Transcripts For SFGTV BOS Special Budget And Finance SubCommittee 71816 20160720

People were actually commuters, all we could find out was how many people got on in certain places but of course there is in a system now and probably should not be a system for they get off so we dont know how many people have the long run. Weve done our own surveys and were all writers of muni and we see no reason for the statement that says buses are slow and reliable. They are not on speaking. The gary geary 38 ought. The geary 38 bay x are very fast. People are very very pleased by what they see. Theres no reason for mta to be denigrating its own service. So, there are many many more things to talk about about that and what i want to propose was that we have a meeting at which we have an opportunity to set forth what we think is important before you are forced into position we have two approve this. I mean you dont have the time. You have the time to investigate even though youre the duty of care to worry about this you dont have the time. We put the time into and within seven opportunity to come up for you with that thank you. Suggestions the board will consider. So the meeting with the richmond association. Thank you. Next speaker, please. [calling names] i represent the holy virgin cathedral, which is on 26th ave. Between 76 and 27th ave. On geary. Our membership is about 1200 people. We have Senior Housing facilities at their. We have two schools there. We believe this disposal is very dangerous to the seniors and to the students, and we very much are opposed to the proposal. Its been said by the project manager that weve met and they heard our concerns and came back with incorporated our concerns into what the proposal is now. I can say that is not true. Nothing that we said, expressing our concerns, was incorporated into the proposal as it sits now. I think this is a dangerous costly unnecessary and i do believe that the board nor the staff realize the intensity of opposition to this project. On the merchants, from the residence, the mother people visiting the area to this plan. I sincerely hope that if you talk about 200 million i think is much better ways to use it them to create something that will be a real detriment to the Living Conditions out there. Thank you thank you. Next speaker, please. [calling names] good afternoon. Im a parishioner holywhich is located between 2627th ave. As previously mentioned we have a lot of concerns but this project Going Forward. The school of course as mentioned theres two schools operating out of that church and right now the parking they have no parking at the Carbon Services like a buffer to protect the kids in case they run out, if the bustling is put against the curb that buffer is gone. So that opens a lot of possible incidents with a kick and run out on the street and get hit by a bus. The second concern is loss of parking. That area, especially on weekends its almost as right difficult to find parking. One time i circled literally for 40 min. Before i found a parking spot was probably was about seven blocks away. With all this loss of parking stock to get better its going to get worse. We asked mta to look for options that the locate additional parking in a believe they look into that but at this point, we have no valid reasonable solution to provide additional parking thats needed. A lot of our parishioners come from other locations. East bay, south bay and so on. Taking Public Transportation in a lot of cases is not an option so theyre forced to drive. With this situation a parking were going to lose a lot of parishioners which we already have due to other reasons but with this implementation this project were going to lose a lot more. Thank you thank you. Next speaker, please. [calling names] eileenzero in solitaire with the geary residence and merchant. Public comment residents and merchants concerns were characterized as coldunquote complaints. We this characterization is condescending dismissive and patronizing. Im hoping the board does not share this perspective for the propose caravelle project mta has stated they did not do an Economic Impact study. The mta could also not do a costbenefit analysis. This is also true of the proposed geary prt price. The following is an exit from the gary residence and merchant statement and i will quote this prt project seems to just justification other than transit improvement. Indeed, the budget shows it would take pay for major Infrastructure Improvements. Its not clear how many of those investments will be of the tubes by the city where developers make use of them. It is obvious the developers will begetting a freebie here under the guise of Infrastructure Improvements are required when did you the street for the prt. What assures assurances do we have the cost incurred would be anything less than a subsidy for those who will come along and build more units along and near the corridor . Is this the hidden subsidies. They should be discussed openly but its not been raised by muni itself. Theres been a strong policy framework density in the richmond. People are suspicious given serving a little time for these small minority of writers will commute to downtown does not justify spending 300 million or more. Theyre curious about the fact that down to money seems to be behind this project. Thank you. Next speaker, please. [calling names] good afternoon commissioners. Mary eliza. This board has not been a very good job of listening to the public if we believe the were saying here today and heard otherwise. Youre not responding to the needs of the public. When not sure what youre responding to but its not the needs of the drivers, the riders, would the general public. Neighborhood groups and merchants are meeting tonight in two separate meetings to discuss alternative to this geary project. In case you did not know. Merchants from castro to polk street and mission are losing business many are closing due to bad traffic and parking problems and the caravelle and geary merchants do not want to become part of that group. Of lost business. The merchants will not support a sales tax increase that will further reduce their profits and im really not sure the citizens of the city are ready to support that either. We just kind of wondering which of your many projects youre willing to give up if you have to. You dont get that sales tax increase. Thank you thank you. And you must to address the board seeing none, at the pleasure of the board . There are people. You want to stand up and speak . Good afternoon jim and is david hurston, longtime richmond resident living in San Francisco since 1960. Controversy is no stranger to projects in San Francisco. But as a longterm residence am very alarmed that the amount of controversy, the mta projects are generating. When i get to a Public Meeting in people are screaming at each other and yelling at each other, beyond the scope of the project, this tells me that people are not being heard. If i had to characterize this project, it would be a steamroller thats copying her. Not being heard by the residence and they are really the feeling for my perception is, its all about the sales job. The Virtual Reality kiosk is a good example that. He was stated in their presentation that we have spent hours with them. Im part of the geary Merchants Group. Basically, in those hours they put their powerpoint presentation. We prepared our points and there was never any dialogue. I think thats whats missing on this project is a positive dialogue and scope of the project forward but not and in a lawsuit, not end up in a ballot initiative, not end up with people screaming kid i think its possible to move the city forward without hurting Small Businesses. Without hurting the 20 of the people in the Richmond District that are Senior Citizens and over 65. So you do the math over 70,000 people how many that is good i just think theres another way is not necessary to rush this project as an emergency. This guy is fun. I urge everyone to take a closer look, sit down, work honestly and hear what the people have to say in a honest fashion and also [inaudible] because other people of submitted points and its like talking to a black hole. So when somebody request something say yes or so note thank you. Next speaker, please. We been trying weve been asking the mta and cta for years and i have to certificate to prove it more than 10 years Economic Impact study it lets do a study. We been rebuffed by the mta and the cta. When i testified in front of them and i mentioned parking, i was given the answer of if im really so concerned about parking maybe i should consider moving to a Shopping Mall theres plenty of parking over there. I think that you really have to locate into this matter. We have light rail on geary boulevard from micah 3050 and by taking it down we have more certificates from every branch of government giving us the foresight to remove it and to create a boulevard, a commercial corridor, and now you want to take that away and kill it. Not telling you the truth. They cannot tell you with the prt there was a gas line over there. Thats not in the plan but there is a gas line there. If they say they dont want you to know it scored to take 56 months per block the construction of the prt. But where talking about the block is not just one block because you got that right block and a half and a block can have. How can we go to survive . People on a mission or going out of business. People on federal are trying to ongoing business. We cannot let you do that to us. And we ask you to be compassionate and be sensitive to it you can. We are not against improving transportation on geary boulevard but dont put us out of business. Thank you so much for your consideration thank you. Anyone else care to address the board . I have a lot of compassion for this argument because the special because of the money being spent for this project. On van ness i dont know how much i one is costing but that one could simply been solved by having a shuttle bus running between aquatic park and the mission and were frequently to take up the problem being that there was not enough frequency of buses. Without spending the millions of dollars that we spent in the disruption involved. Thank you. Next speaker, please. Sylvia johnson. I say i know that exactly the problem is is that [inaudible] needs to be on it is a kind of old way of doing work a lot better and the efficiency thats been going on i have [inaudible] causing the rails. Im telling you this is not [inaudible] putting people out of business and talking about other things that [inaudible]. I mean, its really [inaudible] thats not going to work [inaudible] we have problems in the [inaudible] and take care of [inaudible]. Our main problem [inaudible] i am tired of this, you know, [inaudible] because some politics is better [inaudible] and trying to run [inaudible] this is where the issue is in the police department. Im going to make sure housing and equipment [inaudible] because a lot of [inaudible] it will be [inaudible] thank you. Next speaker, please. Just, come on up. Hello. If i understood correctly, i was very heartened to hear you said you would meet were overhearing with the richmond people . Did i understand that correctly . Bestows what you want, the people are terrible the merchants and resident roots that similar problems with sfmta. That had meetings with us but it is not been well advertised in the community. When we finally managed the leaflet the community ourselves to tell them what actually was happened because as of the third and final meeting, where the staff was announcing what changes they have made based on Community Input there were hundreds of people who didnt have any idea the stops were being removed. According hours were being booked because the sunset when upset come to an open house on the old sourdough. The make the capital more efficient and safer this about geary prt we have something similar but i want to know the next time we come to officially be presenting their proposal to you for final approval. Or hopefully you would adopt a terrible plan that would just do it as a trial permitted i was wondering if youd also be willing to meet with the caravelle Merchants Group and residents groups before you get to that point so we can avoid the problem that happen elsewhere where its implemented in most people still dont know what about it because its such anger and dissension in the community. Thanks. Next speaker, please. Anyone else was to speak to the board . Seeing none, members of the board i know mr. Chairman from our agenda this is a presentation on. We have no action on this item. Ive no followup questions but i would think mr. For the presentation and for keeping this board up to date on the progress. Im gary prt anybody else on the board . Director ramos i just want to state up into a part of this process. Actually this is in my second term as a board member here the reason why i was actually appointed to the sports because i was serving on the Citizen Advisory Committee for thegeary prt and i was five years ago and we were hoping that would project wouldve vastly been implemented by now. So theres no rush here. This is long past due i think. There are 50,000 riders on that line every day that i feel, by not doing anything are ignoring the fact that that line were having a hard time getting anybody upon the line anymore. I mean those buses are so crowded now that if youre a person with the ability issues or have any kind of itif you can play twister, and having a hard time getting on a bus and i know because i ride it. I so know that is an auto oriented corridor. A lot of business were set up their to be auto oriented. As such, we should be as sensitive as possible to doing whatever we can to protect and preserve the Small Businesses that are doing business there and we cherish. So, im hoping that Going Forward that we are not necessarily we that we as a city, we as a part of the minutes of howdy are working with the Economic Development agency to make sure putting in place whatever measures we need to make sure the Small Businesses are taken care of in a way that would help transition to what really should be started off as, in transit corridor. I wont say more because is a long meeting but looking forward to having these conversations Going Forward but i certainly am very concerned about making sure the businesses stay afloat both in preparation for the construction during construction, and after construction. In the same way women able to do with essential subway i think weve done phenomenal job working with the businesses and making sure that they stay afloat in that capacity. So i look forward to the conversation. The whole goal is to make it easier for people to access your business, not to make it more difficult. So, i know this project has been under i was the vice chair of the bank may for prop k and 23 in geary prt was in that consideration back then. We been having this conversation for very long time. I think whats hard for us is that it doesnt seem like we have been able to come together the community and mta, to adequately feel comfortable with the project did i know that was a mention of 20 hours, 20 meetings were 20 hours of meetings that might be helpful if there were a list of the top five things were the 10 things that were the pain points of the community that we could address because i think its going to be the easiest way for us to tackle those things. We have a very clear list of suggestions that these of things would make it better. Ive always believe is important to be proactive and resolutions rather than point out the problems which we all can easily do on a number of things but i think we have a lot of great minds and Community Leaders in the Community Across from us as wells people at mta working hard on figuring out how do we also talked about earlier plan for our future. Our population is growing and even growing in the Richmond District as well. I think i saw housing prices are gone up in the Richmond District because of greater demand. No People Living out. We know the system is stressed and we do we cant transport many more people on that system today. So we have to come up with a solution. So, i look forward to working with all of you. I know weve been all been working together and ill begin figure out how we can better communicate with each other and hear each other so that everybody feels like we are doing whats in the best interest of the city and in the community overall. Director borden i think thats extremely well stated argument the positive positive suggestion the top 45 things that are problems as opposed to having 24 hours of meetings. Similar group c or c those before we put four. I definitely support that again this is not an action item. I want to thank our staff for the presentation all the public for being a. Lets move to the next item item 14 [reading code]. How many . Maybe we can ask the public to give recommendations. When we call on members of the public who want to speak on the shuttle bus issue and in the board will talk about it. [calling names] good afternoon mr. Thomason hi my name is david thomas. Almond with in building manager at 7001 bush st. Me on behalf of our tenants especially tenants who now have the doing windows that face the new shuttle stop those put in a couple of weeks ago. I missed into something of a pilot which is why we are here. I justi would like to point out that when these buses pull in as a Diesel Engine in the back of them. Those megadoesnt that Diesel Engine sits about 15 feet for the bedrooms of some of the tenants in our building and theyre being very negatively impacted could i like you all to consider what it would like to 150 people, 200 people directly outside your bedroom window and have idling Diesel Engines 15 feet from your bed. This is what our tenants are going to especially on the first and second floor where those buseswith this new shuttle stop has been put in. I know are small number of tenants and i can hear from a lot of people benefit from this program. Im not inkyshuttle in any way but this new stop is literally forcing our tenants out of their beds start at 5 40 am every morning. So i ask you to reconsider we are in the neighborhood you would like to put these shuttles. The places that are not that close to where people sleep so thank you for your time. Next speaker, please. [calling names] good afternoon. Hello members of the board. I want to speak first of all, i want to support the shuttle okay shannon at bush. As either standard, you can correct me if im wrong, this is a temporary stop to replace one that used to be at then asked neither california were segments oh while the banas bus Rapid Transit is been constructed. Im not too familiar with that neighborhood and thats on my stockholder am glad the board is working to identify your placement stop while the brd is under construction and accommodate those who get on in that area. I think some of us have had complaints over how stop changes have been made in the past where stocks were moved without there being a proper replacement provided good im glad thats not happening in the case of cost and bush but one place where that is still the cases near the former stop at 18th and church three. We dont have an option for those buses living in the neighborhood. I live at 20th and guerrero. Theres no stop within a halfmile. Its almost 3 4 of a mile to the nearest one at 26 to 25th and valencia. In the evening dropoff. So, speaking to item 14c grade asap at cesar chavez and bartlett, i think this is i think its reasonable to create a stopped there and i think that it would be reasonable to relocate the 25th and valencia stop there if that stopped like everybody go to the stock were well served by that stop. However thats currently serving overflow traffic from people who would prefer a stop your 19 and dolores. So, i would ask you not to move the 25th and valencia stop until an alternative internet even divorce can be established. Thank you. Thank you. Next speaker, please. [calling names] good afternoon grew sparsely. I lifted the corner bush and cost. 1701 bush for 21 years. I am in favor of the shuttle buses. Im not thrilled about the buses idling 15 feet i measured it from our windows. For my bedroom window. The diesel tossed is not a lot of fun. They start at 5 40 am which is a little earlier than i used to wake up. Weve always slept with the windows open because its great weather in San Francisco. We dont do that anymore. The biggest were some of the safety problems are that there is a street trees next to the parking where identified for the buses. But they dont pull in there because they cant. The trees are not tall enough to go over the top of the buses. And theyre not able totheyre not able to park in a parking zone which actually takes out a lane of driving rain, two. On golf. Also, it has a problem with people turning from bush onto golf because theyre actually out in the driving lane. [inaudible] i think a solution like would suggest it be to move it to go off and geary. Next of the catholic church, there, there are no apartments or buildings next. Theres actually a lot of room. Theres not that many people dr. Overnight either. Theres no cheese in the way. Its also no further from the van ness than your geary and bush is. Theres no [inaudible] i think i would be a Good Alternative thank you, sir. Next speaker [calling names] are any of those folks are . Hello again hello, again. Thanks for the opportunity to speak about the good im another person that currently rides the shuttle from the 25th and valencia stop. My understanding is the cesar chavez location will potentially be a replacement for that stop. So i really appreciate again that there is replacement and not just removal. As a huge impact on my quality of life being able to take the shuttle from our location. I have seen i want to echo what scott said. Ive seen a larger influx of riders since the stop was a limited your church and 18. So, its going to add to blocks to my commute. Im okay with that. I think have stronger affect on people who already becoming further because there stop was moved. So, i just applied you sort of making a replacement and ask that it be consideration for adding a stop closer to the dolores park neighborhood. Thank you. Next speaker, please. [calling names] last person whos turning a speaker card. Hi. My name is mark hurwitz. I live again on farrow street 23. The stop that valencia 25th is one i use. I think that moving itself to make the school saver is good but actually having more stops will actually improve the pocket when the big problems is about congestion but i think overall the reduction of number of sauces increase congestion at various places around the city. See more stops would give the people the opportunity the fewer shuttles acting individual stocks and reduce congestion people say around that sort of thing. So assuming charge the urgency of replacing the other stops in front instead of delete one at one. Its only not reducing the number is very good. Josie on our topless communication. There was agenda for this meeting said it indicated we would be removing the stop but in fact, there was no communication posted around the location and the agenda for the meetings for this previously discussed adding the stop at cesar chavez and bartlett did not discuss any possibility of removing the stop at valencia and 2050 or so i think thats something that perhaps we can do better communication with people who are the writers and affected by this members of the board spewing i do feel the matter where we put a stop or move the stop on were running into problems. I dont pretend to be an expert in any of these locations but maybe the way forward to today always is to approve these people should be willing to walk a little bit further for once you ride to the destination, but i think theres a limit about people are willing to work. The one with the bus idling outside of peoples bedrooms, i absolutely feel you on that. Theres nothing worse that diesel smell right outside your house so maybe on about one it looks like heres a big we are located at good releases in a fantastic step out to look for an option that wont be outside which may not exist. Provide just a quick overview of the key points you need to snow. This is largely the material you have been seeing all the along and the good work of moe neek and her staff have. Terrific. Thank you. Thank you. I want to ask quickly roberta presentation on the [pause]. Unless you brought it . Did you bring it . So sorry about that. Okay. So well just do a quick summary of the points that were going to make today. So good afternoon im moe neek webster with sfmta finance division. And what were bringing before you for adoption today is the. Capital improvement program. The program is a rolling 5year road map. To advance the strategic goals of our agency all while keeping all while being focused, efficient, and effective with the money and resources we have to us. Some of this information will be available to you. Capital budget but whats different today is were presenting the overall comprehensive 5year program, which we bring to you for approval every two years. In your materials for today is a 200page document that describes in detail over 250 projects and all their Funding Sources. And there are many many people who are involved in the development of this program. And its led by the Capital Financial planning and analysis team. And im going to turn it over quickly to arial as par tiew santo who is the leader of that team. Thank you. Good afternoon. Thank you. And thank you monique. And thank you for your patience as we deal it reminds me back in the day when we had the [indecipherable] in the classroom. So as monique mentioned, you already seen a portion of this presentation as we presented the budget. So im going to move through it quickly. First two years of that are the Capital Budget that came to you folks in april. And as you remember, what we think as cip is, its really the implementation tool for all of the strategies and plans that the city has and the region and the mta. So we apply the financial constraints to our capital plan to come up with what set of projects were going to deliver with the revenue we expect to see over the next five years. Some of the main goals that were pushing for through this plan are vision zero, transit first and state repair. Were very focused on safety and were also looking at investing in areas of concern. So building on that, one of the things that were very proud of is that weve been able to include recommendations from the muni equity strategy in the. So as you recall our 2year budget is implementing all the recommended Capital Project that came out of that strategic effort. So were really happy to be able to see that reflected in here. We also want to talk a bit about how weve taken into account the potential ballot measures this year. So as youre aware, there was a major effort through the Mayors Office transportation 2030. Citywide. So several recommendations came out of that, one of which is the gee owe nn bond passed in dwiewrn. Potential sales tax measure. Were looking at putting on the ballot this year. So we have assumed assumptions related to that ballot measure in our cip. We put 45 to 65 Million Dollars per year starting in fiscal year 18 moving forward. Does a bit of involving process getting more information about what that measure would actually look like. Weve weighed out the details here based on the latest information. So they based on where were seeing the proposed Charter Amendment now, it looks like there would actually be somebody available. Stwent Million Dollars for transportation and then 100 million for every year after that. Those dollars are split within various categories in the sales tax measure ranging from muni service, investment in suite facilities, infrastructure, investment in regional projects, investment in vision zero and a portion for street resurfacing. All of those various surfaces combined, yo look at our 5year picture youve seen a slide like this before, but were happy to show that our 5year program right now is 1721 is in fact large rch the previous 5year program from 15 to 19. And on top of that if you were to look at the course [indecipherable] and exclude the central subway major project were actually increasing our investment by over 20 . For later for your perusal, you can look at this very detailed chart which breaks out our expected funding and expenditures by Program Level across the five years. So youll see again those two years Capital Budget and they add up to 3. 4 billion over the five years. And we do want to call out that for the first time were going to be actually investing a portion of our fund balance in Capital Projects, as you approved theres over 75 Million Dollars in those first two years being focused on priority projects coming out of our fund balance reserve. The next few slides call out some of the key projects in the Different Program areas. Again, these are fairly similar to the slides you saw with the Capital Budget. So im not going to spend time on them individually. If you have any questions, were happy to speak in more detail. I think we will move on to the last slide, which shows that this developing the cip has been almost a year long effort for my team. Theres a lot involved in terms of vetting it internally and externally. And so, we want to highlight that we did significant outreach, spoke with many different stakeholder groups, spoke with you several times. Additionally, the individual projects that are represented in this program also have their own outreach strategies. And with the hopeful adoption of the cip today, that outreach doesnt end. Were still planning to do some additional poatadoption outreach and add this is really a living document. You have the beautiful pdf look to look at now, but as of tomorrow its probably obsolete. Were always updating it and keeping it so it reflects our most recent budget and is priority. As those change, well continue our efforts to keep the community informed. Thank you. Thank you for the presentation. Thank you. Thank you. Mr. [indecipherable]. Yes, you have one member of the public. Lets hear from one member of the public. We have turned in the speaker card on this matter. Get the screen back . Its been a long afternoon for all of us. Car man historic. Im very pleased to be with you here today. I will just take a short amount of time, because it is approaching the cocktail hour, right . Im here as a private citizen, a resident, long time interest in transportation. And a lot of experience in planning and financing projects at the federal level, at the regional level, and here locally. More importantly as the former one of the former, several executive directors weve had at the transportation authority. What i wanted to talk to you about today is the fort mason extension. You heard at the beginning of today several people testify about the need for that project and how important it is not just to a bunch of people who are streetcar enthusiasts, let me assure you, okay . But to people who care about mobility and access in the city and about opportunities. And this project is definitely an opportunity. It is, i think, one that meets the policy criteria that are outlined in the staff memo. And i dont know why it is not specifically included in the capital program. Because funds have been identified and a public planning process, however different it may have been from the way muni goes about business because of the coordination and collaboration necessary for the National Parks service, we are at a point where we need to begin preliminary engineering of this project. And the window for the validity of the eis is a limited window. The funding has been identified, not committed, but identified, and so, i would encourage you to, as you go forward with adoption to look at ways to include this project. Time is of the essence. Thank you so much for the time for your time. Members of the board, closure . [indecipherable] . Sief as part of the cip one of muni forts goals is service improvements. And again i want to improve. Reduction in service and not an improvement. But another goal under the cip is the 5year layout of implementing the Rapid Network serving nearly 70 of all riders to promote to provide more frequent and reliable service. We have asked that rapid buses be put on the [indecipherable] corridor so people who are commuting during busy rush hours can use Rapid Service and without eliminating the bus stop that so many other people need. So that would be a winwin situation for sour community make it, put on some rapid buses and let us keep our bus stops. And i have lived here in San Francisco for over 38 years. And i was always proud of the fact San Francisco has had a reputation for taking care of its elderly and disabled residents. And part of that is we have bus stops at least in my Community Every two blocks. Now i understand mtas goals spacing bus stops up to 1500 feet. That just doesnt work for our community. And for a lot of San Francisco where we have so many elderly residents. And even though a lot of younger people are moving into the city, we still have a very large aging population and longterm planning, in 30 years a lot of those young people are going to be aging. And i want to tell you briefly about mary. She uses the alter ra shes 100 years old. It takes her 10 minutes to walk to her stop. Because that stop is there, it gives her the freedom, independence, and dignity to be able to get around San Francisco independently. We convinced mta not to take away the stop. But there are people like mary all over the tar raville community who need their stops. Thank you. Address the board on this one . Seeing none, [indecipherable]. I will be happy to make a motion to approve. By i want to ask since this is a living document, do we have the ability to add things in such as the fort mason extension. Yes. So this is a living document. What per Charter Amendment you approve the Capital Budget every two years. And within that we have authority up to 5 of the total budget to make changes. So we could add other projects into it without requiring additional approval. And what would sort of the process for that be . Because i dont want it to be that, you know, we mandate what goes in there and in this onetime fell thing. I think it would be good to look at that project. Because i think including that in our cip would help that project move along. It sounds like theres some pretty good support for that. I want to note it is included in the cip. We have almost. Prop k Sales Tax Program to that project in the cip right now for preliminary phases. We dont have a funding plan for the full project. And baz the cip is a fiscally constrained. We can only add things in we have funding identified for. We can Fund Projects phase by phase and in this case have the preliminary work funded now and continue to look for solution for future phases. And i would just add, if i may, that absence of funding beyond what weve have is reasonably able to commit such as the prop k funding, would not at all preclude us from seeking additional funding to advance project which is our intent and i heard from the board chair his direction as well. For example, the federal whrand access to Parks Program that one of the earlier speakers mentioned we anticipate notice of Funding Availability in early 2017 is what we understand. Well certainly be aggressively pursuing that for this project. So i wouldnt want folks to be kurnd because we just want been able to identify funds for the project its not guilty something well try to advance. But we just need to find the Funding Source for this. Well be pursuing that as soon as that notice comes out. Thank you. Thats excellent then. I have no questions. Thank you both for not only the presentation but for sticking it out for the length of the meeting. I have a question did you say this was built on the assumption also the additional sales tax were seeking in the fall or all just based on the baseline right now . So we have included assumption from the sales tax in the cip yes. And in the Capital Budget that we approved. That same slide is what weve shown you. So where we are assuming that. So what happens . God forbid obviously theres things going on before it and separately we have to get this before the public. What is our default or back position if that doesnt come through for some reason . Well, but primarily we wont be able to advance some projects in those category that is we showed on the slide that we are hoping to advance. So on the order of i dont know 12 million a year vision zero funding. Theres similar amounts for transit state good repair funding. That much less wed be able to do if we dont have another Funding Source to come in behind it unfortunately. What would we deprioritize if unfortunately didnt work out for us. Essentially in every category we have prior toization criteria were using. We go as far down the list of priorities as we can given the funding we anticipate. So if theres less funding, we would just have to dial back up categories say vision zero or muni state repair or some of the other muni forward implementation that we are anticipating potential sales tax revenue to help augment. Thank you. Motion to second. All say aye. Thank you very much. Item 16. Amendment 3 contract with al ston. Inventory services to extend contract additional two years for additional amount of 41 million. Total contract not to exceed 80 million 698,000. Mr. Chairman theres no members of public who wish to address you on this matter. Good afternoon. Good evening, its a pleasure to be the first one on the second shift to make the presentation [laughter] i will in fact you i could speak for hours on this topic and im sure youd appreciate that. But let me make a couple of points that well share with you in the highlight. First of all, i wanted to come to celebrate with you for what has been a tremendous success. Success in three ways. When you approved on this initiative some three years ago, what the results have been have been improvements in the service in the reliability, in the availability of the rail service. When you take the lrvs today, when you ride the rail service, l, ms always have 2car trains. Because weve been able to stabilize the availability. A key factor has been this Major Management initiative, which also leads to a second benefit that weve realized from this process. When this was introduced to you three years ago by brain child of our finance and materials management people, what they did was introduce a blended concept or a hybrid concept for management that would allow us to both take control of the way we manage the inventory. Thats very important when you think about the range of cars, the type of equipment youve heard a lot today about different types of modes in cars. So no. 1, weve got a strong contract. No. 2, weve bfn able to as the charts indicate, weve been able to reduce the stockouts, reduce the value of inventory. Weve saved real money. Thats the second. So from a business standpoint, its the second measure of success. The service, the business practices, and the efficiency. Third standpoint weve really drawn a new paradigm for the business model. And by that what weve done is develop an ongoing dialogue with our existing work force and Civil Service to preserve the jobs, to preserve the system. Build on that by introducing best practices from the private sector. Using a firm al ston nn with experienced car builder, experienced car manufacturer who understands our system, understands the industry, has access and contracts to parts. What thats been able to do is allow us to improve our planning, make sure that were focused on the critical parts 50 critical parts. Things for brakes, things for doors, things for propulsion system that youve heard us talk about. So with that, what weve seen over the last three years is really a spectacular success in terms of the performance. And what we ask of you today albeit very briefly and again, im very happy to expand on this is to continue your support, to extend this contract for two years and to put additional money in the contract to allow us to do this. So that is the 30second summation. Im happy to take additional questions, or im happy to go back and walk you through the 21 slides that i have prepared. [laughter] thank you for the presentation. Thank you very much. Members of the public here to speak on mr. Hailys presentation . Are you speaking on this one . [indecipherable] anything else, right . Managed inventory. Well, im [indecipherable] johnson. And i think this goes to a deeper subject, you know, because on a lot of issues why things havent been done is because theyve been playing games. I think we should do something about this, because the issue that they did before that was another game. [indecipherable] in here and they set me up for a [indecipherable]. Took it out and then some stupid things. And i think this is, you know, because i had when i got out [indecipherable] and i went straight to washington, d. C. And what happened when i was there is that, again members were absent. And when they come after me, they couldnt handle it. They all went crazy. And they couldnt believe it. They put ne in prison for it. And this is where im talking about the supervisor is real serious [indecipherable]. Because this is already happened before on me [indecipherable]. I think this is a big issue. You know, we need to keep this war going [indecipherable]. Make no sense now of these issues. Because what were having [indecipherable] new ideas, new success. During process and business. [indecipherable] we need to make room for it and you know get this issue. Thank you. Anyone else want to address this board on this subject . Seeing none, motion . Motion to [indecipherable]. All those in favor say aye. Thank you very much. Whether to conduct a closed session. Motion to move to closed session. Is there a second . All those in favor say aye. Thank you mr. Chairman. Put the roll into closed session. Good morni San Francisco department of Emergency Management and we are excited to be here today for this event. Today is bark at the park. We have a saying the first time we exchange a Business Card shouldnt be during a emergency [inaudible] San Francisco fleet week is sth only freet week in the nation that combines the [inaudible] with Disaster Response training. We have military, Public Service and community suvs dogs here to demonstrate their capabilities. Rescue demonstration, bomb detection. We also have community suvs dogs here from can 9 compan jn [inaudible] have come back from over seas [inaudible] you will see a wide range of activities. This is seth and he is [inaudible] into my person my name is nob naib this is my military working dog fredy, she is a search dog and that means he has the capability to work on and off the least to locate [inaudible] he will be doing basic obedience. We have [inaudible] moving around, going around going around [inaudible] you have to center have the dog that says i smell it but where is it now . [inaudible] boarder protection agriculture special ist and work out of San Francisco International Airport with my dog floid. Floid is a 6 year old beagle trained to [inaudible] Inbound International flights. Today boid floid will do a demonstration what he does at a airport so well have [inaudible] see if he can find them in the busyness [inaudible] floid is what we call a [inaudible] response dog so while we search passengers arriving floid will sniff bags and sit on a bag if he thinks they have fruit in the bag. Floid as been on [inaudible] the department of emergency managet and Public Safety and police and Fire Department work consistently with the [inaudible] military partner tooz respond to a emergency. [inaudible] go to sf 72. Org. You will find basic guides to prepare yourself, famil shouting. . More and more citys high San Francisco is committing to dislocate to end all traffic death that means improving safety for people walking and driving and safety on our streets is everyones responsibility people can make mistakes but not result in injury or death all traffic collisions are preventable as drivers you play a large role that will give you the tools to drive safely on streets a recent survey asks hundreds of drivers about save city introduce driving what did they say watch for distracted behavior and slow down and be patient and check for people before you turn the facts about city driving shows how important to be alert most collisions happen in good weather allowance even at 25 mileperhour it takes a vehicle 85 feet to stop this is almost 7 car lengths slowing down makes collisions less savior when a person is hit by a passerby vehicle 25 minor the chance of death is 25 percent 40 percent that increases inform 85 percent slowing down didnt cost much time driving behind a person takes 9 extra semiautomatic and stopping at the yellow light takes only 30 seconds by hitting someone costs you hours and weeks of our time and maybe a life take a deep breath and take youre time cities Cross America are being safely for walking and driving some streets are confusing heres what you need to know all intersection kroukz of novelist marked some are marked to make them more visible other crosswalks and intersections are raised to the level of sidewalk to actress as speed bump and people are maybe crossing be cautious and watch for people when you approach any intersection advanced limit lines and pedestrian yield signs show drivers where people walk and stop behind the lines at stop signs and for people crossing bulb outs where the sidewalks extends into the street make that tease easy to see pedestrians and remember to slow down whether making reasons and watch for people on sidewalk estimations extensions that maybe closer than you expect and bicyclists may motive to the left to get around bulb outs this gives people a head start allowing pedestrians to enter the crosswalk before transfer starts moving makes them more visible pedestrian scrimmage and stop the vehicles in all directions allow people to cross including department of building inspection scrambles are paired with no light restriction and rapid beacons you turn bright whether the pedestrians are there or the center is activated precede slowly as you approach the beacons especially, if their activated a Pedestrian Crossing light turns yellow before turning sold red back to flash red procedure after making a full stop as long as the sidewalk is empty and, of course, stop whenever the light is red traffic circles reduce conflicts you must stop at the strewn and precede around the raise your right hand of the circle watch for people in crosswalks and people in bikes coming around the circle arrows indicate where people with bikes share the intersections and people have ride to people on bikes have the right to use the lane whether or not in the sharing bike lanes are for people protected by parks e. 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Parked cars and stay out of separated bike lanes unless an emergency dashed bike lanes are a shared zone four for vehicles to change lanes slow bike lanes allow the circles their unusually sprayed before me from other traffic some bike lanes are built to the level higher than the street but lower than the sidewalk they provide a safe separated space sponsor cyclists are around vehicles the box areas are marked with the stencil at intersections act as advanced limit lines for people to garter at a red light this increases the 1r0ir7b9 to drivers people will ride past stopped vehicles at the fronltd of the intersection give them room and stop short of limit line behind the bike without objection and cross only after the green light and people cleared the bike box bicycle traffic lights allow people on bikes to proceed while vehicles are stopped be unaware aware of those bike San Francisco General Hospital but stay alert and only skrans when the vehicle is cleared the intersection lets take a quiz to see what all of learned here we go number one when do month collisions happen did you say in daytime youre correct question two if an intersection is not marched is it still a crosswalk yes did you get it right great job one more before we go on whats one of the best things to do to avoid collisions . You can it take a breath Pay Attention and slow down city streets are crowded and chaotic so seeing everyone every single everything is difficult heres a test how many times did the white team pass the ball . If you answered 11 youre correct but did you notice anything else also be aware ever youre surrounded and remember that is easy 0 miss something if youre not looking for it heres some basic principles driving near peep e people from youre drivers seat it is difficult address our mirrors to reduce blind spots people on bicycles maybe be in our blind spot give yourselves plenty of time to react look out stay on the road from building to building not just curve to curve check driveways and behind parked vehicles for people that enter our path turning vehicles are especially dangerous important people walking and collisions often occur when vehicles are making tunnels when you turn remember check for people using the crosswalk before starting youre turn watch for people on bikes traveling in the ongoing direction always check our mirrors and blind spots patience pays off take a moment to make sure youre clear while it might feel youll save time by driving fast or turning without checking you wont save driving only adds a few semiautomatic to our trip a collision can cost you, your job or someones live heres important things to remember all crosswalks are legal and pedestrian have the rightofway people cross the street anywhere children and seniors and people with disabilities are the most vulnerable think city strits give buses and streetcars a lot of the space or people returning to catch a train dont block the box this creates dangerous situation for people walking how are forced into moving traffic and people bicycling out of the bike lane and people on bikes most city streets are legal for bicyclists even without signs people biking can fall in front of you provide a safe amount of space when passing someone on a bike a minimum of 3 feet is required by law in california and people on bikes prefer to be in the bike lane in for the this is often to avoid accidents give them room people on bikes will stay away from the traffic or watch out for open doors whoops that was a close one expect people to go to the front of the light and pass on the right a tap of the horn maybe useful to make youre preservation known but avoid using the horn it may saturday night be someone vehicles anybody right turns are especially dangerous important biking always approach right turns properly signal early and wait for people biking through the intersection move as far to the right to people on bikes can pass on the left lets try a few more questions who are the most Vulnerable People on city streets . Children . Seniors, and people with disabilities why do people on bikes ride close to travel there to avoid car doors what is one of the most dangerous situations for people walking and riding bikes . Turning vehicles and what can you do to make sure that everyone is safe in any situation . Thartsz stay patient and alert and, of course, slow down parking and loading a vehicle on accredit city streets is a challenge weather parking and unloading always check for people in our mirrors and blind spots and on the drivers side with our right turn right hand this causes you to look 40 on your left for bicyclists when passersby exiting the vehicle make sure about opening the door know where loading zones are if not loading zones available use side streets never stop in bike lanes or traffic lanes. Bad weathering and visible rain and fog or low lighting make it hard to see youre vehicle is likely to slide or loss control in eye i didnt controls and create issues for people walking and biking they tried try to avoid pulled and umbrellas and construction get slippery for people the safety thing to do in conditions whether wet or icy or dark slow down and drive more carefully remember going fast may on this save you a few semiautomatic but speeding may cause you a life or youre job people walking and biking are Vulnerable People can be distracted or make unsafe decisions as a driver the responsibility for safety lies with you a collision could mean the loss of our life or youre job and dealing with the legal implementations could take years or an emotional toll if someone is killed in a crash help us achieve vision zero and everyone can use the streets safely. Thank you for watch and following the important driving tests your remember were counting on you welcome to culturewire. Today we are at recology. They are celebrate 20 years of one of the most incredibly unique Artist Residency programs. We are here to learn more from one of the resident artists. Welcome to the show, deborah. Tell us how this Program Began 20 years ago. The Program Began 20 years ago. Our founder was an environmentalist and an activist and an artist in the 1970s. She started these street sweeping campaigns in the city. She started with kids. They had an exhibition at city hall. City officials heard about her efforts and they invited her to this facility. We thought it would coincide with our efforts to get folks to recycle, it is a great educational tool. Since then, we have had 95 professional artists come through. How has the Program Changed over the years . How has the program what can the public has an artist engage with . For the most part, we worked with metal and wood, what you would expect from a program like ours. Over the years, we tried to include artists and all types of mediums. Conceptual artists, at installation, photographers, videographers. That has really expanded the program out. It is becoming so dynamic right now with your vision of interesting artists in gauging here. Why would an artist when to come here . Mainly, access to the materials. We also give them a lot of support. When they start, it is an empty studio. They go out to the public area and we call it the big store. They go out shopping, take the materials that, and get to work. It is kind of like a reprieve, so they can really focus on their body of work. When you are talking about recology, do you have the only Sculpture Garden at the top . It is based on work that was done many years ago in new york. It is the only kind of structured, artist program. Weit is beautiful. A lot of the plants you see were pulled out of the garbage, and we use our compost to transplant them. The pathway is lined with rubble from the earthquake from the freeways we tour about 5000 people a year to our facility, adults and children. We talk about recycling and conservation. They can meet the artists. Fantastic. Lets go meet some of your current artists. Here we are with lauren. Can you tell us how long have been here so far and what youre working on . We started our residency on june 1, so we came into the studio then and spent most of the first couple weeks just digging around in the trash. I am continuing my body of work, kind of making these hand embroidered objects from our daytoday life. Can you describe some of the things you have been making here . This is amazing. I think i started a lot of my work about the qualities of light is in the weight. I have been thinking a lot about things floating through the air. It is also very windy down here. There is a piece of sheet music up there that i have embroidered third. There is a pamphlet about hearing dea nearing death. This is a dead rabbit. This is what i am working on now. This is a greeting card that i found, making it embroidered. It is for a very special friend. While we were looking at this, i glanced down and this is amazing, and it is on top of a book, it is ridiculous and amazing. I am interested in the serendipity of these still life compositions. When he got to the garbage and to see the arrangement of objects that is completely spontaneous. It is probably one of the least thought of compositions. People are getting rid of this stuff. It holds no real value to them, because theyre disposing of it. Were here in another recology studio with abel. What attracted you to apply for this special program . Who would not want to come to the dump . But is the first question. For me, being in a situation that youre not comfortable in has always been the best. What materials were you immediately attracted to when you started and so what was available here . There are a lot of books. That is one of the thing that hits me the most. Books are good for understanding, language, and art in general. Also being a graphic designer, going straight to the magazines and seeing all this printed material being discarded has also been part of my work. Of course, always wood or any kind of plastic form or anything like that. Job mr. Some of the pieces you have made while you have been here. Taught me through some of the pieces you have made while you have been here. The first thing that attracted me to this was the printed surface. It was actually a poster. It was a silk screen watercolor, about 8 feet long. In terms of the flatwork, i work with a lot of cloddish. So being able to cut into it come at into it, removed parts, it is part of the process of negotiating the final form. How do you jump from the two dimensional work that you create to the threedimensional . Maybe going back from the 3f to 2d. Everything is in the process of becoming. Things are never said or settled. The sculptures are being made while i am doing the collages, and vice versa. It becomes a part of something else. Theres always this figuring out of where things belong or where they could parapets something else. At the end goal is to possibly see one of these collage plans be built out and create a structure that reflects back into the flat work. Thank you so much for allowing culturewire to visit this amazing facility and to learn more about the artists in residence program. Is there anything you like our viewers to know . We have art exhibitions every four months, and a win by the public to come out. Everybody is welcome to come out. We have food. Sometimes we have gains and bands. It is great time. From june to september, we accept applications from bay area artists. We encouraged artists from all mediums to apply. We want as many artists from the bay area out here so they can have the same experience. How many artists to do your host here . 6 artist a year, and we receive about 108 applications. Very competitive. But everyone should be encouraged to apply. Thank you again for hosting us. Thank you for including us in culturewire. Hi, im corn field and welcome to doing building San Francisco, we are doing a special series, called stay safe, how you can stay in your home safely and comfortable, and we know that an earthquake is coming and there are things that you can do to reduce the effects of the earthquake on your home. Lets take a look at that. Here at the spur urban center on Mission Street in San Francisco talking about staying in your home after an earthquake. I have guests today, pat buscavich and his dog, harvey and david, and both Structural Engineers and we want to talk about things that you might do before an earthquake to your home to make it more likely that your home will be ha bitable after an earthquake, what should we do . Both structural and maybe even important nonstructural things. You hear about how to prepare an earthquake kit and brace your book shelves and water tank and that is important. What you have to be careful is make sure that you are not going the easy things to make yourself feel better. If you have a bad structure, a bad building, then you need to be looking at that and everything that you do to keep your collectables in place is small and compared. If you have taken care of your structure, then there is a lot of stuff that you can do in your house that is nonstructural and your chimney and water tank. Lets talk about what the structural things might be. And he is exactly right. You dont want to make the deck chairs safe on the titanic, it is going down, you are going down, you have to make sure that your house is safe. There are basic things that you need to do including bracing the water heater, not just because of fire hazard but because of the water source and the damage, but basic things are installing anchor bolts, and adding plywood and strapping your beams to column and posts to footings and foundations are really easy things to do and most contractors can do the Building Department is set up to approve this work, and these are things that every home owner should do, and it is a little harder because you have to get a Building Permit and hire a contractor. But you want to be able to after a big earthquake to climb in bed that night and pull the covers up and say i dont have to worry about going to a government shelter. That is the main focus that it is great to have an earthquake kit to be able to bug out for 72 hours. Here is a better idea, stay in your own home and in order to do that you have to be make sure that your structure is okay. If you have a house, the easy things to do with the wood construction is feasible. If you have a renter or you live in a concrete building, you need to talk to the building own , and make sure they have done their Due Diligence and find out what the deficiencies are. When i have looked at damaged buildings,vy seen that a little bit of investment in time and money and structural work provides great dividends. Especially if it is the wood frame, typical house that you can do the things that i was talking about, the anchor and the plywood in the first garage area, you know if you refinanced in the last three years, get some of that savings and it is a really good investment. And the other thing that i try to tell people, earthquake insurance is not the solution to the shelter in place, if there is a big earthquake and your building is damaged, you are not in your house, you may be somewhere else, if you work in the city, it is going to be really hard to commute from sonoma, you want to do what is necessary so that your house is retrofitted and a couple of years of earthquake premium could get you to a level that you could be in the house after a significant earthquake and it may have damage and there is still a shelter in place where you are at home and you are not worried for the government taking care of you and you are living in a place where you can go to work and you want to have your wood frame house is really easy to get to that level. On top of the wood frame house, i mean every wood frame house in the west half of the city have a water tank and the water tank fall over because they are gas fired and start fires. And that is something that you could do for yourself, and for your neighbors and for the whole city is make sure that your water tank is braced. If you look at the studies that are predicting on fires, we are going to have a lot of fires and for every water tank that is braced there is a potential of one less fire that the Fire Department is going to have to fight and we dont want to have any more fires than we need to. So bracing the water heater is the first thing that you want to do. And so easy, and you go online and you google, earthquake, water and heater and you google the sites where you can find the details and you can put them out there on the Hardware Store and you can hire a small contract tore do that for you. That is a couple of hundred bucks, the best investment. If you are in other types of building it is complicated. If you are in a highrise building you just cant anchor your building down because there are no anchor bolts, but at that point, the tenant should be asking questions of the owners and the managers about earthquake preparedness and dont take the easy answer, oh, our building is safe it was designed to code. That is not the right answer, ask the tough questions and see if you can get a report that has been given to you. What is the right question . Will i be able to stay in my home after the expected earthquake . Is that a good question to ask . Yeah, you may be more specific if you talk to the owner, if it is not a recent building, if it is ten or 20 years old see if they had an inspection done and there you will have a written before that will tell you all about the structure. Thanks, pat. Thanks, harvey. And thanks david for joining us and thank you for joining us on morning. Amandaregional initiative for the gen. Service administration pursue the claim region and of your master of ceremonies today. I do the short straw and jake to the longshot. Congratulations, jay. Welcome to the United Nations gaza. On to gsa Regional Headquarters and the physical home of super public. Today, we celebrate the official launch of super public. The nations first collaborative workspace to host city state and federal policymakers under one roof. The Innovation Lab is running in collaboration with San Francisco Mayors Office of civic innovation by the city intimate foundation and the gen. Services administration will solve common problems that affect all levels of government. Uc berkeleys center for Design Research at Stanford University and Mit Media Lab have also partnered with super public. Super public will provide space. Program convened summit, roundtables, and Training Programs to build capacity so that all partners in the lab can maximize time and impact. By working in an open innovation environment, super public intends to create extorted exportable models and solutions facing governments throughout the nation. The city of San Francisco and city intimate into gsa and other superpower concept, was an immediate, yes. Each level of government is really reinventing the wheel around a common problems. The silo nature of government has stymied the Public Sector from adopting innovative tech, and business models, and the sharing of best practices. So our hope that super public will break down some of the silos and allow us to share Common Solutions across government at the city state and federal level. Not only will gsa provide a physical space which we had quite a bit of, but we will also provide some expertise in certain areas. Gsa is a leader in procurement and also Digital Services in our digital consultancy etfs house just down the hall. Minute you walk by their offices. Just today. Weve seen a significant amount of success at the federal level addressing the german challenges and changing the way government bills and buys technology. Etf and Parent Organization the technology to Information Service can bring these past successes past and failures to the conversation. So, without further ado, we are very excited to commemorate the launch of super public and were honored to have with us another special guest. From you hear from the harsh reality recognizer speakers from todays event. Gsa administrator Denise Turner ross, mayor of the city of San Francisco and family. San francisco district 2 supervisor mark farrell. Executive director of the city intimate foundation cameron sadik, and the city administrator naomi i can name is not on your last name . Kelly. Thank you. In addition to our speakers today i like to recognizer panelists discussing women and government and Technology Early 21stcentury government. Gsa initiated denise ross we joined by codirector of the transportation sustainably Resource Center at uc berkeley. Atf deputy executive director Hillary Hartley and city oakland chief resiliency officer karen jane. Now my pleasure to introduce the speaker per todays event. I bus and head of gsa this Denise Turner ross. Ms. Ross is the 21st Senate Confirm administrative and general furnaces ministration brother 18 years of Public Service shes old there is a leadership positions in washington dc and greensboro North Carolina the focus on driving Economic Impact in ms. State of change. It is a gentleman, denise ross. [applause] thank you very much into. Thank you all for being here at gsa in this beautiful old building. I think when we had the chance to actually renovate the space we were very fortunate and what a great day to see how far its come. Im not sure that when we were renovating the space just a few years ago that we had this opportunity and vision in mind but indeed, here we are today and its just wonderful. Mayor lee thank you for having us in your subject is a beautiful subject is been here all week and its been a wonderful time. Thank you for your partnership always. I think using the mayor has been called on frequented by the administration and its because we like to go to leaders sought. Its not been by accident youve seen us here working with the mayor quite often. As administrative gsa, i have the pleasure of working with people are very committed to a really having a joint effort when they come to any community could gsa manages over three 75,000,000 ft. 2 of space. We manage over 50 with spending occurs through the federal government and has been a straighter and you pointed out, i do have a deep deep background in City Administration as well as in other capacities that i care a lot about how we are partnering with community could because when i know him and were working together both at city state and federal level, as well as with the private sector and Public Sector, the we are at our best and thats when we achieve our best. So when i came in as administrator i prioritize how do we use our physical footprint on knowledge, our access all resources to partner with these partners. As well as to partner with the federal agencies of course. An idea is for us to be able to bring the best foot forward in any place were entered weaver wants to never call her Economic Initiative which is really about how do we take a footprint and look for opportunities with communities. I think this is a great example of that. You are aware is into pointed out of our 18 f and pts and the work they been doing in Digital Services and Current Technology in bringing together that effort to our efforts and the federal government and its been really exciting. So when asked about what is super Public Meeting for gsa why are we partnering in what respect to get out of this . I spoke to see us be able to continue to partner with other communities did for me this is just the start. To start an example and a strong example of what it means for how we can really leverage the space we are managing. This space the resources, the people be accessed. Thats what is happening here. That is what were all part of today. So this is just a really exciting time for us throughout gsa not just the Technology Space but for all this that are here because were burning at the same time and will take these learning and share with other communities as well. So, mayor thank you again for coming here. Thank you and your team for having the vision as well as city innovates. Ive just been excited getting to know the work that youre doing and vision you have not just your locally but international. What a wonderful thing. So thank you for coming here and thank you for choosing this partnership and thank you for having the vision. [applause] thank you, denise. Our next speaker has incredibly strong track record of driving Collaborative Partnerships in the first mayor in the nation to create an Innovation Office and City Governments. Please, welcome mayor ed lee. [applause] thank you into for that introduction. Gsa of instead of ross, thank you for being here. This is one my favorite buildings outside of city hall. It shouldnt surprise you that we share the same architect and its one of the few buildings like my office that still has curbed the wars. So theres a lot of history that we share but being here in gsa again, connotes a lot of good memories. Certainly, it harkens back to city administrator these two director of purchasing a less political position in the city there i had fun. I truly had fun when i was director purchasing, spending the publics money about 1 billion a year buying things but trying to do it smartly and trying to incur local jobs, Small Businesses, get them involved in the economy of our city. And, even as mayor, we are still making sure were trying to do the right thing as all of our governments are. This idea of super public is exciting because in a few years, youre going to see an absolute necessity for this to happen. While it seems volunteer and innovative to do it now were actually creating the conditions the private sector, for the Public Sector, or academia, for those in government want to innovate, were trying to equate those conditions now so it has a lot more opportunity to be successful. As a city of innovation, i want to say that were already working not just as a city but is the region, im already deep conversations with mayor schaaf and mayor ricardo with our supervisors, in San Mateo County about regional issues and making sure were paying attention, more than just what the part on has for the immediate future. More about our challenges and how we can really work outside of our sideload cities and counties and into arena where we can really and truly invite the private sector to work with us. The academia sector and our innovative arms. Its no surprise that gsa is a partner because its fast becoming the most innovative arm of the federal government ive ever seen hit their really pushing it well ahead and theyre challenging us to be a great partner and we want to be. Because we have a lot of things that could withhold benefits to our public if we didnt start working cooperatively. We just are thinking outside of those silos that and you mentioned that we all know is a very fact that prevents us from doing better. And i say that we started this over a year and a half ago as well thinking that to be smarter city, not just an transportation but Everything Else that we do but transportation is a great example to start out with because if were not thinking more , not thinking more collaboratively and innovatively, beyond the cities and into a regional if not a state and federal approach, were going to fail. Whether its bikes, whether its Public Transportation, whether its getting less cars have thinking about Automated Vehicles and how to make them safer, how to use them how to use automation and delivery of goods and products, were going to fill it we dont innovate now and have that spirit. Thats why im excited about joining our gsa partners and our city administrator, our members of our board of supervisors, and our innovation arm of the city working with the other innovation arms of federal government and State Government. This is more than exciting. As i suggest to you super public is going to have to be a necessity because as you look around, not just United States, thats starting to happen in new york and los angeles and allow places, you look at what International Cities are already doing. You dont have to lookhas, by the way, happy the steel date those of you who have french foundations. Paris story got a super public that we are studying and looking at as a model. Toronto, under the Great International city. Other International Cities have already figured out that indo global competition that we are engaged in, and we must recognize that, that is those regions that recognize how collaboration and innovation is going to help their cities become that much more successful in a global competition. When not opting out of anything were opting in to a global setting and making sure we are ready to do that even better. So, i am excited as you can probably tell because i didnt, i visited the offices this year and the space that were talking about and i know into says we have not got the furniture yet. But, i will tell you, you got the calendar ready. Furniture comes after the talent arrives. I think that talent is here the dedication the commitment is here and i will tell you, i have never stopped trying to figure out how to decrease red tape. How to really convince our public who has to pay a lot of our taxes to say, your money is going into a smarter collaboration that we can be more transparent and telling them how we are cutting red tape. How Small Businesses can have a federal partner, a star partner, a local partner that says youre going to have a lot less red tape to be more successful. I have never stopped and effort in making sure that our city is talking with all our federal partners to it smarter and we better get how i say procurement officer as our city administrator is, to suggest that we can buy things and still have it at a less expensive price but get payments to our local Small Business faster so that we can really have a foundation for good employment in the long run. How we can tackle transportation, tackle homelessness, tackle poverty in ways which we never talked about before. Yes weve got good ideas in San Francisco but the navigation centers, like a cherry, like car sharing. How can we make this a regional thing and academia, with its berkeley mit, stanford were all part of this effort, going to contribute to that because they know that weve got the document we got to talk the man could we do to make sure our models are examples of things we can really share with people, and weve got to prove that we can do it better than the last generated so, excited about this. Im excited about super public, and i know just in the few years is quick to be an absolute necessity for the global competition and we are helping our country by doing this. We are hoping much of the federal people be better quit estate people be better on local people be better, but as a community of people interested in being smarter about what were doing we hopefully will the public was a breathing that much deeper committed to using your dollars smarter to making sure we do things in language data can really drive and help us. This is what i think super public is and i want to just say, ken, thank you to organizations like the innovate fund and our innovation civic innovation leaders, i did sector comedies like at t stepping up with berkeley folks and others to really say we can do this even better. But weve got to think regionally now. We can just think is that independent circuit either to make sure talking with sam ricardo and their interest in san jose. Mayor schaaf people in oakland and san mateo because our challenges are no longer just within our region with its housing, dissertation, with theres even a simple idea of procuring. Weve got to do it smarter and better in this consistently foundation. Its exciting to be in a room full of innovators to do this. Thank you very much. [applause] thank you mayor lea. Our next speaker is the event supervisor mark farrell. His work to communities which the Digital Divide. Please, welcome supervisor farrell [applause] thanks everyone could post about is a tall our gsa partners, the winners always like this in San Francisco. You come out for entire week. So please come out more often. Im truly excited to be here today. From my perspective, super public is the future. It is what we need to be doing across all every single city in the United States. When we think about San Francisco as much as we have a booming economy we have issues as cities have all the time. Whether it is mayor lea mentioned, the housing crisis, we have transportation issues, but theyre not singled out for steve and cities across the United States are facing these issues. With the homelessness were bridging the Digital Divide these are issues we need to work in San Francisco that matter to our residents. Doing it alone in the government is something that is not going to be part of the future could need to partner with a private sector. Need to partner with academia specialist visit here in San Francisco today the Innovation Capital of the world and thank you to all our private sector partners will contribute to make this happen today. Partnering with you partnering with academic, this is the future. We need to do it together because i will tell you, we cannot do it alone and several also city hall. We certainly cannot do it set up chambers of the board of supervisors we need to do it together as partners. Binders and with the federal government or State Government together we can do it. We also need our private sector. We need academia to be able to do it together. So im incredibly excited to be part of this. Take you to all the people who contributed to it. Congratulations to all the founding members. I know this is a long time in the making. The most excited about, is not just today but the future. This about our children and making sure as we think about problems as my son jack sits over there, honest will, this generation when we tackle problems not just San Francisco problems the regional problems and were not tackling them the City Government were tapping together with private sector with academia and that the wording of the best solution yet so congratulations to everyone and thank you i just cant wait for the future here together. Thank you. [applause] thank you, market our next speaker is naomi kelly with the city administrator of the city of San Francisco. I am agree with sympathetic partner in the gen. Services administration did we know how hard your job is. We get to do it for the federal government to the other one a come over and talk shop were always here for you. Ladies and gentlemen, naomi kelly. [applause] good morning. I was thinking about all the numbers of how much office space you manage and how much procurement you have and its enormous. I was very proud of our numbers we manage the city of San Francisco about 4,000,000 ft. 2 of office space and 1 billion in procurement and we manage 25 yeartenure 25 million capital plan. And compared to those numbers thats small. Compared to the gsa. But, its really great to be here today because of the chair partnership that will have with each other in sharing best practices, learning new innovative procurement policies, it policies. It will be very helpful in that its helping us share relevant data, figuring out what the data we have with the city but good data the government has put together super public is that we can share with each other so we can be much more innovative. Theres things were doing here in San Francisco just in the city administrator in our local gsa office, looking at how we manage our fleet. How we are using telematics or black box which will behold so helpful to us to figure out when a card word vehicle needs to go into maintenance versus guessing,. Rb rightsizing the fleet we see theres a lot of analyte underutilized vehicles but we can reduce the number berkeley. His rc fleet sitting in idling speed we can reduce our Greenhouse Gas emissions by a relevant amount of data were getting from that. I also upgrade during the next week and am in the process creating a Digital Service team. We are actively recruiting for Digital Service officer. This is all about the public experience. How can we in government better serve our residents, art tourists, visitors is a Neat Services from the government, a website how can we approve our website so they can get the information they need from a resin with the residential parking permit, whether its a productivity, but its a marriage certificate theres much we can do to provide Services Online so folks do not have to come down to city hall or wait in line to get services they need. So, were very excited about our Digital Service team working with a private industry, working with Customer Service looking at a processes how to better streamline them as we dont want to automate a broken process and of course working with our it department to make sure that our systems are running smoothly and to make sure all our data is secure because we dowe do want to make sure that everything we do is secure and that were not violating any private information that gets out there. Im so looking forward to this partnership and thank you very much. [applause] thank you naomi. Now, last but not least, the executive director of the City Innovate Foundation and very much the leader for super public, we are very lucky to have cameron and of leading the charge for us that its been fabulous working with him so far. You are a welcome breath of knowledge on all the things foundational things we need to make this a reality. I hope gsa has been a good partner to good is and gentlemen, kim and city [applause] i think a lot of you have been on this journey for the last two years and its been tough but i want to keep it short because of that people that sing to me for the last 5 min. That the mayor needs to live soon. What i do undo is actually think mayor ed lea. The sender gsa administrator District Supervisor mark we met a few times but farrell and naomi kelly city of mr. And people behind the scenes like andrew the month, the republic of under atf, krista and jacob Mayors Office of Senate Innovation to grace upon is at uc Berkeley Susan and also been great from day one. Gifford in the City Innovate Foundation team. james to make sure we talked about regional issues shes achieved resiliency officer in oakland she is working the on the past 18 months over this and not least the private sector. Dont forget them because they do help pay our bills can i do i think microsoft socialize and evangelize the passage be described. The of our friends from deloitte who are good partners and now at t and one of the things that i think a lot of people talk about the project that weve been looking at one of the other areas than looking at with San Francisco, open and others not to forget their smart cities but were looking at inclusive cities. We should try this with communities so we part up with civic makers in a couple of model youre looking at a cut program rolling this out engaging the community and doing it the right way. Again thank you all for coming out here. Yes, we hope that that show will change and his major was pointed out, there will be a lot of International Cities that come in and us cities to learn about the bit about what were doing here. Thank you. [applause] okay. So, now we get to get to the good work of actually running super public which were more excited about any event. Gsa loves doing things but im going to invite all our guests right now and we will cut this with him. I think this is as are behind me the very large service. In the very careful handing these out. [laughing] have to bring the semicarry on tonight. Can be tough to get through the airport. [laughing] three, two, one cut it. [applause]