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So, if you are in need of assistance with Small Business matters starlt here at the office of Small Business. Thank you. Item 1 rkts call to order and roll call. Commissioner adams, hoor. Dooley, here. Dwight, here. Ortizcartagena is excused. Toursarkissian, here. Irene yee riley. Here. Zoo zouzounis, here; you have quorum, and we will take one item out of order we will do item 2, 3 and then 9 and then well do items following 4the last item. We will just move item 9 to the forfront. And then just to let everybody know, for toonts meeting Public Comment is 3 minutes for items 29 and 2 minute for items 1013. Just remember Public Comment when there is 30 seconds left you will hear a gong and when you hear the last gong we grab the hook and drag you to the side and it isnt because we with ogres it is just that is the rule. Iletm 2, discussion and possible action on 160, 383. Amended the code to prohibit it sale of [inaudible] including packing materials made from poly styrene foam or [inaudible] january 1, 2017 and affirming the planning deparnlt determination under the California Environmental quality act. Discussion and possible action item. The presentsers are connor johnson, aid supervisor breed and Guillermo Rodriguez. I will read a brief statement and happy to take questions you may have on the len legislation. 3 days before we celebrated the 47th day president breed introduced [inaudible] after months och work with department oof environment she introduced the ordinance to ban the sale of poly styrene packing materials including the packing peanuts, cooler squz ice chests, pool and beach toys and dock float, buoys and other marine products. The legislation also bans the use oof stirophone packing materials for items package within San Francisco. We are a city prized for the Natural Beauty surrounding by water on 3 sides. We have a moral recollect Public Health and financial responsibility to protect from pollutant like poly tirene foam. It cant be recycled through the blue bin and never decomposes and litter on the sleets, parks and Public Places are where are a stop from the bay or ocean. Plastic pollution continues to worsen. It breaks into smaller non biodegradable pieces. Poly styrene contains a chemical called styrene metabolized after ingestion and threatens to food chain including humans who heat contaminated wild life. According to to u. S. Flood and Drug Administration it leeches into food and drink. The science is clear, this is a environmental and Public Health pollutant z have to reduce the use. More than 100 u. S. Cities have ordinances restricting poly styrene and many local businesses and National Corporations have successfully replaced poly styrene. We in San Francisco prohibited service food in poly styrene in 2007. Thanks to a [inaudible] through the work of dethe department of environment staff that has all must one00 percent compliance rate. What supervisor breeds legislation proposes is the next step. Supervisor peskins law addressed the public impacts. Now we are [inaudible] this is overdue. Other jurisdictions like seattle and palo alto passed this. With that in mind our office put together the toughest antipoly styrene law in the country including new use that have not been regulated. We replace productwise repsychoable ones and there are amyl on the market, continue the work towards zireo waste and protect the Public Health and Natural Beauty. On behalf of president breed i want to thank russell long of sustainable San Francisco who is here today. Clean water action. Jack [inaudible] Guillermo Rodriguez of department of environment and Guillermo Rodriguez is here. The San Francisco chamber of commerce was helpful convening businesses and help improve the legislation, your executive director regina who is my prezsiser. The california grocer association, wall greens, the postal chase and all the companies that helped refine the legislation and legendary City Attorney tom owen. This legislation sh carefully crafted to help businesses comply kw and accommodate. We provided a waver condition for those cases where there is no feasible alternative to poly styrene. The department of environment drafted a waver for pharmacy squz Drug Companies who ship medications. We wirk with grogess. Goods or foods outside the city are not subject for the ban and nat isnt lack of will but lack of legal authority. Reusing the materials is still allowed and donating poly styrene and usesing those materials is still allowed as well. The engoal is clear, stop the environmental and Public Health harm. Poly styrene packaging is used for maybe a week or two and sometimes less than that and we toss the item and it lasts for another few00 thousand years in the land fill or in the bay or ocean. The sitee committed to zero waste over a decade ago and the only wie we can achieve it is confront products like this. Poly sty rene doesnt biodegrade and isnt recycleable and it is a pollute squnt there are better option mpt for our environment and Public Health and behalf of president breed and many environmental groups i ask for your support and happy to answer questions. Thank you very much. Commissioner adams. I know you did a lot of outreach, have you talked to people such as [inaudible] postal chase and fed exto insure there are not unique situations they may come up as far as packaging are concerned . The owner of the postal chase was present at loos one meeting and provided input. I cant remember if [inaudible] coordinateed that or the chamber. We try today accommodate the needs of those business. One reason you see the language to reause or donate package. Thank you. Commissioner dooley have you contacted the flural industry . We am a flurest and we have uses at least at this time cannot be replaced so wonder if a exemption can be carved out. We have and to be candid we are not entirely sure of the use your industry employ constitute packing materials. It is the nature the display or flower arrange. Ment. There is flexibility in the sense the department of environment can issue a waver to a individual business or entire use case but also we set the date of january 1, 2017 so there is time for those specific cases to be worked on. Thank you for your preezen sentation. I have a question. For a merchant who gets poly styrene packaged products, does the business have sth the obligation to repackage . No, i can point to the specific language if you like. That would be 1604 f i believe addresses this. If the prepared food is packaged outside the city and sold or provided to the the consumer in the same packaging in which it was originally packaged that will be not subject to this prohibition. That is the same would hold true for a television. Is there any effort communicate with neighboring cities and other legislatures to kind of come up with a uniform approach and avoid the fragmentation . Within california . Yes russell long can probably speaker better to that than me. One the Important Role San Francisco plays in environmental policy in california is be at the forfront and think we doing that with clean power and drug take back legislation and that will spur state wide action in sacramento. That is our hope. Commissioner yee, riley. My question is if the business had already [microphone not working] can they use it until it is gone or do they have to get rid of it right away . That came up in the course of our tracking the legislation. That is one the primary reason we set the date as january 1, 2017 to give 6 months if not more time for that to be sold off and think Guillermo Rodriguez can speak to this better than i can. They try to be accommodated with businesses that have existing stock and not be punitive and more educational and supportive. Guillermo rodriguez can speak to that. Thank you for the presentation. A couple questions. So, i do remember when this was first implemented and my familys business we transferred to compostable spoon squz forks and all that and it was a 4 or 5 times original cost so context how this is felt on a Small Business. So we should consider the cost that that will be happening if there are plans for offsetting or compensating folks we need to look that expenses. For comcoast and recycling fees that are continually rising, im curious if that is something you have thought about as perhaps compost might increase for some businesses or recycling with new materials and also just doing the numbers how much we pay for that a year and it is pretty sizely. So, those were two comments, questions i wanted to ask and see if you had discussion with those type of expenses going up. For the violation, was curious how you will regulate that if there will be sting operations or just check ins or warnings sent without communication or just what the apperates was for that. Congratulations by the way on your appointment. It has been a few months. Well earned i remember working with you before you were a commissioner. Let me take those in reverse. As i said to your fellow commissioner the department orphenvironment try tooz be collaborative and avoid as punitive as possible. They have a track record, they established a precedent with the 2006 legislation work wg businesses rather than aagainst them and have been able to achieve that near 100 percent of compliance because of success work wg businesses. Ill let him address that in more detail. With respect to disposal cost, the main driver is black bin and reducing in the black bin. If there is impact with disposal cost i think it will be a net reduction because we take material out of the black stream. The other interesting thing about poly styrene is it massive and mostly air. To the extent we reduce the volume from the black bin we have net reduction on disposal cost. With respect to the cost of the materials, there is a downward trends in that regard as this industry matureed. Russell long and Guillermo Rodriguez can speak in greater detail than me. I worked in bio plastic so know about it and things were evolving quickly and new products were coming on the market and prices going down. This is a exciting industry and see a lut of competitive products that can perform the same service at competitive prices now. I have a follow up question about section 1606 about implementation talks about exemption. Just question of process so the viewers can understand, what is the exemption process . How do you seek exemption . Is there is a process in place . I was reading and just for clarification. It is designed to be i think careful in the sense the department wants to be very judicious about who they issue exemptions to and why and also responsive. The determination is madethality a exemption is needed the department can move relatively quickly. We saw that as a example in the departments ability to draft a waver for cold medical shipping which they have done in parallel to the introduction the legislation. For the process i would differ to pl rodriguez. Lets make it as judicious as possible. You have gross income less than 500 thousand and it sets forth the requirements, correct . That is if you pursue a particular type of waver for financial hardship. An industry that would be effected would seek a waver, is that what you are saying . Correct. You say you havent exhausted [inaudible] thatheremay be other businesses that would be effected and follow this process . It is possible and why we wanted the flexibility in the legislation. Any other comments . I encourage there to be a application for exemption so it isnt a mystery. You should have a notice or application for exemption for anyone in the future. Not only someone that requires exemption and not heard about this but also anticipating there things in the future that may require a exemption. The other is perhaps a application for depletion permit of some type if someone has a large store of material thal want to get rid of it, it is better if you apply in advance rather than waiting around and i have a birch of stuff i like per mission to do it proactively. The only way to get proaction is make it available by way of having a form or application for such things. Both depletion permit and a application for a waver. The other thing is, is there a list of exemptions or buried in the legislation . Is there a appendix that lists the current exemptions . Which exemptions . Exemption tooz the law. The twhai law is set up are things that are banned and in certain sections there are donating material and reusing donating material so those reside in 1605 d you have to go through the provisions to find the exemptions it is structured so food service wear [inaudible] 1605 lists most of the products mostly enumerated i want to clarify there wasnt a appendix missing. Interesting Apple Computer went through a period getting rid of stiprophone and reintroduced it. To eliminate and reinstitute it i remembered when it happened and thought that was weird so maybe we can go to the south and try to get them to eliminate stirophone. I think the goals are lotable so unless there are comments here and guillermo. Guillermo Rodriguez Department of environment. Happy to be here on this item and next. From department of environment perspective in response to questions raised in thetholful discussion here, approach to zero waste is looking what is left in the black bin and when we look at problem products how do get them out of the system. This ordinance is a good outhgrowth to the 2006, 07 ordinance where we banned poly styrene from food service products. We are talking about 5,000 business in San Francisco that work with the city and the method of enforcement since our department was in charge of that was working with businesses. Our goal is try to change hearts and minds and behavior and find work wg businesses all want to do the right thing and a lot may require time and education and linkages and that is our approach to look at enforcement. Coner mentioned the department indicated a categorical exemption for medical equipment that is shipped and maintained at a certain temperature. We looked at alternatives and there are not a lot yet but will work with the industry to find alternatives. A lot of discussion and thanks to the leadership of president breed and coner have brought together businesses from all type squz answered questions being educated and providing businesses with new information. A lot of the material that would be compliant under this ordinance, they costs are very compareable to current cost of poly styrene foamsy 7 years ago that may have been different than today but there are a lot more alternatives. We think it is the right step and our approach to the whole process will be one of education, providing time to businesses to comply. We wont do sting operations, that is not what we are designed to do. We rely on the public to inform us if they feel that a business may not be complying so we work with that business to try to find information out, try to resolve things before you get into formality and that is our goal. With respect of being clear about the waver process, well take that back and bring that to our staff wile who will manage the process. Thank you very much. Alright, at this point well call for Public Comment. Any members of the public that would like to comment on this item . I will call mr. Henry [inaudible] first who filled out a speaker card. If you would like it speak well call those who submit a speaker card first. You are not rir required to submit a speaker card. [inaudible] i commend the environmental folks for doing something about the products being out there and doing what they do to our environment. However, i do thipg think also we are [inaudible] that have to be disposed of. There are companies that will come and pick those up. Im thinking in a Packaging Industry [inaudible] the plates and forks but the Packaging Industry. As commissioner dooley said in the flower industry sort of unless they come out with a product that can be done right away but they havent done that yet so like to see a exemption to that. If we can somehow get the businesses who do use the products to drop those off if i bought a package and go to postal [inaudible] or to flowers stores and take them in that would be a great thing to do that help both the consumer and also the Small Business. So, i think they need to think about who should be exemption and shouldnt from the legislation to make it mandatory everybody does not have this product. What is interesting i remember the first time they used 3 Different Things and people said they wont do that. They are. People are using the recycling bins for the paper and food waste and regular waste. It is a matter of education. If you get the information out to the publicif you have the styrofoam product you can take it to local business thaet will take it and do that. Thank you. Next. Russell long, please. Commissioners im russell long, sustainablef is. Thank you for entertaining the ordinance today. I wanted to just start by saying that i spent much of my youth on sale boats as a professional sale boat racer and went on to be americas cup skipper and have been around the oceans och the world and the trash that is accumulating there that it continues to get worse every single year and still sail it is a travesty and it is plastic of which poly styrene is a parlt. According to the World Economic forum they protect by 2050 there were be more plastic in the ocean that fish. Study of National Academy science up to 90 percent orphsea birds had plastic pieces in their guts. They predict using the modeling by 2050 the figure will be 99 percent. This is a terrible problem and im very thankful to be in a sate that took the initiative and leadership. 8 or 9 years ago we led the effort to start clamping down on this and the result today is that dozens and dozens of cities across california followed our lead as well as major cities around the u. S. [inaudible] portland and seattle. Many are following what we did before and have the opportunity to take it to the next level going after the other product categories. I think the issues being raised have to do with cost and i exploreed the cost issues with some of the manufacturers, the comp estable products have gotten cheaper. We talked about a chocolate [inaudible] wu found a com postable sty rophone product, 100 percent, same price. They were thrilled and dont oppose the legislation as a result. Same in sea seattle we spoke to the people using [inaudible] they were ver concerned about the new ordinance they had up there and found out the com postable products all the same sizes, same price thank you very much. Thank you fl work you do. Next up, please. Next speaker, sill via johnson. Patricia [inaudible] i have been hearing this for a long time. I think it is a good idea. My question is, is the enforcement number 1, and whether enforcement will be selective or not. There some Small Businesses thatd wont be able to use up all this product before january 17. Possibly make it a little longer. Particularly the small ones because they dont use as much a day as large ones. Im for this another reason is we have a person in San Francisco who takes his stirophone, crumples it up and puts strychnine and puts it on the sidewalks and dogs and cats come and they die. My dog was hit with it but i cost it fast enough. We need to look that enforcement of the to make sure it is equal and not just towards one industry or one Small Business. That is the big issue as far as im concerned. Thank you very much. Next speakers please. Next speaker is sill via johnson. Im talking about exemption to food and organizations. [inaudible] with childrens toys. We have examples. [inaudible] exemptions for nothing is you know [inaudible] we have other products that we [inaudible] guarantees that we have now or combination [inaudible] with congress and we havent even thought about this or [inaudible] organizations that we dont even understand because of things that [inaudible] jewels and diamonds [inaudible] a lot of things are missing and [inaudible] it takes a lot of consideration with the [inaudible] things that has to be done with you know, [inaudible] thank you. Next speaker, please. Anymore people that like to make Public Comment . Good afternoon. My name is eric [inaudible] president of cienty quat row. One thing i suggest is including a list of where they can final alternative products. I think it will make it convenient for the businesses just a list. And also make sure the notification is in different languages. We have a lot of businesses that are latino and dont speak or read english well and make sure there is a phone number to contact someone. One thought is someone has a large supply and maybe providing a credit to incent vise them to switch to the new products. Thank you. Great suggestion. Thank you. Any other members of the public that would like to comment . Seeing none Public Comment is closed. Commissioner comments . Submissioner zouzounis. I just want to have a discussion among or ourselves contextualizing this as our city a leading the way with moving forward with zero waste and the state programs that are trying to help Small Businesses get to that place at the same speed are also being gutted and a lot of the tax credit said bigger businesses may be getting and smaller businesses to upgrade the equipment, they are having trouble keeping up with the progressive pace and so the more we can think about the Bigger Picture here as we want to move the city forward in regards to our Environmental Compliance is what kind of bureaucracy and fees fall onwhen can we regulate and that is the businesses in the cities and bureaucracy they have to go to once you make all these things cumulative so the recycling is more than the black bin. The grocer corner and Grocery Store industry for one and the fines are another thing. These things fall on people and add additional bureachyeracy and figuring out the business end a lot of Small Businesses dont have capacity for so want to raise how can we [inaudible] a lot of this the regulatory stuff and there are lines thew stay in compliance will fall on a lot of city agencies to [inaudible] how do we make these Resources Available . How do we comp sate so Small Businesses can keep up with this pace and just want today raise that. Commissioners any other comments . We have a motion . I make a motion to approve this and that we have the application to go along with this for recommendation for application for exemption . Yes. I also like what eric says if we can make sure it is in multi languages i think that is very important. And just noting the suggestion of a list of potential alternative suppliers is a great one. Can we also add all theremay be inindustries not addressed that they need to be examined for possible exemption or phasing out of their product. I think that would be important. I know the flural industry will need time to catch up. Right now there are products that are not really replaceable and so there may be other industries in that same situation. Okay. To refine the motion. So, application for waver. Multilingual. Depletion application for depletion permit. Possible credit i dont know where credits would come from. Where would you get a credit from . That was a suggestion brought up for the public. Who do you get the credit from . Maybe we can work with [inaudible] we can put it out for consideration in the motion. There may be industries that require a application for waver and a depletion permit. They already have provisions in this legislation for allowing future exemptions so that is covered. That is flural industry. If you can read back the motion of support. Motion to approve recommendation for application for exemption in multiple languages and notice a list of suppliers as well as an application for a depletion permit. Application for depletion permit. If someone has material that will last longer than the 6 month horizon that is allowed for. Okay. And if we want to add as well the recommendation that a consideration for some type of credit if someone wants to dispose of material that is not depleted. Doesnt hurt to ask. You dont get what you dont ask for. We have that motion. Is there a second . Second. Alright. Commissioner adams; yes. Dooley, yes. Dwight, yes. Toursarkissian, yes. Yee, riley, yes. Zouzounis, yes. The motion is approved 6 to nothing. Good job. Thanks gentlemen. Appreciate it. Thank you for all the good work you are doing. We are on to item number 3. Item 3, discussion and possible action on letter of support regarding proposal changes to california beverage Container Recycling and litter reduction act. The bottle bill. The presenters are Guillermo Rodriguez and kevin drew from department of environment. Welcome back. Thank you again for the record Guillermo Rodriguez San Francisco department of environment. Im here to talk about a issue this commission engaged in the past both formally the leadership of your director presenting interest and concerns of merchants in San Francisco when it comes to redemption allowing san franciscans to be able to get their nickel and dimes back and also some of you commissioners individually have also been leaders in this discussion. As folks may know that 1990 there were 30 Certified Redemption Centers in San Francisco that allowed consumers the ability to redeem their nickels and dimes for crv related material. Today there are only 8 and San Francisco we celebrate how successful we are at waste diversion. 80 percent deversion from land fill, probably one of the best in the complaintry and when you think about providing convenience defined by the state of california for allowing individuals to redeem their nickels and dimes, we are at the bottom. It is a struggle you all understand. The challenge has always been that is a state law and no jurisdiction that the city, the board, this commission our department has other than to be advocates to find a path and communicate that to our elected representatives in sacramento and the state Agency Responsible for the program for the bottle bill. Ewe have for the past 2 years working with stakeholders, Small Businesses, our grocers, city departments, all trying to find alternative way tooz change the scenario in San Francisco. The state is active as many may know in enforcement of the bottle bill making sure there is compliance. Again for background information, essentially if there is no Certified Recycling Center near your business of operation and you sell beverages then you are required to redeem in store. That poses unique challenges for Small Businesses with very limited space. The bottle bill was designed supermarket with large parking lots are the primary vehicle, it works in other parts of the state. San francisco the transit first city focuses to reduce parking and try to get people to walk, bike and use Public Transit as modes of transportation in San Francisco so we dont have huge parking lots to have these operation in. Yet, san franciscan still want to redeem and get their nickels and dimes back. We do a great job at curb side but again individuals have a right to get their 5 cents or 10 cents back. What we have been trying to do is work with rks cal recycle and believe we have a pathway. They recognize San Franciscos connumdrum and our policies and believe we may be able to work out a solution. The way the bottle bill is crafted t is extremely technical and every aspect is enumerated in state code so any change requires change to the legislation and so you have to go ask 80 Assembly Members and 40 senators to join in a change and hopefully get the administration to sign this. It is a challenge aspeth but believe we is a pathway. One thing the Department Works on is try to communicate to the San Francisco delegation, senator leno and tang and chew looking for a solution and budget fix in the process to try to give San Francisco some pilot status outside of the state definition of convenience so we can create a alternative model that works. We are informed the state is open to that idea so we are pursuing the conversations. Cal recycle will continue to enforce the bottle bill and engaged with your director and trying to address those issues but communicating that to our delegation i think it is important for them to hear from the voice of Small Business in San Francisco is important and we encourage the commission to consider the draft letter before you. Kevin drew probably our rez dent expert on the bottle bill and i are here to answer questions but hope you get your voice heard in sacramento on a pathway to create a framework how residents can get their nickel jz dimes back if they so choose. Thank you. Thank you. Commissioner toursarkissian. I had a question since you had the opportunity to talk to us about the pathway and alternative solution, you mentioned the letter and support of that, why dont you give us a synapsis what you think the solution would be in San Francisco. Ill start off and please kevin join in. What the city provided cal recycle to think how we provide convenience. Again, the traditional model is for me to walk fl to a store and bring back my can and get my 5 cent reduction. It happens at point of sale with the cash register. We think there are alternative ways to do that. Traditional recycling centers make sense in the city. We also raised the idea of reverse vending machines so options for people to get their nickel jz dimes back. We also looks at new technology where people drop off their material and at different locations and would leave and the back operations would sort it and identify what material it is and credit that individual with their account. We also looked at the idea of a mobile program meaning, why does a recycling center need to be stationary at one location open as the state defined 6 days a week for 30 hours of operation . It doesnt make sense. Why cant we have one day on a monday located in x district and tuesday somewhere else but predictable for residents to understand that or maybe it a combination of all these different approach jz that is what we have been raising with cal recycle at the state and they seem open to the ideas around rethinking how we define convenience. None of these suggested alternatives are adopted in other cities or is there any changes . I will ask kevin to answer that because the answer is yes, outside of california. Kevin drew, with department of environment. The closest example to what you are asking is in Pacific Beach in san diego where there was a similar problem and the state work would the local legislators to write legislation of bail passed that allowed 5 or 6 supermarkets to share in day after day monday, tuesday, wednesday, thursday rotation a way to solve what is typically the state law nows requires it stays in one spot. It has worked sort of yes and no. It isnt a perfect solution but that is the best example of what the state tried elsewhere. A slr example is Rural Communities where the 30 hour limit or 30 hour minimum is too great and allowed a 15 hour minimum for certain supermarkets as a way of making it compatible with the operator and compatible for the community. We are looking at these kinds of different options that the state will allow us to try in San Francisco that may be allowed around the state. It is 30 years later and things have changed and supermarketers are more supermarkets are smaller parking lots. The thing is there is not a magic bullet, it is difficult situation and the law now reverts to the small stores. Commissioner zouzounis and i have spoken about this and familiar with the problem that presents for a retailer and at the same time we need to help retailers solve that problem if that will be one of the solutions. Our department is here to help to work with [inaudible] and other operators to provide relief to the smaller beverage dealers. One thing i appreciate from your commission in support of this letter and perhaps later on is helping to bring together the groceries and smaller retailers to really craft a city wide solution. Sort of a new network that replaces the 30 we used to have. I dont think well have 30 supermarket parking lots soon but we need something and i hope your commission can help as you have thinking through what those solutions will be and working with us to make them circ is the san diego example a mobile unit . I dont know the answer. I will say yes because it isnt a stationary site. It is a site that moves and mobile is something we can do. It is a technology and truck and you leave at the end of the day. Is that permit . Yes, it is permitted it is just people dont tend to use it. The problem is you bring it to one location 6 days in a row. It adds a cost element that is difficult for the recycleers. We need to put uber on this. That is a example how it changed we experienced this issue on potrero hill. You have a small grocer who is doing food prep so it is helths and safety issue having discarded cans and bottles in the path of food prepation and space required for it. Up on potrero hill where no one will haul their stuff up, im somewhat skeptical there is a issue foremost residents in San Francisco more than a compliance issue with state of california and think most effected are those scavening for these items. The problem is large grocers can buy their way out of their responsibility and that punted down to to Small Business. Now the safeway and whole foods agreed theyll pay to get out of the requirement and our small growers and cant afford to pay that money. We are delighted to work on trying to figure out a way to appease sacramento and not put more pressure on our Small Businesses financially. Commissioner zouzounis do you have a comment . I just want to say thank you. You are really responsive to all the freak outs of the grocers that call me about this compliance. The guys at sth state level are not as sincere in their understanding and it is hard to understand if you dont work behind a counter and inside the industry that requires this type of crv collection and what burden that actually makes on a business. I want to say thank you. Curious about how thisi know the department of environment is always good with workforce and how to pair that Workforce Development with improvements in the city in regards to environmental things. Since i know there is informal trucks that collect bottles, in south of market i have seen them and could this in the law does it prohibit privatedoes it all have to be city sponsored or corporal sponsored or llc or can it be like little businesses . Yes, the state law does allow for collectors that allows you to pick up material from individual sites and that can be a role for picking up stores to consolidate material and will have to get creative. The trucks are illegal black market but they are taking advantage of the situation that there isnt other options so have to work with the state to be more creative how we can do this. The Conservation Corp made them available as a operator if we can find the space. I do want to speaki have been in touch with department of health and will be having a meeting with them internally and hopefully have a meeting where we can help the stores understand the rules and then help them comply with the rules to the extent we can under these circumstances. We are still trying to avoid the problem but i think we need to make it clear and they were very dph was very interested doing that so think well get that together in the next mupth and will make you aware. I encourage you to reach out to sf city. The Technology Group because they retunely engage in these type of civic issues and get people on a pro bono basis come up with ideas to solve the problems so that is another resource. That reminds the city of santa monica installed a reverse machine in a bus shelter kiosk where you get your money back there. Because so much more materialso much more of the beverages are consumed on a go and that is technology where the kiosk is paid by a [inaudible] wants to get the information and have the exchange. There are technologies that can be helpful probably a lot of Marketing Data in that garbage. Have you seen what other states do . Im from michigan and have the original bottle law, still a dime and they have these machines now because this was a problem in some the smaller communities and they got these machines and they are the big Grocery Store squz also at the Liquor Stores now too. I have friends who own Liquor Stores. They are not that expensive. I was curious why we dont see more of those here in San Francisco. We are aware of that. One of the operator in other states do use the reverse vending machines because their cystism is in store redemption. They built infrastructure to accept that and it works well. The companies [inaudible] which are a couple of the manufacturers of these equipment are coming to make presentations in San Francisco so we will be able to with wallgreens specifically is very interested. Expect to get the other grocers whole foods, safe bp way and trader joes to come to the meetings as well. It is infrastructure cost and coming up with a Financing Mechanism to overcome the initial Capital Investment. That is what the stores back east did and now we have to start from scratch here but that is one the solutions we see out there. Thank you. What is the process . Say we support it and write the letter, what is the next step . The next step is this is approvered in the budget process which is faster than the legislative process that takes to the end oof session. This will be ready to go july 1. What it will do is it would create a pilot system that awould allow San Francisco to ask the state for a laundry list of ideas to be implemented. It is going to take some time. This is not something we can turn odime on and that is why i want to also have in a parallel tract ability to help existing retailers deal with the legislation. The legislation will allow more Flexibility Co and the state sosounding like they will have funding they can come along with that. You have in the budget by july and in sacramento you have it voted on it will pass in july. In july. According to at least our strategy. Well get the legislation passed, then it is a questionf implementation. I think that is where we will come back to you for this city wide come to the same conclusion we have to do this collectively. Safeway carried the weight for a long time and said heck with it and left and that is where we are now and need to bring everybody back to the fold as much as possible. That is the only solution. Thank you very much. Okay. Open up to Public Comment. Any members of the public that would like to comment on this item only . [inaudible] parts of things that will work [inaudible] we are seeing today. We need to see that you get your businesses and not have it scattered around. [inaudible] i think that is one reason why a lot of tourist dont come here. If we get everything [inaudible] we have more tourist [inaudible] business areas. [inaudible] thank you very much for your comments. Alright. Commissioners, any other comments . We have action to support this effort. I make a motion to support the letter. I second that. Commissioner adams made a motion and commissioner toursarkissian seconded. Commissioner dooley rsh yes. Commissioner dwight, yes. Commissioner ortizcartagena, absent. Commissioner yee, riley, yes. Commissioner zouzounis, yes. Commissioner adams. Commissioner adams, yes. You have to ask him. Commissioner adams, yes. Thank you for your patience. This motion passes, 60. Thank you for coming out appreciate it. Thank you for the hard work and look forward continuing the conversation. As i mentioned we are going to skip to item 9 right now and then come back to items 48. Item 9, discussion and possible action on board of supervisors file number 160435 urging San Francisco businesses to participate in sf biz connect by shifting additional 5 percent of spending to small and local businesses in order to support our local economy. Good evening, my name is deanna [inaudible] as you know may sf biz connect helps encourage larger businesses to source locally. We have asked our resident to shop locally and through the Mayors Office decided to start a program to ask our larger businesses to also look at local producers. Sense the launch sf biz connect tippled the amont of businesses to 44 to encourage them to purchase locally. Some of these examples are for instance, anchor brewing, a largeone the oldest micro breweries in San Francisco, [inaudible] the warriors who are playing ordered custom chocolates from a bog patch clock lutear. A [inaudible] with such great examples we want to encourage this momentum by encourages businesses to shift 5 percent more towards looking at local producers for their business needs. In addition, to plat form sf biz connect. Com encourages Small Businesses to meetallow Small Businesses to promote their products on line so they can show larger businesses the kinds of products they have to offer. We encourage more businesses to come out to look at these s frksf biz effect, connect Small Businesses to meet with purchasing agents of the larger businesses and look forward to creating this private partnership between the two to encourage local purchases. Thank you and if you have any questions on this resolution. Irem rr a huge supporter. This evolved from a convarsation at our quarterly meeting with the mayor of Small Business leaders which im a participant and on the boferd chamber of commerce where this initiative is primarily driven. Another example is my company and air bnb have a business relationship based on the sf business connect prisple so huge supporter. I have always said one of the best things the Larger Companies in our city can do to support the smaller businesses is buy directly from them. There are opportunities for local purchasing that escape people that buy something routinely. The more we get leadership of our comps in San Francisco to communicate that message down the ranks is better. They have mixer jz meet and greets and there is one coming up this week or next as Small Business week. Thank you very much for your support and the supervisors support for this initiative. Supervisorscommissioner yee riley. So, this business San Francisco sf biz connect is in existence for one year so what was the result . 44 businesses have committed to shopping locally. We also are listed 200 Small Business on the portal right now so we want to encourage this get more Small Businesses to display their [inaudible] on that portal and continue to connect as commissioner dwight said additional events. Thal beginning is only a year, we encourage more ideas, more ways that our larger businesses in the city can connect with the smaller businesses, how do wu outreach to the Small Business . Through the office of economic and Workforce Development they do outreach through that and include the Small Businesses through the portal and by make thg larger businesses aware of that opportunity. With those partnerships and events we hope to garner more success with this resolution with the Small Business appreciation week. We introduced this resolution two weeks ago but holding to have it heard on the 24 with Small Business appreciation week so the supervisors can let all the Small Businesses know about this opportunity and hopefully let other businesses know as well. Oewd and San Francisco chamber of commerce collaborate on the meet and greets and this is the little b to big b component of shop local. We have shop and dine the 49 and then American Express sponsor shop small and have a separate shop local efforts. Those are business to consumer efforts and this is b to b side of that initiative and so we have the support of mayor and oewd and collaboration with chamber of commerce who has their own Small Business working group. There is a lot of effort. Organizing the events requires resources on both especially at the chamber and also oewd but we appreciate the collaboration between city hall and chamber of commerce. No other questions we open tupe Public Comment. Members that would like to comment on this item only . Didnt exspect to speak at all. Patricia [inaudible] a new group calledwealer well get to that later. Our group has tried everything to be on the mailing list of all the lists you did. Sf local, all of it, the womens work, we sents email jz everything and never contacted. Even for this thing later in the month, never contacted. I have become quite irritate knd itment our group sent out the fliers for Small Businesses. No other business in the neighborhood did it and yet we are still treated as illegitimate children. I would thrike see this changed. Thank you. Thank you. Any other members of the public like tacomment on this item . My name is sylva [inaudible] which i didnt get no [inaudible] they was referring to a ordinance that [inaudible] it would be a lot easier with [inaudible] i do think we can do it [inaudible] does not make no sense. [inaudible] to get where they understand and put more [inaudible] we are talking about gold here in San Francisco. [inaudible] where we cant understand nothing. [inaudible] thank you. Any other members like to comment on this item . [inaudible] i think this is a great model to keep business in San Francisco and keep the money in San Francisco. We have done on 24th street we are part of invest in neighborhoods which [inaudible] sf biz, which has connected a lot of businesses to our services and it is working well, but it works well with Small Businesses because we have the butcher shops and fish markets and bakeries and restaurants get the bread from the baker and fish from the fish market and things of that nature so it works well with so glad to hear there is a effort for there bigger businesses to connect with the smaller business. The other thing that came to mind is we need to keep in mind a lot of Small Businesses that can proind those service for the larger ones and vice versa is that a lot are being displaced because the rent is going up so high so need to keep that in mind if we want it to work we need to have protection for the smaller ones. Any members like tocomment . Seeing none u Public Comment is closed. Action on this item . This is a no brainer. I would make a motion to support this 110 percent. Second. Excellent. Roll call vote, please. Commissioner adams, yes. Dooley, yes. Dwight, yes. Ortizcartagena, excused. Toursarkissian, yes. Yee, riley, yes. Zouzounis, yes. Motion is approved 60. Thank you for coming out tonight to present. Appreciate it. Alright. Now we will continue on with item number 4 8. I will call the items together but we will hear them separately and call for Public Comment on each item separately. We are calling the items together so that we can go through them so there will be Public Comment between each presentation. Item 4 first. Item 4the commissioner secretary needs to read all 4 of them together into the record and then great. Then well present in order. Commissioner dwight did you want to provide a Opening Statement . Yes, after it is read into record ill explain what we are do; presentation and dpis cushion from San Francisco municipal tans portation agency including a overview of agency sfmta projecktds and outreach and engagement program. Item 5, presentation and disquugz regarding the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency 5 year capital imp pluvment program. Item 6, presentation and discussion regarding the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency residential parking purnlt evaluation and reform project. Item number 7, presentation and discussion regarding the San Francisco municipal transpiration agency lombard street improvement program. Item number 8, presentation and discussion regarding the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency 14 Mission Street rapid project. These are agendized as discussion and action item, and we have asked the sfmta to partner with us to have a reoccurring meeting where we can talk about what goes on at the mta because what the initiatives of the mta relating to transportation, parking, infrastructure, modification, has a very significant effect on the residence of San Francisco but on businesses and in particular Small Businesses. In the spirit of getting ahead of the projects that the mta has in the works or cont plate frz the future, we want to have a official dialogue here in this forum where members the Business Community can come and hear about what the mta is doing and express their concerns or comments about those initiatives. Tonight we will have 3 presentations which set the tone for how the mta does outreach and the overview of their 5 year plan as well as some work they are doing on residential parking permitting and reform. Then there are two items which are very specific items one concerning lombard street and the other Mission Street. Three overview items, two specific items. Thality that is a big ask and dont intend it to be quite so intensive in the future but once we get through the initial phases hopefully it will become a good routine where we discuss the items here. The mta does lots of out pch reach in the neighborhoods and businesses but this is the only official forum where a lot of this can happen so in the spirit of having iten the record and place where businesses and residents and citizens can engage on the record is the intention of this gathering. Welcome and thank you all of you who are here for coming out tonight to start the process. Lets start with item number 4. You want to introduce the presenters . The presenters is deanna desedas Public Outreach and engagement manager. And candace sue, communication director. Director [inaudible] for the sfmta. Thank you for letting me know. I may be under the weather but will try to speak up. Thank you for giving the time to share information about our outreach rkss Capital Improvement program and some of the projects you specifically expressed interest in. We do have a lot of opportunities and thank you commissioner dwight for acknowledging the outreach we do do and our opportunities to have hearings out our mta Board Hearings meetings as well as public hearings but this is a great opportunity to have this discussion and share this information with you directly and we appreciate the opportunities to partner. As the cities grown transportation manager we are responsible for operating muni, traffic and regulate taxi. We have more than 5 thousand employees engaged in operating planning developmenting working to funds and implementing hundreds of projects that impact the current and long term needs of the cities tran portation system and do this with many partners including you all. Partners at local Regional State and [inaudible] with many city departments that we work with as well as community stakeholders. Of course that includes merchants as well and each of the corridors and in each of the neighborhoods we work in. We work with the stakeholders to insure we are aware of the proposed dhainges and have the opportunity to provide input and understand sometimes the projects we are talking about can be controversial dependent on the perspective you have with regards to that project. And often requires substantial discussion and we are prepared having the discussion to make sure we get to the best praumgect possible for the communities of San Francisco. The resulting Stakeholder Input is youzed to develop recommendations that glow to the board for approval and legislation. Under the leadership of ed riscon the agency has 4 goals, the first is safety. The second surround making transit walking biking and taxies the preferred means to get around, being fiscally responsible and providing outstanding service. We worked hard to come together as a agency to fost aapproach to Community Engagement that recognize the importance of outreach and engagement to those impacted by the projects we work on. Last year as you may know we developed agency wide standsards how outreach done at mta. We have worked for the past year to [inaudible] standsards across all our projects and we are making Good Progress but wree have a way to go and we are a fairly large agency with a lot of projects. However, as part oof this work we named deanna desedas head out outreach and following input from this community and commission and from director [inaudible] we also named deanna desedas to insure we Work Together in collaboration to keep you informed about our projects. And interest of the Small Business sector. We could spend a whole hour and probably more so talking about the topic of outreach and engagement. How and why we do what we do. Rather, want to have a spend majority of time talking about the projects and the people who are represented here today. Before we do that i want to make sure deanna has a chance to update on her progress she made sins the last time she was here. Thank you candice. Good evening commissioners. I want to say last time i was here i gave you a thorough update on new public out reach and engageage efforts. Some were here and some not. I am scheduled to come back and dedicate a good amount of time. We made a lot of progress. It probably warrants a longer and deeper presentation than we have to give this evening but there are a couple things i want to braing up before i have the members och my team to update their projects. We have hundreds of projects and think as the new liaison for small commission and make sure we are here to give updates the focus is on those projects that have impacts to Small Business. Those projects that are major corridors that impact our Small Businesses and those projects also that perhaps are city wide that impact our Small Business. I will work with regina to stream line the project jz prioritize and set up so we can come back and make sure we update you as early ozpossible about some of the projects because some of them have decisions to be made and like to be sher you are a part the process. The last time i was here i gave you the focus for the Public Outreach and ingaijment strategy is two fold and one is just to help cast a wider net, a broader reach. It is a challenge for Many Organizations but for us we want to make sure we are reaching those stakeholder jz really deeply engaged with them and get input from folks maybe we dont typically reach. Casting a wider naet and make sure we reach residents, merchants advocacy groups and folks that maybe dont feel comfortable coming to Community Meetings. In the past year one thing we gathered a lot of input and feedback. Specifically from folks that told us the they are not too keen on a Community Meeting or open house format. They feel uncomfortable coming to these meetings. Maybe are intimidated but want to make sure they are heard. We have made a effort as a agency this past year to think outside the box and look for different techniques and approaches we can utilize to make sure they we reap those people we are trying to reach in a more comfort space. There a variety of techniques we tried. We also reached out to experts in the field and have done a lot of experimenting with those techniques. I welcome to opportunity to give a update on not just outreach and engagement strategy and guidelines candice mentioned but also give results and techniques we deployed and maybe have people to give feedback on that as well. Without further ado, thank you for your time and will nrtd introduce Craig Raphael and [inaudible] before we move to item 5, commissioners you have questions . Thank you for this presentation. You talked about strategy and standards and candice mentioned last year you adopted these standards . Yes, we did. Are they in written form . Could you just they are in written form and they have been communicated agency wide p. One of the things there are hundreds of projects and have hundreds of people that engage in the community so part the last year is helping people understand what those standards are, providing them resources and tools which we are about to laurch a recognition and Training Program because if we ask the staff to make sure they go out and conduct the outreach and engagement they need to they are provided the resources and tools. We have them in written form. One thing projects have to have is communication plan and project Needs Assessment and that helps us better understand that area where the project is taking place. Have we thought about all these people impacted and the approaches we will take . Is there room for decision . Is this a project that is basically all safety and we are going to implement it . A lot of Infrastructure Projects is mainly to inform people and have other projects like bike and pedestrian projects where we want to look at the space and work with everyone to get their input before we make a final decision so dependent on the project too there is a lot of factors that come fl to play. When i was here a year ago we asked for time to make sure we have time to deliver some of those things sth staff needs to understand the standsards and help them implement the standards. Just follow up, you will talk to us next time about these standards . And ill fleed need a lot of your time. Knowing we have new folks here i will structure the presentation to give a overview what we done and where we are heading. We can access these standsards . They are on our intranet. They are not accessible now to the public. But we can provide them to you of course. Okay. Any other question snz i just want to say thank you to candice and deanna. Everybody in this room, this is something we have been asking for for a long long time so thank you. I feel like we just made a huge step forward. Great. Work in progress but good. Heading in the right direction. I had one question. So, mta a huge agency and know there are different parts that are more static and cannot be collaborative. I was part the efforts throughout the years to address some of the ads mta was accepting money for that was [inaudible] that was one example where we did have Community Forums but there was no agency on the end of the community to change Something Like that as that is like a piece of mta that was [inaudible] static and cantwe are bound [inaudible] im curious if there are other parts of mta you can tell us you are legally bound or cant work with the community on . It is a vague question. It isnt vague in the sense i think i understand what you roasking for. There are some projects where we dont have the ability to ask. It is a safety issue so it is a project that has to be implemented and there is no decision space and no way to negotiate with the public but there are projects where we sit with the community and there is kpigz space and gather input and come to a final decision collaboratively. I think more often than not when weprint in fruchbt orphyou we have a participation spectrum which i can explain what that is next time i come and that will help you understand where we rin the process of a project. If st. Is forum more than likely there is little wiggle room but then we get to consult and can work with folk squz that helps to frame where fr the staff where we are and the ability. I think it is projethby project basis. There are policies where we cant and that may speak to what you are talking about with the advertising. I remember that. At this point ill open ope up to Public Comment. Any members that would like to comment on this item . Patricia voy. This is exactly what we have been dealing with. We have a policy , we have people asked under public records act and nothing since august 10 from the department. This is happening all over the city. They are having meetings at 5 30 at night when people cannot get out of their stores and businesses because it is too early. In the case of lombard, supervisor farrell after the first meeting at saint mari hunters which is a mall room asked for a different format and they agreed where they would make the presentation in front instead of posters aroun so you can talk separately. The next meeting came up, same program as the week before. The design before. This is not a lie. This is not a lie at all. In our case they combined lombard and did a separate program for chestnut, those 14 blocks and did it separately so it is hard to do cumulative studyies. What are we deal wg here . Vision zero is in the papers and still trying to get money for it but it isnt working. Transit first, for Small Business. Transit first says you must consider Small Business in the legislation. Our businesses are going to be killed. State of good repair. We have a two fold, on lombard it should have been twen years ago and chestnut there are 14 blocks on surrounding streets that need the help. This is what we were told at the second meeting of and just decided to do it this way. This is not public input to us and one person at one meeting said we think about the buses and not the people. In the case of chestnut street, take away [inaudible] and scott and our seniors cannot get to the Grocery Store without walking 960 feet i believe. They cant get to their banks without walking 4 or 500 feet. We are a family. This is some of the endemic problems we are having with the mta. Thank you. Next, please. Good evening commissioners. My name is nancy [inaudible] i came today to read a letter to you that is [inaudible] by pops, the people of park side sunset. They address you and the letter is addressed to board of supervisors. The tearival merchants continue to have cerns regarding the tearival rapid project which includes the loss of muni stops, transit only lanes, installation orphboarding islands resomeplaceing stop lines and traffic light and relocation of Business Service parking to adjacent residential streets. Besides the changes proposed in the projecktd itself, the merchants continue to have serious issues regarding the outreach process mptd both the scope of the Public Outreach and number of general Public Meetings are minimal. Also there isnt sufficient amount of time for people to fully understand the long range impacts. Nancy [inaudible] voiced her concern of the tearival project at the may 3, board of supervisors meeting during Public Comment. Our neighbor eileen [inaudible] voiced similar concerns at the Small Business. The tearival merchants traungly urge the board of supervisors to assist in addressing the unresolved sfmta issues beginning holding a Board Hearing on muni forward matters. We believe these topics are of urgency to avoid the unpleasant spooernss encountered by the merchants along the Mission Street. A letter is provided to your screert and want to make sure you ruweir the outreach isnt subsessful at least in the tearival issue. Commissioners i thank you for your questions and shocked to hear there is a plan that isnt available to the public. If they will start manipulating us i think we ought to know what the rules of the game are. This is not forcoming. There is agenda we think we have input. Sometimes we just have to communicate what we are dogoing to do. That isnt a interactive process and we in the public see and feel this and you as people in the business you know what im talking about. We are not happy. Im a neighbor and dont want anything to happen to my commercial district. I live adjacent to tearival street and love it and dont want anything to happen and not interested muni sacrificing what i have with my merchants for what their proposed projecktds that they dont even tell us what the guidelines are. It is under the heading as safety but it isnt clear how they [inaudible] trumps my livelihood and their livery hood and my life. Thank you. Next speaker is eileen boken. I will be use thg overhead but not immediately. Im eileen boken and supporting the tearival merchants. I believe the issues on Mission Street are hands writing on the wall for tearival. When concerned were expressed to supervisor tang her response is the mta can do whatever it wants. Really . Is the mta a long to itself. Lets put supersizer tangs to the test. Fis dle year 1516, the mta budget is 1 billion 21 million 454 thousand. Of that overall budget 272,000,000 is general fund money, taxpayer money, our money. As the board of supervisors has the power of the purse over general fund money lets put it to the test. There is a pending ordinance seeking to appropriate 3. 5 to general fund to mta. The file number is 160254. I would urge all the merchants and their associations to contact the board of supervisors budget and finance subcommittee, insist supervisor farrell, tang and yee keep the funds on reserve and dont release them because the mta in my opinion is out of control. Thank you. Thank you, next presenter, please. My name is bob [inaudible] im here for the greater gary merchants and Property Owners association. As wem as a group we put together when we looked at the geary brt plan. I want to talk just to the outreach issue. I should tell you the proof is in the pudding. The goals mta has have not been met in our case. In october of last year the cta and mta put out a eir that was over 700 pages long with a disk that contained another 8,000 pages and referenced 4 different alternatives for building a bart system. These were first shown to everybody in that forum in october. They had a meeting on november 5 at saint mary pfs and it was Public Comment. Did they take Public Comment . No because nobody was allowed to make a question or comment. Their idea of outreach to Small Business is very strange. The problem i think they have is they think if in the process of trying to think through alternatives to what they build, they brought a whole different sets of plans and ideas to people in the neighborhood that that would be sufficient even though they were not reaching out to what was the final product they thought was best. So, we have found very few, very few merchants along that area from masonic west to the end of the system which is point [inaudible] we have found very few merchants who know anything the plan and the plan is very disruptive because their plan is put in a red line very much like the mission that will keep businesses from their customers. One answer they have is they dont think most of the customers drive. I think very few businesses feel the same way. They know they get a certain amount of customers from driving and think something that is not understood by the mta and cpa is the question whether you stay in business is a question of your profit margin and if we took their numbers and they were right that only 30 percent of people drive rfx think what it means for your business if a goo proportion of that 30 percent does want come to do business with you. That mean your profit margin is hurt. We have gotten nothing. After 25 hours from january through last month talking to the staff of cta and mta we received nothing and the fact is they havent done that type of work. It takes a lot of hypothesis what if we do this or that to try to have a worthwhile discussion. None of that occurred. We are doing our oun survey and petition about this and i urge you to read the richmond review piece by david heller who runs the greater Geary Merchants Association and see what has gone on there in the geary development. When the time comes when the Transportation Authority needs to come to you to get your reaction i hope you will give us a chance to deal with this point by point in great detail because the damage done from masonic west is terrible. Oddly, transit first speaks to quality of life and two, economic health. Those two go together. If our Richmond District doesnt have a strong Business Structure to it, the quality of lifer is really geing to be damaged. We hope you can come back when you look at the specific project and our ask to pass on it. Thank you. Thank you. Next speaker, please. Next speaker is [inaudible] stein. Hi there. Eden stein and own [inaudible] art and design in Mission Bernal and president of merchants association. My grand parent owned a store front for 40 years in philadelphia and their legacy business urged me to open [inaudible] art and design in 2007. Mission street is home to my gallery and boutique for 9 years supporting 60 local independent artist and designers. Businesses care about longevity and culture and want the chance to be a legacy business and live our dreams Small Business can thrive in San Francisco. This is why i became president of Mission Bernal association from my neighborhood will have a passionate point person who lives and works in Mission Bernal. The businesses along mission need your support. Two muchckt ago mta reinstructed our street by introducing red transit lanes and forced rathe turns. The buses running two minutes faster but i observed decrease in pedestrian traffic and clientele especially for day time business. My business not only a go too r dolocals for destination for people all over. The forced right hand turn funnel people away marking it hard for our customers to show up and support us. My specific concerns for Mission Bernal are make sure it is safe for pedestrian, residents and valued customers. Request is made to mta to put in left hand turn signals you canim dealing with mission 14 in terms of Public Comment. You called me up. Apologize for that. So, there is a opportunity to provide Public Comment for mission 14 a little later on. Happy to do that later too. You can continue your time with outreach. My apology. Do you want me to come back . My name is terri norton the corner of fillmore and lombard and i made these notes days ago and my number 1 complaint on behalf of Small Business on lombard and lack of outreach and come tonight to brag about their outreach. The fact is that not one Property Owner was notified of these plans. A handful of business were that were directly effect bide bus stops put in front of the business. They weremostly hotels but nouchb other Small Businesses on lombard were ever contacted or told on behalf of the mta this is happening. We told as many as we could reach. I would say i guess 90 percent of the Property Owners dont know about these changes. Now, the thing is that we met with mta about 4 times and every single time we said, the Small Businesses have not been notified. The Property Owners are not notified. Those meetings started 6 months ago and had 6 month tooz send those notifications out and they never did. There is no email, there is no letter in the mail. The person down the street wants to add a clause and get a letter from Planning Commission saying 400 feet from you you need to let us know if you are okay. They are making huge changes that will effect the business squz nothing is ent to any of us. I think you need toknow that. You have to take what the mta says not at face value. That is my warning for you guys. Thank you. Next speaker, please. Good afternoon. Im mary aliza and speaking as a concerned citizen. I will not repeat what i said before totally because you already heard it. I already mentioned the fact that this is the cipe of notice we get when something already happened to let us know it happened. We get these big signs on the street saying this bus stop isnt here anymore. Then they dont do anything ahead of time to tell which bus stops may be going away and allow people the opportunity whether they feel comfortable having the bus stop remuchbed. I came up with my own plan which is in english, spanish and chinese to put on the bus stops that may be removed. We dont know which for sure will be on van ness because sthra tendency of mta staff to change their minds and not tell anybody. One thing we noticed after going to a lot of meetings with mta staff is they cant do anything. We are told we cant do anything wut can talk to you about it. There is that type of problem as well. I notice here there is mention of posted open house notices at the bus stop, so somebody went to the trouble to post notices about a open house meeting but didnt manage to mention the fact by the way we taking your bus stop out as a part the process so there is something lacking in that information. One other thing and that is in terms of Public Information process, i said this before and said this to probably this commission, said it to the mta board and also probably said it to the board of supervisors and that is there is a possibilities to have a really easy to use website that the public can go to and get information about the process in deal wg the city agencies or departments. So far the Planning Commission has been able to figure how to do it in a way you can get a lot of detailed information. I know your dp apartment is also looking at doing this. The mta is so far behind the 8 ball curve on the website and Public Information and how to get a hold of it that it is a huge big problem we are bringing to their attention for a while and understand they heard my comment and hopefully will move forward. Thank you. Thank you, next speaker, please. Rick hall and wasnt going to speak. I spoke last time as a Small Business customer can you hold for one moment please while i reset this. Sorry about that. Go ahead. I spoke last time as a Small Business customer. I said because of what they have done on mission i refuse to go to ma or that end of mission anymore. I am one of those drivers that they dont care about being your customer. There are vast parts the city im getting isolated from and dont go to anymore and so i am a disgruntled customer. The reason i came up is talking about pr is ior talking about outreach. I have gone to a lot of their prior outreach meetings through potrero or embarcadero and happy that they have a new plan because the old plan didnt work at all. Im hope thg new plan, the new hidden plan isnt just bait and switch because what comes to mind where most all the outreach that i see from sfmta is pr, propaganda, sales of their singular agenda and what we want is working with the community, community engagetiment, real alt turnatives not just rubber stamping the same thing they do and real Socio Economic and traffic studies. In some the handouts i picked up there isnt anything there about streets. They dont have any concept to share where thacars will go when they do this. Where they want it to go is vanish and what we [inaudible] 1 3 of bay wrairia residents are thinking of leaving within 3 years because of two things, one is the housing cost or costs and the second is traffic. Their answer to traffic is make the cars go away. Im probably one of those 1 3 that will move and they will be happy because ill take my car with me, but ill be a customer that leaves leaves too. I can afford to live here and dont have housing issue. They are make the city miserable to get around in and live in especially for seniors, disabled, people that have to move arounds with cars and trucks for their businesses. That is the singular agenda, make the cars go away. It is wrong. Thank you. Thank you. Next speaker, please. My name is shirly johnson. I think the main problem is you know not being able to see. [inaudible] sacramento on this and i have to take a train [inaudible] it takes coordination and see what you are looking at. Right now still in the process of trying to get [inaudible] paid a lot of money for this to be able to see and [inaudible] some other organization that will make sure that i can see. Im waiting for that. It should am pretty soon and will have housing[inaudible] at least they had the ability to see why [inaudible] are we talking about outreach . Im talking about outreach our society and the Community Outreach on a lot of these we are discussing outreach for sfmta now. Im talking about transportation. [inaudible] so we can do a process how we have more people come [inaudible] and we gain a lot of businesses and [inaudible] and also, [inaudible] the computers here in the library does not work for me because it has been touch [inaudible] thank you. Next speakers please. [inaudible] district merchants association. I think the [inaudible] paper the other day commissioner dwight spoke about, there is no doubt the Younger Generation dont drive. On the other hand do we want to create the red zones just for buses only to make the buses run faster and save 3 minutes . If anything making anything go faster it causes to be more prone to causing a accident and someone getting hurt. [inaudible] as what we do need is we need more frequency in buses so therefore you can take more people from one place to another [inaudible] rather than just one bus and waiting for 30 minutes for the next bus. We got the synchronized rides that way it [inaudible] go through that. I feel what the impact of having the red zones is a negative impact on Small Business. Taking the [inaudible] there are people that still drive. I just feel somehow that from what im getting from the Small Business is they dont care for what mta is doing at the moment and need to sit back and take a deep breath and how to move forward with this. Any other members who like to comment on this item . My name is eric [inaudible] i think one thing i have been hearing from a lot of folks is it is the style of meeting they have where it is isnt a presentation, it is like a open house so you look at pictures and i think a lot of people feel left out and unengaged so think that is a piece we need to look at. Thank you. Any members of public who would like to comment . Seeing nonePublic Comment is closed and move to item 5. Itep 5 are Craig Raphael and sophia forde. Good evening commissioners. Caig Craig Raphael from sfmta it is our plezer to present the 5 year Capital Improvement program. We were here during the last budget cycle so happy to be back. We will give a high level overview of Capital Investment the mx ta plan tooz make to inform potential impact for Small Business and identify potential opportunities for collaboration and the second reason we are presenting is to continue the dialogue between the mta, Business Commission and community and the members of the public at large. What is Capital Improvement program . Cip is a 5 year program of projects. What that means is mta has a 20 year capital plan which is all investments we need to make to Transportation System to keep it running and safe and reliable. As we two years we update our 5 year plan and map out all the revenue that we think we have a good chance of getting the two year brujt cycle and map those to spinge projects and that lows us to create a plan to take the agencies priorities and cities priorities for transportation and projects we can build and putd into thgrund. We do this over 2 years thmpt mat board approved our two year Capital Budget a afooyears ago and in july we plan to take our 5 year plan to the sfmta board for approval and there will be a lot of helpful Information Available to you at that time and ill talk more about that later. We have a few Guiding Principles for our cip. The first is be consistent with existing goals of the agency. The first is vision zero is the cities policy goal of eliminating all traffic fatalities by 204. Transit first is a city wide policy that smeeks to creating Public Transportation via transit and walking and biking. Finally, state of good repair refers to making investments in the our system that help keep it running and safe and reliable for the public. As candice mentioned safety is our number 1 criteerria. We also want to the invest in projects with Strong Community support. My apology for the slide, this provides just a brief overview of the revenue we have in the Capital Improvement program. The current budget son the left is our fiscal year 20172019 and proposed is what we are currently looking for board approval in july 20172021. The total revenue amount stayed about the same but we have you can see on the top, the central subway project as it nears completion we have less revenue we need to be able to finish it so the proportions in the other categories have gone up. The big proportion on the butm is state of good repair category that includes fleet replacement. By the omed thf period we will have all new buses rolled out. Some other categories to highlight, here the way we do our capital brujt transit optimaization and expansion are the muni forward projects, initiative to make muni more allowable. Safest streets are capital projeths to make it safer for people walking and biking arounds the city. This slide provides a overview oof projects in the 5 year plan. The first category are all the state of good repair projects i was referring to. [inaudible] that is continued roll out of muni forward projects. We also have some target investments we are looking to make in our rail network to try to alleviate bottlenecks we have and speed up the rail service and continuing to introduce new buses and lightrail vehicles which will Enter Service in the next year to two years creating a more reliable and better experience for the public on our transit vehicles. Internal initiatives we like to highlight that will make us more efficient that continues continued support for Asset Management system, for the taxi program we are looking at continuing incentive programs for green taxi technologies that includes providing rebates for taxis powered by alternative fuel sources. Looking at trying to minimize potential threats to our Transit System through the Security Program and complete streets. Those are the vision zero projects make tg safer for people walking and biking. There are a couple tools i like to highlight for this commission as we finalize our Capital Improvement program and that document become available to the public later this year, we will have features that i think will be useful. The first is a map of all the projects that the mta plans to implement over the cip period and that will help give you a sense of potential impacts on specific corridors. We will have scope description frz all the projects we are proposing trying to provide a lot of information to you to increase dialogue to make better decision moving forward. Again, we will also have specific schedules for projects so you will understand when projects are planned, divined and implemented sethese are samples now but well provide you a final sthrourfgz cip when it is finalized. The planned date is july. We met with a lot of stakeholder groups to get us to this point and also had opportunities through webinars and a couple of in person town Hall Meetings for the public to give comment and there will be further opportunity for input and comment as we bring the cip [inaudible] back to the board in july. Those are the materials i presented to you today. Happy to take any questions or comments. Thank you. Thank you. Commissioner zouzounis. Thank you for your presentation. I have a question particularly around the taxis and i know that in conversations with mta in the past around congestion we brought up the ride sharing technologies are contributing to congestion and know that isnt in your control so is this a attempt to offset the congestion . A apperates you can actually regulate more since our taxi industry unfortunately has been suffering for a really long time and curious if there is a point person for that in particular that can maybe update more specifically on what you have planned to revitalize the taxi industry as a way to offset the congestion from private companies we cant regulate in terms of traffic. Also around questionssense taxies and limo drivers are Small Business owners in a lot of ways and i know that i had folks come to me about tickets they get and so maybe in the future we can talk about a more specific presentation around how you are doing with that industry and what violations people need to look out for that they may have no idea. To answer your question, the project highlighted is specifically for the Rebate Program for alternative fuels but i looking closely at congestion caused by tnc and happy to follow up with that. [inaudible] thanks. Commissioner dooley. You include a Draft Capital project map and it seems as though there is a lot of on here. Where can we get a list of all these projects . It looks like there is many many many on this list. I mean on the map. I dont know that i see thewherewhat are all the Capital Projects . Is is that something the business corridors and people need to know what these plans are . Our current plan is to bring our full cip to the mta board in july at which point the full list of projects included on the map is available. I will also direct you to the mta two year Capital Budget which included projects in the next two fiscal year, so 17 and 18 that should have ai believe it has a listing of projects, but would say that will be later in the year in july. Commissioners any other questions . Okay. Thank you for your presentation. Well call for Public Comment. Does any member of the public who want to comment specifically on this item which is cip understanding there other items to come . Patricia voy again. I was very interested everything he said is this is god for pudustren safety and for bicycles but there was no mention of vehicles. That disturbed me a little bit. Number 2, they are going to the board with a list of these and think this list should come to you before it goes to the board. Why are you being eliminated in the pr
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