Transcripts For SFGTV BOS Replay BOS Govt Audits Committee 121516 20161216

2016. 2 p. M. So, i am commissioner norman yee and will chair todays meeting and to my left is commissioner david campos and i believe that commissioner jane kim will be here shortly. I want to first acknowledge Stephen Stamos is our clerk and like to thank sfgovtv for airing todays meeting. So, lets seemr. Clerk, roll call, please. Item 1, commissioner campos, present. Commissioner kim, absent. Commissioner yee, present. We have quorum. This is the last meeting of the year, so forgive me if i lose focus here. Mr. Clerk, item 2. Item 2 approval the minutes of september 15, 2016 meeting. This is action item. Okay. Any Public Comments on this item . Seeing none, Public Comment is closed. Roll call. On the minutes, campos, aye. Yee, aye. The minutes are approved. Okay. Please call item 3. Item 3, vision zero two year Action Strategy update. This is information item. Come on up. Marie hunter and megan weir. Good afternoon commissioners. Im megan weir with San Francisco department of Public Health and cochair of Vision Zero Task force and here with marry hunter and we are excited to provide a update on the two year Action Strategy for vision zero. As you remember, the vision zeery was adopted in San Francisco in february 2014 and since then a number of city agencies have adopted resolution in support of vision zero and launched the website and had a strategy that covered 2015 to 2016. We had a number of achievements including the vision zero High Injury Network, the city accomplishing the 24 project in 24 months ahead of schedule. The First Comprehensive vision zero education and enforcement campaign, it stops here focus on 5 goals of 50 fert and institutionalizing the transbay data base that helps the data driven approach. We learned a lot and have acknowledged and increased focus on speed for vision zero, speed being the primary predictor of severe injury and death. This slide is the likelihood of surviving at 20 mile a hour is [inaudible] a lot of the initiatives focus on slowing traffic down to save lives. With respect to our vision zero Action Strategy timeline, we have been working on that all fall. We had a lot of success in getting input both from city agencies as well as public stakeholders through Public Meetings and outreach as well as through Online Survey jz meeting with the Vision Zero Coalition and that is summarized here. We also been working to outreach to you and to our supervisors presented to the directors working group on november 16 where it was well received and doing outreach with aim of releasing Action Strategy january of next year. The next slide is a list the money city agencies pleased and vaurfbed in creating and refining our Action Strategy with a number of action and commitments for the coming two years to help us take vision zero to the next level. A key change in our Action Strategy for next two years is we are focusing on outknhs opposed to engineer, education enforcement and evaluation so focus on creating safe streets, people and vehicle jz organizing our actions around the outcome which we think will help us improve our interagency coordination. And also just to revisit and restate our Core Principles for vision zero so leading with traffic deaths are preventable and want to save lives and reaffirming and elevating commitment to equity so insuring all communities are really safe and prioritize efforts for vuliable road users eliminate disparities and sensitive to community and making sure our action are not axiser baiting concern. Focus on safe street, vehicle jz slowing down streets. Again, this is a graphic to illustrate i think the concept of equity so on the left is the relative to equality. On the left is investment in the same level of resources really leading a different outcomes but through vision zero and data driven approach we look to invest in communities where we have more higher need to make sure that in the end everyone has a Safe Community to live in. Now i will turn it over to mar i. We have done outreach with Key Stakeholders and Online Surveys and emails that have come in and the workshop we hosted at city hall, here are key things we heard time and time again. A few i want potonet out is the equity section again making sure we elevate that discussion within the strategy and making sure our actions within the strategy not only promote equity but work to eliminate any existing inequities. Ill opponent out one other in the opportunity section, the first one make city a model for vision zero and holding ourselves accountable. We are doing a lot the work to redesign streets or develop programs but within our daily processes and you know, field work making sure we are as staff and employees as the city and county are also promoting the Core Principles of vision zero. For the actions that we identified within the strategy, here just kind of guidelines that we used to finalize that selection. First being to promote the Core Principles and then to make sure we are going beyond businesses as usual. We want to make sure we use our resources efficientlyexcuse me. Let me ask a quick question. In terms of the stakeholders to engage yes have you actually engaged with seniors in yes. Okay. Um, ill just comment this is a abbreviated list. People are have offered dozens and dozens of group tooz engage in so wellokay. I know dph has been doing a lot of engagement for safe streets for seniors specifically targeting seniors throughout the fall so this list points out the areas where there is less targeted engagement that we could increase in the coming two years. Um, again making sure it is data driven, the evidence based approach. We want to make sure people come up with oo a lot of great ideas but want to own and champion it so making sure the city can advanss it. This is a two year strategy, and have the goal of zero bife 2024 but in the next two years what can we initiate or complete . The next slide provides a few actions pulled from the strategy. The first few are just new engineering specific efforts. You are familiar with walk first and the first would be similar but specifically for bicycle collision jz the second for transit collisions. We had success with the combination of high visibility education and enforcement so launching two initiatives for driving under the influence and distracted driving. Making sure the city continues to be coordinated and collaborative to try and speed up the delivery process for project and Program Implementation and then another critical project or program is the implementation of e citations which not only is a great enforcement tool, but serves to inform Engineering Solutions and other programmatic just other programs. Regarding next steps, i apologize, the task force was last tuesday but we are here today to share this update with you. Over the next few months or month in a half finalizing the Action Strategy and releasing it in midto late january. That it . Yes, sorry. Um, i guess im just wondering we have been at it for about two years trying to implement and get to our goals and as you know, it seems like we havent gotten closer to our goal yet. And so the strategies that we have been using, has there been any thought about whether or not we have to rethink it . Um, that is a good question. The short answer is yes. Part the strategy tries to refine build upon that first Action Strategy. We know that we must lead by design so that is made explicit within the strategy update that we need to build a Transportation System that st. Intuitive and really basically requires people to walk and bike and drive safely through the city, so we dont have to rely on enforcement. That is something we are emphasizes within the strategy and with the laurch of these new programs, the Bike Coalition and transit coalitions integrating those into the Engineering Solutions of the Transportation System. Can you give me a concrete example of how something is new in terms of strategies . Yes, you are talking in generalities. Sure. Well for example with the bike collision analysis, the city is already in the process of identified ipthe executive directive bicycle infrastructure and this will just make that a even richer program so we can make sure as we are shifting with the transit first policy we shift to people walk{bikeic and transit and building the system to do that safely. Is that helpful . Well see. I also wanted to as you are lookingyou are always i would imagine revising your strategies to a certain extent, so my question is more specifically on how we are looking at the streets that we are focusing on, which is the high injury corridors, i guess. Uhhuh. I know that the determination of high injury corridors is basically the number of incident that happened along those corridors and one of the thoughts i had recently and dont know if staff has taken this into consideration or not is that sometimes when we are on the west side and or it doesnt have to be the west side but anywhere where there are fewer people that is actually crossing a street, and so what happens then is that when you just look in terms of actual numbers, those streets are basically ignoreed because the numbers are not that high in real count and i guess i would like us to consider a different way to look at things, which is that for instance, in monterey valdez, there are two recently, collisions there, a month and a half or twoe months of each other and that wouldnt be considered like high incident corridor because there are two in 10 years or whatever, but what im realizing is that that is two out of 20 people that cross in that period rather than 2,000 people crossing and three people were involved or something. I guess my point is, is there a way to measure things differently so we take that into consideration because to me having two there where hardly anybody crosses a street indicates it is really a dangerous intersection. Sure. Ill take the first half of it and just say that um, while we do want to prioritize the High Injury Network, we specifically articulate we want continue doing safety imprubment city wide systematic improvements and aligned with the 311 program, when things pop up that may be considered a outlier or not get as much attention because it is off the High Injury Network those are opportunity for us to identify those where we may not otherwise if they are hauf the High Injury Network. Development a additional action we will pursue with the next strategy is more Predictive Modeling which will look at environmental conditions that predict severe and fatal injurys and what that can do is help address some of what you are identifying is a particular location may have factors that contribute to higher injuries but identify where we want higher improvements even if there isnt a collision history. Is this a model you are developing or developed . It is a model we are developing. What is the timeframe. We focus on a bike specific model so the bike project that mari described this year in 2017. Do you develop for pedestrians also . We are aiming to develop for all modes but start wg the bicycles. This may be three years out by the time you finish . Pardon me kr . You are talk this is a sophisticated model to do this work so it requires building and testing the model so it takes some time. Again, you said just for the bike model . I think what is exciting about this modeling is once you have one, it is really powerful template for Building Models for other modes but having a mode specific model is needed just because predictors of pedestrian vurss auto versus bicycle collisions are different. So, can you make sure that eeben if you are not completed with the model because i dont want to too long to hear about it and make sure it is on the ajndsa to giv us an update where you are . We would be happy to. Thank you. Commissioner campos. Thank you mr. Chair. So, if we can step backthank you for the presentation. If we can step back to vision zero was approved in february 2014, how many fatalities did we have in the year prior . Let me go grab that. And then i wondered if you can tell me how many fatalities a year after that and where are we now two yearswithin two years since the adoption of vision zero. Meg 2014 is 15 we had 31 fatalities each year. How about the past year . So, the current fatalities official counts we for vision zero is 22, but that doesnt include all the fatalities from november, those are being finalized now. We get data from the medical examiners aufs. Do you bow how many wroo we are talking about . I think there were three more that are being reviewed for november but that is being finalized by staff. I think what ultimately what you are speaking to is we are relatively flat with respect to fatalities and that is something that is not acceptable and that is obviously not what wewe are havent achieved our goal. We do have been focus through vision zero and also looking at interim metrix because we know it is ambitious goal and have a 10 year timeline so through the Data Analysis and developing the High Injury Network and focus on education and enforcement on speed with the laurch the Speed Campaign and focus on automated Speed Enforcement we are really doing what we can to focus on what we know are the causal factors for fatalities but we have a lot more to do. We are seeing at the state level and National Level 15 percent and 8 percent respectively increases in fatalities so nationally this is something vision zero cities in the country are struggling with of what are the factors we are hoping through the targeted work we can help lead for solutions but now we have a lot more work to do. We will look at severe injuries and working on a linked Surveillance System with the hospital and have a lot more data on severe injuries but adding that data will help further refine our approach. I appreciate that and mindful of the fact the numbers are increasing in other parts the country, but the goal of vision zero isnt to do the best we can but get to zero fatalitiesism given we are flat we are flat since this goal was adopted im just trying to understand what it we are doing differently so a year from now we are not getting the same result. Um, i think part of the answer is that within the past couple years we have been able to reprioritize the capical program and want to lead by design and a lotf the Capital Projects take a while to get in the ground. We are doing the quick which have been affective and elevatingsignal retiming is across the city, high visibility cross walks and safety zones so implementing those treatments around the city until the Capital Projects which are even more visible and maybe more impactful, so we are working to improve that project delivery and so again, the physical environment will create the safe space, the safe transportation cystment with the 24 or 20 plus fatallies we had this year, what do we know about the sort of the demo graphics of the people who are involved . Of the victims . We are finalizing that fatally report right now for the end of the year so we are happy to sair that with you. How about prior years, has there been a specific demographicand imagine depend who you are talking about there are different strategies . We know over half fatalsies are pedestrians and seniors are disproportionately injured and why we laurned the saich streets for seniors program. We know again that the High Injury Network is highly predictive of where these injuries are happening so that is why the city is focus improvements on the communities. We know the focus on the 5, speeding, red light running, driver failing to yield to pedestrians are consistently highly predictive of severe and fatal injuries. You know, through the sfpd achieving the focus on the 5 through the city launching the First Comprehensive spreed campaign that is lasting a year and has high visibility enforcement on a high injury core dor aerfb week, those are the near term actions the city can take while the engineering improvements go on the ground. One of the things that walk sf noted in their document and you talked about some of the engineering improvements which is good, but some of the projects, in fact 57 project said have experienced delay, can you talk about that . What happened with those projects . Is it project management issue . Just want to be clear, fiver 7 of the projects havent been delayed, the new priority projects . Uhhuh. I will duffer to tom maguire and will present in the next item. Okay, great. Final question is, do you think this is a thing of resources . Could we do better if we added more resources to this . Is it a matter of it takes time to get to a outcome . What is the um, we identified kind of three challenge areas, one being resources, financial or staff, but also political and physical environment. There are some places where it may not be a Engineering Solution or we are having trouble identifying a solution that works with the competing demands of a particular area. It is a area within the strategy we elevated that Engagement Process to make sure it is a shared goal and people really understand the benefits of the treatments that are coming in. Thank you. A final response to that question is u we know automated Speed Enforcement, one of the most effective tools which is a substantial body of evidence is not legal in San Francisco, so that is a tool we are not able to deploy that we know would have a really powerful impact with respect to vision zero. Thank you. Any other questions . Seeing none, thank you very much. Any Public Comment . Good afternoon supervisors. Cathy deluke octhe prals and Program Director with walk San Francisco. I want to first acknowledge all the great work the city has done in the vision zero strategy approach programs and policies. The amazing sort of quick and effective roll out of treatments, we have seen a lot ofchanges in the city, a lot of positive chaimp. The focus on the 5 accomplishment, the last 3 to 4 months the department is over 50 percent and city focus on equity is great. The question though is why are we not seeing a concurrent reduction in crashs and fatallies and so to help answer this quegds and think about this, walk sf just produced our annual report on the state of walking in San Francisco. Street score 2016 and what we did is outlined what we thipg the city needs to do to reduce the crash and fatalities. I will gove what we think that is. There are 5 strategies but 4 that relate to vision zero. The first is putting equity front and center. Making sure projects are prioritized in communities of concern, plee making sure Police Enforcement doesnt lead to racial profiling. If we know what works lets put as many resourceess into those things as possible. And so instead of doing individual treatment lets do comprehensive, and instead of standard enforcement high visibility. The third main point is do comp hence rfb and robust project so rather safe intersection we need safe corridors. High injury corridors have a pattern. Finally, we think it is important the city identifies what is keeping them from reaching zero and figure strategies to overcome obstucomes without doing that we cant figure what we are doing wrong. That is a overview. More detail in the report. Thanks avenue wn for the hard work and well keep working for it. Thank you. Thank you, cathy. Any other Public Comments . Just a few comments. These are i guess just my beliefs. What is your name ken. San francisco. Just my beliefs based on hypothesis. The road diet in glen park has led to multiple freway accidents because of the severe traffic back up. You call it lane straining but it is pretty severe back up. And also i february of this year or last year i spoke of the near term consequences orphvision zero in terms of a possible update in the accidents, injuries and fatallies as a forseeable assect of the learning curve because drivers navigate around distragz and obstacles and unfamiliar roads to bypass road slow downs and congestion. Regarding the congestion that is discriminatory towards those less likely to contend with congestion and that is a minority of personalties who are introverted and syms oriented. Two percent the population that is esoteric study but i did find that. Also you have more accidents i believe because people pedestrians and cyclist are brought near proximity with [inaudible] you are removing parked vehicles along streets and that is a barrier between pedestrians and moving vehicles. That is aparked vehicles. Also, pedestrians and cyclist have a false sense of assurance and security when they got these cones and everything but that doesnt stop vehicles obviously. I think your ideal target speed and 15 Miles Per Hour and never been able to achieve that and dont think you will. Thank you very much. Okay. Any other Public Comments . Seeing none, Public Comment for this item is closed. Are there any other questions, colleagues . Seeing none move to item 4. Item 4, vision zero project and initiative. This is a information item. So, we have tom maguire, there he is, director of sustainable street at the sfmta will present on the status update. Good afternoon supervisors. Thanks again for having us here today to talk about the delivery of those projects that supervisor cam possess were talking about. This is the part of the presentation when we talk about following through on the engineering changes to the streets, the 57 projects that we laid out in the june Committee Hearing to track over the next two years and talk about our progress towards them. Ill remind everybody before we start there is up to date for all 57 projections at vision zero sf. Org. You can click on the map and pull up any projects and get a depailed breakdown of what the project is about and milestone we are at now and the expected completion date and whether it is on schedule or not. I will highlight where we stand right now in early december 2016 on those 57 projects. As we said, in june we were hoping to move a large number through the completion of construction, other very long term projects the goal is nds of design or laurch construction. Happy to say that at this point 6 mupths in we completed close to a third of the projects and about half are on or ahead of strej. Some of schedule will be done in the next couple weeks, so more than sthree quarters of the projicts we are well on the path to deliver. There are few delays and ill talk in more detail in those in the next few slides. The reason for the delays illustrate why it is so challenging to execute these complicated and transformative projects in San Francisco. Ill start with good news and that is what we have got done in fall 2016. If you have been oneter side the building we have begun projects on polk street which bring a raised cycle track, 11 corner bulbout squz new Traffic Signals between puck between here and pine. Also on construction in van fless with chwill bring lots of Pedestrian Safety features including left turn prohibitions, medium referages, Traffic Signals, and curb extensions and make van ness a safer place to walk and drive. We have begun to motorcycle campaign. Motorcycles are far disproportionately representered in the driver fatallies even though they make up 5 percent of the traffic on the street. We have far too many of those fatalities every year. Finally, we completed construction of it tenderloin safe routes to school at larkin and hyde and in the process evaluating before and after conditions. Lots of construction underway complete and being launched just this fall. A few projects we hit snags are listed on this slide and i will give a couple examples of the problems we face because i think they illustrate some sthof challenges we have when we try do these very complex Construction Projects on a exbudited schedule. The first is road diet on san jose. During the process of design for the repavement that will proceed the safety features built. We discovered a underground storage tank in san jose near deloris so that really throws a wrinkle in design and construction so have to figure a way to design around that. Another example would be the webster Street Project which is meant to provide traffic calming and signals between fulton and sulter streets. We are working with pu c water main installations, sewer replacement and also found when coordinated with pg ecs there is a main line in the way of some of theue timties so those are the things even with great advanced planning and trying to comicate up front with fellow agencies when we get in the field we encounter this and in the process trying to come up with a schedule to get them done as close to on schedule as possible. Couple things that will get done and move from that on schedule to completed slice of the pie in the next few weeks, include the construction of the man zel streetscape Improvement Project which brings bike and pedestben sufillies roaddite to that street. We are also working on things in the spring including making sure that all the crossing guards on walk to school day have complete vision zero information and pass that out to kids and families with whom they interact. Thats quick update on the 57 milestons we have tracked since june. I do want to invite kate green up to give a update on automated Speed Enforcement program and how that is going. Good afternoon. Good to see you. We have been working this last quarter continuously to do a deeper dive with some of the Key Stakeholders on speed infortsment. Starting maybe about a month or two months ago now we following the league of california cities adoption of the vision jeero support resolution took to the San Francisco police compligz specific resolution in support of automating Speed Enforcement passed unanimously. I think the important work that we have done over the past few months work wg walk sf, San Francisco Police Department, the San Francisco Bike Coalition is to talk to groups such as the aclu, electronic 41 teen foundation and really get very specific input on the way a system would work in San Francisco. They have provided us with quite detailed template language relating to System Impact and use report and what would be included relative to data collection, use, retention and access. So, we have been working to incorporate those suggestions. In addition, balancing that we are continuing to hear and take input on equity issues around how a program would be administered if and when we have authorization to use a Automated System in San Francisco. On the other side, we have also worked to incorporate input from the motor ist perspective, aaa what that looks like in the context of the bill is a specific criteria where the systems could be used in San Francisco with a very specific emphasize on a nexus to speed related injuries and fatalities. So, overall i would say we are making progress getting a bill that can be considered a true balancing act of the input we have taken. Not going to make everybody happy because it is reflection of incompromise but that where we start. The session started but spesk to see activity in the 2017 legislative session. I think what will be really important Going Forward is the launch of the families for safe streets, the bay area regional families cephalsafe streets will bring their voice to this effort. The partnership with law enforce; San Francisco Police Department is a important partner. San francisco Public Health and public helths allies across the state and advocates in it pedestrian community. Happy to answer questions, it is a ongoing process and you have been following this for some time. Thank you. So, curious who are some of the state legislatorers behind this . This is sfwo city pilot and working in partnership with sth city of san jose. Different than if we were on our own. We are navigating the issues i refer rensed earlier so it is though delegations we do our closest work. San francisco legislative delegation and san jose. Is there any projections . I find that every time im here and say im optimistic there is something that comes up and i am a optimist and i think i would like to say we would have a bill and then lets go and see if we can be suck sussful. Last week we spent all day in sacramento meeting with the california state transportationagy to hear concerns around iml. Itation of a program or any objections they might have. You know, i dont want to make a prediction but sure ly hope we have a bill. Because there are additional supporters that makei think i mentioned at the last meeting or maybe not, but has staff approached the Golden Gate Bridge . Yes, i shared information about automated Speed Enforcement with Dennis Mulligan and provided that information following your request so hopefully they are taking that under consideration. I havent heard from them though. When did you do that . Probably two months ago. There is a Board Meeting tomorrow. I will go back to dennis and remiped him. Appreciate it. Any other questions here . Thank you for your presentation. Thank you very much. That is the end of our presentation. Thank you very much. Any Public Comments on this item . Hello again catha dulukea from walk San Francisco. Excited to see projects moving forward and ase moving forward. Just want to point out, i think for the projects that have been delayed i think it is a great opportunity to see what factors are standing in the way of us reaching vision zero and so what we would like to see at walk sf is the next action straetagy really identifies what these obstacles and come up with strategies for ovcoming them. If we know there are things keeping us from our goal, what are they and what will we do in the next two years to get through them so encourage staff to look into that. Thank you. Any other Public Comment . Seeing none, Public Comment is closed for this item. Mr. Maguire. I think in your presentation you talked about some of the factors that delayedare these things in the future you can anticipate whether it is p g and e line. We can always do better in this area, i admit. We have worked with our partners in the department of public work squz pu c and pg e to use the improved mapping tools public works has and construction scheduling so we are trying share information up front to make sure we know as murch about the assets as possible. Many delays are things became known in the field when we started to survey so if we share all the best nrfgz in the maps and drawings, sometimes there are things in the field that we discover when we get out. That said, we dont want to rest on our laurels and look at ways to survey those conditions and just coordinate better. There is room for improvement. Okay. Any other questions . Seeing none, thank you very much. Mr. Clerk, can you call item number 5. Item 5, mayors executive director of achieving vision zero. This is information item. This is luis montoya. Good afternoon mr. Chair and members of the commission. Luis montoya and lead the livable streets group in the sfmta and that implements the bike and pedestlen safety infrastruck chur. Here to speak about the mayors exectesk director issue in august. I spoke last quarter about some of these and heard from kate breen and others about other aspects of it, but i think that these 13 points outlined in the director do touch on the question asked earlier about what can we do to improve on the collision reduction. What have we lurped and do more of and it is really all here in the executive directive which encourages to have a broad as well as a tailored approach. It is a broad approach, it meaning not only focus on ingene earring and enforcement and education and make sure we do work throughout the city to improve safety because we have High Injury Network corridors in every district in the city. We know that there is inequities between where people are getting hit in terms of certain districts having high proportion of collisions so having the broad approach to make sure that we are approaching from many angle jz have a tailored approach to be data driven and to be sensitive to the different needs and different communities. So, much of that is reflected here in the executive director. Next quarter we will come back and talk more about telematics and Driver Training and about the city fleet improvement but today i want to talk about the items that are highlighted in the bold black here. So, protected byways are one of the ways that we know that we can transform our streets not only to predict cyclist and reduce collision of people bicycling but to slow traffic and decrease crossing distance for pedestrians which you asked about seniors earlier supervisor yee and this is what we hear time and again from seniors is street in San Francisco are too wide. Protected bikeways do a lot to decrease the crossing distance for seniors. The other thing that we are learningplore and more as imp lment the bikeways is they help transit as well and that gets at not only the transit first goal but also at some of the inequities because yee know that a lot of the corridors with the highest number of collisions are also transit corridors and know the populations that tend to be more vaubld in collision are transit dependent so improving safety around transit is key. The mayor directed to achieve three projects within 9 months. We are on track for that. Two of the projects are approved by the mta, complete project on 7th and 8th street. Not just protected bikeway but reducing a lane of travel, shortage pulestren crossing distance and bulbout jz working on turk street and folsom and howard undergoing inturj it zine and review with City Department jz hope to move to the board for approval and quick implement ation. I think your question earlier about what could we do to get the projects in the ground quicker. One thing we are doing for each project outlined here, instead of waiter for the bulbout jz maybe the repaving projects we are going through the paint and signs and posts implementing as soon as we can. 7th and 8th was approved by the board. The partsds undrb control we start right away and the others we expedite as much as we can. The mayors directive asked to look specifically at a area in Golden Gate Park that was a site of there tragic fatality in june and happy to report that we have drasticly improved safety along the western segment of jfk between the great hi high way and transverse by installing 9 speed humps and a raised cross walk. Proud of the quick work that our team did to do outreach and make sure that we were doing something that was contact sensitive to the special needs of the park and also to work closely with our partners in public works to get the project implemented quickly. We want to do more in Golden Gate Parks that just speed humps on jfk drive. Last weekend we had a Public Meeting to look how to improve safety throughout the park. We know that over the past few years over 100 people are hit by cars in Golden Gate Park. We see most of them are people actually bicycling. Several fatalities involving motorcyclist and seberal hit by cars so want to work with the people who live in and around the park to come up a plan to reduce speeds and reduce cut through traffic and reduce improved safety at key intersection with a history of crashs. I mentioned the broad approach that the mayors executive director kasked totake and enforcement is key part of that. We know we dont have the resources to invest in complete streets on avenue street in the city, i wish we did, but we can twrie to have a multiplying effect by combining the efforts with enforcement and intarsal that enforcement on behaviors we know are most likely to lead to collisions. When we started vision zero, the Police Department initiated the focus on the 5 program where they were directing their resources on those top 5 collision factors and making sure they were citeing for those. The Police Department for the past few months is hitting that target. That is something we are really proud of that they have been able to do that and the past 4 months running and we are continue toog work with them to look at continuing to improve that and not resting on our laurels and settling for 50 percent and see how to do more. Can you just quicklythere are different colors here bought i dont know what the colors represent. There is green, peach i mentioned there are 5 different violation jz this is just a gradation of the different violation. They are citeing for all 5 of those violations. Could you tell me which is which . Let me see if i have that. Apologize i thought the legend was at the bottom. Ill follow up with you. Maybe that is something we can make sure to get the numbers to Authority Staff too. So, again more than just engineering and more than enforcement, educating the folks who use our streets about that there is a problem of traffic deaths in our city. What the causes of those traffic deaths are and what they can do about it. Last quarter we gave a in depth presentation about the campaign that kicked off in august. Multimediacome pain, many languages across radio and print and bus advertising. We have listed here many of the different languages and outlets we were able to push this through. This is againit was targeted on the messages and groups we know we need to focus on in order to make a difference and we held focus groups in order to identify which messages res ainate jd think we will see great outcomes with the vision zero awareness campaign. With that, i just want to take any questions you have. Colleagues any questions . Thank you, mr. Montoya. Sorryi did have a quick question. I know the board went through the process of doing a add back for the education component of vision zero, and so we are hopeful for some positive outcomes to come from this. Im curious in previous meetings we got presentations on what kinds of education campaigns worked and what dont and one that we had heard was being told that you may hit someone or kill someone wasnt an effective way of getting penal to slow down. I hoped you would take more about why this campaign you think will have a impact on slowing people down. I havent seen much the education advertisements and curious where it was. I will invite my colleagues john wise who is leading the research oaf the program. Thank you john. You were the one that did the presentation. Research you had done on what worked not necessarily vision zero but other campaigns. Slutdly. So, to your second question first, where these were put along Market Street and cisc ic center in september and will role out a much larger print Campaign Later in the spring. The bigger point, i dont think we are running any real campaigns specifically saying dont run over people and hoping that will happen. The majority of the radio advertising seen here focused on a, there is a problem with Street Safety in San Francisco and there are actions we can take and that are choices are resulting in action bl policy or behavioral choices but two of the three months spinge addressed the idea speeding is issue so the ads that ran in september highlighted the fact speeding is a top cause of fatalsties insuch and october highlighted you can get a ticket in San Francisco which our focus groups and surveys found people do not believe it could be a problem in San Francisco because nobody gets a ticket for it. Conjungz of the high visibility enforcement which is happening avenue week and has been since the beginning of october we ran adcampaigns that talk about the fact you can get a citation that is expensive 10 miles over the speed limit 230. This kill with kideness is mup more this part hof campaign developed through focus groups. People liked theto again get to the support the overall idea there is a problem on the streets. We dont expect somebody will see this and say i will drive more safely but trying to set the conversation about there being a problem and we need to consider how we are using our streets and think of our streets differently. Thank you. I have a question about the advertising on the radio. Yes. How long are these advertisements . These are a mix of 15 and 30 second ads. I would love to be at our next meeting for you to play thoseplay it here. Happy to do that. Just for us to hear. Take advantage othf opportunity where the public can hear this. Happy to do that. We also have them for the public linked on a sound cloud account and push it out through our social media as well so no problem to bring it here. Thank you. Thank you. Any Public Comments on this item . Good afternoon. Hulia a Community Organizer with the San Francisco Bike Coalition. When mayor lee igesed the commitment to make the streets a safe place for everyone, one commitment is reduced jfk drive where a sligz occurred at 38 avenue. In april the San Francisco rec and Park Commission resolved to adopt the vision zero resolution bringing the deparchlt to align with vision zero goal frz city and county of San Francisco. We appreciate the citys responsiveness by adding 9 speed humps on jfk drive as a short term measure reducing speeds. We support the speed humps we advocate for Long Term Solutions to reconsider vehicles through traffic which is another task outlined in the directorive. We look for wrbd to continued improvement to insure Golden Gate Park is a [inaudible] and not a thorough fair for fast moving vehiclesism we also look forward to more opportunities to fast track protected bike lane project throughout the city because street design makes the biggest impact helping those who bike feel more safe and gelting people to bick in the city. For example, we are excited for protected bike lanes on 7th andathyth street and the temporary measures improve safety on these streetss. Thank you for your attention. The San Francisco Bike Coalition will continue to hold the city accountable to making the city of San Francisco safe and bike{walking and hope the committee will join us to do so i continue asking for regular updates on the citys progress. Any other Public Comments, come on up, cathy. Hello again, cathy deluca from walk San Francisco. It is exsitting to see the energy the mayors executive directive put behind the work. I do advoicacy training with Community Members and before the Communications Campaign i withed and folk tooz raise their hands if they heard of vision zero and there were not many that raised their hands and once the radio ads wnt out half the room raised the hand so have agimpact. It is important to raise awareness of vision zero because we think thai that will help bet the buy in for the projects and programs on the streets. I would like to questioni wonderingi know this is the first time there is a update. The directive, the last item says the city is suppose today provide quarterly updates on the progress of all the item jz this is the first formal update squz only got updates for the 5 items. As a public person i love to know the updates on all the other items including getting to 18 miles so curious to see when that update is available. Thank you. Mr. Montoya, can you answer that question . I nudged to mention that in my presentation. We didvent to go time to go through all 13 but on the website we have updated on all 13 points on what we are doing and that will be updated on a quarterly basis. It is live now. Thank you. Any other Public Comments on this items . Seeing none, Public Comment is closed. Mr. Clerk could i have item numberwhere are we . 6. 6, yes. 6, open letter to transportation 234e9work companies and oretd share hch Ride Services to support vision zero. Information item. Good afternoon. John nox with the San Francisco municipal transportation agency. We want to give a quick update and preview of a projethwe are starting at the request of supervisor peskin, the Transportation Authority reached out and asked if we could start to Work Together on a open letter towards really all private shared vehicle providers in the city really looking to use the public pulpit to encourage even safer condition on our streets over and above the steps that they have taken. We thought this came up last week and thought for this committee it is a Good Opportunity to run down how professional drivers are receiving the training the drivers are receiving so we can help set the context for a conversation we think will occur over the next month or two cull mu mating and coming back to the the next quarterly vision zero meeting with a recommended letter for presentation. So, initially i wanted to walk throughmost of this has been presented in full at the meetings in the past but the city has direct oversight for traxies where they are providing in house training at sfmta and includes talking about bike safety relating to Driver Behavior but also have to go through a one week privately operated provided safety train ing course. I think 6 months ago we had a overview of the muni driver program, it is a 9 week training course. Both of these are good examples where we have full control of the drivers call thd platinum standard of Driver Training for professional drivers. These drivers get to know the vehicles and understand the environment they are dribeing in and it gives our agency our city the opportunity of highlight key points of concern and key points for drivers to look out for. Three months ago talked about the City Administrator Office program on employee drivers so people using city cars, their jobs may not be driving but have a large city fleet used by a host of employees we are rolling out a online defensive driving course. Those frequent drivers using sfmta vehicles on a frequent basis are now getting in person in vehicle courses so they are going out with a instructor and going through defensive driving not just online but with a person. Which brings us to the next level which is no entities that interact with the agency and leverage the flrt action. The city vendors with the sfmta and soon with the city are required to haveveneders go through a bike and Pedestrian Safety. That is video we talked about a number of times here. We are expanding that to city wide program. Our commuter shuttle program, because we are able to regulate those shuttles and there are shuttle providers who interact with the city we are able to set requirement jz all the shuttles drivers are required to make sure the drivers go through the training as well. On a lower level tour bus we engage in the tour bus industry, 8 of the operator said agreed to provide the training so we are trying on a variety of levels to interact with operates on the street and when we cant require them we encourage them and having some success getting them to start to engage on this issue. Which brings to transportation company, uber and lyft and others because there is no place for the city to regulate their operations, at this time all the work we do with them is on a voluntary basis. So, we have been about the last year or so in discussions with them about how they can work to make sure the drivers are aware of the issues thatd the Committee Talks about so frequently and both operators have developed videos and materials they offer to the drivers. They offer them in different ways so i quickly go through that. Lyft has a video available on the web, it is about 5 empties long and require all the drivers to watch the video now. That is something they rolled out this fall. They have been work wg the city to provide specific safety messages. We had issues around vehicle behavior around cable cars speelsh lots of vehicles not understanding you cant pass a cable car at a stop and people are getting on and off and lyft and uber founds different ways to start to provide that information to their drivers. They have offered also lyft is opened a new Driver Center and offered space within the office space to provide driver information. On a interesting level and something a lot dont know, lyft started a program in which when you are at the cal train station on 4th street and use their app to call a lyft, it teps you where you have to pick up. You order up a lyft and where you were standing the car is told to come to you. Now it tell youz you cant be picked up if in front and walk to the designated stop for pick up which is pilot they have been working on and have been working with sfmta and other folks in the city that we really hope is the beginning of a conversation about how we can use this and other areas of the city. Uber has produced multiple videos. They are contracted with the Bike Coalition, the Bike Coalition created the videos. They did offer mta the opportunity to view and provide comments which we did very happily. Having seen them we feel both the videoerize consistent with the meshaging our taxi videos are providing. I would say our taxi drivers go through a significantly larger amount of training in person training but we do feel the videos provided to these drivers are consistent with the messaging. Uber does not require the drivers to watch these, they are in stead working on model in which they provide multiple opportunities for drivers to interact with the videos. The videos get embedded in the messages. I did have a tument to speak with them earlier and all the videos are on you tube. You tube tells how many people watch the video when the drivers receive them it is through a proprietary system so the view counts dont count there so didnt lieu how many wherewe are at last time but significantly higher. That is the universeour conversations with lyft and uber continue and will continue and i think as we are working through this process to develop a open letter and a call for encouragement for more safety actions to be taken by all thesewe will also be continuing our conversations with them to see what we can get before that letter comes out. So, appreciate those things that you are aware of that they are doing. Most of it seems to be around the training asspect i guess for the video. So, i wondering if we could think at a different dimension in regards to seeing if these could be involved with our vision zero. I believe the way the system works they know where the cars are and so forth, so it is probably similar to the system that we are installing in our city in terms of the telematics. It would be really interesting to approach them to say, can you step it up a little by actually being more proactive and maybe utilizing that system for them to monitor it and to actually get rid of bad drivers or whether they are bad drivers that is one piece of it. The other one would be can we ask drivers not to circle around for more than 5 minutes or whatever time, because a lot of the drivers keep circling and adding more pollution and of course the more they are driving and pick up somebody that will also increase the percentage of the possibility of having a collision happen. Not too sure how to approach this whether a letter or just because you are communicating with them, see if they are open to that. I would really appreciate that. Absolutely. Yes, i did negligent to say the Vision Zero Task force met tuesday and had a lar presentation and opened up discussion for ideas from the community and what not. We heard similar not exactly the same ideas but similar ideas that are good. From a sfmta standopponent we agree and not looking just to encourage to give more training materials but look frg ways to show themselves to be more accountable for the behavior hap ong on sth streets report ing out to Work Together to solve the issues because as we know right now it is slightly a black box and we know there is data out there that could help us identify problems we could solve and what you speak to gets not only to getting that data but way tooz use the data to change behavior and think it is good idea. I really appreciate it. I hope they will voluntary work with us on this and think there will be people thatsome of my colleagues may be interested doing legislation to put it on the table. That is just one thing but there is many issues around this. Absolutely. The reason it feels straisk to write a letter and take a couple months to figure what the letter is but it is complicated and layered issue and think we want to make sure that if we are going take this step wlaurfb level it ends up being we want to address key issues with long term impacts and help us move forward. This letter approach is consistent withi actually read the minutes from the last meeting and we actually talked about these issues to try to get the tmc and other shuttle buses to see how they could be a part the vision zero solution. Absolutely. To the shuttle buses, the mta has held the first two meet jgz have a Quarterly Working Group of large vehicle operator jz not just tour buses it is commune shuttles and trucks and carriers and teamsters who meet quarterly to diss cus the isaoos. Identifying issues they are seeing but also talk about issues we are observing and looking for solutions. Collaborativei dont want to claim everything can be done clav clabatively, sometime said market pressure and others push gaens that but try to approach from a collaborative stance first and go from there. I see sonny from supervisor peskins office is here and would you like to make a comment . Hello. Thank you commissioner yee. So, i just want to give a little background to the genesis of where this item came from. We had been meeting with several schools in our district around issues that have been raised by parents and principles and the Central Office around over proliferation of Transportation Network companies the fact that they are really being used as commercial vehicle jz being used as tour industry vehicles to carry tourist around and there have been a lot of safety issues and concerns parent raised so we made a commitment to the parent we would work with the Transportation Authority and sfmta to see if there was a more direct approach and want to thank sfmta staff for the work they have done aroupd the video jz walk sf and around the educational y videosi feel the companies themselves should be in a appropriate professional world they would be here reporting themselves on what they are doing to insure our streets are safe and making sure their companies and employees are actually abiding by our vision zero goals. It is disturbing i think that we really havent seen any kind of reciprocal kind of interest on their part and beingoutside the great work john is doing on the working group. I read with great interest the state regulatory filing that sfmta put forward and i would love to know and think commissioner peskin would love to know what more can we do to try and regulate them locally out of safety concerns. Whether it is limiting their movement around school zones. Whether is limiting movement around other vuliable areas like senior sites. What can we doclearlyi was on my way over here crossing Market Street at 8th there was a tmc blocking the cross walk that had driben through the bike lane and i was there with lee hepner and we were like this is illegal you are breaking the law and the guy was like whatever. This is what the resident are seeing and would like to know what our agencieswhat type of stronger position we are going take and what we can do even if it is not necessarilyeven if they are not respaupding for it to be very public so our constituents know we are pushing back on this behavior. If there is a way to incorporate that in the letter we would like to see that. Thank you. Thank you. I think this is splended idea. I wonder in the next meeting if we can invite them to come and maybe just to show that they are interested in this issue and what they plan to do around this. I think it is great idea for them to be here. So, any other Public Comments on this issue . Come on up. Good afternoon again. [inaudible] San Francisco bike beeursical coalition. The rise of tmc mept the rise of complaints we hear on a daily basis from the members. You can bike on valencia and have to navigate against uber or lyft. We partnered with uber to show how uber shares the streets. We are proud of the videios and taking a opportunity we can to move the neeldal but need support the ledge slaiper. Education and enforcement cant be the only strategies rchlt we need better policy squz need state leader shmpt we urge the city and committee to inurtmc opraigdss make our streets safer for all user jz urge the state to take action. Thank you for your attention. Thank you. Good afternoon. Cathy deluca from walk San Francisco. I dont want to repeat what sonny and hulia said because they said it wonderfully bedanger the vehicles are posing to the pedestrians and bicyclist. The Vision Zero Coalition over and over again qu hear the different members talking what a impact this is having on seniors trying to cross the street. Folks with disabilities when these vehicles block the cross walks and you are in a wheelchair or walker you cant get off the ramp to cross the street so we need to make sure everyone can use our street safely so we also urge you to do everything you can to make sure the city has say over these vehicles. The letter going to the tncs large policy aside, we love to see the go fenceyjohn talked at the cal train station the passengers have to go chair y somewhere esto get picked up and love to see the same on high injury corridors rather than picking up and dropping auch at high injury corridors pick up and drop off around the block and can lead to less crashs. Ill stop it there mptd thank you. Thank you. Any other Public Comment . Seeing none, Public Comment closed. Thank you for your report and lets move on towhere are we now . Item number 7. Introduction of new items. Seeing none. We dont need Public Comments on this, right . Item 8, general Public Comment. Good afternoon. Andrew yip. [inaudible] have a vuchues for the [inaudible] origin of principle to achieve [inaudible] that will provide benefits [inaudible] compassion and vision and principles for [inaudible] justice of pathways of career. Loyalty and point of love and [inaudible] politics religion learning and pathways along holy studies student promote two true principles [inaudible] kindness, to maximize ones self nature for [inaudible] one is superior being able to control ones Human Emotions and desires [inaudible] proceed to make benefits of what the world thinks of one self and others with [inaudible] having a destiny on to realistic [inaudible] thank you. Any other Public Comments . Seeing none Public Comment is close said. Any other items . Item 9, adjournment. Okay. Meeting adjourned. 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Org and information on reporting retaliation that when fraud is loudly to continue it jeopardizes the level of service that City Government can provide in you hear or see any dishelicopter behavior boy an employee please report it to say Whistle Blower Program more information and the whistle blower protections please seek www. There is one problem, it seems like it is a excluded place. They have the Fire Department that will get possibly injured. I looked and said wow, there is no snow under them. Thanks. Is there anyone else who would like to make Public Comments under the general managers report. At this time members of the public may address the commission within the subject matter jurisdiction of the commission and do not appear on the agenda. With respect to items you have the opportunity to address the commission when the items is reached. I have 4 cards i will call them off. Jill, dee, sally and kelly. Come on up. Any order. Jill, dee, sally and kelly. Can you hear me . Yes. Thank you. Good morning commissioners. Good morning. The [inaudible] Areas Program will have us believe this plan you will address is all about saving endangered species. They made statements about 50 loss of bio diversity in the plant program, but i want to clarify something, enfact the plant itself required monitoring of only 8 species of plants. Zero or endangered, threes of locing concern which is lower than federally endangered. Three are California Native Plants Society to be listed rare, threatened or endangered in california but more common elsewhere. Two are on the California Native Plant Society level 4 which is plants with limited distribution. I like you to think the trade off and monitoring of 8 plants and worthy selling 18, 448 healthy trees mpt the other thing i like to speak to is the concept and that is the concept oft bio diversity. Saving bio diversity is the linchpin which tries to save bio diversity in the remiant areas but the response to come, the final eir doesnt define what bio diversity is nor the draft eir or Management Plan. By inserting the word native into the employed definition of bio diversity the meaning the term is high jacked. All trees and plants whether native or not native are part of our local bio diversity like people from everywhere are part of our sit as diversity. Adding the word native to bio diversity demonizing native species. The urban forest are part of the totality of variation in San Francisco and have been all most 150 years rchlt we believe all trees and plants whether native or not native are part thof local bio diversity and valued. We traced the definition in the sustainability plan which was fed into the sin ramp and eir and came from eo wilson they say but says biediversity is the totality of all variation in life forms of earth. We believe that native and non native coexist together like pieces of the jigsaw puzzle and part of what are now called by scientist novel forest eco systems and these eco sestm provide essential services for all plants and essential to our bio diversity. Thank you next speaker, please. Sfgov tv, video, no audio. Ime rrp here today speaking on behalf of families and rpd gandner grounds keepers regarding the elth issue associated with exposing to the cancer causing chemicals you introduced into San Francisco play areas. Im addressing the lack of posted chemical warnings add these sites. We experienced the tragedy of a oakland warehouse fire. What makes this pertinent and city officials have known qu down ployed the raisk for years. Former mayor brown as a city leader you assume sth people with this responsibility are doing their jobs. This commission along with the rpd nurt deuced to public parks thousands of tonls of chemical mixture who pfs count is found by the state of california as a prop 65 xhemical known to cause cancer. You continue to do this without posting warnings as to the it helths risks. This is sth same mixture we see in the video being treated by San Francisco children like it was sand as they walk bear foot in it, throw it in each others face and place it in their mouths. As they breathe in the harmful chemtuals under the gaze of their caretakers rchltd if your intention is replace the fields, years down the road this does not mitigate the ongoing chemical exposers imposed every day on the intsent users of the neelds. The National List of cancer victims associated with exposure to these chemicals continues to grow. I heard the commission and rpd justify the actions by bragging you increased field usage. Even if you take such a claim at face value, this means you also increased the amont of Exposure Time as to the toxic chemicals for thousands of lives. I once again ask for you to take as steward the obvious step and that is at the vaer least post prop sick 5 signs at every entrance at eerfb field that contains the chemicals so sth users less willing than your suvls to expose the children or grand children to these chemicals are given a reasonable chance to make a informal decision. Multiple federal ages have taken concern regarding the chemicals and use on the fields rchlt these incluseu scpa, national statute of health kines, Consumer Product Safety Commission among many others. The state of california continues its own study which wont be concluded for years from now. Thisthank you. Thank you. Next speaker, please. My i ask you to speak into the m oorks c. My name is jill, im a parnt of two kids and who go to Outdoor Education schools and the glen park southern neighborhoods. This is one of them, this is pharyn my son and im here today to ask you to think strongly about the herbicides in the parks. I put my kids in outdoor schools because i believe in Outdoor Education and children having access to nature and i came across as soon as my sons School Started i came across posting signs they were spraying round up and garllen in the different areas where my kids are playing and i started a petition last year and got over 12,000 signatures and these kidsi was with them ipschool yesterday and all the kids were picking this sower grass, which he is eating now and they are picking it and putting it in mouths and making daisy chains and this something kids do naturally and i know it is policy tospray pesticides on these plants and i like to ask you guys to reconsider that and maybe think of coming up with a policy to prohibit the use oaf herbicides in the public parks because they should be for the public and enjoyment of families over everything else. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you, next speaker. Hi, commissioners. Sally stephens and if you wonder why the [inaudible] program is so unpopular with people who live near the parks with natural areas in them i like to give two examplesism grainview park which is a hill top in the western part the city, surrounded by housesrec and park planted a ice plant which is the only thing that held the sand in place, nothing else worked. When the [inaudible] program took control of all of Grandview Park the first thing they did is [inaudible] sand started to drift to the backyards of peoples who properties abut the park. They had Property Damage in the backyards from the sand and the Neighborhood Association meeting and couple yearsa number of yoors ago, lisa wanes respaunss when they asked what can we do about the damage is there is no spaunlt to anything that happens outside the park. When fish and wild life tried to [inaudible] franciscan manzanita discovered in the doyle droiv redue they included land in glen canren. When the fennel version of habitative r was released included 3. 2 acres were added because [inaudible] asked they be added. The problem is sth added land is not rec and park, it was peoples backyards and the people whos yards they were were never asked if they wanted their property designated as critical habitat for the plant and stuck with the designation and it effect the property values. Fish and wild life says we wont bother them but the realty is they could. Never held meetings to determine which parks have natural areas, they just took control of 1 quarter thoch city parks and not been a good neighborhood to the people who live aroun the parks and will only get worse if they get the free rein the Management Plan gives them. At this pont is there is no accountability so encourage you to implement the alternative and protect the park neighbors. Thauj. Anyone else who would like to make general Public Comment as this time . Come on up. Tom borden, with sf Forest Alliance and just wanted to make you aware of one thing going on in rec and park and that is the department of environment, ipm rules are being violated. The natural Areas Program is spraying [inaudible] tear one herbicide to kill native plants and we have a video of it, i think you may have seen it. But, in june they sprayed like a huge amount in Glen Canyon Park below the miro loma trail and the sign said they were spraying poison oak but it was coyoteee brush and sticky monkey flower. I took pictures that show a halo of death around the park. In the mairpwork for the next ipm hearing for reduced riskpisticide it is reported there is a up tick in spraying and attributed to poison oak along the trail in glen canyon. Not only where they breaking the rules because the plants where not invasive and lied about it and reported as poison oak spraying so keep your eyes open for that. It is indicative of something we have seen over and over again and hope people will Pay Attention and get everyone to play by the rules. Thank you. Anyone else who would like to make general Public Comment. This is closed. We are on the consent calendar and i have one card for richard fong. Good morning. I wanted to make a few comments about the [inaudible] willie wong chinese playground. There was found there were infrastructure needs, one way valving on the sewer system because blocked up tennis courts. That will be a big cost addition. There is another point in the sewer methods, im not a plumber or engineering you have student have good terrain because the building across the way sometimes has had many pluming problems so im troy toog look carefully at that. There should be make the money go up a little bit. There is part about [inaudible] on the cost part. I may as well get to the other part. On the other has to do with bridging of communities. I tried to put on facebook and not too good at that. I couldnt get the comment on it. [inaudible] women who are going to be the aquilizers of [inaudible] through the chinatown area. These particular people rpd woman, terri and all the rotary club, those kind of people want to help out bridging the community. There were a lot of supporting people of this particular Rehabilitation Project but there wasnt much talk about funding our fund raising and that type of stuff. I want that to come back into focus. There will be a lot of other people using this same facilities. Children use it usually during the sum squr at other times they are not using it. The big point i want to bring has to do with lighting and the tennis court and the possibility of a tennis court. I looked at the plan and nothing indicated a tennis and that is a very famous court for people who got National Ranking there. Anything you have to do to include tennis of appellanting of the lines as well as putting poles into the ground so you slip in the other poles and pull up the net. If you did that and of course you have to cap it when the kids are playing soccer but if they are playing basketball they dont have to take down the net. That is something use frd the community and continue the support of tennis. Thank you very much. Thank you. The poles are too high. Any other Public Comment on this item . Item 5, the consent calendar. Being none, Public Comment is closed. Commissioners. Entertain a motion moouved. Movaled and seconded all in favor. Aye. So moved. We are on item 6, the San Francisco zoo. Powerpoint, please. Thank you. Good morning president buell and commissioners general manager ginsburg. Thank you for coming outlet in the wonderful wet weather. In my office i have a meeting with someone named noah and if i see the animals lining up 2 by 2 im heading for high grand. I want to thank you on behalf the San Francisco zoological and oversight you do make us much better. On a personal note, as a former resident of noe value congratulations on the town square. Fantastic. Last weekend part of our mission is one of the c is knhunty. Last weekendtwo weekends ago, december 3, we hosted one of the most incredible events, 15 oanniversary of the San Francisco Fire Department with the chiefment we had over 650 people present and i know arfbd had a wonderful time and we were proud to be able to host this event and group of people so dedicated and also for many years in a row we partner would the Fire Department on the toy program collecting thousands of toys so thrilled to be a partner with the Fire Department. Part of our Conservation Program we brought in two new birds. It is called the bali mynahs the male is from South Carolina and fenail from the miami zoo. This bird is critically endangered in the wireld squewoo are part of the acasa program which is the Species Survival plan to help protect this bird. In fact, San Francisco zoo conservation efforts are vast and this is one of 32 ssps just within the aviary department the San Francisco zoo has. This bird is only found on the island of bali so thrilled to be a partner with the ssa program. If you come out to the zoo, i think you all seen our 3 female mand rills. We have a male, his name is badgeo. His face is bigger and has the blue color. He is a incredible animal. They are getting along well and hope the family will also be growing in this exhibit. Starting in january ewoo will have a docent class. Every year hundreds of docents help support the zoo with volunteer efforts through thousands of hours and cant do it without them. They are the ambassadors of the zoo. On saturday january 14 we will have docent orientation if you know anyone interested or yourselves in spare time of course and beginning february 5 we will have a new Docent Training Program that starts and lasts several weeks. We thank you the docents for all their efforts. Wroo mobile. Last time i was here about 4 weeks ago qu showed a picture of the new zoo mobile that we have out in the public. Sinss then we partnered with San Francisco Unified School District with this program to enrich the science programs and already vized 38 title 1 classrooms with additional 24 that are currently scheduled for the spring months. If you have any ideas of schools and chasss that would love our program please let us know and happy to bring out zoo mobile to the classes. Additional growth at San Francisco zoo just in the last couple weeks we added babies. New infants at the zoo ft, top right is one of the new howlers so there are two of the primates in the Discovery Center on the far left exhibit said. There is simang and next is the howlers. Yes, those are the ones that howl. If you live nearby the zoo you will hear them a good half mile away. Additionally, in the lower left we have a new kudo caf that joined us november 30 waying in at 30 pounds so come out and see as the zoo continues to grow. We talk about global connoisseursation. Consurivation from San Francisco zu zoo that wnt to churchmill hann togueo to look what is happening to the polar bear population. Wurbing with the program called the Polar Bear Alert Program. The one thing you want to note especially when we talk in the narrative of climate change, thiss is end of november and you see it is dirt so should be a lot of snow at this time. This program that i mentioned the Polar Bear Alert Program goes back to flaen 80 and they collect bears that are huh rassedments to society and put them in jail. Luckily there are zoos such as ours as part the conservation efforts to take the bears. Hulo the bear who is 35 years old came from this facility 33 years ago. She was a bear that gout into peoples garben and she and sister and mom broke into a house so wnt to jail but is part of San Francisco zoo 33 years. It is great San Francisco zoo can look at the programs and work with the groups. Another interesting conservation group, our lead vet Graham Crawford is trying to protect seberal differentagys in the lemur. The communities are very impoverished and using lemur as nourishment. The reason for that is chickens, the population of chickens have been diseased ovmany years so he has worked over the last 8 years with this Incredible Team to vaccinate the chickens of madagascar to make them ed b8. This has incredible Global Impact so we have been work wg the mad gar car Vaccine Development and Harvard School of Public Health and 3192 chickens have been vaccinated to save the speess of lemur. Winter zoo camps have a few openings so if you want to help support the camp or during the holidays make sure that the kids are out of the house. Please snd them to San Francisco zoo and we are happy to take them in. As yoi know, santa claus lent us bell, holly and perp mint for the reindeer romp. They are on site have aggreat time. Reindeer come from the north pole, here is a side note useless trivia they are a semi domestic species the care bu. Just recently they were reintroduced into scotland extinth since the [inaudible] finally zoo lights begins tomorrow night, december 16 through the 30 accept for the 24 and 25. Please join us filled with hundreds of thousands of lights and food and music and will have a great time and the weather starting tomorrow will be perfect. That conclude my report. Thank you very much. Is there Public Comment on this item . Being none, Public Comment is closed. Commissioners, this was discussion only, so we are now on item 7. Lets play sf approval of the agreement between the rec and park defarmt in San Francisco Parks Alliance in acceptance of the grant. Good morning, lisa bran stn, director of partnership in rec and park. Thrill d to be here for a mile stone in a project we have worked on for some time with the parks aliness. This comes out of the Department Strategic plan in the areas of strengthage existing park facilities and cultivating increasing philanthropic support. Not only will this be a vast improvement to the citys playground but a major milestone working with Parks Alliance and the first major capitalcome pain the department has taken on with the nuf organization formed 6 years ago. So, youll see in the staff report that we are asking for three commission actions. That is a slight variation from the agenda language because with the direction of the Capital Committee, we decided that we will take the related agreements to commission, so what im asking for today are discussion and possible action to approve the mou between the rec and Park Department and the San Francisco Parks Alliance to partner on the lets play Sf Initiative to renovate the 13 playground in San Francisco prioritized as most in need by the failing Playground Task force. Aproouv the Grant Agreement between the deparnlt and Park Alliance the Parks Alliance contributes up to 15 million for the playground renovation and number 3, recommend the board of supervisors accept this grant of 15 million encash and in kind contributions. I just want to back up and start how we got to this point. This process started with the 2012 bond which was passed by more than 70 percent of volters and it had a pool offunding of 15 million to renovate playgrounds in San Francisco. When the bond passed in partnership with the the Parks Alliance the department convened a task force in 2014 to prioritize the unvenvited playgrounds. The task force consisted of park professionals, community and children advocates and other stakeholders. The task force met for 6 months and ultimately selected 4 criteria for prioritizing unrenovated playgrounds. Those were the presence of wood treated with carpine arsenic, low hosehold medium income, high use density sthof neighborhood and low grades on the Parks Alliance playground. And so the playgrounds that wnt through that filter ended up with 13 playground you see on the map in front of you. I did want to emphasize the selected playground coved the vast geography of San Francisco. So, why do this . First of all, play is important. Play and playground are transformative for chrn and for neighborhoods and for communities. This project will impact nearly 20,000 children who live within a quarter mile of these 13 playgrounds and hope it will impact more and also the generations that come after the children living in these neighborhoods now. And also partnership is important. The city cannot do this alone. The 15. 5 million enthe bond is enough to deliver we believe 6 playgrounds. If we want to do all 13 playgrounds which we very much want to, then we need to have a partner and we need private philanthropy. In 2015 the board voted to initiate a campaign with the department and we are moving forward on that. In addition to working together on the felon thopic campaign, the department is hard at work renovating the first 6 of the tier one playgrounds. Merced heights and Sergeant John mu collie playgrounds are having Community Meetings now. I believe they both had sthree. Washington square park had three Community Meetings, there is Community Consensus on the scheme for the playground and i expect that sometime in the next 6 mupths there will be a concept plan for your review and approval. And then there are preliminary studies in process before the participatory design begins for the second 3 of the first 6 tier one playground. That is [inaudible] panhandle play grown and john mclaren at the picnic areament that brings us to today which is next step formalizing a partnership. We ask to approve the Grant Agreement to recommend the boardf supervisors accept the grant and approve the mou between the department and Parks Alliance on how well partner on this project. So, to start with the Grant Agreement, here is highlights. The term of the agreement is 8 years and then the Grant Agreement defines a general use of funds for the initiative and playground budgets will be developed on a project by project basis. Only private funds will be used for Campaign Expenses including Park Alliance staff and playground related special events qu the goal is 10. 75 million but we seek approval to accept up to 15 million in case the parties decide to seek more private funding or the campaign is wildly success sfl, which we hope. This grants agreement maintains City Authority over public funds and tier one playgrounds will be prioritized. This is the general preliminary budget for this nisative. Expenses for tier one are based on cost estimates by the department as part of the early planning process. Expenses for tier 2 are estimates based on departments general experience renovating playgrounds of the size and scope of the 7 sites. The Parks Alliance Campaign Staff and expenses will be funded privately. The sources as i said are the 2012 bond funds. There is some other public funding that is designated mostly for tier two playgrounds from public sources including general Fund Allocations and Community Opportunity funds allocations that the communities applied for and award by the department and then of course the philanthropic dollars from the campaign. And then for the mou and related agreement, the term in the budget are the same as in the Grant Agreement and the tier one playgrounds are prioritized. So, this document is really roadmap for the partnership between the two institutions and it includes general terms that the Department Requires of private partners on Capital Projects. The support from the Parks Alliance is expected right now to include three general forms. One is cash grants, two is inkind grants of Playground Design and three is inkind grants for construction. There are 3 grants that receive private support 23r5u78 the parks appliance and these agrooments follow the form of standard partnerships between the department and private entities when we partner with inprivate sector for Capital Projects. I want to emphasize that everything in these agreements is addative to the regular department practiceess around Capital Projects. All sth projects will come to commission for approval of the concept design, the award of any contract that contains public funding and in addition at request of the Capital Committee the department will provide twice a year updates on the initiative so you can track the progress. The commission will see expenditures through the cost estimate that come with concept design, tracked award approval and through the mupthly Financial Support from the Capital Division. That is where we are. I hope you approve these items and i am happy to answer questions. Thank you very much. Thank you. Do we have Public Comment on this item . Come on up. Good morning mpt Rachel Norman ceo of the San Francisco Parks Alliance and thrilled to ask you to approve these fwo items. This marks a huge step forward for us as a organization, for our relationship with the department and for kids in San Francisco most porntsly. If we are able to raise all the funds we hope to raise to renovate all these playgrounds, 20,000 children will have a new updated play space in their neighborhoodss kwr we will have eliminating the problematic wood from play spaces in San Francisco so i think it really is a very worthy project, it is really exciting for us and the next step for us in our evolution as a organization. I want to just note there were question raised at Capital Committee and want to be clear we respect your need to have oversight over the bonds funds and see this as a partnership and philanthropic endeavor to expand the reach of those public dollars. I think the changes made in the agreement since the Capital Committee reflect the concerns and will add additional transparency as requested. Gym the board chair at the capical committee wasnt able to be here today but spoke in support and our board is unanimously in support of this initiative and think it will be a great think for San Francisco for us and for you so urge you tothank you. Thank you. Commissioner low. Before we do that is there any other Public Comment on this iletm . Seeing none Public Comment is closed. Commissioner low. I just want to thank the department on and particularly lisa bran stn on enduring sessions of drafting and redrafting the mou. It is maybe something lawyers enjoy but not those responsible for fundraising. It does address the concerns we raised at the Capital Committee particularly around reporting and accountability and believe this agreement does reflect the concerns addressed and raised at the Capital Committee. I did review nancy werefulls email that came in yesterday which really was parallel concerns on reporting and accountability and those are adequately addressed in these agreements. Keep going. [laughter]. Was it the lawyers comment you didnt like . Does he need the chairs permission . Nancy waterfolds email and it already addressed and think the revised agreement in her email so think this is reflective of reporting accountability and the status reports that will come to the Capital Committee every 6 months, so i think this is adequately addressed and is in the form for approval. I also want to see my fellow commissioner mcdonnell who wants to speak and want to acknowledge he put a lot of work in into the failing Playgrounds Initiative and commissioner harrison and that work will come into fruition as the public bond money for tier one are prioritized and come online first and see the failer playgrounds fixed soon. Thank you. Commissioner mcdonnell. Thank you. Thank you so much. I want to add my thanks to lisa and staff and rachel and team at Parks Alliance and then most especially the members of the communethy who participated in the failing playgrounds task force. One of the most encouraging elements of the process i was fortunate to participate in, was how actively our community who are coowners of these spaces that we are looking to invest in engage in the process and really exciting that we are able to begin to fulfill against at least implied if not explicit promises of making the investments so this is a exciting moment to move this project forward. Thank you. With that i move approval 6789 second. Before i call the roll i want to add my congratulations to staff and Park Alliance and particularly comment that there has been a long journey to try and solidify one park partner and to make that partner as good as it can be and i want to congratulate the alliance on their board and staff selections because i think they raised the bar to a level that the Philanthropic Community can look with great confidence at their ability to deliver and can look to the staff for their ability to design and construct, so kudos to everybody and with that it is moved and seconded. All in favor. Aye. Hearing no opposition so moved. We are on item 8, the annual capital plan for fy 2018. Good morning commissions. Im here to talk about the annual Capital Expenditure plan. For a long time there was a practice holding a annual capital fair. That fair was poorly attended and we have taken this opportunity in the resurrection of this requirement to have a annual Capital Expenditure plan and hope to start not just once a year conversation. I hope we can celebrate what has been a extraordinary decades worth of work and that we also start ongoing conversation that my hope is over the next year in particular to start using Capital Committees and opportunities to talk on more deeply about specific topics relevant to the way we deliver our Capital Projects with a eye towards general Obligation Bond planning. With that i want to make today the start of that conversation. This is a unusual timeline that i have on the screen. It isnt included with the chart but talked about it at prosac. This shows the investzment in San Francisco parks since 958 with focus on general Obligation Bonds. As you look back the dark green circles represent bonds that passed and the lighter green represent bond that were pulled together but never paz passed by voters. Back at 1958 you see the amount och investment adopted by the voters and invested in the park system was pretty minimal. We have a small bond for 15 million in 1959 for the palace of fine arts. And is a 37 million bondthese are todays dollars for park irrigation. General bond for 38 million in 1987 for rec park and focused on Golden Gate Park in particular. In the 70s or the late 60s a effort to pull together something for parks. Four efforts all of which failed. I think there is a important story to be told about the importance of planning and account 7b89. Prior to the adoption of 10 year captop plan. If you have money and resources you can go to ballot. It resulted in a hap haders how we made investments. The result is for 50 years we barely had anything. That resulted in most of the facilities particularly the buildings came online in the early 50 and so you saw the aging out of the system without a replacement plan. That need build up to the point that then Parks Council and many other parks advocates feeling there was a crisis for the quality of our facilities did initiate a bond in 2000 and that was 110 million general Obligation Bonds for parks and no other restriction accept the funds shouldnt be spent in Golden Gate Park. That is the First Investment in 50 years. There wasnt a planning Capital Division at rec park so that proposal was pulled together through the democratic process largely driben by squeaky wheel planning and resulted in a spectacular mismatch of expectations what was delivered. We were able to leverage another 3 hundred million in other Funding Sources against the 110 million bond it left many people a bad feeling about our audibility because we praumentsed the park sestm would be renovated with that one general Obligation Bond. In 2006 two things happened, there is a 10 year capital plan put forward by the city which begins to sequence a series of general obligation bon to meet the needs so the needs drive the proposal rather than where with all. At the same time, the rec and Park Department created a planning and Capital Division. They were separate and i became the Department First planning director which is tarifying to me given we are the largest land owner in San Franciscoment we created the planning unit and the city adopted a 10 year capital plan and made the clean and safe Neighborhood Parks bond the first project of the 10 year plan. Since thatd time, our bonds have passed at huge levels. Actually not just within rec and park but the city as a whole. We have seen the passive of more go bond in the prior decades since and major investment not just in parks but Public Health and public safety. I think it is a important story and this can the bed rock of that 10 year plan and our own bond planning is a lot of careful dulibative planning and expectations we create during the planning of the projects and during the campaign and attending to the dlivy of those projects making sure that the expectations established in the public whether through task force like the Playground Task force or bond planning process those are clearly spelled out, that agreements are articulated and we monitor the implementitation of the promises. We continued to do that and now have over 300 million in investment we continue to manage and now we look towards 2018 as the placeholder for the next general Obligation Bond. That being said, the plan is flexible, it 10 year plan and we do expect there to be conversation whether the bond occurs in 2018 or 19 to accommodate other needs. I look flward working with you over the next year to talk about what that process will look like. Revisit the Lesson Learned of what worked for us in the 2008 and 2012 delivery and how to roll the successs in the next plan and learn lesson particularly around cost escalation and Budget Practices to make sure we are wem prepared to meet public expectations. These are just before and after to show the transformations we have beenable to make using our bond program. This is joe demauz row playground, before. This is after. This is chinese recreation center. Dawn, can you speak into the mic. Sure. The other important thing that doesnt get discussed about our portfolio works is this a chart that shows all the projects completed in the past decade and it is over 450 project said. They range in size from the extremely tiny to our largest projecttened to top at about 25 million. The 30 million in the marina the largest and chinese rec are about 20 million. 80 percent of the projects are under 2 2 and a half million dollar. The quhalg is unlike large project which you have all the same problems but less flexibility about how to respond and think that requires the different administrative strategy how to dliv the praunlects and aults as we move forward and think how we build budgets and manage them, more conservative approach you may need if you manage a portfolio of 30 million projects. As we look at the past decade of work we look over a billion dollars of investment made and this include again some of the larger investments. Things like the zoo for example. Projects that are notunder our jurisdiction but not administered by us. Ovwellming the money comes from the go bond program. One thing that dif rirchiates the rec park Capital Program from others is the amount to which we use private philanthropy and grants to help support our work. So, i think katey presented at the Capital Committee for this years submission for the budget. It is over 15 million and continuing to focus on differed maintenance and differ maintenance needs we havent been able to address in the Capital Program. Like forestry and court resurfacing and irrigation improvement. Future years i think these streams of Decision Making will be merged and this was our first run this year and our deadlines were out of sync and hope we will produce a more formal glossy report for submission to the board of supervisors as the charter requires in midjanuary but this data will be included as part of that. With that, happy to answer questions. Do we have Public Comment on this item . Seeing none, Public Comment is closed. Commissioner harrison. Yes, dawn i have been around a long time and lived through most of what you reported on. Yeah. And i am astounded all those years prior to your coming on and creating this division you created the division and hired me. You put it together and made it a breathejug living thing and absolutely great. Im very impressed. Thank you very much. Your staff and you putting that together, we are lodge clael using our money. Now. Correctly. Yes. I really appreciate it and thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Commissioner harrison the Senior Member the commission . I think she was around in this day and age as well. Through this whole process of maybe the same time did you come at the same time . I think so. I was talking about prior years when i was working he does have seen orty, doesnt he . Thank you. If i can thank the commission. I have [inaudible] Capital Programs and think a great thing about the Rec Park Commission is the fact there has been real ownership of principles and that partnership has made our jobs infinitely easier as we troy to do the smart thing over the long term and balancing against the crush of current day relentless interest we face so i think that partnership is very important and look forward continue toog build on it in the coming year. Thank you. With that, i believe there was no Public Comment. We will entertain a motion to approve. So movaled. Second. Moved and seconded. All in favor. Aye. So moved. We are now on item 9, general Public Comment continued. Anyone who would like to make general Public Comment who didnt comment under item 4 . Being none, this item is closed. 10 is new business agenda setting. Any Public Comment . Public comment is closed. Commissioners, any comments . None. 11 communications, any Public Comment . Being none, this item is closed so we are on 12, adjournment. So movaled. Second. Moved and seconded. All in favor . Aye. So moved, thank you very much. [meeting adjourned] good morning and welcome to the San Francisco Planning Commission registry Commission Registry hearing for thursday, december 15, 2016, any kind