Transcripts For SFGTV LIVE BOS Budget And Finance Committee 20160504

Supervisor Budget Finance Committee meeting for monday, may 2, 2016, my name is mooerlt im joined by katie tang and supervisor norman yee and joined by supervisor kim thank you clerk linda wong and jim smith and charles kremack for covering this meeting madam clerk, any announcements . Electronic devices. Completed speaker cards and documents to be included should be submitted to the clerk. Colleagues 3 departmental Budget Hearings this afternoon and take them out of order dph next and she was third and mention in advance supervisor tang and i have different engagements well be leaving anothers 2 oclock i appreciate your patience with that madam clerk call item 2. Hearing to receive a budget update from the hearing agency from 20162017 and 20172018. Okay. Thank you we have a number of departments within hsa that well be talking but still came up up mr. Recognizing and he can be the miss to in terms of everyones order. Govern supervisors director with the Human Services agency yeah sort of 40 departments we will decide on the best order given the presentation and as you may know the Human Services agency formally comprise 3 very well Departments Department of aging Adult Services and the office of early care and education as you may know the mayors announced aid move forward with the budget establishing a new department of homelessness or Homeless Services which will move out the hsa division of Homelessness Department and we have sam dodge to present on the initial thoughts of of department of homelessness ill move into the department of health and department of aging Adult Services and early care and education interest as you may know Human Services agency broadly speaking we serve the low income single adults and families and seniors and children in San Francisco and through the various programs to promote the sufficiency amongst the population and the agencies that protects 9 vulnerability through the Child Welfare and protective services and Human Services as well. But for the latter fall under daasw rather than walk you through a lot of dollars and sort of the more detailed portions of our proposed budget i want to talk about arithmetics about what is driving where were propose to spend how public dollars so essentially yield of our Protection Program Child Welfare our programs are driven by serving those who are in most defined and income we do it in 4 principle areas through income supports and throughout the public assistance, cal works as well as the county of Assistance Program undertook the nutritious all through our calfresh and a number of contracts with communitybased organizations we did provide health care and insurance 0 through medical that is as you may know sitting calendar in the acting and seek to provide the Housing Support from Emergency Shelter to subsidies to Supportive Housing that last piece currently the Human Services budgeted will move out of 20162017 so we look at how we can configure those and governed by federal and state law that authors the programs and well talk about in broader terms to our level it is whos poor in San Francisco and despite the Economic Growth job growth and decreasing unemployment there be hundreds of thousands of residents that are struggling financially and this bar graph you see where those fall it is important to note were not using the federal definition of poverty the wolfed one hundred but in San Francisco bay area would have had is defined and object and 2 had had percent your considered low income in San Francisco as you can see the numbers were looking at extremely poor under 50 percent of poverty we have 45 thousand residents the vast majority are in 1 or many of the programs as well as the next bar under one hundred federal poverty an example in the medicine be Affordable Health care act it touched up to one hundred percent and the second bar a little bit of the third and obviously a significant expansion in the medicaid so, now ill quorum through the programs that again, we administrative at the campus and city level that are authorized through the federal legislation in addition through state implementing legislation so medical as you can see the Affordable Health care act continues to be a tremors success and asset to the portion of San Francisco since we began in 2014 we reached one hundred and 20 thousand cases of february of this year and as you can see did significant increase in the chart on the right notablely though the medical has tripled of one hundred and 34 percent the number of staff in the budget who support of enrollment and the comboiblth the oewd workers has increased by 28 percent this is not to say we dont need the Ability Services workers a quirk experience force those who apply and maintain their eligibility we have a significant change in our business processes to allow to serve the significant increase in population with staff that is not increasing proportional to that caseload increase also in medical a penetration in medical is in the highest of the state were touching well over 95 percent of those who are eligible state legislation that was passed i think two years ago will enable 16 hundred undocumented children inform receive medical Health Insurance they were only for limit medical we anticipate a little bit more uptick an increase to our caseload given the undocumented enrollments that given very, very soon calfresh a significant increase from the chart began well before the implementation of the passage of the and implementation the Affordable Health care act due to outreach due to efficiency we have undertaken to opening up neighborhood offices and the partnerships and with the food bank and other food providers however, we do unlike medical weve reached again, a vast majority we have a was to go with calfresh different studies show our penetration is 50 to 55 percent of those eligible those are projections on the low side in terms of penetration rate nevertheless, 45 or 60 percent question is where a number thousands of San Francisco households we can potentially enroll in the Calfresh Program the beauty of one of the benefits of the Affordable Health care act is providing Health Insurance through for the poorest of the poor allows us to market and do what we call in catcher reaching looking at those who are newly eligible and seeing who when a other benefits those households are enrolled in around calfresh to look at office of the city administrator those and expedite their enrollment and one of the streams to increase uptick of significant important food support were also trying to continue to integrate our eligibility work matt haney a single case worker for cal calfresh and cal works for an individual how their applying challenges do remain as i said weve gold a significant number of folks upwards of 20 minutes and open enforcement again call rates for folks who choose to enroll on the phone and our goal to have wait times of less than 30 seconds that will drive the demand time rate were relying on overtime hours were proposing the budget in june proposal to increase the eligibility workforce in calfresh and medical again not an increase as portional to the there on the last to help principally help get for households on calfresh but produce the less wait 7, 8, 9 for the eligibility programs on the cash so far as and Investment Infrastructure is the Calfresh Program comprised of 4 programs for those centered around the need of the population other than, of course, their poverty needs whether . Movement towards federal ssi or moving employment or less requirements due to a little of the applicant or recipient the case has declined cal works case welfare to work is cash assistance for families is declined not as the caseload this tends to you look at sort of do a 10 to 15 year look back it rise and falls with the unemployment so more dulls are benefiting and getting jobs as well as those for federal disability through ssi that puts them off the caseload we still have almost 55 hundred individuals that again those are single adults over 18 with no did not significant numbers still need to move into federal disability or employment were attempting to do is make a lot of pragmatic changes some of those we can do simply changing the operations but a number will require changes no local ordinances youll see in the proposal in june is a number of amendments to the county assistant ordinance with the eye and simplifying the application and the goiblth requirements to get those who are able to work quicker into jobs and subsidized employment and assistance so, of course, ill talk more in detail in a couple of months but this is been a two year internal and external undertaking for this program recognizing where the unique needs and various needs amongst the population to govern the ordinance to meet those are challenging but we think weve produced a passage of reforms that helps us drive that caseload down over time drive that in the near term increase it as we see others on board we want those who are entitled to public assistance to come in and stay on so we can engage them in the Robust Services to offer them cal is our state mandated program for families that are low income pertaining families on cal workers comprise 80 percent of the caseload and parents that are low income and for all of them to get the paternities into work if parents cant work due to a disability we do the same cap that helps them navigate the application process with the ssi their children, however, will remain eligible for cal workers, however, the parents are not required to work the fetsdz and the state requirement of 50 percent if we are blow 50 percent were subject to come be subject to federal and state fiscal sanction who years ago we were 35 percent and we had been there for probably a decade due to significant state reforms as well as changes in the local operation and Service Delivery weve pushed the number of significantly and good for two reasons well not face a fiscal sanction but more families are engaged in Employment Training and subsidize employment and doing removal work their children are getting caregiver and Health Treatment and transportation and all those obviously are critical if we are to move families from public assistance into the workforce and ultimately into selfsufficiency the other piece of cal workers were glad this govern focuses on positive changes which is funding of Additional Service through cal workers the cal working program for housing subsidies so far cal works families two hundred homeless cal works family all of our cal works parents through the robust profiler process a state required appraisal very, very comprehensive tools that looks at really the whole family what is going on within the family we need to aid what are the strengths to get that family off public assistance and selfsufficiency what is going on with their household and and their inward and housing, etc. That then helps inform our welfare to work plans and related support of services we need to provide parents and their kids in order to move them again off of the public assistance and the last is a local strategy but embedded in the cal works the project 5 hundred initiative that i say youre not Human Services agency but ours as in the citys as in the Mayors Office are significant other reels significant partner in this department of health but also department of children, youth, and Families First 5 rec and park, the idea being those families 5 hundred of our lowest new york families in San Francisco need more than income support and job training to get out of poverty they need help with the department of health and Child Maternal Health and safety and access to afterschool programs with dcyf or summer exams through rec and park and looking at wag, we do to stop and disruptive this transition of entering generational poverty and focusing on without going into much detail but a two generation strategy that looks at low income moms who have a new born many of whom have older siblings that is the hook anothers breaking that entering generation all poverty we dont want that newborn and sibling to become poor when they hit adulthood but to break that and the strategy to easily define the population and identify the population but this is going through work and research by the department of health the engagement and the opportunities for engagement when a mom has a new born a much, much better when they have an older have older children some inviting program that the public Health Department has been doing nor a number of years moms seem more receptive and needing of the program when this is the sort of entree into the whole initiative not mom you have a new born lets get to work lets help you manage the first 12 or 24 months with the new born and managing that household is the next steps to move into work and off of poverty and the last area ill talk about not necessarily a low Income Program is it so not it if so by happenstance but our really crisis preservation our Public Protection for kids when the defendants but the Child Welfare services the administration of child prevent Services Adoptions and a whole range of category it seeks to prevent abuse and. Thank you very much. Next speaker. Keep families intact and assists children that are of abuse and neglect in a better way to make sure that all the negative the negative impact of that abuse on the kid is in a debated as quickly as possible and over the long term technical Child Welfare 9 Core Practice mode and care reform and broadly speaking those are strategies that helps e helps us in broad terms keep families intact and children do need to come into the foster care make that stay as short as possible by adoption in foster care make sure those replacements with supposedly and meet the needs of kids through Mental Health and educational supports and connections with adults through families to maintain the connection with the extended families through better visitation and a whole host of evidence informed evidence based practices that fall under the title 40 waiver and the continued care reform i want to note specifically though the third bludgeon an issue that garntsd attention at the state level weve known for years decades really that our kids in foster care are vulnerable sexual abuse and dont want to criminalize kids victims of sexual abuse but local and state and local practices to address that particular program the hundreds of kids that are at risk and children engaged in sex trafficking and better training for the staff a noncriminalization approach for those children who are victims theres literally dozens of bills in the state protective if sentencing reform to criminalization to look at the reforms in the way the probation deals with children and sight reforms in the way we can help help those vulnerable children. One second supervisor kim. I just had some questions on the Foster Care Program you said that you tried to use it sparely to limit the amount of time w45u9 the average time in spending in foster care. So the number is driving down the average length of the stay will be ball parking we have a cohort of kids in foster a long time six or eight years more kids that may have come in at a young age and not able to get if unification with the parents or adoption their older and in care significant challenge getting older kids adopted out of the system youre faced as a tragic that kids have to go into foster care we are doing a better job but the cohort remains the kids in foster care kids that come in as a younger age belief before six or eight months we are better another addressing the kids that are older needs to come into foster care is sexual abuse and other things we look at the length of stay in care and look at the first time entries into care the unification rates were picking up in every area with the care thats a good thing when you look at the caseloads there were 28 hundred kids in foster care. How many 28 hundred about 8 years ago now blow seven hundred and thats kids under a 18 we do fortunately have what is called nonminor dependent foster care through the Assembly Bill 12 which loud the kids to remain in foster through age 21st and 18 theyre not prepared to enter the world whether college and whatever so we can provide for their support up to age 22 in the form of housing or tuition that numbers is 200 and 50 so under seven hundred kids and 200 and 50 nondid not that would be been out of the system. Between 200 and 50 and ages 18 to 21 yes. And seven hundred that are 18. 6 hundred and 97 that is a couple days ago. Theres used to be 28 hundred what year. That is probably around 2006 or 2008. Thats great over the course of 10 years and yeah. What did you think accounted for that reduction. It is a significant reduction and not unlike a reduction statewide 60 percent reduction due to a significant number of reforms with the federal and the adoption act but also some of the 636 and other state reforms that really moved the system from a process oriented focus are we are doing the monthly visits are the homes licensed and how the kids are doing in care how short how long are the kids in care hallway quickly to adoption and held to the 18 federal measurements which we look at quarterly come out how are we are doing in 2000 i used to at a underlying blind when we didnt know about the unification and uc berkley statewide manages this data for all 58 county to during this trial deep to know decade you anywhere with with the needs of reforms addressing the particular system and begin to drive down things like care we know better now it is much, much better to provide inhome care rather than the first relaxing relax to remove the kids from their birth parents and she for example, she was on drugs when they gave birth we automatically remove but now not whats the process forces treatment and not pull one more thing away from a mom that is struggling so were mindful of the importance of intact families and when we can keep them save we want the kids to stay at home and changes no guardianship now the freshen and they pay for guardians to be legal guardians only then they got no more support now we do now with their aunt and getting Financial Support a series of reforms that you know they implement it has with funding to drive those numbers down. So use to be as a Family Guardian over parenting didnt get the same advantage to take care of thats correct. Incentivizing yeah, the adults that strangers that are foster. Yeah. And the other sings you brought it up the title 40 what the title 70 side were one of the 10 counties statewide that signed on to the waiver title 40 the truth of the matter for foster care 2 works for nonwaiver county you only get the federal funding when the child is remove from their home and it didnt play out on the ground thinking we removed the kids i can get more money but to use the federal dollars we want to use the federal dollars for intact home we cannot on the state or local dollars the federal money we can now do we we think is the best the Human Services are part of labor that allows for much Better Service much more density wrap up we dont have wrap up services for kids is it doesnt matter anymore tens of thousands of dollars we can use in a better way. For the 18 to 20 more transitional issues to fostered what kind of support to access to College Higher education. Yeah. Well to that many of the kids 12 enter a post dependent living plan plan theres a lot of acronyms in the plan it says a plan that is how can we get you once to age 22 in a place to be you can be dependent a draft to college or through College Component might be a better Vocational Training or roommate matching a host of the activities we are funded to we can implement to address the needs of those kids it is a challenge many of these kids as i said turn 18 in the system had multi placements a halfdozen foster homes and many different schools not their high School Dilemma or ged those are the issues were struggling with and if we dont intervention we know the negative outcomes long term we know that the process p,z e, finance governance pecks of being homeless we know their greater so not only you know is it good for the individual. In the systems much like making the entering generational poverty breaking that needs for crisis intervention and imagine for kids in foster care that is ab 6 do. The likelihood of being homelessness in foster care is stunning my second question to cal workers or workers is the wage pay minimum wage is it 13 an hour now. 13 or 1350. 1225, 13 in july. Oh. Thats right. Oh, let me check he thought that was january it went up to 13 but maybe july 1st we know the population is growing demographic women with children under of one of the faster growing. We can debate that supervisor it is a given. It is growing. Sure. And i know that those programs are already expensive were not suggesting to pay more but a what can we do to stabilize those families to make sure theyre not turning into homelessness. Sure the cal works i mentioned it the support state dollars of which we received over 2 million i think that provides a rental unit subsidy or subsidy it is a need in 1998 we sponsored a bill spaepz was the author to use the cal works it passed the protective then govern gray davis fast forward to 2014 the protective realized this was an issue and signed by the give me it supervisor youre talking about families that are already in cal works they have assess to the training and subsidize jobs childcare whatever the work were doing with campus Family Services and the wait lists get to availism of cal works to get into the state funded support typically a family that is homeless we dont require them to be doing activities theyre number one work with us is to try to end homeless so that can, done through the cal works and once in partnership with the department of children, youth, and families and other provider we get them there rental unit it is with the case working as well as our employments counselor and move them at a fast track into employment with the 13 an hour wage and the outcomes we see from subsidizing employment continue to be very, very positive 2 3rds of exist continue to earn and off assistance and the only poverty out of poverty country is out of work by getting homeless families stable and wrap up with the childcare transportation and that job were seeing good successes thank you uhhuh. So supervisor yee. First of all, i want to commend your work on the fosters child serving kids and i know that is a lot of it operationally is also the advocacy from the city to the state and to the federal because 10 years ago it was a mess and you talk about some of the benchmarks for foster care system and for some of these initiatives youre talking about project 5 hundred and others what i hear how had had you measure the success. We have the strategy. Im not hearing how ill measure. Sure i talked about the outcome for families and childrens to supervisor kims question i did not go into the detail in the presentation but i certainly will in june the project 5 hundred the ultimate goal to get families out of poverty is that 200 percent or whatever for project 5 hundred the goals are more in the way were approaching this driven by that particular families strength and needs so for particular family it maybe simply getting their child to school on time for 6 months maybe having our child in high Quality Childcare it would be attending you know 4 months have a job ready course or it is such an intensive casework Family Interactive prose the goal how many families got out of poverty were engaged with signed a contract but we have an measure with the dependent family well be working with that person or firm only one person to identify the metrics both at the family level and but also the progressive level and dialoguing with our partners in health more than just in comes and Outcomes Health of the parents and child that is a process again, we Just Launched project 5 hundred and havent gold the first family but those are the things im certainly in any presentation in june walk through some of the significant benchmarks and indicators Performance Measurements so far all the programs. Thats correct i would be personally kind of interested to go dope and didnt have to be necessarily it would be just my office. Ill be happy to. Clearances any other questions or comments if im not mistaken well call up homeless. Through the committee sam dodge or department of children, youth, and families executed up as well well call Homeless Services only balls we wanted to certain individuals to hear that before they leave. Sam dodge told me weve been engaged that the district and hsa and working to stand up Depth Department of Homeless Services this is an overview about what is coming in and where were in the process i want to be cognizant of your time sow go a little bit fast those are some of the ideas informing our efforts heres our goals to end the homelessness for 8 thousand people in the next 4 years prevents people from becoming homeless with the time to reeducate and decrease the number of people exercising homelessness at one time these are the guideline principles San Francisco is a Housing First city we know that is an evidentiary based best practices to rapidly return people to housing it is better and Customer Service is important with an engagements of over seven hundred people experiencing homelessness they told us again and again approach is allowed people to accept the services a practical measure and also an important emphasis were helping people in the middle of their crisis to be proud of and Customer Service approach and Trauma Services is the best cooperated with transparent how to make the decisions about plummet and focus on the long term homeless and the strategy practices with the staff coming in the next quarter so this is our spending as supervises know it has been a drastic increase in the budget serving people exercising homelessness and 50 percent over this time period heres the distribution of where were spending that money it is a combination of you know the Human Services agency and the department of health the big buckets and theres some others but you know were pulling down federal money to help support our programs between medical and the continuum process i want to say we have got the second year tier funding San Francisco was waterway 31 million from hud a record year on top of last years we won a Bonus Program is it so good news and there was some cuts even though we won the record amount of funds for great programs that will help people end homeless but seen kits in the job programs this is part our our budget to expand our services what we know works. We continuing of federal money. Again, this is how that money that 200 and 41 million is spent the lions share is in support of housing for people formally homeless and i cant emphasis there is a lot of confusion within the building about the amount of resources were spending on people exercising homelessness and where the resources are spent so the vast majority is you know keeping people housed that are formally homeless and medically frail the Health Services because of the Health Conditions and preventing homelessness and training hope people through rental subsidies we have you know thanks to the board made Strategic Investments in outreach and shelters and additional housing really the smaller part of our system and what programs are coming over into the new departments and from preservation to remove to intervention with the trickle housing and the permanent housing and rapid housing programs are coming together with a full supreme from the streets to home. Not one answer for people exercising homelessness everyones journey is individual we look at the programs into serving people in ways that will help them return to housing and those are the buckets we use families with children and trickle age youth and veterans you know, i want to say weve seen that street Homeless People exercising homelessness are a little bit different had an the intervention with people that are making good use of our shelter system heres some of the system graphs for growth you know often based on the great work that is done already this is part of the idea of the new department that we experimented to a point we know we can do more by corresponding our efforts we corridor the entry with the homeless in the housing with our veterans effort and working to bring that cooperated entry model to single dulls and rapid rehousing is director was explaining so successful with the families were really not bringing it to scale like we can he can do it with other populations weve seen it work in other counties a county wide database that ties the communities together and makes assessable the programs for people to end their homelessness not silos of programs within our Provider Community or within our departments but really a client based system and part that have is having cooperated database and also you know helping people move out of the expensive interventions that are right sized for their needs helping people move out of the supportive hours when appropriate and when we can give them dont under the circumstances. Mr. Dodge. Why not go ahead. This is our department timeline right now weve done a director search with entries around the crisis and making our decision the mayor is weighing options the ideas to do transfer the function with the budget and continue with the Strategic Planning when we get everybody together with that, ill answer questions. Mr. Dodge first of all, thank you for your work this topic youre doing an amazing job in that a year of transition and all the planning to thank you there are two things in terms of of the bar chart and spending i think one of the things that gets talked about i think we need to do a better job of saying this is as new spending every year if we dont do this the families will be on street and adds a sixth number to the theres people are saying gosh were spending it is in a defensive position if we didnt do that what would happen and lastly i hope at some point we remove the Supportive Housing i think that is right way to talk about it and certainly to build the housing ladder in the city and Going Forward supervisor yee. Thank you mr. Dodge thank you for your work and coming out to district 7 for our housing summit to end homelessness i think that was very helpful for people to here the prospective on that a couple of questions that note at that particular meeting but it was actually a few days later people wanted to talk about homelessness when i had the experts to answer the questions a couple of questions maybe you can help me or think about this they the question i asked director about benchmarking how are you seeing assess in your programs as we move forward because there it comes from the prospective like oh, were spending a quarter of a billion dollars how do we measure that. Thank you, supervisor we have been looking at outcome based success measures i mean the Homeless Services is one of these unique social crisis categories with you end homelessness and hope poem to stabilize and return to housing youve had success part of our work with the Navigation Center to have a weekly dashboard to look at the indicators and the macro indicators how many people have we housed and where are people in the housing supreme and the timelines for success and how will we can work on the steps this is part of the goals to really bring our whole system to have a predictable model to look alive as we go how are we are doing is there interventions a lag or gap in the services you know we want to really make sure were allocating the right interventions to the right populations people experience homelessness in a variety of was but the most tells me indicators the time that people are homeless it is very exists we have a small group of people that have homeless history of a decade or more and we need real and deceptiveness intervention we have a large group of people that experience short bouts of homeless and the shelter can help many people catch their breath and return to the mainstream of life to make sure were allocating the right resources to the right populations and our ultimate measure of success our appointing count how many people are experiencing homelessness and how many people are experiencing homelessness in the shelters that looks at the broadly context you know the state of california and the nation there are some things that blow against us that are hard to defeat but if were making the programs and we are you know giving people the right intervene and we should be able to see significant progress in that appointment count how many people are experiencing homelessness at the same time. I appreciate that i think maybe similar views to supervisor farrell about the support of housing piece and how they explain that it i get a feeling when people think about homeless preservation or homeless helping the hoping we dont consider housing at all it is almost like who is out on the street trying to remove them this is not everybody but a lot of people think that way so that would be helpful for me to explain it for example, for the support of housing we definitely figure out how we can show some success in that my guess the percentage should be divided into Supportive Housing not going back spot streets i would love to have those numbers to explain to people and by the way, to the people out there that think this is the end of where we are supportive of our people in San Francisco the residents with homeless preservation there is we support a lot of legal organizations to help tenants for instance, and that is not part of this but we also as most people have been fighting to have more Affordable Housing built this is also a piece of this because it is all about how we keep people from having to go into the streets so that much of it is about Affordable Housing so if you could break it down more for us. Sure. In terms of even the buckets you were talking about i could explain that better to people. Our Supportive Housing and programs consistently shown well over 95 or 90 percent success rates with all populations so im talking about people that are facing multi extreme challenges in their lives whether they are be physical, Mental Health crisis or Substance Abuse a others we know that housing works we know our communitybased provider meet the people where theyre at and make them successful and help them with their lives when people are connected to the services they do very well and as far as preservation as i often consider rapid rehousing part of prevention and a success rate with rapid rehousing parts of this idea that once our back into our own housing life is important manageable and our supporters work that much better at that point so you know that is scaling the models the interventions we know much work well the cost of shelter and those kind of interventions are nothing Navigation Center is the high cost intervention. Necessary for some people if we take the same cost of interventions whether paying back rents or Legal Services see great dividends people dont return to the shelters or not touch the homelessness again that adage the penny of prevention is true in Homeless Services. One more comment the sometimes when i have in a place i can have more discussion with people that i think i could sort of defy a difference prospective i think i it is actually a lot more affordable and cheaper to do the work as you put someone in jail. Oh, yeah. I mean in the real amazing work that the department of health has been doing with their highest utilizers in the system someone is out on the street and maintaining their existence can be 60 or 80,000 a year rather than getting them into Supportive Housing manage this complex issue much better for 20,000 a year so making those kinds of trades it is important the doing the right thing and we have the capacity we cant do it all at once but moving toward a system that helps people return to housing with the kind of supports to be successful in the interim there is situations on the street we need to respond respectfully to also ways that help address the you know a safety and Homeless Needs for the entire community including those experiencing homelessness with the department we stepping forward to build the system to respond to the people in homelessness. Supervisor kim. Thank you supervisor yee. You know what i thank supervisor farrell and supervisor yee you touched on the question and feedback we get so much from the neighborhood meeting we spent out this money on homelessness and how is it effective it is getting worse so how do you breakdown it is 40,000 per homeless person how come not making that work and it helps us to know that chunk is housing people. You cant count that towards the 6 seven hundred people that live in the shelter but that would be helpful to the residents to understand as we grow this budget and their investment on homelessness how we spend those dollars even on a personal was not accurate way to understand how to address homelessness but that would be helpful to us were often at the meeting answer those questions and two ive had this conversation with you, you used to work in new york city the other city were we often compared to with homelessness how come new york city is to good to a would be good to get a comparison on how we and i dont recognize addresses it. In the category of 55 million in the intervention like shelters and trickle housing and drop in centers the vfth in new york city is over billion dollars they we have a nightly shelter capacity of other than 13 hundred and people they have a nightly capacity of 60 thousand it is hard to understand but people understand that 200 person shelter a large shelter you escape that up to 60 thousand and you know there are shelters in every simple neighborhood in new york city so go theyre a little bit of a difference in their state constitution which is a effected with lawsuits that entitles people a right to shelter people are. Right. To shelter and have a right to get both a shelter bed that night it is an expensive are system and a difficult shelter respend a lot of money that is it is a comparison theres in the comparison that really needs to be made you get a few feet of snow in new york city and the summers are not easy there is a flash rain and high humidity so it is a very diversity context than california as far as what it takes to live outside so speaking to that i think that is better to compare apples to apples and not the 42,000 we spend 45 million on outreach and shelters and drop in centers in comparison to nobs new york city that spends a billion dollars whats the Homeless Count the Homeless Count on the street is around 3 and a half thousand their Homeless Count overall is over 60 thousand. Right. So living on the streets is 35 hundred in shelters about 60 thousand San Francisco what you say i thought that is 16 hundred shelter beds but 13 hundred including the Navigation Center. Oh, yeah. If you include the family shelters. It is 16 hundred. So we have roughly 16 hundred in shelter and minus that is 67 hour count on the streets is 5 thousand. No our count ones the street a 35 hundred we do a robust count compared to office of the city administrator communities we look at the parts of the system of care whether that is residential treatment or people in hospitals trickle housing, even jails and so thats the distribution of where people find themselves. Roughly 35 on the street and 6 seven hundred in the jails and not permanent Affordable Housing. Right. Yeah. It that would be helpful to get a breakdown i think of more the apples to apples to take out Supportive Housing i dont think people think about spend on homelessness it is but it would be good for people to have a more contextual lists in how were spending how money. Thank you anyone else thank you very much all right. Thank you. Is this the end of the Human Services aging and adult i dont have a list come on up. Good afternoon. Supervisors director the department of aging Adult Services and we want to commend give a brief overview of the department and talk about some of the efforts that we are undertaking in each the divisions the first one in our Largest Division in the department is home support United States of america is a nonnecessarily inhome care for elderly at risk of institutionalization most of the people 74 percent are seniors age 65 and offer 40 percent of guys inhome care live alone over half of that are Asian Pacific islanders 52 hers percent and most of clients are chinese 62 percent and looting the caregiver 19 thousand caregivers in the program and 62 percent are providing care for a Family Member and in 2016 ihss providers were protected in the fair labor standards act that means they are entitled to overtime and travel pay pay for travel between clients and theyre also paid for waste time when theyre waiting for a decrease appointment that is really created a lot of Washington High School within the Community County and particularly the way the states implement theyve done in in a collection way there are a lot nuances in terms of how it is rolling out i think one of the things i want to talk about that today is the real looking at the way the social workers provide assessments in the community and trying to use the social workers in a productive manner meaning theyve saelsz for in home hours this is a real opportunity once a year could look at other things the clients need one of the things weve implemented the survey we looked at the numbers from the Security Task force of the number of older adults who live in hunger we are like this is a great opportunity to kind of capture those folks and other ways to get nutrition to them outside of ihss so weve implemented that and probably have results around with that what that looks like in the next year or so tracking that two other things we are doing screening and the initial depreciation screening for people not go social workers our staff went out and did initial screening and report back if they find people that are living at risk in communities we havent implemented that but will do that in the next year a couple of nvn supportive issues and looking at some increase staffing and in Home Supportive Services the Second Division is the protective Services Division that includes Adult Protective Services the conservativeship Representative Public administrator i wanted to highlight the adult protective serves as you know aps investigates the obligations of abuse with elderly and alongside report of selfneglect so as you can see on this slide one of the biggest things that we get in terms of the reports on health and safety and a lot of the health and safety issues are related to hoarding we have is that right one hundred and 70 cases of conformed Environmental Issues in homes labor that is typically our hoarding issues so weve did a study with university of San Francisco that was done in boston we tried an intervention with people with hoarding disorder weve discovered it really takes a lot of effort and time to work with someone with hoarding disorder typically our cases with opened for 39 days and this is just in the accurate for someone is hoarding disorder not enough time so to work on those cases to work with people around managing this disorder we had a lot of collaboration with the Mental Health soefshgs they have good program buses about our social workers working with the individuals item by item and helping to change that behavior. One of the other efforts in this division is the public convert terrors looking at the District Attorneys Office and the Public Defenders Office and the court we are looking how to how to better collaborative between the district and the department of aging Adult Services to remove obstacles for anymore people in the pipeline for conservativeship. A quick look once you get probation officer that situation how do you reverse it it seems a person is getting better. When they police have that a one year conservativeship and the person has theres a place for a jury trial and many ways people can ask to have it look at again and the whole idea behind many conservatorship to keep someone at at at least redistrict in terms of placement or the medication they get and the whole goal always to get them into the community it is a one road at a time and has to be removed and most people in the program at this time are in for 3 years at most this is kind of the average the recidivism once people are into the program is not high the treatment actually works and people go out back 0 into the community. Thank you. The Third Division the the longterm home care specifically we talk about the new critical quality surveillance so the longterm care the community where some of the efforts like the rental Assistance Project Service Connect program and the new itself equality Assurance Program we basically took divisions and put them into one unit and the idea behind that we could our social workers we are seeing people with medical issues in the community and a lot of time those people are ended up in hospitals or not being adequately treated medically so one of the easily ways to get our nurses out there toe we created this unit and 200 and 29 people in the units so far and basically, people are seeing the nurses that help with Health Management for untreated conditions and help are chronic illness. Able to look at peoples medications and see that people are using their medications in the correct way or old message and things like that it is really were putting in a lot of Outcome Measures and not a lot of results but should have in the next few months we firmly believe that will help with people being not limited to to hospitals and recidivism well be tracking and mention is it so something new were undertaking and then the last provision is it in take provision the biggest thing that is really our Community Piece we have our daasw intact hub that we created and all the Community Services contracts and in we opened you received an invitation and provided representation and that basically is a way that people with our public site for people to get assistance but a way were integrating well, i think with Human Services agency this is a Service Center for medical eligibility and our focus is really the seniors with disabilities and making sure they get the services a between the guest and our daas information for assistance and Adult Protective Services meals intact so well have a lot of data whether there and reporting that out in the next year. And then i wanted to point out that last year, we really greatly increased the amount of nutrition because the money that was pout into the mayors budget but from the board weve been able to really increase the number of meals and on the home delivered side i think that is about it for right now unless you have questions. Thank you. Any questions. Seeing none, thank you very much next up is michelle from the office of early care and education i want to tell everyone this is my favorite office. Thank you, supervisor. Im michelle the Deputy Director of the office of education were a Young Department 2 years but in the office weve been working in the office for many, many years and collectively hundred years of experience we have an amazing Early Education system in the city but theres certainly room for growth in terms of the lining of resources and streamlining those who are providers and for families to improve access to highlight quality care as a family selfsufficiency is a fail support and to help families go to work in early ed preparation to make sure that children on fiscal are ready to learn in that next year of 20162017 were going to the next phase of Office Taking on the region of the p f a shifting from first 5 to the office we had the money in the budget last year but the Actual Administration of the payment was administrative code weve been working with the first 5 to and then the processes and train up and that administration is moving over to the office along with the several of the first or of the p f a key position were leaving two positions to manage the Quality Improvement support and assessment process and coaching oversight and in this current year we complete a analysis of the care and Education Funding in San Francisco about almost wolfed Million Dollars comes through the office now in the coming year but a lot of those dollars bypass the city to providers so a lot of the work is about all the rules and limitations of the federal, state requirements around those dollars and even worse the rates that that our providers are expected to provide high quality care with the sprucedup reimbursement rate and working with the providers and laying funds to try to keep their doors open and try to improve quality those 0 subsidize lots with the low income children in the city we want to make sure that theyre able to assess hi quality that, of course, analysis gives us guidance about how we are financing and recommending how to streamline how we fund our providers and how we finance the subsidy of children so well be looking over the next year at options on how to implement that the basic recommendations from the San Francisco analysis is two hundred and 3 page report but the basic recommends were incorporated into the plan that was presented here at a hearing two weeks ago and were wrapping up the written report, of course, youll receive in those the fiscal analysis recommended really funding programs up to the base level of quality of tier 3 of the quality rating and what it would cost to finance the programs and then regarding the quality with quality enhancement loaf that for the quality not just what were doing now over the next year well be doing a Quality Support process evaluation to see if there are more efficiency in the Quality Support and working with our provider communities and with parents and our contractors so the citywide plan that was presented to the board really includes a number of aspirational overarching where weer heading with the comprehensive system and with parity for teachers from k through 12 a heavy lift but certainly there is a teacher crisis in early ed right now difficult for our programs to attract teachers and keep teachers here when someone in from time to time theyll be a preschool teacher in from time to time we are investing a lot in training and coaching and Quality Improvement and we have great providers in the city and we want to keep our teachers here so and theres a number of recommendations in the citywide plan, which i wont go into great detail but ill be happy to share outside of this Budget Hearing and over the next year the office of care and education is charged in from the ordinance in collaboration with the first 5 San Francisco Unified School District to develop an evaluation strategy for that all the e. 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Services in the city and we know that one of of our i our challenges is integration to understand what is working and not working we need to align our and integrate our workforce register with the child enforcement and quality database to see where the inputs and how the children are doing one of our measures of success is the kindergarten observation that will happen at kindergarten do we want to know the children that be doing well and what children has input with what teachers and sponsored in various was were move the needle on quality and especially a happy to share the progress were making on that another time but did want to share a snapshot of what subsidize types of enforcement we have that are being funded by the Office Currently so this represents a little over 86 hundred children some of those are state funded and some local podiums that weve developed that are categorical like the access assess program for homeless and the Childrens Services for foster children and children served through hsa and an over laptop of the program because those programs are in trouble primarily because the state being insufficient but swimming upstream to address that from the state is pga a regional rate our local dollars would go further in supported quality. And the next the last slide is just two different slices of what the occ budget the first slide our budget by fund source and the second slide is how those Funding Sources are drbltd into program areas. And with that, i will close and ill be happy to answer any questions you may have. Okay. Any questions. I dont have any questions. But thank you for your presentation. And i guess thats the end of the Human Services agency presentations. Thank you, supervisor as trent do you want to say anything to close it. Thanks thank you for the opportunity look forward to coming back in june and presenting comprehensive detail. Thank you a motion to continue this item to the call of the chair. What would you like to take Public Comment. Seeing none, Public Comment is closed. Could i have a motion to continue this to the call of the chair okay with no objection the that item passes and thank you very much i like to have a motion to excuse supervisor farrell and supervisor tang from the meeting. Can i have a motion please. Okay with no without objection the madam clerk call up item one. Item number one hearing to receive a bucket update in the Sheriffs Department for fiscal year 20162017 and 20172018. And id like to welcome sheriff hennessy to the podium and shes give a nice short presentation. laughter . Thank you supervisors thank you for having me here and pleased to be here to present the Sheriffs Department Department Overview for 20162017 to start out our expenditure in 20152016 has been almost 200 and 3 million and change our total staff of april 30th of 2 a hundred and 8 and staff of one hundred and 63 and sivenlg vacancies and authors one of wolfed and scorn vacancies of 75 our with alternates incarceration 8 and 41 everyday it is a number of people out on alternative fence on incarceration in 2016 beginning in the first 3 months our jald population as an average of three hundred plus and the incarceration is 8 hundred and 32. So my Department Priorities Going Forward a staffing we have been phil a lot of positions on overtime in fact, a number of overtime reemployment from permanent salaries a overtime in order to keep up to do the jobs we perform for the city and county seso one of the priorities to hire from the community and also as you may know zuckerberg San Francisco general is opening a hospital and asked us to staff that so well hiring may or may not when we hired the sworn staff takes 6 to 8 months ago to get potato people to work they go to the academy and because of that theyll not be available for some time weve begun to hire that to be able to serve the people of San Francisco the way we should some of the reforms not just reforms some of them are running to fundamentals with the training and education and some of the education will do diversity is exponent we have other exploring and things of that nature were asking for funds to do this training for supervisors and manages not mandated but in my view when our Holding People acknowledge you need to do that and our first line supervisors are the people responsible and others training a training for the staff in crisis intervention tran has given as a minimum but try and cover the whole department and that includes the deesclation techniques as well as on the department of health be able to provide more informational Substance Abuse and Deputy Sheriffs working in our jails im looking at other audits of the internal affairs unit is doing i think we need to put resources but make sure im targeting the right resources and also want to make sure i can be transparent about the types of discipline and the discipline we provide and also the results of these those investigations and as well as im looking at the information and Technology Services to make sure theyre performing where they should we, pull the data out of our systems and make sure we can make sense of it and provide find the work in a way that is efficient one of the new positions im asking for a position for the jails that means someone that is like youve seen in a hospital someone that works with the jails behind the scenes finding out the kind of care kind of reporting to the top and making sure we are doing with we can to make sure were providing the services that are protecting the people and the Constitutional Rights as well as making sure were providing proper care medical service and day to day items and the other final one thing in the reforms the body worn cameras and fixed cameras we are talking about 60 body worn cameras and county jail our linear not a lot of cameras in position well i couldnt store addition but like to move forward with and another priority is Capital Improvement particularly retroactively county jail two on the as you may or may not know were working through the reenvisioning trying to close the county jail at some point in order to do that well have to renovate county jail two and renovate the laundry and make sure we have jails predicament ability to spate people predicament to the division but that jail was built in 1994 and opened as a work furlough not the high standards from the jails have had in terms of security other priority continue the services to subtle your projects programming for prisoners inside and out in the community and to categorization which includes an alteration 7 people to prearrangement Assessment Program called the supervised prerelease b will get a new name were using a risk ascertainment uniqueness with the drvrz and the adult probation. Commissioner. Before you go to the next page. Excuse myself for one minute ill be back we dont have a quorum i need to stop the presentation for one minute. Would you like to take a recess. Yeah. One minute recess. Do i need to Say Something a can i have a motion . For a one minute recess this is been a one minute recess. One minute. laughter . Okay welcome back to the budget and finance committee thank you very much for the little recess sheriff hennessy continue. Well, i did go back and did you have a question or continue. Go ahead and continue. Okay so this page talks about our scorn hiring and separation sponsor the last new years youll see differences were blow quite a bit so the department has an increase in hiring authority by a reduction in overflow room over two years it will take two years to capture with the so the department is holdings two Academy Classes for the personnel to fill vacant positions and the department will hire 31 for the San Francisco general building that includes 16 cadets and Deputy Sheriff with an analysis by was in the department for over thirty years and proud of the department for recruiting a number of people of different ethic nights in our department and doing that for years and years and seconds we have quite a good representation from the community of different ethic nights and thirty percent white and 18 percent africanamerican and aps i think 340 percent and hispanic we have 18 percent and it is like that for a number of years there were were falling short in my opinion from females on this 16 percent one time close to thirty percent well be working on that as well but the budget request expenditures the largest amount of money to staffing as general and im not going to read the slide if you have any the questions on this slide ill just move on. And the request by division as you may know the Sheriffs Department operates the jails and include a number of other things but mostly the jails and the field is patrol and city hall is one plays and the laguna honda and is clients we provide Field Operations and Programs Division does all the work for other programs that we do inside and outside of the jails for prisoners and we have a facility equipment facilities that goes to 5 percent. So for instance, 5 keys is would be under programs. 4 keys is selfsupporting a great thing about 5 keys it is a Charter School through ada adult tenants the daily is 5 keys not an limping line item in the thats one of the things they dont a lot of the workout in the community. And finally i think i workout too fast we have grants we have right now and one of the newer grants is the offender transitional housing we were talking about housing in other city departments but were housing through support of collaboration with the community we design to reduce coliseum recidivism and the eligibility for this grant is through the misdemeanor it provides mentor to make sure that people have Supportive Housing that is key introduce the process and an anti drug that is responsible for providing linkage prior to release from custody so we have that as well and different care programs that work with the various programs like the citrus focusing a lot on Substance Abuse and trauma and getting people into the community thats the eva quick overview of the department the department is large it is as you may know and theres a lot of that gondolas that is complicated and intertwined i thought id give you the overview for today. Any questions seeing none, supervisor kim. Well, this is not a question for today, i brought up sheriff hennessy many of my comments on learning about the Electronic Monitoring Program to the board not at this time but prepare you but id like to learn more that the program and the effectiveness and the cost charge and inmates planting. Other Public Comment phone number for this item seeing none, Public Comment is clos closed. Thank you. Thank you. Could i have a motion to continue this item to the call of the chair . So moved. With no objection that item passes. Theres could you please madam clerk call the last item. Item number 3 the budget update in the Public Health for fiscal year 20162017 and 20172018. A id like to ask that someone make a motion or Public Comments any Public Comment on this item . Seeing none, Public Comment is closed can i have a motion to continue this item to the may 11 meeting. Can i have a motion . Please. So moved. Moved with no objection is the moved madam clerk million. Mr. Mr. Chair theres no further business. So mardi gr meeting adjour lee. Well, good morning, everyone good morning tutor joining us at San Francisco city hall regardless of what team happy openly day with the giants laughter i would, of course, want to say thank you for all of you for coming together and talking u u talking about the clams we have and locality in the regional and nationally and we want to commend specificallycy thank you to secretary csa to hes been doing those myers weigh fortunate for him hes been here many times but to have the focus on the prosperity playbook and talk with all of us to see not only hear the fact problems but ideas we have to try to solve them i know as a mayor, i want to say thank you to all the fact mirrors mayors the room we dont have time for beater were demanded to provides the answers we seek those answers every day of ever week i know the pressure is on me and you they have to have the answers no objection i appreciate with the secretary comes out and offering not just linking bus hes got answers hes been mooeshsz merging with the mayors that dope prediction he know that not only the secretary we president obama is thinking how has been working digital with mayors to get things done thats why the country is moving forward i wanted to attaining jean and congresswoman barbara lee youre our strong advocates for the mayors when we as mayors raise up and scalding asked individually or as a group youve been there for us thank you very much and, of course, along about all the regional mayors im fortunate to work with libby schaaf and sam who have been more than architectural theyve come up with so many other ideas i compliment the ones we are pushing and even go further cover areas eave not thought about were leap year if each other and thats also a blessing i have with the other mayors weve had session to come together and deal with transportation and other things the other mayors come together with great idea plus youre all good folk you know secretary thanks for choosing San Francisco to be part of the prosperity playbook initiate the fact meeting we need and want to develop with you and with all the flexibility and support of hud and again, i thank you fire marshall regional leadership as well youve got great people that helped us to think through and cautioned us and said hes how every time ive been on the phone thats okay. Thats a problem think about this about that that and how so lets embed do you want to embed and lead us off. Ill go ahead and call the roll. Some quiet we have a lot of people i know you all have coworkers you want to talk to lets go ahead. Roll call director brinkman pr director borden director heinecke is expected and dr. Murases director ramos director rubke and director nolan is absent with notification item 3 please silence all electronic devices. Any person responsible for disruption may be asked to leave the room. Cell phones set on vibrate can cause interference with the microphones, we respectfully ask they be turned off. Item 4 approval of the minutes. Do we have any Public Comment on the minutes. No members of the public have come down forward wait herbert wiener. Mr. Wiener 2 minutes please. Herbert wiener id like the minutes to amend the following when stated i took you know the bus lets say i had to walk a block to the ophthalmologist on Mission Street yesterday id like to add this and it makes it somewhat rocky on the minutes i want to a traffics of the eliminates of the accumulation of bus stop and outlines mta can truly be called the broker of passengers they might as well be sold as commodities on the stock exchange. Thank you, mr. Wiener. Normally in the minutes would we include something that was more opinion than fact of what the comment was is that fine. Well, its distorted. Thank you, mr. Wiener thank you very much. Yeah. Thank you. Perhaps approve that with the amendments if you have a tape. We have a tape. Okay. From the previous meeting well look at. Bring them back thank you that is a good, huh . Also in a member of the public feels the statement a was not what they meant to say submit an amended statement to the minutes for future but we cant change with the speaker said at a previous meeting. Well go ahead and approve the minutes and well note the speaker wanted to clarify the action. Do you have a all in favor, say i. I. Okay the is have it. Minutes approved thank you. Item 5 communications. I dont have any. I do would like to mention under this section there is at the Mayors Office on disability on Market Street a poster card for Carla Johnson the executive director of director of the Mayors Office on disability has left her position any members of the public can stop by the office to extend their worries about. Telecommunication. Item 6 introduction of new or Unfinished Business by Board Members. Board members anything nothing thank you moving on directors report. Director reiskin youll go down excellent. Good afternoon madam chair and members of the board and staff i want to come down and take the privilege of making this recognize myself and here to recognize period of time albert what r who after a thirty year career in transportation and urban design in the city made the envious choice of retiring tent ostend of this most wanted to honor him today his 3 decade career is marked by enthusiasm and somewhat enthusiasm is an understatement for making streets of San Francisco more safe and attractive and for his ability to draw on the strength of diverse professionals within the city and outside the city to spark their enthusiasm he was known recently for the successful preparation and corresponding regional agencies for big events like the americas cup and the superbowl and to host the 2024 olympics bereft but were density in the case of two events that happened here i think proud of out the excellence of his ability to bring a plan into place that prevented many of the horrors that people anticipated would happen for the two events, in fact, enabled those events to go off extraordinary well with folks praising and commending the effort to that to happen the deeper efforts with the city have been an much more complex longterm issues some of which recently, there was a lombard safety project that came to the broad previously San Francisco bicycle plan the mta contributions to the better streets plan guess so support for the commuter shuttle and regulations and dissolutions and initiatives but the real ambitions ones were rolled roles he played in developing the transportation plans for some of the mega projects the candle stick point and shipyard and the park merced and Treasure Island and 5 m project those were extraordinary efforts from the community for many agencies to take those very large developments happening and built motion out of the city in developing transportation plans that would enable them to function enable them to function if in a way not to contrasting cause problems and make them the embodiment of transportation not easy to do when i take ann a big project those are really starting construction and wont see the benefits of that planning work for a little time to come and the Warriors Arena too but i think what we saw with the superbowl and americas cup demonstrated that he brought people together in order to anticipate the events and in this case, the developments and make and device a transportation station that will work well see the same thing i know that peter is not going anymore well see those things come to fruition currently served as the director for planning for the mta he is currently in addition to those big things overseeing the sustainability and he does Corridor Development and related planning and Environmental Review and the Transportation Planning program and our Transportation Demand Management Program that Court Reporters for which are before you 24 many before coming to the mta peter was ahead of the bart he worked for the our Sister Agency the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency as well as for the San Francisco Planning Department and this time with us hes continued to work with the agencies and prairie with the office of Economic Workforce Development spent a good deal of time working for both agencies making sure those big developments promotions are coming with the right transportation plans hes known and there is a lot of kind of stories circulating those days anticipation or in support of his refrmentd about his sense of humor and readiness to get involved id like not to read all of this we have thousands of employees they dont get to be in a position of an active public roles but but all the forecloses ive worked with not a simple person that has unsolicited pile of feedback from neighbor organizations that people within city hall ive had so many people say peter albert is amazing what we do in bringing people dough together and finding solutions and taking technical stuff and making that understandable he is really been unparalleled and working hard so not just himself but really leaves and legacy so wanted to just permanent congratulate perpetual on wrapping up a great career were looking forward to celebrating peter albert day may 26 to be declared by the mayor happy to present peter with the cover he did mta duty award clapping. peter is a testimony to see how many of your coworkers are here i wanted to thank you images on behalf of the board and on behalf of the entire city of San Francisco we thank you for your services and those words ring true i think the satire city of San Francisco if you havent had the pleasure to work you are realizing in the years to come what a huge impact your dedication has and even though well not have our physical presence on van ness we are going to be living your legacy with the projects to this to on behalf of everyone congratulations and thank you for your years of service youre not going anywhere please before we let the other directors speak do you you want to Say Something. Thank you members of the board and people in the room im caught off guardian i dont have a problem ufts words but there are a few things this is law school been a labor of love i mean, if you knew my family when i was a kid and looked if san jose to San Francisco and saw the city wow. What a cool place to be in shaping the city and work with the community and work with the experts that make things work and see a positive change is amazing ive been asked why im taking the time a short answer you leave when things look great when you have amazing staff to take what you start and take it to places you really know that needs to go and only with great in any energy you leave when you feel the program is up i love the judge do in the city changes changes you can relax relax to the change and make that positive to that stent one of my favorite things working with the members of the public they have a passion for San Francisco or they wouldnt be here when they have the chance to have the microphone and talk about what we care about and the developers listen you can come up with a winwin i hope that is the future one more thing im touched by the with regards you gave director reiskin and one of the few times i wouldnt mind you if you kept on and on i appreciate this board laughter . I go to love commissions youve been a great support i hope the outcome of my work makes your job easier. Before we give him another round of applause director ramos. Thank you peter for all your fantastic work i i mean as a board member and seeing the products of your work youve been an ass permission im sure your colleagues will miss you and realize quickly what a tremendous talent weve heard nothing but good things that director reiskin mentioned youre certainly one did pilars of mta that has made San Francisco a wonderful of a place as it is and youll be missed i wish you many, many happy days that are very well deserved and looking forward to seeing you on your runs and seeing what you produce and Creative Time and cant thank you you enough for your good work and Creative Energy youve been an inspiration for me. I think your 9 first sfmta person he met the americas cup thank you very much for your awesome work and Community Meetings for people complaining about traffic but im surprised they do that but they were collapsing and you turned it around and trying to find exclusions by the end of the meeting people are starting to get excited about transportation ill definitely miss those meetings thank you very much. I had the pleasure of not only working with you on the Planning Commission but thank you for your hard work and the shipyard 50e the projects we worked on we knew we were in good hands working with you and those things come together in a way for the best for the city thank you and love the fact you have a smile and the best position every in dealing with the potential projects weve had i thank you for your leadership for your service and wish you all the best. I was going to say a similar thing your enthusiasm a infectious the one thing youve been here for thirty years it suggested you were 13 or Something Like that thats impressive laughter . Not bad at all since you have your mom drive you, you from san jose laughter shes oh, that was transit early as well as transit first, i like it if many, many things ive noticed up here reviewing our work is seemed every time we have a project we dont have a lot of complaint about the Community Outreach we have the opposite of people particularly business communities and other interest leaders telling us they presenter the support were all ambassadors for the agency your work within the agency with Transit Agency sustained us and ill say personally ive presenter the fact about every touch is proven youre a great ambassador and thats most 3rer7b9 best of luck well miss you. Thank you peter well miss you very much clapping. so moving to two other employees we want to recognize for all the streets director for the first recognize. Good afternoon its great to be here to recognize our associate engineer in the liveable streets ask will to join us clapping. i also want to ask will and the streets from liveable streets employees to let us know youre all here. Oh, clapping. so wills has been with us at mta for 5 and a half years as an enter and intern to join the mta will is about recognized for his commitment to the citys goals and mta and for the accomplishment will the the kind of person it comes in early and in we understand and checks out the projects even when hes off the clock hes a real quiet force within the division but his technical ensure to earn the trust of his colleagues and supervisors a great asset for mta and liveable streets with the Fire Department and Planning Department and others in the terrain informative hes worked through a challenging part with templates for all the fire trucks and fire engines to prove to the engineers that we do all this great stuff and traffic calming part of our navigation of the city his work and dedication to stay at the table and challenging conversations helped United States to build the trust and worked on Division Student and public works and caltrans to make sure the projects with Cost Effective and minimal go disruptive but achievement and designed the streets for protecting the intersection we believe is probable the 4 or 5 time it the treatment has been used and once again mta is the leader in design we are able to have leaders like that his coworkers value his time and powerful nature everyday and with others inside and out please join me in welcoming will clapping. thank you. Sir, your not getting off that easy say a few remarks on behalf of the brokering well be impacted by your work i want to congratulate you and please is a few words. Thank you for this great recognition it is really i think the culture we provide in our office ever since i was age intern my colleagues and supervisors were here have been that force in shaping the career so far and really inspiring me many of the employees are native resident and talked about our we understand and the things we see the culture of excellence from that, we tubed with peter throughout their whole agency from top to become a great pleasure to work for everyone here and worked in the city of San Francisco and very much appreciate 24. Thank you, thank you tom clapping. id like to ask our transit director john haley to recognize him. Mr. Haley i see you have a prop again. laughter . Good afternoon. Thank you later on in the Board Meeting for a few minutes well have the opportunity to update you on 0 the leadership will that for a project and the potential that it holds for really complovm our system but today we want to recognize the works of two people jim and Thomas Sheridan that laid the foundation for the Service Improvements youre seeing and see more of you any remember in the battle we this is the loop cable into the subway with the duct tape a long delay caused by parts off of cars cutting the duct tape and cutting the cable stopping the services and made changes on the maiden side and mythical over the first to put in the infrastructure of the foundation not only will get us Better Service right now but as youll see in a few minutes l the foundation for existing Service Improvements and enhance times but today what those guys after we fix the infrastructure we make a series of updates and there has been tone components changed and im pleased to say those two lead the campaign to replace the antennas on the cars with the loop cable and made the cars go our trains enter into there so through their work and successful work effect work james is the Campaign Leader and tom leading the electronic shop that supports our rail activities weve now seen our 22, 22 straight week of studying our goals of 98 discuss rates on portal enterprises were pleased just the same my pleasure to acknowledge their hard work and introduce them so thank you. Thank you clapping. so thank you both and congratulations on this recognize and again on behalf of the board of directors the agency and city congratulations and please say a few words. Thank you yeah. It was been and always is rewarding to be acknowledged and there are a lot of other people that were involved as well support the jer Engineering Department naming folks dealt with the problems and the ventilated or vendors and the overall management and working with james was unparalleled one of the hardest dedicated people we worked well together and a lot of diversity it is wonderful improving the service and the whole safety and liability thank you. Like to say a few words. Thank you id like to thank the board and, of course, john lee and all, all the named individuals that helped improve our system and the citizens of San Francisco and the support to continuing to have my skills utilized to help to improve thank you. Thank you both and again, thank you all to the staff much appreciated clapping. okay tough act to follow but lots of folks worthy of recognition i want to circle on something we talked about in the budget process to drill on the incentive youve approved from the budget for way you call a quick option for riding muni muni mobile and 7eleven people to move way away from cash as you may know the budget authorized the differential the budget will go into effect on january 21st, 2017, the single ride fair goes up for people buying a ticket from the ticket machine and stay at 225 at the are clipper and the main reasons just to kind of refresh for the public were recommended 24 change that cash is expensive to process and slows down the service as people stuff their coins and bills into the box we spend 10 to 15 percent of travel time on muni stopping at stops to a portion the time it takes people to get through the fair bos process to anything we can shave off of that makes for a faster ride across the city some of the benefits of using the clipper or muni mobility with those you can board any door with the clipper card on multiple systems and reshlgd the card and use it get the value back and so, of course, with cash not so muni mobile in require advanced planning you can download and immediately use it and immediately put cash on it the other day i was with my daughter she forgotten her clipper card and the only cash was a 5 bill i stuffed in the fair bos realizing i could have dialed it up on muni mobile and paid a buck thats my 4 contribution to muni thats the benefit that muni mobile brings if you didnt plan with a clipper card and have cash muni is a way to pay and clipper can be linked to a bank account with transit benefits and paying for your fairs with the pretax dollars that essentially reduces the fairs by 10 to thirty percent with the tax break down and weve been talking to the folks other at bank on San Francisco for the San Francisco Treasurers Office to make it easier for people that are in case or dont have the Social Security number to open a bank account so well continue to work with them in the process so there is a way to use muni mobile or clipper watt a bank account if you can currently folks it is an extra benefit and no cash process 9 million a year this is 34 fulltime staff that are interboxes and progressing revenue for deprototypes everyday and the tran transfer production and the software as well as the cost of keeping up the ticket stops and stock and keeping the ticket vending machines up and running we know of all the things we adopted in the budget . The one that has raised the most concerns thats understandable ive mentioned before to you about half of the customers are currently using clipper i think i said incorrectly therefore the others are paying cash there are a number of ways to pay the mobile is not in the clipper numbers those are adult lifeline 20 thousand people etch month and other bus passes that are some of schools and soon coming to San Francisco state after the student bodies voted we have a lot of people paib cash quarter of the revenue is cash and hence the high cost of collecting the good news is that our month vulnerable populations quality for free or discounted fairs so there are ready if youre on the free muni using the clipper card a lifeline card theyre not part of cash paying public and for free muni thirty thousand people that makes one hundred thousand san franciscans well over 10 of the population are registered for the reduced fair programs and, of course, all the snubs authorized unit on the program gets a 33 Percent Discount were planning multilingual change that allows us at the same time to quality to goal people into the free muni with the discounted programs an study that the mtc conducted in 2013 and at a. 40 percent of the people were paying theyre with their households of 20 those people benefit from the free muni or the Lifeline Program as we move to this well get folks into the programs even better well wave the 3 fee for the clipper card itself and well continue to advance outreach on the muni mobile we think a lot of the cash paying folks are visitors that wouldnt have a clipper card but can hell pay via their smart phone and not have to be fudging with cash wanted to give you an update well be working hard to make sure this is smooth to get as many folks transferred to this program for people one last muni bit before i ask john to come back up you may have noticed that we did a soft launch of the double stopping in the muni metro this week after quite a while many months if not years of testing the valuation and retesting we put the software in place overnight it was looking good so on saturday we let it go during the Revenue Service and not the concentration of trains on the weekend so it was not a real test but left it in place for the morning rush and just to remember you, we did it an powell and montgomery it enables a car that is stopped boarding and unboarding passengers and is second train set come up hinged the if first terrain doors on the way it was before the doors are not opening and you get frustrated it is a customer amenity we put it in place this week and started to test on the out bound side a less need but want to see how that works and as far is working well, we monitor and leave it in place with it in bound side that works for the customer benefit well do much more public notification as from soft launch to full launch i want to let you know that it seems to be working that is great news even better news well have new trains well ask the transit director john haley to come up and give you a brief update on where we are with the procurement 6 our new light rail. Great mr. Haley. Thank you, ed and good afternoon again about thirty Board Meetings ago for you some 200 and 50 or so you made an affirmative action to have the launching of the action the potential for the contract to change the face of system is truly monumental i wanted to update you where were our progress made to address some of the questions and issues that weve asked about much where the cars with becoming but what youll do with them so want to walk through okay. Im sorry. As we go through the first thing to note in 2016 the first cars will be here theyll arrive later this year and thats good news well have a very aggressive schedule with our cause it is through a long process youll remember well move forward and the first cars will be here this year and the other point the first 64 cars the expansion cars give us something weve not had before again as you may know we wont just replace the currentcy but meet did you future demands the 64 cars in 2020 our expansion gives us a lot of flexibility to do things weve not been able to do with were coming to closer and reviewing and witnessing the life testing the Life Components and one of the challenges in this youll hear were in the process of asking our car manufacture to build to our specification and changing system a lot of the technology weve talked about on new features and programs water shed Capital Project the introduction of a new radio system all integrate so bringing in cars and upgrading and integrating the system that in and of itself is a challenge just to remember reminder when you voted for this we voted for something that is forward in terms of reliability with the improvement of car manufactures or manufacturer and two things to point out on this particular slide that are important number one the weight requirement were sticking and have held firm to 78 thousand pound it is lighter than the cars to help with that noise and visitation and wear and tear on the infrastructure weve been able to meet our needs safety has been very important the crash worthness of those cars introducing modern features like crumble zones in the front of the car that prevents injuries and finally, the other one well talk about in the future is the allowance that was made to change the way we do maintenance, to really go to modular components that is something mechanics can slide in and out like the steps of the doors will be sliding out as opposed to a mechanic go under the car and glow a series of bowls and wires that takes long we change the way we had had maintenance of the workforce of the future this is actually is about thirty days old shot from the first car show in publication pruksz that means introduction is going to look like that the compliance with the ralph brown act with updating the photos in this particular presentation presentation but looks at better and further advanced like a railcar i look forward to give us the opportunity to go to sacramento and see it as we go forward some of the things we are doing to prepare one of the things that be is important is a training stimulater at that day in age their advanced what we looked at a highly advanced Software Program and software it is eventually the car the simulator simulates everything before we get into the console of the car theyll have the experience through the training stimulater were excited about and moving forward on that and weve started the process began to start to plan to accept the cars bother with training and then with maintenance and the tasks that go with that i think one of the things we had our discussion the board retreat recently you had shown a lot of questions on okay. What kinds of things will you do with those cars and what kinds of things to improve services in terms of what we can do it is a whole series of things first and foremost ill say with more cars first of all, is 3 car trains and we expect to have 4 car trains certainly on the n judah two stations west portal and forest hills but other than that on the end line expect to do that in the meanwhile other things were looking at director reiskin mentioned the introduction of advanced software that allows the delta we want to reduce the travel time and reduce central subway delays is look at the chocolate points out in the system one we talked about was west portal we could make a difference by extending the im sorry the trains into the street at west portal right now in west portal your slow and that comes to a complete stop and has to stop again thats where our leaving the train control system by the extending that you can have a quirk and smoother stop and can make the adjustment, in fact, the system allows us to set the switches automatically by extending the ats switches for m and l that reduces the second stop and saves time were also looking at express and bypass trains both in the surface and in the central subway not bypass trains in the central subway but in the process of looking at locations on surface if you have enough space with a simple switch to have a strain bypass another train so it is in the process and well bring that later with those locations and in the subway we have a feature on the train control system that allows us to program the train so for a number of stops well look at it and the advance advantage if you look at west portal we get into the subway stations like church and castro right now are chocolate points people have to wait sometimes several trains but enabling and using the skin stop we can send the train every 2 and third train to castro and allow the folks to get on in the exterior stations so have some room and move the system long their crowding leads to delays in the system the other thing that is obvious that having a cause to allows us to run long term and short time rather than say in the peak direction rather than send every train to balboa park and, turn to San Francisco state was compromising the busses and service right now with the limitations on the cars if we were to do that well take a headway to accommodate the turn around time so those are the kinds of things were rfp right now and having additional cars that allow us to do and not some of these we believe in updating the infrastructure well start sooner and some of the projects coming like twin peaks may give us time to introduce some of those features by extending the limits of the a tcs system helps in the event we didnt get a noncommemorative train sorry so go quickly those are the highlights were concerning the trains will be here this year and the steps we go through so you know what well be able to well be busy the next year but some of the things there is a series of individual tests over 6 hundred for the main components of the train a requirement of at least one thousand miles to make sure the trains are performing on the infrastructure and a series of saved requirement processes go to so were confident were with the new trains coming in completing the necessary steps to get them ready we expect to be entering into a new era in 2017 to provide so with that, thats a brief update where we stand. Director heinecke. First of all, thank you. I personally asked you direct questions at the retreat i dont have to prompt you, you gave us direct answers so those questions he appreciate that this is as i mentioned it didnt get the headlines and hoop law but this is existing stuff i think stuff that can change the way the system interacts with the customers i wanted to touch on a few things first of all, im very pleased to hear you say the extension of trains to 3 and 4 car trains this is from a labor stand point youll need an additional driver well put those trains to work right away and one of the things youve 3r0esh8 heard me discuss with director reiskin we rode in on the same train when you get particularly to church and castro in the morning it is very crowded and have a lot of customers just always you said has to wait for future trains that is if you could put a bunch of single trains but my worry is we end up creating a worse chocolate point on montgomery and embarcadero so ive been existed by the 3 car idea with the notion of 4 cars and that will work on the surface you could run 40 cars tied together. Yes. The reason you have to make judgements on the surface but given the Rail Infrastructure n judah bypasses in west portal. That will rife a lot of pressure as you said sort been precedent persistent about making sure that the twin peaks i love the idea of extending the acs ill personally ask you look at the notion of returning a 3 car west portal shuttle before and after on it in bound and circulating when we were returning that accident problems at castro and church that helps eliminate it and maybe to the point we bring back the castro shutter that car turns i know there is already a switch for that i know as a daily l rb rider ill say to me solving that crush time at church and castro is a primary goal with a golden opportunity so ill urge you are there look at the 3 car turning at west portal and coming back at west portal and similarly the same thing in castro. I think just thank you for that comment just to add to that the two right now were looking at this a lot on a regular basis the two choke points we need to address weve talked about west portal the other one of the turn around an embarcadero we looked at would this approach and i think that is probably as part of a package of other changes like this including extending a tcs limits i think that is something we need to look at we lose time in the system are those two places theyre both again, as we you got the train control system we have the built to use it more effectively turn on or use more features and have the business or operating practices catch up they require doing things were not doing right now. So in a sense ill let us get back to our go good work but 3 cars running from west portal into not into the loop on embarcadero but turning into that out bound platform on embarcadero and coming back and making the same west portal platform and going back and forth like that i realize it make maybe a dream but if it can be looked at ill permanent appreciate that you. I suggest your dreams are in alignment with most of riders give us us something to strive for. Good job. Thank you mr. Haley. That concluded my report. Thank you go report i wanted to note a couple of things double berthing from the in bound riders nothing more frustrating i think that helps and relieves the Early Morning frustration and just want to touchback on the 0. 25 cash surcharge if we could level the exceptions of what we see it sound what we see as we see the 25 percent of revenue that comes in as cash goes down we hopefully see less dwell time as people move to muni mobile and other methods but the 9 million to collect that represents i assume touching all the fairs we probably wont see that guarantee communitybased down initially will we bring this up we need to set the expectation this is tour First Step Towards cash flow system which is really where well see a lot of benefits 9 million will therefore go away and well be able to spend it am i on the right track. Yeah. Thats right a lot in cash in the system a fair bos in every vehicle some of the costs will still be there but to the extent were processing less cash right now we have a f line in the fareboxes physically fill up and wont accept cash so pull it out fast enough it is possible until we get to a point of cash in the system that 9 doesnt drop to zero but some of the costs will go down and others costs associated with it most importantly getting the security risks out of the system and at the same time improves the system. Director ramos and a quick observation from the prospective of a lot of folks ive spoken with in the public around this switch there is this feeling that, you know, that the surcharge speaks for itself the cents increase is something that be unaffordable for a lot of people i know there are a lot of programs we have in place that i dont think enough people know about and i would encourage staff and mta and whoever else that is marketing this work that there are those programs in place we encourage people to tdm of that are really you know protecting for whom Something Like this will be a hardship but didnt have to be i feel weve done a phenomenal job of creating those and all ages for all folks that would be helpful to be sure we amble up did message and people dont realize that is the case. Yeah. If i can add on that was a great point i know we have great data from clipper and other cases people are using and where people are you said about the f line and on the 47 i had the cash line but the n judah through the financial district im guessing to target those were on the 47 and know a bunch of people are paying cash we should get those people signed up for the program theyre qualified and give them information but the clipper and do that that way for the target outreach that is important. Directors anything else thank you very much as we move on to the next item. Oh. Any Public Comment on this item . None turned in a card but one member coming forward. Mark not turned in a card i wasnt aware of what was going to be discussed this is in relation to the clipper card i wanted to make an observation including taxis on clipper card would be a big help to the taxi industry we have the hardware we need the software this is one way from the mta can help us. Thank you, sir. Oh, one more. Ive turned in a card i dont know what happened to it. It was for item 9. Oh, shall i wait. Yes. Thank you, thank you any more Public Comment oh, now well move on. Item 8 Advisory Committee report. Oh, mr. Weaver is coming up. Good afternoon Board Members at cac we think peter albert is great i want to make a suggestion you as a board and Board Members when youre in of the world of San Francisco gets embarrassed this is a legitimate criticism emancipation proclamation muni i feel that way a lot out in district 11 which i represent that would be great in this the board of directors had a period of time Albert Community award that is a way to honor and recognize how important for the entire operation any part of it a suggestion were going to try to get pertaining to our cac meeting we were told he was gone but still here laughter okay. Ive got two things i want to talk about today first one is the issue of sidewalk parking weve passed a resolution on that after from Cameron Sammy the management or manager of improvement it was piloted to us because sidewalk parking is complaint driven a rumble on every block a ticket is issued someone on this block did if to us those anatomy neighbors the solution to this is have pcos and parking control officers always issue the parking violations we know the official policy of the mta to do that in practice not done and wherever api ive seen it it is done when someone calls in a complaint it is a law sidewalk parking is illegal were not doing a good job of it in the present system we also recommend the the sfmta add a sidewalk at sidewalk parking at the vision zero focus sidewalks parking is a real parking for pedestrians especially those who are disabled it is as great a problem or greater a problem then double parking of auctions on the streets the sidewalk is supposed to be for pedestrians this involves vision zero and pedestrians on the sidewalks especially those disabled the third part of motion the mta should add for parking control officers to meet the demand whether there are big events and those events include baseball games theres not safest availability of pcos and the action should hire them eve part time in order to provide the neighborhoods with service eve there is a baseball game going on or a 50 anniversary of the superbowl or whatever our understanding of pcos basically they pay for themselves and well educated and trained on the job and know what theyre doing we didnt include this in our motion but clearly this requires skills of a period of time albert Community Outreach is essential for trying to go back and change the way we carry out enforcement ill suggest that the basic message is driving and parking on sidewalks is illegal and tell people that for a few months and then move into the larger way of enforcing that matter for example, people dont like getting ticket for blocking the street on street cleaning days but dont get anger only frustrated not at anyone theyll know they get a ticket thats the way the rules are we need to do that for sidewalk parking to make sure it is that the pedestrians of San Francisco are better served finally id like to say a few words about the cac involvement with the idea of a fair differential for cash versus clipper we understood since clipper was introduced and explained to us as you folks that the fair instrument is critical important for the future of any Transit System this is an attempt to phase in a cash fair system and much more hoping in the future the clipper card two the next version of clipper could be features that cash didnt have particularly if you lose our card so weve been in favor of this for a long time and pleased to see this is moving forward in the budget in january we understand that less than 50 percent of passengers now use clipper a and however the agency that is going to time this as you were suggesting with a campaign to encourage the use of clipper getting out free clipper cards with people learning what the advantages of clipper and how to deal with that we think that with many young people being given clipper cards and knowing how to use them simultaneously families will learn as well from them how to use clipper and the advantages of them so we support this one more thing here also muni mobile is a great alternative and serves a different audience it needs to be promoted with clipper as something that to be used if youre not a regular commuter but something that you can use literally at the last minute when your daughter forgot here clipper card or whatever and people coming in from outside should be introduced to that idea how to get that. So thats our recommendations today. Thank you very much mr. Weaver we appreciate the hard work that agency does any Public Comment on item the Advisory Committee report. Looks like we do coming up. Gamechanger edward mason regarding that clipper card we go within a accumulation feature you can then apply the equivalent of a day pass the day pass is a weekly pass and it awe ki789s into a monthly pass with the Valley Transportation Authority already does that when you look at the demographics of patrons weve got trying to come up with 70 or 80 a month for a monthly pass is for the practical so i strongly recommend you consider a accumulation feature in the clipper. 2. 0 and has many benefits because people will possibly say well, if i have to use the cash ill not use it maybe i can go somewhere after work for a meal or dinner or movie whatever and then kind of get a free ride home after you pay the equivalent of 3, one way fairs whatever it is consideration so accumulation fork is technology it is available so it needs to be incorporated. Is there any additional Public Comment on the Advisory Committee seeing well move on. Okay item 9 Public Comment public may address the commission on items of interest to the public that are within the subject matter jurisdiction. Thank you and i think we have a few people that want to make comments on the transit lanes on Mission Street ill remind this item is not on the agenda not a discussion but look forward to hearing your comments lets go ahead and set the timer for 3 minutes and the murdered will appreciate that ill remind you youll hear a soft tone when 30s seconds it left and hard tone ill cut you off. First person is tom calling names . Good afternoon, commissioners im tom a San Francisco cab driver since 1917 and on the board of directors of yellow cab ill asking you to reconsider our medallion fees that are imposed coming up soon in june we have a lot of disabled and elderly members and medallion holders that havent had an income from our Company Since november i dont see who thault be able to pay this bill they i dont know what theyre doing for income but not received any from the Cab Companies this is going to be a hardship on them and the medallion holders you know our income is down go dramatically it is going to be a big problem i dont know whats going to happen youll have to startle revoking medallions on the elderly medallion holders that have been you know cab drivers for 40 years and now theyre old and disabled theyre going to have their medallions revoked they cant afford the 80,000 you guys accumulate all the data and see how much the rides are video dropped since the inception of the tmcs it is everyday last time i started at 2 and put only one hundred hours on the meter thats going to be a big problem in our industry every shift we go without putting out 60 bus medallions this is the income we need to have any extra to distribute amongst our members so without any income i dont see how especially the elderly and dlabltd members will pay those fees and maybe in the future you know maybe we can go a month to month payment instead of a thousand dollars all at once maybe it could be a percentage of what what kind of income were producing you know good times the income is up we can pay more but bad times it can be adjusted im asking you to reconsider that is a big headstart for the disabled and this elderly of and for all the medallion holders thank you for your time. Thank you, sir next item, please. calling names . Good afternoon Board Members is the easel on here if you put something on that sfgov about project that im here in regards to the red zone restriction for business theres nothing where you know with the red zone the problem is the shoddy work that is done i dont know from the sweet tea theyre drinking but this is the beginning of what the streets looked when it first came into play this one here they are working this is the aftermath if you look at theyre just painting over the cracks that is already in place what needs to be done the same thing theyve been doing on freeways for decades i was a tractortrailer operator they have two lanes the hammer and the low lanes those cars eat up the road the same type of material on the freeway they use they need to use for the bus lane it is concrete you cant use asphalt the tires eats up the asphalt and kicks it up and the last thing we dont want to see we windup facing is the bus into a hole in the street theres been 3 sink holes that materialized in San Francisco and the last thing i want to say a bus going in there are and death coming afterwards youll not been able to patchup the gap so i want to bring that to your attention and we believe that is one of major problems that is going on theres nothing wrong with the restricted bus lanes because they have came up with carpool lanes and already have a restricted lane they brought it to the street thats fine but have to remove the asphalt and use the material on the freeway before its too late. Thank you. Next speaker, please. calling names . Good afternoon everyone this is my first time so im a little bit nervous my name is leary im with the Woods Division for transportation operators im asking the sfmta to look at a few unrealistic situations first of all, they were sfmta parking to theyre expected to be here on time the majority coming hours early and we have to drive to our relief posts and find a place to park and still ticketed we try to leave a message were only going to be here a certain time ive written notes im on the 9 line and please dont ticket me the thing is if we colonel together somehow and make a permit a daily permit that we have to sign in and out so we dont take it home and give it to friends but something that shows you you know were sfmta and here for this specific reason but have to plan it auto for dispatch so show youre on duty and return that another thing bad enough we dont have a break system at the terminal it is basically called a lay offer so when we pull up if there are people at the window and door we have to let them in we have to throw something in your mouth we get recorded for that or to call 4702 and now were questioned what this is for like hello, i have a straight 8 hour run you know what im saying like you care about us but like i said were another beckoned call of the number one customers that assault us when in their trying to enforce the policies to do our job to drive i mean, were undergo a lot of things when i was called for this job i was really proud i thought theyve got everything together and you know those Different Things im not trying to put them down when i see another bus over an overpass im like you know advertised a beautiful thing it really see but we can make things better for us their unrealistic expectation but still out there trying to meet thank you, ms. Bowman much appreciated calling names thank you directors go mark im speaking so far the technique Workers Alliance i want to establish this comments i didnt get to finish the mta has come to grips with the reality of the medallion transfer program medallion holder have to recover their investments in a timely fashion theyre ready to leave the entry not held prisoner to the system there are hundreds and hundreds of medallion holders waiting to sell their medallions and leave the industry and now buyers you should mention of the taxi department recently sent out another letter to purposes of medallions and you know for 200 and 50,000 and i actually think this is irresponsible to try to reduce someone to putdown down 200 and 50,000 for a technique medallion at this point nobody you know no guarantee in the future that that money will be recovered so something has to be done about i think the entire medallion structure in San Francisco and know that from what kate said the internal discussions have begun there should be public discussions the public needs to weigh in for imaginative thinking i think the industry could help you hope that does take place but something needs to be done on a few other points last time i mentioned the 8,000 medallions the ones with the Cab Companies that program at least approximately will continue and most companies dont want those medallions maybe fly wheel and smaller ones have interested and most of the others have returned their medallions are not particularly interested in that program and in contrast the cab drivers long term cab drivers that are s medallions you know all drivers for more thirty years so i urge again that be looked at and that these drivers you know it is like something being snatched out of their hands the last thing to toms point i believe you could be defer if not wave the medallion fees you know thank you. Thank you, sir. Next speaker calling names . Hi there my name is ada define im the owner of professional art and design and Mission Brand new natural Merchants Association and up here on behalf of my neighbors and my community on the subject of the red carpet lanes and the changes that have happened to my neighborhood in the last few months and how it has impacted our business so a lot of the impact that has happened in any neighborhood is effecting daytime business and one of the things we saw in the right turn signals were losing our clinics ounce to the corners of casar chjvez theyre making a right and not coming from 6th street a randell a lot of business and a lot of our businesses say they cant wait months for changes to happy businesses will close down we need action we need the rightturn lane signals to go away so we can have a blow through Mission Street and people that are not only on buses but in cars being able to support businesses a lot of people have been forced out of the city so during the daytime between dropping their kids off at school and 90 minutes to park or get up and down Mission Street will not come back that is a big concern lesion businesses our businesses have closed down in my specific neighborhood there was bus bump out that were produced a few years ago two years ago and all of the bus stops have been moved and where the placement of the bus stops not in your opinion theyre in dark corners and placed in front of the businesses like people are standing out smoking in front of the the preschooler while waiting for business and people need to walk farther so for elderly and disabled it is harder so we really in our neighborhood were trying to get the right turns and make the neighborhoods safer we want left turn turning signals at van ness so our safety people are not turning the corners to get off of Mission Street theyre safe and walking. So. Thank you. Next speaker, please. calling names . Any of those folks here. I dont see many stockly. Tom. I apologize for the mumbling. Thank you. Taxis need to be resolved this issue on techniques are part of community if theyre a part of community we need to keep them healthy and weve lost business and their worthy billions . Unbridle pony and someone has to put a stop to it and the taxi drivers are a healthy be part of our community we want that need to protect what we value luckily i cant see the time so ill rattle luckily i was going to invite you to the van ness Market Street elevator so and from the trains so i hope youll take time to go down and take the slates and youll see more i used to hear something more and remember your were half the size of you were close to droub that slate is closed will take more time take the civic center slate up and down look at the orange cones that litters the stations and the tunnels a little ventilation system maybe update and next new buses i dont know where i am on time we should accept no new buses that raltsz period it is a carriage around the bus driver the wheelchair drops the seats it on up in our older buses the doors that dont close no excuse to accept a new bus that rattles on our streets thats should are part of the game next i dont understand i cant understand ive been in a wheelchair for 27 years a manual and used the floor alarm the belts were an inconvenient and dirty but you dont want to touch them but there are more of an entrapment locks to hold my manual who ever it is soft to bear some of the treads are old just up to geneva on the 14 this past week or so up and down on rolling forward and enough in thought im sliding forward and back and a big spot in front of the who ever that people can stand. Thank you, thank you, sir. Thank you, thank you next item, please. calling names . Hi, im berry im with the San Francisco taxi workers lines im here to ask about the no left turn signs on mission or the, you know, theres supposed to be an exception for taxis im told now we cant turn left it is a big inconvenient and costing us time if you want to improve cab service we need to have leftturn lanes and maybe start 24 with a taxi task force i wondering what is going on were told we could turn left and no enforcement only Market Street with the red zone im seeing regular cars all the time and same with geary street and bike lanes on van ness not enough enforcement i think point mta needs to hire more investigators to enforce this it is e morgan hill were held to the standards were surrounded by 37 thousand tmc drivers that the city treasurer identified that is compared to some 45 hundred active cab drivers this is very unfair xoemgs with a back up with tom we shouldnt have to pay the thousand dollars and trouble paying rent and the builds not to mention every cab driver has to pay the a card fee every year were surprised but this is included in the budget were not given the chance to contest this if you cant get rid of we should be able to make pamphlets or else well go out of business were going out of business this is a visible cycle the cab drivers have leaving and cab drivers that dont know where he everything is and something need to be done where tyler a level the Playing Field we 4 have two taxi serves one it regulated and one not theyre making willing left turns the police are not doing anything and it is not safe the cars make 7 turns at least the taxicab is in yellow those guys are neuter than cab drivers have so. Next speaker, please. Is manny and others here. Good afternoon mary here im going to speak on behalf of the people in the mission not here because a lot of them i guess are outside getting ready to come in i guess a lot of them outside and as were familiar with the fact that theres been a lot of invention against people from the 34igs there is one more act of violence and what theyre primarily streets but their name is on it the district name is on it it violated in this way without taking into consideration the needs of community youre going to have a problem and i just want to mention i could is a lot of stuff but mention what has happened and not happened im aware of since the community tried to work with the department or the staff and the department at we went to three or four meetings before we finally discovered we were waichltd we were told we cant do anything you have to have the board do it it turned out they cant do anything about the lefthand turn and the lefthand turn and any of the other issues really driving this problem in the mission and attempt to i guess kill off the neighborhood this is the way the Mission People feel about it and theres a lot of them youll see on tv when you turn on our news a lot of people that are concerned about what is going on and the other situation i want to mention we were told that i hope this is true we were told that staff can change per colors if theyre not too long and staff is allowed to change some of the parking situations without coming to the board other than we were told that is pretty much all the staff can do so this is how the Mission Community feels our time the leaders people that went to those meetings were wasted two or three different afternoons going to meetings where nothing can be accomplished i guess well go to the our supervisors and the mayor and this board and telling you exactly what we want so outline be seeing not only our neighborhood but the eld terryville people awe initiated from all the neighborhood groups once they see the task an Mission Street. Thank you. Next speaker, please. calling names . Good afternoon. Director reiskin and Board Members im speaking on behalf of the garage i live in the mission and love the culture the mission is a eco system after years of gentrification our people are displaced and our culture is cultural appropriated sfmta red carpet bombing of the mission with a surprise attack is the most disruptive and i spoke to the residents and Business Owners now just to be clear we support the goals of approving the safety street but we believe your application are onesizefitsall does not work in the mission not working for us and frankly disappointing that a 1 billion agency cant do boater weve ask do for a sensitive plan urge the standard tools you have eliminated lefthand turn with the vision zero that says legal unit are more dangerous we agree the legal units are 50 percent more dangerous than right turns but considering the fact that changes apply instead of 1 leftturn lane directives made 43 righthand turn crossing 12 crosswalks how can that be safer here is another a for 15 and mission the intersection is is a cluster of pedestrian muni buses and shuttle and google buses and cars obnoxiously are poor solutions they scramble walk u crosswalk what about safer look at chinatown i can give for examples how they apply to the mists but the point we have alternative transportation for Better Solutions for cheaper common goals thats why we i couldnt do for the project is to be halted with better alternated to be considered were told that part of the reason for this project is bus pollution in the narrow corridors ive not seen them in my seven years with the 1 red lane the rapid has to pass the locals with the single traffic lane and all the busy u buses have to contend with the driver trucks from south van ness should be better also for riders north and south Transit Services is not important on mission for example, the closest bus is the j that is on church and the closet then is 12 and 27 a more disturbing system for much better and safer trait with the sfmta must consider the time thank you very much next item, please. calling names thats the last person to turn in a speaker card. Hi i wanted to come today in support of 49 and the 14 im also a resident of Market Street and one poise of experience when Market Street went to the transition there was a lot of concussion at the beginning and love people kind of fudging but as time going o goes on a lot of the problems that people feel like happened at the beginning gets smoothed out people donna dont get you hear people taking 3 turns they dont do it everyday but. Couple of times and get smart and use another street i want you to be notified to stay the course with 60 thousand people that ride that on the corridor that came in cars and prioritizing the people in their ways to lower the commemorating is good for the city and all the riders thank you. Thank you very much next item, please. calling names . Mr. Martin. Im a resident live on thirty at noah and walk and shop on mission and the valencia i took take my wife and daughter and go to Saint Georges and Others Mission it is just felt like this is a much more dangerous place to walk because of the changes i know that get confusing with all the changes come in but driver dont know there is not enough lighting to figure out what to do not only making rights and being forced to make rights they dont know that is coming and they drive the wrong way done one way streets it is disagrees at van ness coming off of mission to take it left were waiting open a preventive signal theyre running the reds and pedestrians are in danger we need to protective signal only van ness thats it. Thank you, mr. Martin. Thats the last person that turned in a speaker card. Any more commenters seeing none, well close Public Comment as a mentioned we cant discuss the mission red transcript lanes but like to ask director reiskin of an appropriate time to coupling coming back come back with others further outreach and solutions for some of the problems that people are seeing on the corridors okay. Thank you very much all right. Move on. All right. Item 10 consent calendar calendar, are considered to be routine and may be acted upon by a single roll call vote of the commission. There will be no separate discussion of these items theres been no request to separate any of the items. Excellent in request do is i have a motion to approve all in favor, say i. I. Opposed . Hearing none, the matter passes thank you. Okay moving on item lovingly presentation and discussion regarding San Francisco Sea Level Rise action plan. Who do we have present. Good afternoon chair and director reiskin im jim with the sfmta Planning Department staff and presenting open Sea Level Rise and sfmta Sea Level Rise Vulnerability Assessment im joined with staff from public works and the Planning Department and the mayors kropd committee and presenting on San Franciscos Sea Level Rise action plan Sea Level Rise is likely to be one of the major climatic change impacts San Francisco has to deal with in the coming decades and San Francisco and the mta are no strangers to the issue of climatic change in both the city and is it a fair statement, should be applauding for the work on the greater weight of the evidence the city lastly numbers of the department of the environment the city as successfully reduced the emissions by 23 percent since 1990 no install feat and definitely the city should be applauded, however, Going Forward reducing the Green House Gas is not likely to be enough and time for the city to begin adopting the future climatic change both 9 Sea Level Rise action plan and assessment plays a foundation for solid work in the place and leads to resilient so with those introductory comments im going to turn it over to to our staff from the Planning Department and the two cochairs. Thank you very much. Good afternoon my name is having had the City Engineer from public works is it is a pleasure to be presenting especially im joined by gil kelly with the citywide planning and deanna from the Planning Department staff ill speak briefing about Sea Level Rise and the work and im going to turn it over to to bill for a few comments and deanna what give you a presentation. Gil and i cochaired this marries Sea Level Rise committee which was created about over a year ago in early 2015 and members from various city departments the mta is a presented by tom maguire and dorothy they did a great job the committee met on a monthly basis for over a year and looked at the aspects of Sea Level Rise as much as the Science Behind this issue future projections and geographic areas that are impacted by Sea Level Rise city assets within the areas and what are will be the cost of inner action then what is the best plan that we adopted to deal with the dynamic and every changing issue before you as the full report and executive summary and includes to print it but we presented printed a copy and provided to you so im sorry. Well get the copies after the meeting. Okay. Fine. So Sea Level Rise is rising by 2 feet by 8050 and over 56 and a half feet by the end of the century and it could be impacted up to 9 feet the city has critical private and public assets in those areas we must planning and start understanding Sea Level Rise and the measures soon to projection protect our investments and make sure that San Francisco is resilient over the next wolfed years one of the study components looks like what if we dont do anything our estimates came at 75 billion if we dont do anything over the next 50 years since we issued our report we met with the mayor several times to get feedback and his vision and accommodations we met with most members of the board of supervisors and also presented at the port commission, Planning Commission and presenting before you today with this im going to turn it over to gil to provide further comments and then at the end ill take over. Thank you mr. Kelly. I have the pleasure of Disorderly Conduct this and wanted to meet you in person director borden eye overlapped if i can make to comments not about Sea Level Rise but wanted to acknowledge that today is conversations preceding this were illuminating for me and relevant to the work that our two agencies are doing and increasing will do together in many transportation and land use issues i wanted to personally thank director reiskin and tom maguire and others that are showing leadership in a collaborative arena well been back in front of you in a short awhile and talking about the Planning Issues well be vance together and the second thing add any voice to the magnitude of conformations for peter albert and i think i can safely speak so far the whole Planning Department hes been an inspiration. No about Sea Level Rise my part i wanted to make 3 key Takeaway Points and im going to turn it over to to diana that will be giving you a fuller presentation on the mayors Sea Level Rise Corresponding Committee and the action plan for the years of work that are so ill say at least my takeaway is are really 3 things one this work needs to be continued to be science based a meaning we need to continue to understand the evolving science around climatic change and the implications of the Sea Level Rise not a status science and even as Sea Level Rise decreases our understanding will be improved working the classes and whether or not our predictions are around the 25 and 16 of Sea Level Rise in the bay and add on top of king tides and storm seizures as much as 9 feet subject to at least temporary innovations it is a significant fact and the second thing this will challenge us to be thinking creatively about remaking the shoreline over the long term and for for all the multiple benefits and uses and diana will be speaking about the notions we have to think big in the design arena and the third point it is has been quite clear this will involve really rely on part and parcel twin between the city agencies but the redeeming and federal entities but ill say with the private sector with the foundations well hear about in a moment and frankly with the committee at large to come to grips with the solutions that come out of our process so id like leave you with that and diana ill apologize at 345 in oakland ill not be able to stay but youre in go hands with diana. Thank you completely. Diana with the Planning Department staff and nice to be here this afternoon and thank you for having us. I wanted to introduce the members of the Corresponding Committee the committee that was compound by the mayor of february of 2015 and you can just see how many departments were involved in that and an incredible rigorous process and cooperation went spot act plan and all the meetings and had a lot of interaction from the day is started im an fortunate to staff the committee and enjoyed my experience working with the different departments and is those are the departments that can touch on Sea Level Rise in some fashion or maintain property interact or p will be looking Sea Level Rise in the future those are our projections for Sea Level Rise in San Francisco they look for 2024 and end of century based on the science from the National Research in 2012 and they look to a most likely projections mid rank projections and upper rank we use the upper range for that the projections and those are for Development Applications and california quality act purposes were making the skies actionable for the work in implementing the act plan in the future and again based on consensus skies and as gill mentions the skies change we have mechanisms to review it and make sure we are updating it in the futures we can make sure our mr. Haney function follows the science those are the photos with the breathing of the eastern and western shoreline the embarcadero was taken at kings tied last year and perfectly obvious you were up against the road there that much more needs to happen for significant phleboids and, of course, on the west coast this is a photo of ocean beach south of the boulevard the photo was taken early this year tennis the photos some more movement and erosion of the beach and some of those parking lots asphalt has fallen into the ocean i dont have an after photo but evolving and today it is happening today. This shows our vulnerability cone so the blue line shothe end of projection t city is dissolution nothing a do nothing end of century scenario the city doing number nothing and, of course, that is not the case it is really for a illustration we, of course, are passing this adopting the Sea Level Rise action plan and publish our Resiliency Program and the orchestra on the seawall and the projects actually incorporating adoption communitybased into their own projects right now this is really showing you the extent that Sea Level Rise will involve the coasts over time and as mentioned this is our 75 builds number this is end of century with storm surge uppermost projection for planning purposes in todays dollars with the public and private property and probably a low number it is kind of it was a highlevel calculation of the cost of doing nothing through the action plan registrations we hope to devolve both that number and make sure we are incorporating the eco System Services with the tax prelims and jobs productivity loss that kind of thing not a conservative figure but airport is half of that figure those are the efforts all over the city and some of the works on ocean beach for instance, 2, 3, 4 corporation with the sfmta and planning and spur and public works and doing a lot of work to make sure were engaging the public and helping to educate our pun i public and why this is important and who is happening and supposed to be happening and what the interesting design techniques for the employees to make this work for our city and for our coastline and really make sure that were not actually cutting off public assess to our shoreline so this is shows you a bit of whats happening and what the city is making sure our community understands what is in store for now. Some of our 1r50u7b89 Risk Assessment work is completed and some of it is pending the sfmta has work youve been working on to look at some of the 1r50u7b89 of the infrastructure all over the city we will take all that information and role it up into one vulnerability and Risk Assessment for the entire city to prioritize where we need to go first. And this is what we call our adaptation whole the yellow circle is the skies and reviewing the science and making sure we make sure we are kept current. Up to date it is going through looking at after reviewing the science and looking at our vounlts vulnerabilities and risks and over lying those were prioritizing those areas carefully and as a city to have a cohe has plan that requires the collaboration and continues into the future some of the other near term actions to implement and development and implement a sea level Adaptation Plan for the entire city if looked at cohe has programs and private and Public Properties one of the other actions that we are looking to mrauflaunch towa the end of this year the design by challenge which is really modeled after the successful design challenge on the coast that was called rebuild were not rebuilding but increasing our coming in front of a real problem and the idea behind the challenge to bring the best minds locally and regionally and nation will i to think about the mid century and end the century a team that will be might want disciplinary not just culture suspects but also public financiers to lead a region for the entire bay region for the our only shoreline but understand our shoreline effects other shorelines around the bay and vice versa. So this shows a little bit about our ongoing coordination the Mayors Office will lead the charge of prelims of the act plan and so well be working with the mayor and the new environmental policy advisors tyrone to implement this plan and off to the left is a recommendation that we include a public and private community to look at it the Business Community concerns and how they would address this making sure we are really engage our community as a whole through the process and over to the right we are going to be putting together Technical Advisory Panel to advise us along the way these are photos of rebuild by design challenge from the east coast that will help to inspire the work on the bottom tip of manhattan an incredibly interesting design it allows for flooding of parkland when there is storm surge or title action once the water recedes it is public assess there is creative ways we can engage thats it for that that concludes my presentation. Ill be happy to answer any questions you may have. Along with goggling and others. Directors questions. I have one question i performed when i was working in planning on projects and Treasure Island i thought we had budget each if i remember correctly for the Sea Level Rise are we making adjustment. For Treasure Island i mean Treasure Island is incredible model actually for doing this adaptation work in the future a robust system that actually can be raised over time it has what is called adapt active capacity so as the Sea Level Rise sciences evolves trigger points that allow for raising the levies and protecting the development that is happening on the island and a Financial Mechanism that is in place to pay for that over the long term. Thank you thank you very much i was down on the embarcadero last december during a tide that was scary when the tides came over the edge and thankfully not a stormy day but it was a huge impact on downtown. Thank you mr. Kelly for recognizing so much of the work we do here say you said we cant do enough to stop this but help to delay it moving people out of private automobiles so can only help not the cant turn you our backs but knuckle down and do more work thank you very much for the work we it will be more and more important thank you. Thank you diane can and others for joining us ill speak briefly on this particular around this issue. Thank you. As mentioned clefks and Sea Level Rise will be a big issue for us Going Forward are for sfmta we have the unique opportunity to work towards reducing Green House Gas emissions and the resilience for the passage of prop a in 2007 and our Strategic Plan that got a lot of our Green House Gas emissions reduction work we be able to successfully reduce the emissions and with the transportation segment now with the Sea Level Rise action plan that allows our compliment program to include adaptation work the goal of sfmta climatic change and Natural Hazards program to manage the hazards in cost effect ways for Sustainable Transportation options for all san franciscans over the last couple of months the mta has been working a number of highlights that are numbered here transit staff recently developed the el nino winter plan that guides the operation of the Transit System under flooding and storm events were also working to infuse our Capital Planning with the principles we have two projects that are kind of in the climatic and capital plan for for the citywide that costs over 5 million in the urban areas the city Capital Plan Committee has a Sea Level Rise pamphlet over the last couple of months weve worked on two projects in particular to look at the risks in the coming decades we are also conducting analysis on our own projections within the Capital Improvement plan and should have the results of that analysis weve also begun updating sfmtas climatic Action Strategy that provides a framework for will have of our Green House Gas emissions reduction work and adding a section that talks about this one of the actresses that will be identified in the compliment is our Sea Level Rise assessment that is what diana just spoke but with the city action plan is directs every agency to conduct an assessment so our own Vulnerability Assessment will focus on sfmtas multi modal Transportation System but examines the rtd well focus on 3 horizons and the associated Sea Level Rise so 12 inches at 2030 and 66 inches at 21 hundred the aim so identify the system wide vulnerabilities and the census entity and the environment and government as gil mentioned this assessment and much the Climate Adaptation will require commitment you thought agencies and city and region upon the completion we work to have the finding into our own internal operations and the project design and duo into our longterm planning effort and work with the City Partners to develop effective citywide adaptation and corresponding with regional participates with ac dc to make sure that the regional adaptation strategies are complimented that concludes my presentation. Thank you very much for the opportunity to speak today, if anyone has any questions ill be happy to answer them. Before we go to Public Comment directors any comments. So i have a question this is great thanks for all the good, i was to know i know theyre doing significant work on seismic with the effects of seawall a huge impact on the water implementations im wondering if this is part of this i know this is directly impacting Sea Level Rise they go hand in hand i want to make sure that were able to accommodated Sea Level Rise. That definitely is included we had a meeting last week with a number of departments and talked about the seawall project in particular you mentioned it is seismic issues but plan what that system looks like in the future there definitely looking at this issue of Sea Level Rise so definitely corresponding with them and at that meeting the Transportation System that sort of on top of seawall was part that have discussion so well, working closely with them. Director. Yeah. Id like to hear about any partnering with any of the muni that represents some of the United States who are most vulnerable to like a cat trophy that would be great to hear a quick overview not details but any kinds of plans for that kind of outreach are partnership. Definitely at as the 1r50u7b89 assessment get off the ground one of the first step is cohen with the cac and making sure there is accurate engagement in that process Going Forward so im not sure with the city. As the cac is established that should been sufficient how does that get how do people get. Placed on the cac. Weve not worked that out well be working on that. I want to make sure there is good representation i think there is good communities that can clearly see theyre impacted and particularly concerned about those of us less mobile than others and making sure theyre aware of the be severities of the 1r50u7b89 that they have there is a plan in place to deal with Sea Level Rise you know where it is gradual or surge so early engagement will be most appreciate. Definitely like the first point in our plan. Thank you very much. Thank you. Thank you any Public Comment. No members of the public have turned in any cards but two approaching. Thank you. Public comment 2 minutes please. And again, no clock tom i live on south beach willie brown, jr. Apartments the two line is in and out curious about i guess going up a wall some type of embankment to protect that t line and not all the way out to embarcadero the baseball stamped i dont know hoichl how much work but 9 feet that whole must show marina so you have the tunnel i see i dont see the plan i equity to insurance before this bhooerpg talking about what about the taxi drivers where is their insurance and equity in a life that got washed out by uber and lyft and the new wave of whatever land so im curious on that one i it will be a learn on the job for all of us and up to the 5 million design to help us figure out what it will cost in the future and onthejob training were learning building on the giants and the lower part of the the forum the basketball stamped will be underwater so im not sure i trust the liability and equity. Thank you. Next speaker, please. Mr. Mason. I think one of the main issues is communication right now i dont think poem get the message until computing with the officials on the embarcadero our establishing bicycle cameras but the c o2 counter and bay bridge or whatever the c0 o 2 generators are you, work with the air Quality Management to resolve all that a regional bus express system has got to be move forward i dont see any action the mtc is studying it and trying to get information on that it is not going anywhere i studied is it 10 years ago failed and didnt grow legs youve got to get it going again the other issue is with that the google buses all right. A lot of the buses are operating from any observation not in complete capacity your own report says those busy go a million miles a month if you gifted divide that by 10 miles a gallon those buses get on the open freeway youre wasting 5 hundred thousand gallons of fuel a year that is because those buses are dead heading so it becomes imperative the regional buses are implemented and even the bay Councils Report says people because of the congestion are ready to move out of the region to other areas so youve got a problem and people are not going to do it until they start realizing until they forbode with the fish on the embarcadero. No more Public Comment i want to thank the folks and on the theme that the work all of us are doing we know will pay off in the future it is important work i have a sisterinlaw that apologizes for the future so well look back and try to redouble our efforts to make sure our transportation is as efficient and clean as we can so thank you for your time. All right. Close up that item next item, please. Item 1230 years the director for the contracts for sfmta with the services to provide paratransit not to exceed 142 million plus beginning july 2015 and ending june 30th, 2021, an option for a 5 year extension. Good afternoon. Directors annette manager with assessable services the item before you a new paratransit contract im sure youre aware the paratransit your door to door transportation for people with disabilities for the past 35 years weve contracted out the stiffer to the brokers and that broker do manage the subcontracts addressed goikt and selling the principle Customer Service for the paraTransit Services the current contract in place started in april of nodding and ended at the of june this this year as you recall in november we came to you probably in october with the rfp paratransit for a new contract and as part of that rfp we had two options the potential for brokers one was option a which is a decentralized system the broker is doing the administrative and contracting the Transportation Services we had option b which was doing all of the administrative and some of the Transportation Services namely the access band service and 25 percent of the grouping services supervise we had a prebid conferee in november and there are no 3 proposerers came to the conference and then we had one proposer submitted two proposals when the proposals came in and trance the current contractor that submitted in opposition a and proposer under option b an Evaluation Panel that was made up of 7 people 5 of whom are paratransit users themselves or represent agencies that serve people with sdabtdz and use the Paratransit Service and an expert if mta as well as another paratransit expert from a neighboring Public Transportation provider following that that committee reviewed the proposals and held interviews with firms for both the option a and b proposal to look at both proposals and when they finished that evaluation their recommendation was we negotiate with tran for option b that is the one that just 0 refresher the one where the contractors is doing the admin and Transportation Services their current doing that started in september of 2014 i think we talked about that when we came before you with the rfp some of the stelgz that the panel pointed out in their proposal was to get belief paratransit experience and brokers a good understanding the multi systems in the local customer basis their experience and professional very respected staff they have a strong Corporate Support on the National Levels that backed up them in terms of what they need beyond their staff and robust experience in transportation Maintenance Operations and broerjz so what you have before you the contract we negotiated a 5 Year Contract and it also has a 5 year option which we will come back to you if we choose to exercise that option some of the new things in the contract not in the existing contract are mobility management function were looking to have is an informational referral system that provides online and information for adults with disabilities about 0 all the transportation not only paratransit but other types of participation transportation that available from private and nonprofit agencies we also have a more Robust Training Program as part of contract and a lot new Technology Projects one to be using an app fly wheel for paratransit customers to get taxi trips that gives us the operated inform operate a cab or be able to see the fly wheel options not only the normally you call what about company and only assessable passes from that company we are looking to get the grant funds to do a scheduling System People can make their band recessions online and thats a great question track their own trips for those who are able to use that what were here before you today to ask for your approval the contract and alameda recommending that you recommend it to the board of supervisors who ultimately needs approval for it is final im available to answer any questions. One questions, mr. Williams from the report 3 companies came to the bid but only one bid is that common. In the past well have multi bidders we followup but they knew the thinking bunt was going a go back and to propose when you dont think you are going to be able to steady the current contractor i think that is the main reason that was true for one company the other a Smaller Company i dont think they felt they had the wherewith all they bidded on this contractor will go out to bid and bid on a portion of service. Directors any questions or comments before we go do Public Comment. Y only question oh, yes. So i know we have heard a lot of from the taxi community and im wondering if in contract or if we are seeing a problem in terms of getting for Paratransit Service taxi and if this contract if this is true were seeing a drop off and addressing that or working with our brokers i dont know if this contract covers that issue i know that changing right now; right . It contract definitely has the provision for Contracting Companies to participate in the paratransit is a larger issue we need to be working on i have my own ideas i believe there should be surcharge area uber and lyft trips for the Taxi Services thats what im working towards and i know that kate is on aboard but it will take you know more resources towards having it really viable assessable taxi program it working well for participating customers in most cases but they have relationships with individual drivers and call often to these drivers the fly wheel app low help in giving assess but it comes down to the participating we have incentives and trips and incentives we need to do the same with wheelchair trips and have the funding to do that this week i think one way it needs to get us to one point your point is welltaken uber and lyft has impacts and harder for taxi drivers and it is more difficult service to provide and more costly in terms of the vehicles and maintenance we recognize this and working on that thank you. Yeah. Just quickly what you talk a little bit about the fly wheel will help and speak to the what i think might be unfortunate in seeing others cabs coming out with their own adds how that complicates things from my that, of course, more one app in all the taxis the better you have access mines that fly wheel has 75 or 80 percent of the taxis and thats parts that have with that app a person that calls a cab looks at the access and the same thing for assessable cabs youll ask for the assessable cabs owe only show us the cabs that are assessable wed like to be able to see when someone picks up your trip that cab comes to they dont center that now the customer calls the cab company we dispatched a cab but not able to see p them thats one thing that makes the app helpful and theyll by a with their trait cards so it makes it easier for them use. We have two Public Comment calling names . Herbert wiener pardon pie allergies it is really heavy policy even season one thing that is constantly firmed that individuals with cannot walk a quarter of a mile to a bus stop can take paratransit does the budget allow for the individuals who cant walk that long sdoons to take will paratransit will be able to absorb this this is very important because i dont want seniors and disables in a dilemma it is difficult to walk to the bus stops but at the same time dont qualify for participating and not budgeted to meet the needs those are my concerns thank you. Thank you, mr. Wiener next item, please. calling names . Thank you directors mark here im speaking for microfilm but i want to say i think that is a good thing if paratransit and fly wheel get together and provide 3 service many of us have advocated for central lists their paratransit their scattered around the industry and frequently not available this is really going to be a helpful thing although not everybody will be able to use the app there will be room for integration of the straurs dispatch services for paratransit and other purposes i have to say im skeptical about the ideas of the surcharge on uber and lyft it seems to be a way for them to buy their way out of an obligation under the law americans with disabilities act this is something that the taxi city does and must do it is difficult operationally and so forth so our Country Company has maybe soon a country but company has a 60 or 80 builds evaluation and can do as they please so ill say more my time is up thank you. Thank you, sir. Any more Public Comment seeing none, directors a motion to approve. So moved. Second. All in favor, say i. I. Opposed . The is have it. And this one passes. Item 13 discussion and vote as to whether or not to conduct a closed session and second. All in favor, say i. I. Great well move to a closed session thank you. It will take a break. Now were back item 14 announcement of closed session the directors met to discuss the eld did he give god for the environmental the board of directors settled the case and the board had the labor negotiations with no action do you have a motion to disclose or not disclose. Not disclose. All in favor, say i. I. Great well not disclose that brings this meeting to a conclusion