Transcripts For SFGTV 20150317

Resident can participate in healing the planet with the new take dial initiative theyre getting close to zero waste we 2020 and today San Francisco is diverting land filled and while those numbers are imperfect not enough. Were sending over 4 hundred thousand tons of waste to the landfill and over the 4 hundred tons 10 thousands are textile and unwanted listen ones doesnt have to be find in the trash. I could has are the ones creating the partnerships with the rail kwloth stores putting an in store collection box near the checks stand so customers can bring their used clothes to the store and deposit off. Textile will be accessible in buildings thought the city and we have goodwill a grant for them to design a textile box especially for families. Goodwill the wellknown store has been making great strides. We grateful to give the items to goodwill it comes from us selling those items in our stores with you that process helps to divert things it from local landfills if the San Francisco area. And the textile box will take it one step further helping 1230 get to zero waste. It brings the donation opportunity to the donor making that as convenient as possible it is one of the solutions to make sure were capturing all the value in the textiles. With the help of good will and other businesses San Francisco will eliminate 39 millions tons of landfill next year and 70 is confident our acts can and will make a great difference. We believe that Government Matters and cities matter what we side in San Francisco, california serve as a model phenomenal in our the rest of the country by the world. Whether you do not to goodwill those unwanted text told us or are sufficient value and the Greater Community will benefit. Thanks to sf environment San Francisco has over one hundred drop off locations visit recycle damn and thanks for watching join us the program will be continued by the remarks of our special guests. First of all the honorable mayor of San Francisco. Please welcome our mayor. [applause] thank you very much. Happy luna new year everyone. [applause] its my pleasure again to join our senator leno, our supervisors kim and scott wiener and the entire committee that has worked so hard to put on this wonderful, wonderful festival for our entire city. I just love this time of the year. The year of the ram this year is going to be about artistry, about coming together supporting each other. I want to say thank you very much to the festival volunteer community and the Vietnamese Community and Economic Development center. They have been wonderful in putting this on and now that were revitalizing Market Street there is a connection of the improvements of the area and connected up with Market Street and this is a wonderful celebration that we have it here at the center of our United Nations plaza. I want to congratulate all of the store front owners here the Small Businesses here for working together with us. We have been putting a lot of emphasis on our Market Street as of late and our investment in neighborhoods and i hope that the Small Business owners along that corridor have really appreciated the work were doing together. Things are always improving and look at the wonderful crowds that you have coming out today so we join you in this festival. Its now the 19th tech festival celebration in our city. We congratulate and continue wanting to work very closely with the Vietnamese Community. [speaking foreign language] thank you. [speaking foreign language] [applause] thank you mayor. Thank you so much. [speaking foreign language] we are celebrating the glorious grand opening of the chinese rec center. 1951, 60 years ago our first kids began to play in the chinese wrecks center rec center. I was 10 years old at the time. I spent just about my whole life here. I came here to learn dancing. By we came we had a good time. Made a lot of friends here. Crisises part of the 2008 clean Neighborhood Park fund, and this is so important to our families. For many people who live in chinatown, this is their backyard. This is where many people come to congregate, and we are so happy to be able to deliver this project on time and under budget. A reason we all agreed to name this memorex center is because it is part of the history of i hear to name this rec center is because it is part of the history of San Francisco. They took off from Logan Airport and the call of duty was to alert American Airlines that her plane was hijacked, and she stayed on the phone prior to the crash into the no. 9 world trade center. I would like to claim today the center and the naming of ait. [applause] kmer i actually challenged me to a little bit of a ping pong the mayor actually challenge me to a little bit of a ping pong so i accept your challenge. It is an amazing spot. It is a state of the art center. Is beautiful. Quarksrights i would like to come here and join them clapping. good morning, everyone. I want to thank you all for coming out this morning its a beautiful San Francisco morning as it seems to be those dazed but a difficult morning as yesterday yesterday morning an 87yearold resident of sunset Resident Named alfred was walk on this street geary that boulevard in a krouks on 26 oath trying to cross the road when struck by an automatic turning left onto endearing later in the afternoon died another San Francisco General Hospital this is not yet conformed we Ronald Reagan are hearing that someone driving a motorcycle on 15th was struck and killed by an automobile i want to express you know on my behalf and everyone here our profound condolences to the family and friends and anybody that i know either of the individuals are who is impacted by the loss it is tragic that those people are losing their lives on our streets this is a franklin were restore here the city adopted a goal a policy to eliminate traffic deaths in San Francisco and while were not here to mourn their loss we certainly want to honor them and again offer our dlops were here to reinforce the notation this is is not accidents i want to ass ask us to eliminate accidents when we talk about traffic collisions in the street the word accidents suggests inability accidents happy but weve weve done by adopting vision zero we dont accept that the inability of people getting killed and sierra injured in our streets not something were any longer than accepting and it is something that modern were Telegraph Hill working together under the leadership of our mayor within the city but the greater San Francisco community to make sure we eliminate traffic fatalities in San Francisco by 20024 theres a number of physical improvements that are going into the streets weve already gotten 12 of the 24 socalled vision zero projects in the ground and here today to talk about improvements on gere and fulton ironically the two streets people lost their lives in the last two hours makes this real and impervious were making the improvements and also importing the laws were joined by the San Francisco Police Department to step up to make sure that when people are traveling around San Francisco no matter how are you how are you how their traveling adhere to the laws and it is about education outreach we look to the media to help us get out achievement of vision zero everything has a responsibility anytime you step off a sidewalk go go that in but you automobile or walk that your traveling and aware of our surrounding so we will continue to doing the right thing to make the city save we need everything to do their part so we dont have to start press conferences in the future with press conferences like this were doing a lot with the leadership from city hall the board of supervisors adopted vision zero policy and mayor ed lee has directed all the departments and exclusive branch of government to accelerate do everything we can to make our streets safer please welcome our mayor, mayor ed lee. Thank you, ed clapping. let me add that as we take a moment ponder the circumstances of which those fatalities happen we are working very hard to make sure that there is less of this and today, were in district one with commissioner eric mar who also joined strongly the effort to put their concrete work into vision zero to make that happen today, we wanted to demonstrate as part find an education and Awareness Campaign those strooirpz we called them San Bernardino are a striping on the swauktsz that have in the past obey retired around schools and mid street krogers are now going to be more dominant in our intersections beginning on geary street those are important one there are and do in fact slow down traffic and make people more aware but also what ed reiskin and others have been saying in our Street Safety advocates weve got to make people more aware if we can make sure that ice are the first and not other distractions that the eyes see the crosswalks and people in the crosswalk using that it will penetrate people in vehicles to slow down and respect the people that are using the sidewalks and streets and the warns turns into a higher level of safety on the streets this is exactly what were trying to side here youll see the departments working im going to take physical action and laying down the stripes myself but more of this is going to happen because we as a city agreed were going to put serious resources into these our vision zero so that it is not just a a pronouncement we make those things happen on as many street corners as possible this is a relatively easier treatment to do but a higher awareness comes boo about it as we work on the compacted streets and intersections that require xylophones and a lot of other agencies to be involved in safety of those intersections and streets reich like we have probably a half block away on a very, very business intersects at the same time in in addition to the socalled descend are a striping well be taking a look at with our Police Department and our mta and Public Defenders Office and others on the streets what streets in our city that we have direct jurisdiction where we can slow down traffic on an official basis even a 5 mile reduction in the speed allows nor awareness and more care to occur on those streets and so we have named some of the streets that will slow down the speed on and weve already done so on sunset and some of the streets we to name more streets that has your signage and office those as well as our officers we want to insure the public were working to redesign other streets completed streets and make sure that we present safety to be the preit is not necessary policy to be rkd in those streets but also youll see me and the supervisors and ed reiskin as well as others making periodic announcements to keep visibility on this serious topic of that he had Public Safety Bicycle Safety and driving safety to make sure that awareness is at its highest level and to make sure that violators it will be consequences and our officers are out here today sometimes, we might feel we cannot solve every if at any point we can keep a vigilant and dedicated effort to continue to educate and making those changes so this leads to a higher level of safety not about being help also but more action in lives lost that were going to take an opportunity to come even more concerted effort we need to make to prevent those things from happening we have busy streets it in San Francisco thats a indication of our economy but make sure that is complimented with a higher level of awareness for safety for everybody thank you for being here commissioner eric mar. clapping. thank you complair and director reiskin on the yes, maam of the responding district im going to put my notes aside im anger and inside mr. Alfred 87yearold mr. Alfred yee on gary and 26th avenue outside of a Senior Center in 2011 a woman an geary we campground a 3 and 4yearold open fulsome modify who was killed on 25 letting avenue in fulsome weve known about this for years how long will it take to take rapid action on vision zero so as director reiskin theyre not accidents theyre killing basically we have to work on education engineering and enforcement im proud our r0r7bd station is here they are the one station that took a hard look at vision zero i want to thank the hard working men and women at the richmond station im raifr from the robert district i learned about that or this so my comments are from my heart three or four supervisors from the time after sophies death in the new years time over a years ago were looking at new york city and other cities with the Bicycle Coalition and walk sf and our Community Coalition weve been advocating for this im glad it tom maguire with our sustainable streets is here my hope was we painted stripes that are important csa as we think about high injury corridors like geary and others were looking at other practices and putting our money where and mouth is the culture of feeding in San Francisco our Community Coalition office says the culture meeting meeting in San Francisco not only pedestrians but bicyclists and other drivers at risk there are too many tragedies not only mr. Alfred lee and others in the Richmond District throughout the city the two children i mentioned the told her a two combrrldz hit in the outdoor richmond on fulsome we move to lower the speed limit i hope that our city like portland and seattle have safe routes to schools im hoping San Francisco iowas what put our money where our mouth is and making the streets safe is a responsibility as the mayor said for all of us but the walk sf and the pedestrian advocates have been working on this for many decades we have to listen the coalitions the traffic lights like the new ones planned for 22nd and geary and 26th and geary like the ones near the Senior Centers i hope to implement that around other vulnerable areas i as geary Rapid Transit moves forwarded how to implement the vision zero longer than geary boulevard i as a superintendant for the richmond i urge the mayor and director reiskin to move as quickly as possible to prevent the death in the corridors reducing the slightly and thirty mileperhour in many ways is not that much of a reduction but as asz our distributing that slowing down saves lives well see that on fulsome we need more help i want to say that the Vision Zero Committee the board of supervisors are meeting im going to do my best to look at it becomes by the sfmta to move as rapidly not only in the richmond but citywide i know that safety should be first as the mar said im here to say for the Richmond District after the two tragedy deaths ill do everything i can to prevent death for the future thank you very much for being here. Thank you supervisor mar mar ill say did supervisor has been one of the be strornth advocates longer than fulsome and geary but we are i will assure you working with the partners in the city to make sure that the transit improvements only geary boulevard is fully incorporating youll see best practices in terms of the Public Safety at the transit liability and itself Public Safety at the same time, were looking at ways such as the crosswalks or anything we can do while were designing the 0 project were not waiting for the big projects were putting in krouksz open geary i want to thank the mayor for his leadership in pulling the agencies together and engaging with the community and the advocates with the victims of the families to make sure that were getting this work down as quickly as possible. Were going to im going to ask the mayor and the supervisor to help us lay the paint on the final crosswalk dozens along geary i want to recognize the director of sustainable streets and the liveable streets director who does the design and george who hearsay a Field Operation with the 0ur9 city to put the paint strips on the ground thank you, everyone for coming out im going to ask the mayor to help initiative that painting of the crosswalks. clapping. test. Okay. Thank you were on good afternoon, everyone. The the meeting will come to order this is the regular meeting 0 for the San Francisco budget finance subcommittee im supervisor cowen to my left it supervisor jane kim our clerk andrea ashbury also want to recognize Jessie Larson and jonathan will be testifying this committee on sfgovtv thank you, very much. To staff madam clerk, any announcements . Questions electronic devices. Completed speaker cards and documents to be included should be submitted to the clerk. 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