Transcripts For SFGTV LIVE Transportation Authority Full Board 20160322

Good morning and welcome to San Francisco county Transportation Authority. Im scott wiener the chair and well call the roll. Item 1, roll call, commissioner avalos, present. Commissioner breed, present. Commissioner campos, present. Commissioner cohen, present. Commissioner farrell, absent. Commissioner kim, absent. Commissioner mar, absent. Commissioner peskin, present. Commissioner tang, absent. Commissioner wiener, present. Commissioner yee, present. We have quorum okay, i want to thank sfgtv for broadcasting todays meeting, leo [inaudible] and also colleagues supervisor farrell has asked to be excused in adivision supervisor kim is ill and unable to attend so can i have a motion to excuse commissioner farrell and commissioner kim . Motion by commissioner cohen, seconded by commissioner compose and do wree need roll call on that or take that without objection. Take without objection. Item number 2 chairs report. This is a information item. Colleagues we have two pieces of good news to share. First i like to congratulate cal trans and Transportation Authority with public and private sector partners for winning the california transportation award. We had the opening of the new presidio parkway replacing the doil drive with a safe, modern and beautiful facility. I like to applaud the organization for their work and thank for the recognition as we finalize dlinchy of the innovative project. Speaking of invasion, i would like to thank u. S. Transportation anthony foxx for making San Francisco eligible to compete in the smart city challenge program. This is a way to show how Vehicle Technology can [inaudible] through partner shipwise the federal government. Tim [inaudible] of sfmta is here and will give a overview the proposal. Im hearing about San Franciscos ideas and how the Transportation Authority and the office can support the effort. We are still at early stages there is Great Potential to incorporate new mobility to make the streets safeer and promote cycling [inaudible] with the bay area population expect to add 2 Million People by 2040 we are working on transit expansion plans but we must make it easier for people to live without a car or drive the car less. We cant have another million cars in the bay air roads. Technology can help get us to our goal more quickly. On a less positive note, unfortunately with barts troubles over the past weeks we have seen the consequences of what happens when we wait too long to address the basic transportation infrastructure needs. Bart is 45 years old and truly showing its age. At the same time it faces record demand and continued excollation in ridership. The recent electrical problems that are completely decimating barts fleet are just the most extreme example of a system that is becoming less reliable and frankly coming apart at the seams. We absolutely must fix the system, modernize and expand the capacity. In november we will see a capital infrasfruckture model on the bal it will be a dejaster if the bonds fails. We need to make sure we as a city are doing our part along with alameda and con trucosta counties for barbts vehicle replacement and acquisition program. What is happening with bart is also a cautionary note for us in San Francisco as we make policy decisions that determine whether we are going to invest in muni or not and we need to make sure we are continually getting ahead of the curve when it comes to infrastructure needs of our system. So, colleagues thank you for that and well proceed to Public Comment. Any Public Comment on item number 2 . Seeing none, Public Comment is closed and this is a information item. Well move to item number 3. Item 3, executive director reports. This is a information item. Thank you chair wiener. Good morning commissioners. [inaudible] happy to reportthank you for highlighting the good news chair wiener. In keep wg the theme of research and invasion i was pleased on the 14th of this munt to join with staff with los angeles and con trucosta Transportation Authority at a state hearing. Chair fraser held a importance of state funded research in transportation technology. The research we benefited from has been in the area of Traffic Safety for vision zero, office of Traffic Safety and numerous other technologies to help optimize our system so we appreciated chair frasers leadership and to participate in the meeting. Here in the region our work with mtca and bay area government we have draft project performance results which well bing to plans and Programs Committee next month. With the release of the data we will be able to sehow our projects compete against other projects then region. We have every reason to believe it will do well for progress but in coordination with a bad and mtc well take a look at the land use function as the region has important choices. Just untime our bart Incentive Program is getting ready to launch. You may have seen on the news bart perks we are working together with bart to [inaudible] corroded portionoffs the system, the transbay [inaudible] embarcadero and mun gumry stations and the idea is sign up for the program and earn points through the clipper card for shifting travel outside of the peak period to ease the congestion problems on bart and extend [inaudible] this doesnt take place medium and long term Capital Planning but a important way we can partner with the community and public to extend the life and the capacity of our system. You can find more nrgz at sf [inaudible] bart travel incenseive. In terms of the local work the Treasure Island Management Team put together 3 grant applications so hopefully we will be successful working with ticd the [inaudible] Community Development and [inaudible] we submitted a state cap and trade grant for Affordable Housing and. We submitted a federal tiger grant for a hybrid vessel we hope toacquire for the Ferry Service and applied for federal inclusive planning impact grant. I highlight these because it is terrific to see there are no programs forwarded at the federal and state level that understand and underscore our strategy of nob nab in order to demonstrate new ways of conducting and achieving sustainability development. At the neighborhood level throughout the neighborhood transportation improvement program, we work closely with your offices and staff and a number of districts, district 11 we are working with commissioner avalos team on the park Station Community work at san jose and [inaudible] on district 8 on elk street and district 6 to look at [inaudible] in district 9 we have been able to kick off the alameda interchange Improvement Project with commissioner campos and his staff this is in effort to improve the safety, pedestrian bike safety near Farmers Market [inaudible] more nrgz on those outreach meetings about the concepts beginning to emerge, visit sfcta. Org alameda change. The crooked street is shared with Community Members in the area of the crooked street. Options are a full range of visitor access and circulation and physical treatments to deminsh the high level of vehicle and pedestrian visitors and avoiding the spill over effects to ajaistant streets. One of the findings we made is there as many visitors here as in the key locations in the city but the lack of management cupsty, so unlike the Golden Gate Bridge and other places with a organization we think that is something that will be helpful to sustain the benefits of the short term programs that are tried. Well come to the plans and programs exhibit no. 3 was committee and folks can join outreach meetings later march. [inaudible] there is also a final meeting to announce the rail yard alternative and boulevard studthy Planning Department has been hosting and hold the Second Community meeting wednesday march 30 at 6 p. M. At the same location at the first which is potrero neighborhood [inaudible] at 955 [inaudible] come find out more about plans underway to address the alignments options for the downtown extension of cal train in conjunction with land use and free way vision planning. Project delivery yerba buena appears to be on time. We have been able toreplace the bridge work and [inaudible] place seismic joints and concrete barriers. We anticipate being able to share that with you all and have a Ribbon Cutting in the summer time so my thanks go to eric [inaudible] for managing the project for us. And we are also at the same time coordinating with the bay bridge authorities as well as cal trans on touch down and integration of the bike and pedestrian path, the west path on to the islands later this summer. As far as bicycleing improvements we are happy to report the prop k funding embarcadero and [inaudible] signage up are so thank you for sfmta for putting in signage to help [inaudible] away from king street and on to less stressful streets and paths. The page streets improvement and congratulate mta on thampt the muni procurement is continuing pace. There are 444 motor coaches and 60 trolleys on order. Mta received 101 motor coaches and 38 trolley coaches and many are oon revenue. The prop k funds are put to very good use and bond fund are not eligible for vehicles so that under scores the measure chair wiener described in his remarks for helping bart, muni and cal train meet the vehicle needs. New Traffic Signals are also being installed through prop k funding at that webster and o farrell street location to support vision zero and many other places acrauz the city including intersection of [inaudible] thank you sfmta for get thg improvements out with our prop k fund. With that, happy to answer any questions. Thank you. Thank you very much mrs. Chang. Any question or comments . Seeing none, is there any Public Comment on item number 3 . Seeing none, Public Comment is closed. This is a information item. Item number 4. Item 4, approve the minutes of february 23, 2016 meeting. Any questions or comments or chairchgs with respect to the february minutes . Seeing none, is there any Public Comment on item 4 . Seeing none, Public Comment is closed. Can we take a roll call vote onite 784 avalos, aye. Breed, aye. Campos, absent. Commissioner cohen, aye. Commissioner mar, absent. Commissioner peskin, aye. Commissioner tang, aye. Commissioner weener, aye. Commissioner yee, aye. The minutes are approve item number 5 item fiver, approve theadopt position on state legislation, this is a action item any questions or comments on item 5 . Seeing none, any Public Comment on item 5 . Seeing none, Public Comment is closed. The house is changed so can you call the roll on item 5. Commissioner avalos, aye. Commissioner breed, aye. Compose, aye. Commissioner cohen, aye. Commissioner mar, absent. Commissioner peskin, aye. Commissioner tang, aye. Commissioner wiener, aye. Commissioner yee, aye. The item is approved. Item 6. Item 6, approve the improving west side transit access stuteejic analysis report. Any question or comments on item 6. . Seeing none, any Public Comment . Seeing none Public Comment is closed. Colleagues can we take item 6 same house same call . Without objection that will be the order. Item 7. Item 7, appoint john larsson is to system Advisory Committee. Any question or comments . Seeing none. Public comment . Seeing none, Public Comment is closed. Same house same call . Without objection that will be the order. Item 8. Approve the twnt 16 prop aa call for projects programming recommendations. Toteology 2,192,934 for four projects and stuteejic plan. Commissioner peskin. Thank you chair wiener, colleagues. As you all probably heard the friday before last there was a fatality at broad way and 4th street the 4th fatality in as many years and condolances to mr. Laws widow and children. Unfortunately these streetscape improvements are aftermr. Laws passing but pleased we have found the last Million Dollars for a 8 Million Dollar project to do Pedestrian Safety and streetscape improve. Along broad way between columbus avenue around gene Parker Elementary School which is a place a lot of kids go but a dangerous intersection. I request we approve this portion of item number 8 specifically on attachment 1, the third item, subject the too the condition before dpw puts this project out to bid that a little bit further consalitation with the community relative to the streetscape design be addressed. I discussed that with staff so would like to add that condition and then approve the item. That is a motion . Yes, sir. Is there a second . Second by commissioner breed. Okay, any other comments or questions, colleagues . Yes. Through the chair, commissioner peskin where believe the contract has been advertised so if quee can condition it on prior to award of a contract. I will accept that change to my motion so prior to award. Okay, commissioner breed that is a second . Revised motion is made and seconded. Seeing no other comment, any Public Comment on item 8 . Seeing none Public Comment is closed. Commissioner peskin made a motion to amend, can we take that motion without objection . Without objection the amendment is adopted. Take item 8 same house same call . Without objection that is the order. Item 9 allocate 10,975,410 in prop k funds and 794,980 in prom aa funds with conditions with 6 requests to subject to attached fiscal year cash flow distribution schedules any questions or comments . Seeing none, any Public Comment . Seeing none, Public Comment is closed and can we take item 9 same house same call . Without objection that will be theordser. Item 10 item 10, update on u. S. Department of transportation smart city challenge grants. This is information item. Okay, i believe the mta will present on this mrs. Chang . Yes. [inaudible] Tim Papandreou should be here shortly. This is the last item on the agenda so i dont think i can give the entire presentation but ill give it a try. This is a excited development and want to take a minute to brief you and the public about the good news. The u. S. Department of transportation named San Francisco one of 7 fine finalist cities to compete for a 50 Million Dollar prize the purpose of the program is highlight the Innovative Ways Technology can help urban areas meet the transportation challenges for mobility, safety standpoint prom emissions and Community Based planning. So, it is very wonderful we are finalist and dont have the prize yet but expect to continue in the direction even if we dont receive the big prize. It is something we have been working on in many respects and underscoors efforts under way such as vision zero and [inaudible] and bike and car sharing and other services coordinating. In the city. The project is only eligible for medium size cities under 850,000 people and we just snuck in. The idea would be to demonstrate strategies, demonstrate committed leadership sw capacity to sustain the strategy beyond the grant period over the next 3 year jz integrate our project with existing data requirements and making sure those will beope toon the public beyond the grant period. The smart city challenge is expected to improve safety, enhanceability and Climate Change and there is a 10 Million Dollar portion the prize offered by volcon which a non profit in the seattle area focused on emissions reduction. The smart city vision element you will see are many, about a dozen and they begin with technology elementsism underscooring the [inaudible] and automated vehicles, connected vehicles, intelligence transportation, the idea your vehicle can talk to road side infruc structure such as signals and they can guide you to avoid a incident ahead or to be able to more quickly get to your destination. In the second band innovative approach to transportation include the analytic and logistics part which is behind the scenes but a way to optimize conditions on streets for road users. Finally we have Communication Technology and land use components as well as Community Engagement and equity components of the program. There is a couple steps process that we have already proceeded to the 7 finalist city stage and in the proposal where well receive 100 thousand to development the local proposal. The date for that is in may and expect to hear Award Winners announced in june. Here is tim and ill let him take a breath and take over and well work with the u. S. Department of transportation and private sector partners many Public Sector partners at state, local and regional level jz the city will receive the prize and if wree not suck saysful receive thg grand prize we expect to continue our efforts forward. Here you go, tim. Good morning everyone. Tim with the mta. Thank you for setting that up. So, we applied for the city grant under some specific criteria to try to get through the initant of how it can move out to have the most sustainable and equitable Transportation System. [inaudible] resulted in what we call a binary policy system that is incompetable with cities gruth not just in San Francisco but many cities around the country. That system has resulted in people who are choosing to are required to use a [inaudible] in the city are [inaudible] 80 percent empty, there are 4 empty seats that utilized and most of the times the car is stationary so need a place to park and most the cars are privately owned so it is creating a economic burden on people to get around the city with private transportation. Because of the design the city and Transportation System we have enormous peaks in the morning and evening which creates a large demand on the transit supply but for the rest of the day it isnt very utilized. It is efficiency issue as well. In the mean time we had a plethora of new services that have popped up, referred to as shared mobility or some call it [inaudible] economy system. They started early on with car sharing bike sharing came on board but had a lot of companies that are based in silicone valley provide their own transportation for employees. We have what some refer to as a [inaudible] and then recently we had the electric scooters and new quad vehicles. None created more controversy for the city than what we refer to as Transportation Network companies, uber and lifts and the shuttle which is a service to move around the city. What we learned is these options are growing rapidly because they are [inaudible] we are trying to figure oit the best way to manage the services while if they are not going away we want to figure a way to work with them and incorporate into our Transportation System the best we can. Now, that is what is happening in the city up to now, as we look to the near future we are working very closely with some the Car Companies that are starting to test [inaudible] vehicles. Recently we had a few Companies Testing in San Francisco and one of the Car Companies had a collision earlier that got acquired by general motors. There is a lot of change happening in this space but barely scached the surface and want to guide the process rather than chase it or be led by it. One of the things we pushed for in the grants and hope to work with the usdot and california government is we dont want to see the path from conventionally owned private cars to [inaudible] we want to see private cars to shared a automated cars because we think that is the best use of our street space and the best opportunity we have to meet those multiple city objectives. Our goal was in the statement is we will work with the companies to guide them into trying to meet local city goals through a shared connected platform. With smart city proposal is simply a focus on working with companies and services and not on their own, working through the community. We felt it was important to state to the dot that we dont believe we can arbitrarily choose a neighborhood but want to work with the community to figure oit what they are interested in and how they would like us to move forward in this approach. We will focus on the data driven elements of this and expand and integrate the shared Mobility Services with Public Transit and incorporate shared and connected vehicles when they are ready to be brought to market. [inaudible] work Better Together and provide more access to mobility without the car ownership and also save customers time and money. A big focus of the grant is customer focus and figure out the opportunity we can improve the Customer Experience in the Transportation System. From all the research we have done we know Vehicle Technology can meet multiple city goals if guided effectively. They can reduce traffic fatality, reach the [inaudible] and reduce [cough]. We think we combine the suvss together and should be able to see something that is trans formational and [inaudible] shift more priority for things we care about which is walking transit and cycling but also if we can save up the demand for needed to use the parking garages we can potentially transform them and create Affordable Housing is that is a huge opportunity to reclaim some of our public Space Dedicated for private car use over to something that is more aminable to social equity which is Affordable Housing. The grant focused on 3 areas, one is create a city policy framework [inaudible] a lot of the companies are brand new and they are literally all over the place in terms of their ability to meet our city goals and objectives. Work on developing the [inaudible] and then guide the development of the automated technology. We have 6 keep principles we would like to push forward on as a screening criteria before we qualify the companies from now on and that is looking at the safety both in the vehicle and Traffic Safety approach to the operation making sure they focus on affordability, accessibility, available across the city and make sure they work with each other so they are [inaudible] and leading to the [inaudible] these customer focus objectives will help improve the things people have been telling us that are important. For example, being able to see all the different transport services in one app. [inaudible] and pay in one app. Those things will create a simplified approach in knowing the services are available and also utilize around the city. We are going to work with the companies to create a governance structure how we manage our data and tie that to the open data portal we have with sf open data and create city dashbords and metrics how we can see the efficacy of the work. Lastly, which is important, is how do we test all this new technology on our streets . We will develop a Community Design framework to prioritize the different [inaudible] on the streets and then integrate the technology into the municipal fleets and land use policy because the potential for connected and automated [inaudible] will have a big impact on parking and that will allow us to reassess some of our parking policies we have in land use. Now, before we do any of this we need to develop metrix and a process to make the changes so again, data driven is critical. Lets walk through some of the concepts we have come forward on. We have the idea of [inaudible] platform where we filter providers through the 6 goal areas. One area we focus more on is understanding our customer needs, so learning more about what the residents, workers, visitors and commercial Delivery Services need to move around the city. Work with providers to qualify them so they can be considered part the Transportation System and work with our Technology Partner tooz integrate all the technology makeing getting from a to b [inaudible] what pilots we can do to apply the technologies on to our streets whether [inaudible] station squz so on. If we can move forward with this approach we can see that based on the research this is a hi ypothesis of the analsis, we should see collision, congestion, emissions and street demand go down over time and also affordability and liability going up over time. There is a phase to the roithd right that we should repurpose streets and parking for more aminities we consider important in the city. We have diagrams [inaudible] currently in phase 1 where we are today, a lot of cars on the streets [inaudible] taxi and transit, but mostly a congested experience for everybody. Recently we had the increase in the different tnc services which are creating more capacity for on demand trips but still not a real change in the Transportation System. We believe that if we expand the sharing economy in the Transportation System to have more car and bike sharing and the different carpooling services that is when we will see travel demands in the city and should be able to repurpsh spots for [inaudible] and things we care about in the city as well. When we get to shared and connected system where the vehicles are connected and communicating they can move much closer to each other and aware of the traffic conditions and safety issues that is when well see positive reductions in meeting the vision zero goals and reducing emissions and so forth. [inaudible] we can start repurposing the street space to open space and things we care about as a city. Ultimately the vision is that in the automated version there will be less space needed to move people around and more Space Dedicated for things we care about and that is basically our vision that we are moving forward on with this grant. The second piece of this is to create a Community Challenge to ask the neighborhoods how we can start piloting in the area. One neighborhood is selected, we may select more neighborhoods but it will start one first and figure ways to we can provide Technical Services to the applicants and improve the [inaudible] services and new ideas into that neighborhood. The city team that is moving forward with the grant is a Core Policy Team between my team and the mayors office, uc berkeley and the consultant we are starting with and the Technical Support team consists of many different groups inside the mta and City Partners with department of technology, the sfcta, metropolitan transportation commission, [inaudible] and California Strategic Growth Council and have a externt support team with Different Technology providers and well work with Community Engagement organization to help with the Community Challenge. Our key steps in closing is that we are initiating the project team to get this final phase of the grant delivered. We develop the Community Challenge with Community Partner tooz create the engagement, website portal, [inaudible] and review panel and developing the qualified Technology Partners because we are ininidated and want to be able to screen them to help they add value [inaudible] as part of a requirement we have to do a 3 minute video slaining the vision and concept. I want to mention the smart city grant should we receive it will accelerate the program where most of the stuff is already under way so this will give a big boost. That is my conclusion, happy to answer any questions. Thank you papandreou. Colleagues any question or comments . Seeing none well move to Public Comment then. Thank you. Any Public Comment on item number 10 . This time should start when i arrive at the podium so could you reset the button please to 2 minutes . Thank you. So, one supervisor asked a question of the grantsthere is no guarantee theyll get a grant, but then we ask a couple of questions. Number 1, the southeast sector, 30,000 units are [inaudible] right now if you evaluate the Transportation System in the southeast sector it gets a f minus. Now, if you travel from the southeast sector to the north, every day you supervisors should go and check the freeways. The congestion is so umbearable people are fighting on the freeways and soon well have shooting on the freeways. It is very nice to hear plans as if we are living on another planet. As far as i know we are living on the planet earth and we need to be realistic. The first thing is san franciscans need to be respected so the public Transportation System should cater to san franciscans. We recently had a report on the newer buses that maybe the performance isnt so good even though some talk that they would be good so we need to reevaluate the new buses and find out if you spend millions and millions of dollars if you are doing san franciscans right by spending taxpayers money. I appreciate it very much just giving us 2 minutes on the very very convoluted topic. Thank you very much. Thank you. Any additional Public Comment . Seeing none, Public Comment is closed. Okay, this is a information item. Item number 11. Item 11, introduction of new items, colleagues any introductions . Any Public Comment on item 11 . Seeing none Public Comment is closed. This is also a information item. Item 12, any general Public Comment . Good morning commissioners. When the truth of one is in charge [inaudible] and destiny of origin [inaudible] travel a thousand miles in [inaudible] knowing of true destiny then [inaudible] human way of life in circumstances should make up proportions to have a way of [inaudible] holy destiny [inaudible] loyalty, parental love, dignity [inaudible] having the wisdom and courage [inaudible] ones existence of true self [inaudible] is ones true heart [inaudible] thank you so much. Next speaker. Supervisors, so i like to address quality of life issues. And i know the supervisorssome of the supervisors who work in our districts trying to do the right thing. We need to address transportation in a different way. Often we put the emphasis on consultants and as i look to the right here, i see a lot of change of faces. A lot of change of faces. I do not see a diversity. We need a diversity and we dont see it here. We are going to visit you all at your office and not a couple people but maybe 2, 300 people just like we did the other day. When we went to two supervisors they were missing in action and than were [inaudible] relevant pertinent questions they couldnt answer, so you know, im here to put the San Francisco county Transportation Authority on notice and i can do that because i represent the first people of the area to mark malone and you all havent been paying to that. A lot of your eir ceqa and so forth you came here 2 or 300 years ago and took things over you can do as you please. We really dont need to be building so much. We dont need congestion. Thank you very much. Any additional general Public Comment . Seeing none Public Comment is closed. Item number 13. Item 13, adjournment. Colleagues we are adjourned. [meeting adjourned] pp testing test test testing test test commissioner kim . Kim, absent. Commissioner mar . Snechlt here. Commissioner peskin. Present. Tang. Absent. Weiner . Present. Yee . Present. We have a quorum. Item number 2. Chairs report, this is an information, item. Okay, thank you, and colleagues, the year has only just begun, and starting with a number of really exciting developments, particularly in the arena of rail, transportation, and last week we are pleased to see that the Rail Authority released the 2016 Business Plan that proposes to make rail from the Central Valley to the bay area as the next priority segment and following the completing of the bake kerz field portion, and i think that we are excited about this and working together at the agency at the state and regional and local, levels to bring the trains up into San Francisco, particularly the transbay terminal by 2025, this is a major step forward for the region. The San Francisco, Planning Department is olding a Public Meeting to prest it is multi agency program, known as the rail yard and alternatives and i280, feasibility study, or rab, next tuesday, from 6 00 to 8 00 p. M. This is in coordination with many things in the area. And the transmission, transit core, capacity study that is looking at a potential second, transbay, two across the bay. The Planning Department will also present the rad study at the transportation, authority, and Advisory Committee, and to connect, wednesday evening. And finally as a third, related development, the sfmta has released its own, strategy for muni on friday in light of the heavy demapdz today and the Significant Growth that we as a city and a region need to accommodate, it is critical for us to better understand the capacity and the reliability li streets illuminating our ideas and es starting in 2016 the San Francisco Public Utilities commission is xhoefl that light with new led with the did i audits for better light for streets and pedestrian and theyre even better for this vitally lasting longer and consuming up to 50 Percent Less Energy upgrading takes thirty minutes remove the old street light and repeat 18 thousand 5 hundred times while our street lights will be improving the clean energy will remain the same every San Francisco street light is powder by 100 percent godfathers hetch hetchy power in one simple word serious as day turns good afternoon good afternoon ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the to this meeting the this is the regular meeting of the for the land use and transportation im supervisor cohen chair to my right is supervisor wiener the vice chair and to my left is mr. Rosens our clerk is awe debris id like to thank Jessie Larson and leo from sfgovtv for broadcasting this meeting madam clerk, any announcements . Electronic devices. Completed speaker cards and documents to be included should be submitted to the clerk. Items acted upon today will appear on the march 29, 2016 board of supervisors agenda unless otherwise stated. Thank you very much is there a representative from supervisor yees office here . No, not yet okay well, lets commissioner low is supported this item we have shannon from the Planning Department that is here to present on his behalf welcome shannon good afternoon, everyone. Im Stockton Ferguson Planning Department staff for the landmark designation on san marcus the forest neighborhood can i have the overhead the Historic Preservation commission added this to the cal house preservation on june 2011 the hpc designation for july 2017 open cement 16, 2015 did hpgsz conducted on exterior and barrier of the property on october 7, 2015, voted for the landmark designation one 71 sacking marcus is associated with the henry cal and modern pro percent for the American Music for 9 commercial music the 19 tends to thirty and significant for henrys stepmother for the relatively erections department at cal San Francisco state all of the cal her influence is the modern design for transitional writers for the Music Society in the living room of cal house with the acoustics with the performances in mind. The cal house is significant as the first modern singlefamily home conducted in San Francisco and as a work of natural irving what the designer of the Golden Gate Bridge with the pioneering acre architecture work and collaboration. The cal house residences the design that were present when conducted in 1933 as much as the horizontal red week ago siding and elements there is no known neighborhood option to the designation of 171 san marcus after the Property Owner was unable to attend today again supportive of labor designation youll find a letter of support from her that concludes my presentation. Ill be happy to answer any questions you may have. All right. Very much lets getting go ahead and take Public Comment ladies and gentlemen, Public Comment is open two minutes allocated for Public Comment if you want to comment please step forward to the podium good morning and welcome. Good morning or good afternoon my name is ingel ill speaking no support of landmarking this is an unusual building in San Francisco house and it is also very important because there was a very decided influence of the woman architect this building and yeah, he would wish that you would adopt the landmarking thank you. And ms. Horton were you involved the case report for this landmark designation. I cant say they used my book in which they used the novel. Thank you. Is there any additional Public Comment on number one seeing none, Public Comment is closed thank you so much for your comments. Madam chair id like to be listed a cosponsor with supervisor yee and move forward to the full board with recommendations. All right. Looks like this motion. Man and woman madam chair, i have a connection the next Board Meeting will not needed until april 5th. Okay. Thank you very much you got that supervisor peskin all right. A motion to move to the next Board Meeting to april 5th well take that without objection. That motion carries. Item 2. Item 2 an ordinance amending the code for concern no fault vibrations or a person that resided in the rentcontrolled unit. Supervisor campos is the author and joined us supervisor avalos well, thank you. Thank you very much madam chair and colleagues thank you for hearing this item today the legislation before you is about helping families and School Workers in San Francisco remain in their homes during the Academic Year i want to begin by thanking the cosponsoring supervisor kim and supervisor avalos and supervisor mar that builds on prevention that supervisor mar spearheaded in 2009 that legislation allows landlords to evacuate families owner movein the families have children under the age of 18 the scald system and prohibits the eviction during the school year the current legislation expands the existing legislation to include all no fault evictions so that families with children in our system can not be evicted during the school year for evictions related to condominium conversion and substantial rehabilitation the second thing it includes educator and we define educators as people that work in San Francisco continentals directing with students and home daycares both public and private this not only includes the teacher a classroom a paraprofessional an administrator a psychologist or Security Guard or liaison a cafe worker janitor or school nurse we know that San Francisco is facing an affordability crisis if this affordability crisis that impacts our education in terms of the crisis in housing the San Francisco retirement board provided the data that shows that there were 2000 notices of eviction filed between be marking 2014 and 2015 this is a significance 55 increase compared to the 5 year period before that wrpts with regards to no fault 4 hundred and 38 vibrations were on record if you ask the advocates the number will probable be do you believe that number the impact on families with children raises concerns many families who are veektsdz cant afford to stay in San Francisco and therefore are forced to leave San Francisco but not just the families themselves from the family is evicted the impact can be felt if an educator is evicted not only of that educator and his or her family by the students that are educated by his or her thats why this legislation make sense and to put it into context of what it means to a School Worker lets look at the salary for a full kre7b89d teacher is less than 3 thousand 4 hundred conflict of interests a month that teacher has to if they want to stay in San Francisco facing an eviction they have to deal with the market where a one bedroom apartment the medium rental prices for the one bedroom apartment is 3 thousand 6 hundred and 20 more than the entire money they make within a month the issue is worse foyer a paraprofessional here in San Francisco a paraprofessional their average salary is 2,083 a month imagine living on that when you have to pay 3 thousand plus for a one bedroom a december 2015 professional survey by the educators of San Francisco that represents payrolls and teachers found that 70 percent of all responded to that survey and 59 percent were concerned with the high cost of living in San Francisco this is impacting the educators of our city x baiting the issue San Francisco, california ray and nationally a School Teacher and staff shortage problem pursue the number of people enrolled the program has dropped if a 45 thus to fewer 20 thus and that is between 2008 and 2013 and at the end of the school year last year we have nine hundred openings the School District alone and an insufficient number of substitute teachers we had a hearing pointing out that because of the high cost of living that we have the School District unable to hire all the substitutes it needs this ordinance about help mitigate the impact of displacement of educators and families 2 will be something simply needs jeer we can know that city has taken steps to help the educators those findings steps require that we actually it takes time to do some of the things weve talked about we have programs to create housing for teachers that it takes time for those findings projects to have an impact unless we act now and today by the time we do something we will have los lost so much of the educators i take the opportunity to thank you the staff hillary and my legislative aid that has worked on that for quite a few of the i want to acknowledge the Critical Role that the midnight educators lee the audience and others if usf and particular i 2079 acknowledge the work of dean preston the decker the tenants together this is actually something that came out of the work that dean has been doing in his neighborhood its been deans brainchild working with the tenants throughout the neighborhoods and communities that issue came up and that solution that dean came up with and brought to our Office Important i also want to thank the Youth Commission for unanimously supporting the legislation and acknowledge the board of education sandra fewer and matt haney who is here today i know they have drafted a resolution that will be kcmo about the board of education at their meeting tomorrow colleagues, i believe we need to act now to address this crisis because that housing crisis unfortunately has created another crisis i respectfully ask for your; is that right and unless questions or comments ill turn to Public Comment. Thank you supervisor campos for your opening remarks especially ladies and gentlemen, we allow Public Comment to happen right here come and share your thoughts with us. Thank you. Good afternoon. Im the director of the pacific primary which is a school for Early Child Center and schools that has two sites at barker and grove the school is over 40yearold and serves parents a few day around the school serving one and 55 children ive been the director for 20 years and have been an educator in the city for 40 years and this is teacher crisis is the worse ive seen the city norman if we put an ad out for a teacher 10 to 20 applications zero resumes this legislation is essential and i want to thank preston that has done an offered amazing support for the teachers at 1. 4 teachers were facing homeless they have evictions and i strongly support this legislation we have teachers right now that are driving into the city from vacerville and ann took 3 30 the morning to get here it is really impossible our teachers are afraid of what will happen next and the children and families the city will be absolutely being affected now and what is ahead is terrifying i holy hope youll support this legislation and know that is one step among many steps for this serious crisis thank you very much. Thank you, thank you. Thank you. Next speaker, please. Good afternoon, supervisors chair cohen im the executive director of the james center we are a new Development Agency the Mission District and provide offstreet parking social and meekal support the Visitacion Valley and serve one youth and children a year we are seeing as the last speaker said a marked increase in the hardship that our teachers go through i want to talk about the impact on the Opportunity Community as a whole james town is unique we try to serve the kids as long as potential not just the year we hire our own participants when theyre no hostile and support them after they graduate this past year 14 of the state of dissatisfy that graduated from college this is racket most from protecting africanamerican and latino communities a fairly low Graduation Rate the reason we support in our paternity and standoff while theyre working for james attain and a piping into the San Francisco unifi School District of bilingual teachers that have the relationship already because we come from the community so id like hope that you, please help us do what we do and try to stem this Community Crisis by the way, were losing teachers and seeing the loss outcomes for the youth thank you. Thank you. Next speaker, please come on up in need a water queue up automatically. Thank you supervisor avalos and all supervisors for your renewal and thank you for the support of this bill im with the ancestry Providers Association i work with providers the centers and Family Childcare across the city weve been struggling with the wages crisis that effects them knowledge and working here with the children im grateful the two speakers before me shared their works ill go over those findings and reemphasis that Early Childhood make half of what the was this are already lower than was this so any workforce supervisor avalos im pleased to see they were included with educators all other educators in this bill so thank you and i look forward to your support. Thank you. Good afternoon. Im the president of the noncompliant educators to everything urge my choerld support and thank you for supervisor avalos to bring this pardon first of all, as educators we support this legislation is expands the rights of families of the students that are faced with the affordable crisis, and, secondly, im important to us a concrete step that the city can take we hope takes to provide a degree more security for the educators in the city ill give you two example really the last week not a week has gone by since ive taken the job in august getting email address from the educators that are facing an out right eviction or translates into an eviction important one teacher and veteran teacher serving 25 years facing an eviction now part of progress and the other from a teacher her living in a critically important field and trying a Computer Tech teacher said ill not know what im doing april tloth that legislation will present lots of a degree of security it will serve as a center for our educators and thank you very much. Hi, im josh i cook for the kids in the preschool and a the chapter for tenderloin one we represent custodians and School Secretaries and cafeteria workers and people that do safety inspections it is our mix about 1,700 a month so the crisis is not a secret especially for the members and important we have a little bit of security because were the folks after school in the morning we keep the kids fed im pleased to see the cost workers were included in terms of the Ongoing Operations with the district it is crucial we be able to support the educators that are serving the classrooms and make sure that the school itself is running so people can focus on the class thank you very much. Hi jennifer with the San Francisco Tenants Union and little mapping promotions we wholeheartedly support this legislation and while i wish there was a ban on no eviction by providing Community Establishment we have similar legislation to protect the families this think an intelligent decision to capitalized it keeps the classrooms stable i support the government interventions to help our vital educators. Next speaker. Afternoon mediating president of the board of education want to express my strong supports for the legislation and thank you to supervisor avalos for breaking and entering it forward at the at least we can insure our educators work hard with the youth i dont have to face the threat of eviction or losing their home the middle of the school year as president of the brown act board i get to see the schools and this is to be routine by the planning commission, and may be acted upon by a single roll call vote issue that is coming up more and more this morning i was at jean parker longterm supervisor peskin district and the principal told me when we can do to better support the school he didnt say more books or resources do something about the housing crisis were facing a way that our teachers what live in San Francisco and stay without a threat of eviction if were being asked asked to build the community that are stable that are necessary for all the children to be successful it takes creative building solving that allows us to have quarters that can create homes here and have establishment and build School Communities that you are successful so im strongly supportive personally our school board is considering a bill tomorrow evening hope to report back from the entire School District and thank you for the hard work of the folks behind us this is the least we can do and ill be supportive thank you. Next speaker supervisors thank you, madam chair and supervisors especially supervisor campos and especially for including family chaffering seven hundred and thirty licensed childcare happening half own and half rent the renters are afraid the process of being evicted and were provider can and educate the youngest children almost all are working families i dont know how the city will work with the stable quality of the childcare for Agriculture Division those findings kids you mentioned time we dont have that much time and this is moving if one countrys to another and have to have providers and families stay in San Francisco thank you, very much i hope we can do that quickly thank you very much. Next speaker, please. My name is michelle sorry. And im a retired Family Childcare provider from glen park a program for 33 years this is one of the reasons i can be here when other childcare providers cant you know im fortunate to have bought any house when it was 35,000 in glen park and that allowed me to have lower fees for the kids but so im fortunate but just very you know alarmed at how many childcare providers are losing their homes you know the 50 period of time that rent we care for the youngest and often the most vulnerable and so, anyway i want to thank you, very much and especially you supervisor campos for including us thank you. Thank you supervisors and especially supervisor campos for introducing that im depa and in any years of being an eviction defense lawyer ive seen first Hand Benefits the children bend from the existing law and transitions or calmed the panic and were able to enter the School System without a crisis in that ive seen first hand time after time the panic here that people experience when they get an eviction notice and to be able to keep for the entire School Community the costs to mitigate that a little bit makes a big difference not all we want to see in terms of of tenant protection but you can do it now to make things a little bit better thank you. Thank you. Next speaker, please. Good afternoon, supervisors dean preston district 5 a parent of schoolaged children and tenant advocate and thank you supervisor campos for offering this legislation and to the cosponsoring to supervisor mar for planting the seeds in 2010 hopefully, the board will expand upon i hope we can come together on that i think everyone recognized the crisis in teacher housing as well as singlefamily homes sf in San Francisco we need to ask ourselves wharf of a city if we cant house our families and cant house our educators while well built plans for the Affordable Housing for educators in the future we need to protect those findings who are affordablely housed doing everything we can as supervisor campos legislation does to protect educators from evictions i want to echo something depa said the enormous amount of stress eviction folks are under and the amount of centers the families and educators are already under even without an eviction so far educators would low salaries to struggle to afford the city and hard work of taking care of and educating our youth a adding an eviction on top of that makes that stress unbearable and the least we can do make sure that didnt occur and disrupt the School Community thank you. Next speaker, please. Hi, im 101 restraining order less represent the senior action theres an excellent book by the late frank called teacher men an excellent book gives us appreciation for that profession i grew up here and went to various schools to enlivening peabody and George Washington we had teachers that had a stake like by the time my teacher as George Washington high school that lives in the community my writing any career as a writer i owe to the entertain the fact teachers are consulting out of town and walking up at 3 30 in the morning they need consideration for the priority why else will they take a job that pays so little unless they see a need for fulfilling a need like that i appreciate supervisor campos for bringing up to legislation and again, please read the book teacher man by frank la court about the thirty years in taken care of in new york city and give you a very poignant graceful sniebt into teaching in that job. Good afternoon, supervisors my name is kevin bogus work a nonprofit and San Francisco native born and raised im here to ask you to support support is it teachers play a vital component in presenting the students and in fear of eviction is something they dont need to suffer an as negative impact and as someone that attended San Francisco schools we had a lot of teacher turnover your favorite teacher about varnish has an negative impact on the kids i want to ask you to support this and continue to take steps to prevent the workingclass families from being evicted in San Francisco thank you. Afternoon supervisors supervisor avalos thank you for this legislation my name is a connie ford the Vice President of the council no way im here to represent the council fully behind this legislation a beautiful and wonderful piece of legislation were trying to entrap emil with the economic disparities in San Francisco i thought ill tell you both of my children were born and raised and went through Public Schools i remember the day any girls Kindergarten Teacher had to leave it broke her heart she didnt want to go to school i have a granddaughter going to Betsey Carmichael is in love with her teacher if he left it would be hard to pick up the pieces so children who need the support and love not only of their families but of their institutions so were grateful for this legislation to keep over Families Together and to keep our schools supporting our children so thank you very much for this. Thank you thank you connie my colleagues reminded me how heartbroken i would be yes, maam ma is one year ahead of me laughter sorry fred go ahead. I love the small towns im sarah from Human Rights Committee we were a kid we had to move around and most years my parents were able to wait for the summers i remember the awful year i was behind on everything. And how much i was bullied in school a new place that was totally different and hundreds of families with kids it come into our office with the Human Rights Committee and it is really scary to help them fight evictions and the choices to take care of their children and the status show that moving the middle of the year and pulling u pulled out in general sets kids back months in schooling increases the risk of smoking before their 18 and increases the risk of teen suicide i dont think that is too much to ask the lrpdz left hand to wait for a no fault eviction i wish the kids could stay no matter what when it was about money but we dont seem to be able to do that so lets help the children. Thank you. Next speaker. Good afternoon, supervisors and chair malia cohen my former student with katie tang we could have a reunion one of the beautiful things of being in a big town smaller city to retain the communities between classrooms and teachers and other school staff when people can afford to stay in town so back in ancient 1985 i taught with a nice studio apartment with 15 and gerrero housing was not an object of solicitation today, we know a change in housing in San Francisco and that there is indeed a crisis and this crisis is exacerbated by the fact that has been noted a National State and local crisis in the Teacher Shortage how is sfusd going to be able to recruit the best and bright i did have University Students to teach in San Francisco if they cant see a way to dig down with roots in the city and maybe have the audacity to raise a family almost a growth the number of omgz is seven hundred in 1906 perhaps the worst housing crisis in history this city historians note radical around the disposed and the homeless in tents and the tripod communities and we rebuilt this city burn ever brerg into a historic gentrification and disruption of School Community that is a great piece of legislation it is one thank you to my left is. San francisco free market Affordable Housing for our teachers why not build the the police force own their housing village no four story high poor village and cant provide housing with the teachers low income or free housing just for teachers see as a teacher they will work like a Nonprofit Organization career see with our children of the energy the activities something with full fullness and achievement they guarantee themselves their security especially, when they live close to the colleges schools for time to prepare for the curriculum and students thank you. Thank you supervisor campos thank you for bringing this measure id like to add my name if it is not on it. Youre not. Thank you. Please add me i want to acknowledge the educators thank you for coming and sharing our perspectives on the urgency supervisor campos is there anything the you want to add. If i may madam chair thank to the amazing speakers the people that took time out of theyre busy schedules all the folks that spoke you know just made the point better than i or anyone should but we talked about the teachers and paraprofessionals it is critical not just them but a lot of workers that play a critical roll in the education of our childrens and thank you for your support. No more if you remember Public Comment Public Comment is closed. Lets see supervisor any other future discussion colleagues supervisor wiener. Please. Thank you, madam chair im happy to support this legislation i think that teachers and educators in general are in a unique progression and having disruptions the mid of a school year in addition to the observance terrible bureaucrats on the educators impacts our children and we need to make sure our kids are referring all the education and 2014 and so forth they need im happy to support. Is that a motion. Yes. Pile move forward to the i make a motion to send it to the full board with a positive recommendation. Well take that without objection. That madam clerk, any other business before this committee . Throw the baby out with the bath water thank you leakage this meeting is adjourned clapping power its all around us in the sun and the winds and caves waves power that lights our homes while protecting our Natural Resources clean power will provide power to san franciscans how about works right now our power is from pg e from nonrenewable systems that comes over pg e maintained lines with clean power your energy about think generated by caesarean more renewable sources come to our home e. R. Businesses to the pg e lines welcome welcome to the welcome to the peoples palace city hall for this wonderful event i want to welcome you all here today as we swear in some 28 citizens of San Francisco well be serving on over 18 body and committees for our city and i want to begin by saying a big thank you to every single one of you because those are important bodies of government that we share robot and making sure that not only are those departments that youll see run appropriating but you do your best to make sure the public is heard all the public u public is heeshd thats not simple an easy task these days there are lots of views how government should be doing things and how we are interacting with the public but one of the most important things as citizens to open up our government to make sure that all the people are heard and they have a way in which to tell us what the needs are what with we can do about it and share the responsibility this is an important 7, 8, 9 not only for our city but for our country that is why we want to vest invest in every single one of you to make sure our government is open and effective and always listening and responding to the communities needs these 28 bodies of government let me run through them ill find reflected in them the diversity that we have our Arts Commission i have 3 members being appointed there today j. D. And roberta and simon you thank you very much our Environment Commission we have 3 members being postponed to this commission emily jackie o i think she has friends jackie because josh wanted to narrow i profound her last name correctly o ma holiday that says im on holiday okay jackie im on holiday and lisa thank you thank you very much to our Film Commission welcome in jim who is part of International Association of theatre employees local 16 thank you, jim for serving on there our groed body . An important body is sounds bureaucratic but the body that makes sure our with grondz are spent correctly and jennifer and others thank you for thank you for agreeing to serve cecil chronically thank you, again four coming aborted and hemisphere o helping this is this so important our Health Commission and especially those living on our streets they get the Health Treatment they need and lindell on the hours authority thank you for stepping up on our Housing Authority as we reshape and to susan on the Human Rights Commission susan thank you, again, for not only being a great commissioner but helping us with the bias training in our city thank you making sure we Pay Attention to that to james ma crepe thank you, again for your past and to help us again with all all the people that need our help not only on the streets but on the edge and needs the services our city needs thank you very much for serving often the Human Rights Commission rebecca woods to our jury trial probation rebecca thank you for your service more and more were finding answers to help the youth and need our help maneuvering that connection is there thank you, rebecca can to our local entries elliott thank you for being a great really diplomat 23u78 u, if you will, to our Small Businesses our Long Term Care jeremy and berry detective and chip thank you very much being on the Long Term Care were having great conversations about the dignities fund and how we need to Pay Attention to the seniors and long term skewer is an incredible part and to the affirm before the hugger to the 4 commissioners, thank you very much for being here youve got a lot of friends here today family and friends clapping. thank you for september 11th up to be on the Port Commission youll help us with the body we have and rebecca lee thank you very much for being on the Public Utilities commission your Advisory Committee the Public Utilities commission is doing a lot of work as the rain shows we have theres more work to do for the community to leslie to for the reentry that is so important as we want to make sure those that are reentering our society are not only treated with went they find success in our or their lives as well to one of the most 0 important bodies i call that on to make sure the Property Owners and tenants are talking with each other and mar they settle thats our residential rent stabilization board thank you for stepping up you and to the shelter monitoring comet thank you for stepping up again, i repeat that that we have a tremendous amount of work to do as we forge a new department thank you very much for stepping up there and we have the Veterans Affairs commission thank you, ann for your work i know you do great work with the salesforce 15i789 we need that innovation on the Veterans Affairs commission so thank you, ann for coming back again and they only to our memorial Board Trustees thank you very well have for your wonderful work and support to thomas horn thank you, again, for coming back and being part of this wonderful body and to the newest member former just for being part of this wonderful body i wanted to go through those names each of these bodies of government are so important to the city i know today not only are the members here to be sworn if in but a number i want to make sure i mention in stepping up to these government bodies people are here are creating a great sacrifice i want to say thank you to those running the government in different ways to kevin Housing Authority youre helping me make sure we built the Affordable Housing the city and stepping up on the bond oversight local 6 thank you, again. And to jim and i said earlier you know were going to get a lot more films the city thanks to our leadership the Film Industry is process perry and exciting to see i made my own called to make sure that the films stay the city lecture i want to make sure you have is an active mayor to help with the Film Industry and ambassador youve got a lot of friends today here i want to make sure that i mentioned them because they came from all over our city to in prediction for that this appointment i know that were going to have i know hes here already hisism in essence the metropolitan bishop of the Greek Orthodox church in San Francisco your awesome if hes here thank you. Being here and judges is here to show her appreciation and former jena thank you very much jena well continue having our peninsula dinners together to talk through what we should be doing as region and thank you to andrew the founder of urge america thank you for being here and roberta economies yes, the chair of the sister city and the sister city in egress ill plan to, at the next hopefully within this summaries year mark is march here thank you, mark for showing up the president find our rec and Park Commission and the member of the retirement board the former president thank you victor for being here as well i also want to stay thank you to the Environment Commission el me a representative the secretary of labor wonderful and in helping us make sure we create the conditions for more jobs in the entire region thank you for stepping up to the Environment Commission conviction clapping. and i want to say a special thank you to leader pelosi, to the International Union and to friend of mine former art that rode in on behalf of our ambassador for her appointment thank you for your contributions and awe lane thank you for her and her which were for coming out and judges i want to note i know your retired but it is continues to be a part of our history the city that you were the preceding justin judges over the trail of versus perry and found in our judgment to the benefit that proposition 8 was unconstitutional thank you, again, for that decision clapping. are we all ready . Okay. Well, i know all of you came from a wet weather we want to say thank you, again. And thank you to all the Department Heads that are here and the other commissioners that have joined here i think they take pride if i may ask all of the appointees new and returning to please stand and as i say i practical state each one of your names and the commission or body your postponed to say it allowed and proud because this is a your time to state your pride in going on those bodies and then well go through the swearing in please raise your right hand i. Do solemnly swear. Okay. Go through this one by one i janey. I commissioner the environment i susan human right commission i cecelia Health Commission and dave crow rent board and war memorial day i Port Commission and i van memorial war board. I thomas war memorial board ambassador i lisa commission on the environment. I kevin Housing Authority gentle Oversight Committee. I simon Arts Commission. I rebecca lee Public Utilities Commission Advisory committee. I rebecca one side juvenile Probation Commission i ann Veterans Affairs commission i jennifer grond Oversight Committee i jeremy Long Term Care coordinating council. Idealogical Business Enterprise 55. I chip long term coordinating council. I berry detective long term council i ken rent board. I Arts Commission i jacqueline Holiday Commission on the environment. I james Human Services as. I gary San Francisco Fire Department monitoring. I Housing Authority commission by i leslie reentry council. That i will support and defend. repeated. the constitution of the united states. Davids. repeated. against all enemies. repeated. and that i will bear true faith and allegiance. United states. repeated. and to the constitution of the state of california. repeated. that i take this oath freely. repeated. without any mental reservation. repeated. repeated. or purpose of evasion. repeated. that i will well and faithfully discharge the duties. repeated. and during such time as i hold office of multiple voices for the city and county of San Francisco congratulations shouting. . More and more citys high San Francisco is committing to dislocate to end all traffic death that means improving safety for people walking and driving and safety on our streets is everyones responsibility people can make mistakes but not result in injury or death all traffic collisions are preventable as drivers you play a large role that will give you the tools to drive safely on streets a recent survey asks hundreds of drivers about save city introduce driving what did they say watch for distracted behavior and slow down and be patient and check for people before you turn the facts about city driving shows how important to be alert most collisions happen in good weather allowance even at 25 mileperhour it takes a vehicle 85 feet to stop this is almost 7 car lengths slowing down makes collisions less savior when a person is hit by a passerby vehicle 25 minor the chance of death is 25 percent 40 percent that increases inform 85 percent slowing down didnt cost much time driving behind a person takes 9 extra semiautomatic and stopping at the yellow light takes only 30 seconds by hitting meone costs you hours and weeks of our time and maybe a life take a deep breath and take youre time cities Cross America are being safely for walking and driving some streets are confusing heres what you need to know all intersection kroukz of novelist marked some are marked to make them more visible other crosswalks and intersections are raised to the level of sidewalk to actress as speed bump and people are maybe crossing be cautious and watch for people when you approach any intersection advanced limit lines and pedestrian yield signs show drivers where people walk and stop behind the lines at stop signs and for people crossing bulb outs where the sidewalks extends into the street make that tease easy to see pedestrians and remember to slow down whether making reasons and watch for people on sidewalk estimations extensions that maybe closer than you expect and bicyclists may motive to the left to get around bulb outs this gives people a head start allowing pedestrians to enter the crosswalk before transfer starts moving makes them more visible pedestrian scrimmage and stop the vehicles in all directions allow people to cross including department of building inspection scrambles are paired with no light restriction and rapid beacons you turn bright whether the pedestrians are there or the center is activated precede slowly as you approach the beacons especially, if their activated a Pedestrian Crossing light turns yellow before turning sold red back to flash red procedure after making a full stop as long as the sidewalk is empty and, of course, stop whenever the light is red traffic circles reduce conflicts you must stop at the strewn and precede around the raise your right hand of the circle watch for people in crosswalks and people in bikes coming around the circle arrows indicate where people with bikes share the intersections and people have ride to people on bikes have the right to use the lane whether or not in the sharing bike lanes are for people protected by parks e. 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Parked cars and stay out of separated bike lanes unless an emergency dashed bike lanes are a shared zone four for vehicles to change lanes slow bike lanes allow the circles their unusually sprayed before me from other traffic some bike lanes are built to the level higher than the street but lower than the sidewalk they provide a safe separated space sponsor cyclists are around vehicles the box areas are marked with the stencil at intersections act as advanced limit lines for people to garter at a red light this increases the 1r0ir7b9 to drivers people will ride past stopped vehicles at the fronltd of the intersection give them room and stop short of limit line behind the bike without objection and cross only after the green light and people cleared the bike box bicycle traffic lights allow people on bikes to proceed while vehicles are stopped be unaware aware of those bike San Francisco General Hospital but stay alert and only skrans when the vehicle is cleared the intersection lets take a quiz to see what all of learned here we go number one when do month collisions happen did you say in daytime youre correct question two if an intersection is not marched is it still a crosswalk yes did you get it right great job one more before we go on whats one of the best things to do to avoid collisions . You can it take a breath Pay Attention and slow down city streets are crowded and chaotic so seeing everyone every single everything is difficult heres a test how many times did the white team pass the ball . If you answered 11 youre correct but did you notice anything else also be aware ever youre surrounded and remember that is easy 0 miss something if youre not looking for it heres some basic principles driving near peep e people from youre drivers seat it is difficult address our mirrors to reduce blind spots people on bicycles maybe be in our blind spot give yourselves plenty of time to react look out stay on the road from building to building not just curve to curve check driveways and behind parked vehicles for people that enter our path turning vehicles are especially dangerous important people walking and collisions often occur when vehicles are making tunnels when you turn remember check for people using the crosswalk before starting youre turn watch for people on bikes traveling in the ongoing direction always check our mirrors and blind spots patience pays off take a moment to make sure youre clear while it might feel youll save time by driving fast or turning without checking you wont save driving only adds a few semiautomatic to our trip a collision can cost you, your job or someones live heres important things to remember all crosswalks are legal and pedestrian have the rightofway people cross the street anywhere children and seniors and people with disabilities are the most vulnerable think city strits give buses and streetcars a lot of the space or people returning to catch a train dont block the box this creates dangerous situation for people walking how are forced into moving traffic and people bicycling out of the bike lane and people on bikes most city streets are legal for bicyclists even without signs people biking can fall in front of you provide a safe amount of space when passing someone on a bike a minimum of 3 feet is required by law in california and people on bikes prefer to be in the bike lane in for the this is often to avoid accidents give them room people on bikes will stay away from the traffic or watch out for open doors whoops that was a close one expect people to go to the front of the light and pass on the right a tap of the horn maybe useful to make youre preservation known but avoid using the horn it may saturday night be someone vehicles anybody right turns are especially dangerous important biking always approach right turns properly signal early and wait for people biking through the intersection move as far to the right to people on bikes can pass on the left lets try a few more questions who are the most Vulnerable People on city streets . Children . Seniors, and people with disabilities why do people on bikes ride close to travel there to avoid car doors what is one of the most dangerous situations for people walking and riding bikes . Turning vehicles and what can you do to make sure that everyone is safe in any situation . Thartsz stay patient and alert and, of course, slow down parking and loading a vehicle on accredit city streets is a challenge weather parking and unloading always check for people in our mirrors and blind spots and on the drivers side with our right turn right hand this causes you to look 40 on your left for bicyclists when passersby exiting the vehicle make sure about opening the door know where loading zones are if not loading zones available use side streets never stop in bike lanes or traffic lanes. Bad weathering and visible rain and fog or low lighting make it hard to see youre vehicle is likely to slide or loss control in eye i didnt controls and create issues for people walking and biking they tried try to avoid pulled and umbrellas and construction get slippery for people the safety thing to do in conditions whether wet or icy or dark slow down and drive more carefully remember going fast may on this save you a few semiautomatic but speeding may cause you a life or youre job people walking and biking are Vulnerable People can be distracted or make unsafe decisions as a driver the responsibility for safety lies with you a collision could mean the loss of our life or youre job and dealing with the legal implementations could take years or an emotional toll if someone is killed in a crash help us achieve vision zero and everyone can use the streets safely. Thank you for watch and following the important driving tests your remember were counting on you i want to welcome everyone here today and today, we are signing this very important piece of legislation and let me begin by thanking supervisor wiener so far his instead of leadership the sponsoring the legislation that will raise the minimum angle for anyone purchasing Tobacco Products and e cigarettes to the average 24 and that will take effect on july 1st of this year i know that supervisor wiener along with his cosponsors supervisor mar and supervisor cowen and supervisor farrell and ultimately the entire board had a adopted this and this i know that the supervisors with working closely with our duty 0 who has been documenting why it is showing so important to continue our efforts as a city ifnot as a state to continue be rooiktd the access to cigarettes particularly at journeying or younger ages that is advocated by the groups like the Tobacco Free Coalition i want to thank them theyre not just here in San Francisco but the entire region and all over the country working with the Health Department making sure that supervisor wiener and not only Pay Attention it the science and data it is going on but that we do our best to end the suffering that is brought by by longterm smoking that obviously is the cause of cancer and asthma and Heart Disease we do our best to educate the public in doing so if not the industry that sells overseeing products and ultimate our kids are your family when in their 18 and 19 is shown that the coalition has shown over and over youre putting that some 95 percent of long term smokers had begun smoking at the age of 18 perhaps younger and as certain under the age of 21 those habit are so hard to end voluntarily so thats why we have to go to many other front to try to do this and thats why i think that the supervisor wiener has found a person cause and Public Health health cause if the violation kriebs the department of health to make sure that we do what we can to end our these diseases as much as we can to make sure that we also reflect as the mayor of the city if we can save a lot of money if we are able the medical systems we have to have in place it treat cancer and asthma with smoking is an incredible experience to the Public Safety the cleaner air with the Coalition Work on families that Secondhand Smoke impacts this has another critical reason why we want to do as much as we can and i think were on the overview we know that supervisor wiener is already in contact with the Governors Office as we are and with his the 1184 particularly senator leno and senator henrys to insure that the state which maybe hopefully in our minds the second to join hawaii to end the sales of Tobacco Products and less people under 9 age of 21 it doesnt make it right because your 21 you buy Tobacco Products wild to end it. Everyone hopefully with the adult level of age 21 that people make Better Health decision tore themselves and their family so i take this opportunity to thank the coalition i know that in looking at the data as they have done in working with us this year was a strong sense interest the data it the smoking rates are higher amongst people of closer and amongst the let the record reflect community and other xhucht we rank it with a hard impact sales work that is done by Tobacco Industry the may or may not Lgbt Community thats where we really have good data to show that the more we do to educate your communities be about this the better off well be so with all that background i want to say to supervisor wiener you have again showing the good leadership im going to give the pen avenue we sign this your accumulate more pens than anyone but thank you for your leadership and also working with such important groups like the Tobacco Free Coalition supervisor wiener id like to invite you up here to say a few words thank you, mayor ed lee ill give that pen to the advocates and the district for theyre really horroric work tutor sing a song full of the hope that the present has brought us; 24 legislation in a way that highlights this critically important issue San Francisco for many years has been on the cuttingedge of Public Safety whether around hiv or led pant and sugar sweetened beverage whatever the case weave been from the forefront and once again we are in the fire hydrant of what i hope will be a tile waive of proving Health Legislation that eliminates tobacco use in this country this is a huge problem weve been involved in a 50year struggle but with the tobacco city that produces a product with no benefit whatsoever that kills a half a Million People every year 34 is a serious issue and serious punting kiss im proud we live in a city where we can be on the cuttingedge where the politics of this city allows us at city hall to make good progressive policy i also want to say we know were up against a very well financed component the tobacco destroy for decades has fought ever effort to try to control tobacco use and enemy linkage between their pursuit and the health we know that hillsborough tried to do that they have spent their legislation after an expensive lawsuit by the Tobacco Industry we in San Francisco are willing to fight that fight that is amount about our city thank you to the department of Public Health we sometimes dont roles e releases how lucky with the best putting department that supports our efforts to make good laws that vascular critical exercise an Amazing Agency and our advocates for give us the political spouse space to to be able to do this and as the mayor adu u. You allowed we passed that legislation a week and a half good and the law jam the state assembly broke we that republicans willing to raise the tobacco age to 21 to pass senator lenos forwardlooking bill to make sure that cigarettes are tobacco are still a way to get addicted to nicotine and will you the tobacco tax it is a huge step forward i hope goes to the governors desk thank you, everyone clapping. so are we ready to safe so far lives ill add one mount reason not in my notes or the legislation but it is about my history about 10 years ago a mayor asked me to pick up cigarette butts as a public works decorator i say to all the public works staff that work hard if there was less settings thats another reason to sign on the legislation; right . Yes all right. clapping. laughter . Todays date is 16. Thats it all right. 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