Transcripts For SFGTV MTA Board Of Directors 32117 20170325

Meeting room meeting room responsible for the ringing or use of a cell phone, pager, or other similar soundproducing electronic devices. Item 4 approval of the minutes for march 7, 2017, regular meeting minutes. Do i have my any Public Comment on the minutes. Im sorry in or a make Public Comment. It is announcing any comments on the previous meeting do i have a motion all in favor, say i. I. Opposed . Nope hearing approval of the minutes and directors i know item 6 introduction of new or Unfinished Business by Board Members. I do have one thing id like to i promised to put this on at the next Board Meeting im going to go ahead and put it in and acknowledge all the work that the staff of 3 agencies have done for the Transportation Sustainability program and one time call out the staff of the mta be, the ta and Planning Department with the amazing work theyve done and want to recognize the magnitude of the effort of Transportation Sustainability program and just remind everyone this representatives a lot of work of how many years it is the beginning of this Transportation Sustainability program it is a Living Program the ordinance will continue to view i once again want to recognize all the staff from this agency that worked on 3. Thank you directors anyone else introduction of new or Unfinished Business by Board Members. No thank you item 7 directors report good afternoon madam chair and members of the board and members of the staff and public want to start out talking about vision zero and unfortunately convey that bad news we got yesterday as a result of a collision between a mason cable car and a pedestrian a 93yearold gentleman that was crossing the street we understand as a result of the collision the gentleman was taken to the hospitalization and succumbed to his injuries obviously this is under investigation with the Police Department handling it and were coordinating with anything they need acknowledge that happened and express our deepest clones to the families and friends anyone that knew this gentleman this is tragic and it is all the more painful coming from our own service i know that cable car staff were involved were shaej understandingly but want to express our condolences so just a reminder how important to remain continuing focused on vision zero and we did last week with our two year Action Strategy for vision zero for 20172018 this Action Strategy is a foundation for how and why San Francisco is working to end traffic deaths on the street were hoping to do so by 2024 the document outlined the initiative so we have vision zero policy and goal that is highlevel this Action Strategy gets down on who does want to move the needle to get us to zero and includes the progress we adopted vision zero in 2014 including the number of lives lost in 2016 and the impact of our efforts to try to get that to zero this strategy is focused on 3 main outcomes in order to achieve the organization of traffic fatalities and thats the streets that people in vehicles it is a little bit different orientation of the approach that were taking counting more to outcomes than just the input and education and enforcement not replacing those but anymore outcomes so this Action Strategy has 3 action we think we need to take to achieve the 3 outcomes including the continuing engineering and enforcement and education so ill encourage you to check out open sfgovtv. Org website and it is a lot of clofkd work with the city agencies and the departments to get this to get this to the Action Strategy in place also on vision zero i mentioned i believe that last month supervisor chiu introduced that gives San Francisco and san jose the pilot of the automated Speed Enforcement that is proven and Cost Effective in ahsha safai lives the update weve been working with the advocates and the Community Groups like the San Francisco bay area families for safe streets to make sure this tool has been proven and once i think in 40 jurisdictions across the city u across the country to move through the California State Assembly and last week the board of supervisors and the sfmta unanimously proved the resolutions for ab 342 and it is likely to have the first hearing next week in front of the Consumer Protection agency for march 28 we sent a letter referencing in the letter the fact weve worked with the key privacy advocacy groups that have generally concerns about cameras used by government and i believe we have very stringent protections that will pass in terms of the concerns so look forward to that hearing and continue to move this bill forward not only our vision zero Action Strategy but we also launched a document for the visions and plans important bicycle for the city and it is kind of our approach to have a bike friendly city on the strategy to investigate more than one and 12 million in the 2 Infrastructure Projects in the Capital Improvement plan you approved last year and the document is called peddling forward on the website the easy way to go to the blog sfmta blog a good looking document and readily lays out the path forward how the funding you approved under the that 0 translations to the streets continuing with vision zero you may recall the mayors droifk to advance the work on 7 and 8th street a high injury corridor in the south of market and to small the bike lanes in november now underway and this recycle most of our safety projects seems to improve the safety and in this case by tempering the bikes and cars for people on bikes and numerous Pedestrian Safety improvements for people as well so the scope of the project to remind you of the protected bike lanes and the programs on 7th street and reconfiguration of the loading consensus as part of Parking Management the full scope and blow the range can be challenging where were hoping without a lot of rain it wont rain this the work will be completed by the end of may and we have updated information on the website also on our weekly transit updates people can see the impact of lane explores and other impacts to more project updates another one you legislated the itself signage and red curve striping should be completed in midapril and Parking Enforcement starts for april 21st and so a month from today after working with the engineering ill include 3 parking warning signs a lot less signage than anticipated that called for 40 signs weve been trying to be mindful of the cluster as it will bring to the greenway we continued to work with the neighborhood groups and the institutions to assure that resident and visitors and everyone have aware of the changes in advance of the implementation again, our goal not to give citations but part of pilot thats why we did the pilot in the first place lastly in terms of of projects updates were bringing 21st Century Technology into the parking garages with the revenue controls system that is conveniently has the acronym parks well bring faster and improved conferring and add credit cards are security to the Parking Facilities it is a 3 year rolling Installation Program with a contract that was approved earlier this year or last year which will get yu79d revenue equipment to all the facilities by 2019 it is hard equipment and the software to run the facility for the ticket machines and the arms and cameras the whole process which will be a significant upgrade as you probably know it is a useful life with the limited data we can get to manage the operators to manage the garages so it is exciting this is happening the first garage is under a way now should be completed by the end of next week it is good news and great to have enhanced parking capacity next to the zoning along with the construction we can put our parking assets to better use now, when you go to the garage in addition to admiring the photos on the wall with the revenue controls as well and then finally and not to end on a downer but last week President Trump released the skinny Budget Proposal starts with this coming october the reason it is called a skinny budget a highlevel bucket i budget the new administration koimentsd office at this time point to have a document so the city budget is a way for the administration to projected the priorities and this documents by the president was pretty clear in that regard focuses on the consideration part not the entitlement such as the transit formula much on the consideration does the big news is that it seeks to there the defense spending 54 billion opportunity as well as the increase in Homeland Security to increase the border enforcement by cutting all the other agencies weve heard already if bodies of the aisle strong concerns of the budget ill not say had a great reception not to difficult but this one has significant cuts cutting the especially and the state dependent on thirty percent agricultural by more than 20 percent the department of transportation had 13 percentage this the consideration budget those are when you translate those are into dollars significant numbers the transportation budget the 13 percent change is accomplished in a number of ways but really too big ones are that the cuts some of the biggest consideration programs cuts the Capital Investment grants program where the Grant Programs have large and small starts comes from and cuts the tiger Grant Program that was started maybe four or five years ago it was popular in congress and throughout the country tiger stand for transportation go economic recovery tiger what is different about tiger rather than one of the mobile transit highways and aviation in the Secretaries Office to fund mobile projects throughout the country that is to make more streets projects currently tiger grant for example, is work in the mission bay it goes to the funding to complete the railroad with the t third and subway and some of the straight work within mission bay one the examples of the tiger grant that is something that interesting the transportation secretary as well as for a Financing Program during her confirmation hearing she expressed the support but her boss is killing those programs and with regards to the Capital Investment program the funding that is with the subway the expansion of the airport, the future expansion of caltrain and high speed rail to the downtown San Francisco and bart to downtown san jose part of funding plans for caltrain electrification 4 better Market Street with the brt that program the direction from the president skinny budget it will essentially stop the program and not starting in 2018 and regrant the suggestion theyll honor the Grant Agreements with the ones with the central subway such well be seeking for the dispensation of high speed rail to downtown this is met with strong reaction from across the country this is really critically important way that the federal government has been able to leverage the fund for the critical Infrastructure Projects and it does seem more than a little bit con reimburse with the president made during the campaign and then with the rest of congress about the importance of investing in infrastructure and in the country with a well established prominent program for the preinvestment in the country want want to increase the infrastructure but at the same time cut the federal program that brings that didnt seem to add up so i guess so obviously a lot of activities the detailed budget that come out in early may were hearing it is already been significantly reaction to the federal budget with the National Organizations will come out with statements somewhere between expressing the concerns with the transportation happening pretty much on the other funds of the budget everything from Homeland Security those are pretty big cuts well be engaged in the process that was for all for the fiscal year 2018 the current fiscal year which end on september 30th of 2017 has to date been authorized through the end of april so as far as it is authorized through i guess 712 so congress will soon have to ask to extend it partially or completely to the england of the fiscal year go likely to the end of september and pass a new budget a complete budget act so there are opportunities in this process to make sure that existing obligations continue to be met like the noah vally subway has part of Grant Agreement with the federal government and provides perhaps an opportunity for caltrain was proposed for one billion dollars for the property grant received funds in the past to the extent it gets appropriations this year from congress and then to the extent we get Grant Agreement approved than it essentially even if the president is successful in cutting off this Program Going forward it will be one of those existing Grant Agreements that has received a bunch of funding and not a burden to the budget Going Forward for the purpose of cutting those grant will not continually burden the agency of the federal government with the Infrastructure Projects so we continue to working closely with caltrain and state and mtc and other regional partners because with all the budget talk immediately in front of us is the caltrain that is nearly a third of the modernization budget without which we dont have a Clear Pathway so well learn a lot more through the rest of appropriations process which is this fiscal year will be happening in the next month and come out in the president s budget and with that, im available to answer any questions and happy spring. Thank you mr. Reiskin when you talk about the central subway and the more thany challenges i work downtown and see a lot of the central subway construction as well as transbay and all the men and women in their hard hats and the construction vest when i think of the jobs that are created by those programs already and the jobs that remain to be created definitely will change the region if we fail to get that funding as well as change our future in the region and thank you for acknowledging the death felt gentleman by our cable car i agony death on the streets were working hard to get rid of but having it come but our service is well be upseting for everybody. Fellow directors. Thank you director reiskin i nodded a great deal of interest from supervisor peskin and Supervisor Scott Wiener for the high earns in San Francisco the idea to have a Homeless Program and im wondering anything that in terms of caltrain and transportation projects considered a the this point with no Clear Pathway. Yeah. I guess i should have mentioned an update from the state one other point on caltrain i heard a consummation a delegation holding a press conference that that preto continue this issue and speaking of this this is a shovel ready project the day that Grant Agreement comes the work starts at the state level there are have been to paths that are coming together the governors proposed budget in february had a i think 6 billion transportation package state assembly and Senate Transportation Committee Chair introduced the builders if you want to the sbe for the season out of sacramento and with the transportation funding might have been more like 4 billion but were hearing right now is those both sides are coming together hopefully in a consensus transportation package and initially dates back to 2015 with the Steering Wheel session the governor called for for the transportation funding for the state so if theyre able to get a deal and twothirds vote in the legislative that will financially provide for funding than we have today for transportation and a number of elements in that the vehicle fees and the gas tax so diesel a number of revenues that can generate the billion dollars so the good news is that were hearing that the deal might be coming together a big lift to get twothirds of both houses that is necessary the less good news were hearing the deal coming together is not super strong on transit it is on highways and the local streets and roads will help us locally but not as strong on transit as were hoping so we continue it advocate for that and Supervisor Scott Wiener is advocating for it so or may not be helpful generally for transportation in the state with regards to the caltrain in particular there are absolutely discussions happening at the local and regional and state level in terms of what alternatives we have but there are not a lot that are kind of jumping out obvious for 50 million and there is some immediate things contracts that are pending waiting to be counted but there are lots of discussions focused on trying to get the security of the funding grant. Thank you. Appreciate it. Seeing no other questioning questions or comments for director reiskin Public Comment. Several members have submitted speaker cards Herbert Weiner and followed by calling names all right. calling names . An opportunity for comment items discussed by mr. Egan. Directors taxi drivers weve seen on the industry streets with vision zero especially the Market Street right from the main street all the way down to 3 and Fourth Street street thirty buses lined up behind each other won their honking their cars theyre taking the second lane to turn right you have any department that will go and watch those people i saw a barb going on california to montgomery and hitting a car from the back just last week pr so the thing their honking and speeding they need to get to the moon or will be detailed one or two a more minutes please look at and number two, the vision zero ive been questioning the city streets if you walk one time incident a girl was killed by an uber driver and 9 00 p. M. Anything you cant see the road the light is so dim on union street to columbus you cant see anything on the road the light is so dim we have to open the eyes and our areas and just to look at what it means what is in front of you on the right and left how you can make vision zero in the city when the lights is so dim you need to put in lights like other cities so we can see the road more clearly someone saved a pedestrian from an accident the driver saved him and the jaywalking is so of in the town start the jay walking tickets or not one day the Police Department should be on the rod telling the people stop the jaywalking thank you very much. Thank you. Next speaker, please. Ive received no other speaker cards from the members of the public that wish to address the board on topics from mr. Egan. David pilpal heres my card. Nice to see you touching on what director reiskin spoke about from federal transportation funding and this is very comprehensive overview that clearly the budget has changed if so it parking control officer to write that up in a memo to the board to make it summarizing the situation particularly at the federal level to some extent it seems to me to the extent that any of that happens will have consequences on the Capital Budget and the capital plan and will likely lead to shifts and assault weapons at mta and here for certain projects keeping them in line youve got a lot of implementations clearly will be known as time unfolds, etc. But some. Now a culture against disabled in the city their expected to walk a quarter of a pile to a bus stop it is an ultimate insult it is disgrave it walk sf is fund by your agency is resorting to this this is disgrave and disbursable and pull those posters immediately and flap the walk sf on their hands for doing this this is an audacity and if you dont do anything about this dont be a bystander in this conflict thank you mr. Wiener. Next speaker. calling names . Directors taxi driver walk you through the taxi driver situation i worked 2 oclock afternoon night life 8 oclock 6 hours i collected 87 i have to collect one and 37 for gas and one 50 or whatever in 6 hours i make 87 in 10 hours how can i cover my gas i went to the airport thats a chance to make money i got there and encouraging if 8 oclock to 9 oclock and no where to get in one hour circling the airport after i got into the airport my time is one to 2,000 most people get 50 fair how will they pay now ill walk through another situations taxi drivers 4. 7 million in october by a taxi for the public to the drivers to the medallion theyre going to make a driver populated panel a theyll will be 13 members and instead of the drivers for the growth the one day cleared they have 27 members and 95 medallion holders not the best and the other driver sent an email and when i pursued it they said weve not had an email from him but we probably they dont want him okay. So 27 of the missouri in october the day or two the last day to put your name ive pursued two times and after that we talked about it who are the people going to be oh, we selected 27 members how did you select them i never received any notice of that malia cohen and two months gone no, no in the next taxi meeting well settle for the number of 27 medallions holders a lot of people told samantha was appointed and trying to run that meeting she received a lot of emails saying we want to be in the afternoon she didnt care she said im not available in the afternoon and loots wrong things this item will putdown money for advertising please tell them not to do that the driver money should be given to us and 70 percent for the distribution to the drivers they thank you. Next speaker, please. David pilpal the last person to submit a speaker card. David pilpal a number of items the twin peaks tunnel that was director reiskin gave an update at the last meeting i understand some significant changes since the last meeting and the shut down plan for april is moved to july i understand that is longer and different shut down than the board approved initially and the environmental document covered so i ask you get another update on that and i dont know if you no idea to bring a contract amendment to that and last week muni service met on tuesday was very difficult for everyone i dont know what it was an a. C. T. S what the problem was in their opinion that problem should have been been settled and resolved and continues to be have problems in the subway for everyone and alternate service plan practiced and available when things happen a way to deal with that quickly the stop removals an van ness those two boarders in particular im opposed to i think that made to assess for pears more difficult and slower and with the toll trip time the vehicles maybe operating faster it is slower for everybody to get to point a to point b and ridership my understanding is that ridership thought bay area with the mta is not increasing at the degree of the population that suggests a higher income and Tech Companies and others are opt outing of transit and taking uber and lyft and other options so that suggests to me our demographics is changing and the riders are leaving the system i think that is a case a bad omen for transit Going Forward and other consequences perhaps the next Relationship Survey will show you it costs opportunity and the last two points in case im not here in the last month thank you director nolan for you service that comes to an end and weve agreed aon things and done so effectively i appreciate his service of transportation and the last thing ill note the loss of natalieburg a great leader in the city in the so much on transportation but education politics on the Democratic Party and a great lead era friend of mine and great loss to the city thank you mr. Pilpal any more speakers seeing none, well move on. Madam chair of the commission. There will be no separate discussion of these items unless a member of the commission, the public, or staff so requests i have received a request for item 10. 2 traffic modifications. Be severed that has to do with with a bike lane on page street and i have not received a request for any other items to be severed from the public or members of the board do i have a motion to approve on the consent calendar 10. 2 traffic modifications. All in favor, say i. I. Opposed . Hearing none item 10. 2 traffic modifications. Shall we hear Public Comment. Yes. David pilpal. Thank you david pilpal this is my last item i happened to look to this item carefully for the ceqa and that is covered on the bottom of page 35 in the staff report for items a through t but didnt have a subsequence of this item item u and the accompanying resolution fails to address on page 2 and the circumstantial clearance so im surprised given the deputy City Attorney under ceqa ill strongly urge you to sever well, youve severed the item to defer to a future meeting and clear up the ceqa item should be included in the staff report for the public and for whatever reason all the other items were covered in the slide somehow got lost. I see one more Public Comment. On. 2 u only. Hello board my name is janice the director of the Bicycle Coalition on item item 10. 2 traffic modifications. Just on page 3 we received this bike lane working it was a big deal for people biking on this going downtown what it does able to separate the Different Things that occur so on octavia theyre making a right from octavia to page street and all bicyclists down a fair steep hill fartsz Market Street when mta did a count for the neighbors here during time it was the same number of bikes here as cars here we know how far this is for bicyclists were seeing this is great plenty of room who are waiting at the light it is improved for red lights as well and so the extension of this green light from this is common sense were hoping that that can be included a really positive open House Speaker that item was spoken before previously but more built for a variety of projects including page street and support for the center bike lanes that is one step for the vision of page street we need to continue this so page street what about prioritized from market to Golden Gate Park and so im asking the attorney to resolve those issues has already gone in and quite a bit of ceqa with the Planning Department you know going with the mta as the Transportation Impact measure were hoping this will move forward and the issues are resolved thank you any more Public Comment on this item. No seeing none, do i have a motion to approve. Do i have a second. All in favor, say i. Opposed . Hearing none that item is also approved. Madam chair to item 11 the regular agenda item 11 fy201719 revised overall dbe goal. For Disadvantaged Enterprises and contract signing for the assistance from the federal government Transit Administration you do have members of the public who wish to address you on this matter. Staff report. I believe virginia who stepped out will be presenting this item i guess ill give an introduction this is a great opportunity we have that weve not had for many, many years to try to finally take steps to correct this barrier weve seen in the contracting i want to support and commend virginia and they are staff for an outstanding not an easy task to get the sfmta approval on january 19th of this year so i think were at a significant milestone this will help us ample up the program and the policy goals were strongly believed in at anti achieving so good afternoon director brinkman and members of the board and staff and the public virginia harmon im the agency go 12k5ek9d officer im here to updated you on the status of program before a year ago you accepted this and authorized the dbe program waiver to remedy the sdrimgsdz weve identified in the study specifically with the women and africanamerican open all the contract and at the end of january january 19th the fta approved the program waiver and directed us to rise the Program Consistent with the wave and revise it to have a 3wr5ek9d of percentage of participation youll be able to achieve with the raising the conscious weve completed that analyze it is included in the calendar item and we conducted a public hearing with Public Comment and the results that are overall dbe goals will be set at 15 percent 6 percent had will be through gender and conscious means specifically goals on the contracts for africanamericans in construction and women for all the contract and 9 percent achieved will make essentially a continuation of fte program were excited to enhance our irishamerican successful fte program with specific tools that will start the efficiency of identifying the disparity study that is specific dbe tools for individual firms that have been unable to compete in the fte program so today we are asking you to authors the commissioners revised goals a beaked through the fta to have the implications and look forward to seeing the results thank you very much. Answer any questions. Directors my questions for her before Public Comment. Seeing none, do i have Public Comment. Madam chair you do 8 members turned in a card requesting to speak on this item. Go ahead and set a 2 minute time period. Yes. Madam chair calling names . The honorable commissioners and director reiskin my name is eddy i represent the asianamerican association called capping pa im here to speak in support of the waiver at the sfmta has received from the Transit Administration i think that the revised program will provide counteracting opportunities to africanamericans and in construction and the women firms in service as well as construction i think two groups need a hand to work and move them forward in addition ill request that these to items be implemented number one, is unbundle some of the contracts so that the dp firms can prime the contracts that will provide some kind of training and mechanism for them to grow otherwise subtracts the second item i want to raise on 49 prop 6 the c pe program there is a set aside for Small Business programs i urge the director and the staff implement this program thats all my presentation and thank you allowing me the opportunity. Thank you. Next speaker, please. calling names im Yolanda Jones good afternoon. Im yolanda i represent the folks in the bayview Hunters Point inhibited 56 years old a resident of San Francisco and educated in the San Francisco School System and now pulling my people from by lefttwo community that waiver passed will help a lot of africanamericans including africanamerican women and contracts like myself that have strushld go for seven years to keep my doors open and our children safe and keep the Community Safe as well and employ them i presenting employ 22 section 3 local district 10 residents in my firm it has been very hard and with this waiver being worked out infected im employ more people union people from my union family shop and Union Business i believe in San Francisco and i believe this commission wanted to see africanamerican firms grow and stay here with the population of africanamerican i hope you support it anything i guess do in working with my community or any other district in San Francisco so, please reach out to me. Thank you mrs. Jones. Next speaker, please. calling names good morning thank you all for thank you for having us. Im carr a lot tucker the owner of Construction Services located my business is located in San Francisco district 10 the below grade district for the most part i provide professional support services for Small Businesses in our community to help them continue to be successful there is a lot of development it is going on in district 10 specifically in the bayview Hunters Point candle stick point view as an africanamerican minority female along that had that myself and other Small Businesses who are also a growing amount of talented growing female owned businesses in the district with that said, we dont want to be unrecognized we want an opportunity to be part of the development in the community and you were excited about the development so floor we want hands on my business is here to support the contractors and we appreciate your moving this item. Next speaker, please. calling names. good afternoon. With the Enterprise Group a Small Program group we work with the africanamerican businesses im here as the chair of the construction for africanamerican chamber of commerce will also a Board Members of the association of minority krashtsdz the Northern California chapter and were fully in support of this waiver and hopefully get the support of commission but withhold to make a specific point that is historic on behalf of what this agency is doing and the leadership from the director and the staff there is the disparity showing up in every agency in california at the pertains to africanamerican businesses not anticipating and there is a disparity consistent with the disparity study yet the agency is not coming up with solutions your agency has but commend the staff for bold and bringing to the director and commend the director for taking the stand and understanding the data they Rainyday Fund and being able to come up with a solution that will impact our communicated and make a true change as yolanda said not only the africanamerican businesses we employ he our community there is no events and and buts but it takes those type of rules to bring about true change wed like to see this broad support not only support it but also encourage other agencies in the city to take a bold step as well thank you. Thank you mr. Butler. Next speaker, please. calling names hi commissioners and director reiskin sorry for i was not born in San Francisco im kidding laughter i want to thank the director and this staff for really putting a strong showing in place one of the problems weve had historically this issue of ability businesses are not available and africanamerican businesses are not available theyre available because were not getting work it is exiting this resolves the issues in two years we dont have businesses showing up for contracts we know truly but if a business didnt show up the africanamerican show up they give us policymaking to make sure this studies address the difficulties that those groups are had in contracting over the city all in all your staff has done a wonderful job hopefully that is a model not only for the city but the entire nation thank you for being proactive and im going to be thank you for supporting and producing approving it even though youve not done it yet thank you. Thank you very much. Next speaker, please. calling names the last to people that have turned in speaker cards on this matter. Good afternoon director brinkman and commissioners on the board and the general Public Comment im a native san franciscan and also an africanamerican woman owned business could i im representing the africanamerican chamber of commerce our president it is important it you understand we definitely support this waiver and we have had many conversations in the past for a lot of reasons but could i i see this is a milestone and like to congratulate sfmta what this really other departments said taking a bold step in making sure the other agencies fellow that and in closing, i would like to pretty much for the general Public Comment read the africanamerican chamber of commerce it is one of the californias most influential business organizations representing and promoting africanamerican leaders with the city of st. Francis with the Economic Development and the San Francisco chamber of commerce is creating a firm base that supports the selfdetermination of africanamerican businesses here in the city and again, thank you for your support. Thank you. Next speaker, please. Last speaker. Bruce. Thank you very much for allowing me to come here and my fellow other companies to talk but and express our appreciation for the leadership that your department has taken on this legislation while it is convenient and georgia great to have the data that proves a point people like myself dont need that we lived it from the relevant it consciousness in country has built structure impedes for companies to enjoy the same prestigious that are out there while this in and of itself is not going to address everything to fix it pvrment that compliments the other small steps theyre doing at heroism some at this time well get that behind us we want to live a better life through our grandchildren and one i want to make a difference in the world today weve got to undo some of the things and make proactive steps to really make america was it tallest itself as being worked out it goes a long way for this legislation so i thank you for your leadership and thank you very much. Thank you any more Public Comment next year no seeing none, ms. Harmon i have one question if you couldnt mind the first speaker does talk about some unbundling of contracts to give people more direct opportunities to bid on controls i know that is something the sfmta has done we did that with our parking Tickets Program is that Small Business owner something through perhaps in not in this legislation we can look at. We can look at it on an ongoing basis with the project sponsors projects are prepared so it is impossible we tried to unbundle the contracts and will continue to do that. I was going to ask a question how do we make sure that many contractors theyre the sub the prime activity did work with the people how do we make sure that happens. We do ongoing monitoring and are available for subcontractors to assure that contractors that are listed work on the jobs are working and have monitors it check the projects to make sure that work is performed by intaushgz intaushgz that are listed and able to take advantage of that. I wanted to say one thing thank you staff for this creative version in the first place it is great the waiver option i hope we can see a great uptick this is Important Program and i think obviously it is great this agency has taken a leadership role something we know brake to places to make sure that across the country they do it and as well as other agencies. Is that a motion. A second. All in favor, say i. Oh, yes director ramos. Before we move on i do want to commend the staff and also want to thank the public speakers you can be somewhere else today but it means so much more to hear the comments thank you for your time and for your commitments to this process and thank you to the staff for the good work. Thank you director ramos and thank you public for coming down i have a that has been all in favor, say i. Opposed . That item passes. Clapping. Directors item 12 for a closed session do i have a second. All in favor, say i. Opposed . Well move any bike it is parked at a stati a stationless practice do we have a staff presentation. Good morning, director brinkman and Board Members jane kim write with the sustainable streets and oversees the Bicycle Program dont have a presentation but want to walk you through for your reference were excited to be here to present this proposed legislation that amends the division two for the item 15 stationless bike share permit transportation code amendments. That was heard by the board of supervisors last week we feel this is really important legislation to make sure the stationless bike share permits it continent with how we treat the bike shares and two i mentioned we work closely with the board of supervisors in developing the joint division one and two legislation and the efforts were well coordinated so the in summary the division one code changes the transportation code to prohibit the being able without a permit that division two code language is a environment to create the permit itself as well as the regulations associated with the permit so today, i want to provide a brief overview of being able and describe the emerging trends in the stationless bike sharing and how the legislation fits both the overall framework with the past policy where we see bike share to San Francisco has successful bike share the system launched 2 f in 2013 with three hundred and 50 bicycles around 35 stations around San Francisco to get started trying to expand in 2007 with the mtc to form an agreement for the bike share to privately fund a substantial system with 7 thousand bikes with the bicycleing in San Francisco in 2016 motivated announce a partnership are ford to have a private funding and were saying the expansion it underway 8 new stations in the field weve issued permits for over 70 stations already and motivate has placed orders for the new equipment in the ground over the summer to expansion is well underway and bike share is evolving as something we want to address through the legislation so the first people for those of you who dont know want to give a quick definition may not not familiar in brief it is bike share and zone requires the bike share you return the bike to the station and the bikes themselves have gps and technology they have internal locking mechanisms to be locked at the bike rack or against the tree or in the admitted of the sidewalk it is been around for a while ones in portland offer the docks to organize and regulate the public rightofway a lot of stations systems meeting systems from Chinese Companies forego those altogether and you know the right interest from blue jog go is the well known the Bike Share Companies but half a dozen competitors well have approached it differently one operator or interested participants knowing the interest in the bike share we want to have legislation that low make the well regulated and showing were proactive so in particular were trying to make sure we treating the bike share consistent without the bike share that went through negotiations with motivate so you look at the legislation a lot of terms associated would the permit weve tried to be consistent in a manner that fits well, that the bike share model the bulb benefits that motivate has provided for the bike share stations for the same benefits so the board of supervisors vision one makes it a violation to operate bikes without a permit and unoperated this like other unauthorized items in the public rightofway to be collected by public works and so distinction two creates the permits and conditions so a dollars a lot of details ill bring up a quick few points we defined what a station with a bicycle and a Bike Share Program went through work to make sure were capturing only exactly what we want to capture and not accidently like other programs we didnt consider as part of the bike share this is a fair definition the permit conditions 3 major themes we want to highlight number one, is equity so making sure that bibles are available across a diversity geography in San Francisco not limited in the city but outlying areas and the memberships are available to people of low income and so the bike sharing is continuing to be something sort of in the news and second is making sure we are maintaining the public rightofway in a way that didnt allow the bike share to either be a nuisance are a hazard to the public rightofway to travels to cluster the sidewalks to make sure were promoting good use of public rightofway and then finally the third piece is data sharing we want to make sure that as the systems come into place their sharing data so were able to learn the same things about the system and have access to better manage the system and key bonuses of the regulation includes an approved maintenance planning and reminders so in about summary were excited about this legislation for example, for the collaboration an example of proactive as a result i feel it is helpful to make sure that any use of public rightofway is in the publics interest this standard applies to private companies as well ill be happy to answer any questions you may have. Decorations my clarifying questions before we open up to Public Comment. Yes. All right. Thank you i think well have Public Comment first thank you madam chair only one person submitted a one speaker card. Lets see two minutes, sir. Ill keep this short just. The main microphone. Im keep this short congratulates this is interesting how it is changing the industry and forego prerogative and keeping rules in place loan with the innovation thanks your work. I think i see one more speaker. Doug johnson. Good afternoon mta Board Members and director reiskin im doug from the metropolitan transportation to speak in support thanks to our staff at mta for tackling this important issue as jamie indicated 5 cities San Francisco and berkley and oakland have collectively reached on agreement for the bike share 7 thousand bikes as the mpo for the bay area for the mtc as i said on to the agreement and helped to negotiator the amendment with half of the cities the amendment will motivate negotiated in good faith minutes the city over a year for Public Benefit focusing specifically on key provisions increased the vacant and used by low income residents of 5 cities for example, and mtc appreciates the effort to help to delivery bike share expansion as negotiated thank you thank you, mr. Johnson. Next speaker, please. Please. Janice the last person to turn in a speaker awning advocacy director for the Bicycle Coalition last week he spoke in front of the board of supervisors land use and Transportation Committee to support the Division Walk transportation isnt it many in a funny position companies are fighting like this is a happy moment generally but you know a happy moment that we are proactive to design so this can actively have a framework i think that janey said to make sure their consistent what the bike share with the prop a to fight for a plan there are strong measures to build affordability and spiking not having a bunch of bikes it can only serve a small portion of the population like 80 percent be bike share we want to envision i think that you know why this needs to move forward those companies exist and some have begun their operations here in San Francisco so we know there are more companies to come that have reached out to the city and it is important that moves forward today we want to note we want to make sure as it move forward and this companies gets especially implemented no loopholes there is you know ways that companies can get around the definitions we want to make sure this isnt president ly over regulated a bunch of loaner bikes in the office you know this is a mundane example we want to make sure the permit will regulate but hopefully move forward today thank you. Thank you, ms. Lee any more Public Comments seeing none, i know we have a few comments and then vice chair director heinicke. So lets speak to that example whether theyre loaded with gps or not the bikes 0 office comes out and back that will not be subject theyre not using the arrears; is that correct. The rightofway their regular bikes so this is the definition of selfservice. It is interesting to see how this will play out to control how it plays out for the bikes are left at that sort of thing im fully in favor of this one question i want to ask about the requirements that relates to the data you do you have a sense i mean too early to know a sense how Companies May play in the base in the city eventually. It is hard to know how Many Companies will be interested in the permits were aware of half a Dozen Companies that have a bike share model so somewhere in the range of one to 6 not going to be dozens i dont know that but several. Even if it is several and shows my taxi backward im glad were looking at this other ways to people to get around town will there be the ability to do this not now but share the data across for example, ive advocated i think we should have a system hike fly wheel for availability for use im wondering if at this stage the requirement for data were getting will be able us to if we wanted to have an app or some system someone wants to use the being able all the bikes available not just one alleviated with their company but im wondering if we have the ability eventually to use the cat and were reserving the ability in the permitting process you, you can see the entire network of bike share that will show the availability assess. Yes. I believe we dont know exactly where this model and data is going but to capture as much as possible to be global to the term it is written requires realtime gps data for mta so the realtime location, location should allow this to be built there is a lot to go into maintaining the establishing the data from Different Companies will be coming in the same thing but this supports that. Great point is the plan that has the data come in a standardized format. If were not planning on sharing is it makes it easier. The legislation allows us to use the specifications for the data weve not developed that yet. Very good thank you. Director ramos. Yes. I appreciate this coming forward i had the privilege of traveling to copenhagen i saw so many bikes on the street it got to that that was kufrm that will be great to go ahead ahead of it so if there is more of a angle that is put on the service we can anticipate it because i will hate for those things to become a nuisance to start to block passages and people start to dump them around and it will be a safety dangerous, if you will, you without having the Maintenance Approval plans i saw were part of the legislation i think this is a fantastic step in the right direction at the same time i want to list the concerns ive heard from ms. Lee and others will the prospect of other more grassroots being able programs it will come in the future you know other folks are trying to get more bikes in the Community Without securely from a Service Perspective and not a commercial driven idea and so id like to hope that by pga this legislation for the policy we would not still be welcoming the ideas out there consistent with trying to conveyance that in a way and that well try our best to accommodate future nonprofits efforts in a way that might even work better to address their needs in the future i suspect well be looking at themes. Absolutely we point will be open to the opportunity like that for new models for increasing the bicycles weve written the definition at the same time, we dont know all models at some point in the future but were definitely open and hope this is the framework for doing that. This undermines if i may director brinkman were sort of past the days were in favor of biking and seeing the city is more crowded there will be a push and pull with everything a few years ago we would have seen the idea of bike share but now, of course, our sidewalks are crowded you know, i cant i think that is important to note i saw a telling comment if our governor jerry brown how that driving down 950 Market Street the way Market Street is walking is to driving this is the quick itself way to get down Market Street so hopefully, well work on Market Street that is another topic but here while im in favor of idea im glad our cognizant of the rightofway for sidewalks we need to recognize that our sidewalks are in and out major arteries for people getting around not one mod trampling the sidewalks im in favor but i think that will be regulated with the situations and others rightofways so one or two clustering bikes causes a lot of problems. I should say in coping hag it was so bad they called it bilk butlers to see how bikes are laid out because people abandon them so many bicycles there and bicycle sharing is another level it is like people are no regulations whatsoever gotten to the point where you know without a bicycle butler those bicycles are blocking bought to train stations so i appreciate the vision that you come up with here making sure that we dont find ourselves in a position like were having to pay people to pick up after folks that are trying to get where they need to go i understand that but at the same time, a temptation is two great to jump up i remember as a kid youll run up to the houses and through our bicycle anywhere i appreciate you on that and support that wholeheartedly. Director hsu. I have a question about the empowerment 25 thousand over 10 years is there my provision for some of the companies are talking about putting out thousands of bikes raw and the second piece is 24 hundred a year they go through it it with costs do they have to level and put up the 2,500 and then up to 25 hundred Going Forward. Absolutely with respect to the endowment we kind of got our best guess this is architectural given the program but it is no a moonlight on the amount of fees it is an endowment for the maintenance but something receives a permit their maintenance fees are well in excess of that we reserve the right to bill them for this is kind of anticipation of some causes and over time we see the 2,500 a year this is based fact were willing to make that higher than without a lot of information. Move to approve. Director i have a quick question. I think that a small point and i am aware the regulation but the requirements one of the things that called out the requirements that they require that has a multi illegal unit website and any thought to adding the accessibility provisions to the app for low vision which some people boo dont ride bicycles as a general matter it defines the federal law around the sergeant that will not be two onerous i was wondering if. It didnt make it into this is the something well be open to adding something similar in terms of the saeblth requirements. Go forward and add that as an amendment now. Is there a motion . Second. I think let me finish the question i know that vgsz has a question and move on to the amendment. So i cant imagine a reason to oppose this amendment but fair to check with our current holder to in any event we have after the fact on this proposal is a permit holder required to hold their insurance arrangement yes. It applies to the reliability for the bike malfunction or the improper maintenance the bike. It is a fair share broad indemnification of the city and the point is it applies to not only with the bike but anything kind of user error. My question is not indemnification but hold a third party policy. Yes. So section e or yeah 6 e there is kind of a through f section of the permit requirements e describes what is adequate insurance well review that. Thank you very much. Thats fine. First any more questions from the decorations on anything i have a motion to approve it sounds like we want to amend the legislation so i think our intent to amend the legislation to note that it that website and the app will be needed meet the standards of information with the Technology Provision of i think section g 08 of the rehabilitation and sorry 255 as the communication. Excellent do i have a motion on the amendment. I move that. A second on the amendment. Yes. Im just not sure that might complicate things for the contact. Isnt that based on the concept. So i think it shouldnt make any difference. I think to director rubkes point something we should be generally doing with the contract to make sure there is in compliance with the federal standards i have a second on that amendment. All in favor, say i. Opposed . No hearing none, this is added to the legislation now i need a motion on the amended legislation. So moved. All in favor, say i. Opposed . Hearing none, this also passes. Thank you, mr. Parks your work i appreciate it. Madam clerk, any other business before this committee . Thank you, were adjourned thank you very you for being pa. [gavel] i will call this meeting to order. Its 5 40 pm. Welcome to the tuesday, march 21 20,017 Entertainment Commission my name is brian tan president of the Commission Just a few housekeeping items. Please, turn off your cell phones or keep them on vibrate