Welcome, everybody from the San Francisco board of supervisors, budget and finance Committee Meeting for wednesday, november fourth for 2015, my name is mark and i will be chairing this committee and i am joined by the chair, supervisor tang and i want to thank sfgtv for covering this meeting as well as the clerk of the Committee Miss linda wong. Silence all cell phones and Electronic Device and completed speaker cards and copies of documented to be included as part of the file should be submitted to the clerk and items today will appear on the november 17th board of agenda, unless others stated. Could you call one . Resolution, authorizing the Sheriff Department to apply for accept, and expend, 950,000 of mentally ill, offender crime, reduction, Grant Program and funds, administered by the board of state and Community Corrections through the state. I am ally and the director of programs for the Sheriffs Department and the focus of the mentally ill, offender Crime Reduction grant is to provide incentives for traditional housing and Supportive Services to encourage individuals, with Mental Illness to enroll and adhere to the treatment plans, mandated by the Behavior Health court. And the transitional housing will be provided by the three, Community Based organizations currently and providing housing of clients of the Sheriffs Department, nova program that will stand for no violence and those are the bay view, Hunters Point and the multty purpose, Senior Services and the west Side Services and recovery survival network. The grant also supports a full time peer specialist to be hired by the Community Service to support the Court Participants and escort them to the critical appointments and do checks at the housing sites. Before the funding was announced, the Sheriffs Department had already committed Case Management services to the new, health court, and through which the programs, and the court and the homeless severings program, and provided by the pretrial, deversion and the nova program. And these services are identified as the inkind, match along with the Sheriffs Department, time. Okay, thank you very much. I am seeing no questions, and there rose could we go to your report, please . Yes, mr. Chairman. And supervisor, tang. On page, 3 of our report, we note that as shown in table one, and that is on page 3, the total three year budget of the fiscal year, 2015, 16, through 17, 18, for this mentally ill, offender Crime Reduction program, is a million 861,791 and of that amount, 950,000 or approximately, 51 percent of the budget will be funded by the state grant. And 910794 will be funded through inkind match and now on page 3 as shown in the table two of our report, a million 12,000, 375, or 54 percent will be used for the direct Housing Services and the remaining, 849, or 46 percent, will be used for Case Management and the peer support and Grant Administration and evaluation and the other related services. And we do recommend that you amend the proposed resolution to request the Sheriffs Department to provide an Implementation Plan for securing the 19 needed sro or group home beds to the board of supervisors no later than november, 30, 2015, and that you approve that it is recommended and we make that recommendation because the vacantcy rate is quite low for these srotype hotel room. And that was the basis for our recommendation. Thank you, mr. Rose, supervisor, tang. Thank you, and i want to check with the Sheriffs Department if they are okay with that. That is fine. Great. Thank you. We will open it up for Public Comment. Anyone wish to comment on item one . Seeing none, Public Comment is closed. All right i make a motion to amend this resolution as mr. Rose just previously stated regarding the Implementation Plan to be submitted to the board by november, 30, 2015, and then fast forward as a recommendation to the full board. We have a motion by tang and we can take that without objection. Could you call two, please . Resolution, retroactively authorizing the department of Public Health to accept and expend a grant in the amount of 300,000 from the regents of the university of california for the period of april 1, 2015, through march 31, 2016. And okay, thank you, and bph here to speak on this item . Good morning, supervisors my name is henry, from the department of Public Health. And this grant is part of the ongoing, partnership to provide hiv and monitoring. And this funds the existing possessions and brings in the indirect costs for the city and if i may, in the words of congress woman, pelosi, in this letter on the grant, she states, it is a dynamic thinking and generator of innovation and your creative and Ground Breaking work, built on the standard of excellence, and thank you for your leadership with our community. And okay, thank you very much. Seeing no questions, we will move on to the Public Comment, and anybody wish to comment on this item . Seeing none, Public Comment is closed, supervisor tang . I make a motion to move it forward with the positive recommendation to the full board. Okay. We have a motion and we can take it without objection. Could you call item three . Authorizing the department of environment to accept and expend a grant in the amount of 700 from paint care to provide and promote safe dispoetal options for the Household Waste from october 1, 2015, through june, 2, 2016. Doa is here to speak. My name is jen jackson and i am here on behalf of you on the department of the environment, this is authorizing them to accept and expend the grant from paint care to provide and promote the safe disposal of the waste and including pharmaceuticals and you may recall that the full board passed an ordinance on extended producers and responsibility for the pharmaceuticals in march this year. And the portion of these funds will support implementation and administration of this program and the other portion will support the existing Pilot Program that is in place until the producer funded program goes into effect. And i i am happy to answer any questions. Thank you so much. Move on to Public Comment first . Anybody wish to comment on this item . Public comment is closed. Supervisor tang . All right i see that there is no matching funds here and so i would like to make a motion to move this forward with a positive recommendation for the full board. Okay we have a motion and can take it without objection. Could you call four . Resolution, retroactively authorizing the department of environment to accept and expend a gift in the amount of 12,500 from reason vait hero to the response or mayor ed lees climate and action tour dialogue. Good morning, im Randy Jackson on behalf of the department of the environment today and before you this morning is a resolution to authorize the department to accept and expend, 12,000 from the hero program and you may recall on earth day, the department worked with the mayor and mta and puc and planning and public works to put on a large event to celebrate the 150 campaign and that Campaign Encourages residents and businesses to Work Together with the city to achieve the Greenhouse Gas reduction goals. We had an event called the dialogue that we hosted in congestion with the conference of mayers and again, bringing in the good minds across it is nation this time to talk about how we can further reduce the Greenhouse Gas emission and both are acceptable and we are accepting it to sway the organizing cost and i am happy to answer your questions. Thank you very much. Seeing no questions, we will move on to Public Comment on this item. Anybody wish to comment . Seeing none, public is closed. Supervisor tang. All right we have a lot of accept and expend here. And this is fine, and i would like to make a motion to move forward this resolution, and with the positive recommendation to the full board. Okay. Could you call item five . And resolution authorizing the department of Public Health to accept and expend the 500,000 gift, from the San Francisco General Hospital, and Information Technology from the chan and Mark Zuckerberg General Hospital trauma center. Okay, thank you. Welcome back mr. Wagner. Thank you very much. Greg wagner the department of Public Health and as you know we are nearing the completing of the beautiful new, San Francisco General Hospital. We as part of that, project. As we went into the construction that was financed with the general obligation bond, we knew that there was a significant portion of the expenditures for things that were not eligible for bond funds, including furniture, and equipment and information, technology. And to take all of those costs and we partnered with the San Francisco General Hospital, foundation. And on the campaign to raise those funds from other sources and there is a tremendous out pouring of that campaign and we are going to have a beautiful new, modern equipment that are great for the patient care in that hospital. And requesting your approval for the 5 Million Dollar gifts through that campaign and also, to approve, naming opportunities, within the new structure that are associated with recognition of the donors that have made the gift and pledges to that campaign. So we are very excited about where we are, and the foundation, believes that it is we are on track to exceed and its goal for the campaign. And we are grateful for the generosity of everyone who has distributed to this effort. And we have received so far, the dollars in this resolution, 62. 375 million in cash from the foundation and the significant additional pledges made that we expect to support the hospital. And answer any questions. Thank you, mr. Wagner, congratulations on the progress on the front and the opening here. And so, i dont have any questions at this point and we will move on to Public Comment and anybody wish to comment on item five . Seeing none, Public Comment is closed. Supervisor, tang. Thank you. It is really nice to see the private generosity coming in to support the cost facility and so i want to really thank the donors, and make a motion to fast forward the resolution with a positive recommendation to the full board. Okay we have the motion by supervisor tang and take it without objection. Could you call item six . A resolution, authorizing the department of Public Health to submit a application to continue to receive funding for the ryan white act hiv aids emergency relief Grant Program grant. From the Health Resources services administration. Requesting approximately 17 million in hiv Emergency Relief Program funding for the San Francisco eligible metropolitan area for the period of march 1, 2016, through, february 28, 201. Thank you very much. And we have the dhp to speak on this as well. Good morning, i am bill bloom and i am here before you to request you approve the motion to effect and expend, 16,654, for ryan white part a for the period of march 13, 2016, through february, 28, 2017. On these funds are used to provide care and services to over 7,000 individuals of low income. And under insured or uninsured in San Francisco. Through a network of over, 30 Community Based organizations, and various sections within dhp as well as with ucsf and i am happy to answer any questions that you may have. Thank you very much. Seeing no questions beser we will move on to Public Comment and if you wish to comment on item six . Okay, seeing none Public Comment is closed. Supervisor tang . All right. Just like my previous motions i would like to make a motion to move forward this resolution with a positive recommendation to the pull board. Okay, supervisor tang made a motion and good luck on that grant application, and we are pulling for you and take that motion without objection. Could you call item 7 through nine. Item 7, resolution to approve issuance of up to 243,000,000. And item eight, resolution, approving the award of the Hotel Management agreement, and a Cash Management and lock box agreement to Hyatt Corporation for a term of ten years, to commence following the opening of the hotel with compensation for nottoexceed 20 million. Item nine, ordinance, appropriate ating 473,000 to sale of the airport bonds, for the hotel at the airport. With supervisor mar, who is not here today, we will be continuing these items. But first i would like to take the Public Comments on item 7 through 9, and anyone wish to comment . Seeing none, Public Comment is closed. At this point, our next, meeting will be on november, 18th. And so, at that point, we would like to entertain a motion to continue that item until these november the 18th. So moved. Okay we have a motion from supervisor tang and take that without objection. Could you read item ten. Resolution, approving of the establishment of the Public Utilities commissions of its commercial paper notes, and program in the aggregate, Principal Amount nottoexceed 90,000,000 pursuant to the charter, and the administrative, code and amended and purchase saw ant to the charter, for the purpose of the reconstruction or the replacement for the existing water facilities. And okay, thank you, we have puc here to speak. Good morning, supervisors charles, and the deputy, chief Financial Officer at the pua, and this item before you today is for your consideration and establishing a new paper in our power enterprise. And we have programs in the water and waste water and so what this item does is creates a Third Program in the puc to finance our capitol projects in between our larger revenue bond sales. And which have been every two to three years or so. And if you like i have a few slides i can walk you through if you wish. Sure. Okay. The capitol projects thus far has been funded primarily through cash, and a revenues. And what we have been doing over the past few years is to do a better determination of what the Infrastructure Requirements are for the hetchy enterprise and what we are in particular, what we are talking about here is the facility is the power side, and you may hear it referred to as water related and power related, and this facility will actually fund the capitol projects for the power side of the shop and so with this slide shows us is how we funded the projects as of late sxh we needed to separate the statements through the water and power as we were creating this credit in the enterprise and the other, financing that you see here, the krebs and all of those, wonderful, are the tax credit bonds that provide low cost, for the mostly energy, efficiency related project and we will continue to go after these moneys as they become available. And those financing tend to be two percent or less in terms of cost to the rate payer and so it is a good deal and we will continue to do that. And as noted on the third bullet here, we had the first power bond sale earlier this year. And again, we were moving forward, as in terms of financing our Capitol Program which has identified about 750 Million Dollars worth of need, that are power related and with over 500 million that have funded with the bonds. And this particular, and potential commercial Paper Program. And so, and then what we will look forward to today is to establish the commercial paper side of things, which rounds out the capitol financing strategy, for the power enterprise, and so again, that commercial Paper Program allows to us fund our needs in between the larger revenue bond sales. And we will be having the next power bond sale in the next couple of years and this will serve as the bridge financing and for the current fiscal year, we have 70 Million Dollars or so of need that this facility will be used for. And so what is before you is the request to renew, and approve, authorization totaling 90 million for the power enterprise. And it does provide way low cost of borrowing. Currently with the bank, and the bank, costs and the dealer costs, as well as interests, and it is all, just under one percent. And so it is a pretty good deal for the rate payers. And as i said, earlier, our water and waste Water Enterprises have the standing commercial Paper Programs and so we are creating a Third Program, to sort of mirror what those two look like. And there are agreements before you as well. One is a bank agreement, which serves as a security for the over all facility. And that is just you know, in case the puc cannot make the Interest Payment and requires that there is a bank stop and so we did the rfp procurement with several things responding and we selected the most responsible bidder as being the bank of america and then we have three dealer agreements and the dealer function in this whole program is related to marketing. And so when we ultimately have to sell the bonds to the market place, these dealers go out to the market place and find the buyers for the paper. Okay. And so again, the two facilities which tends to be more a complicated part of these sorts of things that come before you. Are the Credit Facility agreement, and which with the bank of america, and the dealer agreements, with the firms here. And all of these were selected through a competitive process. And threeyear, terms, for all of them, with one year extension options and two one year extension options included and that the costs are noted here. And all in, under a half of a percent, and each year. And we will budget these fees within the power enterprise, each year. So assuming that we get the authorization from the board of supervisors, we would move forward with establishing this program. Like again, to fund the current year needs of about 74 Million Dollars or so of need. And then, that is again, fund our capitol projects and our power side of hetchy and with that i am happy to take any more of your questions. Okay, thank you very much, supervisor tang. Thank you for the overview and so you did mention in the current year that is about 70 million in need, could you describe a little bit about what some of those projects. And sure, the needs in the power enterprise, and traditionally are in the areas of generations and so we have 6 generators of country, and which generate the power, that the municipal Power Service here in the city and those, facilities, so the generators themselves and the facilities that they are in are aging. And so that is the primary need in terms of our capitol. And but, once the energy is generated we have to transmit it down to the city, so that we have the transmission lines, you know the typical sort of thing that you can think of in lines and polls and towers and that sort of a thing and then we have the Distribution System as well and so here in the city and in the areas where we provide the retail, and the electric power and we have the Distribution Systems that brings the power to the businesses homes and buildings and etc. Okay, thank you very much, mr. Rose, could we go to the report on item ten, please . Yes, mr. Chairman and supervisor, tang, on page, 22 of our report, we note that the puc, can sell up to the 90 million in commercial, paper and in according to the proposed resolution, the Interest Rate will not exceed ten percent and how they testified, the proposed power, commercial program will result in what we will, as it referred to as an oil and borrowing rate of approximately, 1 percent a year. And puc will encure, the estimated acts on the fees of 1 million, 157,135 over the three year term of this program. And so we recommend the poe posed resolution. Seeing no other questions, we will move on to Public Comment, and anyone wish to comment on item ten . Seeing none, Public Comment is closed. And supervisor tang. All right, i would like to make a motion, to fund the resolution, forward with a positive recommendation to the full board. Thank you, i want to thank the puc for coming and walking through the presentation and we can take that motion without objection. Madam clerk, do we have any other business in front of us . No other business. Thank you, everybody, we are thank you, everybody, we are adjourned. [train whistle blowing] global warming. Good morning, everyone. Welcome to the 311 calling center i know that our director nancy welcomes me usually we get to announce another great tool if not a modification of our 311 center the public and residents like to see you know when we first created the 311 center we were here for that start we wanted a tool that lifts the burden off all the vacuums of calls going to 911911 is for real emergencies life or death and whatever it happening on the street currently that will be of the emergency nature needs to be called through to 911 well get an immediate fire and police and department of Emergency Response on that on to day to day basis we have a lot of other calls we have tried to direct those now thousands everyday that come to 311 and were glad because their calls for information, for refers for how to do this and that of the various departments of the city. As you may know weve been active in helping our people on the streets particularly our Homeless Population to get the services they need a challenge because we not had all the hours housing we want were building that as soon as possible and rehabilitating affordable units as much as possible but things happen on the streets our residents say should i call 911 or Small Business i see somebody they dont look healthy weve had a few instances on the street if we had an earlier call appropriate there can have been a health check, if you will, or check on someone that may have not looked at not an be able they doesnt see something happen that is an emergency often myself ive made calls to 311 someone is not necessarily in a door front but passed out and needs help those are things that happen on the street were very congested city we want to make sure that if it is not a 911 call but perhaps there could be a health check or care check on someone maybe 356 can do something about that over the past weeks 36 through the leadership of flabs our city administrator that oversees it w the putting and Police Department and Public Works Department and hot team through dpevenz combevenz hope program to you work tot to respond to what neighbors are telling you there should be an act perhaps something a little bit more modern use people dont have to the time to make the call but can actually with their footprints r fingertips simultaneously complun with 911 and not try to figure out whos responsibility but 311 will figured out for the residents for someone that seize something on the sidewalks we should be able to respond to in this app were excited in the past fewq weeks to see whether or not to develop an app to low people to scroll through a push bum efforts something on this street or particular intersection you need to see and someone should check on this individual ear r we care about the people on the streets and make sure it is not an emergency but ought to being sure to follow up on someone that is in need of help a care arrest health check followed up we created the 3 11 a. 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And i know that nancy will pop up it on the details i want to lead this effort by saying a big thank you to her team working with all the other departments they want to also be able to get to where someone suggests to us there might be something that is happening with someone we care about i believe that this is an infection of combpgs of the city having a deeper compassion to people on the tree we want to provide it to the right agency to follow up with this is why all the departments here are working together 0 so they can be part of it in the meantime we do what we do everyday the dpw and the hot teams visiting encampments of people on the street we assist them more and more and getting them into places like the Navigation Center or referring the services to the shelters we have or inviting them to the latest project Homeless Connect Program we have all the services housed on a quarterly basis in different parts of city and while we work on short term and long term answers to getting temporary and more long term housing were focused on ending chronic homelessness for the veterans by the end of this year weve been focus on the transitional aids youth and more and more getting the data together to respond to more of our families and youth being homeless through the School District and food for thought creative ways to tackle this challenge a housing crisis in the city were trying to build and stabilize neighborhood as were doing these so a lot of people from the development and the business segment to the nonprofits theyre all collaboratively with our city agencies to do better and Barbara Garcia and i are working diligently with interpreting moreno has has as we introduce trying to figure out the Mental Health and challenges happen on the streets in the meantime we ought to make sure that the things happening on the streets can be respond to weve done with the 311 app to invite the people the people that walk our streets an ability to communicate request City Services that do care and will respond to situations on the street and particularly to people who might be on the street in need of something may not be a 911 situation i want to distinguish between 911 and 311 911 will continue to be the number everybody calls if there are a true emergency if something something is happening whether a Public Safety issue or health issue but 911 is where it may not but in your mind someone ought to follow up with something and persons on the streets we dont know all the time whether in immediate need or not but if it appears to someone that someone is in need that they dont look like they are comfortable at all perhaps this is where the 311 health check ought to be had with that, id like to introduce over the course our director of 311 nan ofarrell to go over the details thank you, mr. Mayor for your asking to implement those changes all of us can make a differences by reporting streets events at 311 were looking at improving ways for the public to connect with government over 50 percent of the questioning requests for broken street lights we see the demand is high for people wanting to assess Government Services and expanding the 311 app of nonemergency to include homeless concerns a convenient way for the public to be proactive in reporting issues as they see them at this time id like to to a thanks my team as well as the departments here the office of hope and department of emergency and the Police Department and public works the Public Health department and the City Administrators Office took all those departments to build a partnership today with this ill introduce the police chief greg suhr thank you. The nonemergency number it cant be stressed enough that the way to report on emergency is still call 911 if you want or need someone in a hurry you have an emergency something that process or someone in danger youve got to call 911 with that said, nancy and the team she mentions to come up with that 311 app is a fantastic way in a city that, you know, how the Innovation Center of the word now to come in the term an app we met this smurp is mo magic and the Mayors Office and the hope sf and one of the things we have is apps to reporter things we have an entire generations that has touch phones it would be great for a whole tech safer i didnt city like San Francisco to call on a. M. We could be headed for a especially pick winter and make sure that everyone is taken care of this 311 app will go a long ways not only is it about time it is timely this year ahead of a wet and cold winter to take care of the less unfortunate none can imagined how much they need you applaud the team behind me certainly the mayor that know how and nancy alfaro shes modest but nothing short of a he or sheic effort before the winter is upon us to check on the wellbeing the less unfortunate fortunate i appreciable are appreciate it now to introduce the next member of the team from fellowship this would not have happened larry sprinkler. Morning public works is out on the streets two r 27 we understand were facing challenges this app hemming heels a lot thanks to the leadership the mayor and nan alfaro for alexander this to the app we have 3 pro activities crews through the city many times a week we may adjust and be responsive as well as with the predefined im looking forward to getting the data to evaluate the route, however, with this information allowing the public to report it will gridlock help us to go our job. Ill now introduce my other partner Barbara Garcia. Good morning were excited about this new app preservation our Homeless Team has doubled the members on the team weve responded to 311 but multiply calls someone calls 311 and determine what status it is with this new app well have that directly and that will help us in ronalds to the call i want to note the deducting 23 23w47 programs people are i will are picked up were able to provide that care as an e in San Francisco General Hospital we have teams that are out there we have teams that go out to homeless issues and violate issues on to twentyfour hours those are Homeless Teams in every district and compared to the 311 call theyre excited and trained and ready to continue as i walk down the street i see everyone with a cell phone the public will be responding as they help those no need and make sure the public we respond to the Homeless Needs to the community thank you very much. [gavel] good afternoon to the musical Transportation Agency board of directors and Parking Authority clerk, discoverable director brinkman. Brinkman present gordon present heinicke director nolan, present dr. Ramos, present director rubke, present. Mr. Chairman, you have a quorum. Please be advised the reading of it cell phones pagers and some producing Electronic Devices are prohibited. The person responsible for one going off ringing in your purse or pocket may be asked to leave the room. Cell phone set on vibrate caused microphone interface support respect request they be turned off. Item for approval of the minutes from the october 20 regular meeting. Motion. All those in favor say, aye. Opposed, nay. Thank you. Item 5 communications. Please be advised that we know discussion of anticipated litigation in closed session today. Item 6, introduction of new were Unfinished Business by board members. Mr. Heinicke thank you chairman nolan did i like other members of this board was saddened to see by the pedestrian incident involving a child and a scholar at euclid did i know we read about in our briefing. I know this is new business so we cant get get too far into it but i think would be appropriate to ask in light of this one as a group have passed along are wishes to this young citizen as she heals, and also, either generally look at the protocol for what invisible does in response to one of these incidences and then more specifically, if its appropriate under the circumstances to get an update on whats going to be done at that particular intersection. Okay. No more new were Unfinished Business. Moving onto the directors report. Good afternoon mr. Chairman and members of the board and members of the staff and public. I want to start out with a couple of National Recognitions and first, i want to ask Government Affairs director keith green, to come forward. Good afternoon mr. Green good afternoon. Nice to be appeared after noon chairman nolan and members of the board. Today we are recognizing across Divisional Team for the particular efforts to bring transparency to the work of the sfmta for the local elected officials and timely on the state, election day get this Innovative Initiative led by key members from the finance and Information Technology Team Division along with key numbers from Government Affairs has allowed the sfm pabetter form elected officials of the agencys work underway in their district as well as Capital Projects they can dissipate in the new near future. Produce for each of the San Francisco supervisor districts the transportation investment reportprovides a thoughtful well organized visual tool depicting a specific interest area are Capital Improvement program. The layout which is a per subscriber agency is easily digestible providing an added ease of complex information. I know that all of you are aware of the deep dive but the capital Berlin Program takes in a fiveyear low. This is trying to roll that up in the district level so that really im our local elected officials can see very clearly with the mta is working on in their district. This team, comprised of craig rafael and cynthia ford and Janet Martinson and katie and gotti from Government Affairs develop a collaborative working a process to gather information, ensure accuracy, and cracked it into a format that cannot be replicated for ongoing updates. With gregs initial vision and framework based on his deep knowledge of the fs sfmta programanswer these ability to execute and refine this initial collation of data, from a wide range of sources, this project was then handed over to the Government Affairs team Janet Martinson and katie and body whosso, today we recognize this team further innovation and commitment to producing this new resource that helps communicate about the project initiatives, and policies of the sfmta to one of our most important audiences. This work will continue to help influence weave the way we shape argumentation and stakeholders, especially with regard to Capital Projects. But to ask the team to come up now to be recognized. Janet martenson, sylvia ford, katie and gotti, and greg rafael. I have not done this before. So, let me ask janet to make a few remarks and will present them with their plaques. Good afternoon ms. Martens and get good afternoon chairman nolan and direct. She still on my talking points but i did want to call a few additional people who were involved with this from the beginning it was really the brainchild of alisha our former chief of staff. The various folks here as well as lucy lou who is a city hall follow with us started about two years ago with this whole process. Also,aandmta intern of lewiswho did all the initial gis work in mapping that led to these great reports. Really, ongoing participation from many main people that the whole agency and its 15 effort. I want to thank you again for myself and on behalf of the team. Thank you. On behalf of the board we want to congratulate you and thank you for outstanding and very important work. [applause] miscreant you did a fine job. Ms. Green, you did a fine job. Thank you very much. Next on asked our chief Financial Officer sally bowes to recognize another one. Good afternoon. Its my 20th birthday today. So i want to congratulate the team that was before you that were part of that recognition. Today i want to recognize a liza. Shes part of our financial Information Technology team, joined the Capital Projects and grants county team about five years ago administrative analyst. She denied any prior knowledge of transit or governmental accounting, but she took the time to pick it up extremely quickly and rose to the challenge is presented to when we first issued our revenue bond in 2012 she was assigned to monitor and compile the financial activityinformation that is the foundation of the reports so we could make to you in the bond oversight committee. So, shes taken that on the singlehandedly without prior knowledge of the bonds and transportation. Shes worked hard to support this extremely important reporting as mentioned before to be transparent and tomake sure that were reporting out war spending on bonds for the public and policymakers. Shes extremely goodnatured. Its very patient and reconfiguring the multiple times weve had to reconfigure the data. Shes very persistent and works very well with other departments could shes got a great attitude. Resolves problems before they become big. We had extraordinary use of our bond program without mature findings and liza deserves much of the credit for that. She creates a great deal about the Quality Markets is a High Standard for others to follow. So are very proud of a liza and the work shes been doing and take her very much. Keep it up. Thank you. [applause] on behalf of the board thank you and congratulations for your outstanding work. Thank you, so much. At your speech. Thats it week . Shes offered to give you a primer in bonding. If you would like thank you. A few other items. The mention this one a few times before. Were kind of now in the precipice of launch of the municipal mobile app. We expected to launch a week from monday, november 16. Just to remind you, its a Smart Phone App to which people will be able to purchase muni fares to ride anywhere across the system, bus, rail cable car. And paratransit. People will be able to store fares on their smart phone purchase visa or mastercard or paypal. So, of course one no longer will need change work cards or any other means of pain other than having the app on their phone. So, we are doing the beta test of the app now and will be doing the public launch as i said a week for monday, november 16 get excitingly early next year, will be adding spanish and chinese to the app as well as travis foxs favorite rate my right feature. Travis is our chief performance officer within what one spearheading bringing this private forget were pretty excited about that. As well as the rate my ride. So, we will keep you posted on usage and other experiences. It is technology that has been in use in some smaller systems around the country i think chicago is about to launch theirs as well. So, where little bit at the front end but not the very front end of this wave. It should be exciting tragically for less regular meeting writers and would not already have a clever card. Rick said to see that coming. Something were not really excited to see coming is el nino. Nevertheless, we are doing work to prepare for its arrival, particularly john haley and his team in the transit division. Theyve undertaken a conference of planning process looking at everything from facilities to vehicles, to infrastructure particularly the subway as well as employee issues and safety issues. Correlating across the agency and him poorly, coordinating with some of the key city agent such as public works and Public Utilities commission which manages our storm sewer system. Weve entered into some agreements with them in terms of preparations such as having sandbags in place, identifying areas of known flooding so that we can try to get ahead of the storm as much as possible. John presented a plan to the mayor last week. We will be cementing a draft of it to the California Public Utility Commission this week on their request. We will continue to work with the city family in coordination which is been led by the City Department of emergency management. So, while we hope it doesnt come, as intensely as some of the more extreme forecast are we sunny welcome the rain and make sure were prepared for it. Next thing, i want to update you on one facility issue. You may recall from your deep reading of the real estate vision study we did a few years ago that we have one old unreinforced masonry building. Its a beautiful brick building on bryant street. At 13th and bryans. Its currently where are overhead lines position runs operates from. It was constructed in 1893 and is a masonry building its not a seismically safe facility. The real estate vision report recommended we move out that we vacate that facility which remains our plan. We are currently in the process of seeking a new home for the overhead lines division. In the meantime, the city is exploring purchasing that facility from us and renovating it to be new home for the animal care and control which is just actually a few blocks down thats in need of a new facility. So, because of the barrymore ready, and to potentially move and then ours to move out, we are working with the City Administrators Office to explore whether theres possible interim we might we locate to get us out of the old building. Let them come and renovated. Move in while we try to continue to find a permanent site. That may or may not happen but just since that will be going on and think of Capital Planning meetings and i want to make you aware. That may be happening. Then, finally, just a reminder i mentioned last time our second round of central subway construction work at fourth and king is coming this month. Last time we did it over Labor Day Weekend this time it will be longer closure from november 6number 14. Itll start late on a friday night, run through that first weekend, and go until the following saturday. So, like we did like last time, doing some pretty extensive planning and outreach with neighborhood with caltrans with the other city agencies to make sure that we can minimize disruption to the greatest extent possible. Like last time, although a little bit different though be fairly significant changes to municipal service. This im really the entire intersection will be shut down so there wont be trains running through that intersection. We have a fairly elaborate service plan to work around that. Love lots of folks out on the street both enforcement folks to direct traffic but also ambassadors to direct people. We been putting out a lot of information to our mailing list to various other mechanisms and will continue to do so through the media. So, just want to remind you from the public that coming from the sixth14th that scenario you want to avoid if you can or least plans extra time if you find yourself needing to go to or through their. We are paying special attention to folks who live in that area will be most impacted as to minimize the impact to the greatest xm possible. That includes thank you. Comments or questions . Anybody in the public . Not on the directors report nobody submitted a speaker card for that session get i do make citizens advisory report. Good afternoon mr. Weaver. Good afternoon. Good afternoon board members. Dmt a cac was fortunate in being able to figure out when we could meet to weigh in on the mission bay project. We managed to do that in a special meeting on october 28. Out of that, we harvested three motions am here to present to you. On the subject. The mta cac recommends the plan for the event center mixeduse Development Admission date presented to us at our october 28 meeting. I might add, as a comment, that the staff work on this in the presenters would like your albert were excellent. Ive never seen it better. Second motion. Cac recommends that in order for the Transportation Plan for the event center and mixeduse Development Admission day to work additional pcos need to be hired so the rest of the city is not negatively impacted when there are events at the arena. Third motion on the subject, the cac recommends that the variance for a length and center boarding platform in the event mixeduse Development Admission day be adopted by the agency. Finally, on a smaller issue which is Pedestrian Safety on the and streetcar line, the cac recommends that muni ford prioritize the valuation of the intersection of san jose ave. And lakeview street for the letter m line for enhance Pedestrian Safety and efficiency. At the end of my record any questions am happy to respond. Thank you. Members of the board, questions or comments queen as always, thank you for your guidance on this. Thank you. Is a chairman, item 9, general Public Comment. Some owners of the public and agenda, which is not about things on todays agenda. How many do we have . Threewhat we can go ahead with that anyone care to address the board under this Section Police out a card. Richard rothman followed by marion matos and petethose are the first three people. That good afternoon good afternoon the measured. My name is Richard Kaufman and other than the Outer Richmond district. I think in many residents of the Richmond District and people deal with mta see the sustainable Street Division needs to be reorganized. Right now it operates in functions and one never knows who to call or email. They dont give out phone numbers. So, you know. I realize, Downtown Central city needs more staff and resources. Im not saying they should take away resources but what im saying is that she dedicated team to deal with different parts of the city. The Planning Department is divided into four sections. They divide the city into four sections. I sort of like the idea of having teams in the supervisorial districts mainly starting one with this took one, four, and seven. But having a dedicated team so we could know who to talk to in our issues. Some of the issues areon balboa street. Dpwmade some changes but there still safety issues. I been waiting over a year to have somebody come out and talk about balboa street. So far, no luck. Forman street, dpw is going to repay. What are the new street crosswalks and signs . How are they just below the traffic down create a big concern is the outside rams concert. Theres no place to park in mta needs to do something to keep cars out of the richmond and sunset district when these events happen. Some of the neighbors have some good plans, but who do we talk to at mta . I have no idea. So, dont say 311 because mta staffive never gotten a coherent response from 311. Thank you very much. Next speaker, please. Marion father by diana scott. I am here to speak about the wicked. I believe you all got my email and petition. We did. I still need to go over some of those points. We, first of all dont understand why most of the city does not know about the drg. The Public Outreach was totally ineffective. I mean, 11 years ago you put on about lets increase the sales tax and improve public transportation. But, no one told anybody since then what they were actually going to do. Taking two lanes away from traffic on then asked to put the drg in the middle is going to make the traffic increase tenfold and particularly, the fact that youre not going to allow lefthand turns, except at broadway and lombard. So, that will even make a parallel street full of traffic. The problem also being that you are going to take down all our mature big trees that could absorb the excess Carbon Dioxide that will be created by this horrible amount of increase traffic. The area will become totally polluted. Its hard enough now. I was facing then asked not to clean this up off my window constantly. I have asthma and im really concerned about what will happen when all the trees are gone and the traffic increases tenfold. The other issue is, what youre planning to replace them with. Let me back up. We are really here to have you reconsider and relooked at alternative number two at curbside. Because, the only main difference that ive been told, forget about percentages, is that it will save transit time by approximately 2. 5 min. Is that really worth all the trouble and all the construction that will last a couple of years and the unsafe conditions that will be part of whats going to happen for the seniors, the disabled, children, mothers with strollers and little children, to cross a busy street middle of venice to get on a bus . Thank you. Next speaker, please petefollowed by diana scott and Herbert Weiner. Hes the last person whos submitted a speaker card under this section. Good afternoon, sir. Good afternoon my name is petei live on venice. I lived since there since 2001. My concern is the venice prt i saw the eir at options to one was [inaudible] and three and four which have been adopted as a hybrid based on staff recommendations. I believe it was from this committee. My concern has been the information on how that staff recommendation was made. The differences between those. It became evident, to my attention, when all the trees were tagged for removal and i dont have a clear picture of what would be the difference can obviously, some of the median trees would be able to stay in a situation where the drg was put at the curbside. So, i am looking for more information on that i like to see put something we can reevaluate option two in light of the dpw and the friends of the urban force an assessment of the trees and many of the median trees which are the largest most mature for canopy trees ranked for and five so very healthy trees. Some of the street trees i realize were not ranked as one, two, and three so i understand removing six trees but very large healthy trees that unlike any other trees in the corridor it seemed a shame to lose them if there is an option to go somewhere else. Also, i want to bring up the idea of safety. As marianne said it. I think getting people into the median is going to be more difficult than staying on the curbside. As far safety for seniors and disabled people, i dont know if that isi dont have a good feel and how does weight into the decision to go towards one option versus another. Some looking for more clarity on that. I think San Francisco needs a drg. The question of where to put it. Thank you, sir. Next, please diana scott followed by Herbert Weiner and again those are the last two people turned in speaker cards. Good afternoon, ms. Scott good afternoon. Thank you for taking comments on this. I can get a discussion of drg late as have many who discovered there were many more trees coming down than anticipated i think even even in the eir door 100 more trees mentioned that in the yard also the discussion of this project originally was 90 130 million. I understand out this option adds 269. I think option to which other people of mention would save money and would not sacrifice real beauty and shape. So, im hoping even if youre lenient and dont normally go back and look at projects like this that are, along way, that your elite should examine this. The real problem is, you over intensive use of van ness notches by cars, but really by buses. Theres a thomas video that shows more google buses on venice even than regular transit buses. The city has not acted to curb that and sacrificing trees seems like a big price for not doing something about that. Also, im kind of outrage the piece of public art that will go on a median, the artist statement talks about its out of metal get an urban redwood made of steel white and whether. Young not okay to comes out of the concrete not the soil. It does not grow. Its purpose is to orient and remind. It is an urban machine can i thought we got past the city as machine stage if not in the 1930s in the 1990s. When we decided that living cities was a good idea. I would like to suggest both are possible with option two. Last, but most inconveniences me personally when i come out of the subway on venice, on muni and try to catch a bus. This we difficult and i wont be able to walk and look for a bus. Thank you. Next speaker, please. Herbert weiner. Good afternoon, mr. Hunter good afternoon. First of all, i would like to commend the mta board and administration for not discontinuing the 33 bus run to San Francisco general. This is very crucial in the lives of many people who need that bus desperately to get to the hospital. There may have been a potential death waiting for the bus. It was realistic to maintain that run and it should be preserved and i want to commend the parties that pushed for this. Now, theres another consideration i have. The 47 bus run no longer runs in the hall of justice. Can you imagine the inconvenience and possible accidents that because aged and disabled to get to jury duty on time. It could slow down the judicial process. Its very important to preserve that 47 bus line. Now, theres a general reflection on this whole business of moving forward. Its a drastic analogy im going to use but its a bombing people 50,000 feet in the air get it rationally its statistically corrected its a wellplanned weight but you dont see the damage below. A lot of these proposals will wreak havoc on seniors and disabled. You have to see take that into consideration at this and most vulnerable population in the city. So you simply cannot do this by statistics only. An favor one group over another. This is a public service. It should be for all. This is not a private enterprise thats governed by supply and demand. So far,its taken over mta and it does not look pretty. Ill probably request with check thank you. Well call animal of the next exhibit number people here. [inaudible] no member of the public want to discuss anything on the consent calendar. Motion to approve second. Any discussion queen all those in favor say, aye. Opposed, nay. Approved. Item 11 item 11. Presentation discussion of possible action regarding Seven Sisters Paratransit Services. Thanks. Inviting me. What im going to do for you today is to give you an overview of the Paratransit Program. Its very important component of sfmta services and something under the board is very interested in an president nolan fargo be helpful to have an overview of the program. Its hard to put it all down into a few words and so im doing the best i can put the highlights, but feel free to ask questions and we can all come back with more information. My name is Annette Williams and im the manager of Accessible Services at mta. There it goes. So, first to give you a little bit of understanding of what paratransit is in terms of what our legal requirements are. Its a doortodoor van Service Required by the american with disabilities act for all Public Transit agencies that provide public transportation. There are some minimum requirements to meet the ada. One is eligibility, that anyone who is unable because of their disability to use the regular fixed route system for any trip is then eligible for paratransit for that trip. The service area needs to be covered within three quarters of a mile all fixed route transit routes and the Service Hours need to be mirrored the Service Hours with a fixed route system. So, in our case because of a mild really covers the entire San Francisco as well as northern San Mateo County, treasure island, and evenon the weekends in the 76 line goes there. We also do 24 hour a day Paratransit Service just as we do for muni. Reservations for paratransit need to be made 17 days in advance of the service. Thats the minimum that the ada requires. When a reservation is made, it can bethe pakistan can be within an hour before or after the time that the person was asking for under the ada. The fair can be twice the fixed route fire. So, for our service it be 4. 50. The board has elected to charge the regular fixed route fire of 2. 25 for our services. So, even before the ada, we wouldnt paratransit here in San Francisco since the late 70s. We start with a van program and then expanded. The next five gives you a little bit of the history of paratransit. Very proud of the fact we been doing it for a long time and we take it as something thats very important to meet the needs of people disabilities, not just to meet are legal requirements. It started the late 70s with a van program. In 1983 we start with the management of hiring a paratransit broker to manage the service then contact with the transportation provider. So, we start i guess 13 years before the ada. Deities is passed and signed into law in 1990. We introduced accessible taxis. I think we were one of the first cities in the country gather accessible taxis. In 1994. Then, we expanded the sf axis which is expanded in weisberg and to all people both ambulatory and wheelchair users. I had to that, the van program served wheelchair users and a taxi program served him with tori disabled customers. Starting in 2000 we contract withwhos been the management company. Then, more recent past weve implemented a shop around and the debit card in the taxi program and then go which will talk about olivia later in the presentation. So, the next slide shows you an overview in terms of our Funding Sources. The people that we serve. We serve approximately 13,700 people and we do 7000 hundred 80 trips last year for a budget of 22. 6 million. Our main Funding Source versus the transportation authority, eunice general fund that we get some funds from bart. Some funds from the state and some funds from the federal government as was doing some work for the department of aging and Adult Services to work orders. Some van trips. We are avid strip across all those modes is 29 a trip. The next slide shows you just find an overview of the different components of the program. My responsibilities Accessible Services about six fixed route accessibility and paratransit airport to the division of taxi Accessible Services, and below, we have the broker which is the daytoday management, the taxi company sf axis provider and the group van providers. I think something thats important about our program is a community involvement. Weve had a paratransit chordata councils of the late 70s. We really attribute most of our success were a lot of our success to ongoing interaction with people were being served by this program. Thats an extremely important part component of this program and the pcc has many active members that give amazing amount of hours to volunteer to give us feedback and many of them are users of the services. Our agencies receive the service. Government agencies that are involved with the aging and Adult Services and the Service Providers that provide a service. We all meet on a regular basis were able to hash out issues together. The thats important part of our success. Its alsowe hear problems. We have an immediate feedback in terms of if theres issues, people in regular contact with us. I thought a little later. We also do a satisfaction surveynextel at the marks of the met general manager about the paratransit broker who talk a little bit about the role of the paratransit broker good afternoon, mr. Soto good afternoon mr. Chairman and members of the board. The slide will show you that the key components of the requirements of our contract in terms of the woolly perform as a broker. I feel like we do so much more. We are engaged we work sidebyside with the office on things like the mobility app they talked about a little bit earlier. Things like planning for el nino as you talk about a little bit early. Emergency preparedness overall for paratransit. Theres a lot of things that we do in addition to the things that you see there which are also important. I want to just emphasize a little bit about the role we played with public input because that is a very critical component of us understanding what the issues are, what the challenges are what may be the fixes need to be. I just want to say that something would take really seriously. You hear a lot of information today. Notably need you to escape the notice of the charges are. We think we know what the causes are and we can know what the some of the solutions out. Hopefully, youll enjoy this presentation today. Thank you. Next, well have a few people from the paratransit counsel to work closely to talk about each of the modes of service. When i talked about the council, weve not only the executive committee we have subcommittees breach mode of service in any quarterly. Ease of some of the major participants in those subcommittees. So, the first person is going to speak is olivia santiago and she is a paratransit user. Shes also on our pcc and on the sf axis subcommittee, but she also was a staff person at city college for disabled student services. Shes in regular contact with a lot of riders to use the service to city college. Good afternoon mr. Santiago good afternoon. Im a user of the sf axis and this is more for individuals were you book your ride a day before. This access is very important to me as a person with a disability because im able to go to work every day and at the same time im able to advocate for students. [inaudible] to go to school. The sf axis also has an agreement with the whistle stop Marion County is they are transit alameda county. Where individuals need to make a transfer to come to San Francisco. There are picked up from their homes doortodoor. Then, i believe the shared cost between the two. Its not in the San Mateo County. So, in san mateo you we need to transfer to a common transit form. Sf axis, we have five main uni bans. And a stairs as for wheelchair users, which i believe is here only in San Francisco. They dont actually have it in san mateo. They have completed 238,000 trips and 71,000 wheelchair trips in this cool year 2015. Again, i want to thankbecause im able to go to work every day and also have students. Thank you, ms. Cindy i do. Our next presenter isduke also member of the pcc. Shes a member of the senior actionnow called senior disability action, and shes also been active in the Group Subcommittee and advocated for the adult healthcare center. Shes going to talk a little bit about the group band service. Good afternoon. Good afternoon chairman and members of the board. Ive been involved with Adult Day Health centers since we put one in a Senior Housing development on folsom when north and south of market was a main adult over the years that changed. That change. That change. But, we saw the center at maldini so icd rupe bans on a daily basis. The director of the center has said that the service is Getting Better and she is so anxious to have our new peer group, people assisting on the vans. Thats a new program that services hasis working with us. We are training people to assist on the vans with people who basically are cognitively challenged and the people assisting on the vans, though the one person on the vans with people who are attending the Adult Day Health or dialysis or whatever the group is, and they are there to assist the people getting on and off and making sure that they have their caregivers meeting them at the home site. And so on. Thereby, leaving the driver relieving the driver of the necessity to do this, which in many cases, the driver up down in out and around and theres nobody left on the van for the people who are still there waiting to be removed to their site or to their residence. We are so happy that the current drivers, with transthey are so happy with the drivers. Many of whom have been in the business for years, that many of whom are new and being trained now by trans. The drivers are so happy this is coming on board because of the fact that many of the drivers were concerned that they had to go off the bus to hope somebody off the bus if they were in a wheelchair were however. Its going to be such a great help. We wish we had more vans working on it. We are going to be developing a program so that the vans will be with you get from point a to point b. Over the street conjunction will eventually be done. Then, when the new construction of all the housing going up all over the city maybe they can do it so that people know in advance that, okay, that root is going to be closed for six months. Dont think about using it. Thats going to help our dispatch of the group of vans. I thank you all for what you have done for our transit in the city. Thank you, very much. Just for anyone who isnt aware of group banter is google people going to one location like an Adult Day Health care center were developmentally disabled disabled web work second multiple providers in the program both nonprofit and forprofit companies did the last one is roland wong is a member paratransit donating cost. Is also member of the newly accessible multimodal accessibility Advisor Committee and the mayors disability council. While im sure no roland. His go talk about Taxi Services. Good afternoon, mr. Wong hi. Good afternoon. Im a transit person that i used to drive and everything and now the last 10 years basically are taking Public Transit. Literally, fulltime. So, i use the van service sf access. In the taxi service. I find that sometimes its a little frustrating for second on just talk about taxi. Basically, because of the Transportation Network company, it has a big impact on the taxis service with sfmta. I lived out at sunset which makes it more difficult to get a cab. So, basically im going to dive into the presentation of. The taxi service is a sameday general public tax. It includes 100 g taxis. Other taxis in San Francisco are required to participate. All taxi riders receive a paratransit taxi debit card to pay for their affair and track trips. There were 260,000 trips completed including 8100 trips for wheelchair users in 2015. So, to kind of added to the future, like im a smart phone geek and im looking forward to using the app to hail cabs. Im very anxious to see that going. Now, with the muni mobile Payment System that was mentioned that paratransit would be included. I makes is to see that happening, too. Thank you. Thank you, mr. Wong. Thank you all members. So, just to tell you a little bit of our other programs, roland mentioned the taxi debit. We went from a paperbased system to an electronic debit card. Is a user site subsidy so the customer calls a just like you or i would call a cab and they pay with their debit card. That allows us to collect the information when the trip happened, where it happened, origin, destination, driver, customer did we get an incredible amount of data without a lot of cost because its captured electronically. Customers pay 5. 50 and get 30 worth of taxi value. Which they then use to take a taxi service. This allotments are dependent on the amount of trips they need to take per month. A couple the other programs that i mentioned in the beginning that we started in the last few years, when is the shop around. What we found when we went out and talk with people people in the community, for many seniors and people with disabilities most difficult trips to take on ginny were shopping trips. Was difficult to carry groceries, to get back home with her groceries. So, we applied for a grant that funding to do shop around. Thats been quite successful. We both have i been born and a taxi component. In addition to that, the other issue we heard a lotthis available to all seniors and people disabilities not just paratransit eligible. The other program was of van gogh. A lot of seniors be with disability or isolate the difficult time doing recreational trips special friends or other people dont have a transportation mode to do that with. So, we have the van gogh which is also funded by grants called van gogh because of the cultural significance that. Its for recreation or other kinds of trips semi wanted to come to this meeting. They could use that service. So, just quickly a few more quick programs we have paratransit plus which the taxi program for people who are not ada eligible that great difficulty using muni as a safety net. Its usually people over 80 better able to use the muni etiquette some something in the back pocket they can use if they have difficulty in a particular day. I just want toi mentioned earlier i cannot get to it yet but helping wheels fund is a fun we had to help support load income people who have difficulty paying affairs. For instance, there was a fire was a new medical need they need more trips they can apply to get funding to pay for actually their fares for the trip. The other thing that we feel is important and i mentioned earlier is the Customer Satisfaction and hearing only from the bcc but our everyday customers. Mark likes to refer to them as mod, what is moderate think which is the person out there think that we dont hear from. We do an annual Customer Satisfaction survey that done by a thirdparty company cory, that you service for muni and they get all the randomly get recent trips and call people. They also provided a multiple language. The customer doesnt speak in bush they can do the survey in spanish or chinese. The Telephone Survey is pretty extensive. You can see the results that weve got over the last four years in terms of the overall satisfaction with the Paratransit Program. So, i think its important to point out we also challenges. This is not an easy service to provide and theres definitely challenges. Im going to go over a few of them and some other things were doing to try to address those challenges. One of them is Adult Day Health care and we mention that a few times. The Adult Day Health care users in the city of income or fail over the lastthey are not frail but those it using that service are frail because the state requirements have been even more stringent in terms of who is eligible for Adult Day Health care. Theres also a number of centers closed. So, theres less centers in the city and people coming from all over the entire city. Weve had some increase in writedowns in terms of picking up people in one neighborhood is easy to do that in an hour. But if youre picking them up in 45 different neighborhoods that much more difficult difficult proposition. Weve also seen as was mentioned a lot more congestion on the street and so that also slows down the service. So, weve seen some increase right time it would work with the adult Healthcare Network to address those. One of the endeavors what alisha mentioned earlier which of the pure escort program, to have someone on the vehicle it is a program that worked on with the department of aging and Adult Services and Service Agencies to have people who are seniors and disabled themselves have a job to work with the driver to escort, especially with cognitive impairment. Weve also increased the reimbursement to one of the providers was having a difficult time. We have loaned themweve sent two of the sfmta vehicles. Another issue that i dont think i mentioned yet is the paratransit sf access to the circuit, theres always facility in brisbane and the fact that its so far away has an impact in terms of deadhead in terms of the run of time and not on the part of drivers as well as fuel to get from that part into the city where most of our trips are. So, we are looking for anybody have space, were looking for it. Not thats an easy proposition in San Francisco we need space thats more centrally located. In the past providers have been either kind of your metro east or bayview Hunters Point which is much closer to the city. We also are finding that we are needing to use our vehicles beyond their quote unquote useful like that mta says is five years. Were needing to extend the use of those vehicles it would get more vehicles so we can retire them sooner. So, some of things were doing work of the real estate to try to identify space the city owns or that we could use for and paratransit we been rehabbing some of vehicles in our fleet there beyond their five years, with new floors, new list, new shocks and to extend their life by 23 years further. What about adhd was able to get a grant to the federal government for 10 new vehicles. This can be a bigger boom boom for that program. On the taxi, i think roland mentioned with the advent of that at t we are seeing the taxi industry is have a more difficult time recruiting drivers and especially spirits divers some them have left to the tmcs. This is especially an issue for the grant Access Program was takes more effort for the driver. It cost more for fuel. The vehicles are large. So its had an impact on a ramp program. Weve had tried to address that with more incentive for the drivers, so its a business they can make it as a business move. The 10 per trip incentive. We also provide airport shorts, if they pick up two trips in the outlying areas theyre able to go to the front of the line at the airport. Its another type of incentive. Were also working directly with drivers in terms of leasing the ramps to taxi drivers and theyve interviewed drivers interested in that to make sure that a commitment to the program and have had a lot of experience. I think roland also mentioned the detail were working to try to havewe are close to getting an app that can be used for paratransit customers so they can similarly to the general public, call a cab with their smartphone and especially for the ramps we think it we especially helpful because then you be able toyou can filter just for access be will to see the ones that are in your area. So, im almost done. Some of our upcoming endeavors as you know, the calendar date with the rfp were going out to bid for paratransit brokerage. We should have a new contract in place by next fiscal year. Were trying to work on this operation and facility, working towards getting it operating facility. Expanding the sf axis fleet and part of that is expanding also our mobile Data Computers on that fleet. Guerrillas get 20 them donate from another transit property that we are using or purchasing smore so that every vehicle in the fleet even newer ones we recently got has a mobile Data Computers. Were working on mobility management loosely got a grant to have a onestop center, one click, are seniors and people with disabilities can go to one place to find out all the Transportation Options there are in San Francisco. One last thing. Its obviously the collaboration with groups like the Healthcare Network. Is important and ongoing. We solve issues we need to address were working with them on those. So, one buys us one last reminder, saturday is the annual meeting. 1 pm. On howard and 11th st. At the arc. We hope you can come. The last slide has some contact information. We are always looking for more pcc members. People are interested in participating, please contact jonathan at that number. Is also mine and marks contact. Thank you. Excellent presentation. I think members of the pcc who spoke as well. Members of the board at this time comments or questions . Members of the public was to address the board on this matter if you please turn in a speaker card. Patty clement. Followed by mr. Printout. Then roxie callum will be the first three speakers. Good afternoon mr. Clement good afternoon. Patty clement with Catholic Charities in most of the coalition of agencies. We also have a subcommittee of adult they Service Providers here in San Francisco. We worked very closely with paratransit and we know overall they do a great job, or having some challenges. Annette was able to highlight some of those challenges that says we have some closures without a programs in San Francisco takes longer to get declines to the program they need to come to in order to stay safe in the community. We havent creased traffic construction and street closures. Increasing frailty of the clients we do serve. They needed the quality of service. We have longer paratransit times due to the increased use of wheelchair less. Again the frailty of our clients. We will chair capacity for Program Participants where really we dont have enough capacity within the fleet of vehicles to meet all the needs of the client in wheelchairs the special programs. We have had some issues with all the providers using the trapeze mechanism so that were usingutilizing routes that can best be made. We have some complaints of paratransit being where our clients are on the bus for over 2 hours each way. If you can imagine being 85 years old, very physically frail, cognitively challenged, and your writing over two hours to get someplace. Now, we just upshot of in time and overall, paratransit is really really well, but we had 2. 7 of our clients in one month be on the bus for over 90 min. Knows to 28 clients. So to 20 rise. Its 11 rods a day. So its a lot for that frail population. Look at how do we Work Together to make this better. Our population is aging. We dont have plans for 23 years five years we need to bring it your attention. Thank you. Next he hurt you please mr. Patel followed by roxie, then Herbert Weiner. Good afternoon, mr. Patel. Good afternoon. Im a writer on the van. My ride is too long. I take it one way, sometimes two hours sometimes, they center. By the time i come back i feel very weak for the whole week. Im deprived of my exercises. Because of the long ride. Hi. Im nicoleProgram Director at the center were mr. Patel attends and mr. Patel brought it to my attention over two years ago that his van rides are too long. Ive been auditing regularly, and ive been going to the meetings and talking about these rides. Im really happy its finally coming to the attention of the board here, but we really need to work to solve the problem because its a fourhour program that mr. Patel attends and if he is on the van for 2 hours each way thats an eight hour day. Being on a van. Thats really too much. Mr. Patel has recently dropped his attendance at the center, and thats why he bent hes not getting his exercise did not exercising at the program anymore doing his therapy and its affecting them. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you mr. Patel. Next speaker, please. Roxy, followed by Herbert Weiner and then james evans junior. Hi. Im roxy kellum and the Program Director at stepping Stone Mission creek. One of the four Adult Day Health centers that steppingstone has. So, mr. Patels experience happens at all of our centers. It is ourselves a whole care program are four hours. If you hear about the increasing ride at times, other work trying really hard with the provider to decrease those times, if the van arrives late and theyre not there for four hours, we dont get paid by medical. Meanwhile theyre there for 203 hours were not sending them home back again. Are providing services but something we lose out on. So, though they appear we support People Living in the community as well as hong kong is possible. Thats a much more desirable outcome for people aging and disabled. No Adult Day Health care is for adults over 18 so silly in my Center Admission creek i the vast range of age groups from the 30s through 90s. Many ethnicities and languages. So theres a lot going on. So the consequences of the van breakdowns, theyre there because this lack of resources. The vans that service our center are old. Talk about [inaudible] sometimes a much much older. So, we have the right times. Missing attendance. We have capacity issues. When we have used San Francisco axis, thats our San Francisco axis is designed for. Makes a really inefficient. 29 a ride, wow. Its only getting it worse. Our population is getting older and more frail and more challenge because we also do with people with Mental Health and behavioral issues. Thank you. Thank you. Next speaker, please. Herbert weiner james evans junior. Douglas callahan. Herbert weiner. When i have raised my concern about people having to walk a quarter of a mile to the bus stop. Notably, seniors and disabled. The argument has been [inaudible] is the hasbeen but according to the presentation the Services Within a three quarter of a mile fixed route. In other words, if you can make this guy. Youre out of luck. The inactive call to the bus stop. Paratransit will not cover this. This is my understanding. These correct me if im wrong. Now, the other aspect of it is, even if paratransit were to provide the service, we see problems of breakdowns and long rides, there sometimes they dont, on time, i hope these problems are straightened out. It seems like its an adequate service but i think youre over using the service. If you provide service for going to a quarter of a mile, thats going to place a severe taxation on the resources of paratransit. I dont know if theyll be able to meet its. I dont know if all people we were to qualify for this. Now, please correct me if im wrong, but i really think that this problem, dumping it on hairdresser when unique works perfectly well providing access the present routes as they exist and hopefully more and not being removed, i hope that paratransit is not going to be the dumping ground for this. I also cant lament the staff on their dedication to providing Paratransit Services. I hope the problems are addressed and improved because i think basically the idea is sound. Thank you. Thank you. Next speaker, please. James evans junior, Douglas Callahan im a felt mcfadden. Good afternoon, ms. Ivins. Chairman, board members. Im here on behalf of bayview senior service. Become a 6 kn thats provided by that paratransit. We do have a couple of bouts that some long times that we been able to condense. Thats what made up to six rows brewery were only at four. Its just the going to a fleet to handle the growing numbers of people. They been making those things go down and the times go down but we need more vehicles to be able to house less people on the van so there will be less right times. With these closures at patty was talked about discussing more seniors to go to the same centers instead of the centers they were going to in the past. But i am in support of whats been going on in is going in a good direction but we could use a little help. Thank you. Thank you, sir. Next speaker, please. Douglas callahan and philip mcfadden. Bruce oka. Good afternoon mr. Colin mr. Chairman and board. Thank you for having me tonight when he was Douglas Cowan gave him a driver with paratransit and my honor to be in the service with these people. I enjoy it very much. Other driver for 20 months with simpler cisco paratransit is been a major changes going down. With the service. Given doing very well bring in the service off for the entire time ive been employed here been short of drivers because of budget issues and budget constraints. What was with dir. Ruskin and board of supervisors we were able to alleviate a lot of that. Resolving issues with our fleet size number of buses and so on. Today will waive the meeting were detonated apart the drivers standing waiting for vehicles to come back and said they could go out on the road. It finished. We do need to address possibly getting more fuel efficient or costeffective vehicles to use to augment our fleet and to make it better. Overall, my clients have been very satisfied with their services. Im one of drivers who does a lot of polling and have them fill out a lot of the information cards to get their honest opinion on the mail is. The 20 months ive been a driver, ive seenmake major improvements in the service and inherited a mess when they came in. The Paratransit Program was way behind the carpet once again we help from dir. Ruskin and other people in the mj we were able to help improve a lot of this and he proven social committee on the pipeline. We still a lot of work ahead of us. The infrastructure rebuild has been a big thing. You jabber myself and being on the streets, the construction is been a major problem for us as far as traffic. That does delay is quite a bit. Overly, when it gets finished up will have less obstruction. Also, with the development and Building Quality kaiser and everybody building these mega medical centers and facilities at record pace, demand for services is growing exponentially all the time. We need to seriously work on improving this program and keeping on the right track. We are hiring more drivers that will soon be up to full time, drivers next speaker, please. Mcfadden and bruce good afternoon. Good afternoon. I just want to say im a driver. We care very much very much about our clients. And we took our time. We do care about our clients. Were on the road for two hours. We dont like it. We know they just got out dialysis. They want to be home. Were working on. We care about our clients a lot. Thank you, sir. Next. Bruce oka followed byand Ron Henderson who is the last person who turned in a speaker card on this matter. Welcome back. I am here to talk about what i consider to be [inaudible]. We have the best Paratransit Service in the country. We heard from some of the wonderful staff and the clients we service and people who most critically need the service. We need to put more money into the Paratransit Program. My main mode of transportation, as you all know, is muni. I ride it every shift and i continue to do that. I would just like to say i will not go away. Believe me, i hope to see at our annual meeting, please come because you will see the drivers that take care of us. You will see more members of the pcc. I was once called by [inaudible] the chairman of [inaudible] in San Francisco. He said [inaudible]. Thank you. Pyro and Ron Henderson. Grasses he was. Good afternoon. Good afternoon. Id like to first say how do you put it, being one of the oldest members in the beginning of paratransit, only bruce and ii have to concur with most of what annette said about our history. Not all of it. If you really want to know a lot of the details, just as bruce and i. Theres a lot of stories we had in the beginning. I like to also comment all the changes from the time i work there back in 86 until 2000. This been a lot of changes since then and very good changes. The shop around. Van gogh. We had a version of vander. We had agencies and nonprofits want to go down to city hall into a rally we were glad to provide paratransit for them for seniors and people with disabilities im glad it van gogh does that type of service. But there are certain things that have not changed. We call it accessible vans right now. Always to mixed mode and lift vans that were still having the same problems. Not enough drivers. Not enough bands. High demand and not enough supply. At the same time, since we have left, and thank goodness wherein the debit cards because i used to count those myself. Millions of dollars. We need to emphasize moving back to the taxi. We have a debit card. We can monitor it. Its definitely cheaper. The 20 is not cheap because the taxi in group granted an essential service is averaging 30 40 for trip depending on the mood of the person. So, we need to start looking at using the taxi program to subsidize this problem because weve got too much of a burden too much of a demand on the vans we always will have no matter what. Thank you. Ron henderson followed by kathy wood. She is the last person who turned in on a speaker card on this item good afternoon. Good afternoon. I did a charter for 20 months as well. Its grown exponentially in the last 20 months as far as services for our clients. Services for our drivers to invasive than this. Coming to a happy medium now to get these rectified were Going Forward. So, we need a program. We need the funding. The thing is going well. What i love about the company is were able to go talk to management, with ideas. They listen to ideas that we can be able to gradually grow from the ideas and get things Going Forward. We are going for. It takes little time because its all brandnew when it comes to the last 20 months but were Going Forward and moving forward and everything is going fine. Thank you. Last speaker, kathy wood. Is this here . Hello. Im one of the lead social workers for sent dialysis, and we have three douses units in San Francisco. Serving about 300 patients. Almost half use some Paratransit Services. I am here today to support the service and to let you know that over the 10 years that ive been involved with paratransit he certainly had our ups and downs with regard to Service Providers, but over the past few years and particularly since transtheir service has improved greatly for our patients. As you may know dialysis patients come to dialysis three times a week minimum. Some up to 34 hours. Their elderly. There informs. Their multiple may have multiple medical conditions. There dialysis treatment is draining. Literally. For most of them. So, they are fatigued after the drivers are very helpful. This court are patients in and out of our dialysis units. The time waiting, the ride, the length of ride has a client in over the years. So appreciating prescient of of that as well. So i just want to say thank you for the Service Please continue for our dialysis patients. Thank you. Anyone else . Thats the last person who turned in a speaker card a couple things. I appreciate this. Its very Important Press to hear. I described looking out for the entire city but especially those who need this is the most. I think youre doing that population and its a growing population. To be sure. Some of the issues the bands themselves sounds like we need new or repaired once more efficient ones. Advance probably could be the toughest issue. Im not sure what i can be of that someplace we can do that. [inaudible] id like to mention San Mateo County is not in us but i heard a little bit about that legacy we can do something with them. At that talk transboard meeting summary said using paratransit called and talked to me and said how difficult it is to transfer we come to visit. Its hard on anyone to transfer in any system but this is particularly difficult so i hope we can do something and revisit the conversation with San Mateo County. Is that there to say . The band themselves be the biggest, ms. Once the biggest single thing we could do . I think would be helpful. We need to do is to get fda Fund Additional funds. The problem is the way that there look at on the regional level its easy to replace expensive because this reconsidered expansion is whats difficult. There allocated money regionally. So, we have in the past purchase some additional vehicles to dissertation Authority Funds and we been able to replace them with fpa funds. In terms of getting funding for expansion with fta funds thats been difficult. Then on the Adult Day Care Centers i understand theres some thought of having to sections of a . I knowas to sections of that. I think theres a lot of issues with staffing with having more thanin terms of their own stuff and because its an incredible amount of services they provide. We talked about staggered starting times but also is difficult. It is something we definitely discussed and ill continue to discuss something that can improve things i just want as impotently breast with a survey that was done. Thats amazing to me. Theres not much satisfaction and those that testified here today. The overall satisfaction we have a lot to do. We can do a whole lot better im sure but its nice to have that i think a lot of testimony to the customers that are part of the system that are involved in it. Theyve advocated for themselves for quite some time and i think thats part of our success. Im sure it is. The bcc does a great job. Its very vital to this whole office. Members of the board. . Should thank you so much for the presentation to everybody who gave Public Comment. In one of the slides i see we in one of the slides i see we have 13,780 eligible writers could i we seen a population dramatically increase we can anticipate we are going to be servicing muni riders . Very good price. The last few years weve been pretty level window the partition of towing the process in San Francisco is 85 . So, our expectation will see growth in those summers. But we have been pretty level. With a huge growth spurtafter the ada was fully implemented in 97 for many years we been more level and even went down a little bit early implanted the debit card. So, i would expect that over the next 10 years we are going to see growth in the population. It also depends on how many trips of people who become members of the program. We find those are older take questions per month and the younger disabled people that are going to work or school or dialysis, thats a huge portion of our service. That is something thats also grown quite a bit. So, it kind of depends on the customer base, how many additional trips that means. Just to clarify, because it sounded there a few sort of misperceptions were questions in the Public Comment, but it sort of the eligibility . The threequarter miles is related to what area we need to serve. We serve customers at their door, so they dont need to travel any distance to get the paratransit. Thats part of the point of paratransit. It needs to go to the door because theyre not able some people are not they cant independently get from their house to the bus stop. But areas we have to serve is within three quarters of a mile as we have so much fixed Route Service we dont have gaps within the city. Like if you look at it you stay in the that their service area the guinness around every bus line within three quarters of a mile and in some areas they dont need to serve. Thats what the threequarter miles the first of thank you very much. I have so many questions. Officer go back on the public, third made a good point as to the costeffectiveness of using taxis to supplement the van service. Im just wonderingi know youre already taking Taxi Services and others a number of incentives you guys have implemented already as far as incentivizing drivers. I wondering if theres any more opportunity there to further utilize those taxis clique great question. What we do when we registerfor why we have a on the taxi program because was going through the roof we felt with people applying for paratransit just because they want to get taxi no summer difficult. In the lasthow long nowtwo years, anyone who buys for paratransit is eligible is upper Taxi Services. We do promote Taxi Services could does work for everybody like dialysis. It can work sometimes, but people like to be able to have a scheduled appointment and the taxi are calling the same day. I think it still can work just as well as the band program but the person has to believehas to feel that way themselves. We do encourage nothing we can do more to reach out to our customers especially those who use a lot of service make sure theyre aware of whats available to them the taxi and how to use it. I think this app, those who do have smartphones, it may be a real help for people where wheelchair users using the taxi program. We also promote taxi and want to. It are issues we talked about some having an impact on the taxis. So theres a lot of complexity out there. But we completely agree that taxis, for someone who works for is really the best service. For them it same day service. They dont have to make a reservation i had of time. It often be something people prefer to the band program. Something ive heard in the community a little bit just offhand and i want to get a little clarification on. I understand transis the broker and they in recent years started providing the actual Transportation Services as well . To provide a portion of the Transportation Services. Youre absolutely right. This comment ive heard something you can clarify for folks is that that seems like a conflict where how do they supervise themselves or are they grading themselves were holding themselves accountable. Can you clarify how that works . There are two versions of the company but is all the same comedy. Its two different components of the company and they do oversight but we also do oversight. Myself, jonathan and soon replacing the ones position ive been without her for quite a while. Thanks to you all. So we do a lot of oversight ourselves and we expect to do even more. You be getting the new budget and weve got another petition in there and analytical position. What we see is the service has been much better with trans doing the transportation service. They work very closely with their union and have raised drivers salaries which is been very important to the service. We feel that we both are oversight and the brokerage oversight, which is somewhat separate from the company, because two different parts of the company, or we can make sure theres not any issues with the conflict of interest when he are. Whats most important is that we get highquality service and that its costeffective. Both of those are the things were monitoring very carefully. Thank you for clarifying that. I appreciate it. The other question had was random but it goes to the prolonged weight or long drive times because of congestion at the paratransit people exempted and able to use [inaudible] absolute. We do the bumper stickers for the bike lane. This case were paratransit has to drop off work at the curb with those of ivan. We do everything to include paratransit in those stipulations that the lanes are available. Think the drivers can attest to that has made a difference to them being able to transfer in those lines. Thanks so much for the presentation on a complex subject. Good work. I to question about the group van service. Another goal is to pick a people going to the same location at there any sort of geographichearing that someone travels two hours to be somewhere basically for an appointment and not go, do we do it geographically located in terms of people on the van rides or is it just kind of like a is absolutely done geographic but sometimes you may have three people to enrichment and one sunset there someone closer so those three are grouped together. But its all the schedules made on geographic distance between the customers. If you try to maximize the number of people on the van and you dont have any in one area and it becomes difficult. Do we monitor the time it takes an track that information . Yes, we do. And were getting a mobile Data Computers in every bit that we dont have them in every vehicle. The electronic monitoring which of you is even better than the signup to the agency staff. Bob describes an anomaly or something working to resolve . The one they love that was about 2 of the rides were beyond an hour and a half. Under agreement with them an hour and a half is the maximum. Its difficult it sounds like a long time but if you think about one part of the city to another, it takes that long on out bus route as well. Most of the trips are under 60 min. Thats our goal. An hour and half is what under the contract they have to meet. We have 2 that are going over the contract. I guess the final question is, do we quarter date with adults Day Care Centers so that we can schedule enough time so if it takes two hours the people get there in time . They do coordinate with the centers. I think was being referred to is if there was a breakdown work or something also happens along the route that can be a delay that isnt anticipated, but in terms of the normal service they know the amount of time the trip is supposed to take. Thank you. Director thomas thank you chairman and staff and everyone that showed up today to speak on this and to help us all learn about this service. I feel like its absolutely critical and something that is so valued in summary different ways. To me, it really reminds us of the humanity of our system and our services. I really sincerely appreciate the drivers and everyone who makes this an option. As we age as a city, this is going to be somethingwe will have to get this right and get better. Because the van is only going to decrease the demand. Only demand for service will increase but so will the traffic in the city is going to increase or so we think were having a hard time now getting around, its going to get even longer i hate to say unless we take the appropriate precautions to get the services moving along. I think the only thing i can add to the conversation in addition to my appreciation of it, is this notion of transit only lanes and making sure doing everything we can to get these vehicles and everyone that needs to access to these lands so we can effectively hyperspace, if you will, to get folks where they need to go much more quickly. There was a call earlier in Public Comments to right side versus center lanes. One of the examples alike 2. 2 people were not familiar with the rationale of why we built center lanes is because a sooner or later those lanes running on the right side have to run into people turning rights. Or, then they have to wait for pedestrians that are crossing the same street before turning right on. It gets backed up very quickly. The right and gets backed up very quickly with people crossing were turning off of a main street that a transit lane is on. Keeping the lane in the center actually avoids that complication because we can build it only wayne. I would hope, in the future, people like yourselves and everybody thats interested in expediting the service and getting people to go where they need to be faster they are paying attention to these charges that were having the transit only lanes because theyre important but its not something everybody has the privilege of being able to understand. So we need you in the future to advocate for why we need to be able to make these lanes in the center to get them out of complications like this. And get people around a lot faster in the future. So, thank you so much for all that you do. Im looking for to talking about this next year when we talk about the budget in the future. I think thats a very good point. Do you have another report at some point . Thank you all very much for being here today. We are joined by mr. Maguire [inaudible]. No two more items. How many do we have we have one, two, 36. With the pleasure of the board . Item 12 amending transportation go Division Ii Section 612 great a transit taxi commercial vehicle on areas on powell street on ellis street to geary street in northbound and from ofarrell street 12 street the following traffic and parking modifications to them the powell Street Safety pilot from december 4, 2015 until june 4, 2017. Director, staff has asked that the traffic modification the amended. They made a request that item g which reads the stylish no left turn except in the ofarrell street eastbound at powell street, be deleted and the ofarrell street eastbound at posted the item added to item c which is the stylish no left turn except muni paratransit taxis and commercial vehicles. So, basically muni paratransit and taxis commercial vehicles will be able to make a left turn on ofarrell street eastbound. Thats the impact of the staff request. When we get to that point there to drop the amendment first and the amended resolution yes, mr. Chairman. Good afternoon good afternoon. My name is dan howard on the project manager for the powell Street Safety Pilot Project designed to improve safety programs for people walking and for the cable cars as well as collect data that will inform our future project on powell the next few years. This is the staff recommended proposal. The plan restricts vehicles without commercial license from the block of powell between ellis and ofarrell and the pilot server section between ofarrell and geary designed to reduce the Traffic Volume on the street by 80 on the pipe. It also proposes sections of the three intersections the project area. Disneys active loading zones on powell street to become either commercial or passenger loading zones in grades 11 new commercial voting spaces in the project area. The premotivation for this project to mention improving safety. Over 4000 people walk on the structure of powell during the peak period in the past five years 25 reported collisions including 18 injury collisions. All the entry questions except one and both the vehicle striking a Pedestrian Crossing the street. The three intersections project i have been identified by Division Zero program has been some of the highest injury rates in the city. This is a map that shows where the collisions have occurred. Most of those collisions occurred at kerry street wet midblock between geary and ofarrell street. In addition to the collisions reported to the police the Cable Car Division reported 27 additional collisions because damage to the cable cars during that same time or not. Period. They were not designed to operate in stop and go traffic at the cable which runs at a constant speed underneath the road works best when script fully or completely let go. Jessica manual transmission car, the cable grip most of the cable woman report from the stop the traveling slower than a mouse power to the cable child. The slipping retirement occurs causes damage to the cable. As to the condition on powell increases the amount of time equipment must with the cable which causes more damage to the cable get the commission this increased wear a looking amount of time between cable replacements. Maritime has decreased to 40 since 2025 in the past five years which is increased wear due to increased congestion. Lastly, the Pilot Project is also done to gather data and test pilot restrictions anticipation of project. With local businesses about the fm sf nta look. Street movements on powell will widen the sidewalks improve the walking experience ms. Pilot supports that effort. The project needs the balance Pedestrian Safety issue the cable cars brought up earlier with business interests include loading axis as well as aesthetic considerations to come up with a viable street design. The pile wool come up with the data to inform these future decisions. Here the goal for the project im it would be looking for reduction in vehicle volume on the street and of course money reduction in turn involves. The change also. Increase in the time doing cable replacement during the pilot should reduce the collision rate as measured during the pilot. We up to reduce vehicle volumes by the percent as mentioned. It is about perceptions dont achieve this condition there will turned to the board at the end of the pilot look at other restrictions. This data metrics we intend to cut during the pilot anticipation of how the pilot will be evaluated. Installation was short start shortly after portable inuit to get conversations before the holidays and Holiday Season is the busiest time for this area. Also see the time most damage. After the party season dataquest will begin in the pilot will end june 4. After that the staff were turned to the board after the date and pursue common legislation for the project. These are the benefits that we staff anticipates the realize from the project including mission zero benefits. Cable car safety improved muni efficiency both on the cable car lines the 38 geary and data that informs the future streetscape plans for powell. This is the overview of our reach prostate we going doortodoor to the tune of 34 business on the affected lots discussed the project with the heroes are the manager. Speaking about 20 Business Owners identified by businesses in july that i said concerns about the initial project proposal. Well go stakeholders one on one modify the plan to address stakeholder concerns. So the concerns we are doing the our responses included concerns about access to both commercial and passenger loading from retail and hotel. As well as issues surrounding Parking Enforcement in general traffic circulation concerns given that policy is near Market Street and the central subway closure of those projects interact with each other. Staff work closely with the affected businesses and hotels that we modified the design in response to feedback. The resume proposal on powell didnt include any provisions for commercial vehicle access except for later night when the axis might appear with the cable card. We originally proposed 12 am5 am commercial loading axis on. After me with businesses in july there was no viable. We commented 24hour loading for all commercial vehicles on mr. After discussion with it block between geary and ofarrell further modify the proposal to provide praxis for noncommercial vehicles the pickup and dropoff passengers on the plot. Again, his the current staff recommendation. Only commission vehicles transit and taxes would be allowed [inaudible]. The block between ofarrell and geary allowances will be made to accommodate passenger loading on this blog. If the item is approved by the board today the staff will phase in the movement tatian that gary powell in order to test two possible traffic routing streams. The first would be [inaudible] in addition the zones will be painted at the corner to reduce the improving usability for crossing pedestrians. This diagram shows the proposed vehicle restrictions during the pilot. As i mentioned the block from ellis to ofarrell restricted to municipal taxis paratransit commercial vehicles during the private either. The other block test the effectiveness of restrictions which permit access to noncommercial vehicles the purpose of loading and unloading passengers in the 200 block of powell street. The blue area which covers south on powell between geary and ofarrell restricted to muni taxis paratransit commercial vehicles because making pickup or drop us at the one loading zone on ipod. On the northbound side supper commence establishing the church is only permit muni taxis and commercial vehicles during the Holiday Season more about cable card best reinstated during the busy time of year after the holiday or not there sessions will be relaxed to permit vehicles loading on powell duplicating signs on the southbound side of this block to reduce Traffic Volume. Lastly, the slideshows the loading zones proposed by the project. Including design the zones on powells are marked in blue. Neither passenger unloading zone and creating of new commercial loading zones outlined in red in the area. I want to thank the business associate and director as well as Julie Christiansen and her second photo counsel and its president cant help for working on this project and their continued effort in the views. Winners in the board has received a letter from mr. Gladstone representing the Hotel Stratford and staff appreciates the hotels support for the project went into plan outlined in items one and two in this letter. Let session before you today provide for the holiday safety zone for doing item 1 but it does not provide for the exception the western restriction and ofarrell street for vehicles using how to load and unload passengers. Documents amending the legislation as a secretary read the begin of this presentation to center taxi and commercial vehicles from this turn research. Staff were turned to the board in january to move in the northbound powell side between ofarrell and geary and to recommend modifying the left turn restriction and ofarrell and powell to exempt noncommercial vehicles voting on powell street from that restriction. This includes the staff presentation at thank you mr. Howe. Kevin kyle followed by evan kaiser and then turns like good afternoon, mr. Gulch is a good afternoon commissioned my name is kevin kyle is an object of the Hotel Council of San Francisco. Also a member of the former board member ofthe work for the sf mta on the taxi service and latenight transfer working group as well. I want to thank the director and staff for their flexibility in working with us over the last 78 weeks regarding the specific concerns about tells included in this Pilot Project that youre looking to approve today. Especially between powell between ofarrell and geary. We would like to thank them get howard and john kennedy who worked with us were multiple meetings as user. Phone calls and discussions to try and accommodate and work with us to work with hotels in this district. Hotel council to support the powell Street Safety pilot. We strongly support mr. Howard josette, and appreciate the staffs recommendations to move the northbound red zone so that after the holidays would allow the pilot to really have equal access to the hotels both sides of that street. We think this is critical the passenger loading and unloading operations of our hotel. We also feel that its really fair and equal way to do this program. We strongly support the recommendation. We also continue to support vision zero and also want to make sure the cable car lines the main safe for both drivers, are public, and employees in the neighborhood. We recognize that those blocks are to the highest type of box in the city. Many of our pedestrians are the hotel cost using that area as well. My office happens to be on a corner. I see every day both walking and from my window all the things that happen on those corners went there at geary and powell realize and see with the cable car operators go through when they come down that street. Their symptoms completely blocked. Again, we support this program. We support the safety does one make sure the recommendation for the red zone be removed as a group. Thank you. Evan kaiser followed by karen flood and richard rider. Good afternoon. Thank you. Im evan kaiser pres. And ceo of thecomic one of it Hotel Stratford at 242 powell. We will surely celebrate 100 years of continuous family ownership of the Hotel Stratford. Im here with james daily, our operator endorses my comments. Big knowledge the pedestrian cable car safety is everyones concern, which is weve accepted this past holiday red zone which will into means many of our hotel guest. This will not [inaudible] acceptance of the red zone had two caveats and were pleased your staff is accommodating our sin of those two issues. First, the red zone for this one block the removed after the first week of january. Second, at the time of the removal of the red zone 18 month Pilot Program starts. They will be provided with guest access to load and unload in front of our respective hotels. This will occur for us by allowing left turns from the eastbound ofarrell vehicles to reach the critical area for the hotel. The stats generate pilot suggestions are critical to our hotel. Removing that zone and implement in like axis rules on the 200 block which allows commercial vehicles, taxis and private vehicles does address many of our concerns and dramatically reduces traffic while minimizing basic Operational Mission which is being welcoming to the San Francisco visit is visitors. We worked with staff. We think kevin supervisor christiansens office. The staff. The union square bit. We are cognizant that our Hotel Guest Experience starts with the [inaudible] which can only occur in one engines as youll note the power of negative comment online is very serious thank you so much. Karen flood, richard leiter, claude in both good afternoon good afternoon chairman norman and numbers of the sfmta board. My name is karen flood is that of dr. Of the Union Square Improvement District as such i represent the Property Owners in around union square. Including the structure powell street were talking of today. Im here to give conditional support for this project. Condition because we do appreciate the cable car. It does add uniqueness to our street we do treasure its. Also, i appreciate worked with ken howard and john kennedy and members of the sfmta to work throughout this process. In hearing our concerns. Has been a rush process so i will say that is the reason for my conditions because i think we need to not have ample time to think this through. So, first condition is that that there is a longterm investment in powell street. This is a critical thoroughfare. The incredible investments made by the Property Owners as well as investment in individual properties as well as type indeed 1 million to extend the cyber. Its really critical that we dont just put the date down in science and card etiquette in nice to have a longterm plan which very much be part of that vision and a plan. And what resources. Number two traffic circulation is key. If you been down there incredibly congested with a central subway construction. Honestlybeen close for about 40. Alice is still closed that market. Traffic control officers to move the topic. We need to get ellis street open. Its a joy china. [inaudible] you bonding about the loading and unloading is good news margins along powell did not have access to the properties and is key to allow some access. I thing a longterm plan i can see the accommodating those pedestrians in making that expense more positive but there does need to be something for the loading and unloading. One work with you to work that out. Thank you much things. Richard leiter could clot him all. Wes tyler. Thanks. My ms. Richard leiter. The president of paramount hotels inquiry. We have three hotels. The herbert h and 161 powell, Spalding Hotel at 240 ofarrell the park hotel at 325 seven. We also probably whole which is in brewhouse at 242 ofarrell. To reiterate what Karen Fletcher sponging were conditionally supportive of the good our hotel is right across from the entrance of agent. Its between ofarrell and ellis should. We basically been limited from any type of loading last year to give you an example, all Boutique Hotel we cater of axis iii and 25,000 of the city in tax. So if you multiply that times 8000 rooms in and around union square is substantial amount of money. To emphasize the purpose of my comments today you can make sure we will be due longterm improvement something very similar to what is been done between ellis and Market Street the table card turn on. Melinda ris when the mta comes to us and says wouldve put something down and remastered there is no question the merchants need some sort of axis for deliveries but at the same time for passengers [inaudible] i dont need to the need for 18 months trial [12 months should be enough for budgeting on a mental behind it so we know we were going. Figure 9 much for your time this afternoon and concession thank you. Next speaker, please. [inaudible] good afternoon. I Service Director of Strategic Initiatives of function [inaudible] vipers will want to check out again howard hes been a shorter to work with. A collaboration we learned a lot from each other in terms the process and the conjugate whats been discussed. Note to addon to karens condition but the longterm investment and longterm plan for paulo street. Unafraid i love documents that isolate actual documents i just want to bring your attention back in 1962plan for downtown San Francisco included how street is a pedestrian eyes posit theyve could walk right up to union square in addition to grant street. So it goes back 50 years. In 1985 the San Francisco downtown plan about policies and objectives regarding pedestrian environment critical to the citys economic success. Thats really the citys Downtown Economics exhibit 19 about the downtown [inaudible] set a longterm plan for widening sidewalks on powell were closing how street two cars except for transit. Then in 2010 i believe it was the better streets of great streets project english with union square. Without a doctrine called walking street and preceded the current promenade pilot it was to look at very things that this file is going to look at. I just hope that staff looks back at the documents. Some of the findings of that that union square is a primary luxury regional district is dollars but its also critical business and Employment Center jetting many people forget. The number of people that are employed in our district it is a major transit hubs was a neighborhood connector to adjacent neighborhoods. Some fun back. The first box of how street was all over streets in terms of pedestrian power data shows 11,000 pounds at highest peak. Thats a primetime square in new york city. Thank you. West tyler Bret Gladstone and charles last long good afternoon mr. Tyler cannot conjure it was tyler joe manager the chancellor hotel 432 powell. We are oxygen box above most of the union square Public Affairs committee. Im also operating conditional support of the program. But to really work well because i saw a muni for work program with and go all the way up to center street. Id like to see the bottom half accommodate the merchants, meet the needs, will he make it look nice to get all the way up to center street. I think the key is getting it right at this point in making sure is something everyone is going to say but keep going. Lets go further. We all know that the pedestrian eyes asian streets is a trend in nicer and thats what people really enjoy. I like to see this go all the way. Thank you. Next speaker, please. Bret gladstone followed by Charles Rathbone and then wayne hudson who is the last person who submitted a speaker. Were gladstone. , attorney in the city. A partner in the long term with hansen and bridget which associate member of the hotel counter. Good afternoon. , on behalf of the Hotel Stratford Hotel Virginia a few weeks ago because there were differential in the treatment that hotel visavis the hotel phones across the street. In two ways. One is the red zone would be applied in front of Hotel Stratford and known down direction of bowel and not in front of the low florence hotel. Two, signage was proposed from here he allowing vehicles to load by making a left turn of geary on two ofarrell, but there was no thought proposal to allow people coming downtown on ofarrell to make a left turn on powell to enable them to reach the front of the Hotel Stratford. Very pleased to say that due to a lot of work on behalf of your staff in the hotel counsel in the last week, we are tonight from your staff dan howard, that hes proposing to put in front of you in january a piece of legislation, i guess an amendment to section 601, that would correct that differential and as a result my clients will hope that as of that date it can be part of the 18 month Pilot Program and that its guests can continue to unload in front of. I show you this only because it shows that there were five collisions may block the were talking about. The collisions occurred right between the Hotel Stratford and develop florence hotel. I think i can show you that if you dont have both loading zones of their people will continue to cross the street and be hit. Thank you. Next speaker, please. Charles followed by weight has been those of the last two people turn and speaker doesnt good afternoon charles backbone on behalf of, and we salute the agencys efforts hold innovative efforts to mitigate congestion which is certainly has a major impact on our business. We support this Pilot Program. We are proud to be part of the solution and we look forward to making this program a roaring success in that you end up expanding it to many other areas. Thank you. Thank you. Next speaker, please. Last speaker, wayne hudson. Im wayne hudson did the corner of Yellow Properties and a member of the taxi workers alliance. An editor of taxi talk. Info. I also want to speak in support of the proposed restrictions on traffic on powell street. It would be good for the city. Its the right direction. Would also be good for the taxi industry. I would just encourage the mta to look at better signage and more enforcements in terms of this policy in general. Thanks. Thank you. You want to read the amendment again yes. Mr. Chairman, so, the idea would be to delete item g which establishes no left turn except muni on ofarrell street eastbound at paulo street and it would add to item g establishing no left turn except duty paratransit it would add ofarrell street eastbound at paulo street. Anyone can do offer that amendment all offer that a moment second all those in favor say, aye. Opposed, nay. Da wicks the aye habits. Thank you for making the comments. We won because the bus this project after this Pilot Project to make this look at first how which is always a very welcoming pedestrian environment were picked up and off im not sure it happens on the plot. I was really pleased to read in the sfm mj blog a interview with Willa Johnson was our only female cable car driver enter common in it. She does have a combined letter job except the traffic on powell street. I think its a really telling, to their that this is going to make a big difference for our grips. I have a gimme went back i wish thered been more car traffic. I think this is going to be a good change for the street. Mr. Howard thank you for good presentation in just a couple of questions. What will be the situation for pnc in this block . I would imagine if there is a hotel guest in the pmc therell be able to do the dropoff. Were they able to be pickup quick how that workweek anywhere theres a red lane pncs will not be permitted the citywide policy. That will bring up the question which am sure will solve during the Pilot Project and beyond the signage for that because as weve seen with her turn restrictions onto Market Street compliance is buried in different terms of in different users. It does make me think about curbside dropoff space in general. With so many people now using modes other than the private automobile, it seems like for us to facilitate that curbside dropoff as it seems youve done on the surrounding block by having loading zones that really makes me think that something we need to consider the rest of the city because if it happens that such a powell around union square happens in every Commercial Area and i can really see us moving to a point where every commercial block has some pickup and dropoff space at the curbside because as weve discussed before, curbside space is not just for people to park their own private cars curbside spaces for anybody whos using a car for pickup or dropoff, a taxi, a quick loading and unloading so i think that something were going to have to continue to look at in the city. Other than this, im in such full support of this project and kudos to you and your group. It sounds like you did a lot of hard work and you really have come to a great budget. Im really looking forward to voting yes on this. Thank you. I want to echo the vice chairs comments. Really commend you for the compromise and this happy medium you achieve. I know that in these processes was a tough spots to find. Theyre not clear in the beginning. So, i commend you. Im rather confident that we are going to see some progress. Its hard to imagine it world thats different from the way that we been doing things up till now, but that street has such rich pedestrian life as it is and when we get even more there one becomes a more welcoming im confident that its going to turn out for the better for everyone. But without i appreciate the pilot to. Congratulations to everyone and thank you for all of your hard work in reaching this where we are. This pilot. Its a really solid indication of everyones willingness to come together to reach for Something Better than what we have now. So, thank you and everyone that has an interest in this thanks for all the work on this in the modifications you made as a result of your main. The question that some in the loading zones and how you picked were some of them were. If its possibility but may project because i do get concerned about people being chopped off on one side of the street running across because thats a very common behavior for people to do. Theres a way, if we see this pattern happening within the pilot you could change that. Can we talk about first how you show which side of the street the zones went into and what opportunity is there to change midstream if we see a challenge we referring to the loading zones on the powell or sizing about yes. The loading zones on powell look at this. For them are cut out into the parkland. Three of those were going to paint commercial loading zone and the last one was a white passenger zone and thats in front of the villa florence. The reason we chose that is we first did a survey in june we surveyed all 24 businesses on the street in front where they do their loading and their passenger load we got a very good spot straight from that. From that we were able to pick out which owns are being used for what purpose. We backed up with many staff observations both on Planning Department and from sfmta staff always dig up the loading zones is always going where and what uses. The loading zone plan reflects the predominant use good i will note the hotel stoppered side its a yellow loading zone but yellow zones to permit passenger loading for 5 min. Zones the driver means in the vehicle. So that was we want to make sure the commercial loading zone, data because it is less restrictive than the passenger loading zone. With that being said, we essentially looked at the volume as well, the number of loading activities on the street and we use this to determine whether not we should provide axis for one side or the other. The transit axis lane obviously indicated with the loading zones could be . Yes. We are able to create 11 loading zones on side streets with five in the turn pockets so theyre no longer necessary given the turns are restricted. We are able to rededicate that sidewalk space to loading which is sorely needed in units we are to see a lot of double parking throughout commercial loading zones is only to help that situation. Thank you for the work on this. I look for to seeing the feedback. Why would turns 18 months versus 12. Someone brought that up. Yes. 18 months provides for the holiday period which we will be collecting any data during. And then it also provides another three months for us to return to the board and do legislation before the pilot position expires. Will get permanent legislation in place. We are put in the position taken away and out only to put them back in again. Thank you very much for your work on this. Thank you very much. I think our representatives and the stratford asked this question. Is the Pilot Project come january going to include the james that there is eager to see happen as can happen in generate . Yes, provided designs work and we fully expect they will. On the 12 month versus 18 month question that we understand the estimation but, is it possible to have a better sense of the data in 12 months . Well, let me stop and back up. First of all, thank you for your hard work for a good presentation it is you know for my past positions i think some of these street prioritization projects are great and good help everything move around in downtown and help protect our pedestrians in this case really hope our tourists the associated business. Some very much in favor of the idea generally. But, i think well were hearing from the Business Community and which is say, theres really three things were doing here. Protecting our cable cars. Promoting towards him and three, protecting businesses that serve the taurus were getting on and off the cable cars. Its also works together and were chasing synergy here. The concern i hear from the Business Community is that we should know whether this is working in 12 months were not. What the problems are. So, maybe if you still have to have it be an 18 month Pilot Program for legislative reasons just that administratively some of the stuff takes longer, maybe it would at least be appropriate, chairman knowing, that some scheduled check back point so that if our value goodness people are coming back and saying, look, this is all great except for when needed yellow zone in frontwere not leading a two months before we adjusted. I suspect you wouldnt do that but these things dont always get worked out as smoothly as some of these are. But it would be some comfort to her heres a little squeamishness my Business Community we had a dedicated date on the counter that no matter what is going on they can come back to us and get a hearing on whether palms are having thus far. So, if we give for legislative reasons with the project back to 18 months i think we should certainly have a dedicated date the year for another business folks think about first dawson a problems roughly staff will be reshot to them before then because [inaudible] that would be my first request. Then, the loading for the hotels. I heard a little bit thats a concern here. Now, this area is and not a normal traffic. Its not at 7 am to very busyits not Market Street were used to be Market Street or mission street. The bridge approach or Something Like that. Does the Pilot Project account for that and accommodate the loading zones . The concern him. And i want to your work is, are we closing off loading zones at times when theyre going to be really vital the businesses there at times that are not going to affect traffic or Pedestrian Safety because the low traffic times anyways . To answer your second concern that absolutely is a pattern of how street. We do notice the traffic gets very light in the morning. The original proposal was to try to slow loading hours of loading hours be at a specific time. That based on correlating all the schedules with the businesses we could not pursue that. So we were with 24hour access for all business loading could also commercial loading under section the street 24 hour commercial loading and no restrictions. For the northern part the block from ofarrell to hear he, passenger loading similar 24 hours no restriction. Without doing any hourly restrictions at this time. Future plan we may find that it makes sense to restrict hours when the pedestrian peak between 3 pm and about eight9 pm
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