Transcripts For SFGTV BOS Full Board 41117 20170414

If the status changes will be glad to change. We are looking at ways to become as transparent as possible but still obey the law. Commissioner marshall we actually did before the law change,we actually did do discipline in open session before the law changed. So we only did that because were required to by law by the Supreme Court decision. But pres. Turman says take it up with those who make laws in california and the California Legislature and with the Supreme Court. Next Public Comment come up please. See seeing none, Public Comment is closed [gavel] im please, item vote on whether to hold items six and close session with San Francisco administrative code section 67. 10, action. So moved. Second. All commissioner turman we are back on the record in open session and you still have a quorum. Thank you. Item please, item seven vote to elect whether to disclose any or all discussion on item 6 held in close section. Action. So moved. Second. All those in favor say, aye. [chorus of ayes. ] opposed, nay. Okay. [inaudible] item eight adjournment action so moved. Second. All those in favor say, aye. [chorus of ayes. ] opposed, nay. Thank you, we are adjourned. Good night. [gavel] [adjournment] good afternoon, everyone and welcome to the sfrnz of tuesday, april 11, 2017, madam clerk please call the roll. Thank you supervisor president london breed supervisor cohen supervisor farrell supervisor fewer supervisor kim no present supervisor peskin supervisor ronen supervisor safai supervisor sheehy not present supervisor tang supervisor yee madam chair we have quorum thank you, ladies and gentlemen, please join me in the pledge of allegiance. And to the republic for which it stands, one nation under god, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Thank you madam clerk any communication. None to reporter madam president. Any changes to the approval of the minutes for february 28, 2017. Seeing none, a motion to approve those minutes by none oman move forward by supervisor kim colleagues, can we take that without objection . Without objection those approval of the minutes will be passed after Public Comment. Our special order 2 00 p. M. No questions the mayor may begin to address the board up to 5 minutes. Welcome mayor ed lee pr to the Board Chamber you have the floor. Thank you supervisor president london breed and good afternoon, supervisors and good afternoon members of the public thank you for being here in the Day Air Force opening day im going to speak today about what were doing to support the next generation of san franciscans if we want our young resident to succeed we need to make sure they have Strong Communities and homes and apprenticeship programs and well paying jobs we need to create pathways for the youth by insuring everyone has processed period of time in the city every plan we develop has to be thought of through a lens of quality this past weekend i invited the training site of chase center that is a partnership between the writings chase and how citibuild that will help to train at least 41 residents in the building and trades eventually those 41 participants will graduate and be placed in juxtapose jobs across the city this is including the chase center the future home of our warriors on that event i met jesse a young man who is father was murdered the day before despite his grief he attended the training because he said his father would having wanted him to be there jesse said that the chase center is on a path to where he wants to be this is what were trying to do for all the youth in the city it is why we have our youth Jobs Plus Program we connect our young residents to local employers last month at the annual rally we received over 6 thousand one hundred pledge jobs big and small over the course of the 6 years our youth plus jobs plans has context 34 thousand youth with jobs and training and paid internship most have been participant are young resident from low income and disadvantaged communities and for them of the work is not just about a paycheck but an opportunity to start their dreams our work is are more about finding employment but have stable homes and good education and Reliable Transportation options thats why we take part in my back to you, commissioners. A program that helps the minority youth with the Education Needs we need to remove the systematic barriers that keeps young people from conceding early this year we created the Free City College its the first of its kind and were working with supervisor kim building to provide the funding so every resident of San Francisco, california receive free tuition at the city college with that program we are helping to create our next generation of leaders we a little have an eyed own the future thats why were working hard to create the community here in San Francisco it is unacceptable to lose the young residents because the parents cannot afford to live here this friday well celebrate hunters view the first part of hope sf Housing Program we rehabbed and rebuilt more 200 Affordable Housing units plans that benefit the residents of neighborhoods hunters view will include Community Centers and playgrounds and open space that will be a neighborhood who where paentsz can raise their children in a safe and healthy environmentalist we pioneered or poishlgd our residents to rely on Public Transportation for getting to and from hunters view that allows the low income and other does the to take Public Transit for free and he helping your families with summer approaching our Families Council created a onestop shop for parents for activities that will feature all at the Public Library and the rec and Park Department and the School District and other city departments we have advocated for plans that help our residents in a practical day to day sense and push the programs that will enrich the lives for new possibility our stewardship at the rec and Park Department exposes our Young Students to outside learning and teaches them about viral science and Natural History for many of the parent it is the first time of this nature that could be their inspiration to pursue a criteria in many areas housing and transportation, education job Training Opportunity those are all part of a package we need to create pathways to success for our youth and we know that is confusing that is a confusing time for everyone right now but must be an extra difficult time for the young people their seeing policies pushed at the National Level that is contrary to what we value we must show them our commitment to doing the right thing in San Francisco we support our residents well stand side by side with our neighbors no matter how old or young rely on the people of San Francisco to stick up for each other and providing that by providing those programs for the young rointz holy our youth will learn the lessons and carry on and leading with yes, maam pith and examination and understanding as we on the doors for them theyll learn how to dbe e keep the doors open for building pathways for all the Young Children and families of this city thank you for your time. Thank you, mr. Mayor all right. Mayor pro tem. Consent calendar. All matters listed hereunder constitute a consent calendar, are considered to be routine roll call vote of the commission. There will be no separate discussion of these items Residential Hotel on items 1 through 5. Supervisor yee commissioner london breed supervisor cohen supervisor farrell supervisor fewer supervisor kim supervisor peskin supervisor ronen supervisor safai supervisor sheehy supervisor tang there are 11 is. Those items are passed unanimously next item, please. Item 6 item no. 6 recommendation of the government audit and oversight committee. 170215 Yerba Buena Community Benefit District annual report to the city fy20152016. Colleagues, can we take that without objection . Well take that without objection. This resolution is adopted roll call vote for introduction. For new business is supervisor yee. Thank you, madam clerk colleagues as many of you are aware car breakins has placard our city after a 5 year high in auto breakins it looks like it is slowing down down in 2015 close to 21 thousand car breakins 70 that incidents per day i want to recognize the San Francisco Police Department and the District Attorney for creaking down on car breakins our agency is needing to deploy and look to the partners in tourism and other destroys for support we on the tourist are easy target for crime less likely to report incidents and more likely to carry around the valuables we have tainted memories and lost valuables and feeling help also it is an embarrassment for the city with 25 million visitors coming in last year breaking and entering in the billion dollars we need to show we Value Tourism from my district neighborhood groups are organized neighborhood watches and placing signage warning unsuspected tourists the cars are at risk last fall i supported supervisor president london breed legislation requiring rental Car Companies and written disclosures to remind them to take all items out of their car we noted that rental cars are obvious target many have bar codes and decals on the front wind shield and other things like did rental car names or logo my own constituents have asked the car destroy not only to warn them but protecting them by making the vehicles less obvious not only that when criminals start the rent a cars in certain neighborhood where 20u678 is high they to death the cars around those rental cars meaning the residents cars so this is something that were trying to protect not only the tourists but the residents in San Francisco after several months of discussion ive introducing an ordinance that will require the rental cars that 0 operate operating in San Francisco and the airport that is the San Francisco International Airport to remove the bar codes and other indicates oversees from visibility to you curve the number of breakins this is only one small part of solution im committed in other was to protect and reduce the targeted crimes of opportunities last year, i also secured the funding for a neighborhood Camera Pilot Program and along with supervisor tang and supervisor president london breed we are also increasing more funding for public signage to warn residents and visitors about leaving valuable in their vehicles so colleagues, i hope youll support me as it moves through the board progress the rest i submit. Supervisor breed. Refer. Supervisor cohen okay. Thank you supervisor farrell supervisor fewer thank you very much colleagues as you may know last 340 we unanimously passed a resolution to urge us to renovate, upgrade the matrix the board is taking other actions in the past including wells fargo for their predatory and unequity business go practices may find by the unempathy behavior i researched a the banks dont serve us in the low Income Community and multiple sclerosis so im directing the office of the budget and analyst as banking alternatives and the municipal banking 0 opens o option we building in the city and county of San Francisco in our residents in a manner that is more suitable sustainable and ethical and financially responsible i look forward to the partnering with you at the public hearings and exploring next steps the rest i submit. Thank you, supervisor supervisor kim. Supervisor peskin. Madam clerk today, im introducing legislation that will provide upgrades for the article 7 as new protections for Small Business in north beach, polk street and the commercial districts among did critical changes in those pieces of legislation are stronger protections for Small Businesses particularly submittal legacy businesses i want to thank my staff leo and deputy City Attorney chris and judy for your help and looking forward to working with the community and the Planning Department and commission and you colleagues to get it passed in the months ahead. Thank you supervisor peskin supervisor ronen. Thank you last week the krrltz ruled that children living in rented apartments with family are not owed recognition payments in the family is effected in the ellis act their deemed occupant but not tenants i cant believe we have to do this but, yes indeed children in San Francisco are tenants this decision is a slap in the face to families with children who are struggling u struggling to stay in San Francisco yet another example of how unfriendly San Francisco is so children most evicted families have to leave the city but additional recognition assistance gives them a fiat chance to stay in San Francisco this is being taken away by the courts im hoping my legislation can provide a quick legislative fix that children are indeed eligible tenants in the context of a local recognition ill be asking supervisor president london breed to waive the thirty day role one family that will be impacted by this hypothetical decisions i thank you 2 to 3 the supervisors so for your cosponsoring the rest i submit. Supervisor safai i want to submit. Supervisor jeff sheehy i had a resolution inconsistently the men and women and primarily 2017 and the public works they do obviously work throughout the city and grateful for your service and second like to ask the sdwoo to draft an ordinance that will prevent the San Francisco Police Department from quentin kopp in any efforts to remove individuals if playing due to over booking i dont know those incidents people are pulled off planes are appropriate and i dont think our Police Department should be coordinating with that and lastly an in memoriam for victor moe was a Family Member of the lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenders club and the organizing force for two decades after 1995 they had given the anybody else support and receive political asylum due to the hmo phobia an active member of the lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenders hosting rap groups and victor was not only dedicated to the freedom support but their social leader organizing gay parties as potlucks victor inspired other gay and lesbians to he rolled up his sleeve no matter at at society where Television Program director because the 2017 womens seminar patients with Alice Griffith reiterates xhovd their disease victor accomplished a lot and made every day count he will be misses by his husband barry and his son and parents and 5 nephews and nephews the rest i submit. Thank you supervisor sheehy. Commissioner tang. Submit madam president. Thank you today, i have to millenniums for merriam that was born in new orleans louisiana she was married to one of the first africanamerican supervisors in San Francisco the late perry she was a very passionate woman that working hard her and her husband were incredible civil rights leaders here in San Francisco and she was structural after her husband passed away in getting a street names in the Mission Bay Community after the late perry after her children went to high school they completed her degree in social work and became a social working in any community to help the seniors and families she was a charter of the jack and jill of america and active member of the lengths and she was a devote member of the patricia over 55 years and will be remembered for her kindness and warmth and generosities committed to they shall friends and family and the community she will be missed loved and survived by her children and grand children and great grandchildren. The second in memoriam jim in our community and the owner of a business jim migrated from greasing in 1951 after harry truman had the act of 1958 was drafted as a bat engineer and opened a business in downtown San Francisco this bar has an incredible history Janice Joplin frequented this establishment and performed there his ability to provide comfortable and entertainment for the community was rare and admirable his enmistakable presents in the community will be missed he passed away at the age of 85 on april 4, 2017, survived by his loving wife garcia and Business Partner phil and the father of meg who is the many of you have familiar with the owner of a business in San Francisco and another incredible institution in our city his daughter marina and four cherished grandchildren and truly be missed madam clerk the rest i submit. Seeing no other names on the roster, that concludes the introduction of new business. Mc were going to go to Public Comment i wanted to make members of the public aware that we do have a number of special order 2 30 p. M. Recognition of commendations. So open up Public Comment and if all the members of the public are not able to complete our Public Comment well return to that after our special order 2 30 p. M. Recognition of commendations. Workplace the first member of the public please come forward for Public Comment. Seeing none, Public Comment is closed. Madam clerk go to supervisor sheehy supervisor tang there are 11 is. Those items are approved madam clerk please call item 14 maintenance of effort moe cost sharing agreement supporting ongoing negotiations to fund and reinstate the 2012 moe. Services maintenance of effort moe cost sharing agreement supporting ongoing negotiations to fund and reinstate the 2012 moe. Supervisor yee. Thank you last week, i introduced a resolution opposing the dismantling of care initiate and the inhome care Supportive Services maintenance of the cost sharing agreement and support the ongoing negotiation to fund and run states the agreement ill be introducing minority amendments after meeting with the mayors staff and the h s a on the numbers and costs want to thank my cosponsor supervisor cohen and my staff and her staff that worked on this resolution our department of department of aging Adult Services the mayors staff and the city lobbyists that have been advocating hard on on behalf of this program in sacramento to get negotiation with the governor Inhome Care Services Program Provides health and daily care as bathing and director gee and housework and preparation to an estimate 5 hundred thousand low income disabled in california so San Francisco currently employees approximately 20 thousand providers t the ellis allows over 20 thousand afghanistan adults with disabilities for safety within their homes and community historically the state paid for 65 Program Costs and the community to pay for the rest of 35 percent in 2012 and 2013 replaced the Prior Community contribution rates in a i h s sets the contribution at the expenditure levels and increases it by 3. 5 percent since the moe was implemented the state general fund has resumed the costs on behalf of the expenditure levels recently governor jerry brown eliminated the i h ss from the 2017 and 18 budget that returns the county to the cost sharing ratio this is San Francisco responsible for covering about 40 million to continue operating this program we are already in a budget deficit and cant afford to help all the seniors with disabilities without inhome care car care im encouraged that governor jerry brown is negotiating with the city departments to establish the i h s to protect the Community Budgets we several Million Dollars with other state fund to fully cover the new costs okay. The amendments that the minor amendments are highlighted in the paperwork i passed that all the of you should have. Thank you and so supervisor yee just to be clear you had some amendments. Yeah. All of you have a copy of all of them your manning another motion to approve. I make a motion to approve the amendments. Supervisor yee has may a motion to approve his amendment is there a second seconded by colleagues, can we take that without objection . Well take that without objection. The amendments pass unanimously and on the items as amended same house, same call . Without objection the item passed unanimously okay. Now special order 2 00 p. M. We have a number of 2 30 accommodations well be doing day and start with supervisor tang and supervisor yee have a joint commendation well start with that and know youll be going back and forth; correct . And yes. Supervisor yee and supervisor tang together you have the floor. Thank you supervisor president london breed well be a tag team today this week the National Pedestrian safety honors the 911 dispatches nationwide San Francisco has more than one and 40 dispatchers working anothers department of Emergency Management we know they are on the job twrp both answering calls to 911 and coordinating the Police Officers fire houses and paramedics to respond today, im unemployed to be joined by supervisor tang to honor the dispatcher of the year janet action. clapping. so if you like to step up and listen to with us brag about you that would be great and honored bus of her experience as a Public Safety she grew up in oak and recently resides in oakland awhile dispatcher action is being recognized for her entire body of work that spans 25 years as a Public Safety dispatcher im joined by supervisor tang to combhend her for coordinating emergency responds to the shooting of San Francisco Police Officer kevin that began in any district and ended in supervisor tangs district 4. Supervisor tang thank you and welcome as the supervisor stated this incident happened in october 16th when San Francisco 911 dispatcher received closedcaptioned, so it is important for everyone to speak directly into the microphones at the podium. Irradicablely the dispatcher action serving as a dispatcher and it was her responsibility to maintain the contact with the Police Officers the officers communicated they had arrived and locked the person of center minutes passed before a dispatcher heard one of the worst things none what hear officer down shots fired between the officers arrival and the radio contribution the suspect shot the Police Officer in the head. Nearing the end of her shift dispatcher action remained at her post and continued to coordinate the search of the suspect and immediately sent additional Police Officers and medical services to assist the responsibility were setting up a Police Escort they got the Police Officer to the zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital and this dispatcher action joined her partner dispatcher david in establishing a perimeter to contain the armed suspect as officers searched their surrounding neighborhoods the suspect was apprehended after exchanging officers with the officers and by the time the officers action end dispatcher action and her partner were the led dispatcher she wants everyone to know that was a team effort with Police Officers helping it goes without saying we know that was an extremely scary situation and a lot of Mental Energy our focus professionalism and dedication is more than evident how you handle the services responding to this event so today, im thrilled to be able to join supervisor yee and the rest of board of supervisors to recognize our contribution of our City Public Health as dispatcher of year i thank you and all the other dispatchers in the city for the amazing work you all do everyday so thank you so much. Our tag team is almost finished. clapping. laughter . One more time. See we have to brag about you we cant help it because were doing a tag team what you did was teamwork being a dispatcher is not an easy job; is that correct means missing birthdays and so forth that im proud to recognize jan as the city dispatcher of year to put a face to all the San Francisco 911 dispatchers and i thank them all for all of them for their hard working and id like to bring up the director of department of Emergency Management to say a few words. Thank you supervisor yee and supervisor tang for presenting this award and supervisor president london breed and all the members of the board of the board of supervisors as you eloquently put our San Francisco dispatchers are the critical lifeline for the citizens and residents here in San Francisco they also keep our Police Officers and firefighters our medics safe on the street we answer 2 point one million calls a year this is up a thousand calls a day more than notifying excuse me. It is an amazing thing you all have supported our efforts to increase our staff and we very much appreciate that had 23 new dispatchers graduate this past year and another dispatcher class starting in may were hoping you continue to support us as we get to full staffing the work they do be here in San Francisco is critical and they really are the First Reading and oftentimes are not acknowledged because people dont see them you know theyre sitting there with incredible stress everyday what janet did in this one case but everyday as her fellow dispatchers marshall were save is an admirable job and amazing constitution sow thank you youll and thank you janet for your great work and a lot of my staff are here and wish that all of my staff would be here but, of course, their answering 911 calls so thank you very much. clapping. supervisor fewer. Thank you supervisor yee and supervisor tang this commendation i want to say. Im sorry one second the police chief William Scott and want to notify him up for a minute. Shall i continue. My husband was a Police Officer for 35 years and said the most important piece of equipment is his police radio radio and said the dispatchers are a hard job and work really, really hard and know a lot of Police Jargon on the radio but theyre the lifeline of San Francisco thank you very much and to all the dispatchers thank you. clapping. thank you, madam president for giving me a couple of minutes thank you from the bottom of my heart our when a person calls 911 many people depend on open you, we cant thank you enough and all the colleagues without you, we could a exist so thank you for what you did on behalf of the officers down and the whole San Francisco Police Department we really, really thank you for your work. Thank you chief. clapping. so finally janet after all the love you have the floor. Thank you, thank you first, i want to thank god to help me do this critical job of Public Safety dispatcher and thank you to my mom and fiancee and in what capacity nap and all the love and support and thirdly, thank my Public Safety dispatch family for working hard much of it going unnoticed being awarded dispatcher of year is one of my greatest honor as a fourthgeneration san franciscan i take my position as a Public Safety dispatcher very seriously and dedicated all of my adult life to helping seniors and police ape fire personnel of that great city and officer do you think im glad hes making a wonderful recovery didnt earn that award alone all of the officer down partners the four boy units u units that got him to the hospital and the paramedics and all of the dispatchers especially my partners david and my back up partnering partner shared award thank you and happy dispatchers week thank you clapping. come on up. Oh, my goodness. The paparazzi is here. A photo you guys. Okay. Okay come on one more. Congratulations again jaeptd and thank you for your service. clapping. we will now have the next commendation by supervisor fewer. Thank you supervisor president london breed im so proud during National Library week to honor a long time larger than friend of mine clare has been committed to the development of children and families through her electrician transitional work so only fitting were able to honor her during the theme of what the library transformed clare was born in San Francisco and grew up in membership county and attended city college. One second we want to be able to hear you after everyone is exited. Okay. Thank you clare was born in San Francisco and grew up in marin county and washington, d. C. And attended San Francisco college and uc berkley and San Francisco state and san jose state a long time resident and someone ive known from our time on Richmond District pta Million Dollar and washington, d. C. And married to paula clinical psychiatrists they have thirtyyearold twin sons now a families rasp began in the when they are twin sons were you students there and continued after they left before becoming a librarian worked as a lifetime learn that is compassionate and went back to school to get our teaching credential and others science credentials working or worked more than 20 years in Elementary Schools across the city and the last one at the west Portal School and a fantastic sustained of information for the next generation of leaders claire is the perfect larger than and is wellread herself and delights in matching the students to boxes it nurturing not only interests but a lot for learning i remember when the son was there she was found a book for many topics and familiar with the authorities or authors the job of a school larger than is often overlooked theyre a crucial part of a childs education and a school larger than is a fully credential teacher and hold degrees and read old and new books and manage lessons in the library the library is the soul of the school and indeed our School Librarians are a place for growth so their placed escapeism and joy claire thank you for our Credential Service im proud to call you my friend it is my honor to recognize you and over your service thank you. Claire please come on. clapping. hello supervisors and hello supervisor fewer happy to see you all i want to say i feel pretty humbled by this honor because i work with so many other really unbelievable School Librarians they probably do be better than me but we have your gifts and everyone that i know has an incredible passion and we feel lucky to have job i want to thank the supervisors and the voters of San Francisco for deciding to create those Public Education Enrichment Fund about 10 years ago we used this for the Library Programs in the Public Schools that the funding would stay and be consistent we have credentialed school larger than in every Single School ever since that went through year after year the funds will be there and weve built collective knowledge amongst us i thank the city of San Francisco for theyre for sight not to mention the support of Library System the envy of the country to thank you very much for this honor i appreciate it. clapping. congratulations claire. Thank you for your service. clapping. next up supervisor kim. So my heernt will be a surprise today, i want to bring up april king. clapping. laughter . I guess you saw your children youre not surprised anywhere i had a couple of minutes to get my head right many of you know a few weeks i had quickly mentioned that that was aprils last day with my office after 8 years of service at city hall for the San Francisco board of supervisors and i know that caught people off guard i was in denial i think maybe april was in denial and sent out an email but letting you know i want to honoree you april your work on behalf of the board of supervisors has been tremendous and your impact over the last 8 years working for supervisors and myself around issues of Affordable Housing, tenant rights and protection making sure that we were always negotiating the best deal for the people of San Francisco in marketrate Development Across the south of market and mission bay and the tenderloin for historical and unprecedented percentages like 40 percent on 3 projects here in our district to our work previous to the board of supervisors whereas, the director the south of Market Action network you were able to work and advocate for community to make sure that we were getting more funding for our streets and parks and youth organizations through the Stabilization Fund and the rincon hill agreement to the plazas for the hundreds of particular filipino who were evicted from the marketrate housing and opening the tower very soon and making sure were fighting for about replacement unit for all the seniors and families to helping us to kickoff the Small Site Program Acquisition Fund we started in the south of market and able to purchase Small Properties to keeping existing families and seniors again here in the south of market so they can continue to make that community their home i want to acknowledge you and thank you and since i also, never have an opportunity to do that i have to thank your family your husband eric, youre amazing and beautiful children. clapping. nile and gracey james i cant tell you 0 how many nights eric needs his head with no message how late youre coming home and negotiating Development Deals and writing last minute amendments to the legislation making serious phone calls to the City Attorneys office thank you for articulating overseeing calls. Doing everything we can he know for several years we were the most prolific go legislative office wouldnt have been possible without my amazing staff but really april with the senior legislative aide here someone who guided many of the United States for those of you who dont know april well shes calm in the storm and our office is always in the storm i dont know wasnt we do without you but so grateful for our 6 years together for those of you who dont know ive known april since 1999 ones of the first people when i moved to San Francisco where april worked several years ago and she was kickoff the mother along with some others taking care of many of the younger fellows that came on by the way, not much younger and stated continue working together before i run for the board of supervisors we were on an organization together and meetings and hours of discussions about what that meant to be progressive politics in San Francisco and you know im so lucky to be able to work with outstanding smart and passionate people women and mothers but my best friend and city hall can be a tough place to work everyday i was able to work walk into my office thank you. I i dont know worked with my colleagues he work with my best friends thats not easy to do but we do the that because of the fact we are family we were able to accomplish so much despite our community and city im to existed about our continued work and well, i miss you so much we have a proclamation for you whereas april ac action is one the hundred most influential filipino women and whereas april has left her fingertips on all legislation passed by the board of supervisors including the western edition the youth and family suspending and the low income and the public land for all and many, many more whereas april has set the bar how to be a legislative aide power house and leader can stand and quote do that all including drafting the policy and drafting the deals and populating and thats correcting stockholders protecting tenants and nonprofits, preserving arts and cultural institutions and acting as trusted okay. I dont know what that word is laughter thanks to the supervisor for raising an incredible family and every standard whereas april brought compassionate and optimisticism to her work for and with the people that will be solely missed and you will not see this coming that is very true and whereas her colleagues are crying inside and out loud they miss her as a family unit and therefore, be it resolved that the world is not the same without april in our lives clapping. thank you so much for this proclamation wow, i feel very, very privileged and honored too much prepared comments but as i walked into the chamber today and saw the legislative timeline feel so privileged and honored to be part of that timeline and that part of history over the last 8 years so like so many before me will be so many after me i know that 8 years a a long time in city hall and i just wanted to thank i think part of that is i had a great boss and team jane and my colleagues about being supportive of many life changes that happened in the last 6 years that kept me in office i met my husband and had children all in the past 8 years having great, great colleagues in the District Office on city hall every single one of the supervisors and their staff is so amazing and dedicated all the clerks in the office of the city clerk for helping us and making us look so go and the City Attorneys office it is taking our calls and drafting legislation and making sure that our legislative tint is legal and, of course, i couldnt have done this job particularly having a family without having my amazing Family Support with eric and my anyone who guess here an amazing caregiver for the family and my kids and my extended famito the best of my knowledge i so much appreciate thank you for your service april youll be missed in city hall. clapping. all right next up. Two more to go supervisor yee. Thank you commissioner london breed. Today, i want to honor someone ive known for a real, real long, long time willie he and i used to play basketball together in many types of environments and maybe thats what i recognize he was a leader because even in a Basketball Court he was a leader so for 40 years served as a cfo of californias only nonprofit a you c the project probably every single of you will be familiar with the agency after becoming the executive director while in his 210 east he retired on december 5, 2016, during the 10 years pretrials evolved from pissed Humble Beginnings to the Prominent Agency it is today the pretrial project is a significant because enabled individuals with misdemeanors from fines with criminal detention our jails are over crowded and often two often low income individuals are punished and jailed for simply being poor or a people of color mothers or fathers that are taken from their families and children who without a mom the pretrial project has been highly effective and reduce recidivism rates the court reappearance has been at or up 90 percent that helps first time nonviolate defenders with the rehabilitation overtime the case are dismissed avoiding unnecessary incarceration and neurology the folks to live with their families tare tread with dignity and respect and examination and affordability in the criminal Justice System under the leadership pretrial is a constant change honoring the past that consistent changes to address new challenges during this prethrill now provides a magnitude of one the creations was the court 50b8g9d case center the center staffed by soundproofed facilitators Officer Group counseling for a variety of needs since april 30th, 2016, San Francisco pretrial began user the arnold Public Safety assessment San Francisco is two sites to utilities this inform provide the courts with information willie has retired put in place a Solid Foundation for future successes of the organization willies most famous phrase will has improved the pretrial during the 40 years to provide more comprehensive and Responsive Services to his clients neurology clients to contribute to their community and stay out of prison system sow today, the board of supervisors proclamations april 12, 2017, william recognition day in San Francisco. clapping. and before you speak i noticed that chair hennessy is here and wondering if you have any words to express as well. clapping. we know you working closely with one another i want to say i remember will you didnt know him which was a deputy in the San Francisco Sheriffs Department i know with the program was created by michael was initiative and now the standard it is basically, the things were talking about now as we go forward were deciding would to do with bail and the pretrial today rather than 2000 people in jail 47 percent are all on leave through the program that will started a Small Program that has grown over the years i want to say we owe a debt of gratitude to will and in the future talking about pretrial issues and jail issues that is one of the podiums that is working very well and other jurisdictions looking at it closely now so will congratulations from the Sheriffs Department i know that the former sheriff would Say Something humorous but thank you for your work in all the years. Thank you sheriff. clapping. you have the floor. Madam president members of the board thank you, very much. It is a special honor where did 40 years go what i can really is a has been the highest honor and just a privilege to service in the capacity if i can just think back to norm i want to share something what was back in the early 70s, 45 years ago i we were working and chinatown ymca he provided Tutorial Services i was a person that didnt know anything that was the beginning who would have thought that 45 years later well still be what the that it was a wonderful ride im so proud that San Francisco is been with van ensured it took possession by the board of supervisors sometimes that were not popular to create the ups and downs and i guess it wasnt until december he fully appreciated that you lasted through those and figure out the wars and always another day and there was a sense that we could put together Something Special and in doing those things you know people need to be acknowledged i have a retirement event coming up in a couple of days and made me very sentimental ive thought of decades of people that 2rshd and what i firmly building the greatness of pretrial stands on the shoulders of many, many people far beyond mitchel and want a couple of people actually 3 people that i see 4 to please stand up theyre significant isnt history theyre all individuals that have on the average this is a Nonprofit Organization they have 10 or 15 years of service let me introduce them kate, sharon rose the current cfo im confident that carries on the same tradition alison and my chief deputy and friend for 25 years that retired 10 years ago and hes looks so good i say thats a tremendous motivation to retire so thank you. The last shout out that pretrial it at van guard and shout out to supervisor kim who last year provides the supporting for the next alternative that were putting into play in the next decade and thank you very much it is a very special honor. You know what i have a feeling im going out in high style and im going to turn it over to alison so thank you very much. clapping. im in big trouble i didnt introduce my wife of 20 years. Bring her on up will we dont want you in the doghouse tonight and this is how nervous i am so my wife is somewhere 28 years and. clapping. all right. You, go home tonight. laughter . Congratulation will thank you for your years of service the amazing work for our community youll be missed and with that, to the last colonel inundation of the day supervisor ronen im sure you figured it out but can you please come to the podium this is a surprise but i think the indicate is out of the bag where is sheila. Thank you welcome back sheila so my dear she and i first met the first time we work closely together in 2006 when we held coplan a hunger strict on behalf of the immigrant rights in the front of the building and tag teaming and dapdz a permit for the hunger stickers that camped out in front of the Federal Building i fell in love with you and ever since when i figure that out supervisor campos was hiring a second legislative aide that you worked for him, i remember calling you to ask you what was the job like you think i should apply something i should be interested and, of course, youre very way he spent a lot of time with me on the phone and tell me about it and encouraged me to apply then i applied with 200 and 50 other people for the job and when i got to the first of 3 interviews with sheila and david found out organized the whole process she immediately go took my to our now small Conference Room a computer set up and said sit down you have thirty minutes to summarize that will the southeast Wastewater Treatment and make a recommendation to supervisor whether or not you support that and respond to this constituent encampment will prostitution on shot well street thirty minutes get as far as you can and prints in our office and start our interview i remember thinking to myself thank god i went to law school and passed the bar exam i got into if quickly and took my test and finished the resolution and the letter back to the constituents and pressed print thirty minutes on the dot and went into the office and bam, bam, bam hypothetical after hypothetical how would you feel about the neighbors complaimentd about a truck and this and that and i remember i was brutally honest and in the interview because i thought that was was the type of job they want you to know who you are but loved my job at the time as an attorney i was very authentic and sure enough assemblyman david chiu you know when was the right fix and working together with despite the fact i begged you for years to run for periphery in the district and you said no, no, no and essentially forcing me to do that administrative review you promised me youll stick with me every step of the way and the move forward to San Francisco to help me run you stick with me every step of the way to the campaign and stayed to contribution me over close to 15 years ive walked and learned from you become not only a better advocate for our community but a better person because youre one of the best people ive ever met in my life and supervisor kim said working with our best friend is one of the biggest privileges and working with you has been that i see you every single day and proud of you before you worked at city hall and City Government and cannot wait to see what you do afterward i want her to take 5 hundred jobs in the community cant wait to see which one you choose but thank you and tell you how much i love you on behalf of me and the entire District Office a proclamation ill read part whereas sheila has provided brilliant brainstorming services for her friends and board of supervisors and payroll born about brightly born colored eraser and sheila charm and smile will be defining what that means have to rb f resting and sheila in San Francisco with her spirit spreads the joy throughout city hall and her love for green brings freshness to daily life and whereas shell last humor for calm in a storm is incredibly, incredibly missed by her colleagues and whereas shell last dedication to improving the lives for immigrants clearly the fierce advocacy for fundamental services assessable for all and whereas every legislative aide and supervisor currently working anothers centralized requests the early birds to the retreat located in the mountain shell run balancing with a child on each hip and currently supervisor ronen is thankful she survived the hiring process used developed by halloween that had dancing over red line paper with defense of the therefore, be it resolved the board of supervisors hereby declare april 11 to be shell last day in recognition of her invaluable contribution. clapping. supervisor yee wants to make some brief comments. Ill miss you you were the only person i knew at city hall that is bizarre i knew maybe two supervisors and no i would an insider it was nice to see familiar faces and by the way, i know shell be a tango teacher laughter . Thank you very much i wanted to say hillary you passed with underlying colors and so glad we selected you at the district 9 office and thrilled youre a supervisor thank you all for this honor you know when i started as a legislative aide for supervisor campos i dont think i knew with was getting myself into you, you look at the Job Description and dont understand until youre doing the work and it really is one of the best possible jobs that you can have the place where your xhavn learning and in everyones best interest to understand the information it is also a place you can make tremendous change and it is a place where despite the fact that maybe on different sides of the aisle at the end of the day, we know that everyone is seated working with the office of the city clerk or inside of the office trying to make San Francisco a better place i appreciate that i guess ill say some parting words a lot of new supervisors and if i can share arrest 3 things that maybe you you can takeaway sharing from my experience is one to find the gem and city departments there are so many and the folks that really makes that happen and goes 0 above and beyond they care and two is remember to keep some balance that is hard because we get consumed by the work and create enough fires but dont let it con assume and the last thing something my husband asked they at the end of the day he asks did you make the city a better place i hope youll answer yes helping a constituent or working towards the legislation that will make things better thats what we should be striving for and thank you to all the supervisors and my fellow legislative aides the folks in the city departments did City Attorneys office and Mayors Office the office of the city clerk and others for making my time special i think im done but just know that im here always here and happy to support the work of the board and especially at the district 9 office and my last thank you to the district the staff and to all of the volunteers who helped us to make this such a special district and place thank you very much i love you guys dearly your in my friends and colleagues and to existed about the work youll continue to do thank you. clapping. congratulations on our leave of city hall and thank you for your service sheila clapping. were at the end of the agenda. Theres no further business. Before us i know there was confusion around Public Comment and i am going to open up for Public Comment for members of the public who want an opportunity to speak please come forward. Yes. He was ignorant how that will take place but ask supervisor peskin. Sir hold on a second so i can get clarity on something please. So unfortunately, we have to take care of business before Public Comment bus the items that you were speaking on were actually already slowed on well rescind that vote before we allow Public Comment so hold on a second please. So colleagues some confusion around Public Comment and i know that members of the board expressed the interest in reopening Public Comment even though weve previously opened Public Comment so with that the adoption of without reference to Committee Items im going to ask in a members of the public can have an opportunity to speak on them ask if someone is willing to make a motion to rescind commissioner peskin and seconded by supervisor ronen colleagues, can we take that without objection . Those are items 9 through 18. Supervisor yee. Would that be with the assumption of 14 so we dont have it go through the mainstreams. Madam president republicans send on item 14 but not the amendments. So colleagues, can we take that without objection . Without objection that vote is rescinded and now open up for Public Comment first speaker. Thank you sorry to make all that more complicated than it needs to be next time ill wear my sprinting shoes. Simulate bill heather california which people ask me all the time do you believe that healthcare is a human right dont believe that is absolutely is a human rights if we on the life and liability how can we continue the healthcare so many died needlessly i was a social working and can tell you the suffering of people that be tremendous under the recent care act i dont want to call it Affordable Health care act people cant afford still to see their doctors and specialists it is impossible only one solution solution that is sampair we have to rolls release that all Health Connected would everyone someone on the bus with with tuberculosis people cant live in fear of i want to thank the for endorsing senate bill 562 you have continued a long tradition of this city in supporting sampair healthcare in 1994 San Francisco was first time couldnt in the state to vote for a sampainglepayer hea bill we have support from fiona moss to support the single healthcare bill and enforced by gavin newsom and senator leno leno with the singlepayer healthcare and many times the Mental Health board in San Francisco the Health Commission has supported the single payers bill and 80 percent of democrats in the country support the singlepayer bill and the majority of professionals support it thank you for being in the for the most part. Thank you thank you for the opportunity to speak that is very important it is important to our citizens and important to everybody no matter what the age is im glad to see california taking the initiative to try to do something do we have to wait every time a president gets protected for a healthcare and plan do we say to wait for everyone to read of thousand page i was a finance director i paid the sprurns companies for 20 to thirty years 200 a month for respond that was 55 to 60 i paid 600 a month that is discrimination now they are we going to hire someone are we going to hire someone that will be paid 600 a month or 200 you know in england they droishd and its never been changed universal healthcare or singlepayer but dont you think that is high time to wise up and doing it for everybody and take selfout of the hands of our employees employers that decide which Healthcare Plan you lose our job go to another Corporation Read another 3,000 pages lets get a preefshg i support you supporting it and please do. Thank you. Next speaker, please. My name is ray im a prosecution always the music director of marching banned in the u. S. West division here, here we were included from Chinese New Year Cherry Blossom parade fund by the city exhibited of this this at an go marching band one plus members were connected and share the practice of this this is free principle of truthfulness and for banners in the past 10 years we joined parades and one many first place and here San Francisco italian heritage parades San Francisco marries veteran day parade and respect to seattle for the macys and portland and Rose Festival and grant and hollywood and christmas paired and the calvary parade last year about this time on april 17th we came here for japantown Cherry Blossom parade we are fully preponderance of the evidence and received from an organizer number 4, 1 for the parade and something just happened it is shocking to me and all the members which is were excluded from the parade and i still cant understand and more details thank you very much next speaker, please. Dear anticipate and supervisors id like to continue at 12 30 right before the parade was ready to start one held a loudspeaker and all of a sudden announced youre a difficult religious organization that is not allowed to join our parade unquote were very shocked and trying to makes sense of what happened our parade leader went to talk with the organizationer she couldnt answer we didnt apply where we applied then our leader beside that quote not only we indicated so clearly in the application i also wrote a separate email implicit explaining that all band members practice fallen goal unquote when confronted the applications director for the parade did agree that we clearly identified that we shared the practice of fallen goal ignored some of the members started to cry wish you understand if you know the story of fallen goal. Thank you. Next speaker, please. Supervisor. speaking foreign language. supervisors im a single march band captain and suffering here. speaking foreign language. since 1999 millions sorry is a mediation on truthfulness and for banners theyre known as prosecuted by the Chinese Government that is theyre afraid of the definition. speaking foreign language. since 1999 millions of people were thrown into the conversion camps. speaking foreign language. some practitioners managed to arrive in the United States to them this is a free land whereby we are resume their practice of fallen goal and live a life without mistreatment. speaking foreign language. for that reason they joined the marching band and paying for the uniforms and the instrument all by themselves and wish to show the world the beauty of fallen goal through the marching band music. speaking foreign language. however, when they were suddenly denied the right to join the parade in such a rude way it hurt them as reminded them that the people are suffering they went throw in china. speaking foreign language. San Francisco them the unavoidable question is here why is this happening am i in the United States of america . Thank you. Next speaker, please. I will continue. After the incident we followed through with the organizers and got two reasons verbally one is Chinese Chamber of commerce who excluded us from chinatown new years influenced them and japanese government pressured them we dont know new details but know that is not rare that the Chinese Government had pressured many governments to stop the voices to cover up the prosecution in fallen goal and now new years we got a one line recreations youre not approved for the parade no reason given weve asked the organizers for the reasons but got none lets think about it for a second if they have a legitimate reason why not just state it to give us a reason for the retion were looking at a total telethon reaching into our community and one group to miss treat another group should this be tolerated on San Francisco this year, the jeans Cherry Blossom parade excluded us were hoping we can participate in the parade which will happen next sunday april 16th if you are able to help us we will be deeply appreciative of our action in the meanwhile we wish to keep you updated here and building this is the matter of moral principles of the city and thank you if you can help us. Thank you for your comments and. Next speaker, please. Good morning, everyone supervisors members of the public id like to drawing your attention to some of the comments made by some of the supervisors here today and their aids they adamantly proclaimed that each day to make San Francisco a better place it wouldnt be further from the truth in fact, is San Francisco politics has been on a roller carrot ride where light threatens the San Francisco and religion threatens the politics of San Francisco where working white males threaten the politics of San Francisco. That has been the agenda of the board of supervisors but so blatantly their aid and certain privy members of the public come to their defense to proclaim oh, yes, we work with good intentions nothing can be further from the truth the gap between the rich and the poor in this city is so wide you can fly two jump both jets through that there is nothing in this city that even resembles what that was like as a city prior to this democratic registration fell political agenda california that will describe the place you hear previous speakers talking about fallen going on you dont see this in any of the parades so interest has gone way too far. Thank you for your comments. Next speaker, please. Good afternoon, supervisors speaking on items 12 in support im charles and today, i speak as one of the thousand of persons mostly local household and most of us seniors we obtained your none transferable taxi permits over a period of many decades when the medallions were awarded to look at taxi drivers we operate in the correspondence with regulations that includes the payment of fees and normal times ive felt that the fees were reasonable now were at different times yellow cabs dissolution a seismic potential as disruptive as the bankruptcy of old yellow cab in the 1970s and have ripple effects that plays financial pressures on everyone in the business that is in addition to the ever increasing pressures from the tens of thousands of tmc so, please vote yes an item 12 that is the resolution urging the mta to entrapment the lease by waving fees during this exceptional difficult year for the taxis. Thank you for your comments. Thank you to supervisor peskin and we have item 12 taxi medallion values down 75 percent compared to two years ago 45 thousand unregulated and unlisted medallions the companies subsidies the directives with money so tmc spend magnificent Capital Resources for the sustainability of their Business Model every year in the billion dollars and taxi drivers pay that hundred dollars fortions and tmc pay one hundred lying to the carriers and the appointed officials we forbode you to do something schedule a Committee Meeting for a policy tmc are popular their cheaper than taxis and the consequences for the pricing will surface already major traffic congestions reducing the disfranchised citizens also you can raise one billion dollars by issuing and selling 4000 taxi medallions only if you get the tmcs off the road when we communitybased in front of the bodies they say they dont have jurisdiction to say how many tmc for the but the jurisdiction and the responsibility inform endorse status of women on city streets and a car cant grow a red light were told so i hope all are a Committee Meeting and approve item 12 thank you. Thank you. Next speaker, please. Im terra im a caregiver and medallion holder youll see that we have a Small Community your grateful because but the economics are such every cab driver needs to be grinding cannot afford to come here but there are over one thousand directives in the same position as my colleagues and i in previous years over the decades the taxi permit has amounted to 3 housing unit 75 to 5 percent of my yearly medallion income because of the uber and lyft now im getting 500 a month from anywhere medallion therefore one plus opposed to renew my preliminary and 18. 9 percent of my gross that is even before i irs and Social Security and whatever other fees and taxes and insurance i have to pay and things are so dire people think we live on the medallion income we dont my on and on cost refuses to let me drive i have to i have to keep a roof over my head even though ive had steady rent for a long time please, please vote yes on item 12 it is only fair and shouldnt be paying over 1,100 a month when we getting 6 thousand a year from this. Thank you for your comments. Next speaker, please. Good afternoon, supervisors my name is dave im a long time taxi driver in San Francisco. Sir pull the microphone closer thank you. David a long time taxi driver in San Francisco former chicago legal aid lawyer amateur all that good stuff regarding item 12 i can support that i think that is pretty good i think the sfmta passed that but i may be wrong you can double check but, however, a glitch in the formula awhile that covers medallion holder it didnt cover the front line worker that kick up to the medallion holders and the companies so theres another fee called the medallion renewable fee the 8 card that the sfmta charges they take drivers license for all cab drivers and costs just over one hundred and telephone bucks i like to include this in our legislation that those fees be deferred too because a lot of lines and sharecropping workers that are by the way, incidentally i drove during the 1906 San Francisco earthquake after the giant were playing i thought on my way to work its a my job im going to drive during the earthquake and combrvl people told us what was going on thank you. Thank you. Next speaker, please. Good afternoon, supervisors my name is michael bear a resident of district 3 and i am here to request that the board of supervisors consider crafting a resolution to speak out against what is going on i reached out to my protections their rouventd up in concentration camps and with the history of San Francisco hoping that we can have a a resolution that we can you know push the San Francisco general out what was going on so more people will take up the cause and know what is happening thank you. Thank you. Next speaker, please. Id like to hand those out to the supervisors is that possible. Yes. The sergeant will be there in a moment. Thank you honorable supervisors for allowing me to speak im the president of the leadership fountains a nonprofit in the fillmore and we wanted to notify you all to the Community Meeting were having this upcoming monday and Fillmore Heritage Center inside Screening Room and well be discussing our Community Benefit plan we submitted in 2015 for the building and also, we also will be talking about how to insure applying on the Community Benefits and we definitely want to give honorable supervisor supervisor breed for this historical rfp and the rfp Community Benefit was mentioned i believe 13 times but nevertheless, we city do have concerns with the Community Benefit and one of the letters stipulated 7 Critical Issues we have one of the main concerns enforcements is not as strong and historically theres been no enforcement of the Community Benefits in the fillmore as a result of urban obviously so the communities has not bend and the time has passed the opportunity to benefit and another concern we have there was only a less than two most timeframe for the community to rely we got a 3 week suspension but not enough time so the first letter a letter of coalition of black organizations in the fillmore that requested more time the deadline is i believe the 21st of this month so we want to notify everyone out thank you for your time. Thank you for your comments. Next speaker, please. Good afternoon president of the board and board of supervisors every time he come to this mike everybody glasses over id like your attention not looking at your cypresses but your attention my aunt is dead as a result of failure of your department and your agency we recorded the break in of peter owen to the Police Department and recorded the change of locks by peter and or to the Police Department and reported the cameras on the front door and backdoor and other ticking owners the 12 indictments that were attacking her i came here several times to report that they stalked and done everything and andrew zach that fought the city and the judge who ruled it tickings were legal that was who the judge that were under not a chance of hell in winning that case the things that went on were illegal not addressed by the Police Department or the department of aging Adult Services by our special victims unit and District Attorneys office ive seen tweets that people tried to help us because dont degrade the name of my aunt or mitchel we fought and fought and fought peter oh, wednesday launched that lawsuit in a way for the process for condominium conversion it your guidelines not hers he utilized to the press hes allergic to the truth important more importantly we moved everything out of my aunts property everything that she owns and paid for her body is rotting in our mortgage i shouldnt have to buyer her the mortgage costs were 18,000 thank you for your comments maam. Thank you, maam. Next speaker, please. The mayor of our great city of San Francisco im barbara ive lived in district 7 im a retired r. N. And also a counselor ive helped people with medicare and medical im here to thank you for your earlier endorsement of 562 this is such an important step for this legislation we tried many times but with all the threat of appeal with the Affordable Health care act and things accomplished i feel this is the time that we tried real healthcare reform and i really appreciate our support at this time thank you very much. Thank you for your comments. Next speaker, please. Good afternoon, supervisors my name is maria im an activist of local 1021 thank you for supporting a holistic approach thank you for being smart and extending our humanity i support sb 562 because the healthy california act will be comprehensive if combaekd cover vision and dental the whole person i long building that healthcare is a right and also building that the right way to provide care is to be holistic sb 562 promises to support the whole state of california awhile we in San Francisco have the open myself to see that become a reality please over my lifetime that are the that he is any of that on the letter on the other hand, issues is the last letter of score instead of the first letter in opportunity we have to opportunity to promote healthcare for all thank you thank you and before the next speaker ill innovative mrs. Nancy cross in our interested in making our comments maam, youre welcome to come. To the podium. Thank you for the courtesy im anxious to bring it to your attention someone that has not been put on our agenda but ingressiveus it is city shelters beginning in midjanuary ive been subject to a series of the city shelter many people have never been insisted a shelter and they cream it like their own bedroom or their cots but everything is secure and safe maybe not a k34067b9 level but a secure place ive had been subject to serial theft person in the shelter who is saved by sanction in the sense that the police are not allowed in the people in who carry out to with search warrant they examined the theft of property they knock on the door and maybe someone comes out of shelter but the person that is the victim and the thief is inside and the police have no access to their room and last time i had several hundreds of money theft as well as theft of the Police Reports that i was being asked to inducement id like and not just from the federal agents and does have a secure and 86. Thank you, ms. Cross thank you so much for you patience. Thank you, supervisors im ed, i retired from the department of health a furious worked through thirty years and the i was working i saw a Healthcare System that needed a lot of repair im happy youve voted once today to support the senate bill 562 and thank you for doing that again there are many reasons to support in kind of medicare for all but mention some of the reasons why it is important simply for the finances of the city one is that the provision of healthcare for the employees of this city will cost less for the city second we wont all including the city be wasting as much money as they are right now as you may know 0. 20 to 0. 25 of every healthcare dollars goes to for Profit Insurance Companies that from my perspective working in the healthcare field provides no care dont provide anything theyre a middleman set up for profit nothing else they bring to the table another thing that is important for the city to consider that the citys contribution to the department of health will be able to be stabilized and minimized because of reimbursement that the Public Hospital will get will be equal under that kind of a system thank you for your time and appreciate your vote. Thank you for your comments. Sir. Madam president good afternoon members of the board im jim senior a native san franciscan born and raised in the Mission District and lived in San Francisco my entire life supervisors im here during the last couple of years ive watched the Northern California union theyve brought in ranges and file members of the public meshes theyre not here because of jobs or union principles and not the most ideal ethic but theyre here lowerincome in their contractors if this is not the saying case tell me why the last two years carpenters local 22 my local the most preservation local the unions that started it all had approximately 4000 members weve lost 11 hundred during the greatest construction boom in the city and county of San Francisco and thats because the emphasis is not on San Francisco if union bosses dont live here and not part of community dont care i watched that tactic as a Planning Commission and the on the commissions including that body here the problem is it frustrates the stakeholder we the Homeland Security we are the taxpayer have to suffer over development are the ones that deal with that they dont they dont live here they can care less about San Francisco we can do alert the vendors to the fact that when you come in here we expect the Community Benefits those are the apprenticeship jobs they stay in the brown and black i know that is the truth thank you, supervisor and thank you for all your hard work and thank you. Thank you. Next speaker, please. My name is james a resident of the open neighborhood in a constituent of commissioner borden i want to repeat what some of the other speakers stated about sp 562 under sp 562 healthcare in california will a public good and not a commodity to be bought and sold for profit the health of california under no longer be in the control of Insurance Companies thank you for your support of spks 562. Thank you for your comments. Next speaker, please. speaking foreign language. hello, everyone im speaking foreign language. im currently retired when was the working and had Health Insurance and now i dont have this kind of insurance now that im retired. speaking foreign language. i currently have medicare and bus this only covers major ills not hospitalization. speaking foreign language. when i went to go to the doctor and get medication he need to pay outofpocket. Have to purchase speaking foreign language. as a senior we all worry we can we all worry if he can afford it for tomorrow. speaking foreign language. i think i thank all supervisors for supporting sb 562. speaking foreign language. prupt said the United States is number one, i hope that we will be number one, in providing healthcare. Thank you. Thank you. Next speaker, please. Sxoed and supervisors good afternoon. Thank you for the opportunity to speaker today my name is marseille ive lived in San Francisco for 33 years ive been driving a taxi fulltime for 28 years a prop k medallion holder and here to support item 12 supervisor peskin resolution urging the mta to waive the medallion renewable fees for all medallion holders i understand folks about their medallions are struggling more than anything else but the truth it all medallion holder all taxi drivers are having a tough time to extradite with 45 thousand tmcs and making ends meet the mta is a billion dollars agency they cant afford to show some compassionate to all members of the taxi industry so i kind ofly ask you to support that resolution and kindly ask you for your vote and ask you not to net the taxi industry we take a lot of pride in what we do. Thank you. Next speaker, please. My name is jim im speaking to item 12 supervisor peskins to waive the medallion fees well, you know, i graduated from a privilege law school and came to San Francisco and went into a deep expression driving a taxi i was fortunate to invest in the coopt before they went out of business but supervisors im not sure if you or others were here during the time when the where the rubber meets the road when uber and following lyft start rioting in the streets of San Francisco and did anyone on the board of supervisors im not aware of it lift a finger we know that the mayor would not lifting a finger because he was support financially by the billionaires from Silicon Valley but ill ask that that you consider this last year after making any investment in yellow cab which allowed me to drive and goat through the deep depression i was fortunate to have this monthly check we want to say as it is now last year, i made zero, zero so as i reached 7 is years old i got zero living off Social Security and handling pro bono law cases ill also recommend to the board and to supervisor peskin to set up some kind of subcommittee on tmcs or taxicabs to should issue cant be brought thank you, thank you for your comment thank you, sir. Next speaker, please. Hello supervisor breed and supervisors of the city and county of San Francisco my name is carolyn im working for the California Nurses Association and i want to thank every single one of you for your support of sb 562 the California Nurses Association has been fighting for a singlepayer for 20 years this is our real opportunity unfortunately, the orange one is d. C. Has given us a negative of trying to destroy the ac a we can take the opportunity to move forward with Something Better and that will provide healthcare for all i think that most of us in the room and the california indoors association believes that healthcare is a human rights and that will solve Public Health and our seniors i want to thank you for your leadership and for being in the forefront and supporting sb 562. Before the next speaker if there are any other members of the public that wants to address the before mentioned please step forward. Next speaker, please. Good day 100 percent years ago this week were celebrating or not celebrating the one hundred anniversary of our entry into world war one a great educator and a leading spokesman for the pays off tried to visit wilson in the white house but he was too busy to see him the next day in baltimore a large meeting and passivists occupied by rabbi genus and berkley this meeting and a major baltimore auditorium was attacked by a mob of thousands of cold war people led by prominent businessmen from the John Hopkins University and hundreds of police their star speaker the opposite or the proponents of war were able to go surrounded the throat and break into side entrances and charge up to the podium and they said this is just as jordan was in the middle of his talk declaring for peace that meeting stops now and they absolutely shut him down and the whole meeting and by the way, the cops also booshd a number of heads of the pro war protesters thank you. Thank you, sir. Next speaker, please. Reading from the first church of god and capitalism i read this before well do it again, a great searching inform great justice and the tests was your driving a truck loaded with frozen meat in the winter mountains of colorado and our whos also on the trail were frozen you called corporate and they said stay with your load well send a repair and the man stayed and woke couldnt them his feet he wasnt thinking clearly he couldnt get warm and called corporate they said stay he got warm he ran the engine and saved his life and contact on his load that was a test for the great justice and the great justices said no the company if center the right to fire a man who was ahsha safai his life until the 7 judge the judge said corporate orders supercede ahsha safai our life and the ministers of capitalism decided that was good court rings supreme a capitalist the mayor promoted 8 washington to one and turns it down and in sacramento former member pressed a court case said lets nullify the vote it restricts financial growth whose financial growth Real Estate Developers the rich the rich the rich pier 70 thank you mr. Gilberty next speaker. Mr. Gilberty said something that is the case that is the actual we all realized lake that the Actual Center of power in the United States is in the congresss not the white house and when i point out is that the two times that the white house has changed from democrat from republican massive changes over healthcare first Hillary Clinton and president obama in an opportunity to dispute u put Something Better 2, 3, 4 colonel 65, 52 in San Francisco and throughout california the primary Safety Net Health system medical is underfunded and over prescribed and have is to be crazy not to notice that the other thing ill say we were when in hard times and people came up with healthy San Francisco and people on the board who have important in that organization and april as well ill always remember that, of course, the labor council. Thank you for your comments. Thank you members of the public that want to provide Public Comment seeing none, Public Comment is closed. And colleagues on the items for adoption without respect to committee including item number 14 has easement sam without objection those objections are approved unanimously and mr. Clerk, please read the millenniums. Todays meeting in in memoriam on behalf of supervisor breed our jan, and ms. Mann i cant think and on behalf of the supervisor sheehy for the late victor moe. Colleagues the end of the agenda madam clerk, is there any other business before this body . Theres no further business. For today were adjourned thank you, everybody, good morning and welcome to the transportation, board, april, 11, could you call the roll commissioner breed. Present. Cohen. Absent. Far ril chl absent. Kim . Absent. Fewer. Absent. Commissioner rohnen. Safai. Present. Tang is absent and we have a kwar um. Could we have a motion to excuse commissioner cohen . And we will take that without objection, and would you please read the second item on the agenda. Item, 2, Citizen Advisory Committee report this is is an information item. Thank you, good morning. Good morning chair peskin and commissioners. I want to start out by saying, on march 24th, two members of the cac and myself and tanen received a tour, and with one group remaining, and it was the Planning Department staff that have prepared the email notification system. I am glaed to see that is getting fixed. Thank you. Item seven, most of the questions in the request, regarding the brt will be resolving around the lawsuit and so we, for that reason, we didnt get a lot of up date on that. And then the other item was by the coalition allocation, and i want to pointed out and i did point out to the staff, that we give the ta gives a lot of money to the bike to workday. And i think that our acknowledgment on the bike key ligs website should be greater than others and so hopefully we will get a little more acknowledgment about how much that we are doing for the Bike Coalition. Item 9, the interchange, Improvement Study, this item is near and dear to me as the freqnt user, who is chased by the bike traveling at 40 miles an hour or more and who has seen, many families and others, crossing to get to the Farmers Market. This was brought as a concern to campos and taken up as a major project by rohnen. By the Community Members of which i am the chair. I have to commend the staff on this and the out reach to get us where we are and the commitment to work with commissioner rohnen and the neighborhood to be sure that this will be completed in our lifetime. And reconnect. And item eleven, i wanted to talk about. Cac members noted the shift of concerns towards and beyond the southern parts of the city as perhaps being indicative of decreased affordability. Removal of certain blocks, and they have the indication that more people were moving into these areas and that this will result and i am having the lessbility for the funds based on no longer being considered a community certain concern, sorry. The staff suggested using the block method, did not mean that this is the case. They would benefit from being adjacent to coc, and on that i will. Thank you. Are there any questions for mr. Wadling . Seen none, is there any Public Comment on this item . Seeing none, Public Comment is closed. That is an information item. Mrr clerk could you read the Consent Agenda. Three to four, and these are considered are you turoutine, i object, any of these items may be removed and considered separately. Would any member like a presentation on the prelim results of bart Perks Program which we have been briefed on in the past . Any members of the public that would like to comment on the Consent Agenda . Seeing none, Public Comment is closed. And the minutes are adopted. And why dont we move on to item number five. Roll call vote. Roll call for and that is right. On the minutes, roll call. Made a yee and seconded by shehi. Breed aye. Far ril absent. Fewer, aye. Peskin, aye. Ronen naye. Safia, aye. Tang . Aye. Yee . Aye. Minutes are approved. Item five, please . Adopt positions on state legislation this is an information action item. Mr. Watts . Thank you, chair and members and i am here to be finally to give you an overview of the passage of the transportation finance bill. But first i want to just indicate that in the packet you have several select bills that we are monitoring and watching, and no new bills are being added on at this point in time and some new major policy issues will be in the coming weeks and i anticipate the legislation in that arena emerging and we will deal with those at that point in time if that is to your satisfaction. In addition, the staff prepared an updated memo of last weeks member though that went into the package to talk about the transportation funding is now out of date. Briefly for an overview perspective, sd one is produces over 5 billion a years, roughly estimated to be 52 billion over a ten year time horizon. From the taxes increases and it looks as if half of the road repair is dedicated to local governments and the other half is retained by the state and there are some other transportation elements that the state would contract to control or exercise control over. And the last that i heard that was 22 to 28 million, for the street repaving for San Francisco. I believe that is what i have here is 17 and a half million. Of maybe rises to it has a built in index and so the 76 is the reflection over the ten years. It gets low and gets up over the 20. And i would like to tell you about the tax and go into more detail on the local impacts and wrap it up. If that is okay with you sir. Mr. Watts, we have all read a lot and we would love to hear it from you. I cant tell you all of the secret stories, but if i could figure out. So sb one has essentially has four new tax or four increases in taxes. The gas tax has two components, the base gas tax which we have had all along which is the 18 cents a gallon, as well as the price based tax which was the conversion of prop 32, on the excise tax. The base gas tax is raised 12 cents and it begins in november of this year. It was set at that date because that is when the summer blend comes off and they felt that there might be a price adjustment that will accommodate the increase in the tax rate at that time. In addition the price based tax that i mentioned, is already geared to go up two cents a gallon july the first, on the board of equalization and adjustment and they will let that adjustment happen one more time and they think that it is going to be three cents and then in 201 , they will set the price base and stop the annual adjustment process to the board of equalization, at the 17. 3 cents, and so in essence and it will result in a base of 30 plus the new fixed excise tax at another seven and a half cents on top of that. So a doubling of the gas tax. It is for i have not heard it say that way, straight forward. The diesel tax is raised again simply to the gas tax in the fall. And that is a 20 cent per gallon, for the diesel foo ul and that raises 720 million through that ten year averaging and there is also a zero Emission Vehicle tax that does not go into effect until 2020. The governor described it himself as he is trying to balance initiatives that he sponsored and supported that encouraged folks through incentives to purchase zero Emission Vehicles and didnt want to have a heavy zero Emission Vehicle. That proceeds shgs and so he delayed it until, 2020, and so that was the compromise that was worked out there. And that would be 100 a year. I dont know the name of this fee, but it is a hi brid Registration Fee it is not in the law but it acts like the vlf and it is based on the value of the vehicle and it starts at 25 dollars for vehicles less than 5,000 dollars in value, and raises to 175 and i think in a four steps or maybe in the five steps, 175 for vehicles that are valued at a 60,000 or more. And that would as well start in late in 2018. The shift 145 million as stipulate you lated for the cycle coming up. And as i understand it, there are major Capitol Investments that are intended to be recipients of the portion of it going forward. And on the state grants to transit agencies there is two parts to that and i mentioned the diesel sales tax and in addition to the portion of the new hybrid readministratigistra. And on the diesel sales tax that is flexible and it be spent on operations it is allowed to be spent on operations or capitol. And the mta here in town and pardon me. And here in San Francisco. 27 million, and bart will receive, 4. 9 and cal train, 3. 9 and the portion that is transferred from the hybrid Registration Fee will be dedicated to the capitol purposes because it is more directly tied to article 19 restrictions in the constitution. And mta would receive 11 and a half million, and bart 6. 3, and cal train, 1. 5 million of that for the state of good repair and the other capitol purposes. The total it looks like the annual amount coming into the city, is over, 65 Million Dollars. And as i calculated it on the annual basis. And there are some competitive opportunities for agencies here. The ta and for mta and bart and others. There is a transit and inner city rail, there are the Passenger Rail fees and that is not competitive and i apologize for that. Active transportation, some planning grants, and there is a new category that receives a quarter billion of a dollar a year over the next ten years. And that would sum up my presentation on this, i would be happy to take questions, and i have one more topic on the cap and trade and conclude. Colleagues . Any questions on Senate Bill Number one approved by the state Legislature Last thursday. Good news for this mu n municipality for the state of california. For for mr. Watts, but i know that the ta staff asked if they would present and mr. Watts did a great job of what is coming to the city and county of San Francisco that they will present a visual to help commissioners understand the break down. On that point i am not good at technology, there in is your packet a summary and also available on the computer, if i knew what i was subpoenais u su dochlt this is actually the simplest technology and all that you have to do is lay it down and bang it pops up for everybody to see. There you go, a poll guys. No wrryes. And that lays out the 17. 6 million that mr. Katz referenced as well as the additional operating and state of good repair dollars totaling 66 million that were set forth. Any questions commissioner kim . Other members . Mr. Watts would you like to move on to the other piece of legislative information. Yes as you may have read there was a recent app ellat court and by all accounts everything that i have been able to pick up with the conversation of the administration and the other folks involved, it looks like either side had committed they are going to keep raising the issue up to the next court level and while that is going on, there is still the issue that even if it is validated as not being atax, it still, and it ends in 2020, and so the administration and some of the leadership who have been working on this transportation package are ready to shift gears and go to the extension of cap and trade and i think that they would hope to achieve a twothirds vote level so that it, and it neerz it from any further attacks going forward. Are there any members of the public that would like to comment on item number five . Seeing none, Public Comment is closed. Colleagues, do we need to or let me defer to the staff. Do we need to take any actions because there is no new, there is no new positions being taken. So that will be an information item. And we will move on to item number 6. Mr. Clerk. Item 6, a amend the adopted fiscal year 2016 17 budget to increase revenues by 13,396,777, increase expenditures by 15,356,835, and increase other financing sources by 21,335,835 for a total net increase in fund balance of 19,375,777 miz fong. Good morning, Deputy Director for finance and administration. And what you have before you is a presentation of the fiscal year 16, 17, budget. And amendment, and i first would like to recap just what the ta budget includes, it includes sales tax revenue, sales state and regional grants and the vehicle Registration Fees for the prop aa and the fund for clean air, and revenues. And the treasure island, mobility agency, and expenditure and revenue and our capitol projects and our capitol expenditures operating and admin and service costs. In terms of the ta budget we have budgeted adopt a budget of 125 million. 87 percent of that represents sales tax revenue, while the remaining 14 percent represents federal, state and regional grant and prop aa vehicle Registration Fees. And internal Interest Income and other revenues. They have adopted a budget, and this represents 96 percent for the prop k, aa our tfca and our projects. And the remaining four percent represents personnel expenditure and nonpersonnel costs that reports the office rent and lawyer fees and legal fees, and the odysseys and in addition to the Office Supplies and things that run in the office and also, includes within the four percent, our revolve it credit loan costs. For those people who are listening carefully, and just heard that our expenditures are twice as much as our income, would you like to explain that to everybody who is watching . Yes. As everyone may remember, we have approved a loan from the resolving Credit Agreement. And this loan in addition to a bond would help to fund the division between the 125 million, and the 120 million of expenditures. And we will be bringing before you the physician calling year of 17, 18, in the months of may and june and there you will see a bond that will also come before you for your approval. Thank you. Okay, and moving on to the Budget Amendment now. The Budget Amendment is our opportunity to take stock and changes in revenues recognizing new grants and in addition to acknowledging unforeseen expenditures and reflecting any new information that has come before us in the past nine months. And for anyone who has a packet, and or is looking at the budget online, attachment one is your executive level view of the ta budget and you will see each fund represented in addition to what the exhausted budget has. What the change is and what the new proposed budget would include. Attachment two is a detail level of review, specifying every single grant in addition to each detailed line item of expenditures in addition to those changes related to them. And attachment three is a line ilt em description, explaining each increase as if and increase and decrease in our Budget Amendment. And moving forward to the actual major changes in the revenues, and expenditures we have a few new grants and we have the south of market freeway ramp intersection grant for 77,000 to add to the budget and this is to develop a priority set of short and medium and long term safety improvements and we also received a commuter hub study for 70,000 to evaluate the shuttles on the neighborhood safety and the environmental and the Public Transportation, we receive the additional, 621,000 commitments in the tida for the treasure island, mowbility agency and this includes the park and management plan, in addition the board has approved 800,000 for the geary and the bus Rapid Transit and this was for environmental analysis to address Community Input in addition to the time to work with fta and includes the cost for the Legal Defense for our err. We have the island that is for the Major Projects to the year. We are carrying forward in addition to the winter season that the project has, and suffered through. And delays in the tree removal and foundational work caused by the early nesting of birds in the construction area. And in addition to adding some additional scope for the vista point as well. And we have also experienced this project delay in connect to success and due to the longer than anticipated start up and contracting process. And we also have an increased to the administrative costs and we have included budget amount for the development of a potential 2018, local revenue measure, in addition to adding some additional cost to help to maintain the tas accounting system. And in total, we are seeking increase in 7 percent in our revenues for approximately, 15 million and increasing for 7 percent revenues. We have included a 25 million draw on the revolving Credit Agreement. We received the invoice request for reimburse amount for the vehicles and we are anticipating more of those invoices to come in the next few months and have requested included the 46 and million, and pull down from the resolving loan as authorized by the board in 2017. And here you just see a chart of just how much additional resolving Credit Agreement that we have pulled down, with that i am more than happy to answer any questions. You may have. Do you have any questions relative to item six . Seeing none, are there any members of the p you believe who would like to testify on this item. Seeing none, we will close Public Comment. We have a different house could you read the role. For the budget. Yeah, motion first . And this is the interesting thing and when we are on the agenda, and the motion made by commissioner yee, and seconded by, commissioner tang, and on that item, a roll call, please . On items six, commissioner breed . Aye. Fer relevant ril. Aye. Fewer. Aye. Kim. Aye. Commissioner, peskin. Rohnen. Commissioner safai. Aye. Shehy. Aye. Tang. Aye. Commissioner yee. Aye. The item passes. All right, the next item please. Allocate 193,475 in prop k funds for bike to work day 2017 and the central richmond neighborway project, with conditions, and appropriate 602,254 in prop k funds for the geary bus Rapid Transit project, subject to the attached fiscal year cash flow distribution schedules. Subject to the attached fiscal year cash flow schedules and this is an action item. Did you hear mr. Waddling i thought well, laced admonition. All right . I did, and i can address that as well. Excellent. I will do the first two requests and hand it over to my colleague. All right so this morning, the first request is for a promotion and an event day services for the bike to workday, 2017, which is mail eleventh, the events include energizer stations, to receive, information and bicycle repairs and refreshments and it will be promoted and the statements will be located across the city. And the San Francisco county, Bicycle Coalition will be the leader and the organizer. And each year, the sfmta conducts accounts to evaluate the effectiveness and see the increasing participation including 13. 6 percent, survey shows that many people have started biking because of bike to workday. And bike to workday is listed in the San Francisco bike strategy as a tool to help to normalize the transportation and grow the mode share. And to speak to mr. Waddlings point we do include a note in our and it kind of, and it is on the page 83 of your packet. And just as a reminder that our standard Grant Agreement for every grant, requires that all fliers brochure and posters and etc. , with the prop k funding comply with the attribution requirements that requires to display the logo and we also discussed with sfmta and there in their sponsor ship of this event, we have made it clear to the Bike Coalition that our expectation is that the Public Investment will be recognized. So, moving on to the Central Committee neighbor way. This interest is for 155,000 in prop k funds for planning and out reach for the central richmond project that aims to calm the traffic and improve the bicycle connections to golden gate park, this builds on the earlier district one and the planning work. And in the San Francisco bike strategy. Which identified 23rd avenue as a priority bike route. Sfmta has revised the interest after conducting with commissioner fewers office to include the investigation of the improvements on the parallel routes, such as 18th and 22nd. And this request is expected to result in final conceptual designs and environmental clearance by spring of 2018. And i can hand it over to my colleague, to talk about geary. Mr. Dental post. Thank you. With the Transportation Authority. So this request is for about 600,000 to complete the environmental process for the geary bus Rapid Transit project. And the current status as a review is of course, as you know is just that the project, eir was certificated by the board back in january. And as part of that it was separated from the federal environmental process and the Environmental Impact statement by agreement of the Transit Administration in order to expedite the process and we are working on that and that work is under way, and there was also a legal challenge which was stated earlier filed in february. And that was against the eir that was certificated in january. And so the additional pieces of scope that will be funded by this request are to complete the separate eis as part of that federal process and there is additional effort there as well as to incorporate the minor design changes, and so specifically for example, the 27th avenue, transition, where they transition from the center to the side and we heard the feedback from the Community Members and back in january, i committed that we would take another look at that desin, so there is additional environmental analysis and design work going on there and that is part of this request as well as finally responding to that challenge and prohe vieding for the defense of the document. That was just a quick refresher and this is the overview of the project that includes, the bus only lanes all the way from Market Street to the 34th avenue, along the corridor and it also includes the various other improvements with the up grades and the changes to stops. Traffic signal, and priority improvements, and up grades, including new repaving, and street lights and light and other amenitieamenities. Funding for the project total cost is 300 million and that includes about a little over, 200 million in funding from sources that have been identified and includes 100 million that we are seeking from a federal fta small starts grant. There is about, 91 million in sources still to be identified. The positions the project well to compete for the various grant funded sources. And we have identified the sources for that 91 mill other than. Finally the schedule looking forward, we have completed the eir but we are coming back with the eis and also the sfmta for we will need to take their sequa action to make their findings and we are expecting both of those things to happen by some time this summer. So will be happening. And with that, we can take any questions. Thank you. Are there any questions from commissioners for them as it relates to these prop k allocations. Seeing none, are there any members of the public who would like to comment on this item. Seeing none, Public Comment is closed. And is there a motion to approve item 7 . Made by breed and seconded by sheehy and on item a roll call. Same house same call . Our house is the same. Same house, same call. The action is item eight, allocate, 5 million, allocate 5,464,675 in prop k funds, with conditions, for the downtown extension including 4,549,675 for preliminary engineering and 915,000 for a tunneling options engineering study, and appropriate 200,000 for oversight of the downtown extension, subject to the attached fiscal year cash flow distribution schedules. So we heard about this at our last meeting, mr. Cortiba is available to answer any additional questions. I believe that mr. Sabonya is here from the tjpa. Both of you, a couple of few things, one is i think, the notion that we are all laboring under that this does not commit us necessarily to the street alignment, but that we areal locating this approximately, 5 and a half Million Dollars for do further work on the alignment. But it does not preinclude any action by this or any other body as relative to a different alignment that we want to go in understanding all of the cost implication, and the pros and cons for either alignment is that your understanding . The development of phase two without impacting the rid study. Once the rid stuffdy is complet later this year, we will be able to down to the sta and city and county of San Francisco and to develop the strategies for bringing the train to the Transit Center as soon as possible. And then our trustee, commenter from the public, mr. Lebron sent in an email that i think that we are all in receipt of and that was also, forwarded by commission staff. Relative to having a position at your agency. For a senior, and it is my understanding that indeed, you will be keeping a position opened for just that task in the future. Yes. We are the only person currently working for the tjpa and so i need a little bit of help and once we move forward and i will give you to sfmta and the department of public works as well to again, to share, to gain or to receive some of their expert adverti expert expertise, i have already talked to mr. Fungi about stealing his knowledge. He told me that he is available for the threats. And then with regard to of what wi all have on cut and towsen. And mr. Lebron suggesting some emerging technology, that might allow it to be forwarded. Every option these funds will allow for the cover work as well as updates to construction work estimate and rider ship and the ride of way costs. With the current turmoil in the federal transportation funding picture we need to keep the ball running, i urge you to approve these fund. Thank you, next speaker please. Good morning, share peskin, and vice chair tang and commissioners my name is bruce and i am the chair of the tjpacac and i am the member of the high speed rail and also central Subway Committee advisory groups, Board Members and transportation of the south beach neighborhood association. Thank you. Thank you, sir, next speaker, please. I am with patrick and company in San Francisco. And i grew up with the third and townsend connection and i moved to fourth and townsend, we need to get the train downtown, and the dtx is a critical element, and this board has dallieed for the last four months, not approving these funds and that is no v in the Critical Path to accomplish this goal, i urge that this board take immediate action and approve this request to keep this project moving, we dont need any more delays and i have not heard you speak negatively, and so gets on the band wagon and get this thing approved. Thank you. Commissioners, im jim, and i am here to say, and i am here today to say, that what is before you is a big deal. And the public and the media may not understand it, but it is. The measures that you will approve today, or i want to say that the you know for the last five years, we have fusted around on how to get the train downtown, and we have not had a plan. And so what you have before you today, is finally a way to do that. But that is only part of it, because the study is integral to that and if you approve the Planning Departments budget for the next fiscal year that will all be funded in a year from now we will have a coherent plan to get the train from the south side of the hill downtown. So, this is, this is something that you know, we have been fussing with for many, many years and its now time to tidy it up. And important ingredient is that your ta staff with the money that has been allocated will have the ability and to make sure that all of the ability and the public agencies play nice, which certainly has not been true, in the past. And to accomplish this we will call out a couple of people and he is on a lot of committees but he never lost sight of the Bigger Picture of how to get the train downtown, regardless of what is there, and the other is your staff and the director chang and who with the cloud of the money has managed to whip into shape, the various city departments and will continue to over see to make sure that we will have what we have been long, missing in that is the coherent plan to get the train downtown, thank you. Thank you, mr. Hess mr. Speaker please . Yeah, good afternoon, and the city supervisors, and im marvin and i am with the operating engineers, and we would like to you know, urge you to approve the tjpa prop k allocation interest request to extend the engineering and the design work for the downtown rail extension and the engineering and the design work is focused on elements that are common due to all of the elements currently being considered in the rnb, reb study and therefore these funds will provide essential information to continue advancing this important project whatever the out come of the rib study is. And just for regular guy, construction worker that provide Good Union Jobs for you know, local hire people and the people in the bay area, and so they can have a fighting chance to stay in the bay area, and with a, really help our apprenticeship, that will give the minorities and the people to start a career in construction, and let alone the infrastructure needs for downtown to alleviate some of the tra of course traffic, and so i think that it is a winwin win and i would like to urge you to help with the process here. Thank you, sir. See no other members of the public for Public Comment, Public Comment is closed. And before we have a motion, and a vote, let me just say particularly to mr. Patrick a couple of things which is that i believe that this commission has taken this allocation which in the grand scheme of things is a drop in the bucket of what this downtown extension will ultimately cost. I think that we have taken it very seriously, particularly in light of the fact that with all due respect, phase one has been an absolute nightmare as it relates to cost over runs, and the delays, and no offense, mismanagement, and so, when we go into phase two, as i have said and i think that other members of this commission have said. We want to do it with our eyes wide open. We do not want to repeat but instead, we want to learn from all of the unfortunate things that happened in phase one. And as a matter of time and delay, we are aware of the fact that the cal train electrication due to the actions or no inactions because of the city but because of the federal administration has been delayed and i dont think that this delay four months in approving would originally a 7 million request is now 5 and a half million, is not ultimately going to delay a downtown extension when it is properly built and with that, do we have a motion to approve item 8 . Made by vice chair tang, and seconded by commissioner kim. And on that item, same house same call. The allocation is finally approved. Item nine. Adopt the alemany interchange Improvement Study. This is an action item. Miss hyattishgs. Not so much, i am standing in for her, i am jeff hudson the Deputy Director for planning here at the tran pourtation authority. I am here to present on the final report for the interchange Improvement Study that i trust will be coming up and. Study proposes several changes to make it safer, and easier for people to navigate the maze. Particularly on foot and by bike as well as to make the navigation, clearer for the people who are driving. And when we get a next slide up there, we will show you that this study was district 9s planning project. Go to the next. And this slide shows the neighborhood we are looking at. And the purpose is to improve safety and access for travel between the three residential neighborhoods that surround both the alemany maze and the Farmers Market which is traversed by several high injury corridors it is an area that has several gaps in the biking network and the major safety issues for the pedestrians particularly because of an informal path that pedestrians have developed to or that have the crossing six lanes of high speed traffic without any signals or protection. In order to get to the Farmers Market and get there and back with the bags of zuchinnsxishgs what have you from the Farmers Market. So in next slide shows the whole area. And it is kind of hard to see at this level. So i will refer to you, if you have the report in front of you it is on page 13, where you can see it more closely. And as you can see the maze is pretty well named, it is kind of complicated to go through that area. The upper graphic here shows the existing conditions and the lower graphic shows the recommended improvements and in the next few slides we will zoom in to see a few of those specific improvements. The next piece is the intersection of san bruno, and eastbound and this is the proposed reconfiguration of that if you will click it again, you will go from the existing conditions to what the new configuration will look like. And it basically is it clears up a confusion about who is supposed to be where . Right now, we have cars and bikes and pedestrians, all not entirely sure which part of the asphalt is theirs to use. And so we have conflicts that are dangerous and so we want to clear that up. With several painted bulb outs that we think that will make a significant difference to that. And then the third piece to show, is the phase two of the project. And i will get to in describing the implementation, and this is the part that will formalize what is currently an informal path that pedestrians use to avoid a long route that they would have to travel if they followed if they follow the route that is currently prescribed. The path that is currently prescribed is one that would have the pedestrians cross five different cross the road in fieft different place and go two blocks out of their way from the intersection of san bruno and alameny and then another five enter sexes and two blocks out of the way to come back. Not a particularly safeway to go, but, people do it their recommendation there is to put in the new signal, two new sidewalks and a new traffic signal and two new crosswalks and a path across the area that median area. And that will be a little bit complicated because s it is an area that floods and we have to do the work to figure out how that works well and then the pedestrian scale lighting. To make it all safe. At all times of the day. Finally, when we talk about the implementations strategies, and so phase one is what i described in the first few specifics that is a relatively manageable cost and you can see that we have it estimated at 277,000 and have you already approved the funds to do this work through the end tip capitol funding program. Sfmta the partners will be leading the design in construction for that and have that completed in 2018. And phase two is the more complicated part, and it has got a slightly higher cost, and still only over, two Million Dollars, and again, have you already funded the first step of that, which is a survey in preliminary design and then further steps will be led by sfdpw in coordination with mta, and cal trans, and that will take a little bit longer to get them. And i am happy to take any questions. Any questions, and commissioner . Congratulations. Thank you very much for all of the ta work on this. This was a top priority for the former commissioners. This one my number one priority for a number of reasons and colleagues i dont know if you have been at a pedestrian and a biker or a driver in the alameny maze it is a met. It is a confusing true maze two flee ways and five offramps and onramps and people walking across what is a freeway. On the ground. And when it rains, it is flooded everywhere, it is flooded under the freeways, it is flooded on alameny and two lines are completely blocked off on one side of the street. And it needs to be a priority to fix for a number of reasons. Number one it cuts my district in half and essentially makes it an island sxh divides it from vernal heights. And number two, as you mentioned it is incredibly unsafe. And i said, and i go to the Farmers Market on most week ebdz and i live there and i do take the time to go out of the way to walk. Cross right at a freeway offramp where there is actually a light. But what i watch is tons of people using that informal path which is basically running across five lane freeway to fwet to the Farmer Market on the other side. What i watch is senior after senior, with their kashtsdz to the farm irs market and i cant believe and i am knocking on wood here that there has not been more serious injuries and to me this is an equity issue. That the portula is a neighborhood that is working class low Income Neighborhood with a majority of chinese res that is literally surrounded by freeways, which way that you go. I am wondering why it is going to take until 2018 to complete phase one which we needed two or three years ago . So, do you have help on that . Thank you, our understanding is that it is the normal schedule for the agency to deliver to the phase one and we work to expedite that. The good news is that with the new funding deal there could be additional active transportation funds. So also, accelerate phase two. So our hope not to lose time and but to expedite them with the implement s agencies. It is really important to me that we get phase one done as soon as possible. And i would also love an estimate on phase two, which you expect that work to begin. We dont have a firm schedule we need to do the investigation with the cal transto understand the puc in this area. By this summer we should be able to provide you with a schedule. Again i will be working with you and be bringing this up constantly. Because this is safety issue. And i want to expedite and if there is new sources of funding comeing in and imagine if we could make this project bigger than phase one and phase two. Indeed. Thank you. Any other questions . Commissioner . Thank you, commissioner rohenn for taking the lead on this. I too want to ak coa lot of the xhepts that were made here and a lot of the residents in my district traversed the same dangerous class ways and it is a lot of families and it is a lot of people taking their children on bikes. This is a top priority to accelerate the implementation of this. Commissioner yee . I just want to be supportive of commissioner rohnen and to celebrate this particular area. I dont cross there. But, certainly i do drive through there and you can drive through there and it is confusing. And i can imagine as i am paying attention to, which exit or which turn and Everything Else frment thank you for your work, are there any members of the public . Miss lee . Thank you, cha irand commissioners i feel like this is already been said, but honestly, i feel like if i could just put all of you commissioners at that spot where these streets meet, it would make passing projects and getting approval for funding so much easier, once you are there, you will see, you will see these fast moving highways and these amazing farmers mark ket and maybe i am bias, it may be the best one and you just want to go there but there is no way to get there. Again, i think that commissioner you put this very well that this is a question of equity and we are looking at food and the Transportation Network will not get you there and i think that it really just lives out what the Neighborhood Improvement Program is supposed to be. And we are looking at these multi modal routes. In nardz that can build out how the people get around, thank you for the staff and commissioner, gs and continue to support this and really i think that you are right. Why do we have to wait so long when we know this is a great idea. Any other members of the public . If not, is there a motion to adopt the study made by commissioner rohen, and on that, same house, same call, the study adopted. And next item please . Adopt the Western Addition communitybased Transportation Plan [ntip planning] final report. Miss harris from the mta. Good morning commissioners my name is monday ka and i am the complete streets manager at the sfmta and i am accompanied by dani daniel. And i will be kicking off the presentation and daniel will be finishes off. So to start off thinking very much for having us here this morning and we presented just last week to the sfmta board. And we are thrilled to be here for our findings and recommendation foz this exciting project. So to kick off with the bockfest ground, the effort life line, program, and it is fupded with partnership of breeds office. The background is to work in partnership with breeds office and with the community to reallind the Transportation Needs to come up with an informed set of recommendation and so we crafted a process that was community fueled and it was one of where we developed it in three phases. Building upon the next and the high level and goal setting and second wadz more of a location specific and then the third and final phase, was the desin or the review process. So three phases each building upon the next. And each phase have three to five workshops. So we engaged with over, 380 residents, and you will know from the average meetings here that we really tar eted existing meetings to insure that we are maximizing participation rather than having to create an additional meeting for the folks to come out to. And the magic provider was the group that he with met with to start with that color of feedback. The first phase this is high level. And we had a cool where we ask the for questions and then we had a more Interactive Game where the folks marked up mapdz, about which modes they used to really be more interactive and engaging to inform the goal that would have set the framework for the rest of the project. And these goals that resulted from meetings and this phase came to the three categories, which is transit and safety and security and street conditions, and we have several goals in each of these categories. The necked phase was getting into more detail more location specifics where wred as a tool box and really saw ourselves as at the nta as technical experts. You long term recommendations, these are a larger capitol projects and they are partnerships with our friends at rec and park as well as puc, and they include, two Large Community jekz v connections projects on laguna, and they work to improve the safety and access to use these recreational spaces that were identified as community, assets throughout the out reach process. And they include, treatments like bulb out to reduce the pedestrians and enhanced crossings and the pedestrian lighting as well as rapid flashing beacons to notify the drivers that are pedestrians are there. This final part and probably the most exciting part is the walkable western edition which is a pedestrian Lighting Network that establishes six corridors better slated for lighting and they respond to some of the Community Top concerns. And that thir very responsive to their concerns that were not specifically transportation related and that was their ability to make light night connections throughout community and that is in regard to their perceptions of security and addressing the crime concerns that the community has here. So last part is funding and implementation. So we have funds and program for the near and mid terms, phases and we will continue to pursue funding for the long term. Additional out reach, for the community for the designs and they will require designs and Environmental Review as well as receive, sfmta board approval. And at this time, near term recommendations are to be completed this year and, mid herm to be completed next year. And i have and that is the end of the presentation and i am happen combr to take questions. Thank you. Miss harris and commissioner bleed, and any questions or comments. Thank you, and for the presentation and i am excited about the attention that has been given to the western edition. I know that when this out reach was first started, it moved a little slow, and we didnt have a lot of presentation, i mean not a lot of participation, but thanks to mo magic and also the team for just trying to look at other ways to reach out to the community, i think that there has been a lot of input, and i think when we first made changes to the rapid and changed the bus stops and the community was really taken by surprise. And which is why this out reach process is so important to me and in making sure that the folks who are impacting by the changes have the say in what happens in the community, and that they spend so much time in. And they lived there. And they, they know the challenges and it is important to they have input in this process. And i am really excited about the mall, and i know that we have put other dollars into activating the mall. A place that when i whats a kid was a place to hang out all of the time and there were just never any stop lights and there always has been challenging with the people crossing the mall and when i was the executive trekter of the complex, you know, with he had some of our staff would basically spend time at that area, walking kids across the street. Because you know, it was definitely car speeding, and on fulton street, and the cars and then, buses and tourists and it has always been the nervousness about the kids who are crossing street and the elderly, are crossing the street and what can we do to make, a neighborhood where a lot of kids and a lot of elderly people spend a lot of time walking in the neighborhood and using Public Transportation, how can we make this Community Safer for them . And i think that this plan is a step in the right direction. And i am excited to implement many of the suggestions here. I know that there have been a number of concerns that the people have expressed in implementing any plan you are not going to necessarily make everyone happy but ultimately, i know that many of the improvements and things that we plan to do, will still have a process in place, and so, all all although this plan is a guide and there might be changes during the process of trying to implement this particular guide. But definitely look forward to implementation and seeing some of the changes and more specifically, i am excited about what is happening even now on webster and ofaro where a lot of kids cross to go to rosa parks. I am excited for what is going to happen on scott street because that as a former middle school, we will always taking our life in our own hands and crossing the street. The neighborhood in terms of activation and activity all around, has changed a lot. And i think that the goal is to make sure that we provide a change in how and how transportation and bicycles and cars and all of those things that cross what is pretty much the center of the city and how we make sure that we keep the people and this is a neighborhood and bekeep the people there safe in the proprocess. And i am excited and i want to ask just a few questions. But just wanted to hear the feedback on what the community said about golden gate boulevard and that verses what has been interested and can you prohe vied some details on that. Often on the streets when you wake up in the morning, somebodys car has been side swiped and this is at golden gate, and from coming down that hill. And so, can you tell me about the road that is being proposed for the golden gate avenue and specifically how the bike lanes will work and why we come to the conclusion for the plan . The concept of designs and we are planning to go out back out to the community to do more out reach and get more feedback about how they would like that bike lane to look. How does this impact the church and what out reach was done to include them in the process . Because i know that there are a lot of, and there are. I wanted to understand the out reach work that went into it that they know what is being proposed to change the area. There was no further out reach, specifically in how it wou would. And talk about them in the design opings. I think that part of it is that especially when you talk about driveways, and so there is a large there was a development on golden gate boulevard and they have a driveway and so just access to driveways, and how if there had been significant changes that are going to impact peoples lives we need to make sure that even though,. And the churches that i know in particular, are definitely used to things being certain way, and so i want to make sure that as we adopt this plan, this is a guide and then as we begin the process of possible implementation, and i dont want there to be the wrong impression that we are going to just push these things through aggressively without making s e sure. Planning director. I want to say that there is a lot of excitement at mta about this plan and specifically about the effort that went into creating it. The process of what is really, a true importance here, and we do see this. Keep working with the community this is not and the people say this, that this is not going to sit on a shelf. These are relationships that we have built, and we do want to keep following through on it and making sure that we continue to be responsive to what people who live around here need and work around here. There has abeen a comment push to come up with really reenvisioning the mall and making it into making it into an incredible place for the community and a lot of activation and a lot of work has gone into it already. But part of the work could include and it should be collaborative with what is being prohe posed in terms of Public Safety, as it results to the intersections that we are looking to change. We all know what walk stops are, and they can be some what moasac and colorful and fun which helped to cut down on speed and intersections and those could be potentially incorporated into just to allow some sort of a connection of the mall as a whole, from the point of eddie street to fulton street and how that works, i dont know, but i know that the community is still coming together and talking about the mall and they have some ideas as to what they would like to see. I got involved, we were trying to get rosa park shoved in between big streets, and i found out that that school actually has one of the biggest bike champions, she writes a blog that is International Read called home of the city, and the brett whose kids go to the elementary and he is the guy who using a bike app drew a turkey for thanksgiving, these are big bike champion and we went to their friday with their parents we found out that they did not feel comfortable having their Elementary School children walk in the area because the streets were not safe, in came the western edition, and the Community Based Transportation Plan is that the Development Areas or mtc and there is just amazing opportunity and i just want to thank danielle and the rest for meeting people where they are at and having this community out reach be very comprehensive and i think that there are a couple of big learning moments here and i hope that the ta staff could take away, that planning takes a long time to do it right, you have to meet the people and have a lot of meetings and takes a while, but the second big learning here is that you can come to a conclusion that works and you can get really good out comes from it. There are the learning modes for the staff on this and thank you, breed for mentioning the bike lanes and if you know, golden gate, and the street, and i would like to see the similar treatments on both of them and we would like to see going through the Environmental Review, the protected bike lanes, and just a thing that we heard a lot for the members of the tender loin, and making sure that the commissioner kim is getting more attention for the bike lanes there and make that whole kicks from the market all the way to the western edition to help all communities. Thank you. Are there any other melz of the public seeing none, Public Comment is closed. Breed would you like to make a motion to adopt the report. So moved. Second . Seconded. And we have a different house, roll call please. Breed, aye. Cohen. Aye far ral. Aye. Fewer. Aye. Kim. Aye. Peskin. Aye. Ronen. Aye. Safai. Aye. Sheehy. Aye. Tang chl aye. And yee. Aye. Next item please. Adopt the community of concern boundaries for San Francisco. I am warren logan the new Transportation Planner at the ta and today we are going to be talking about communities of concern. So first of all the purpose of this presentation is to sduls the adoption of proposed boundaries for San Francisco. First off i will discuss the purpose, which in again ale is to identify the disadvantaged communities around the region and then the disadvantaged factors that mta use to identify the communities of concern and we can talk about the Transportation Authority, to adjust the communities of concern and then we can discuss the proposed boundaries using the methodology as the finer grain level and a technical definition for the communities of concern. So first lets discuss the purpose of communities of concern. They prioritize the projects that are located and sernz the communities to many of the competitive grants, including one grant and the life Line Transportation program. As examples, the funded china town design and the program which funded treasure island, and balboa station, and the communities are concern are eligible receive the planting grants, and as an example, the western edition, program is one of those programs. Investment strategy is low scoring projects to make compelling arguments in conclusion, if they serve the communities of concern, as two ca examples, the southeastern and the corridor improvements were low scoring that were included because they serve communities of concern, the Improvement Program for the public focus on neighborhoods and under served neighborhoods specifically, the funds are available for the communities of concern and the funds have been used as both of matching funds for the Community Based Transportation Plans, like the western edition, and the fully funding projects. In addition to our agency, other agencies also use the communities of concern, definitions and so as an example, the department of Public Health traffic and collision, and equity analysis, uses the bount boundaries. And the last thing is that the muni uses similar factors. But that map is not dreblthly from our community of concerns boundaries. For its 2017 definition, mtc uses a series to identify the communities of concern based on the data. And the track can qualify as a community of concern if either of two ways, if the tract has both a concentration of people of color and low income house holds or if they have a con certify administration of low households and uses three of the factors that you see here. As a Regional Planning agency, to conduct the analysis at a larger geography, using the synthesis track level information to identify the disadvantaged communities, we believe that the method is sound in factors that they measure, shown in the previous slide, however given San Francisco diversity and density, the map does not capture many of the communities, adjacent or within the more afluent neighborhoods and so we proposed a smaller geography to better characterize the unique and diverse characteristics. So we conducted analysis to create a proposed new San Francisco specific for communities of concern. This map shows you the new proposed definition with health and concur ans, and the areas in light blue are census tracks and mtc, existing 2017, definition, the areas in dark blue are blockers for proposing to add to these boundaries, these are based on the following definition. You can see the proposed definition. I will let you read that over, i will note here that we are using the existing thresholds that we just saw without change because they are based on strong analysis at the regional level, the result is the ad dish of numerous block ribs near the existing neighborhoods. And with that i am happy to take your questions. Thank you, and are there any questions from commissioners . This is seems like really good work. And just the additional blocks that you are adding, make sense to me and certainly in the district and i will concur with that, and seeing no questions from commissioners, is there any Public Comment on this item . Seeing none. We have a motion to approve item eleven made commissioner cohen and seconded by fewer, and we have the same house and so the item is adopted next item please. Proposed independent analysis and oversight contract scope of services madam executive collector, there she is. To allow the board to make inquiries to request, and to particular analysis and in three areas and so we have identified a scope of work that is in your packet to. And we would be able to identify the task orders at your request, to analyze the different legislative initiatives. And to do research to develop legislation at the state or local level and finally a third area of task orders that we had proposed was an area of budget and performance analysis, and whether it is at another agency or at our agency, it will be at your disposal. So happy to answer any questions. Thank you. Commissioner yee . Is this the one where there is some funding that we areal locating . I assume that this is the estimate and we dont know what the cost is until we get bids. That is correct. And is it easier in your thoughts and have a price tag in mind where it might be more than we expected . That it may not be something that we want to support. I hope not. The number of tasks that we do are limited in scope and the staff thought that it was doable at that level, and ultimately we will subject this to the market and see. But i am hopeful that we can do that within that amount. If it is way out of the range of that amount, you are planning. It will have to come back to the commission. We will then come back and bring you the consultant award as a result of the procurement and will identify that we will place, 105, and we can monitor that and the mid year we could increase it asneeded. Is there any Public Comment on item 12 . Seeing none, Public Comment is closed. And can we have a motion to approve the scope of Services Made by commissioner far relevant seconded by commissioner safai and we have the same house and same call. The cope of services is adopted and our final action item is item 13, mr. Clerk, could you read that item [final approval on first appearance] approve a resolution urging the California State Legislature to amend the california vehicle and Public Utilities codes to enable local jurisdictions to permit, conduct enforcement and access trip data for Transportation Network companies. This is the action item. And it will be the final approval. Nd soe approve this virtually identical item at the board of supervisor thz last week, and thank you for your support. And we heard it at the Vision Zero Committee and forwarded it to the full ta for a vote so that we can do this both as a ta and the board of supervisors and there has been a little bit of a promising development. And not to put too fine of a point other it, but this is actually an outrageous situation where tmc shared the data with the state and the state puc has made repeated findings, that sharing this information with local governments and the people of state of the state of california, is not in the public interest. And it is absurd and it is time for it to end. And with that, i will turn it over to commissioner and safai. But theyed that they would not share data, that they have collected, that could help us plan for and monitor or roadways and actually make it a clear assessment and i am not one of the people that has jumped into say that i believe that the tmc have added to our con jeks and i think that there is a visual assessment by most people that will affirm that, and i was at the airport yesterday. And i thought that i whats in another country. Because there were so many Ride Sharing Companies that i could not pull up to the curb to pick up my wife it was unbelievable. So what i had said and i asked and i have also said to the Transportation Authority and i reached out to the City Attorney and maybe it is time to take the legal action and ask the city. And looking for the puc and forced them to share this information for us. Because the idea that they have data that they dont want to share to or with the low calty that could help us plan and waking the way through the courts or the potential for that my force this to be presented to us and, so i asked the Transportation Authority staff as sfmta and also the City Attorney and i reached out to him yesterday and i asked him to pursue this option, so thank you. Thank you, and thanks for furthering this cause. And commissioner cohen. Through the share to the commissioner. What was the response from the citys office, was there a general level of interest in is there a foundation for a case . I think that the City Attorney said that he is going to have his team look at it and they will report back to us shortly. He is out of town at the moment but i was lucky to get him but i think that there could be, and i cant imagine theyed that there is a Public Information that they have gather and they dont want to share with the public. So, on this item do we have a motion made by commissioner yee . Seconded by commissioner kim . And we already had Public Comment on this and so we dont need to have additional Public Comment under the new rules, same house same call. The item is approved, and is there any introduction of new items. Commissioner far ral. A few years ago i called for the white paper on the citys policy approach for the private shuttles such as char ro the that were operating in my district and operating around the city. And certainly in our neighborhood and i do believe that the study is integrated with the broader technology and transportation and i wanted to interest the up date off the research and it is important that and i want to make sure that we are informed on the rea research and the data. Ein you, is there any Public Comment . Yes. Peaceful nation, make sure of the success for prosperity of the peoples livelihood. Nation and heaven. Everyone can follow the holy way personal toleration pathway then the work can be well managed. The research was on true principal and shall be see these thank you. Thank you, is there any other Public Comment . Seeing none . Public comment is closed and the ta is adjourned. As a society weve basically failed big portion of our population if you think about the basics of food, shelter safety a lot of people dont have any of those im mr. Cookie cant speak for all the things but i know say, i have ideas how we can address the food issue. Open the door and walk through that dont just stand looking out. As they grew up in in a how would that had access to good food and our parent cooked this is how you feed yours this is not happening in our country this is a huge pleasure im david one of the cofounder so about four year ago we worked with the serviced and got to know the kid one of the things we figured out was that they didnt know how to cook. I heard about the Cooking School through the Larkin Academy a. Their noting no way to feed themselves so theyre eating a lot of fast food and i usually eat whatever safeway is near my home a lot of hot food i was excited that i was eating lunch enough instead of what and eat. As i was inviting them over teaching them basic ways to fix good food they were so existed. Particle learning the skills and the food they were really go it it turned into the is Charity Foundation i ran into my friend we were talking about this this do you want to run this Charity Foundations and she said, yes. Im a cofound and executive director for the cooking project our best classes participation for 10 students are monday theyre really fun their chief driven classes we have a different guest around the city theyre our stand alone colas we had a series or series still city of Attorneys Office style of classes our final are night life diners. Santa barbara shall comes in and helps us show us things and this is one the owners they help us to socialize and ive been here about a year. We want to be sure to serve as many as we can. The San Francisco Cooking School is an amazing amazing partner. It is doing that in that space really elevates the space for the kids special for the chief that make it easy for them to come and it really makes the experience pretty special. Im sutro sue set im a chief 2, 3, 4 San Francisco. Thats what those classes afford me the opportunity it breakdown the barriers and is this is not scary this is our choice about you many times this is a feel good what it is that you give them is an opportunity you have to make it seem like its there for them for the taking show them it is their and they can do that. Hi, im antonio the chief in San Francisco. The majority of kids at that age in order to get them into food they need to see something simple and the evidence will show and easy to produce i want to make sure that people can do it with a bowl and spoon and burner and one pan. I like is the receipts that are simple and not feel like its a burden to make foods the cohesives show something eased. I go for vera toilet so someone cant do it or its way out of their range we only use 6 ingredients i can afford 6 ingredient what good is showing you them something they cant use but the sovereignties what are you going to do more me youre not successful. We made a vegetable stirfry indicators hed ginger and onion that is really affordable how to balance it was easy to make the food we present i loved it if i having had access to a kitchen id cook more. Some of us have never had a kitchen not taught how to cookie wasnt taught how to cook. I have a great appreciation for programs that teach kids food and cooking it is one of the healthiest positive things you can communicate to people that are very young. The more programs like the cooking project in general that can have a positive impact how our kids eat is really, really important i believe that everybody should venting to utilize the kitchen and meet other kids their age to identify theyre not alone and their ways in which to pick yours up and move forward that. It is really important to me the opportunity exists and so i do everything in my power to keep it that. Well have our new headquarters in the heart of the tenderloin at taylor and kushlg at the end of this summer 2014 were really excited. A lot of the of the conditions in San Francisco they have in the rest of the country so our goal to 257bd or expand out of the San Francisco in los angeles and then after that who know. Wed never want to tell people want to do or eat only provide the skills and the tools in case thats something people are 2rrd in doing. You cant buy a box of psyche you have to put them in the right vein and direction with the right kids with a right place address time those kids dont have this you have to instill they can do it theyre good enough now to finding out figure out and find the future for immigrant Rights Commission meeting and special hearing on impacts of federal policies and immigration executive orders on immigrant and communities. My name is kennelly chair the commission and delighted to see so many here this afternoon. At this point i like to call the meeting to order. I would like to welcome commissioners and members the public to this special hearing. We will attend to a few business items first then starting the special hearing on the impacts of federal policies and immigration executive order. We also like to welcome