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Thank you. Next speaker, please. I strongly oppose is legislation we need to are rent control laws thank you. San Francisco Gray panthers strongly supports the owners to the landowners i ask if there is a few bad apples and cutters laws in place that prevent abuse or so why this epidemic of bad evictions that are going on now landlords have asking why are there so many laws for the tenants it is basic the landlords opener give them life or death situation he basically relationship of the ownership the tenants have them by the throat everybody has a right to live in places not move awe from tare trust doctors who gives the landlords the right to get rich and how dare the lords insult those people by calling them low life no profit no housing and profit in evictions. Hello, im responsive i want to say this housing crisis is outs ever hand sorry every month weve gotten letters of evictions because spoepdz we dont pay our rents we pay our rents on times all the time your landlord has supposedly lost our checks and supposedly we never pay our rents it turns out we sued him and we won because he kashdz those checks without gus to we would have been gone we need help we really do. Thank you for sharing that thank you. Next speaker, please. Hi, im health also i live in the admission my entire life. Please speak into the micro. Ive seen the change that pains me all the changes im constantly getting evictions and everyday some place is closing up and someone is erected everyday as more evictions we realize what is happening is wrong thats all. Again, thank you for sharing our story thank you. Next speaker, please. Please. Good evening supervisors im a organizer and in the years 5 years ive seen the housing evictions worse as a council ive seen harassment being sophisticated and landlords evict attendance because they have a daughter that is 14 years old not long ago a client come in into the office in tears her landlord said to evict our daughter we dont allow sub leasers we dont care how in universe is it okay to ask a motto evict their 14yearold daughter it is your daughter and job as a motto house them and that is just the tip the ive been the 2. 0 closes loopholes that are being used by landlords attorneys that are in the business of eviction theyre not not business of housing people or sporting landlord but in the business of evicting people that is the most important piece of legislation this year and please take the steps to stop thousands of evictions it is necessary and important we hope it will pass the full board and youll support it there as well thank you. Thank you. Next speaker, please. Ii look the line is dwindling this is the last call for Public Comment please say so. Im joanne represent the Housing Providers and am the director the San Francisco Apartment Association we do not support this piece of legislation, however, we support supervisor cowens one amendment, commissioner lees 3 amendments as id like to mention the previous speaker said that someone couldnt move in a child or keep a child in a relayed we couldnt owners that anyone can move in a Family Member as a law when we had it passed from a member of the supervisors id like to say this is legislation is not needed there are aspects that are legal and end up going to the court and sue the city you should question yourselves in the eviction problem is getting worse with why hadnt this board and mayor solved it, it is getting worse because of the laws most of the problems in Public Comment and ive been here for 5 hours 4 hours now listening to everything can be taken care of under current law if i receive city money to do consulting then the burden is on me im not courtney my folks the same for the tenant groups that are receiving city fined theyre not doing their jobs in consulting folks love the problems and grinds can be involved in current laws we dont need this piece of legislation. Thank you very much. Thank you. Next speaker, please. Hello, im susan aim a small Property Owner and a former landlords although im not now im here in support this this legislation this is a historical moment in San Franciscos history were seeing a dramatic change in the Housing Stock and dramatic changes in the population of our city i moved here thirty years ago and San Francisco is a unique city in the United States and in the world because of its diversity because of its vibrant commutativeism a gateway for immigrants especially asia and Latino America if we dont do something to keep this city affordable for ordinary people we are going to lose it diversity it is happening very replied rapidly the city is working on plans to build for Affordable Housing but if we dont take the steps to protect all well be doing is peddling slpt to stay in the same place i think you all love this city or wouldnt work as hard i know your jobs are hard ill really, really urge you to please pass this so the board can vote and help safe the city we all love thank you. Thank you. Next speaker. And good evening Board Members im sarah with the Housing Rights Committee in San Francisco i want to take a moment to bring us back why were here with the tenants youve seen and worked so hard to get to this point to pass this legislation i hope youll do out of committee it is a very real that tenants, in fact, are being evicted left and right for socalled got you evictions those are trumped up charges the real reason is an n one around reversal the landlords want to empty their units to jackup the price to make more money thats the only reason to evict and yet couple of with false reaps are everything from a pet to an unauthorized tenant to etc. , ect we want to protect those tenants so they have a fair process if theyre real reasons why a tenant is causing a nuisance or causing damage to the unit were not taking away the landlords right to evict they need to prove it thats how we do things in the court system in the us is we expect there actual evidence and prove thats all were asking for when you speak to the roommate it is one the remaining strategies that tenants have to stay in their rental housing 90 in San Francisco and again, we are seeing a very significant increase in tenants that are getting evicted because they have roommates it needs to be much easier in the city during the Affordable Housing crisis for tenants to be able to have this help in the form of roommates so despite with the Department Association said this is absolutely thank you clapping. no applause thank you. Thank you. Next speaker, please. My name is joseph event supervisor kim supervisor cohen and supervisor wiener were all have the same goals to help to protect our goods attendance you doing it in a policy we doing to in a debited level making sure that tenants are is a good place to stay youve horde the Horror Stories from the invert landlords today allowing tenants to move in others without our approve makes that a scary situation our children have to live with strangers and also what did you do approval rent increase well create an undue burden and rip apart attendants in the building like those like jowling tilly chang the 2,700 a month by water fee subsidies from the attendance when rents is 19 hundred and operational costs would have been a meaningfulless not the 27 hundred water fee theyve created the tomatoes have no choice to spend money they dont have to evict exist laws are two this to help the lawyers foreclosure fee subsidies with too much i welcome the amendment from supervisor cowen and supervisor wiener they are in the right direction were all wanting to solve problems maybe change the rent board practice and we need negotiation and emotions case by case based on merit not based stays that your tenants versus the landlords and eviction nos and wrongful eviction under those circumstances nos it o notices that breaks my hereto to see that landowner landlord. You know you know the rules joseph feign you know the rules thank you, nancy pelosi. Members the committee with Chinatown Development center in the San Francisco Displacement Coalition i know that has been a long can i i want to address a few points by the department of the association and others ill go in order first off with respect to the rent adjustment weve worked for additional occupants that be is allowed weve worked with the rent boards to make sure that language is going included youll see that under section on page 4 under leveling ab so this is prerogatives to enable the language to increase the rent increase based on additional occupants that are permitted under the roommate piece of legislation i think were not with respect with the latino legislation has been addressed for example, the situation where the previous testimony with respect to patterns not allowed to move in and a child the problem there is a gap from the gonzales legislation it was the legislation addresses once a notice the witness you dont have an opportunities to cure the 3 day notice is in place you cant request a pattern or child to be added it is too late under this we ask the 10 day notice to cure we want to under the influrence we strongly believe that we need to have an expanded roommate piece of legislation frankly it is love whether you have a roommate or you want to add a partner we it shouldnt be a requirement you need to get married in order to have our partner move in to a studio apartment. In the interest of time im George Gracie im nafrm i supported in ordinance im here to see the argument i think certainly theyre not for black people the arguments dont have validity and also concerning the other issues surrounding this im not here to tell you your about say weve done the homework so im here representing the marginalized the poorest of the poorest the criminalized the homelessness population and displaced and those who are displaced by those bogus rent devices and eviction devices and the communities mom and pop commerce and also the disproportionate existing housing which is not forcible at all the transgender and underserved population and those populations coming out of the prisons there is no housing for them those are the populations im speaking for as i stands so he urge and support your efforts that all you are a doing to make that happen i want to make sure that ordinance goes forward. Much who wishes to comment okay Public Comment is closed. Thank you ladies and gentlemen, at this point the matter is back in this Committee Supervisor kim. Thank you chair cohen and supervisor wiener for hearing this item i want to recognize all the members of the public that came out to speak on both sides of the aisle both sides of this proposed ordinance i want to add a number of issues from the small Property Owners are san bruno but the exist law should be protecting you, i dont know if we need to work with our organizations to make sure that were educating our Property Owners on the rights around a number of the situations theyve presented today, we counter have existing law that protects you in a number of circumstances and maybe additional education work and outreach to make sure that you know how to utilize your rights from the lending i think this is incredibly important and we have enough stories but demonstrate this legislation is absolutely needed and there is an existing legislation that is protecting the tenants from those frivolous eviction and i said to expresses my supports for supervisor cohens amend and assuring that in a case we cant make a unit habitable with the legal use can be a reason we dont want to put any of the tenants in danger i also supports supervisor wieners language on nuisance i thank him for working with the advocates at this time i cant support supervisor wieners amendment limit roommates to a carr and so so i wont be supporting that amendment today, im open to having a discussion on year limits on the hall of fame o Basil Hawkins but thats my position. Thank you, supervisor kim and ladies and gentlemen, she recapped some of the amendments we heard 4 hours comboo ago i have a couple of remarks i heard a lot of disconcerting stories from tenants we acquit possible need to go back and visit one the Service Providers on the ground providing services to tenants making sure they have all the information to pass on to the two tenants but sharing little reddish is doing their Due Diligence and making sure their outreaching for multiple languages and that the outreach is conducted by people that are culturally competent and combrountd in the community and have a certain level of understanding to whom theyre talking about to and about i also where to begin supervisor kim thank you for bringing in other hot topic and to the folks that come out to speak we appreciate you i believe the legislation will help to keep residents in San Francisco theres administrations well be discussing i made amendments. Thank you for supporting them supervisor kim i have a few modifications that will help the city to tackle Code Enforcement issues get less voice in todays hearing this is important in the bayview and Visitacion Valley coping Property Owners accountable to make sure the dwellings are at code standard i know that some of us have difference in opinion on roommates i believe that roments are helping people stay in San Francisco i believe that weve got to have safeguards to help to petition the rebdz for utility pass through we refer the right to evict bad tenants were under an unfortunate space i imagine a handful a small bunch ever landlords are take advantage of this housing crisis and that is what the month has paid attention to that is why were here i personally know landlords that are good honorable people and heard from landlords that are good honorable people and unfortunately, we all paying the price for those who are benioff badly the legislation strikes a fair balance and glad do to support it with mainstreams i first would like to take a motion im sorry theres no seconds okay. Just to everyone knows we are going to take the amendments ive proposed and tale with supervisor wieners amendments second so is there a motion to accept thank you very much. Were anxious to get out of here supervisor wiener accepted it and madam clerk my academies to the ordinance passes unanimously thank you very much now im going to call on supervisor wiener to recap. Thank you very much park and everyone that came out for the conversation i think whatever side wins on is the the passion and i think how critically important housing is in the city and the stent and depth the countrys were in the youve heard what the causes are or where we should go were in agreement were in a crisis i think a couple of things i want to point out and supervisor cohen alluded to there was discussion about horrible landlords and some problematic tenants i mentioned this at at last hearing there are terrible all right but theyre a small minority their problematic tenants and theyre also a small minority most landlords and tenants just want to live their lives successful and go about their lives not looking for trouble i think that is important to keep that big picture in mind as we pass legislation were not targeting to a small group of bad actors. Looking at the board inspection i think that is important weve heard today some Horror Stories about action from landlords and tenants and in a number of situation the conduct ive heard not just today is already illegal i mean this is the most strom egregious example this is so clearly illegal under the existing lay which is why shes been suit by the City Attorneys Office this is a good thing and we know that that or some of the connecting conduct weve heard from the city where the tenants were doing also seems to be illegal already to well have to make sure that in addition to whatever legislation we pass to the allow i law in existence is being enforced and i unfortunately, there are some people who no matter what laws theyre demonstrated to violate the law theyll violate the law weve pass hundred laws with that said, i mentioned i outlined several amendments at the beginning of the hearing i want to proceed with them i guess one by one the first is i think it the most significant making sure were just tighten the language around the nuisance violations so i did state that amendments at the beginning weve got unanimous support. Thank you to alled to accompany with that amendment i mepdz up the payment and line numbers at the beginning i want to make sure im stating the correct line numbers this is to do with the paragraph on page 9 lines it 2 deletes the lines when the landlords commence it starts with the tenant and on line 21 in the, comma insert quote the activists are severe or reoccurring in nature comma thats the First Amendment ill move that amendment. Without observation let me context any discussion on the prototype amendment supervisor wiener is proposing. This is on the first thing on. Page 22 lines. So well take that without objection. This amendment passes. All right. So the Second Amendment which first of all, im not going to based my discussion with mr. Collier when he was giving Public Comment im not going to move the caregiver exception because according to mr. Collier that exists under state law and hes been so involved im defer not move that i do continue to think that the i supported flexibility in people having roormentd im supportive of what was passed in terms of the allowing Family Members to move in we have a provision from the roommate leaves the tenant what swap in another member if we not have to azusa of the current definition that is certainly a liability conversation will you to be clear what we have before us today is not that this goes well beyond that and i respectfully disagree with mr. Weaver it eliminations all the ability of the landlord to have any control over sub tenants that come in it eliminates any lease restriction and you can bring under as many suck tenants as what the housing code provides this a major, major major step in terms of eliminating lease provisions liam around the subsidy leasing and eliminating the ability of landlords to have control understood the landlords can go down and receive more rents from sub leases is stroll limited in reality didnt happen so i cant say supports that i minds that this year a lot of reasons like preside wanting to roommates this goes too far my motion to remove the language on page 8 line 8 extend page 9 line 9. Okay. Thats my motion a roach. Im speak to this and share my thoughts and concerns weve identified earlier in the conversation there are a few bad actors egregious and what concerns me if we give anyone an inch a tiny opportunity they will come in and exploit a situation in the hopes to turnover their units the issue of roommates is really a challenging one it is anyone one of the most critical pieces of this legislation the majority of landlords will not have an additional one roommate but some a opportunities to recovery the units to get rents im afraid in this compliment people do need to move in with family and friends and to help to make their ends meet and to stay and remain in San Francisco you know, i agree there are current laws that allow for additional occupants like a family or children believe that is also to too narrow even though we add a caregiver which some have agreed we should i think we should i dont know it captures everything that is permitted in a time of the housing crisis we need to give me people options to stay in their home and this legislation also still appraise for the landlord to petition the rebdz for an increase based on the new occupant to begin to recovery or cover the costs of a additional Building Maintenance facilities costs i believe are reasonable now this may result in in problems tenants are units but landlord will still be allowed to address some of the issues with an eviction and using the fact that everyone can move in as an as accuse to evict a tenants thats where i am not comfortable and not able to support this. One possibility to allow people to add one person period putting aside the family you know that to me would be reasonable but my concern not the flexibility as roommates i understand and people are a lot of needs and to be able to stay in their homes but this goes all the way so if you rent out two bedroom apartment to someone there could be 4 or 5 people had that are living there whether or not the lease or the landlord has accepted it. So youre saying put a restriction. If theres a middle ground to do it as putting again not passing the Family Communication t it exists but someone can put one additional roommate in not their Family Member and so this would be a way if someone needs a roommate but not going all the way and which is to me is one the concerns ive heard and understand. Do you want to amend our motion to reflect that i think you might have confines. Weve hit the middle ground the legislative aide to board president london breed has the right to appeal the additional roommates regardless of the code saying it is unreasonable that can be mediated we should have a number of rooms to be set or trailer we have a building fire code is sets what is the leg number of occupants of a studio or one or 2, 3, or 4 bedroom based on law and policies and dbi and planning and our housing code and in the legislation it is the lesser of the code for the limits i believe weve hit even though my mind ground on the the roments allowance i agree with supervisor cohen i think at a time like now many attendants are looking for a roommate to help to ease see rental burdens to stay in San Francisco i have to say in the last couple of months i see the number of folks legacy the city it is greater than i really seen or observed a couple of months ago and certainly been seeing it as election time were going out and hitting the voters the number of people from last year is astonishing whatever we can do to support the residents as long as under the legal Building Code we shouldnt set arbitrarily by the leases. So lemon ill jump in here for the folks listening at home the rebdz threshold are as follows a to as a 420th century person maximum and one bedroom 3 and 3, 6 and 4 bedroom an 8 percent maximum. Thats correct. Yes. Thats correct. No, no im sorry youve had our chance you had 5 hours supervisors what do you want to do. Why not go ahead and voted an up and down vote m could you please call the roll this is for the amendment that supervisor wiener is just introduced arrest the exception and exactly. Well, the removal of language. Okay thank you on that motion is from supervisor wiener supervisor kim no supervisor wiener supervisor cohen no. Two notice nos. The final amendment ive outlined at the begin on page 57 lines 5 to 9 the cost to paragraph after blow comma for the next a years from termination comma to have this time limit and i think this is reasonable given what were making it consistent with the ellis act and in this situation is it so truly an owner move in when your lived in our units i can accept that. I too can support that. Great thats my motion. All right. Supervisor wiener motion made it sounds like perry this motion has unanimous supports so that item passes. Thank you, commissioners im going to you support this legislation im going to support putting it out of committee with a positive recommendation except for the sub leasing portion which i outlined in any motion so ill ask we existed the questions so that and then ill make a montgomery motion to forward the entire ordinance plus that with a positive recommendation and ask we votes separate. No problem before that supervisor kim has reminded me shes got an additional amendments. I was reminded by the City Attorney i have one meantime . In the substantive it was left ousted a section two a clause between the ordinance so 0 thats my motion. Okay. Thank you. Well take that without objection. That motion carries. So supervisor wiener is asked we duplicate the foil. No divide the question. Divide the question. Ill make a motion to opening it up for Public Comment everything kipts for the sub leasing section ive outlined via motion and vote on that separately. Can we take that motion well take that without objection. Colleagues i dont think that is a motion. Thank you for the correction. John gibner do we need to hold this in committee. No with the amendments that are adapted you dont need to you can send it all out in terms of dividing the question on this two separate vows one those roommate and the second on ever chiropractor order. Thanks for the clarification so the first one on roommate. Why not the first ill move to forward the rest of the ordinance plus the roommate i move we send it to the full board with a positive recommendation right well take that without objection. That passes on the reminder does someone else have to make that motion how does that work. Exactly this is the fit ive seen this in committee the question is usually on the floor you want someone to make the motion. Supervisor kim. Ill make a motion to move forward the roommate portion on 7 or 9. Panning 8 and 9 line 6 through page 9 line 17 and with a positive recommendation i think that is page 8 line 8 through page 9 line 17 18 is the nuisance oh. Okay. Your right. Yes. Youre right. Supervisor kim. Ill i move we send it to the full board with a positive recommendation to the full board. Right roll call vote please. On that motion. Supervisor kim supervisor wiener no supervisor cowen two is one no. Thank you. The that motion carries thank you, colleagues and thanks for moving this outs i look forward to seeing everyone last thank you. Do leave we have 5 more items on the agendas laughter im sorry what did you say all right. Ladies and gentlemen, this meeting is adjourned. You scared mesmall Business Commission you know does with this information that you may not yet determine but there may be some policy direction that you may y want to provide. There is an appeal that we can make with the city improve its Transportation System and that we have a reasonableal plan that improves the mobility of people inter city. We should look at immediate solutions. So this seems to be kind of an remedial solution to these areas. At least try to fulfill their needs and then make a policy and statement in general. I tell all of my employees to adjust our schedule. I cant stand it when i hear someone who got a ticket who if they are making minimum wage. A 75 ticket black and white oh black bliterates what you made. You cant buy lunch in San Francisco for 5. If you got a ticket everyday, that aint going to work. Right, for our Retail Businesses its not possible to leave the floor when you have customers standing in line to move the car. Actually when its difficult to man those positions you have two people on the floor so 1 person can watch while the other person moves their car. We cant have people running outside every 2 hours to move their cars and turn off the factory its absurd. Business owners will have to be adaptable to allow their employees to deal with the inadequacy of Public Transportation and the employees will have to do their part to compensate for that. Sorry, but there is no two ways about it. I dont see any shortterm or remediation to this frankly. We are going to talk about it until we are blue in the face. There is longterm solution and shortterm solutions are going to be accommodations by employers and the employees and your 8hour day is now a 10hour day and you spend an hour on either end commuting. Thank you for that discussion. Then i just want to also bring to your attention that if im getting a few calls or similar calls from businesses. So recently i did receive two calls regarding coverage for businesses that are having to close while the retrofitting work is taking place. So fortunately the landlord is not, they are closing, fortunate for them the landlord is still going to continue to lease to them, but the unfortunate element is that they are having to close their business for 3 4 months to do it. So, just they called to check to see if there is any sort of resources or assistance that was thought about for businesses for having to close. So and the answer is no . There was nothing planned. They would not be paying rent . Likely not. If they are employees. They have to pay the store. And you know hopefully some businesses will have Business Interruption insurance that they maybe able to rely on but not all may. And then i just provided a list of some future presentations that will be ahead. And then that we will be receiving the super bowl presentation from jason tremu at the next meeting. And then a list, a calendar list looking at 2016 meeting schedule. I have it here. Just for your information. May because of Small Business week we will be canceling that meeting and it will be to your discretion as to whether as we get closer to have a meeting on may 30th or just the one meeting a month. Okay. Awesome. Is that it . Then lastly, i want to mention that i did attend a Panel Presentation to discuss minimum wage and other employer mandates at people wear and apparel Manufacturing Organization and it was a very interesting discussion regarding workforce. And dealing with the local and regional issues and as you are acutely aware of commissioner white about the reduction of manufacturers in San Francisco and also it was an opportunity to sort of begin to have some discussion about Property Owner ship as well. So i think that will be a program that we can develop through the legacy business as an initiative but i think Property Owner ship in general will be a good program whether there is anything behind it other than just packaging the how to will be something that will be a benefit to our businesses. The best form of rent control. So that concludes my report. Okay. Thank you. Item no. 7 is president s report. I only have to report as you mentioned that i do attend the shop local meeting which is the collaboration between oewb and the chamber of commerce and its focused primarily presently on kind of a business to consumer more specifically retailer to consumer communication effort and an attempt to garner some fund to Campaign Around the holidays. Its not clear where that money is going to come from. On the business side there is a meeting or sort of a meet and greet planned as promised. Thats being organizeded by the chamber of commerce on october 22 nd and they are looking for a venue and asking me what recommendations i have for 80120 people. Im in big time in favor of that. Other than it was a quiet month with everyone on recess. City clerk item nor 8. Vicepresident s report. Nothing to report. Commissioners, got any reports . No. Nothing to report. No demerits for having no reports. Item 10. New business. None. Seeing none. All right. Commissioners we are now onto item november 11th. Adjournment. Here it comes. I motion to adjourn. Second that. All in favor say, aye. Aye. Any opposed . We are adjourned at 6 25. [ meeting is adjourned ]. My name is jaeven alexander an attorney for the San Francisco City Attorneys Office i inspires the tax team give tax advise to the treasurer and drafting tax legislation the thing i remember any mother telling me as a child but need to be prepared to take care of youve i know you wanted to burger to do something i enjoyed i did not expect anyone to gym give me anything they didnt give her anything i saw her fighting for the things she wanted for home share my name is jason man flovrlz working alien agency an admin assistants at the City Attorneys Office i felt in the tasks ive been given on the days i didnt show up and held my own for me, i think it is being more active and being more involved in a person to person interaction my grievous bodily harm jobs includes being a physician or nurse or pharmacy or firefighter and working with animal or the public on a personal level for improvements my sister is the biggest influence in any life because she to tell you the truth me to go forward what makes you happy rather than the most money. I graduated from law school in 1972 at this point when was was beginning to be an influx of women in the professional and tries case for diligent operated programs government budgets and a life fiscal legislation came to the San Francisco City Attorneys Office and been here for about 12 years advising think tax matters i does just about anything to think of lawyers do some things and some negligence letters dont do. Im from the mission and grew up and also there my whole life living there you see others question. Some of them oldest and some look like me my age and a lot of them work nanny and childcare jobs and retail jobs i dont know it is being kind of like a reminder that youre kind of lucky to be where you or i guess just the facts whether you havent gone so far at all i want them to go maybe go on an intrauf for challenging that is facing things they cant get that job you know kind of challenge and maybe surprise themselves when they get that job and feel better. They have been women practicing law for many years but it was so few of them that a lot of the issues hadnt really come into play and some of them were fairly worked out and resolves like equal pay in partnerships in law firms mac that women get fair assignments to be excluded and in the upper levels of government and law firms i consider myself more of a beneficiary of all the women that fought really difficult battles along the wayl ] okay. I would like to call to order the vision zeros meeting for thursday, september 10th. Our chair is on her way. We wanted to get started and be respectful of peoples time. Supervisor norman yee the clerk today is steve stamos. I would like to thank staff from sf govtv, charles and bill dylan for recording each one of these meetings and making available the recordings to the public. Im so used to seeing madam clerk. Mr. Clerk, item no. Are there any announcements . There are no announcements. Can you call item 1. City clerk item 1 roll call. Mr. Kim, mr. Mar, mr. Yee. We have a quorum. Item no. 2. Approve the minutes of may 21, 2015 meeting. This is an action item. Supervisor norman yee okay. Is there any Public Comments on this . Is there any additional Public Comment . Seeing none, Public Comment is closed. Can i have a motion . I move approval of the minutes. No objection. Motion passes. Roll call vote. City clerk commissioner farrell, commissioner mar, absent. Commissioner yee. Minutes passes. Item 3. Vision zero progress report. Information item. Good afternoon, supervisors. Happy to be here today to talk about our progress towards the education, engineering, evaluation and policy goals of vision zero. Can we put the powerpoint up. Well start with the overview of our accomplishment of vision zero. Weve had a lot of great accomplishments and project delivery. Most have visibly. The restrictions on Market Street at the most danger dangerous intersections and we continue with other bus lanes and we are currently working on a comprehensive evaluation looking at safety issues, traffic congestion, transit performance and proposals. It a really exciting project and im happy to report that project which we legislated and we are going to turn long before the school year. Now upper Market Street, with crosswalks and including some no turn. That was implemented on august 20th. And we have lots of great features for cyclist and motorist as well. We have 17 of the 24 projects that we promised to get done. We are on our way delivering before our deadline of january 16th. The project continues to accelerate and as we start to close out that first generational project we are working cross over to different agencies to define the next generation of projects. By end of 2015 we will have touched 20 miles of San Francisco and we have far exceeded that for 2015 which is great and we are saying what are we going to be able to accomplish in the years to come. So even if we had 23, for 2015 we have miles to be treated and because we have put in a safety treatment under those 20 miles, doesnt mean that we solve all the safety problems there. We continue to monitor the impact and effectiveness of the work weve done and look for opportunities to make some projects more robust going forward. We also know that while over 70 of fatalities are on the network, most of the street mileage in the cities are off the network and we have to address that other 30 to continue to work on more Community Based projects around everything from schools, request driven for traffic calming and daylighting and sidewalks and building Pedestrian Safety features and just about every project that mta does. Weve been reviewing our Capital Program to see where whats the extent of that commitment. There is over 160 projects within the mta Capital Program that have some kind of vision zero pedestrian traffic with safety impact. Those are Capital Projects like bulb outs and projects that does not even include the thousands of intersection signal tweaks, crosswalk paintings that we paint every year. Secondly we are working really hard to continue to improve our coordination with other entities who are doing construction here in the city. So weve got a really nice process going with public works where we are coordinating at the staff level to ensure any projects on the Energy Network to include as many features as possible and starting to expand that project with cal trans and parts with and other operators and Public Utilities commission and adequate lighting at intersections. Many of the crashes have a variety of causes and often people are reporting they are unable to see each other at night. We are exploring ways which we can both through they are work and pg es work to bring better visibility and better lighting to crosswalks and traffic areas. Supervisor jane kim have those intersections been identified as the lighting is less than it should be for visibility . Thats a good question and a question we are trying to answer right now with a good ask for our partners. This is what we want to come back and talk about more in the future. A couple more things i want to highlight in the engineering and project delivery areas. We issued the first general obligation bonds. A half billion voted to support in prop a last year and 6 million of those dollars is going towards Pedestrian Safety projects. Another 5 million prop b general Fund Revenues are going to support both pedestrian and Traffic Safety projects. So the decisions that the voters made in 2014 are already bearing fruit to 11 million for a quick delivery of high priority projects. In addition, we already have about 10 miles of corridors that have been approved and approved by the mta board and in construction or construction is under way or are complete. There is over 100 Pedestrian Safety bulbs in these projects. Its the first 10 miles. So, another topic we want to be talking about this in the future. There is a huge piece of that prop a that in investors supported last year and just the traffic investment and getting as many safety improvements on the street as we can as part of those investments. Finally we are doing some really transformative projects beginning construction in 2016. Sonic avenue complete street and Second Street and polk street. So it would be great to see the Public Works Department breaking ground with all of those projects in 2016. Moving over to education. We are going to have a much more detailed review of the safe street sf evaluation later in the agenda. So i just want to highlight a couple of the targeted safety campaigns we have under way right now. We have completed and released the largest vehicle driving safety video of truckers to operate safely on congested streets in San Francisco. You can find it on our vision zero sf Youtube Channel and cable cars and operators as passengers are struck by vehicles. We are working with all the Police Districts around the city to distribute flyers in the residential neighborhoods in San Francisco and especially to customers and Hotel Visitors telling them how to safely drive and navigate cars around the cable cars. We also have a Bicycle Safety campaign focused on the very serious issue of right turns striking cyclist at intersections and this campaign focuses on instructing drivers so they dont strike cyclist and at the same time cyclist do pass turning vehicles on the left so they do not turn on blind spots. We have funding in place in the Safety Program that weve talked about at previous hearings and we have the walk to school day on october 7th, which we are all looking forward to. The last piece education update is some really good news about the budget. 3 months we came and talked about the need for target for funding for education and we are really thankful to everyone who through the process, the mayors budget process and through your own advocacy brought together 765,000. We are going to be releasing that in the rfp next week and taking the money that everyone here was able to prioritize and put together and immediately get the rfp out on the street to get the campaign going. That concludes engineering and education. Supervisor jane kim thank you. Anything from Community Members . I want to apologize for getting to the meeting late. I want to thank you for the report. The 34th and king is good to know. That is what residents asked for. My one follow up question would be for getting a sense of the next 24 projects would be . I do want to congratulations sf mta for coming close and before the two yoors time to be on pace to complete the 24 projects in 24 months. That is very appreciated and of course we want to keep that successful piece going. I would love to get a sense of the Second Generation will be. That will be something we can come back to talk about. Great. Seeing no further questions. I will turn it over to mr. Maddox who will go over the enforcement part. Good afternoon, supervisors. I gave this presentation last night to the Police Commission and what i did was report it out on the Second Quarter of 2015. The numbers look great. If you remember the First Quarter at 15 and now at 32 . As you can see the number of the Tactical Division skew the active. They are primary and only function is crime prevention. Not that collisions are not a traffic crime, but they dont focus on the five like the other units do. So again, the growth was great between the first and Second Quarter as you can see and we are on par to issue the same amount of citations as last year. Not only are they drilling down on the top five collision factors, speeding, red light and failure to yield to pedestrians and they are continuing to issue the high number of citations as last year which was the most in recorded history. What we have here is by mode, a slight change here as well. We focus primarily on vehicles because they do the most damage in any kind of collision. Last year we were at 96 , auto, 3 ped and less than 1 bikes and the change is 97 to 1. This slide as well. Red light cameras are way down because of the construction and the red lights will be replaced after the construction is done and you can see the focus on the 5 of 28 . Stop signs, the First Quarter i told you that in some districts stop signs are not even applicable. Thats the only drop we see. We see a huge increase and which is catastrophic in a collision. And here we just have another graph showing where we are focusing on the 5 and the growth we see on those five categories. Okay. This graph again shows focusing on the 5 by station. You can see the growth. Southern station, dont discount the work they do there because the Traffic Company primarily covers the southern district. Dont lose outed of the fact that the Traffic Company has daily assignments if you want to call it that. Monday through friday they are doing a block to box enforcement and they are doing the transit only enforcement. That kind of takes away from their five. If we backed out, the traffic companies special operation enforcement they are almost at 60 focusing on 5 and they primarily cover the southern district. The southern looks low where they are but they get the bull commissioner omar bulk of the traffic enforcement. The pie chart shows where we focus our efforts and speed, mta will put the information to speed factor and collisions and with a big light ar program and our officers will be trained on how to use the device and well be doing a lot of Speed Enforcement. This is in anticipation of maybe some day going to automated Speed Enforcement. Until that point we are doing it ourselves. The pie chart demonstrates where we are focusing. The fatalities by mode here year to date in the Second Quarter, we are at 14 whereas 2014 we were at 16. You can see how there was nobody killed drive a vehicle in that quarter, the first half of the year there. Were three motorcyclist killed, two bicyclist, seven pedestrians and two others. I can explain that if you want. I was asked to speak about the parking control officer enforcement. Supervisor wiener was able to get us to write more citations for traffic flow throughout the city. They are at 300 . This is information provided by dpt supervisor jane kim when i read intersection grid lock i assumed it was the block box program. This is actually the double parking . This is double parking and block the box. The example was double parking because many commercial corridors and thoroughfares throughout the city and the department. What are the actual numbers . 300 . When you say the citations went up 300 , what are the actual numbers . There is going to be a more detailed presentation. We are excited we have six more schools coming on board with the School Crossing program. Supervisor yee . Supervisor norman yee im excited too. Any other questions about enforcement . Supervisor norman yee in regards to the citations to the pedestrians, do you have a way to break it down . Were they crossing against red lights, im just curious in terms of what we see, with bad behavior . We have the data. I can break it down from Traffic Company only. I cant break it out from the different stations. I dont have a literal number in front of me but jaywalking is predominantly it and with fatalities involved are jaywalking. I can get back to you with the numbers. That would be appreciated. Supervisor jane kim any other questions. Mine was the same which was on the pedestrian tickets and i noticed that the tenderloin has the most significant numbers of pedestrian tickets at 21 whereas most other stations are below 6 , 3 . I imagine thats something that i can talk to the captain about and i know we have a lot of jaywalking in the tenderloin and over 90 of residents dont have cars and i was really curious about that number and the motivation for the time of that data point. Right, and the officers are walking a lot down there too. That could be the nexus as well. Supervisor jane kim thank you very much for this presentation. Im still absorbing all the numbers here. It seems there has been a tremendous effort on all the parts on the number of violations that will lead hopefully to more safety on our streets and change Driver Behavior. Thats really xreeshtd. Appreciated. I want to ask if you are getting help with this data. Single family house we are getting help through other traffic agencies and we gave a presentation to the Police Commission. That will help a lot. The data is very appreciated. Also want to emphasize we dont want it all to fall on your plate. Thank you. Thank you. Good afternoon, commissioners megan wiers with department of Public Health. I want to continue the presentation. With an update on the evaluation and policy pieces of vision zero. We are happy to be here with the evaluation on the streets sf and working on the comprehension surveillance street Information System and its procured and working on that linkage so far and working on the data. The data from the hospital as well as the crossroads data from the Police Department and well be bringing all of those pieces together and summary of the severe injury data of the General Hospital was reported earlier at the Task Force Meeting. We also are working to expand transbay as the central repository for vision zero and working with the Planning Department to get feedback and help educate more staff about it as a resource and figure out how it can be more useful and what other interfaces we can incorporate in the next iteration to help ensure that data for vision zero to move forward. We were also asked to present at the june 2015 National Health impact meeting in washington d. C. And the grant for the model practice. We have a question from commissioner mar . Supervisor eric mar can you walk us through transbay. Org is . Its a spatial analytic. A lot of the data that we have in San Francisco thanks to Initiative Like data sf has data that can be readily mapped. What transbay does is brings data about intersection and links the data on the character institution characteristics of our streets and the information from the census and a lot of data that help us provide for a context of where our injuries happen. Is there a gis system for Health Equity from noise to accidents to other impacts especially in low income areas . It overlaps like other systems that we use . It brings in a lot of data from the San Francisco indicator project that you mentioned. However the San Francisco indicator project that typically a small level, it brings data ready to go analysis for people ready to go analysis you can download the entire data and do it and has some really user friendly interfaces that we are happy to share. We will continue our outreach. So if you go on the site, there is maps readily available for example you can do injury maps in the city and then another way that is unique but its really been an organic collaborative project across other agencies. So we began to develop it through pedestrian strategies and continued to grow and be institutionalized was also developed with all over data and open software. So its essentially created from Software Online to be shared with other city. For example los angeles is replicating transbay in their collaboration with dot and we are able to share with other jurisdictions pretty much the nuts and bolts of how its used. The key input to walk first. The walk first analysis was conducted with transbay with back end data. With open source data, its not controlled by a private company, but its something that is accessible to everybody and nonprofits to walk sf can access and utilities utilize this safety sure measure . Correct. Also well be presenting more detailed information later in this meeting and continue to see the momentum with vision zero and los angeles including san jose. We had four delegates from san jose and director of dot that came to the Task Force Meeting this week to learn about what we are doing and how we can partner. San diego and san mateo and at the federal level the u. S. Congress of mayors submitted a resolution to support the goal of vision zero submitted by mayors including mayor lee including 270 mayors which is included in the packet and sf dot which is the National City of transportation officials and on going Peer Exchange regarding vision zero across the country. That concludes our progress report. Are there any other questions . Supervisor jane kim no questions. Thank you very much. That concludes the report for item no. 3. At this time well take Public Comment on this item. Public speaker good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen, my name is roger basely, the transportation advocate for San Francisco. I team up with legislators and pta and other organizations to get improvements. I think to say it shortly we are strong in Infrastructure Improvements the last 2 years which has made me happy and made this city much more comfortable to walk but we had a population and business exploitation which has taken some of those improvements by shear congestion and management issues. Stad of instead of hitting on the cars, the cars are not able to see in the daytime and not on areas where they should be and that includes people from europe in other places. I have seen families with kids without helmets and ride roads which are so narrow like bay avenue and fisherman. Wharf area. Even if we cant legislate or regulate that. Im for that. Where its recommended to wear a helmet and deflected material to ride a bike. That should be handled to all areas because its a problem. I noticed the motorcycles are up 50 , sadly, my daughter had to as transportation was not running on the 19th avenue where San Francisco state area where she lives. She moved back to San Francisco with one of the new high tech start ups and on that side of the city there is no transportation and she made a bad decision of buying a motorcycles and she got hit and into a tree. Supervisor mar knows her well. We had to purchase a car and its shared between the two of us. She had a two 1 2 hour commute each way. What i was going to try to regulate as the commuter buses go through they have a lot of seats and serve the under served areas of the city. As a policy i would like to see by a ticket that my daughter wouldnt have to be forced to buy a car. Thank you very much. Supervisor jane kim just to keep in mind, i thought it was the first bell, but it was the second. Thank you. Public speaker good afternoon, supervisors. Im charles on behalf of the taxi company. Im here to give credit where its due. The mta and Taxi Services division has been working with the taxi industry to help us improve our Driver Safety standards beginning very shortly as we renew our taxi driver permits we will all view a Pedestrian Safety video which i have had a chance to preview which is very effective and emotionally powerful video. We will expect it will have a positive effect on driving behavior. So we are absolutely delighted with the mta work to approve our Safety Operations and the Driver Training we conduct ourselves. Supervisor jane kim thank you and its also great to hear from those watching the video and getting feedback. Thank you very much for coming to comment on our education program. Is there any additional Public Comment . Seeing none, Public Comment is closed. Mr. Clerk, can we call the next item. 92 city clerk item 4. It stops here Campaign Evaluation results. Information item. John, nox from the San Francisco transportation agency. Its very good to be here. First to discuss San Francisco it stops here campaign. Weve been here a few times through the development of the program and to pass on what we think is pretty good news for the evaluation. Secondly i think this is a great time to be able to celebrate the amazing work that our department of Public Health did in doing this evaluation. For me a take away beyond what we learned about the program was just kind of the level of effort thats being put into looking at our programs and making sure we are doing good work here and as somebody thats looked at evaluations and Pedestrian Safety and media across the country as we look at all the efforts through this. I think its important at the beginning of this discussion to call out how much work they did and what a National Level that work is done. So, obviously this vision zero committee. I dont need to tell you what vision zero is. This is recentering why we are here to reduce fatalities and people who die on the streets and people who love them around them. The safe streets San Francisco campaign with partnerships with the department of Public Health and Police Department and walk San Francisco. We also worked with four Community Partners. Fortunately we have three of them here and cdc with the San Francisco Conservation Corp who provide outreach for the areas we are working in. This is a long term, weve talked a lot about education strategy about this being a long term. This is a shortterm strategy. We talked about 3 months media and 2 months force enforcement. We have seen some positive enforcement here and we will continue to see some pretty solid citywide outcomes. The billboards and four key corridors. Gary and mission streets. It was talking to drivers about focus groups that help us identify there is a lot of confusion about what is a crosswalk, if its marked or unmarked for crosswalks and secondly who has the rightofway for the crosswalks. The drivers felt confident they were doing everything they could to keep people safe however we are doing more if we can give them better direction and help them understand to make things safe. They are very clear they didnt want to share the road message and didnt want to be told to slowdown because they are not supposed to be driving fast but a more directive campaigns and focus groups designed to help them understand that they should stop before the crosswalk. The campaign itself was multifaceted and multipronged which started in october of last year and billboards going up at the bay bridge crossing as well as the major corridors leading to mission and the aspects which had over Time Police Officers down on these four corridors doing extra and intensive violation enforcement from october through february of this year. We were working with our Community Partners between january and march of this year to speak to not just drivers on the corridors but pedestrians and we wanted to make sure we were speaking to all people involved in the interactions, not just trying to point to one Single Person we also believed very strongly that people who are walking they are often people who have driven to an area and when we are addressing to them as pedestrians we are able to discuss Driver Behavior even at that very moment. Supervisor jane kim im sorry, john, you mentioned at the beginning which quarter. I only heard kearney. Geary and mission. Thank you. Were there specific portions of geary and mission . Yes. Mission was from 101 to 20th street. Geary was up about 4 blocks either side of third street, i believe. Part of the evaluation before we go ahead to the dph side. We did surveys of people who drive regularly through the city. It was defined as a few times a month. Driving whether they were San Francisco residents driving throughout city. We did that to identify the message of what people wanted to hear. We had the focus groups etc and we went back and did another survey panel after the fact to find out whether there were people seeing the message we had our there and any changes to the rules. What we found 44 of the surveyed had seen the pedestrian message and these were people from throughout the city and not just people that lived on or near the corridor but from all corridors of the city. All of the people who had seen the message they were much more confident in the understanding of what the rules were related to what is a crosswalk, that unmarked crosswalks are also legal crosswalks and pedestrians had the rightofway to the crosswalk and even the small 2 months window of marketing we can have an impact of reaching quite a few people across the city and we can communicate meaning fully the rules of the road, etc. Im going to invite megan up here now to talk about the on street evaluation. Thank you. To dive into evaluation it was a 43week evaluation. We are looking specifically at drivers yielding to pedestrians. At the right of the slide you can see the different phases. We start out with a pretest before any intervention broken down to corridors and the buses media and the more Massive Media campaign and enforcement only and the grass roots corridors and when the campaign ended and we had field staff at the intersections. We had drivers for two 1 2 hours each week assessing the drivers yielding protocol to the National High Safety Measures and the unc. We are specifically looking at four targeted intersection for interventions and control and are vehicle yieldings to pedestrians to the walk safety to the pedestrian signals. All were pedestrian count down signals where they were all signalized and specifically driver turning. We have fillmore, barton and oh farrell and mission and south van ness and 24th with the mission and 20. The control intersections are very important for this evaluation. If we can do a good match essentially they help us become confident and it wasnt just some trend over time and true intervention. Matching them as best we could with all the factors on the left. This is an example where all of this data was with data analyst and selected the best intersections and we drove around the city for 5 hours to make sure they were a good match. For the evaluation analysis im going to describe two different approaches looking at this data looking at what happened at the intervention sites and for the period and how can we compare the two. The intervention sites what we saw is over the phases a gradual but significant where the green boxes indicate where it was significant relative to the pretest in crease in driver yielding at the intervention sites. Overall approximately 3 4 increase across those sites. What was interesting when we looked at the control sites we did not see that pattern. Essentially none of the findings were significant at control until the test where it was decreased. During the first two stages it was relatively stable and when we got to the enforcement regroup outreach started to decline as some of our control sites. So, when we looked at the overall changes in free test rates versus the different phases what we saw was significant increases in the intervention sites relative to the control sites in the desired direction over time and throughout the period. You know, the percent increases even larger than what we saw when we are just looking at intervention pretest compared to our control sites because of that decline that they were seeing during the same period. So what does that overall mean . We saw 3 4 increase and looking at relative to control sites driving rates were significantly higher in a positive direction. What does this really mean . At all the intervention sites at 84 at present test and post test 84 which sounds relatively high to begin with. But when we think of San Francisco and the number of people crossing at any intersection and drivers at peak periods we see a higher number of injuries. This is a lot of yielding and yielding to pedestrians and failure to yield is the number one cause of injuries to pedestrians in our city. In the study there is approximately 60 opportunities for yielding to pedestrians at crosswalk. But at the 200 crosswalk in our High Injury Network where someone is injured due to lack of yielding, its almost 14,000 opportunities for drivers to yield in a commute hour. Its essentially 400 more drivers yielding at peak commute to pedestrians. This is important because its these kinds of conflicts that result in injuries to people walking and worst case scenario, death. So i wanted to just acknowledge the work of the dph team on this are deven morris and staff tracy and adam who spent a lot of time at these corridors and made sure they can do this work. Supervisor jane kim thank you, any questions or comments on this presentation . Commissioner yee . No. I actually wasnt aware this was done. Its interesting to see. We often ask whether these efforts are making a difference even though they should be. It was great to see there was an improvement on these corridors. Im really curious and you might have mentioned it really quickly in the beginning and i missed it how you picked what you thought were comparable interactions. Sure. We looked at the factors on the left. Where there is a signal. All of these factors. And then picked the intersection that matched the most comparable and intervention intersection and went out to the field and drove around. Interesting. I would not think that larkin and oh farrell are comparable intersection like folsom and mission. I know it was really challenging because what we didnt want to do was get an intersection too close to the intervention intersection because then there is likely an effect of the intervention proximate but i would be happy to share more detail about what the matching factors were. I think this is great and i think in pure numbers when you broke it down not just by percentages but actually seeing the numbers of improved behavior among the drivers on these corridors, its good to know the effort achieving outcomes. We were really happy with the findings. Commissioner mar . Supervisor eric mar i wanted to add that geary and lark well intersection where a woman was killed. Im glad that that intersection is being looked at because the institute on aging and Bridge Housing and corner theatre housing where seniors are and there is a Roosevelt Middle School there. I have a question about safe street for seniors and they have focused on attention where large numbers of seniors mixed in with middle schoolers. I know the age really well because of my daughters failure to look where she is going and looking at the iphone like many adults do but i know for middle schoolers thats a chronic problem but for data and yielding positive behavior. Are we also thinking about behavior of pedestrians and how we sometimes contribute to dangerous situations not only bicyclist and motorist as well. Do you want to address that . Sure. There is two ways to answer that question. With the grant written it really did focus mostly on the Driver Behavior. Most of the effort was done towards educating drivers. We did have, im not going to say student specific outreach in this campaign but with did have folks in San Francisco in that area with pamphlets that talked about this area and they were outdoing some of the school walking. I cant guarantee that they spent time talking to students but i did talk to people about that. In our education strategy for vision zero we did identify an annual campaign, we are looking for funding for it, but for on going education. Obviously we have the safe routes for School Program and the safe routes for Seniors Program and from the department of Public Health department is leading that and is at homesick today. We are looking to work with walk San Francisco and others and obviously avoiding any type of shaming message. But if 1 3 of collisions out are there not driver at fault we have some work to talk to people, a about Good Behavior or following the rules so they are not at fault when they get hit and walking that line of giving people information about how to walk safely even if its not their fault. As a father with two High School Kids i talk to them all the time about that. It doesnt matter if you are right if you are dead, right . Its important to talk to those kids. I know not only geary intersection but there is one where park preacid presidio boulevard where they are looking at their device and i know there is a need for education not only of drivers and bicyclist and pedestrians. Hopefully as we get more funding for broader education efforts its targeted at Good Behavior as well. Absolutely. Going back to the budget as well, there is 120 ,000 on that outreach personnel and if there are areas that we know as the intersection we are mentioned is one of them for the people in the community to do some of the outreach that is what we are doing for this year as we are developing some of the longer term strategy. Commissioner, yee . Supervisor norman yee just curious, now that you have the data and you are seeing what the results are, in these pilot areas. What is the implication for the Citywide Campaign in regards to how we would use this information to improve safety . I think and in seeing the results we are really encouraged for the potential for education targeted towards enforcement to have a Significant Impact particularly as the shortterm strategies that are easier to get into the ground. I think with the increased funding for education with targeted enforcement this year well continue to develop targeted information to develop the speed campaign. But i think this is really helping increase everyones confidence that instead of having that impact on a larger cultural change that needs to happen for vision zero and focusing on those corridors where it was targeting education and targeted enforcement. I think the findings can be extrapolated to how those efforts can make an impact. When its targeted its one thing, but are you going to do this and making an attempt to go citywide with this and there are probably a lot of places where the corridors are not as bad but they can be bad because people are not yielding for instance. So how can we get the information out there. What are the strategies . I think im turning to john for that response. So i think we have already one of the things we did even after this, once the evaluation was done, we have as we discussed in the education strategy rebranded this campaign to vision zero and you can still see some of the ads on the tails of the buses in San Francisco. That translated itself into immediate conversation and specifically citing those ads in the media. In terms of, we are working very hard and even actually using this report to use the lessons we are learning in the roll out of these campaigns to get the media to pick up on some of the important lessons to driver yielding and what are the rules to broadcast that throughout the city for antispeeding campaign. We have a bigger budget and that was designed to have a much bigger citywide focus. It will still have some focus corridors and well do some additional corridors on the High Injury Network where speed is an issue but we are rolling that out as a more Citywide Campaign with a more specialized focus aspect to it. Its a hard question to answer because we are going to be looking for the money to continue this to roll it out citywide but we are spending this year and thats what the Program Development and Strategy Development money line item in the budget that we showed earlier is for. Thank you. Thank you very much for this presentation. I also want to acknowledge. Sf mta for helping to fund it stops here with the 1 million transportation grant and also want to make sure we are contributing to the Transportation Campaign and we talked about prioritizing and committed training videos as well. We are happy to have the funding available to make this a reality. At this time we are going to open up for Public Comment on this item. Public speaker roger baysly. We found when i was a member and very involved in the pta, mtc ped and bike and San Francisco community. The dhs at the state level and San Francisco walks and cal trans on safety psas, we found the most effective when we ran the campaign in San Francisco was the back of the bus. It gets the most directed targeted eyes, if you have to sit there on the back of the bus you are going to see that message no matter what you do. As a call back i would say cvs on that. If you do bikes, in most corridors you are targeting your budget. The other things out of the box which i see in japan and europe. The message on board in muni buses, have some safety message on those corridors that come up with a one or two sentences. Please be careful crossing the street. Because the most dangerous accidents is when a person rushes out of a bus and rushes across that blind spot on the bus. The second idea i had out of the box for us since this is a city with social networking is a safety app which can be done on the iphone. If you pass something in the store and it pops up on your iphone, there is no reason that something pops up that says this is a high fatality or high risk area, a lot of traffic congestion. Be careful. You know, somethings like that. There is always tons of stuff coming out of our area. I think we are going to discuss what state relationships and partnerships. I will leave that ramps for that. There is a couple of ideas. Supervisor jane kim thank you very much. Much appreciated. Is there any additional Public Comment . Seeing none, Public Comment is closed. Mr. Clerk, can we please call the next item. City clerk item 5. Update on opportunities to advance vision zero with state agencies. This is an information item. We are interested in providing an update regarding the work that vision zero staff has been doing to advance the state level issues which we though are very important for achieving our goal by 2024. Your packet included the summary of the afternoon workshop we had in april 14th of this year. W our federal and state officials and some of the key issues that were identified in that as opportunities to continue to collaborate to advance vision zero. So i just wanted to highlight some of those key findings and kate is going to talk about more with respect to citywide collaboration to advance these issues. So just a refresher the meeting included the National Highway traffic and Safety Administration and traffic and safety and there is a day long summit. We had the morning speaker session and walking tour workshop and these are identified in the afternoon workshop which included targeted engineering improvement. Key issues included a design standard not being appropriate for urban contacts, the issue of local urban review and cal trans and how Environmental Review to stream line project support delivery and with respect to data driven practice with key issues with having more timely and complete data. Expanding the data collection. On our state highway forms so we are collecting more information about pedestrians and fatalities and agenda for the evaluation of novt iv engineering Counter Measures and we talked about supportive funding and all of these workshops were led by vision zero local leads and how we can seek new funding from state and federal agencies and how funding can be refined to support vision zero and stream lined to support more application for projects for vision zero and quick turn around for getting things in the ground. Finally with respect to issues of funding came up again. The state really pointed out opportunity for locals to being more involved in the california strategic Highway Safety plan that includes a number of areas to specifically address vision zero and the need to address a statewide to support vision zeros goals and policies. Thanks, megan. Good afternoon commissioners. Brieflily there is a lot of words out there and a lot to do. Following that april meeting with the office of Traffic Safety where we did find sort of this enthusiastic partnership. We did have a meeting in sacramento this july. We invited seven of the large cities in california together not just to talk about vision zero but look to other ways where california can have their voice better leveraged at the state level. We have the league of california cities but the larger voice is missing in the conversations when the cities get together. They spent the afternoon talking about vision zero and in the grounding of vision zero there is we have realized there is an opportunity to advance this at the state level for a policy agenda. Thats included in your Action Strategy and includes things such as advancing automated Speed Enforcement which san jose has told us its on their policy for sacramento and what opportunities my exist for that policy change at the state level. In addition to that, i think we have a Good Opportunity for our partnership with the California State Transportation Agency all the way from secretary kelly and some of his deputies, secretary kate white who have proven to be great partners for us towards the states zero death policy for the citys who have adopted vision zero policy and improvements to project delivery and funding eligibility and timelines for investments. The last thing in terms of what we are doing in terms of spreading the word for collaboration is really through a Peer Exchange at the National Level. Even this week which has had a very effective conversation with the city of portland through the Legislature Just enacted in the Speed Enforcement program, there are other cities across the country that im sure you are aware of, seattle, new york, chicago, denver have all successfully advanced in automated Speed Enforcement and learning whats worked. Its different in every jurisdiction and trying to move that forward to keep the ball moving. In terms of next steps, lets see what weve got here. Some of these are referenced in the summary included in your packet. I will just highlight some of those here. Stream lining and oversight we are hoping to use lombardy street with project delivery what that means is we want to make the complete streets improvements in that corridor before cal trans comes in for general paving of that corridor. We dont want to delay the opportunities and take advantage of that investment corridor now. Another example is seeking to stnd the ground cycle for Ground Transportation program. Its 1 year, not a lot of time to build the program and see what the results can be. So looking to extend the grant cycle and another is data collection, working to find ways for the chps accident collision form to be reported through the data which is what we use to report our Accident Data and lastly agn working with our city partners, with you, with other cities to figure out what our state legislative priorities that we could be advancing in the second year of the current 2year legislative session. I have to mention that related to vision zero and related to 1287 to permanently reauthorize the program and thats on the governors desk and we are hoping he will sign that to law to have the Enforcement Program to enforce double parking using automated parking. Thank you. Supervisor jane kim i know we had this conversation prior. How social is the transit lane working . There are cameras installed on the coaches and those coaches when they are driving in the red carpet lanes or designated traffic only lanes they are able to record double parking violations and they are reviewed by parking control officers who have been doing this since the program started in 2007. They identify those violation and those control officers are able to do that. Only two. Currently there are two. So they go through the video footage for all 400 . They target the corridors where there is known to be the most violations. Cameron is still here. He can speak more in detail about how that works. But in general, they know the corridors where the downtown corridors during the peak where we are seeing the predominance in violations and they focus their downloads of those videos on those corridors. Okay, before we have cameron come up, i know hes also presenting on the next item. Just, i read i think yesterday or very recently about l. A. City council saying with the mayor a new plan to make l. A. More walkable which im very excited about. Working with other large cities in california i agree we need to work to get some legislative changes or increase at the state funding level and what the trends you are seeing happen . I want to be an optimist to sake the trends are going in the right direction. I think we have some great partners in this large city. Its interesting to reflect that city transportation departments are different in every city which is part of the reason we dont have a single mobilized voice for the transportation department. They are really different. San francisco is unique that its only the truly multimodal in the state, but having said that, san diego, san jose, l. A. Has all adopted this multimodal information. We are hoping to collaborate. Supervisor jane kim thank you. Cameron, do you think we can fold in the answer to my question in your presentation . Great, thank you. Hi. Im with the Transportation Authority and i want to give you more information in terms of the grant information. I think the slides arent intentional. I will just speak briefly about it. I want to briefly highlight the work that we are doing with cal trans and the collisions at ramp intersections. Supervisor jane kim so we are going into recess of the vision zero subcommittee meeting and entering into a workshop mode. So, again, to recommence. As part of discussions in scoping our freeway corridor as a way to optimize the efficient use of our freeway system. We were in discussion with sf mta out of that project and out of that discussion came some interest in trying to address safety at our freeway ramp touchdowns and parallel. These locations as you maybe aware are particularly problematic. There are 70 intersections where the ramps touchdown to our city streets. Particularly on so many soma. I just loaded a headlines. There is an intersection at 5 and harrison where 4 people were killed. We did a high Level Analysis that found in general ramp intersection have a high intensity and as i mentioned this graphic kind of highlights the locations particularly they are clustered in soma around the mission octavia area and maiz and this is a very high level overview of where these locations are popping up in terms of those having a concerning safety record. So we are just very early in the process but we wanted to share an update that we are work to to begin this process to come up with a dramatic approach to this intersection. The vision zero doesnt necessarily encompass this. We are starting a two prong approach to look at the locations where a small number of locations where we might make a change and following that to a more in depth approach to longer list to come up with a pipeline of projects to address those locations and obviously there is a study done focused on the hair ball that we might be able to leverage. We had some initial meetings with mta and hoping to come back to you probably for the next meeting with some additional details. This is an update that we are working on the issue and happy to take any questions. Supervisor jane kim thank you, i know the mta is also studying how we can do some congestion management through pricing on the freeway ramps. This is all one study together to look at Pedestrian Safety and vision zero. Yes, we are envisioning them as parallel but this is connected. This is a really important study. All of us this is really the concern and consternation around the south of market area and around the freeway is growing and people want to see a response from the city to help address it. I think certainly looking at that along with the vision zero goals is really important. Thank you. Thank you, seeing no comments from committee. At this time well only for Public Comment on this item. Public speaker on this area, we worked on the central freeway project and one of the problems was the accidents with the bike lanes crossing an area. Also with the issue of schools located throughout the state around off ramping. One of the suggestion with the electronic signs as the vehicles are exiting within the city confines with the slowdown message with pedestrian traffic ahead. Speed limits in the city xyz down that corridor and a rumble strip down from the ramps because sometimes they come straight off the ramps at 60 miles per hour. That 5th within is nasty along the 101 there where they come from the various wide intersections and the pedestrians are crossing and they are not latter or continental styles and the high visibility crosswalks to guide the pedestrians with the most safety spots with the drivers coming off that. I highland recommend that as a methodology. We might have to yield to those coming out. I did send a letter to the couple people at the sf mta about the on and off ramps because i do coast guard work there which is particularly hazardous to our employees. I did write it out pretty extensively and i too photos at the on and off ramps there. There is

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