Community not serves when you are not served you not going to a participation and dialogue how electric autonomous electrical vehicles help the community impoverished for any years you want to have a policy and system that serves everybody that brings even up so the Growth Strategy was as important as the newest introduction of technology and how it will help everyone when you combine all that you get the attention of the president and the discreet and the attention of our fta administrator and the leaders please San Francisco is paying attention to everything and all aspects of improving everyones life and using Transit Agency a way to get things down thats why i celebrate not just the grant of 11 million but the hundreds of millions of weve been fortunate to receive we have not only National Leadership that paid attention but peoples Life Experience like former mayor fox that understood from the first minute how those challenges are to every city thats why we work closely they incentiveed by challenging us through the smart grant to do it better thats why out of all the entities that came together the bart and community bart next year i think were doing it right were answering those questions i think were having the dialogue and the inclusionary policies that will make our city better for everyone this is y what i came to office to try to do and thankful for the leadership as director reiskin and the county of Transportation Agency are putting together all the detergents so we could eat less of traffic jam and more of the Peanut Butter laughter . And take the opportunity on the last few weeks of his leadership to say thank you secretary to our leadership those are years well look back weve done things well and got the support and leadership of president obama and the capitol hill not only not just the money but what weve created out of the opportunities that bring this city and entire region together this is what i think those federal divisions are all about not just fund transit projects but bring people together to make sure that crying country was moving together with everybody thats why im particularly provide of the the way the incentiveed program and others have allowed us to simplify our humanity respect for the improvement of transit and solve problems and insure that everyone is included for a better city on behalf of the city and county of San Francisco secretary thank you hopefully, youll be back negative impact a different capacity with an that will continue to compliment us and as you ride our transit systems when you do get here theyll be adequately improved with a level of intelligence and smartness so that this year whereby less jams and more Peanut Butter. clapping. you could hear from the former mayor and secretary this deep commitment to equity i think reflects the ideals theyve brought to the Public Service and really has been integrate in the work they local level with the transportation to make sure that it provides an opportunity for folks to take part what we hope to achieve grant you heard a lot about the clorox of the regional and federal level i want to acknowledge the administrator of the transit not only leaving the fta but a career transit professional and a frequent transit rider that helps us to make the case what are the transit across the country a great partner but and the sfmta office as well and in the region the mayor made reference to a member of bart the board of directors and doctor from uc berkley two of the smarter folks in the region of the country how to make transportation better here so a lot of brain power in the room and region we Work Together and make that happen part of brain power from the county of Transportation Authority theyve lead a lot of great groundbreaking work in how to develop the Brand New Community in Treasure Island and part of the two of the projects of this grant are focused on Treasure Island the secretary mentioned the guidance that his administration put out with Autonomous Vehicles see how 24 fits on the ground of Treasure Island with the Transportation Authority under the leadership of the executive director tilly chang clapping. thank you so many ed and secretary fox and mayor ed lee and all of our honored guests thank you so much on behalf of the community of the Transportation Authority thank you to secretary fox and the mta for this grant and opportunity to partner and demonstrate the benefits of initiative transportation as the Community Agency wouldnt be more exciting to initiative with the partners logically and nation wide mr. Secretary thank you for your championship and income tax and amongst the cities your leadership with the department of transportation has been nothing short of incredible and mayor ed lee recounted many of the examples you are were about two years ago in february of 2015 going down the 101 to guaranteeing google i believe you unveiled your beyond Traffic Initiative a National Dialogue of the awareness of transportation investment to the need for investment and the crisis of a lake lack of impetus we see in congress that year we were all seeking to have a longterm transportation bill your messing meg miss included the ways of doing more business efficiently manage congestion to protect the planet and bring all the members of the community as mayor ed lee eloquently mentioned later that year in the fall of 2015 usual administration sent the long term bill to congress as the fast map leader pelosi and other leaders in congress was passed happily by president obama and laid the ground work to advance beyond the transportation all the nonsexy things the transportation and the brightens and transportation as well as the initiative partnering and this included, of course, particulars marked stirs challenged the faster Grant Program to administrator in my career with the leadership of mayor ed lee and our partners locally thank you for your grants together with uc berkley were happy and excited to be a winner of this grant and the finalist we were in the company of 77 other amazing cities who also rays their hands we have a tremendous need this has been a fantastic experience and just the gwen with advanced grant the Transportation Authority will be working with ed and his team at the sfmta to demonstrate the smart corridors and innovations connected and technologies and as mentioned on Treasure Island will be partnering with the Treasure IslandDevelopment Authority so have a community on Treasure Island that is planned for 8 thousand units of housing 26 affordable over the next 20 some years our projects will include a powell system to help fund the transit and water and muni and Ac Bus Service as well as autonomous shutters transportation on Treasure Island really will be a laboratory we look forward to this and with the partners at caltrans and the commission those will transform Treasure Island and have a robust neighborhood that will be a model of innovation in terms of transportation to demand management and safety and the way we fund those types of programs through the innovative feature weve advance the secretaries initiative by tying together a town hall Transportation System and with the carving and bike share for the most vulnerable residents so thank you and in closing for your Administration Secretary look forward to the major Capital Project involving the transit and both downtown and as well as the recent van ness brt project were fortunate to get 75 million were ever so grateful and appreciate our support youve extended to all the partners at caltrans for the electrification we wish you the best we want you to come back of all the work in a few years time thank you. clapping. thanks tilly and thank you for your leadership hers it the Public Agency and mine and the federal government didnt have all the answers we were shocked to know they didnt have all the answers were a happy to be joined by part of bringing together the other partners to make that arrogant happen. clapping. thank you im probably the most at least competitive and person in front of of the people this morning i didnt realize nicholas was going to be here he was told the trains went to oakland and thank god a lady told me that i dont think anyone would have missed me thats why the room is so fuel were thankful and ill summarize our goal to help the Public Private partnering with the innovation and as long as were not locked into a temp were allowed to work with the private sector and this is part of design methodologies that is built on stanford and uc berkley with all the pilots thats really the work at the 76 projects were looking at and meaningful second scale across the country weve been lucky that mayor ed lee has for the last two years helped us to create an institution for the public basically the federal government and others getting together and, of course, the uc berkley to actively go out and scale those pilots and thats really been the goal of that thank you, mayor ed lee we have d. C. And miami and worked with the academic institutions the work with secretary fox with the smart city grants weve been able to beat out many folks as weve become the First Institution to help planning out u outside the london to open this so we can intricate the electrical vehicles and we currently have people in the community really engaging the community in miami hey, what does the Community Want and with the work with ed reiskin and tilly chang in terms of the the work we what pilot those out here and scale them across the u. S. And uc berkley great partners with the people that binge things to the table we can test thank you, everyone and actually making this a reality and giving us an opportunity to nationalize this were excited thank you. clapping. so finally just because something is initiative didnt mean its good much the innovation maybe good and not so good but advancing the policy goals uc berkley brings the research to support what well test in the field and our ability to test it to achieve our outcomes and uc berkley for the institute studies leads by dr. Thank you to secretary fox and mayor ed lee for the opportunity to be here with you this is a very exciting year 2017 is not only our 17 anniversary but also something that people didnt know the 20 anniversary of the first time we have a california, if any, in the context of the federal grants like 20 years ago this break through this was conceives fiction we hope that will be an exciting Mitigation Grant we can claim the victories two years from now the history of collaboration within the city of San Francisco and the university weve seeing none, Public Comment is closed in memorandum of understanding when was dramatically related by the challenge we are extremely grateful into secretary fox but the university have been collaborating on cities berkley was involved in the snatch and the writing of the mou between the city of San Francisco and the city of paris and many were excited today because of the work because it alsoables us to interact with did Public University at berkley through this program we really hope to make contributions to the bay area and california to the u. S. And in general, you you look at youll see the involvement of the universities in the programs whether on the bridge or talking about the tenderloin or all the others things that berkley was involved in with the mtc and caltrans and the federal government specifically the Services Roll in the program that will be led by susan thank you for your leadership throughout the program and this challenge and many other exciting things the secretary has led in his tenure specific to berkleys contributions in the granted we are excited were push the research and the extent those par dims theyll change urban San Francisco see is a city of innovation most of technologies the transportation all born no or in San Francisco no better place than the city the second involvement of the university for the vision zero corridor that is an extremely important for Public Transit and more importantly the third is data electrics in the 151 impossible to see the systems that will be operated suv and no better place to do this than the other partners at the table here and uc berkley has the highest concentration of people in the world that as advanced dictated for a den benefit of translation were excited about the future of smart cities and at berkley we cared about transfer which we produce in the passerby la habra through the examples throughout this wonderful collaboration with the federal government have successfully approved grant break through these and grateful for the programs weve built no, first in the future so to conclude i want to express my warmest thanks to mayor ed lee and secretary fox theyre leadership working together with the federal government to absolutely amazing have a partner a prestige and were excited in the future to contribute to the partners agencies at the table today microsoft and others and thank you to secretary fox and others. clapping. okay. Thanks ill give a final thank you to secretary fox for his Great Service were short on time maybe time for two consecutive questions and let you on your way the floor is open any questions if not thank you all so much for San Francisco is known worldwide for its atmospheric waterfront where spectacular views are by piers and sight and sounds are xhanl changing we come to the here for exercise relax ball games entertainment, recreation market, exhilaration a wide variety of contributions easily enjoyed look up the bay the waterfront is boosting for activities boosting over 25 visitors every year the port of San Francisco manages 7 may have Million Dollars of waterfront from hyde street and Fishermans Wharf to the cargo terminals and name shoreline the architecture like pier 70 and the Ferry Building is here for the embarcadero and a National Treasure the port also supports 10 different Maritime Industries alongside with the recreational attractions making San Francisco one of the most viable working waterfronts in the world but did you think that our waterfront faces serious challenges if earthquake to damage the seawall and the embarcadero roadway rising seawalls will cause flooding at high tides and Major Repairs to a safe many of the piers the port is at a critically turnl point time to plan for the future of San Franciscos waterfront this year the port is updating its marts plan the Plan Working Group to invite a wide variety of poichdz from the city and bayview and other advisory teams to share their expertise if intense and Maritime Operations the waterfront Land Use Plan has guided the use and development of the lanes for the last 20 years major physical changes take place along the waterfront and now is the time to update the waterfront plan to continue improvements that will keep our waterfront vibrate, public and resilient the Biggest Challenges facing the waterfront are out the site an aging seawall along the embarcadero roadway and seawalls that will rise by 21 hundred to provide and productivity of tides seawall is built over weak soils and mud the next earthquake will cause it to settle several feet without the urgent repairs that will damage the promenade and other things weve been fortunate over the last hundred years less than one foot of seawall over the next hundred years Scientists Say well have 6 feet of seawall rise imagine the pier 30 32 will be floated, the embarcadero will be flooded our Transportation System is fog to be heavy impacts unfortunately, the port didnt have the Financial Resources to repair all the deteriorating piers let alone the adaptations for Sea Level Rise. It is clear that the port cant pay for the seawall reinforcement or deal with the Sea Level Rise on its own needs to raise money to take care of the properties at take care of the maintenance on the properties no way absent anti funding the issues of Sea Level Rise or the schematic conditions of seawall can be development. As studies talk about the seawall challenges the working group is look at the issues please come share our ideas about recreation, pier activities, shoreline habitat, Historic Preservation and transportation issues and viral protection. We know this planning process will not have one question and one answer we need the diversity of the opinions how people feel about San Francisco waterfront and want to hear all the opinions. The challenges call for Big Decisions now is the time to explore now and Creative Ideas to protect and preserve San Francisco waterfront. Now is the time to get involved to help to shape the future of our waterfront. We need the debate please come forward and engage in the process. This is your waterfront and this is your opportunity to get involved be part of solution help San Francisco create the waterfront we want for the future. This is really to dream big and i think about what our waterfront looked like for all san franciscans today and generations to come. Get involved with the planning process that will set the fraction for what is coming at the port. Find for in upgrading dates on the ports website. ship blowing horn in distances good morning and we government audit and Oversight Committee. I am the chair aaron peskin. Hold on. Okay. Thank you madam president. Good monching welcome to audit and Oversight Committee for today thursday january 19. Im thechair of the Committee Supervisor aaron peskin and joined by london breed and shortly doob joined by vice chair nurmen yee. The clerk is erica major. Please silence cell phones. Completed speaker cards should be submit today the clerk. 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