Transcripts For SFGTV BOS 20240703

Public comment via email, it will be forwarded to the supervisors and included as part of the file. You may also send your comment via us mail to our office in city hall one. Doctor carlson place, room 244 San Francisco, california 94102. Please make sure to silence all cell phones and Electronic Devices documents to be included as part of the file should be submitted to the clerk. Items acted upon today are expected to appear on the board of supervisors agenda on april 16th, 2024, unless otherwise stated. That completes my initial announcements. Thank you so much. Can you please read item number one . Yes. Item number one is a motion approving rejecting the mayors nomination for reappointment of fiona hinsey to the Municipal Transportation Agency board of directors terms ending march 1st, 20, 2028. Thank you. And i understand, commissioner hynes is on on zoom or online, yes, we will unmute her line right now. Good morning, madam chair and supervisors. Walton and stuff. Like i as, mr. Clark mentioned, my name is fiona hinsey, and im seeking your, positive recommendation today for reappointment to the sfmta board of directors. It has been my honor to serve the city, on the board of directors since 2021, in that time, ive served as a chair of the policy and governance committee, as well as a member of our vision zero subcommittee. And, supervisor chavez asked me to address, some of my goals, for next time, our my number one goal. Will be addressing our vision zero, goal , goal and policy, as you all know, weve, recommitted to vision zero as of last week, and, particularly, ill be looking at to strengthen, interdepartmental communication and collaboration when it comes to vision zero, such as working with the Fire Department and public works to expedite, to expedite and make our project a reality. And also, i know that there was some discussion at the to about, our biking and rolling plan, formerly formerly known as our active communities plan, one of my priorities will be to get that done and to, see implementation of some of that work. Additionally we, the, the, its agency is going to be embarking on its first, accessibility strategy, and a look at a look at, our, our all of our programs and how they fit, into accessibility for people with, for people with disabilities. So ill be looking into that, as a member of the disability community, myself and i will disability advocate, serve. And lastly, i think my, last goal will be to help to advocate as much as i can for us as sustainable, Funding Source for us, whether thats, hopefully that will come from a state measure, but if not, i retaining, as hard as we can at the state level. For a sustainable Funding Source. And in the meantime, being as creative with our budget as we can to leverage dollars to get, projects done more efficiently and as well as, when it comes to transit fares, making sure we, minimize the, the, impact of any fare increases to, to, the most, transit dependent riders, when i am not doing, as of mta related work, as many of you know, im the director of Public Policy at independent living resource center, which is a disability rights. And advocacy organization. And i manage our Public Policy work, including a lot of work with the dignity fund. And i serve as cochair of a coalition of agencies serving the elderly, which is a Provider Association for a professional organization for providers of senior disability services. So im very connected. To the city, and im very connected to the supervisor advocating for, senior and disability disability issues. So with that, im open to answering any of your questions. Thank you so much for that. And thank you for your service thus far, so appreciate that youre willing to serve again. So thanks for that, colleagues. Are there any questions or comments . No. Supervisor no. I just wanted to thank fiona for her willingness to serve and continue to serve. I understand that this is a difficult environment with such a densely settled city to address and serve, disabled community. But shes been such a strong advocate and voice for that community. Its really is an honor to reappoint her and continue to work in collaboration with her. So thats it. Thank you, madam chair. Thank you so much. And with that, well open this item up for Public Comment. Yes. Members of the public wish to speak on this item should line up to speak at this time. Each speaker will be allowed two minutes. There will be a soft chime when you have 30s left and a louder chime when your time has expired. Is there anybody who would like to make Public Comment on this matter, we dont have any speakers on this matter. Public comment is now closed. Id like to make a motion to send, this item to the full board with positive recommendation. Or do i need to remove, we need to amend to remove rejecting throughout the legislation and then recommend, as amended. Thank you, can i do that . Yes. On that motion. Vice chair walton, a walton i supervisor. Sapphire. Sapphire i chair. Ronen i ronen i the motion passes without objection. That motion passes unanimously. Thank you so much, commissioner haynes, mr. Clerk, can you please read item number two, yes. Before i start on that, i was informed that janet tarlov was on the bus. Oh, she has arrived. Never mind, item number two is a motion approving rejecting the mayors nomination for reappointment of janet tarlov to the Municipal Transportation Agency board of directors. Terms ending march 1st, 2028. Wonderful. And miss tarlov, if you wouldnt mind coming up. Hello. Good morning. Thanks for being good morning. Good morning. Very, very Beautiful Day out there. Its beautiful. Its gorgeous, and i dont know, we might have some questions, but if you have anything to, to start off with, feel free. Yeah, i did prepare a few remarks. Thank you, good morning, chair ronen. And supervisors walton and safai. Hello. Back there. Im very grateful to the mayor for her confidence in me that she has selected me for reappointment to the sfmta board of directors, and i appreciate your consideration of my candidacy today. Its been only a few months since my initial appointment, so ive obviously been engaged in a significant learning curve in a short time. I came to the position with many years of participation in the San Francisco Merchant Community and other Merchant Community advocacy organizations. My engagement with the mta was certainly robust during those years, and provided strong preparation for mta board service. Since beginning my service as a director, i have made it a point to meet with as many advocate groups as possible, and ive interacted with folks that represent a broad crosssection of views, even as the board has made decisions that profoundly impact these communities. As ive spoken with and listened to taxi drivers, with members of the vehicular unhoused community, and with Safety Advocates and business leaders, ive Read Everything i can get my hands on about transit best practices in the us and around the world, community advocates, my colleagues on the board, the mta staff, and our elected officials and their staffs have been invaluable resources for me while i hit the ground running. Although the passions that drive each of the groups ive met with are equally powerful, ive discovered that all advocacy groups are not operating on an equal footing. Some groups have paid staff, but many do not. Some are new, some have decades of historical experience and knowledge. If i am allowed to continue, one area of focus for me will be to help groups advocate effectively for their point of view. Im suitably impressed with the work of the mta staff and i see their earnest desire to provide services and infrastructure that move our city forward into an uncertain future. Its my hope that i will be able to make a strong contribution toward helping staff Craft Solutions that work well for as many people as possible, particularly vulnerable communities of color. Seniors, the disabled, the unhoused and families living in poverty. Safe transit for citizens who are willing and able to adopt modes of transit that help us achieve our citys climate goals, will always be a top priority for me. It can often seem that communities are in conflict with one another, and that decisions made by the mta separate winners from losers. I reject that narrative. Careful listening, effective communication, and simply meeting each other as fellow citizens are powerful forces for forging solutions that work as well as possible for the most people, safe travel for people, goods and services is paramount, but it doesnt work without providing access to the greatest number of people. Achieving these goals will never be fully accomplished, but i am committed to working with my colleagues and with my fellow citizens to discern which Solutions Best allow the agency to move forward strongly toward its goals. Thank you again for your consideration, and i look forward to answering any questions you may have. Thank you so much. I appreciate how seriously youre taking this this new position in this role. Its really refreshing to have someone do so much work to get caught up and to learn. So i wanted to thank you for that, colleagues, do you have any questions . No, i, id like to echo that sentiment. Its only been, what, a month or two . And look how deeply youve dove in. I would say i appreciate that you brought up the vehicular unhoused, that is a big area of concern. Ive been doing some site visits in different parts of the city, and i just want to say just from the experience that that i have had, and i know supervisor walton also has has deeply dove in on this. The idea that we can do, to design, to push that community, that those residents into different locations, thats all that really happens. And i understand that we, you know, we have to do those things, particularly on lake merced, that those residents have been there for a significant amount of time and its just continued to grow. But if you dont have a real solution, then all youre really doing is pushing them from one, one neighborhood to another. And what ends up happening is it ends up being the southeast part of San Francisco that ends up bearing that, because there is a lot of industrial sites, there is a lot of areas under bridges and freeways. So the solution cant be just were going to do a protected bike lane. And then that Community Ends up being pushed to, you know, those those individuals end up being pushed to another part of the city. So i, i appreciate you thinking about that. I know that its not incumbent upon your department to have that as a solution, but i think it requires mtas collaboration. And thats what we did when we did our the first safe parking in the city at the upper yard. We worked in collaboration because once you do create the safe spaces you dont want there to, then be a magnet where people are waiting on the periphery. And so thats where mtas policies can be very important. Yes, i appreciate it. Excited to reappoint you and keep up the great work. Supervisor walton. Thank you, chair ronen and i do just want to state director. And its not just for you, but for you and your colleagues as well. Just to be mindful of policy and how we are responding to the needs out in community, particularly folks who live in in vehicles, as you know, there was a, a major removal effort the past week to remove some folks living in vehicles from Bernal Heights to follow some of the parking regulations. And naturally, like supervisor safai alluded to a big chunk of those residents who are living in vehicles did come to the southeast sector of San Francisco. And so we do all have to figure out a way to Work Together, find spaces and places for people to be so that they can be safe while we connect them to permanent housing, which is the ultimate goal. But just really want all of you, to focus on coming up with solutions. Of course, along with the department of homelessness and supportive housing, department of public works, and of me and my colleagues as well. But definitely, just wanted to appreciate the work that you have been doing over the past couple of months. May i, may i just respond very briefly . I, during my time on the board, a lot of the discussions, of course, weve been doing our our regular business as supervisor safai, mentioned, but, weve been focused, quite a lot on the budget, which has been theres a lot of homework with that. And, but i, i hope and expect that there will be a, interagency collaboration and i dont know yet what exactly that looks like, but i, i dont know how this could be solved without that, that happening. And, and i think that its a really, its an important opportunity for us as a city to, to effectively do that because the sites where people are parking are theyre just not built for that. Its the infrastructure is not there. So sanitation is suffering. Peoples quality of life is suffering and on, on all sides. And so, yeah, im, im all about solutions and working with other people. And, you know, i did go to winston drive and i met with a lot of the people who are living there. And, you know, theyre theyre working people, many of them. I could very easily imagine some of those folks i dont i dont think that i ever employed somebody who who i, you know, people in transition certainly lived in their cars for brief periods of time, but who, you know, lived in an rv as a solution. But these were people that i could easily imagine interacting with and trying to help connect with services as an employer. And, and, and i think that theres a lot of will within the city to address these issues, and i look forward to being part of the solution. So thank you very much for delving into that a little bit more. Appreciate it. Thank you. And i you know, i was going to talk about this as well, particularly about the rvs that were recently removed from, from Bernal Heights, i disagreed with the mayor who ordered that to happen. And for years i had been talking to my constituents about the fact that there is no place for these people to go and that there were 15 rvs on a site, that there was some separation from the front doors of households by huge greenery. We had done everything to make the situation better for everyone involved by having regular dpw cleanups, by working with cross collaboration, putting more trash cans, having the hot team go out and regularly engage people to try to, get them housing. And i did not think it was fair to remove these individuals because there wasnt a place for them to go. And what supervisor walton said was the same thing that i said, so youre going to move them to someone elses front door in someone elses neighborhood. And lets be real, its you know, parkmerced its the bayview that really has the bulk of the issue of People Living in, in their vehicles, not Bernal Heights. We have one street with 15 cars on it, and its relatively, you know, if a problem ever comes up, we deal with that problem. So now theres no rvs on this boulevard, it it its completely its very different. It feels very different. And already some of those vehicles are showing up in the mission. So now theyre a problem in the mission. And the mission, unlike Bernal Heights, deals with, you know, homelessness, unlike many neighborhoods, there are tent encampments everywhere. And so, you know, again, it just feels like the wealthier neighborhoods, like Bernal Heights get attention. And people were moved. And then the neighborhoods that have more working class people, like the mission, bear the brunt of this housing problem and poverty problem that we all have to deal with. So i, you know, i this has nothing to do with you, but i just want to tell you this story, because it really, really upset me, that this happened. I had been refusing to move these vehicles for quite some time because i didnt want them to become a problem of a another neighborhood thats even more besieged than than Bernal Heights. So, again, these are such complicated issues. Theres no easy solution. It is come to the point where now even mta has to play a primary role in, in a, you know, coming up with solutions for these poverty problems, which is what they are, and, and i agree, we need more interaction between departments, we certainly, you know, made sure that that happened in the case of the 15 vehicles on Bernal Heights boulevard, but im not sure it would have happened if we hadnt gotten involved and interjected ourselves. So i just encourage you to keep keep that voice of the need to have a real structured, multidepartmental approach to these problems, youre absolutely right about that. And again, theres no easy answer. Theres no easy solution to these problems. And im quite aware of that. But, just want you to, to know that, not every supervisor wants to kick people out of their neighborhood. And, just to make it convenient. This is this is all of our problems, and we all have to Work Together on these solutions, so i wanted to mention that, and, and i just wanted to give you a chance. You kind of mentioned this in, in your remarks, and i really, again, appreciated your remarks, but just wondering what your experience has been like so far in terms of has anything surprised you . And its different than you thought it would be or has anything, you know, been particularly fun to work on or i just love because we never get this chance of appointing someone and then having the same person come back a few months later and get to ask these questions. So im just curious about your experience. You know, ive, ive been having a wonderful experience. Its, you know, these are these are significant issues and they affect a lot of people. And you know, im no miracle worker, but i do think i bring a sense of approach. And i and i listen well and, in terms of what, has surprised me, you know, i, i kind of went in with a, you know, kind of a, you know, a general citizens like rah rah rah, mta doesnt listen, and theyre not transparent. And its this, you know, and i really feel, that has not been the case. You know, the minute i started spending any significant amount of time on the mta website site, looking at, you know, detailed plans and records of, you know, Community Outreach and, and, you know, i was i was pretty impressed compared with, you know, some of the other agencies that ive interacted with. And, you know, i reserve judgment because maybe i just havent spent, spent a lot of time on the dpw website, you know, understanding what their projects are or, you know, the Health Department trying to understand why the Health Inspector or the weights and measures people do what they do, but, but mta, you know, i, i really feel and thats one of the reasons that i, i mentioned in my remarks that, something that im passionate about is helping, people advocate for their point of view. I may or may not share their point of view, but i can certainly let them know that, you know, before each board meeting, every single piece of correspondence that is sent to the board is forwarded to us at 5 p. M. The day before the board meeting. And, you know , im sure that im not alone. Im im sure im holy, just one of the team reading all of those pieces of correspondence and i, you know, i had the experience. It was a tiny little win. But, of reading a, a, you know, a letter from one of the merchants who was like, mta, its killing my business. And it turned out he had a, a bus shelter installed in front of his business. And the once i delved into it, i learned that his. He just recently signed the lease and moved and moved in, and his landlord had neglected to let him know that that bus shelter was scheduled to be installed. And i was able to reach out to the staff and, and meet with the woman whos in charge of all the bus shelters. And she was like, you know, i think we can move this. And we were able to do it. And its a, you know, its a tiny little thing. But to that Business Owner, its enormous. And so, you know, certainly what i have done it if it, if it had not been a business related thing where i was like, oh, i know what this is. And i went down and i, i looked to see what the situation was, and i was like, oh, yes, this is a serious problem for this person, and, you know, those are the kinds of things that really energize me. And i really feel that there are a lot of advocacy groups that dont there are a lot of advocacy groups who know exactly what theyre doing. They you know, they write the letters to the right people. They use the right language. They they know what they can ask for. Thats maybe going to be achievable. And, you know, but a lot of groups, you know, its just its the basic, feeling is theyre just outraged and they feel helpless. And and i want to be a person that can help them, you know, understand how they can get their point of view across without hiring an executive director or Something Like that. So i love it, i love it. Thank you. Thank you so much for your work. Thats thats sort of the dream, commissioner, that we want. So thank you for caring and reading and intervening and doing all those things. Its it means a lot really appreciate you. And im excited to support you. Your reappointment, but it looks like supervisor saff had one last question. Yeah, i just again, i think this is really important because youre one of the you are even though its not an official position, requirement. Its important to have the perspective of a Small Business owner or Business Owner on the body. And so i appreciate the fact that you come with years of experience of running a business, in the city. One of the things that ive heard, and i think i said this before, that ive heard over and over again, biggest criticism of mta board and some of the mta decisions is not considered how some of the policy choices impact Small Businesses. And the example that i think of is the valencia street corridor in particular. I think we talked about that a little bit. Supervisor ronen and i had a conversation with jeff tumlin. He gave us a commitment that that was not working. They were going to come up with a plan to move forward with the i think the original design, which was protected bike lane, pulling the bikes out. But honestly, theres been, you know, very little movement, if any, and a lot of businesses are shuttering and a lot of businesses are really concerned. And so what i would what i would say, i just want to give you a minute or two to talk about this, but i think its super important because i personally think theres a way that you can balance most of these decisions out in an effective way. As supervisor, when they were choosing where to place shared bikes or where they were talking about some of the Traffic Signals or traffic calming or daylighting. We went through an extensive kind of engagement with the mta. We always had a commitment from the mta, by the way. Ive had it for seven years. Its never been fulfilled, but ive had it that they were going to assign and create more Community Outreach. You know, going back to the example that rosa had talked about in terms of vernal or some of the decisions that were made. You know, they have Public Information officers, but theyre always there in a little bit more of a reactive mode, not necessarily doing the proactive work. And so i think its one of the biggest shortcomings of the mta is that their lack of outreach and communication on, you know, versus when i worked at public works. And i know public works is still more engaged in this. They have a little bit more of an Effective Team kind of getting out there proactively on the ground, talking to the merchants, letting them know this is the disruptions to anticipate. This is the work thats going to happen along there. So its a very its a very stark contrast between the two agencies, so in your role in particular, its really about thinking, i mean, theres so many Different Things and youve taken it on in, in, in all its capacity. But i just think its important to kind of ground it also in the perspective of Small Businesses and how the decisions that are made. So i just want to give you an opportunity to talk about that, because i think theres a lot of room to grow. Right . Thats very thats a very important, subject. And theres a lot of progress to be made. With regard to, the commitment to, to move away from the Center Running bike lane on valencia, the board, i think, you know, that you probably know that the board directed staff to continue with the pilot for the planned year and simultaneously, which is, you know, going going on where were probably three quarters of the way through the year and, and simultaneously to work on a proposal for the side, the curbside running bike lanes and, and the trade off, as you know, with that, is that, with the parklets as they are, you lose automatically to a parking space on each side of the parklet to allow, the, the bikes to move around them. So that is a very significant loss of parking, which, everybody wants to avoid. And so one of the things that they are, exploring is floating the parklets to where the, where the cars will be parked, so that is, you know, there are a lot of things to consider with that, too. You know, if theres, you know, if people are dining in these parking parklets and theres alcohol being served and waitstaff going back and forth and cyclists, are there accidents that are going to happen as a result of that, you know, theres, theres a great deal to be considered with that configuration as well. And you know, the main the main point is theres no perfect solution in i will say, as a cyclist, i am, so relieved not to have to pull into traffic 2 or 3 times during the course of every block to go around. Uber drivers pulled over. We cannot you know, i it might hurt me here in this in this situation, but we cant go back to the way it was. No, no, i dont think no ones asking for that. In fact, both supervisor ronen and i were in the same meeting. We said thats not the goal, but it was very good to hear, because i do hear that from the from the Merchant Community and. No, no, no, no, no, thats not it was to continue the plan that was started around 14, working its way up, that was halted, right, because of the pandemic and the and the installation of all the parklets and the loss of parking that that because, i mean, you and i were talking about because were both very familiar with that one block between 14th and 15th and, and the four barrel parklet was our, thing. And next time you go by, you notice theres, theres a, theres a parking space, an entire parking space in front of the parklet, and theres an entire parking space next to the parklet. They cant be used for anything. It couldnt be used for commercial deliveries or no, i understand, so, so those are those are the concerns and the and the but also part of the reason why it is there is because its coming out of the center lane to go to the protected lane. So you have to have that crossover. No, it was always there. I feel sure, because i, i, i traveled that route, the minute that was installed, but anyway, it works. Yeah. You dont hear people complaining about it on the merchants on 14th street. And again, just were well, there arent that many because Valencia Gardens across the street. And then right there on one side. Yeah. So its not like on one side, 20th and 21st. And were getting into the weeds here. But obviously its a its a complicated topic. And, and we wrestle with it at the board and theres not easy solutions. But and were waiting for the i guess what i would say from the Controllers Office as well, just to interrupt you for a second, i guess what i would say is there are stretches along valencia where there are no parklets at all. And so to me, if i were trying to accelerate, i would say, lets focus on the blocks where theres one parklet or no parklets and lets continue to make this work. Because i think that shows people that theres progress and that theyre headed in that direction, because i dont think anyone wants to go back to that. But anyway, we dont have to hold this up any longer. I just i wanted to underscore that because thats an extreme example, but i think that theres a lot of situations where over and over and over again, merchants feel like the board is not listening to them, and they are an afterthought. And theyre not a concern of the sfmta. And we could sit here and argue till were blue in the face. Dude, there are studies that show if you remove parking and people walk, its going to increase business. And thats great. Thats probably true. But if you have, you know, a drugstore with 80 of the clientele is 80, 80 years and older and theyre not they cant even walk from their house. You have to have a way. Yes. You go to delivery and all this other stuff. Its just it is one of the loudest criticisms of the sfmta. Absolutely. I know the Small Businesses are run over there. And so how do we and sorry, its not a good use of terms but that there you know anyway theyre theyre not listened to. And so i just wanted to underscore that i know you carry that with you and i appreciate that. And so im im happy to support your reappointment. Thank you, madam chair. Now supervisor, suffice has forced me to make a comment. I could not agree with you more, you know, and i do think youre one of the most Perfect People to be making decisions about valencia street. Because the bottom line is, it is not a big enough street to meet the needs of everyone. But we need to make sure bicyclists are safe, and we need to help businesses succeed as much as possible. And the way that it was before any bike lanes was not acceptable. It was not safe at all. In fact, many bikers would use Mission Street instead because valencia was so scared and that your facial reaction i couldnt agree with you more with all the busses. So i you know, both as a as a regular biker and as a Small Business owner, i cant imagine a better person to, you know, help, help bridge this divide. I am very happy with whats happening now. Im happy that were going back to the bike lanes on the side. I do think it is a priority of the mta and i just hope you can continue to monitor that progress and maybe help, help mediate when. You know there are ideas or conflicts that arise between the competing needs for that street. So ill just leave it at that. But thank you again for your work and we will now open this item up for Public Comment. Is any member of the public here . Yes members of the public wish to speak on this item should line up to speak at this time. Each speaker will be allowed two minutes. Good morning, supervisor ronen and supervisor walton, my name is marion delery. Im the Vice President of the Glen Park Merchants Association and i am here in support of janet tarloff. And ive worked with her for many years, probably about six years with her and the merchants association. And definitely she is a hard working, determined, dedicated, resilient human being and, looking back, during the pandemic, i really have to say she was pretty amazing, getting and keeping her business open and providing essential goods to. The neighborhood and just to see her manage and direct her employees and the customers was pretty an amazing feat, and if there wasnt any employees, janet was boots on the ground, on the floor, stalking, trying to find orders for eggs. She was at the front door. She was a cashier. So definitely she was hard working and very conscious. Of the neighborhood and the needs of the neighborhood, and regarding merchants, just a quick, little, not little story, but, we have a merchant, in glen park that was assaulted by a shoplifter and fortunately, the shoplifter was apprehended, the shop owner wasnt badly hurt, but janet took the time out to visit her and to check in with her at least once or twice a week, and. To see if she needed any assistance or any resources that the city provided. So i just wanted to say that janet has just an amazing aspect for her care and concern with merchants, and she will be a great asset to the mta, especially for the safety and concern of the public and also to for the wellbeing of the community. So thank you. Good morning, supervisor henry, president of the south of Market Association and cochair of sfpd Small Business advisory forum. Janet is really a superstar. When you think that glen park did not have a supermarket, she went out, worked at fannie fanny off working for all the departments and so many hoops to jump through to make that build that market and then to run it, which means with the mta, with transportation, its not just for parking, but also for the customers and for people that work for her. Shes done a marvelous job and im really, really proud of her. Then on also with the cdma, she was, chairing the, legislative committee and janet sort of person. She listens, she listens, and she does make decisions to jump into the fray and say, yes, thats what i think. No shes very reasonable, very understanding, very reliable. Never missed a meeting. Shes awesome. I hope you reappoint her. Thank you. Good morning. Supervisors. My name is mike zwiefelhofer. Im a Small Business owner in north beach. Im also the president of the north beach business association. I also sit on the council of district merchants. I have just two anecdotes. Why . I think janet would be amazing for this job, first over at the kdma , just this past year, we went through a change of bylaws and it became very contentious. We were very divided on the new bylaws, and janet was the one who took us through the whole program, and she and she did it voluntarily. Its an unpaid position, very much like what shes doing now. And she had so much patience, and she got the kdma through this, this challenging time. Easily, even though she was actually, since she sold her Small Business, she was on her way out of the kdma. So she did all of this just for the for the good of the kdma. And so i think that was amazing. The second anecdote is just last week on one of those very rainy days, janet and i sat in cafe trieste in north beach, and i explained some of those same frustrations you guys were talking about from a Small Business point of view, and she was so, you know, we, you know, she was so patient and shes going to be such a good person to go out and talk to some of those Small Business owners, because a lot of the frustrations, its not necessarily losing that parking spot. Its more like we werent asked and we werent were not listened to. And you know, some sometimes they dont they dont make sense to us from our point of view. So i think janet will be really, really good at kind of bridging that gap. Thank you very much. Good morning supervisors. Excuse me, my name is renee richards, and i prepared a few notes so that i dont run over my time because i could go on and on about janet tarlov, im an attorney and a small textile arts Business Owner here in San Francisco. And ive known janet for about 20 years. Our kids went to Friends School together back in the days when it was not on valencia street, back when we started, in , in the castro. And so we worked on building the Friends School community together. And bringing the school to valencia street, which is a hot topic of conversation for a lot of reasons. But i remember that janet and her family, janet and richard and the kids were really the first people i ever knew who commuted to school. By bike, i mean who parents rode bikes with their kids down busy streets. And i believe that valencia street still had a bus line at that point. Am i right about that . Yeah. So i remember sitting there going, wow, thats really brave. Like youre taking your kid on the street with this bus line. So she knows that end of being a or that perspective of being a biker herself. And having raised kids in the city and not only, you know, worked with the friends, School Community to build the school, but in the at the same. Time launched canyon market and also became a leader in her neighborhood and her business, i just want to say that as youve observed, ive listened to the comments this morning that she is committed to San Francisco, her business community, her neighbors and friends. And i think that makes her an ideal candidate for this position. She raised her kids here, and many of our friends are now in their 60s and 70s. So now shes attuned to issues of senior, transportation challenges and so on. I think shes a hard worker and a really creative problem solver, so i hope that youll keep her on the board. Thank you. Are there any additional speakers for this matter, there are no additional speakers. Thank you. Public comment is now closed, i just want to say that its been a pleasure to get to know you through this process, commissioner tarlov and i have, developed quite an amount of respect for you, and im just really appreciative that youre willing to take this role on, and do this, this Great Service for our city. We need you and, really appreciate. You willing to step up to this. So thank you so much. And with that, i would like to make a motion to remove the word rejecting, throughout the document. And send the amended motion to the full board with positive recommendation. Yes. On that motion, vice chair Walton Walton i, supervisor. Sapphire. Sapphire i chair. Ronen i. Ronen i that motion passes without objection does unanimously. Thank you. Thank you so much. Mr. Clerk, can you please read item number three . Yes. Item number three is a motion approving or rejecting the treasurers nomination of kevin cohn . Terms ending june 17th, 2026 to the treasury oversight committee. I just like to note that theres a, i believe there is a need to add, residency waiver to this, motion, mr. Cohen, good. Good morning, chair ronen and committee members, kevin cohen. Im the assistant chief Financial Officer at the airport. I lead all the Financial Operations down at the airport, throughout my career, ive really established my financial career, really, in the capital markets. Ive raised, billions of dollars for the airport to, engage in all the wonderful construction and the refunding of our bonds to save the City Debt Service on all the projects down there. Over the years, ive worked closely with the treasurers office, investing the billions of dollars in general airport Revenue Bonds to make sure were making Interest Income before we, make the payments to the contractors. So thats really the role of the treasury oversight committee, this is actually my second tour on the treasury oversight committee. I served for a number of years, in 2014. And then i stepped off and now being asked to come back on, if confirmed, id be honored to serve the public again in this capacity. And id be happy to answer any of your questions. Well thank you. Thanks for your willingness to serve again for this important role. Any questions . I dont think we have none. Thank you. I will open this item up for Public Comment. Yes. Members of the public wishes to speak on this item should line up to speak at this time. I do not see any members of the public for comment on this matter, Public Comment is now closed, if i can make a motion. To remove the word rejecting from the document. Adam residency waiver and send the amended motion to the full board with positive recommendation, yes. On the motion to amend to remove rejecting throughout the legislation and to add residency waiver and to recommend, as amended, vice chair Walton Walton i. Supervisor safai safai absent. Chair. Ronen a grodan i that motion passes without objection. That objection that motion passes. Thank you so much, mr. Clerk, can you please read item number four . Yes. Item number four is a ordinance waiving specific requirements in the administrative code to allow a food service shared space located at 1429 mendel street to be considered as curbside shared space. Subject to certain requirements and affirm the planning departments determination under the California Environmental quality act. Thank you, miss supervisor walton. Thank you so much, chair ronen and colleagues, i just want to add some context to this item. During the covid 19 emergency and existing business old school cafe, a youth ran supper club at 1429 mendel street between oakdale and palou streets, installed a food service parklet on the public right of way. This food service parklet is located on mendel, in an area which has been closed to vehicular traffic for several years. Because the Food Service Area is not located in the curbside lane, it does not qualify as a curbside shared space. Under the current law, restaurant, bars and other establishments may place outdoor seating on public sidewalks and streets under the shared Spaces Program regulated by chapter 94 a of the administrative code. This ordinance would waive provisions of the administrative code to allow the parklet at 1429 mendel street to be considered a curbside shared space that is, a fixed commercial parklet. This waiver is conditioned on the parklets compliance with all regulations regarding Public Health and safety design features for shared spaces, and the parklet undertake physical modifications to become compliant with applicable laws and similarly situated shared spaces. And i do just want to add that this business is not only vital to providing a welcomed and needed service to the area, but it is also a business that has been instrumental in providing guidance for young people and teaching them all the skills they need to operate a Restaurant Business while providing them with Case Management and mentorship services. Thank you chair roni, thank you so much and i think we can open this item up for Public Comment. Yes, members of the public wish to speak on this item can line up to speak at this time. There is nobody in are we . Does not appear we have any Public Comment on this matter. Public comment is now closed, supervisor walton, would you like to do the honors . Yes. I would like to make a motion that we move this item forward to the full board with the recommendation on the motion recommending vice chair walton, a walton i supervisor sapphire. Sapphire i chair ronen, i ronen i that motion passes without objection passes unanimously. Mr. Clerk, do we have any other items before us today that completes the agenda for today . The meeting is adjourned. It did take a village. I was really lucky when i was 14 years old to get an internship. The difference that it made for me is i had a job, but there were other people who didnt have a job, who, unfortunately, needed money. And they were shown to commit illegal acts to get money. That is what i want to prevent. [ ] today we are here to officially kick off the first class of opportunities for all. [applause]. Opportunities for all is a program that mayor breed launched in october of 2018. It really was a vision of mayor breed to get to all of the young people in San Francisco, but with an intention to focus on young people that have typically not being able to access opportunities such as internships or workbased learning opportunities. Money should never be a barrier to your ability to succeed in life and that is what this program is about. Theres always these conversations about young people not being prepared and not having experience for work and if they dont get an opportunity to work, then they cannot gain the experience that they need. This is really about investing in the future talent pool and getting them the experience that they need. It is good for everyone because down the road we will need future mechanics, future pilots, future bankers, future whatever they may be in any industry. This is the pipe on we need to work with. We need to start developing talent, getting people excited about careers, opening up those pathways and frankly giving opportunities out there that would normally not be presented. [ ] the way that it is organized is there are different points of entry and different ways of engagement for the young person and potential employers. Young people can work in cohorts or in groups and thats really for people that have maybe never had job experience or who are still trying to figure out what they want to do and they can explore. And in the same way, it is open for employers to say, you know what, i dont think we are ready to host an intern yearround are all summer, but that they can open up their doors and do site visits or tours or panels or conversations. And then it runs all the way up to the opportunity for young people to have longterm employment, and work on a project and be part of the employee base. Something new, to get new experience and meet people and then you are getting paid for it you are getting paid for doing that. It is really cool. I starting next week, i will be a freshman. [cheers and applause] two of the things i appreciate about this program was the amazing mentorship in the job experience that i had. I am grateful for this opportunity. Thank you. Something i learned at airbnb is how to network and how important it is to network because it is not only what you know, but also who you know to get far in life. During this program, i learned basic coding languages, had a had to identify the main components and how to network on a corporate level. It is also helping me accumulate my skills all be going towards my College Tuition where i will pursue a major in computer science. For myself, being that i am an actual residential realtor, it was great. If anybody wants to buy a house, let me know. Whenever. [applause] it is good. I got you. It was really cool to see the commercial side and think about the process of developing property and Different Things that i can explore. Opportunities for all was a great opportunity for all. We were aiming to have 1,000 young people register and we had over 2,000 people register and we were able to place about between 50 and did. We are still getting the final numbers of that. Over several weeks, we were able to have students participate in Investment Banking they were able to work with our team, or technology team, our engineering 20 we also gave them lessons around the industry, around financial literacy. There are 32,000 young people ages 16 and 24 living in San Francisco. And imagine if we can create an opera skin it just opportunity for all program for every young person that lives in public housing, affordable housing, low income communities. It is all up to you to make that happen. We have had really great response from employers and they have been talking about it with other employers, so we have had a lot of interest for next year to have people sign on. We are starting to figure out how to stay connected to those young people and to get prepared to make sure we can get all 2400 or so that registered. We want to give them placement and what it looks like if they get more. Lets be honest, there is always a shortage of good talent in any industry, and so this is a real great career path. For potential sponsors who might be interested in supporting opportunities for all , there is an opportunity to make a difference in our city. This is a really thriving, booming economy, but not for everyone. This is a way to make sure that everyone gets to benefit from the great place that San Francisco is and that we are building pathways for folks to be able to stay here and that they feel like they will belong. Just do it. Sign up for it. [ ] [ ] good afternoon everybody im chair of the board of directors of sfmta. We are here to mark a very meaningful mild stone, the tenyear anniversary of San Franciscos adoption of vision zero. I want to acknowledge that vision zero is an extremely emotional topic. Imagine some of you are feeling a sense of rage and youre looking for somebody to glaim. Others may be feeling powerless, shaken, heartbroken, that is all okay, we understand that. Like you the leaders who join me today share your grief anytime somebody is injured or killed on our streets. We all know in our hearts, and in our guts, that this is unacceptable. This is not the kind of city that we want to live in and that is why ten years ago, today, many of our visionary leaders made San Francisco the second city in america to adopt vision zero. Since i joined the sfm board of directors i was laser focus on how it will get to zero. This is my number one priority in my service to this city. I see the ability to walk, bike, drive, roll, or take transit safely without fior of harm as a basic right and freedom that everybody should expect in our city. Its why i created the vision zero subcommittee so that we can all sit around the table together, talk about opportunities, but also talk about the real challenges that director tumlin and staff face every single day as theyre trying to achieve this goal. I wanted a space where community, advocates and government can come together and problem solve together. As with embark in the next ten years of vision zero i want to continue to come to the table, please bring your next ideas, we want to Work Together. And as much as i am deeply passionate about vision zero, it was not until recently that vision zero is not actually our vision. Of course no one should die or injured on our streets, of course. But we can reach vision zero, we can reach a day where no one dies and no one is injured and we can still fall short in the city that we want to be. You see, i think safety is the floor. Safety is the minimum. And as we have seen these last few years, our street can be so much more than safe. Our streets can be placed that uplift and elevate people. Our vaoets will be blank canvassed for local artist, places for communities to come together and express their unique identities and histories. Great streets, should create opportunities for joy, and for delight. Whenever i ride my bike down jfk promenade and i pass that piano that warped piano and i see a Community Sing along and i see people making fools of themselves just coming together as a community. Or i take a highway and a see a spontaneous jazz by the ocean wave, i think this is, this the kind of city that i want to live in. Mayor breed, you have had the vision and the foresight to call for jfk promenade to be a permanent place for people. And that is a gift that every single day up lifts, hows thousands and thousands of people in this city, forever. You are all here today because you care so much. Well no one, no one cares more about this city than this mayor. No one takes more direct responsibility for all of the challenges this city faces than this mayor. And no one holds more of the incredible challenge of reconciling often competing view points and still finding a pass forward. Emigrateful for your undying sense of optimism that we will reach out our potential thank you, for your service mayor breed. San francisco please welcome your mayor, london breed [applause] mayor breed thank you, amanda and thank you to all the people and the advocates and so many who care deeply about this and San Francisco who have joined us today. Thank you to all of our elected leaders and to sfmta, im so glad that were all here together in order to really talk about what the future of San Francisco holds and what we need to do to move this city forward as a result of so many challenges that we have experienced. Today is a moment for us to come together as a community in light of a strategy that struck our city in a devastating a little over a week ago. I dont need to repeat the details of the moments to all of you what happens the pain, the terror, the hopelessness the frustration. We are still still processing the grief and sadness for a family whos life was lost and a community that was shaken. I will never for goat receiving the call and being in the community in the aftermath, there were so many, so many moment thats stay with you as a mayor. Ive been in the homes of grieving families who have lost sons, and daughters to gun violence, ive been in the hospital supporting tragedies that have happened to our First Responders. What happened at west portal, was one of those moments. Im going to west portal next week with sfmta john tumlin to talk through some of the changes that were making on the streets. But those changes while important will not take back what happened. To every one who has shoulder and born the grief of the family over the last two weeks, or the injuries or deaths of other loved one over the years, we see you and we thank you for your work and your advocacy. This is a moment that we never want to live through again. Not just a family loss but two lives of young people, unimaginable. Ive seen loss in my own life devastating loss and it never gets easy. It is lessons from horrific events such of these that must to the way we move forward as a city. The way that we move forward in a courageous way to make significant change. But thats also why we do the work. We do the work to make a difference, we do the work because we want to save lives and we want to make San Francisco a better place. Thats one of the hard parts about the efforts with vision zero. Its rare to recognize the work that you have done to safe lives and it has. Weve done a will the of work, reductions and speed limits, protected bike lanes, slowing drivers down and while these efforts have been successful and have saved lives, we know we have to do more. Ten years ago, i sat in the board of supervisor sxz voted with along with my colleagues including our surnt City Attorney david kh ru. Five years i inherited the 49 scare miles of 100 plusyearold infrastructure road that no longer fully meets our values as residents, our values today are so much more different and it needs a complete overhaul, period. [applause] these streets were built for another time. A smaller population and design for a world, we no longer want to live in. Where cars are prioritized and the only option. Our systems are long overdue for a physical moderization and this is going to take a lot of time and a lot of resources and a lot of understanding, because things need to be different. Ten years ago, we made a commitment to improve our streets, that work has been hard and it has been long and it has not always been easy. But when you step back, progress has been made. And we made it together. San franciscos has installed 33 quick billed projects and more than 50 miles of safety improvements on the highest injury streets. Weve installed over 700 traffic calming dwiesz such as speed humps, raised crosswalks, median islands to reduce speed. Weve installed 41 miles of protected bike lanes since 2014. Weve installed no right turns on red lights at over 300 intersections city wide including 62 intersections in the tenderloin. We have established slow streets, shared spaces and jfk prom nod promenade mostly because of the pandemic. We became the first city in california to reduce speed limits on San Francisco streets. [applause]. And with every one here in support including our City Attorney david chu, we passed enforcement at the state level. So thank you to the City Attorney who worked with Safety Advocates to first introduce automated speed and did it several times. Thank you for fighting here at the state of supervisors. Thats not all of the work, but its a lot. And we know that, it has saved lives. And we look at the work we have done to determine what we know we have to do. Too often Street Safety projects get stalled or slowed down. But today we lay down our commitments to moving forward. This happens now. Im here to support sfmta as they deliver their vision zero commitment including projects, automatic Speed Enforcement and reducing speed limits all over the city. Ive asked for three specific things. A day lighting plan and policy to prioritize the treatment of intersection city wide. A no right on red policy to prioritize the treatment at intersections city wide. And increase parking control enforcement to ticket people who park on sidewalks and block our crosswalks and bike lanes. [applause] [cheers and applause] but thats not all, i want to Say Something else about vision zero. I know we rightfully focus on Street Safety, it is a moral imperative, it is urgent and it is an urgent matter that we need to address. But making our streets safer should also deliver hope. It should bring people together. When we first created the slow streets during the pandemic, as much as we cannot be together as a community, we were still together on the streets of San Francisco. And it brought hope, and it brought joy. It should be about creating spaces that unite us not just streets we drive down or neighborhoods we drivethru or bike down or on our way to somebody someplace else. It should be about joy. When i think about jfk promenade, they have so much joy. Yes, its definitely safer than it was before, absolutely. But its also more joyful, whether youre roller skating, biking, walking your dogs, walking with neighbors running into your friends, it brings joy. Thats where i want to take vision zero next. [applause] so how do we spend the next ten years making the city more welcoming for people to be out on the sidewalks and in their streets talking with neighbors and having a block party and listening to music and kids walking to school and feeling that they can be safe, we will always focus on safety. But i want us to focus on how we bring people together. Because the street changes that bring us together are also what will make us safer. We will continue to work with all of you to imagine those space sxz reimagine what is possible. Can you imagine if we would like look at places like northbeach where people can come out on the streets and sidewalks and enjoy their neighborhoods. Even places like hay street where we know the sidewalks are really small but people visit that neighborhood and can be another kind of promenade, we need to be open to these ideas and i understand they will be challenging when people do not understand what that can mean for an impactful business and the ability to get to work. And what happens, people to see it, they have to feel it and we have to be courageous enough to produce it. [applause] we will continue, we will continue to work with all of you to imagine those spaces. To reimagine what is possible. We will always need spaces for different modes of transportation, buses, cars, bikes, walking but we also need spaces for people to come together. The city is complicated and it is dense. But i truly believe that has space for us all and change is not bad. Change in our street infrastructure is not bad, its a way to make San Francisco the kind of city that we can all enjoy and love. We need better transit, we need more housing, we need more opportunities for public space and i know there are a lot of opinions and a lot of ideas but lets hear them all. And also, if we dont completely agree thats okay. But the biggest picture here as i said, is always about safety, and bringing people together. We can all agree on working together to get to come together to do what is necessary to address the challenges. And my message to all the street Safety Advocates that are joining us here today, that are demanding change, that want to see bold, courageous change in the streets of San Francisco, we are prepared to be aggressive in implementing that change in order to make a difference. When i first became supervisor, i fought to make those bike lanes on valen oak happen despite all the challenges that occured before and i will continue to do what i can to deliver on Street Safety in San Francisco. Thank you all for being here for bringing attention to Street Safety for holding space, for the lives that we have lost and to make sure that they are never forgotten and we honor their legacy by making improvements and making sure that it tuz not happen again. I will always do more to push the envelope and i will make sure that were continuing to have the hard conversations. We know its not easy and one of the things that ive been consistency talking about is getting rid of the bureaucracy to move forward. Yes we want Community Engagement but sometimes its just a little too much, we need to move forward, we need to get out of the way, and we need to make it happen thank you all so much for being here today. [applause] and with that, i would like to introduce supervisor rafael mandelman. [applause] thank you, madam chair, why supervisor mandelman . Oh because im the chair of Transportation Authority and have been able to do that for a few years, its come here, stand next to me, its actually the heart, speaking of bureaucrats who are amazing our Transportation Authority director and her team. I just want to thank you, tilly. Thank you madam mayor, yeah, tilly deserves some applause. Yeah, her Team Deserves some applause. [applause] thank you madam mayor for your vision on vision zero. I join in acknowledging the tenyear anniversary policy. But more importantly, im here to recommit the t. A. To work in partnership with our city Broad Community to end traffic related injuries and deaths in our city. I also join my colleagues here today and all of you in mourning the death of the family that was killed in last years traffic crash we grief with their family. In 2013 San Francisco was the second city to adopt vision zero through an ordinance through norman ye and kim. United in our commitment to trying to make our city safer. Since then, weve done a lot to redesign our streets and increase visibility and reduce speed limits and conflicts and Institute Education and enforcement including the upcoming installation of Safety Cameras. They have provided hundreds of millions of dollars through our voter approved sales tax, double a vehicle registration, prop b and other funds to improve safety from traffic calming, to safe routes to schools, our prop bell program will provide over 15 Million Dollars over the next five years alone in accelerated vision zero Capitol Investment and education funds. But as i noted as at the t a meeting, while we will continue to presa head it is press ahead, we need more culture no more speeding. Here im grateful for the work of families for safe streets and walk sf and legislate tours, past and present, past mayors and the current mayor and sfmt a and david chu, who worked so hard for us to authority to pilot speed Safety Cameras. This will safe lives and i know san franciscans cannot wait. And i will continue to press for traffic enforcement, were holding a hearing again on that, at the committee at the end of april in city hall. We must protect all visitors and through vision zero and i look forward to all of us unifying to tackle the goal with the urgency that it deserves and demands in the coming years and years. And i believe i now get to introduce a true a true, safety advocate and champion, both well as a supervisor on the boateder of supervisors, as president of the board of supervisors, then as a state legislature and now back to us as City Attorney, were glad to have you david chu. [applause] good afternoon, brothers and sisters. So i have to say as somebody who has attended many many events here on the steps of city hall, today feels different. This is a different kind of moment. This is a moment of emotion, of reflection and of intent recommitment and i want to thank you all of you for being part of our San Francisco community. Ten years ago, when which was serving as a president of our board of supervisors, we were seeing too many families who were losing loved ones on our streets, kids going to school, cyclist going to work. Seniors living their best lives, and this is why a number of us came together to author the inaugural resolution to start vision zero. To eliminate traffic fatalities and severe injuries and increase safe mobility for every one. And i want to take a moment and thank each of and every one of you because as i look out here, there are folks who are with us, ten years ago, 9, 8, who have been with us every step of the way in this fight. Transportation professionals, pedestrian, and cycling and senior advocates and community and elected leaders, the road has been long and well it may not feel that way, we have been saving lives but we all know this work has been much harder than any of us expected. We also know when we travel together, we get it done. And i want to give one example. I have to tell you in 2017 when a whole number of us, many of us here on these steps, when we first introduced the first version of automated Speed Enforcement, i thought we were going to get it done in 2017. Then 2018, 2019, it took us 7 years despite the fact that we know that speed kills. That its the top factor in severe and fatal car crashes despite the fact that automatic o mated Speed Enforcement had saved lives in over two cities, dropping preventable deaths by 20, 30, 40 percent. It took the work of literal virtually every person standing with us today to get it done. But because we did, govern newsom signed it into law and those cameras are going up [cheers and applause] listen, we were just tragically reminded this past month why we do this work. And as a parent and as a san franciscan i joined us this week about what happened. But this is what has to fire us up to do the hard work. Building the safe travel, creating slower streets and i want to you know as your City Attorney, no matter how hard it is, our lawyers are going to work with our transittion and policy makers, they will defend the lawsuits that challenge bike lanes and promenades. [applause] but today, were here because we are rededicating ourselves to this work. Were not only rededicated to what we said we were going to do ten years ago but we have to push the envelope because great cities safe lives, great cities have great pass of travel for pedestrians and cyclist sxz seniors and kids and workers and students and great cities dont see the number of deaths that we have had. Let me end with one final thought. Which is this, every november, families for safe streets sf have a ceremony here at city hall where we remember those who have died because of traffic violence. And our dream, my hope is, our collective vision s some year, soon in that november we will still come to grief with our families who have lost one, but not families that have lost one in that year because we collect ively believe that the right number is zero. We believe in vision zero, thank you very much. [applause] and with that, the guy who is responsible, everyday for getting this entire thing done, no pressure, jeff tomlin, head of the mta, thank you so much. Thank you, City Attorney david chu and thank you, chair and mayor and chairman del man. I want to offer gratitude and make a commitment to action. First of all, i want to thank all of you who are here with protest signs, who are here expressing your rightous rage [applause] we cant do this work without Strong Community activism and im grateful for the time that you spend everyday helping us deliver on this work. You are right to be angry and to demand action. I want to thank those of you who have spent so much time walking the halls with us in sacramento, to legalize the basic tools that are available in ever advance country anywhere in the world except for here in california. Thank you for helping us clear the path. I want to thank you for all the work that you do, educating our policy makers that there are solutions to these problems that zero is possible if we have the courage to do the hard work examine to make hard choices. The fighting and the worse catastrophe that this agency has faced. Were going to need real money to convert Plastic Straws to concrete and streets. I want to thank you for all the Community Organizing work that you do because in order to move this work hard and get to the twothirds vote, we need Stronger Community agreement and you are out there everyday helping us on the ground to change minds. And finally and most importantly, i want to build upon what the City Attorney just said about the central role that you hold, Holding Grief for families who have lost people needlessly to traffic violence and turning that grief and that righteous rage into strategic action, thank you for that work. Now i want to build a little bit upon the commitment that mayor breed has ordered us to. There is a long list and you can see a lot of those commitments from the press release that the Mayors Office released today. She asked us to advance our work. We have seen very clearly that the quick bolt project that we build on highs injury network, build on including the collision rate on the corridors by 42 percent and the pedestrian related collision rate by 26 . We have already succeeded in doubling our annual production of projects and the mayor has urged us to double that again to be able to complete 17 quick Pedestrian Safety projects, this and next year on the remaining 50 miles of the high injury network. Also asked and we have accepted the challenge of evaluating all 900 intersections on the network and making sure that theyre complete with daylighting, lines longer walk times and pedestrian head starts. We are committed to being the first city in california to finally being able to implement the Safety Cameras that have fought to hard to legalize. Were doing that staff work now. There is a lot of staff work that is required and were committed to making the 33 cameras happen as quickly as possible completing the evaluation and most importantly going back to sacramento to fight for another three thousand, not 33. [applause] we have lead the state in reducing state limits to 20 Miles Per Hour on 43 miles of our streets and were committed to adding another 17 corridors this year and additional set in 2025. We are committed to doing additional enforcement that is focused on safety related problems. Were committed to redoing traffic signal timing all over the city to advance Traffic Safety and to ensure adequate pedestrian time. Were committed to traffic calms and a whole street of improvement that you can see in the release. Finally before i close, i also want to thank the staff who are the ones who actually have to do this work. And i want to start by thanking the First Responders who have the burden of being the first ones out there on the scene and seeing the results of our failure to thank creatively and work quickly enough across the transportation system. I also want to thank the staff and the tragedy in west portal is a good example where it was muni transit stuff who were the first ones on the scene and our, Rapid Response team who came out immediately afterwards. Rapid Response Team who was out there within 24 hours working in the dark and in the rain and carrying the emotional burden of reality, of the impacts of our work. They are many of them here standing stoicaly because thats their role despite the criticism that they receive and theyre the ones who quietly crying in my office, or pushing me to be bolder. I cant do any of this work without the staff. I know this work is emotional and hard for you and im committed to supporting you to be able to move through this more quickly. Thank you. [applause] and speaking of people who challenge me to do more and be better, i now want to introduce the executive director of walk sf, and my partner in this work, jodie maderas. [applause] good afternoon, before i say a few moments of silencesays a few words, i want to take a moment of silence for the victims especially west portal. Thank you. And thank you to mayor breed for bringing us together to stand together for safe streets. In my job, i often get asked what is my favorite place to walk in San Francisco. I used to say from alma square along advisedero to goenld gate park but now i say jfk promenade. I dont have to think about the threat of dangerous traffic, i run into people i know. I feel connected and i feel joy and we would not have jfk promenade if mayor breed had not taken bold action during a dark time four years ago at the start of the pandemic. Mayor breed used emergency pie rad to close the promenade to through traffic. As well shelley park. Today we need bold action during another very dark time, i did speak with mayor breed and the crowd at the vigil of west portal. It was clear that she shares the heart break and heartache of what happened, and i saw Something Else a determination to stop these strategies. [fire sirens in background] all of us know that fourth and king and almela and and ruse o and the list goes on and on. Its the 100s of people each year who are also severely injured in crashes whos lives may never be the same. Because its everyday anytime, niz of us walk outside of our door, we are all too vulnerable to the cars, trucks and suvs that can be a Deadly Weapon in an instant. Im very grateful to mayor breed for the vision zero along with our leaders here today when its not yet a Success Story but it can be a Success Story. San francisco can be become a city that prioritized safety over driver convenience. We can be become a transit first city. Can be a place where our streets bring us together not threaten our lives. Is vision zero is the right approach, the right goal. And we have made important strides on our streets and historic streets like jfk but we need so much more. The good news is that a lot has been done to really change our city streets to scale up to move quickly and to make things better. And i know you and all of us here want to end these senseless deaths, were ready to see and feel the change. Were ready to Work Together to fight together, like we did for jfk promenade. So we are all still here asking mayor breed, we need your bold action during this very dark time. Thank you. [applause] now i would like to welcome christopher white, the interim executive directer of San Francisco bike coalition. [applause] on behalf of the thousands of members of the San Francisco Bicycle Coalition, i want to thank mayor breed and all of the elected officials and agency heads here today, every one who has worked and fought to try to make vision zero a reality in San Francisco. And especially our members and fellow advocates. What an audacious goal the city set for itself in 2014 to undo a century of streets to prioritize speeds and cars over human lives and to do it in a single decade. We have not gotten there in fact we barely moved the needle on the total number of lives lost on our streets, but we cannot throw up our hands, we have learned so much in ten years and we have potent tools that didnt exist then, automated Speed Enforcement and greater local control over speed limits. When layered together these tools become a strategy. We also learned from internal obstacles to excessive red tape. Weve seen quick bills slow down while some slow streets have literally sped up. Aligning a massive ship like the San Francisco government demands leadership and i want to thank mayor breed for introducing this vision and start to go layout some commitment. And in order for this leadership of this vision to really be seen and felt, it needs to continue translating into those commitments. City leadership has been key, to achieving beautiful joyful places like jfk promenade, car free weekends on the great highway and permanent slow streets program. And when that leadership has not been apparent, weve experienced the impact and commitments are meaningful when there is accountability. The San Francisco Bicycle Coalition will play our Parts Holding Decision Makers accountable to making progress at an accelerated rate as well as appreciating and celebrating their their successes. City wide inter connected network of car free and people prioritized corridors that allow anyone to leave their home and get on their bike or scooter and within minutes be on the network that connects them to any other neighborhood with minimum contact with cars. [applause] as the city developed its new biking enrolling plan, nothing less will do. We have to be bold and visionary, not just because it saves lives because it has the power to rejaouf night the city bringing more joy and vibrancy to San Francisco. [applause] we also must Center Equity as we envision the San Francisco we want to live in. As the sfmta has worked on the biking and rolling plan, they brought five organizations on to talk to their communities and how to shape the priorities to reflect their needs and desires. There is a lot of trust that needs to be rebuilt in these communities and creating space for local leadership is doing that. And today as we reflect on this goal that we have not yet reached, on this anniversary that fall so soon after the tragedy less than two weeks ago, its appropriate to feel grief and anger, i feel those things with you and im trying to do some personal alchemy to generate to resolve to get to safe streets and equitably. There is no choice, we can and must reach this goal with commitment, leadership and accountability. Thank you. [applause] and im very happy to be able to introduce robin pam who leads kids safe sf. [applause] hello every one, i want to thank mayor breed for her Leadership Today can all of our other elected official sxz city leaders who have worked so hard to transform our city in the last few years. I want to start a quick story why im standing here today. I had a baby early in the covid pandemic with a preschooler at school, we had nowhere to go, no school, no playgrounds, no library, no support from any community. The only Spaces Available to our family where i can push a stroller and my older kid can run tree why jfk, slow streets all of which have been closed for social distancing. As a parent raising kids in San Francisco, i dont worry about the threat to my kids from guns or crime, my greatest fear is that my family will be hit on by a car on the dangerous roads near by home. The experience of being in a space like jfk where cars are not an ever present threat changed the way about how i raise kids in the city t gave my family a place to be safe and the kids to be kids. And because of leadership, jfk has allowed us to see what our streets can be when we prioritize people and when we stick to our convictions. In the past six years, mayor breed have lead a huge transformation on our streets. The car free spaces in golden gate park, mcclaire en park, the great park, 18 slow streets that are now permanent, 45 miles of protective lanes. Yet last week in west portal we saw that despite the changes weve made an entire family can still be skilled killed in an instant by a speeding driver. This is a tragic reminder that we need to move quickly than ever. When advocates met with mayor breed, we asked for her support and we heard from her commitment to prioritize safety in the way that we design our streets. And when we do this, it has benefits beyond safety, more infrastructure safety, car free promenades these can create community and xwif our neighborhoods the post pandemic boost that they need. And installing this infrastructure, reimagining our public realm, this has to be the pace and urgency when facing a cries of this magnitude. What but is more cities that have done this work, whether its new york city, mexico city, these people are driving, they are feing seem on the streets, walking everybody, taking the bus, taking transit. And we know from prop j which passed in every supervisor district that these changes are popular. There is going to be a small number of voices trying to veto and stop progress, but we cannot let them. All of you here today, everybody in the past couple of years who has started biking during the pandemic, parents who bike their way to school, seniors going to the Farmers Market, going to the medical appointments on the bus, teens who just want a safe place to go, every one wants the same thing we just want to exist in our city without being hit by a car, exist in public and feel safe. All of these people, we are ready for change and we are ready for urgency. Were ready to support mayor breed as they follow through to make our streets safe and joyful for all possible and for all san franciscans. Thank you. [applause] all right, i just want to thank you for being here and i did mean what i said we need all of you to play a part in this next phase of vision zero, please join us at for our vision zero sub submit hes, we want all of your ideas, you may always speak in general Public Comment, and i have office hours you can join me virtually, 4 00 oclock on mondaysed before our tuesday board meeting. Thank you all again for your commit toment vision zero and with na, and with that, we are adjourned. Thank you. [applause] i am supervisor melgar. I am the supervisor for district 7. [music] i am a immigrant to San Francisco. My family came when i was 12 from el salvador during the civil war. This place gave us security, safety and an opportunity to thrive, so i love the city deeply, and as a mother of three kids who have grown up as city kids, im grateful for everything the city has to offer for people like me and families. I have been politically involved my whole life, either in government or a non profit worker and i care about the community. I care about people around me, and i want to make sure that as the world changes around us, other people have the opportunity that my family did. We are back in San Francisco post pandemic. So important to be out supporting our businesses, supporting our neighbors. Im the first woman to represent the district, believe it or not. Im the first latina elected to the board of supervisors without an appointment first ever, so i do think that indiscernible i want immigrants to be represented, women, moms, people that have different experiences because that brings richment to our Decision Making and i think it makes for betting decisions so that inspired me to run. District 7 is one of the most diverse districts in San Francisco both in economics and ethnicity. It spans north from golden gate park. It includes all the institutions in the park, the wheel. The music concourse, mew seem to the south to the daly city boarder and west to the organization. Includes the zoo indiscernible all those fun things and to 280 oen the east. Includes city college, San Francisco state. I had ucsf parnassus so very large geographically. It is mostly Single Family homes, so it is the place where for generations family indiscernible nice parks, lake merced, mount davidson. This is like a village within the city, so we are very close nit community. We tend to band together and try to support one another and it is a friendly place and families and people to have a cup of coffee and check out the park. Ocean avenue, which is the southern end of our district is vibrant commercial corridor that mostly cater tuesday the local neighborhoods and the students. As you go further west you have the mall which has some of the best pan asian food offerings in the city. If you havent been there, it is really fun. As you go up a little bit further, there is west portal avenue, which is a very old School Commercial district where you can still find antique shops and cobbler shops and as well as like more modern restaurants. It is definitely hopping and full of families on any weekday. Im matt roger, the coowner or indiscernible carl, other coowner in west portal. We are a Neighborhood Hardware store. Been a Community Institution since it was founded in 1936. We had a little bit of everything. indiscernible to gardening or gift buying. My entire experience in San Francisco is this community. It is a very small town feel for a big city. The community is caring and connected. What makes me excited doing business in district 7 is i know it sell well. I grew up here. I knew a lot of customers, parents of friends. It is very comfortable place and feels like home. If you go up north, you have the innerpz sunset commercial corridor which has a awesome Farmers Market on weekdays and plethora of restaurants. There is everything you need. Friendly and safe and indiscernible i love they bring their kids with them. They teach them how to use their money, and it is something you dont see in too many markets in other communities. I love to see the kids come and talking to you. It is Something Different then i see from indiscernible the ev access to transit in inner sunset and ability to do a lot of shopping on foot, and now the improved biking with jfk closed to cars, because we have a 4 and a half year old who rides her bike. We now have a safe place to go and ride bike jz dont have to to worry about traffic. Graffiti continues to be one of these things that during the pandemic just got out of control everywhere in the city and i do think that it is hampering our recovery of commercial corridors, so some of the volunteers on west portal avenue, some of the merchants got together with interns at our office to do some hands on abatement and we have been doing it regularly. We are doing it once a week and we have a wonderful neighbor, carrie organizing and storing the paint and supplies in her office on west portal, but this needs more then just a volunteer efforts. Im grateful for the collaboration. We passed legislation at the board and put 4 million in the budget over the next 24 months to help the department of public works hire laborers and labor apprentices to abate the graffiti on private property on commercial corridors. I think that for a couple years this recovery strategy so we can get back up as normal after this awful pandemic. Participatory budgeting is a pot of money that is available every year for district 7 neighbors to propose projects that improve the neighborhood and the district. Anyone, any organization in the district can propose a project and then its a vote. It is popular vote. We have 14 projects just approved and they span from you know, a vegetable garden at Aptos Middle School to Pedestrian Safety projects on indiscernible it runs the gamut, but it is wonderful because it allows people to be engaged in a real way, and then to see the outcome of their energy and work, because the things get improved in front of them. I like it is really close to the parecollect parks and bunch of businesses as well as a calm feel. It is a very peaceful feel even though it is close to a lot of things. indiscernible also not boring. There is stuff to do too. So, there is lots to see and experience in district 7. [music]book. Thank you. music . My name is orlando im the owner and operator of sf pizza. Pizza is my expansion growing up i loved pizza and loved to cook and been in Corporate Banking jobs my that whole life wanted to own a pizza or and moved to San Francisco 45 years ago and couldnt find pizza i like so one day of saving and trying to figure out what i would like to do to fulfill my dream and to literally must be that i went out on my own toes an interesting things skills i again have to working on the slight changes to find the right product and came up with something i enjoy and continue it. So the positive important thing in years and years and years of trying to get it where i like it is for the sauce i use a unique sauce to bring out the flavors have to mats and Capital Improvement plan any and using use a high quality of cheese the products Work Together more important to me have a high quality of pizza and made with love and what i try to keep it to be a comfortable foods or food and thats what i try to over and offers so having a really bus illegal day in the community and rile appeal to me and thats what i was trying to accomplish i have thought when i got into pizza the main thing if i can, make a great cheese pizza he can do anything like growing up thats what i brought to to and now called San Francisco te welcome, everybody to our newest department of Human Resources base were really happy to see all of you here. Um, thank you to are not on todays agenda. And vice chair mandelman and city administrator carmen chu in the audience and all of our coworkers from around the city our job seeks and Community Members are here were thrilled to have you here and hope to see a lot more of you in that open space. For the department of Human Resources this is a