regularly and i highly recommend prep a lot of patients inclined to think that theres no way they could afford to pay for prep. We really encourage people to come in and talk to one of our prep navigators. We find that we can help almost everyone find a way to access prep so its affordable for them. If you times we do have opponents would be on thursday morning. We have two different clinics going on at that time. When is womens Health Services. People can make an appointment either by calling them a dropping in or emailing us for that. We also have an hiv care clinic that happens on that morning as well also by appointment only. He was city clinic has been like home to me. I been coming here since 2011. My name iskim troy, client of city clinic. When i first learned i was hiv positive i do not know what it was. I felt my life would be just ending there but all the support they gave me and all the information i need to know was very helpful. So i [inaudible] hiv care with their health about a quarter of our patients are women. The rest, 75 are men and about half of the men who come here are gay men or other men who have sex with men. A small percent about 1 of our clients, identify as transgender. We ask at the front for 25 fee for services but we dont turn anyone away for funds. We also work with outside its going out so any amount people can pay we will be happy to accept. I get casted for a pap smear and i also informed the contraceptive method. Accessibility to the clinic was very easy. You can just walk in and talk to a registration staff. I feel im taken care of and im been supportive. All the information were collecting here is kept confidential. So this means we cant release your information without your explicit permission get a lot of folks are concerned especially come to a Sexual Health clinic unless you have signed a document that told us exactly who can receive your information, we can give it to anybody outside of our clinic. Trance men and women face really significant levels of discrimination and stigma in their daily lives. And in healthcare. Hiv and std rates in San Francisco are particularly and strikingly high were trans women. So we really try to make city clinic a place that strandsfriendly trance competent and transwelcoming everyone from the front desk to behind our amazement there are completely knowledgeable. They are friendly good for me being a sex worker, ive gone through a lot of difficult different different medical practice and sometimes they werent competent and were not friendly good they kind of made me feel like they slapped me on the hands but living the sex life that i do. I have been coming here for seven years. When i come here i know they my services are going to be met. To be confidential but i dont have to worry about anyone looking at me or making me feel less a visit with a clinician come take anywhere from 10 minutes if you have a straightforward concern, to over an hour if something goes on that needs a little bit more help. We have some testing with you on site. So all of our samples we collect here. Including blood draws. We sent to the lab from here so people will need to go elsewhere to get their specimens collect. Then we have a few test we do run on site. So those would be pregnancy test, hiv rapid test, and hepatitis b rapid test. People get those results the same day of their visit. I think its important for transgender, gender neutral people to understand this is the most confidence, the most comfortable and the most knowledgeable place that you can come to. Onsite we have condoms as well as depoprovera which is also known as [inaudible] shot. We can prescribe other forms of contraception. Pills, a patch and rain. We provide pap smears to women who are uninsured in San Francisco residents or, to women who are enrolled in a statefunded program called family pack. Pap smears are the recommendationrecommended Screening Test for monitoring for early signs of cervical cancer. We do have a fair amount of our own stuff the day of his we can try to get answers for folks while they are here. Whenever we have that as an option we like to do that obviously to get some diagnosed and treated on the same day as we can. In terms of how many people were able to see in a day, we say roughly 100 people. If people are very brief and straightforward visits, we can sternly see 100, maybe a little more. We might be understaffed that they would have a little complicated visits we might not see as many folks. So if we reach our target number of 100 patients early in the day we may close our doors early for droppings. To my best advice to be senior is get here early. We do have a website but its sf city clinic. Working theres a wealth of information on the website but our hours and our location. As well as a kind of kind of information about stds, hiv,theres a lot of information for providers on our list as well. Patients are always welcome to call the clinic for theres a lot of information for providers on our list as well. Patients are always welcome to call the clinic for 15, 40 75500. The phones answered during hours for clients to questions. It is one of the first steps families and step to secure their future and provide a sense of stability for them and their loved ones. Your home, it is something that could be passed down to your children and grandchildren. A asset that offers a pathway to build wealth from one generation to the next. And you need to complete estate plan to protect the asisets. Your home, small business, air looms and more. You and so many communities, black, indigenous, latino and asian worked so hard to make yours but estate plans could be costly and conversations complex proud to partner to bring free and low cost estate plans to san franciscans. By providing estate plans we are able to keep the assets whole for our families, prevent displacement, address disparities and Home Ownership and strengthen the cultural integrity of the city. Working with local non profit organizations and neighborhood groups bringing the serveess to you and community, to workshops focused on Estate Planning and why its important. Im 86 years old and you do need a trustee. You need a will and put who ever you want in charge of it. Thats why i wanted to be here today. That is why one of the first steps i took when become assessor recorder is make sure we have a partnership to get foundational funding to provide these resources to community. But even more important is our connection to you and your homes and making sure we know how to help you and how to protect them. If you dont have a living trust you have to go through probate and that cost money and depending on the cost of the home is associated the cost you have to pay. That could be 40 thousand for a home at that level. I dont know about you, but i dont 40 thousand to give up. indiscernible important workshop to the community so we can stop the loss of generational wealth and equity and maintain a indiscernible why are estate plans important . We were just talking before we started the program, 70 percent of black americans do not scr a will in place. As mentioning being in community we had a conversation with a woman who paid 2700, 2700 just for revocable trust. What we are talking about today are free or low cost estate plans that are value between 3,000 to 3500. Free or low cost meaning free, or 400 if you make above 104 thousand a year, and capped larger then that amount. Because we want to focus on black and brown households, because thats whether the need is, not only in San Francisco, not only the bay area but the region as well. And, i was excitesed to see the turn out from the Western Addition and bayview and want to make sure we cover all the different steps from buying a home to making sure homes stay within the family. Work with staff attorneys to receive these free and low cost complete estate plans that include a living trust, will, financial power of attorney, and health directive. Thats why it is so important to make these resources and this information accessible. So we can make sure we are serving you and your families and your generations and your dreams. We insure the Financial Stability of San Francisco, not just for government, but for our communities. On behalf of the office of assessor recorder, im thankful for all the support and Legal Assistance they have given that makes the Estate Planning program a realty for you in San Francisco and are thank all the Community Partners like San Francisco Housing Development corporation, Booker T Washington center and neighborhood leaders and organizations that help families and individuals realize their dreams of Building Wealth in San Francisco from one generation to the next. To learn more about this program email inquiries at har you are unmuted. Wherebying to the july 25, 2023 regular meeting of the San Francisco board of supervisors. Madam clerk, could you call the roll. Thank you, mr. President. Supervisor chan. Present. Supervisor dorsey. Present. Supervisor engardio supervisor mandelman. Supervisor melgar. Present. Supervisor supervisor peskin. Present. Supervisor preston. Present. Wroo supervisor ronen