Roll call. Commissioner frost commissioner lee commissioner Vice President joseph commissioner moshoyannis commissioner caminong commissioner president tan for the record commissioner perez is absent this evening. All right. We have quorum the first item on the skwaupd is Public Comment any businessrelated to the taevengs it you didnt currently agendize any Public Comment . All right. Seeing none, Public Comment is closed the approval of the minutes of august 15, 2015, i dont know if so this in everybodys packet i think you wrote mia megabit that can i get a motion it continue motion to continue stepson there is a motion and a second any Public Comment seeing none, lets take a vote. Commissioner frost commissioner lee commissioner Vice President joseph commissioner moshoyannis commissioner caminong commissioner president tan the motion passes those are moved to the text negro and item 3 a directors report take it away as you may know weve been working on implementing the cheaper one 16 night Life Protection we had a meeting at 3 well hear some go about that when the item comes up on the report for the social Development Review committee as i mentioned for the whole commission weve been working i think successfully with the Planning Department to finally get the notice pushed out to the project in the pipeline so im hovp hopeful that the hundred projects will be noticed for the legislation requirements in 4 banishes of two weeks in between each hopefully in the next two weeks everyone will get notice and they will either communicate with the staff and or go to that weve got the lapsing hammered out as i said weve heard the first two projects it is happening which is cool and the board came back from recess last tuesday and at this point they finally approved the amendment to the llp legislation in western selma thats waiting for a signature at the Mayors Office we can currently at this point get those folks both the office and get those posted about 4 pentup venues waiting for llp applications to move forward so im happy to report that is finally moved move forward and we spent some time and the guys will tell you about the concert at at t park and give you feedback that was a lot of work in the parks so also there are questions im going to turn it over to any colleague. Thank you, dr. Cain and good evening, commissioners director and dr. Not yet director. A few outdoor requirements that were inspected this past weekend as kickoff at city hall we had an event on fedex hotel and one that in the mission for block party all 3 went off without my complaints coming to our officers the noise event was audioable and no complaints generated we did another event this is maybe the third or fourth with met cosmetics and at the last meeting this system was pared down from previous systems what actually placed on the ground and did an extensive sound check with them activating the space to make sure that the impact to that general area was minimal and not received complaints . For that event and under billy joel at at t park there was an investigation i was able to take ambient measurement in dog patch and inside the stadium director cain was a meeting tomorrow to present what we found and try to get more dlarm able to hire folks to run a hotline and take more measurements we want to compare our finding with there too pretty important things to not for the permit on saturday the sound coming from one within the stadium if start at the time on the permit we issued to them and the event went later than stated on the permit ill be happy to answer any questions about that event can you tell me what time the event end and it was 710 im sorry 1110. The permit was until 11. Yes. Was any citations issued. We were speaking with director cain after tomorrows meeting be issuing a notice of violation. Commissioners questions or comments all right. Thank you thank you. Good evening, commissioners i have a long list but ill keep the short i want to touch on relevant things i did things that are articulate arbitrarily picked up we received a complaint from the bar Sergeant Mathis made contact with the bar to lemon them know to keep quiet and in a followup i talked to the complainant with a followup i didnt preserve a violation and how much or hopefully, the situation will stay solved the inclines is t f319 clemente i was other on an inspection and find out that they do Live Performance stuff regularly part of the operation to they dont have a permit out of inclines well followup and hopefully bring them into compliance i did 3 sound checks at the price club and nothing extra to report just menu detain report a couple of inspections to mention that were minor violations permit not there at golden state permits the copies were issued ill make sure the theyre posted feel free to ask me if not this isnt on your list here but the Common Wealth club the Common Wealth the university club. The university club. Has any news about where theyre at. At the Universities Club . Do you have one. Oh, the city club the city club sorry it is actually issued that the director is dealing with them i think shes deal with their lawyer now. Could we get an update anything. The only update i reached but out and got an extensive rely back had a conversation about our City Attorney and relied back to his inquiry and waiting inform an additional response. Pending the United States all pending. Questions for inspector pauley no nun great this evening any Public Comment on our staff report . Not seeing any, so Public Comment is closed. Well move on to item number 5. Had the Police Department questions or comments are there any general Police Department questions or comments i dont think so all right. Moving along item 5 which is our permit application and i am sorry. Well take things out of order and do our 3 loudspeaker permits first. So we have those 3 loudspeaker permits from swiss their a typical their couple of in the next two weeks here basically, they dont fit within the process because the location of where theyll be theyll be in a park let for all the permits is 7 30 montgomery street it is swiss max we dont say a policy regarding issuing the loudspeaker permits in park let were seeking our help this evening for possible condition from the commission for moving forward with the permitting of events like this weve asked Maryellen Johnson to join and robin here from the Planning Department and were hoping they help to shed this some light how to move forward so robin can you actually come up first thank you Deputy Director im robin the park let Program Manager of the San FranciscoPlanning Department im here to provide background on the project and answers any questions the commission might have and offer inside and experience that the Planning Department has had in managing a portfolio for the city parks before maryellen comes up to talk about the program their seeing permits prosecute the taefksz i thought id like let you know that swiss is a fantastic partner and a Great Institution for parklets to work with theyre a nonprofit their mission to bring culture performance events other learning opportunities to communities paichlt has so you get a partner like swiss max to partner in order to bring an Organization InstitutionsCulture Program into the public realm we know this is not the fit folks want to use the parklets we recognize this is a typical at the same time it is really emblematic and representative of what our streets and public spaces could do to bring this to san franciscans i welcome any questions from the commission and really hope were able to describe a pathways that might provide a blue prinlt for in public space activation in other parts of city. Why not just hold off i think we might have some questions initially for the gentleman. Im not clear could you tell me if a park let is front of the of the business is that business responsible. ; correct the sponsor a commercial or enterprise in this case it is a nonprofit that stuttering is responsible for the capital and also take out liability and required by the public works as a permit at the to hold a Million Dollars insurance liability naming the city as an additional insured theyre responsible for maintenance at the same time commissioner. I didnt mean to cut you off. We have strict operating guidelines for parklets thaer those are hundred percent Parking Spaces the city in look at those for public space and realize that parklets can be a bit unclear about that so it is part of you know objective my role to clarify the operation around the parklets. Who makes the decision what kind of entertainment in the parks is it the business that is responsible for it or a committee that programs the park lightwells elites how does that work. Thats an excellent question if they steady thresholds at certain events they seek to do there is amplified sound is it brings to us to the commission we have oscars with their guitars but they try to stay pretty tentative to what is happening in the parklets sometimes a lack of clarity or clarity and we dont want to work against that those spaces are public. So if i have a guitar i can walk up and play my guitar youre asking for permits so my question is who is making the decision about what if so it is is not someone walking with a guitar can sometime program a parklets to i mean obviously if they want a loudspeaker permit they have an idea to do something; right . Thats right 3 that case we issue the loudspeaker im not being clear let me try it who is making the decision what entertainment is in the park. I believe this is this committee. The question is if i was joe smoe and i wanted to perform in a park let do you go to the Planning Department or swiss next or the owner or let the steward. I think first and foremost youll approach the steward to make sure that is access to everybody nobody is excluded or circled out. So the steward can say george who can perform as to the sound. Striking speaking they cant do that. I guess my question is who is applying for the permit is that the musician, the steward or you guys well in this particular case the steward. Theyre making the station what is going to gone in the park. Right. Theyre proposing activities took place in the park let you think theyre to the commission their succumbing to the commission for permission as i understand working with the staffers concerns. Maybe i take it out of turn it brought up the definition those are the stewards we know those are the people that maintain it and have the liability they want to activate it but i have robin what happens in someone else comes to me noted swiss next i dont know who the steward are for how many parklets. 60 i dont want to know obviously it seems to me it is a little bit of a question mark it is a public space and someone else wants to activate it and ask the steward. Theres a great open question about process you know weve been on the staff level for the portfolio to all strerldz a stakeholders are informed but their question commissioner Vice President joseph not a set protocol or criteria and it is something that the commission and the Planning Department and public works should Work Together to fourth we get a lot of questions in sort of informal requests to begin cpr parklets for more information. This is an interesting question i would hate to formalize a policy today around it were obviously going to use this as an example to try to create or use a policy because i think in my conversation with director cain band do we treat this like a street or park how there are questions i was looking at into more deeply and come back and decide something together but im going to call on a couple of more people there are more voices on the commission. Commissioner moshoyannis. Is the park let part of the street will mta have a role in that at all which agencies if any have jurisdiction in that matter. Thats an excellent question so it is still considered formally part of the street to legally were occupying a piece of street or park let you say we the park let occupies a piece of the street and the department of public works issues a permit for that occupancy to legally happen okay. So they should would be part of the conversation at some level. Absolutely over the last 5 years of running the program weve worked closely with the department of public works. I think for me, i mean the devil is in the details there is obviously sidewalk between the business and is park let usually where people are transfersing and foot traffic usually trying to cut though how do we manage that makes sure there is assess both was and people are not tripping over each year and e each other and it is a hot mess and problem so i remember when you close down a street make sure there is a path of travel and people can get through someone is in a wheelchair it raise all kinds of issues that will be a complex issue as we explore is further. Who is responsible if theyre in compliance who do we get know theyre in inclines you know if it is a freedom of speech it is one thing a Political Campaign when people come to us with street fairs or you can those kinds of events an organization we know who do go to for the loudspeaker permits if people have a venue they want to activate their patios with speakers we know who to go to this could be anybody. Right today is permits we have a project sponsor so we know who to call if there is something not going right. I think for the conversation had requires more thinking commissioner lee and commissioner frost. So my question is say the park let goes out of control or the sponsor doesnt maintain it properly what steps is the Planning Commission your excision rerevokes the permit if they dont handle it properly. The permit revolver indication is a consequence if we have a steward not meeting their stewardship obligations or seeing issues that parklets and private dining for example one example we admonishment if we find a restaurant it is your has correspond off their park let the revocation is a consequence thats the last resort we try with the Planning Department and the department of public works issuing the permits works with the project sponsor most often 99 percent of the time the issues are smaller hey, you dont sweep enough and the upstairs neighbors are exclaiming. Your really to trying to be responsible to take care of the parklets same it is a weird thing a public space if someone wants to swat there how do you evoking their rights what happens to the park let if we tend not to maintain it properly it goes back to a parking. Thats absolutely one consequence and with an weve seen a couple of times when we have a park let that hadnt been stewarded or in the upper hates the steward left town and had this orphaned organization none was wanting to do you want paichlt is interested in monitoring how projects all the time. Okay. Commissioner frost. Yeah. Just think were opened a can of worms to talking about giving a permit to a public place for a loudspeaker for on imposing groups want tool take this over what happens to the permit this is down the road but on this one were one the occupancies estimate was 50 people i dont think ive seen a park let that holds 50 people i dont know where the people will go and supervisor demerit brought up who is going to control that so again, we do need to discuss this you know later on to come up with the perimeters on this but for those 3 well dealing need to talk about to the applicant. May i have respond to some of the questions about clearance and the project sponsor is prepared a site plan. You have it. It is in the packet. So the public can see it is not projected. Because this is an a inadequately proposal something new you know somethings that came up for the Entertainment Commission to maintain a clear path of travel for wheelchair users or general passersby we responded recommended to the project sponsor to guarantees the 6 foot clear a path of travel which the San Francisco regulation is for so that at no time during the liquid speaker events are there people or if there are audio equipment or anything encroaching on the of foot rightofway and something that might be important to note the commissioner referred to an application an estimated attendance of up to 50 people were not imagining those people will physically be in the project my understanding and the park let will be what they project imagery or a lecture like a two minute moving on the park let screen you might if you have a guest speaker or musical performer theyll sit on the sidewalks and in the storefront observing the form is a the musician is physically inside the park let thats what were looking at here and again, we do need to talk about in future conversations what perimeters the commission and public works and planning feel comfortable with in terms of operating the perimeters for these kinds of events and activities and commissioner Vice President joseph. Yeah. I have a couple of questions occupancy load is people all at once the occupancy load is 2525 is the maximum if one leaves one can go in 50 doesnt make sense that is why commissioner frost mentioned that to your dining room diagram is this park let 6 feet deep and what is the dimensions im not sure clear. This is a note for the project sponsor to maybe bring is prepared dimension plan the blue box prepared by swiss next. Oh, i see. Thats the part sitting in the parking lane this is about 7 feet deep the width of a parked car. What is the yellow part that says rejection park let what is a that a screen beyond the Pacific Ocean park let what are very projecting. It is a mraurm that sits in the parking lane and then the far sort of wall or edge of it is a tall frame that during events like this we can clip a fabric projection screen. So the frame is within the park let. Absolutely. Okay. And the speakers are outside the park let. Im actually not. According to this picture from the blue space it the park let. The speaker monitors i believe thats what is proposed. Okay 83 and then the people will be in chairs and seats on the sidewalk . Correct. So do they have the dpw occupancy permit for this. I did not know this may be a good time to bring up the project sponsor to answer questions together. Please come on up. Hello commissioner. Hi. Can you state your name and if you want to say anything before we start. Ill say a few things im Maryellen Johnson ahead of the project for swiss next it is legally an annexation of the consul general of switzerland we have an Educational Mission weve been in San Francisco for 12 years for the bay area institutions the purpose of building our park let was to bring a bigger and broader audience by producing events for the public and working with local parishes to do events on the street weve worked closely with robin and his team in achieve this next step for a park he let in an event place an Collaborative Design with the university in switzerland local gail architect and the berkley those are open to the public we wish to have not closed off the space will not be closed off in my way anyone can walk up and checkout and enter the park let and take a seat if they want to do that we our plan to maintain a 6 foot walk path by having swiss next monitor and clear and make sure that people walk along and this free open paths and not around it dont enter the streets in any way and stay safe and feel free to cross over during the event. We did have an events on august 27th it was very successful and safe we had approximately 25 people that showed up for this event i have to say that it is not necessarily a capture audience that a stays for the whole thing because people walk by and listen for 5 minutes and there were people who stated there and sat there for more than a half an hour the programs were proposing are approximately an hourlong we didnt have any sort of disruption are problems not that im aware of with the public or with people not being able to have what were proposing are 3 different events on september 16th tomorrow we have having an event called story hour where were inviting 7 different people to come and tell you a story in 8 minutes and it is around the subject of tactical urbanism that talk starts at 7 00 p. M. And ends at 8 30 on september 18th the event were proposing is with future citys lab organizations in singing pour with the institute for the future in 90s and includes video and has audio with ambient this is predominantly happening inside the swiss next space on september 23rd we have an event with the San Francisco urban Film Festival to screen an hours worth of subject urbanism and for the the application for amplification in all those cases is just to make it or in the surrounding area because of the traffic we request amplification so people standing within a couple of feet can hear what is happening on the park let. Do you have a permit to occupy the situation sidewalks thats the question according to the diagram there are seat for people located on the sidewalks. We do not have a permit the seats ive drawn out are seats that sits inside of our park let our park let structure has drawers with accuses i have a short video i can play. No, no it is the blue is your park let whats the seat here. Those are cue chairs that are one foot by 2 feet. Not within our park let. No, we can pull them out their removeable. Theyre on the sidewalks you need an occupancy from to the do this this is not a permit we can give into you. We dont have to use those seats and people can stand. So heres my last question i promise if this is, in fact, our park let and this is where your speakers are going to be the humans speaking speaking and the actual amplification speakers on the sidewalk outside of the park let your audience is outside of the park let the bulk of your event is not within our park let only your entertainment or speakers people who are speaking are within the park let. Correct. But the audience everyone else is not in the park let. Correct. Okay thank you. Commissioner lee. If they dont sit down theyre standing up watching this program are they in violation. No. Theyre not in violation. You like it answer. Yes. Okay. Its the furniture that is it in violation. The furniture is in violation but the humans are not. How deep is the sidewalk if from our front door to the park let. Cant be and im sorry not to scale the drawings but the space from our droo door from the building s 66 inches to where the 6 feet walkway that ive determined im sorry im not calculation of it is about. So the total says that a 11 feet. Right. It is 11 feet. We have an exceptionally wide sidewalk here on karen in excess of 10 feet it is 11 and a half thank you. Just a couple of other questions are you using extensions or rope to cordon off people so if there is a walkway your staff will be there. To have Staff Members you know push manage people will i having them stand behind a line for a clear 6 foot path my idea to have a staff member on either side to insure that path is clear and not use extensions right. Got it i love the idea of in general trying to activate the parklets the next phase of how parklets can be used and not a space for people to sit and have a cup of coffee but im occurs outside of wanting to activate the space were you limited in terms of programming the space within the building or office or how did this come about. This came about we worked with the university called e t h where they spend a lot of time thinking about activating public space and how public space is used it is sort of an academic of Research Approach what could we do in our city to expand space so was an academic exercise in some was thats why we worked with the berkley and university of switzerland to be a park let and be capacity we have an event space that worked fine we have good youd it was not perfect to fix the problem but we do a lot of different programs and art and science and Technology Programs and this was a project we wish to pursue. Thats helpful to know the background and another question we ask our applicant about neighbors and residents that are nearby theyre the ones saying it is 9 oclock i want to go to bed can you tell us about your outreach and the neighbors that are there and our outreach. Part of applying for a park let theres a application procedure to get signatures from the neighbors this is something they wanton is a good idea to pursue. Which is if there recently more questions robin can maybe talk about that process but prominently around our space is restaurants theres office space theres the church of sciencetology it is not a residential area thats what i assumed. Do they know you want to amplify the sound rather than having the park let. Ive not talked with the neighbors about that. Commissioner caminong do you have a question. Thats exactly my question im surprised did event are two this week and one next week and your neighbors are not been notified those sidewalks will had been notified and may i ask a procedural question it is a matter of course for the l l t is there im personally familiar and if not is this something we want to institutionalize as part of. With the limited Live Performance. Sorry the loudspeaker preliminaries yeah. There is not a requirement this is is a concern we have various permits for this particular one there isnt but the first people we hear from when something goes wrong. The commission for at least the Upcoming Events having the recommendations for how the pardon might for the purpose follow through and did experiments or demonstrate some kinds of noticing i dont want to speak first but maybe a condition the Commission Want to place on the issuance it is worthy worthwhile. I object to talk with the neighbors and get their approval. Great i think we would like to move this along so lets wrap up the comments and open up for Public Comment and try a formulate a way to handle this. Commissioner frost. You talked about 66 inches from the building line to where you would start our of feet when we talk about that is that all City Property or part of that their property in a code. This is all sidewalk. All walk from that building okay. Thank you. All right. Any final commissioner thoughts if if not ill open up to the police or the public any Public Comment on this item . No all right. Commissioners anyone like to make a motion regarding this and apply any particular conditions and like to legislation late. All of the. All at once if that is what we like. Id like to make a motion to approve all 3 permits with the condition you innovative your neighbors of the schedule and such as a giving this is tomorrow and you know at least the neighbors that are on your bloke maybe in proximity that are impacted let them know the dates and hours and the General Program that will be helpful. To approve the 3 with the condition they innovate their neighbors of the schedule of programming. Right. Okay. Is there a second. I second with a friendly edition. Lets see if it is friendly. Abide but the other developments rules no seats if you dont have a permit they can stand up were not saying they can sit down so okay. Thank you. Okay all right. Yeah. Sure all right. On that motion lets take a vote. Commissioner frost commissioner lee commissioner Vice President joseph commissioner moshoyannis commissioner caminong that means it is approved and thank you, sir for coming today, were interested in trying to figure out that and seeing what kind of path to take that is clear for people either our staff or some commissioners mr. Will followup. Let us know how it goes. Yes. It is a gin i didnt pig in this adventure we have. Thank you, commissioners. All right. I wanted to make a comment to staff do you have a plan what youre going to do about the park let and how we get those questions and answer and thats exactly why we did this evening to an stent and the applicant did one and, in fact, we approved a. M. If i did sound permit i frankly did not know i approved a park let she applied for 3 more in section i got flagged thats why ribbon and i have been discussing it will be helpful you as a Commission Wanted to indicate when you would like to consider a flushed out maybe policy then we can have a conversation as always this is work in progress and authors a lot of parklets we want them in the past i have really on my own said no. Theres not stages in nickel and dimed im not accident policymaker i brought it to you instead. Thanks so i think when we get to that item well talk about a subcommittee or whatever the steps lets move on to the other items starting with the Consent Agenda. On our Consent Agenda two items a limited Live Performance operation for Tenderloin Museum this was at 398 eddy street and a limited Live Performance for Old School Cafe on 1429 Malcolm Heinicke dell no opposition from the department or the community from either of those thats why theyre on the agenda. Just to remind the folks no separate discussion until people want to separate amongst the people or commission my interest in separating in not well do a roll call vote. All right. Same house, same call . Yep. Yep. All right. Those pass the museum and Old School Cafeteria move on to the regular agenda starting with the role. Yep so first off before we get into the regular agenda i want to ask for a motion to remove the midway for the owners request additional it to be continued to the next hearing date and the Planning Department is working on the Environmental Review progress. I move to continue the midway to the call of the chair. I second. All right. Same house, same call . Yeah. Im going to abstain. No abstention. Commissioner frost commissioner lee commissioner Vice President joseph commissioner moshoyannis abstain arrest commissioner caminong and commissioner president tan all right. Great. That is continued so moving on to on our regular agenda two fixed placed applications the first is for a place of entertainment for the located on 19th street the counselor is new and theyll have a restaurant there theyll have private areas confusing a rooftop terrace it will be prominently for weddings and nonprofit functions and corp events the dog Patch Neighborhood Association and the hoa provided letters of support for the project the baby station has no ocean and recommend the galileo and noted that no extended hours should be granted here as well just ending sorry about that 0 the monthly calendar or to the station the owner on mendelsohn. Good evening, commissioners ive never done this before. Aim adam the managing partner . My partner and the project was born about 4 years ago when i was in the Renewable Energy work and worked in the Solar Development i decided. Could you move the microphone to the front of our mouth thats perfect. I dont know how much you caught the idea was born 4 years ago when i was in the Solar Energy Industry i wanted to move into the food world bans what my friend was doing in portland how to find the space that marries from nonprofit activities and the best in class for what we can do for an event space and have an restaurant as part of the project weve spent a lot of time looking for space and in the dog patch so it was perfect with an industrial warehouses building and worked with an Incredible Team to develop that space and partnered with the math maybe youre familiar with and partnered are a group called stoplight and as the project developed weve got more people involved and were proud of what were doing so thats the project from a fair level. Commissioners questions commissioner Vice President joseph. You say i partnered are got light you hired them are theyre a privilege. Neither their as exclusive provider in the project. Theyre an investor. Theyve provided the services for the space. What kind of events do you envision. We want to run the game bet on saturday of wedding and rooftop views and hope to have summers on the roof because of the got light infrastructure we want to have theoretical production and teamed up with a gentleman who is an incredible artist have a focused space design into the space to reflect a lot of the history of 370 so some of the facade and the edging of the crane we want to activate this into the artist events and nonprofit events some corp events and associate as well. Okay. So you going to do sound on our roof if you have wedding. No permanent sound on the roof if there is a wedding summer to have sound if theres a cocktail hour to have acoustical you know guitar but the party will be coming inside of the building. How much experience sir, do you have. I have little but my partner last many years and including ellen i dont want to embellish but over 10 years and shes on our team. Okay. Your partner is going to come forward from oregon and be here and that one doesnt work so ill introduce myself quickly i take it curiosity i have a group of restaurants in portland under the name of chiefs table we partner with chiefs as the name suggests. Partner with artisans a barker a winery our business mold o model is unusual every project is the chiefs our chiefs with parolee paid and dont have money we putdown them into equality position and thats the same with the barker and the winemaker and developed the business so 18 location in portland our intention and adam convinced me this is our intention to come forward to San Francisco and have a similar i dont know what you custodial call that a bulk head or start something similar so a lot of the ideas for this space whether a rooftop garden that is going to fortune the restaurant up to a quarter of the our product all the ideas will take into inspiration. Very cool i have two questions one im understand the restaurant will be open to the public are you going to do Public Events or just speak to special events do you have any idea. To be honest no idea there are a number of events outreaching im excited for in the community of dog patch but you know there is sort of the took truck tuesday you bring folks in so the way we can activate that space not using used for private a real opportunity to go public thats in my i my dream arrest the last question you were talking about the view of pier 70 what are you going to do when we build the construction how much of a view then this is just my on personal curiosity. It is sad at the end of the day our view is quite good but will go away eventually building that will dwarf us you get a good sense of the trolley car blow we hope that the environmental process takes not longer hopefully. All right. Thank you. Commissioner lee. So im looking at the floor plan and wedding you know tend to have top 40 groups and dancing weve had things in the dog patch have you down soundproofing. I owned a brewery a france and ran it for 10 years weve had extensive work with soundproofing and i can say with a great deal of assurance were at a platinum grade level of soundproofing between the two spaces this is a primary concern as an operator sounds transfers between two space you cant run a nice restaurant and have top 40 music as a concept weve had within the space do a great deal of work managing that the amount of money on the windows that are soundproofed is thrilled and with the layout of the space sometimes when you on the ambition binge doors this is when noise escaped we have an exit corridor core for the staff a stated door so when people leave there is no sound escaping. Sounds good. Can you talk about our sound system are djs coming in with their own sound equipment or a built in system. A limited built in system and depending on the kind of event got light will be bringing that in this is different from the systems weve done an event space in portland and there a big sound system but here we do not. One more. How close is the near itself complex from our space. Agreement complex. Yes. Across the street or 19th street. And we did go through a presentation with that in about a month and a half ago. That context so weve been in constant communication about what what we are doing we have a good relationship. Theres a letter of support in there from the hoa and you know we obviously coming back can mows is a different aspect the neighbors supported that for a while. This is not close. Commissioner lee i wont be offended but dog patch their sensitive. Because we had to do the site plan and permit process we respect through the unification presented to the hoa and get letters of support and with the association weve really try to go above and beyond. Sounds good. Great didnt seem like theres more questions have a seat well ask the police to come up. Okay. Thank you. Good evening officers oer the ramparts we watched were so gallantly streaming . From Bay Area Police station i met with the applicant probably over a month ago its been a while and looked at the space and all the construction but the idea seems great were excited that bay area station to see what the outcome a new nice restaurant always good to have nice food in the bay area were excited and all for it obviously as maggie said no extended hours were fine. Okay. Great. Thanks. Any questions for officer ramos . No all right. Thank you very much open up for Public Comment any Public Comment on the pearl . Hand that in go ahead and state your name you have 2 minutes. Im chris curiosities us one of the Founding Partners at gallery in San Francisco im also in full disclosure a minority very, very small owner in this entity i met adams through mutual friends ask commissioner Vice President joseph you recall 12 years ago i opted a restaurant had little experience and look at it how this has turned out but adams and i taken in this guy e guy is incredible focused ive been in the business for 12 years and seen a lot of operators some good and some questionable ive come across few individuals that has put this much energy and focus this much sure money but pure thinking the suspects hes reached out to talk to folks that are experts and very repetitive pulled in a lot of great people and a stellar team an amazing project i look forward to seeing it play out thank you. Thank you any is there any additional Public Comment seeing none, Public Comment is closed commissioners happy to entertain a motion. I move to approve this permit. I second. All right. Theres a motion and second my further discussion. On the motion to approve the president of the United States for the pearl with conditions. Commissioner frost commissioner lee commissioner Vice President joseph commissioner president tan commissioner moshoyannis commissioner caminong. All right. The that item passes unanimously good luck well checked out that view well move on to 5 e sam. Im going to recuse myself for this, please. So our next application for an extended hours for sam barky located on place street a place of chinatown this was built after the 1906 San Francisco earthquake and originally located on washington street after green closed for the past few years sam is back in a new location and once again have a night time eatery there are letters in the from the community and ac dc their director norman fong she approved the extended hour permit and remedies the applicant do the following they hire security for the extended hours and the permit will be utilized as well as install security cameras and keep for this for a minimum of two weeks here to talk about sam low is stephano the owner david. Good evening, commissioners im stephano the consultant to the sam with a request for extended hours and jewel was 9yearold and put if a good 20 years a ascended veteran the general manager and lovely soninlaw two years old i think it is up to him to be the cook and david hoe this is there for thirty years sam low is a truly legacy in San Francisco dating back to 1906 and was located on 813 washington street they have to close three years ago we were seasoned everyone has a sam low story and everyone probably meet the famous raider the thing here was people started asking in the community can can we doing we have to do something about so Community Leaders bake referred and others we started talking and people starting to alone and want to get involved so a team of investors point out together mostly just to dinger lets get sam open and well have great memories and time to let this continue for others we wants to bring it back in its way were limit with a restaurant well ask for beer and wine with the Planning Department in the near future and have extended hours it was known for that for a look at we got tremendous Media Support as you can see lost of that coasted people want to know were going to open at 713 play street the are form annas barky it is right adjacent portsmouth square at inlaw unit e night time in the old days china had 6 theatres right now night time in chinatown is dismal were hoping this tiny 49 street you know noodle house bakery restaurant will you know continue for everyone we saw the Police Departments recommendations and theres only a couple obviously the 14 day surveillance cameras by all means well ask that we would like to do sunday through thursday have guard cards for the Staff Members that are previously trained to main that sunday through thursday, well handle that internally and run the house friday and saturdays generally there is more traffic you know in the area efrlgs every single Everything Else after hours people might try to get if this is nice to have professional security and maintain the order and everything we want to accept the conditions but ask if we could have professional security on friday and saturday nights and let us do the internal staff sunday through thursday and from the capability is utilized and a lot of demand by all means well probably you know request more professional security so thats kind of ill leave it at that. Commissioner Vice President joseph. My first question will we be able to berry to the kitchen. Everybody goes to the front door. The original stair. You know we got to do it the right way. Im joking. People remember the b y o b it straurd. I estimated into it it and walked though the kitchen which was to mia bizarre and met east sale what a trip laughter it kept me coming back so exactly the question is really a joke my only thing to say my comment on the security if you have your staff trapped with guard cards you then become a Security Guard company and have to get a license from the state of california so this commission doesnt say who should use the School District you have to have a proper security plan telling us if you try to get guard card and operate without having the restaurant apply to those Security Companies the state of california will come and get you dont do that it is not worth it is my only comment on that. Other comments commissioner im very thrilled you guys radio back i was waiting in like that i think two hours the last day of openly theyre going to close theyre to close not in the same spot it had a great actuate with the dump waterer but supporting Family Businesses we want to support many this commission in relations to the security weve had mixed ways of dealing with securities that are for anotherries the police generally ask of that weve always said is hey, is this necessary a subway in the richmond they said security at night time or extended hours we said that is not necessary whereas an broadway you know there is petesries we said hey have them so im in favor of may not not having is it everyday of the week but we feel it is necessary to have friday and saturday nights but i think this is a standard thing for the Police Police it ask and youre right is this reasonable and going to impede on the general operations and profits of businesses so for the commissioners to consider that. Any thoughts are more questions for those guys commissioner frost. I agree with your statement with regards to the police were serious about this may be theyve when we talk about this we talk about friday and saturday nights but but saturday and sunday morning during those extra hours were talking about i think maybe to add a thursday or sunday i dont know how thursday and friday or sunday night monday morning i dont know how busy those nights are for this type of business but give them one more night and they can could be and get it adjusted in the future. You know police say not here to speak to this is there a record of calls with had you ran our older location incidents that came about at night and called the police theres something going on ouch can you go to the microphone. There were instances we called the police but most of the time we managed it and we knew when it was appropriate to call the police and when to step in between. What kind of incidents. Usually fight people come in intoxicated and we have to break them up or not safe to side or do so well call the police but rarely did it happened we were able to prepare for it so it has not been a real issue in the past but. Given a month or in a given year how many times would that occur. Twice a year. Twice a year. I think right now theyre trained by james from al could well probably not let someone enter the restaurants we have the right to refuse service Nelson Mandelas we dont want to jeopardy the safety of people whether they work are patrons well do a thorough job if there is better train opportune at this point. All right. Any other thoughts no. Oh. Your mikes is not working. So, yeah so i think i was introduced to the restaurant to my family ive been going there my whole life i was there on a night which is fifth broke out it was somebody that was inintoxicated over one year. One of the two a year. Okay. Commissioner Vice President joseph do you have anything else before i open up for Public Comment all right. Thank you very much we may have more questions i dont think we do at this time lets open up to the police and now open up for Public Comment any Public Comment on sampling woos permit application. Please come up. Chris curtis and form onsite residents ever russian hill and chinatown my wife and i we use to walk home frequently through the neighborhood and we stopped at the old establishment it was a wonderful experience pie wife is chineseamerican and she loved the food it was a cultural experience for visitors tons and tons of tourists probably the highlight for a lot of folks one of the experience they told people will burglary this and i would love to see them up and running cant wait to patron news them. Thank you. Is there any additional Public Comment seeing none, Public Comment is closed. Commissioners lets take a motion on this. I move to approve. Move to approve with the conditions my changes or conditions. I move to approve with the police no, i take that back i move to i move to approve with the police condition two the applicant should install cameras at the entrance of their establishment and the footage to be maintained for thirty days with the modification of one the applicant shall hire security on friday and saturday nights. All right. Friday and saturday night you mean. Saturday morning. Sunday. Saturday and sunday morning. All right. Is there a second to that motion. Second. All right. Any you future discussion lets take a vote. Okay so on that guess month to approve the extended hours with the conditions of having security Early Saturday Morning and sunday morning as well maintaining the security cameras commissioner frost commissioner Vice President joseph commissioner moshoyannis commissioner caminong commissioner president tan. The that item passes congratulations look forward to eating there one thing once again and lets move on to item of were done with the permits item of a report from the reciprocal Development Committee im happy to give that update unless commissioner Vice President joseph or commissioner caminong wanted to give that we met from 3 to 5 the second meeting the Committee Just actually before you get into it as a point of sorts of procedure we asking this commission to approve the recommendations that we approved during that meeting or is it what are we doing here. Were going to agendize this to you could make a motion ill request that clarity with the City Attorney if, in fact, that is required it maybe easy enough to put it on the committee that day and if not moved but i dont think tonight we can do that without being agenda kissed. Procedural weve heard from two project on harrison and which directly is across the street from the eagle they provided the deliberate process with the neighbors to think about how do we design no time the building but planning a streetscape plaza plan that will activate that particular corner our recommendations was really to being sure that there was adequate conversation with the cc r and commissioner caminong you can chime but set a high bar for what we should expect from the developments like these and their sound expert offered to sort apply education to us and teach us a little bit about things their experts insisted we know what were doing this is all new i dont know if you guys want to say more about the project in particular. Just only that they went out of their way to work with the po a and went out of their away way to see what the concerns were this is assisting them in their design where to put things like that the bedrooms, the living rooms, the door based on requests if the eagle and this plaza you you know really nice and the thing i like about it most it their presentation was complete it had everything they brought their experts with them and made a sxhef effort to work with the place of entertainment for me really a big deal weve learned a lot from the presentation loan this is going to be a learning process for us so thats as far as i feel the eagle they also. For saturday. Reporter right the second project we heard the 445 mini ma a 9 stories residential project on mini in a around the corner around two corners from monarchy and temple theyve made contact with the places of entertainment with no response so we counselor our staff to help to fascist that to have email to email time if not face to face time and could you remember to do a sound test their way earlier it on the process of development so we saw schematic designs but yet to go though the review between the Planning Department so they have an eager architect trying to get ahead of the game we felt xhofkt with the project especially not compared to the project across the place of entertainment. Also she really again she present the nature the materials that was important you know in our discussion were using the sound. So i want to encourage the ottawa other commissioners to join that meeting it is educational and has if it goes like today, i wish they all wont actually but really parties that are interested in reality accounting Good Solutions what theyre trying to build it is exciting and a bye product of this entire legislation theyre trying to do the same time from 3 to 5 a bit of a challenge the next time for 2016 for one the cigarettes weve update people if that goes on theres no action to be taken any questions from the commission. Just interested that group you said were complete do you know why. Do we can why. Yes. It sounds like those guys took the process serious. I think one of the developers has worked with the city before and has developed other plazas before and kind of had been through the process before and he please help me cooperation and transparency to set the bar i think so he knew to come and bring his experts and come with his vision and come with a completed plan i object to share i have it in my backpack. The second thing as far as the other second group that comes in if we carton get the place of entertainment to do a sitdown you know were still going to need to have the developers do their basic soundproofing and be aware that practices is under. From a process stand up i invited the operators to this meeting they choose not to show up that is unfortunate i offered to continue to try to connect the parties but again as i said earlier you cant lead a horse to water maybe part of this second project was the proximity a distance away too much smaller places of entertainment the first is builds ink this is a nonprofit partner and the people that presented do i have been working with on the consultants in night time and they knew they were going into an area that is chockfull in not karates from the 11 street it is behind them so they have done a lot of work and wanted to show off i wanted them to get it theyre doing a lot of projects it is great to have it is a high bar i have no expectation and spends the money to bring experts because they have to pay everyone in the room. It is a go back if they did this on the first and hold them to this. This is a process such as a inquiring that level of everybody that objective shows a certain amount of right. I appreciate that itch but as far as is place of entertainment operators that dont come and engage thats their choice i dont think we can make them or advocate on their on behalf of anywhere than were doing so they have an opportunity ill make another opening and then well go from there. You gave them plenty of notice they dont come and have their chance maybe they dont feel it will impact them as long as you give them alp notice. All right. Any Public Comment on all that no well move on so the last two items which are standing commissioner questions or comments commissioners comments or questions. Just to happy jewish happy new year. Go ahead. As far as those 3 loudspeaker permits i think this is arch those people came here to get it it will help us set the tone for the future but if you guys do me a favor get ahold of steve in central and may be one the commissioners working that night to one of our circumstances inspectors is working that night to get a firsthand knowledge on what worked and what didnt work that night. I mean, i wont ask them to take any action only an education thing for us. All right. Any other thing is there any Public Comment on those comments no there isnt item 8 is new business requests for future agendized anything. We need to either ask staff to do some investigation or set policies on the park let things because it is like im not sure i get it you know how to do that that seems like not going to be easygoing date of birth difficult because especially, when they talk about orphaned parklets that none wants to do you want. No, no those they get rid of. They put it in their prospective. So i need contradiction i guess i would suggest to the commission you would let you know know the timeframe im working with Planning Department and dpw to come up with possible guidelines for you to consider the committees are touch or tough because it is another meeting and have to report back if im going to do the investigation and background let me do it and ill bring it back i need the wanting to know when in my homework is due. I feel fine with it if you need two months. Yeah. 3 months by the end of the year this is fine. Yeah. I think were going into if rain comes which i hope it does there is less park let stuff but the boards gets out were issuing the Action Committee for women in prison if i had sounds permits so so end of the year one other quick announcement our november 3rd meeting is being pushed back just to people know to the 10 or is 17th and. The 10th. So the request came to for two reasons yes, it is election day in addition to room will be holding a hearing that may go very long and we may not have access to this room to ask whether the compilation might you need a motion i think to just push our meeting a week forward so youll have two days in a row; right . Sure. On one hand and that way we retain two meeting in november we need that way we will not have issued with quorum or not being able to get into this room. Is that room booked for the tenth is it available this room. Yes. It is available. Great just so we cover the bases can we take a motion to change that meeting date and time. So moved. Right i second. All right. So the motion to move from the third to november 3rd to november to tell you the truth same time 5 00 p. M. Im sorry 5 30 yes. I have. Take a vote. Loss of brain cells. Commissioner frost commissioner lee commissioner Vice President joseph commissioner caminong commissioner president tan. All right. Great that is done with any others new business . Any Public Comment for us about new business all right. Not seeing any, this meeting is adjourned at 7 09 p. M. I have 2 job titles. Im manager of the tour program as well as i am the historyian of city hall. This building is multifaceted to say the very least its a Municipal Building that operates the city and county of San Francisco. This building was a dream that became a reality of a man by the name of james junior elected mayor of San Francisco in 1912. He didnt have a city hall because it was destroyed in the earth wake of 1906. Construction began in april of 1913. In december 1915, the building was complete. It opened its doors in january 1916. Its a wonderful experience to come to a building built like this. The building is built as a palace. Not for a king or queen. Its built for all people. This building is beautiful art. Those are architecture at the time when city hall was built, San Francisco had an enormous french population. Therefore building a palace in the art tradition is not unusual. Jimmie was an incredible individual he knew that San Francisco had to regain its place in the world. He decided to have the tallest dome built in the United States. Its now stands 307 feet 6 inches from the ground 40 feet taller than the United States capital. You could spend days going around the building and finding something new. The embellishment, the carvings, it represents commerce, navigation, all of the things that San Francisco is famous for. The wood you see in the board of supervisors chambers is oak and all hand carved on site. Interesting thing about the oak is there isnt anymore in the entire world. The floors in china was cleard and never replanted. If you look up at the seceiling you would believe thats hand kof carved out of wood and it is a cast plaster sealing and the only spanish design in an arts building. There are no records about how many people worked on this building. The workman who worked on this building did not all speak the same language. And what happened was the person working next to the other person respected a skill a skill that was so wonderful that we have this masterpiece to show the world today. My name is jaeven alexander an attorney for the San FranciscoCity Attorneys office i inspires the tax team give tax advise to the treasurer and drafting tax legislation the thing i remember any mother telling me as a child but need to be prepared to take care of youve i know you wanted to burger to do something i enjoyed i did not expect anyone to gym give me anything they didnt give her anything i saw her fighting for the things she wanted for home share my name is jason man flovrlz working alien agency an admin assistants at the City Attorneys office i felt in the tasks ive been given on the days i didnt show up and held my own for me, i think it is being more active and being more involved in a person to person interaction my grievous bodily harm jobs includes being a physician or nurse or pharmacy or firefighter and working with animal or the public on a personal level for improvements my sister is the biggest influence in any life because she to tell you the truth me to go forward what makes you happy rather than the most money. I graduated from law school in 1972 at this point when was was beginning to be an influx of women in the professional and tries case for diligent operated programs government budgets and a life fiscal legislation came to the San FranciscoCity Attorneys office and been here for about 12 years advising think tax matters i does just about anything to think of lawyers do some things and some negligence letters dont do. Im from the mission and grew up and also there my whole life living there you see others question. Some of them oldest and some look like me my age and a lot of them work nanny and childcare jobs and retail jobs i dont know it is being kind of like a reminder that youre kind of lucky to be where you or i guess just the facts whether you havent gone so far at all i want them to go maybe go on an intrauf for challenging that is facing things they cant get that job you know kind of challenge and maybe surprise themselves when they get that job and feel better. They have been women practicing law for many years but it was so few of them that a lot of the issues hadnt really come into play and some of them were fairly worked out and resolves like equal pay in partnerships in law firms mac that women get fair assignments to be excluded and in the upper levels of government and law firms i consider myself more of a beneficiary of all the women that fought really difficult battles along the way good morning, everyone morning and good morning it is as we celebrate the 95 anniversary of women having the right to vote in the United States. Yeah. clapping. but california led the way 10 years earlier or not we proud of the leadership of california im honored to be here with the secretary of state alex ma dew and charles a student at San FranciscoState University clapping. kimberly rather with the executive director of the Civil Service of the state of california a newly elected and melva davis a treasurer to us just want to make a few points as we hear from our guest when women won the right to vote the headlines said women given the right to vote that was not true women wrnlt given anything women worked and struggled and fought and starved were starved to take it either way they did everything for this fundamental right to vote as we had fought for others to have the right to vote after the civil war now it was expanded to women this is a precious privilege and right and we must honor it and those gathered here are committed to preserving and honoring that right to vote this is also the 50 anniversary on the march on selma that was clapping. that was the bridge to the valley the bridge to the ballot Martin Luther king said the ballot the ballot the ballot legislation legislation legislation your life the connection between the ballot and the people were bean and killed everybody on if bridge to the valley including my great colleague john louis they made big sacrifices so people had the right to vote and yet pernicious efforts to block participation to the ballot and again, we dont agonies we organs they agonies we organize in his and the Supreme Court diminished that but the congress refuses to put forth the boy Partner Proposal to restore the act we cant rest until we pass john louis legislation to do just that clapping. so it is a pretty exciting time so many things are happening the 50 and hundred and fifth anniversary but in the last election 1 3rd of the electricity voted 1 3rd and john louis contends after the election of 2000 measures were taken that greatly diminished assess to the ballot so whether people dont see the connection between their lives and voting and policies that effect them or obstacles to participation across the country including by the Supreme CourtVoting Rights act we must make sure your constitution is honored and everyone who is doable to vote can vote and none is a bigger champion than alleles pa deceased our secretary of state clapping. over the years the secretary of state had to remove the barriers to participation to outreach to engage people to vote he is doing this in a way that technology and brings him to do especially reaching out to young people modernizing registration of voting in every way and he is giving out pins youll covered up with the purple purple from my tiniest college the colors off my college hes doing this in such an important way he is leapfrogging over obstacles in a fresh way that is a model to the country it is an honor for us to have him here this morning and thank him in person for this is a leadership to help us support and didnt find the constitutional right to vote to remove obstacles to expand participation and that everyone that is eligible to vote can vote and everyones vote is counted as cast alleles padilla clapping. i city enjoy saying thank you, maam speaker clapping. thank you so much for the introduction and outlining what indeed is at stake you know i want to thank mayor ed lee for the hospitality and to all of you who have taken time out of your busy lives to be here were celebrating a lot of things today, were celebrating the 50 anniversary of the Voting Rights act and the congresswoman if you misplaced yours ill give you mine laughter . So you can wear that the rest of the day we had pins made celebrating the fact that california celebrates the Voting Rights and 50 years that was voted on a bianca base for the voting right and the floor and the senate a republican so we believe the principles is part of the issue it is an american and democratic issue we needed to remember that we are celebrating the 95 years of women earning, winning fighting for successfully for the right to vote as leader pelosi said prior to said california was no matter the earliest states to afford the right to vote for women the stay constitutional amendment we put together through our archives a displace to my left. Our right with fascinating images a t label the revenues from selling tea in tea partys a big part of the earning the Suffrage Movement the thought or right of to vote for the special election held in november 1911 with the exultant community by Community Breakdown of california to afford the right to vote in state and local elections we have a copy of the Senate Joint Resolution of 1919 california helped to ratify the 19 amendment and some of the petition memorabilia from the 1878 Constitutional Congress i ask you take into account what we brought but we this is the year 2015 and for the celebration to what franchisements and Voting Rights how far weve come as a country we recognize were not talking about and a quick survey in the last several years reminds us of several bills introduced far too many have been put into law by dozens and dozens of states that rolled back the clock over a purging of the reductions of early voting opportunities, overly aggressive voter id laws one example North Carolina where if youre a student at a State University and bring tour student identification doesnt let you in but a gun permit does. We have work to do were california and being the early states in giving women the right to vote over and over our leadership on complooifk or other issues thats part of the ambition in policy leadership when it comes to Voting Rights i ask for your support for a couple initiatives working their way to the is legislature and a state of the Art Technology to make Voter Registration automatic if youre 18years old with a citizen lets add the people to the voter rules with one step color to not stacking that away we have a proposal to modernize Elections Technology allows us to afford voters flexibility not just in how to cast a ballot in person or by mail but Voting Centers we can give voters the opportunity of where to cast the ballot anywhere in the community and give the voters the flexibility of when to cast a ballots and lets bring an early 10 days of voting to california lets do that. Yeah. clapping. thats our twostep counter punch to those who want to roll back the clock on Voting Rights we want to make it easier to cast a ballot we fight for our Voting Rights not only by defense but oh, fence and doing it to the speakers talked about with the start with leader pelosi leading the charge at the federal level im happy to do my part working with the good afternoon and legislature we have a community Voting Rights revoke but the next speaker is a champion of Voting Rights at the local level our host your mayor of San Francisco mayor ed lee clapping. well, thank you mr. Secretary of state for that introduction and thank you all of you for being here this morning and thank you, leader pelosi for your ongoing. repeated. the constitution of the United States. Battle leadership that we need more our city, for how state and country im proud of all you being here even though were in the basement of the city hall this is as active as the first floor this is where a lot of things happen and Vital Decisions are made im so glad here in the peoples palace were joined by assemblyman david chiu and carmen chu your board of supervisors a number are here i see commissioner avalos and supervisor jane kim and supervisor mar did i miss anyone oh, commissioner christensen newest and, of course, we have some special participant that will be speaking in a moment but well hear as understand the history what happens here as that time in a couple of months are people expressing their values their choices and everything from officeholders to critical policy decisions that effect hundred of thousands of lives happens right here if we had more time id show you the base slrts some people made sure that buildings were assessable and safe those are critical decisions that everyone no matter where you came from have a right and should demand not only locally or statewide but always be demanding our rights be enhances and protected this right to vote he people died for this very, very right. I wanted to honor them with everybody here recognizing that important right i see in this crowd a lot of people who spent volunteer hours on your own as a volunteer as a Community Activist or a representative of our neighborhood right here making sure that people have less barriers and bringing people here to guide them when they couldnt find the polling place what language do you speak how to make sure we by reason of that particular barrier and educate each other in committee was this is what we do in San Francisco as your first historically Asian American mayor, i know about the barriers as our parents and Community Leaders taught us we had a difficult history in this city matched what the difficult histories of others i honor them in their movement to compressors my right and also the privilege of being the mayor here in San Francisco so many people can dwell around the things that disfranchised so Many Community in our history but were here now we know what freedom is we know was it expression is and wherever youre watching the board of supervisors and the mayor interact you know that freedom is special laughter well, we joined with leader pelosi our secretary of state to fight against the restrictions that have prohibited the right to vote obstructing our electrical process but we join with advocacy grasps groups that fight every single day like our women voters and the status of voting the people it that gives us arraign to come together there is a reason to fight for those things theyre about the way we want to live in San Francisco and in San Francisco thats a huge, huge objective equality for all has already been a San Francisco value and already been i want to borrow a mantra leader pelosi says everywhere she goes in the country when women succeeds San Francisco succeeds. clapping. will you see it in the leadership i have the privilege of working with every single day im proud to be in a position where id be able to appoint in the meanwhile to that seat as a Zoning Administrator i was able to appoint carmen chu as the assessor recording and jooiks as newest member of the board of supervisors, highest level pause Women Deserve it and by way of they do a great job with us, yes clapping. and you know we have many examples as our commission on the status of women knows we have leader pelosi and senator feinstein and senator box and those are Accomplished Women fire hydrant for San Francisco residents in the Nations Capital that is a team of force clapping. well, we also know that women have lead the way to the ballot box process as well i want to take a special opportunity to honor the legal women voters in San Francisco city of lead the Voting Rights movement in the city providing vital election information and getting the women out to vote and making sure the agenda was fuller than the established agenda might be and earlier this year and recently actually our Human Rights Commission i know our members are here took a privilege to honor the legal women voters and, of course, a long time Voting Rights advocate maxine for advocating the Voting Rights give special recollection and the womens sufficient rage 95 years ago helped toe lead the way for the Voting Rights act and lincoln those movements we become a Stronger Community as we understand that for everyone it is appropriate to recognize womens equality day today in San Francisco the challenge of gender equality is not one to be left to the next generation we need to fight it right here and make advancements here im proud to say our own San Francisco workforce a half women and their equal to the men in management and professional careers outstanding women run our city departments im proud of that from the fire chief to the Human Resources director to the Public Health director, of course, and the Zoning Administrator and i see our director of our environment and the senior programs that are here as well and this year at my direction my administration will be identifying and eliminating for barriers to prevent women from city jobs prairie those that pay great are sailors we need to do better where under is technology or Public Safety or in the construction jobs we need to do better and we will and were also not just we lead the way and ton to be the example but a strong voluntary voice what should happen in the private sectors as well theyve become our partners in those parkinsons well also make sure their opening the doors just as i said to all the Management Employees at salesforce yesterday we need to make sure our goals are your goals as well well, ill say to you that we are always leading the nation in a Family Friendly policy with Health Insurance and Retirement Benefits to working parents and last year, i joined and was proud to sign then board president david chius establishing the right of all employees to we fmly Work Arrangements wherever they worked in San Francisco women shouldnt have so choose been a great career and family both of those are great investments in San Francisco. clapping. so i know ladies and gentlemen, we have a lot of work ahead and i do want to take inform opportunity to introduce someone special doing great work starting out as an intern and works for the Democratic Party registering voters at San FranciscoState University and making sure that newest immigrants are recommended to vote and shes on expressive young star more than a rising star already a star in her own ill introduce ms. Charles clapping. hello, everyone at San FranciscoState University we are a school of activists who will not be silenced with rising tuition costs and the lack of funding for Higher Education and school debt and myself having to work two jobs to get through college as the state knows we need a change alleyway on my compass we have thirty thousand students from various background many are First Year College students we work hard to make sure that every student is empowered and their vote is a catalyst for change the university has been working hard to insure that students have a seat at the table we have on compass voting place for all students to be informed and many students are increasing getting the message through the social media last year on the campus we ran an Aggressive Campaign that took advantage of a mechanism that reached over the thirty thousand population of students to vote online and stay informed were continuing how mask Voter Registration leading up to the 2016 voting circle we we celebrate the womens equality day it is not more of the we know our job is not done because of the background of the students we know what it medians to feel like i said. And we work to make sure that our students speak up and vote as we advocate for those furthering to do so id like to thank you for the opportunity to introduce an Amazing Community leader the executive director of Lawyers Committee for San Francisco bay area area kimberly clapping. good morning good morning. The right to vote continues to be among the most basic civil rights we protect at the Lawyers Committee for civil rights i have to say as as africanamerican as a woman im proud to be here today celebrating the anniversary of the Voting Rights act and womens equality day a testament to the advances weve made over the last many, many decades and the Lawyers Committee in and of itself was a established in the wake of poll tax and literacy tests to preinclude folks from experiencing their rights to vote as i stand here recognizing i have the right to vote and that is quite remark given the advancement we have many, many, many more advancements to make to insure equality in terms of access to the ballot box the access and right to vote is not simply about voting it is a doorway and pathway to experiencing control over ones life and hope one has in establishing theyre on very existence and their on this trajectory in their life course access and the ability to vote, vote for representatives like leader pelosi; right . So both the representatives like secretary padilla and vote for representatives is at the core and root of ones ability to experience their vote and elevate their voice and elevate your voice in terms of your ability to access rights and access the opportunities that accost many in world the right to vote is a fundamental right a fundamental constitutional right even here in San Francisco and the bay area remains under attack at the Lawyers Committee last year, we joined other organizations in filing suit against then secretary of interior deborah beyonce to challenge here challenge to block Voting Rights the court agreed noting california not only prohibits individuals currently serving state apprehensive sentences but prohibit individuals on parole from voting and that does not extend to probable cause 58 thousand other folks on Court Ordered supervision from voting even though the state agreed with us folks on Court Ordered supervision has the right to vote the state appealed this decision i stand before you wanting to commend secretary of interior of padilla restoring the Voting Rights for an estimated 48 thousand californians. clapping. as we remember the mark on selma there was bloodshed there were lives lost and those lives were at stake not just about the right to vote but for access to housing for access to employment opportunities, for access to be able to just engage as basic human beings in everyday life in our local neighborhoods that is why the Lawyers Committee remains committed to vance the Voting Rights to all people last year, we released a report and bring that report to our elected officials in california and across the country that are champed to restore the Voting Rights act we calling your attention the barriers that exist if the experience of their right to vote right here in San Francisco there are poll workers for some reason are asking people inform their identification in order for them to be able to vote even when asked why they were asking folks their, their identification in order for people to vote one poll worker reportingly said he was checking voter identification contrary to California Law he wanted to make sure that no foreign nationals voted that is unaccepted standing in the way of the experience to vote in addition the report we released entitled Voting Rights barriers and description in 21st century california identified the other acts of imitations by poll workers by the presence of Law Enforcement officers hoover over people as and attempt to exercise their right to vote there are many examples throughout jurisdictions here in 70 california and, of course, the Lawyers Committee has been active through the years in addressing the vote deillustration that results if at large elections and the one the core and critical things that remain in front of us to address in challenging the at large elections is the barrier for language assess and disabled access at the polls those are all things that remain in front of us today as we stand and celebrate the very sixth accomplishment that weve made with the Voting Rights act and womens equality day we call upon our leads not just to celebrate and be present for the celebration today by be present for the work that remains ahead clapping. and with that, i want to introduce a very widely known commentator spokesperson and advocate presence in the Civil Rights Community melba davis clapping. and. Thank you, thank you very much im the oddball im usually over there taking pictures it is much easier to be out there you know if you asked me if i thought in s 66 when i not earned but was presented a pathway to fulfill my dreams if i thought that today in 2015 we would still be talking about the right to vote it just made no since i would have said if you asked me i thought impede e women would be fighting for kwaement after all the work to get the first black people in the door i said have said no there was so much energy illicit devote my energy to changing the script to the thought you need to remember where your been so you will know where youre going i was diverted from my and remarks today and people on the mayors staff will be glad i become excited in looking at my own archive and i pulled out a tape to video ive not seen for thirty years and it was of a womens events here at city hall upstairs started in the Mayors OfficeDianne Feinstein was the mayor and huge crowd and lots of food i guess the womens organizations must have been involved in that laughter . What i found a trip to San Francisco doesnt happen often by shirley chichl i dont know if you all can see that shirley was the first woman to run for president of this country clapping. shirley chichl was the first black woman to serve in the u. S. Congress and clapping. so those two giants Dianne Feinstein the ferries woman to be mayor of San Francisco and the other first woman they were theyre talking about progress and what we needed to do well, i said to myself im running out of time he did no matter how young youre running out of time there is nothing to do but step forward and have your say and thats having our say at the ballot box, determining who will speak for us were hearing a lot of people that are not speaking for me today it is because we dont do the things you know that leader pelosi said we dont go to the ballot box we have to do that ive covered so many registrations my family came from louisiana we recall noted allowed to vote i ask you to step back and find something to hang into that reminds you have your responsibility as a american citizen and think about the generation to come and hope that showing years from now women others wont be grandfathering in this space to talk about those things that to me should have been over with in s 66 thank you very much it gives mia blur that someone got a name she deserves leader thats what shes been doing all here life so, please welcome back the congresswoman clapping. thank you very much mel babe b. A. For that important and worthy prospective shirley chichl ways of the Voting Rights act shirley chichl was elected to congress because of the voting act we have a caucasian not only that but the hispanic caucasian and Asian Pacific islander wouldnt have happened im proud to say the majority of House Democratic caucus it the majority of the lgbt members and others thats a racket thing clapping. as melba said listening to other speakers it brings up other thoughts before i say a couple of more Closing Remarks i want to recognize equality for women and all willie brown. clapping thank you willie for coming. I know the mayor mayor brown heard me talk about when San Francisco supervisor breeds America Succeeds thats when were talking about the vote those women those women who really fought so hard and had to much encourage e courage to leave home and disobeying their husbands this is what they said in their declaration in all those are years ago we hold those truth to be selfevident that all matt haney e men and women are created equal now the necessity to demand the station theyre entitled and this is what womens equality is about when we talk about the vote it is important to vote womens equality we have women succeed and americans succeed it not just our theme a as a matter of fact what woman succeed and San Francisco and california and america the world succeed we want in those pill last years there that mantra equal pay for a equal work and equality childcare and paid sick leave those unleashes the power of women in the workplace whether a private sector or an academic world whatever or being at home and be able to balance family and outside obligations thats why that is important and the connection did your lives and legislation and the ballot is very direct weve heard what was said about secretary of state alex padilla his be election was very close if enough people hadnt of turned out a republican would be in that place we stand in front of the department of elections the department of elections the key to our democracy our founders they sacrifices their lives and liberty and their sacred honor for a government of m many not a government of the money laughter . And right now and right now when people dont vote they infer that money one of the biggest scriptures to the nefarious schemes right now one the biggest be scriptures is money big unidentified dark money suffocating and buying all the airways so people does have a chance to hear the facts and truth the suffocation of the airways they have endless money the only way to counter it is by having the current of the realm the vote if were going to play in our country were in a place we can make all the defensive of the world by honoring the work of those who marked in selma those women suffered further back by recognizing leona helmsley. How precious the vote is and what excuse do we have for not voting and how important to the families of america and the future and look their skrurpgs is because of the new and different and america is a country where the beauty is in the mix and many of the anti voting initiatives are directed at the future that beauty and that mix and diversity so again, we have a very big responsibility to vote to make sure others do to move obstacles youve heard at the student level are not we proud clapping. it is a decision weve seen over time it takes dedication and conviction and commitment and it takes courage but well have the courage to honor the vision of our founder and what they fought for america to says of the men and women in uniform to fight for our freedom and aspirations of our children a little baby before the aspirations of our children and young people to have a future worthy of all that says and courage thank you all for being here we have important work it all begins in california and even though rest of the could i so what youre doing is really important to our country are we ready for when women succeed America Succeeds happy womens equality day to all of you approved. Thank you very much. The minutes are adopted. Since commissioner reed is here, we will move on to item four. Item four, recommend five members transit citizens Advisory Committee. We have Transportation Planner here on this item. Good morning commissioner. This item is for the appointments to the gearry corridor Advisory Committee. Initiative to improve travel time reliability and streetscape along the gearry corridor. Its currently in Environmental Review phase. The structure is shown in your memo which is on page 17 of the packet. Five of those 13 members are currently up for appointment because of approximately two years ago. There was board initiated two year terms for those members. Members currently in the structure are shown in the memo in attachment on page five. Five members represent several different seats as there are theres one appointment for seat for the richmond district. One that is a representative of the fillmore area, one a representative of the tenderloin downtown district. Two at large seats. Four of those existing members are seeking reappointment. There is no current member seeking reappointment for one of the at large seats. We do have addition to the members seeking reappointment to the application for the individual neighborhood base seats and all of the applicants for any of the neighborhood seats are also eligible for that at large seat. Weve encouraged all of the applicants to who are here today in order to express their interest and say a few words about their candidacy. Some of them are here today. As a reminder, staff did not recommend candidates. We just provide the information that they have provided in their application. We are seeking a recommendation to appoint five members. So, thank you. Thank you very much. Do we have any questions from our Community Members . Seeing none, just to reiterate, we have several reappointment, new one new appointee. I at this time i will open it up to the applicant who here. If you can come here up if you can state if youre a new appointee. Who are the people seeking reappointment . Sure, for the richmond district, Joe Anna Fong and benjamin horn. Thank you very much. All right, thank you very much. At this time, if would like to line up on the side of the wall here and again, please state your name which seat youre applying for and whether youre reappointment, thank you very much. Dont be shy. Come on up, please. My name is cindy ive been resident of the gearry corridor since 1990. I feel like i know pretty every inch of the gearry corridor. During that time, the last 25 years, i only owned a car for ten. The first part of this i was primarily a muny rider. More recently in the last 12 years, ive been a committed bike commuter. But i use all the forms of transportation. Thats my ive been tracking this project for a long time. It seems to me that the biggest opposition is actually some of the gearry businesses, Small Businesses who fear being injured by the construction. Any way, thats my experience. Thank you. Just one question and this goes for all of the applicants who are here today. If you can state why you like to serve in this capacity, what are some of the things that you like to achieve if youre able to be appointed to the cac. Well, i see theres a need for this project. Im really interested in helping, trying to help get it implemented. I would love to be involved in citizen capacity in the mta. Ive done some work with the Bicycle Coalition and the m. T. A. I just think its really important. All right. Thank you. Any questions from Committee Members . Next applicant please. Hi, good morning commissioners. Thank you for the opportunity to speak before you today. My name is peter, i had the privilege of serving on the gearry Advisory Committee for the past two years. As a representative of the tenderloin downtown neighborhood. Im here seeking reappointment today to the committee. A little bit about me, ive lived at the corner of height and gearry in district six for the past six years. I do not own a car and so i rely on Public Transportation to get around the city. I take the 38 gearry very often. Its the closest line to my apartment. Im often on it getting to and from home. Professionally, i work as a Public Outreach consultant for a small environmental Marketing Company and prior to that, i worked at the San Francisco department of the environment on Sustainable Transportation projects and programs. While in the committee, one of my focus areas has been Public Outreach to the tenderloin community. Ive worked with the Transportation Authority staff to identify communitybased organizations to build a bridge and engage more with the community on the project. Ive also done direct outreach to businesses along the gearry corridor making them aware of the Community Outreach offense that the t. A. Has organized over the past two years. Again engage the community. Ive also been strong advocate for Pedestrian Safety improvements along the corridor particularly in the inner gearry portion where we know we have the highest pedestrian injures. I like to continue my active engagement with the committee as well as with the community. I like to ensure that the project stays on time and on budget and also work with the t. A. And city officials to make sure we secure funding for the project. Would also want to continue to advocate the phasing in of the project so benefits can be benefited now. Great, thank you for your presentation. Thank you. Next applicant please. Good morning commissioners and thank you for this opportunity it speak. My name is benjamin horn, ive lived in district five for about the past ten years. I served in the last two years on the gearry tcac. I learned a lot about the project and learned about the role of the cac. My objectives is being part of the committee are to speaks a representative of district five but also to provide a voice to someone who lives and works nearby the projects. To increase safety for everyone. Includes on the buses as well as in the neighborhoods and around the bus stops. Increase efficiency for the projects. Which is one of the main project goals. My like to ask that you appoint me to continue on the gearry cac. Thank you very much. Thank you very much for your presentation. Colleagues, any questions or comments from the applicants . I dont see any other applicants here. Okay, with that, im going to go to Public Comment first and take some questions and comments from Committee Members. Public comment on item number four. Item number four. Ill begin, bus transit citizen, committee. The past two applicants, they are well qualified. They are well outspoken. Thank you. Any other members of the public who wish to speak on item four . Public comment is closed. Now colleagues, do we have any recommendations or thoughts on gearry members . Commissioner breed. Thank you, i definitely think that its important to have continuity on this particular committee and i think that the person who represents district five has been doing a really excellent job as well as peter who has served as a representative for district six. I would like to make a motion that we move forward with the existing individuals who are currently serving on this committee and i like to hear my colleagues thoughts on what we should do about the at large seat since we have not had a number of the candidates come here today before the committee to speak. All right, thank you. We will entertain that motion. Commissioner farrell. Thank you chair tang. Just to be clear, we have one vacancy in richmond and one in tenderloin downtown and two at large that we have to fill. Look, completely concur with supervisor breed and mr. Horn in their continuity. In terms of open around the richmond district, i think the atlarge seat, i know district two has been on there as atlarge member. Elliott talbot, i dont believe he was here today, i spoke with him about it. I would like to certainly given that we have two vacancies and three applicants, i would definitely support him going forward. I gotten to known him a little bit and think he would be very involved and have a great perspective there and take Public Transportation downtown to work every single day. Hes a big advocate. Thank you commissioner farrell. He has made his recommendation about the atlarge seat with mr. Elliott talbot. Commissioner christensen. I want to echo about the thoughts of the current members. I know ben horn personally. Im very pleased that both of them came down here today. Any time somebody agrees to participate in the civic process is a wonderful thing. I appreciate all of those who are serving now and who have come forward with an interest to serve. I can speak of the list that we have available to cathy has kate lazarus who lives in richmond and works downtown and is a frequent user and is an exceptional young professional. I agree with commissioner breed, i did some checking with the staff and other people that work with the cac, all of them speak very highly of the persons currently serving. I think renewing those terms is an order especially all thats going on with the gearry brt. Commissioner yee . One of the questions i have of staff in regards to thank you mr. Horn and calotta being here. In regards to the current members, theyre reapplying. How have their attendance been . They have all been fairly attended meetings and participated in and been quite offered a lot of contributions to the cac. Thats important. Lot of times people apply for these things and they never show up. Im more than happy to support the four people that are currently in the seat and reapplying. In regards to the additional atlarge seat, i appreciate anybody that comes here to show theyre willingness to serve. I appreciate cindy for being here. Theres enough support to put her on as the additional atlarge seat. Great, thank you. Sounds like we have consensus on reappointments. I would definitely support that motion. We are definitely all over the map when it comes to the atlarge seat. Commissioner breed. I would also support ms. Baker for the atlarge seat as well if thats possible. Okay. Lets take first a motion i didnt realize ms. Baker was listed in richmond. As much as i mentioned mr. Talbot, i would fully support him, fair enough when people do show up to speak here, that should give preference. Im happy to support that motion. Great. Sounds like we have consensus here. Commissioner breed had made a motion supporting all the reappointments. Is there a second. Seconded by commissioner christensen. Theres consensus on appointing ms. Cindy baker to the atlarge seat. Do we have a motion and a second to that . Moved by commissioner yee and seconded by commissioner breed. I think if we can do a roll call vote since we have commissioner farrell with us. On item four, commissioner breed breed aye, commissioner christensen, aye, commissioner tang, aye, commissioner yee, aye. Item passes. Great congratulations to reappointees and cindy for the atlarge seat. All right, if we can call up item five nowc please. Item five, recommend allocation of 9,878,876 in prop k funds. Subject to fiscal year schedule. We have chad here, senior of Transportation Planner. Good morning chair tang. We have a total of 10 million in request for prop k allocation today that would leverage about 67. 9 million in nonprop k funds. First up is caltrans annual request for this San Francisco annual member share for the contribution of the caltran Capital Budget for fiscal year 15 and 16. Every year caltrans, like these for the annual Capital Budget, which is subject to reviewed discussion and negotiated by the three joint powers. Prop k funds from the Capital ImprovementProgram Category and caltran shares are used to help support San Franciscos annual local match contribution to caltrans capital program. Prop k funding for the caltrans category has been heavily advanced to provide San Francisco annual local match. Were also make a small advance for this years request over what we have programmed in the adopted 2014 Strategic Plan. That requires an amendment. Current programming in the prop k program in the current prop k Strategic Plan for caltrans runs out after fiscal year 22 and 23. These are the projects on the current slide that make up this years request from caltrans for the state of good repair program. I want to highlight two of these. The first is the napoleon bridge closure. These funds will be used for design. These structures have reached the end of their useful lives. Design is expected to be completed by december of 2016. The other project on this slide, train departure projects at the fourth and king station here in San Francisco and also in san jose to provide realtime information to passengers and this project will be open for use for passengers by july 2017. On the Fourth Street bridge settlement project in 2003 the San Francisco department of works contracted to retrofit for sizic stability. After construction the settlement between the contractor and the city was reached in which the contractor was received to 15 million, 2. 3 million was sfmta responsibility. They found 300,000 in other funds and prop k to make up the difference. The prop k funding will come from 6 million thats programmed in fiscal year 16 and 17 pap thats programmed to thats programmed to segment f. This request also requires an amendment to advance funds for this project. Another amendment to policy to allow these funds to be used for segment a instead of segment f of the project. Plan the next slide is a quintjerrold connector road. This request is part of an ongoing cooperation between the Transportation Authority, the city and the caltrans. First is to replace the bridge over quint street. Second is to facilitate a potential future caltrans station and third aimed is to construct a new street between quint street and jerrold avenue that will run along the west side. The right of way where the road would go is currently owned by union pacific. The Purchase Price has been negotiated. The negotiations with the railroad on the Purchase Agreement are ongoing. Bringing this request will allow the funds to be in place when escrow is set to close. The special conditions that are noted here on the slide, the they cover public works and city risks. Before you move on to the next slide, if you would mind smoking to the issue and concerns that were addressed earlier. I will bring up the Deputy Director for policy and programming. Good morning. Deputy direct. The concerns that cac chair expressed in regards to the special conditions that applied what happens if escrow fails to close or what happens if escrow closes and the city purchases the property and project. In the case of escrow failing to close for whatever unforeseeable reasons occurred during escrow, the prop k funds would come back to the prop k program. If the project does not proceed after escrow closes after a period of about two years or two years is what we have in the condition and the Transportation Authority has deemed the project as not likely to proceed for whatever unforeseeable reason, we would ask the city to sell the property. The amount of funds that will be returned to the prop k program will be the less of the Purchase Price or the amount of prop k funds to acquire the property. Or whatever the city can sale the land less the cost. Okay, thank you for that clarification. The next project on the next slide is equipment for public works. This request it looks familiar. This is an annual request that comes from public works. Its to replayer cleaning equipment. You can see some of the specific pieces of equipment on the slide here. Public works expects to complete for the equipment by the end of the calendar year. Have the complete procurement to have the equipment on the street by may of 2017. Another request that might look familiar, this is an annual request from the department of the environment. They submitted a request for about 80,000 in prop k to promote and administer San Franciscos benefit ordinance. The prop k could fund the program from october 2015 through september 2016. The commute benefit ordinance provides San Francisco employers the prop k will be used to offer consultations with employers that administer the ordinance, compliance, conduct outreach and maintain the commute smart hot line and update the compliance process. If i may ask, how has our the funding that weve allocated for. How has that translated into actual participation. I dont know if theres any sort of metrics. Actually, the compliance right now, we have about 80 compliance rate from businesses and were working this year to increase that number quite a bit. What are some of the things that i guess you might be doing differently in order to try to achieve better compliance rates . What we are doing is providing a lot more direct outreach, free consultation services. We run information through the business associations, any of the outreach channels that we have available to us that are specific to the businesses. Then weve also increased our participation rates because weve partnered with the Healthcare Security ordinance. They had the same threshold of employers. In the past, weve had outreach to their mailers. Additionally, the bay area has a new regional program. We have been communicating to them. We have multipronged approach to reaching out to employers. Great. From my understanding, its the last year in the department of environment is requesting these funds through prop k allocation . Thats correct. Great, thank you. The next project is the karr street multimodal implementation project. This project will build upon recommendations in the Transportation Authoritys chinatown which is approved by the board this past july. The requested funds will be used to plan and develop designs for current montgomery streets between market and broadway. The goal is to increase Pedestrian Safety. Well also enhance transit performance. Theres a bunch of bus routes that run through here. It also developed northsouth bicycle facilities in the corridor. This was identified as a key corridor in the 2013 bicycle strategy. The with that i will call my colleague, ryan, to talk about the last prop k request. Senior planner at the t. A. This final request relates to a Pilot Program we are working to initiate with bart. This came out of discussions with bart about how do we address the various congested deny conditions. Theres a lot of work on the way to develop longer recommendations. Its Short Term Solutions to address crowding. We are very interested in Successful Pilot that had been done in singapore where they offer incentives to riders to shift out of the peak record and they were able to track how well the incentives work by using their transit card data. We cork to scope a Similar Program for San Francisco. We applied for federal funds with that. We have a partnership with bart to get this under way. Were looking for prop k funds for the matching to help match the federal grant. We are looking to try to launch it in spring. Bart typically experiences a ridership bump in january. Were hoping to launch it around then or potentially later in the spring. It would run for about six months. Were looking to test this approach. Its essentially promising approach for managing congestion generally not just on bart but maybe other applications or transit. Operators and roadways in the long term. We look at this as an opportunity to test it and see how it works and how effective it is. Could potentially go from there if we see a success. Thank you, i think this is really interesting pilot. Can you speak i dont know if youre able to speak to some of the potential ideas for what the incentives might be for people to shift their travel patterns. We are looking at either the base reward would either be clipper card value or cash. Those are the two options. In singapore, they did provide transit card value but the card was much more flexible than ours. Well be doing surveys around bart to get a sense of if theres a strong preferences. Well test options with surveys around bart. I can go into more detail it is youre interested. Thank you. Any other questions . I think that concludes your presentation. Thank you very much. Commissioners do you have any questions or comments regarding the prop k request this time around . Okay, seeing none, we will open up item five to Public Comment. [inaudible] thank you very much. Any other members of the public wish to comment on item five. Public comment closed. Colleagues do we have a motion on this item . Motioned by commissioner yee to adopt item five. With that objection, it passes. Item six. This is an information item. We have maria lombardo, Deputy Directors of the t. A. Here. Good morning, im going to copresent this with our assistant Deputy Director for policy and program. There should be a powerpoint up on your screen. This one is a followup to the overview presentation that we gave ages ago, it was in july before recess plan bay area. Ly give ill give you a short recap. The focus is showing you our preliminary draft to guide our advocacy on plan bay area and also be draft list of the San Francisco project priorities that we will submit to the metropolitan transportation commission. In a nutshell, what is planned bay area . This is basically the long range Transportation Vision for the nine bay area counties, there are 100 plus jurisdictions and close to third different transit operators. Thanks to state legislators, the 2013 update is now called the Regional Transportation Plan sustainable communities strategy. It mandate to how its coordinated in this planning document. Two the really key sticks in that legislation has to reach state mandated target. We also have to accommodate all of the Housing Needs at all income levels. The basic elements of plan bay area are some goals and performance targets. Sort of getting to the nuts and boats what makes up the plan. Youll see policies recommended to investment of funds to feature revenue advocacy. There are grants programs that get shaped and molded in here. Particularly one in which m. T. C. Has controlled. One of the key deliverables is the financial constrained project list. One thing i want to clarify up front, while were conducting our call for project, this is not like a call for projects for the one bay area Plant Program where you ended up with a board adopted list of projects. This is more akin to what i say getting Fishing License. Youve gotten into plan bay area, which means youre allowed to go out and seek federal funds, it doesnt mean youll get it. You have a permit license. Its essential and can be leveraged into something later on. This particular update is the first update since sb375. While for San Francisco, merging the transportation side together, tend to be a little bit on the cutting edge, the rest of the regions sort of big huge effort. Folks still feeling the impact. The idea is that the plan bay area is updated every four years. This particularly area is a minor update. Theyre building on the framework what is currently in place. M. T. C. Is not changing the horizon. The last year the plan remains at year 2040. The focus is on updating the projects that are in there but also in a few areas, topics that didnt get adequately flushed out last time. Its hard to do everything one update. Those are showing up on the screen, ill come back and talk to them later. Im going to talk about briefly now, our proposed goal and objectives to guide our advocacy. Mostly these are pulled from our San Francisco transportation. Last plan bay area comments made and m. T. C. Commissioners. To try and keep this simple, weve divided those goal and objective into two categories. Financial and policy ones are here up on the page. The first one, amber will talk about more because it relates very much for the call for projects. As i said, plan bay area is your Fishing License to go after federal funds. Its sort of a level of strategy about all of the projects that need to be in this update until the next one is approved in 01. You 2 1 2021. Three and four on the screen, basically have to do with getting more money. The third one is trying to get a bigger share of San Francisco of the existing revenues. The fourth one is growing the pie. We need more revenues for transportation period. I will underscore something amber said in july, which is that were not adding years federal revenues continue to go down as compared to prior forecast. I do want to point out that the second policy objective, this is advocating strongly for more investment in transit. Our m. T. C. Commissioners made a really big deal during the last plan bay area update. It makes sense in this context as the three big cities, San Francisco, san jose and oakland. To be able to do that, we need to maintain our systems that we have and expand them. I wont go into a lot of detail about this. They are there and i will be happy to answer questions on attachment one. On the screen, are just a few examples of some of the new revenue advocacy of how these policies may translate into action. Two things ill note is again, while you dont get many coming on plan bay area, you can accomplish things that can later help you leverage your project in securing money. For the largest projects and projects that change roadway capacities or if youre doing a freeway management project where you get more approved, m. T. C. Performance evaluation. The top 10 or 15 or so, m. Its not the same as having a check going home. It does mean when you seek regional discussions, these are bragging rights. You can say were a top performer in the bay area. Its easier to get dollars. Last plan bay area probably two thirds of the plan bay area. We tend to do really well in this area. The green box just gives you an example of some of the policies we expect to come out of plan bay area. Some are less likely as others. We always want to be prepared. Lastly in my pilot presentation, up there you can see the main areas where we proposed nonpolicy related objectives. For example in terms of vision zero, we want to make sure all the m. T. C. Programs allows vision zero. They just mentioned, we support strongly based decisionmaking because our projects do well as opposed to a formula that returns forms. Lastly, equity is the high topic of this debate. Well come back to you with thoughts on this. It is a little bit tricky. This is still a part of Transportation Plan that were trying to achieve and influence land use. Just the examples of how we can do that in plan bay bay area. The region can provide Technical Assistance through jurisdictions throughout the region about how to develop and put into place antidisplacement policies. Lastly, with the one Bay Area Grant Program which well talk about, there are requirements administered eligible, theres a possibility of tieing on more strings on there saying in order to be eligible, jurisdiction needs to have six the following menu of ten antidisplacement programs of programs in place. What well change is the cost of the project. Amber will come up and talk to you about that. Good morning commissioners, amber Transportation Authority. This is the time line for the entire plan bay area process that m. T. C. Produced. You can see we are at that area where theres a bunch of activity going on. Basically our focus will be through mid2016 on this issue. With respect to the call for projects, theres three concurrent efforts going on now. The first is the call for projects at the county level which is what were going to talk about today. The second mtc asked the regional operators directly provide. Mtc also asked the regional tran set operators to provide their operating needs. Basically, mtc will ta all of this input and build a financially constrained preferred scenario of programs and projects. Our county program is basically mtc has told us we have 8. 4 billion budget for local discretionary funds. Discretionary funds, we have a number of projects that has mtc committed funding. Its the extra money that allows the project to move forward. We dn anticipate that 8. 4 will go down a little bit. Well know more about that later in the year. Probably going to have to shave some of the funding off our final list of projects. What projects immediate to be in the rgp. Maria said, any project seeking federal, state or regional funding or federal action such as federal and environmental clearance approval has to be in the plan. Also projects that are large in capacity changing. Fortunately, most of the projects that we hear about everyday, traffic and Transportation Demand management, can be bundled in a programmatic category. We really looking at the big projects. Between may and july, we worked with public agencies and also solicited through comprehensive process with the whole city, family. We solicited ideas from members of the public by participating in a mtc workshop. Weve done an email blast and social media. We did one of the meetings with the neighborhood organizations and stakeholder groups to really get detailed input into what they were interested in seeing in the plan bay area. What we heard is very similar to what we heard in our outreach for the San Francisco plan a couple of years ago. Interest in social equity, public transit, bikes and ped project. We did hear from one stakeholder questions about our congestion management approval approaches. Wanting us to think about how San Francisco transportation relates to the region. Were not working on it alone. Interest in a transparent and inclusive process with followup. Then real focus on the length between transportation, Affordable Housing and displacement. In identifying the draft project priorities included in your packet, we first looked at what was last bay area. Projects dont typically get removed unless they are completed or canceled. Weve revised those process and what regional or local discretionary funding do they need to assign to the project to fund them. Then the exciting thing is the new projects. Working with the members of the public, looking at each project and determining does it need to be in the plan or can it be bundled in the problematic category. Is it in the San FranciscoTransportation Plan, thats kind of the basis feed into what goes into plan bay area. Is it consistent with the policies and what planning process did it come out of that Public Outreach and level of technical advancement. In your packet are several lists, page 46 is list of existing plan bay area project that we propose to move forward. Page 50 through 52 are the new projects. Theyre f. Y. I. To give you a full picture of what is moving forward. Finally on page 55 is a list of programmatic categories. Right now were just kind of indicating what projects will be seeking local and regional discretionary funds. Were coming back for an action item next month. At the same time, planned bayer is a small portion of the planning. Right now weve been engaged a Long Range Planning effort developing a schedule and budget thats in coordination with the Planning Department, the Mayors Office and the m. T. A. There will be deliverables that will come out of that process over the next few years. The first will be a refresh of the San FranciscoTransportation Plan. Address minor subject matter that we hadnt flushed out the last time. There will be a major update to the San FranciscoTransportation Plan. That will take a longer look at the long term transportation land use division. How we prioritize transit and state of good repair. Our vision for demand management and how to share mobility and feed into our transportation system. Then, the third deliverable will be an update, the Planning Department will update its transportation element. As you know, theres a big push to do transit master planning in the city. This is happening now. Will be informed by several efforts going on now. M. T. A. Will capacity strategy the transit core capacity study. The rail yard boulevard study led by the Planning Department and then bart is also studying various things in the city. These are all going to feed into recommendations that can advance the planning conceptual engineering and environmental work on a number of Capital Projects before they can be included in the next plan bay area. Of course, this will be a robust Public Engagement process. This is very tiny but its kind of our map forward with the call for projects. Well be bringing the list with the numbers to you next month. M. T. C. Will 58 58 evaluate the projects. Come up with a preferred scenario in early 2016 and for adoption in 2016. With that, maria and i will be happy to answer any questions you have. Thank you so much for the thorough presentation. Colleagues any questions or comments . Commissioner christensen . I just want to make note in all of that information of an item of a special interest to my district. Im very happy to see the rail capacity study move forward. I think a lot of my colleagues agree its something we need to be taking a look at. Im very happy to see the central subway extension on that list. Well be looking forward to making some progress on that. Thank you for including it. Thank you very much. Any other questions or comments . Seeing none, well open up item six to Public Comment. [inaudible]. All right, any other members of the public wish to speak on item six. Public comment is closed. That was an information item. Well call touch item seven now. This is an information item. Amber with the Transportation Authority. Today i will providing you with abupdate on the obag program. It was one of the Grant Programs that came out of plan bay area to support the Greenhouse Gas emission goals that m. T. C. Had through its sb375. Its a five year grant program. The last cycle was 826 million. Its a significant chunk of money. Most of the funding comprises it are all the federal funding that m. T. C controls. You can see theres a number of different programs regional programs such as climate initiatives, transit programs, regional operations which includes things like m. T. C. Three way performance initiative. 40 of the program was given back to the counties to program to a number of kind of selfselected county priority. In cycle one, the funding was distributed to counties by formula. Through production and planned house. 70 will be required to be spent. Priority development area. Which is selfselected areas that are anticipated to take the groove. Paving, transit, bike and ped. They have a really strict time use of funds requirement and lot of hoops you have to jump through. Its something we have to pay particular attention to in the process. For San Francisco, we got 38. 8 million over the five years. We set aside 2. 5 million for schools and the remainder for streetscape like projects. This map shows the projects that moved forward. You can see in the yellow there are the defined Party Development areas between investment and anticipated to happen. We funded two safe routes to school projects. Assigned some of the funding to a Streetscape Project that included six school components. We funded five Streetscape Projects across the city. Just to give you a flavor of the type of projects heres a couple rendering through chinatown, broadway, mansell, proposal if masonic and proposal for second street. Cycle one, status update as we move into the second cycle, kind of lessons learned, the first is that all the projects except for second street, has been obligated. Second street is moving forward on schedule this year. Four of the projects have experienced between six and nine months of delay. The rest have experienced modest or no delay. There are a number of reasons for that. We really trying to figure out how to accommodate those issues in the next round. Project readiness is really essential. Look into the reasons that led to project delay, first of all, there was higher than anticipated Agency Coordination requirements. Mostly with respect to pec but also a lot of issues with caltrans which is a critical partner in this process. Because we need federal environmental clearance, theres a lot more hoops to jump through there. Because its under caltrans, we thrown a lot of surprise requirements. Then finally, its very complicated to obligate the federal funding. Move into cycle two, setting one of the Big Questions is what do we want to see as project priorities. Last time we focused on safe routes to school. Again, these fundings can be spent on a lot of different things, we might want to focus on the same thing. Maybe we want to focus on transit, maybe we want to commit additional funding to plan and development area. Looking at project readiness with the eye of a lessons learned, better evaluate the project schedule thoroughly and potentially think about whether we want to fund a few large projects that can more efficiently go through the process or smaller projects. Last slide, this is just youre going to see update on cycle two next month. M. T. C. Is currently doing outreach with stakeholders with the policies and proposals for obag. They will be bringing that through their board in november. Then the projects beginning implementation in early 2017. Well bring an item to you next month and talk about obag two in much more detail. Well provide that update. Great, thank you for your presentation. Commissioner yee. Thank you chair tang. Thanks for the presentation. I want a clarification of your numbers. Couple of questions, the total is 38. 8. You have 33. 5 million. Move into 2. 5 million for safe routes. Only 1. 2 million is from obag. I dont get it. Yes. What was shown in the project total, theres also an increment of the obag funds that goes toward planning functions for the Transportation Authority. Most of it goes to project but a small portion goes toward five years worth of oversight and planning for the Transportation Authority. The safe route to school now, we did program 2. 5 million to safe routes to schools program. The rest of it was a component of chinatown chinatown broadway project. The whole thing is interesting. Any other questions or comments from Committee Members . I look forward to working with all of you for cycle two. I know that on the west side of town, lot of our neighborhoods are not part of the p das. I understand why the funding will go towards the other half of the city. I do look forward to seeing if there are ways we can leverage some of the funding. We that, seeing no other questions oar comments. Well open up item seven to Public Comment. Specifically about the plan bay area program. Chinatown. I go there everyday. Monday, tuesday, wednesday, thursday, friday, saturday and sunday. [inaudible] c item 10. Thank you very much, we are adjourned. San franciscos buses and trains serve many riders who are blind or how low vision. Muni is their lives line to get around. Simple act of courtesy can help them access Muni Services safely. It is not just courtesy. It is the law. I used to take the 21 airlock. Lot of times, when i would be waiting at the bus stop, the door would open and the driver would announce the bus line. 71. It is easier and preferable when a driver sees someone who is obviously visually impaired if they stop in front of me and say this is the 71, this is the seven. Our buses are setup to announce the lines when we pull up. When i see a customer with a guide dog or cane, make sure i let them know what line i am. Every time i get on the bus, i tell the driver where i need to get off, even if i think there digital voice system is going to announce that. Just so they know in the event that it is not working. I would say a good amount of the time, i do get acknowledgment, actually. Good morning. Morning. Is your announcements system working . Im sorry, it is not. Could you let me know when we get to van ness and sacramento . I sure will. I have had a number of drivers be really helpful in terms of getting passengers to move down a few seats so i can sit in the front. Can somebody give this lady a seat . The bus driver was say, please wait a moment. I want to make sure you have a seat. And i hear him or her announced that he needs a seat for a person with a disability. As soon as the person gets on the bus, i ask the passengers if we can have a seat for this person. Anybody help us . Thank you, sir. Thank you. Sides, federal law requires that the customers give their seats to the elderly and disabled if they should need it. Buses should stop in zones that can accommodate multiple lines will stop behind one another. I cannot see what bus is behind im not even sure if there is a bus behind. The second bus does not come up to the front. Oftentimes, it has caused me to be passed up by bosses, by trains, and again, it makes me late for appointments. It makes me late for my job. Im often anxious that im going to miss the bus that i need, simply because im not fast enough to scamper down and find out which bus is lined up behind the bus that is currently in front of me. What im going to work and i take the van ness street buses to work, sometimes, one of them will pull up right next to the other one. Not in a bus stop, but parallel to it. And i do not know it is there. I also do not feel comfortable walking out into the street. Is that my boss over there . I think that is my boss bus. Im going to miss it. I dont know how many times i have missed buses because of this. I do not double park. It is not safe for our customers, and especially the visually impaired. Anything could happen, and it is munis policy not to double park. Normally what i do, if i can safely go in behind, i pull in the zone, offload my customers, load the customers that are waiting for me. When the bus in front of the leaves, i will pull to the front for the customers that did not see me. Sometimes, the bus pulls up, and there is stuff in my way because the boys bus has not pulled up right in front of me. I have to figure out how to get around or through. I have to navigate through all of that in order to get onto the bus. When i pick up a visually impaired customers, i like to pull up right in front of them, make sure nothing is in the way so they can walk right on the coach. Okay, take one big step forward. When i drop off a visually impaired customers, make sure you do not pull up at the shelter. You want to give them a straight shot so they can go to the left or the right. You want to pull in front or behind the shelter. Never around any trees or pose. I usually let them know that they have about 10 feet before you. A straight shot, and wallace 10 feet away, and they can make the decision what they want to do from that point. Every now and then, and visually impaired customer wants to be dropped off right at the shelter. So they can go to the left or the right from there. Ok, you want to take one big step when you step off. The shelter is straight ahead. If i get on the bus and asked a bus driver to please tell me when to get off at seven straight, the bus driver very often will tell me to just look at the sign, and i will say that i cannot see the sign because and visually impaired. Sometimes, the bus driver gets it. Some of the time, the bus driver does not get it at all. It is really difficult when you do not see well to understand where things are. It is one of those issues where people do not see it from the outside. So when they see me having problems stepping off of curbs or stairs or running into the side of a building or things like that, it would appear to them as though maybe i had been drinking, but the problem is that there is no contrast between a great building and a sidewalk. It is difficult for some drivers i think to understand that i am blind. Although i may look like im getting along very well, and it did happen to me on several occasions with drivers, questioning my ability to see. They would say, well, you really are not that blind. Not only is that infuriating, but it is just something that cuts to my core. There are times that visually impaired customers get on the bus, and they are moving so well that makes me wonder how blind they are, but that is not for me to decide. Im just here to take them some point a to point b safely. I moved all the way across the country specifically to live in San Francisco because i knew they had great Public Transportation. I had the greatest interactions with muni drivers because i was thrilled to be on a bus and be able to get some more independently. I think the drivers can really feel proud that they are making peoples lives possible in a way that it is not possible in other parts even of this country. The americans with disabilities act of 1990 is a wideranging federal civil rights law that prohibits discrimination against persons with disabilities. Title two of the ada addresses access to public services, including Public Transportation for persons with disabilities. Tips for respectful communication for people with disabilities brochures are available. Call sfmta Accessible Services at 4157014485 for copies. Easier. Do you know know your greg giving hurts from your wifi you may think that computers are kufz but when you know what you need it gets easier. 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