Transcripts For SFGTV MTA Board Of Directors 9616 20160907

Vibrate cause interference so request they turned off. Motion approval of the minutes from august 16. Motion to approve. Aye item 5, communication director yz have none. Item 6, introduction of new or Unfinished Business mpt i want bring up my favorite topics, elevators we have on the consent calendar a item for improving improvement on the escalators and elevators which provide access to our station. In light of the fact that currently civic center i believe is out right now and i know in the Disability Community there was a littlea lot of concern about the lack of notice and there was some notice but not enough notice and think where people are demanding on escalators and elevator, it is important to overknhunicate communicate so when we do the upgrade to infrastructure over communicate when the outages take place and do everything we can to minimize the impact on the riders. Thats it. Director rib key, i think we did everything to coordinate with bart. Thank you. At our last meeting which was long we had a gentlemen stand up in general Public Comment and he called attention to the stockton street discussions go around and think his call if i remember was to make sure we continue on the public process as we always do and know we will but he waited a long time to make the comment and want today bring it up. We have got a lot of emails about stockton street and look forward to the public process on that. Item 7, directors report. Director riscon, and good afternoon member thofz chair and board and staff. I want to start out my report by recognizing a couple of ow moust outstaning employees. First i like to ask [inaudible] our chief ficial officer who is director of finance and Information Technology division to come forward to recognize one of her employees. It is pleasure to introduce Naomi Steinway who has been with us 35 years. Before i was born she started. She demonstrated deep commitment to womeen owned businesses and as we rely on diligence and making sure we fulfill obligations to the stakeholders mpt she is a go to staff member regarding the db program and vauchbed in a large variety of other areas such as procurement of [inaudible] and third street lightrail extension to make sure we are fulfilling our obligations there to the communities. She is also been instrumental being lias ons with the auditors and said naomi is terrific gathering, analyzing and reporting the participation. She is thoughtful i hard working and has a dry whit that really positively impacts a lot of the unit. She is looking for challenges and way to enhance the community. The last comment i make, she is a big contributor of healthy snacks for our meetings and she a key member of the contract compliance office. Many of her fanerize here. Thank you tr 84 work for throw fiver years, it is a incredible achievement and congratulations. Thank you very much and the commissioners, thank you. I hardly expected this at all. Hoping to quitely retire with caucasian male majority. Hope i can hang on another year. Thank you. On behalf of the board and city thank you for your work, wish you all the best. [applause] next i want to ask john hailey the transit director to come forward and recognize one of his employees. Good afternoon mr. Hailey. Good afternoon mr. Chairman. I just it is my pleasure this afternoon to recognize gentlemen to my left, leroy wilson who is one of our longstanding transit supervisors. You may have noticed recently in the controllers report that over the last 5 years the average driving speed in San Francisco dropped some 25 percent. At the same time our evening rush hour has lengthened as new industries have come to change the commute patterns. One of the things that at the same time we have been able to improve our on time performance incremental but not where we would like us to be, and one of the reasons we are able to do that is because of people like mr. Wilson. Mr. Wilson works in the most difficult locations, south of Market Street, during the most difcult times. He has the opportunity to make adjustments to lines like the 27, which are frequently backed up because of bay bridge commute and also in many respects is a very sod after figure at the transbay terminal as operators will go and have issues that mr. Wilson has resolved. He is a outstaning representative for all of us in terms of getting our service and making adjustments to the invariable situations so the supervisor would encounter but also is highly regarded and well respected by our operators. My apologies but i should say to the right is brent jones and [inaudible] in charge of our service management. So, it is my pleasure to introduce you to mr. Wilson for his recognition. [applause] on behalf of the board and whole city thank you for the important work you do and do it so well for so many years. Thank you. Thank you. I just dont know how to responds after mr. Hailey says all that but want to thank god first of all for giving me all the tools that i need and placing me in the department with managers that you have just met and making sure i have everything i need to get the job done. Also, like to thank my wife whos sitting right there. [applause] a lot of this work i take home and she helps me out with it and my phone stays on all the time for my other coworkers out there and she says, honey, we are out to dinner and you are still taking calls. And that is just the dedication i center to my coworkers because without them i could not get that job done. I could not do this job without my coworkers and want to thank all of them even though i dont see any here. My daughter, my niece and ist iser in law who comes over my house and bugs me all the time. My cousin sean who ran for District Supervisor last year and he lost to malia, sorry about that. Again, thank all of you for being here and this isthis caught me by surprise right here. With that being said, i have more work to do. Thank you. Thank you. [applause] thank you mr. Chair. Vision zero update for the month. Mayors executive director on vision zero included we report regularly to boards and commissions and primarily to this board. Two update said today. First one very exciting we broke ground last week on 9th and division. Probably one of the first in the country. This is a area on the High Injury Network and anyone who is troyed to pass through there on a bike or in a car very rarely do people pass on foot but it is a hairy place to try to get through and made a number of improvements on division street in recent years but this particular intersection is one we thought was a good place to try this very innovative design based on a dutch intersection design. Protected bike laneatize is clear, you ride along a curb on one side and protection whether it is parked cars or delineators or barriers on the side but that works while you are in the block but when you get a intersection it is much harder to protect because intersections are open for allow of the flow of vehicles. This design coming from europe puts concrete islands at all 4 of the corners and raises the cros walk s and changes the approach and turn geometry so cars have to slow and so that the visibility between people on bike and foot and people in cars is much better. So, we are really excited to try it out here. We are also coupling with improvements on ajaistant streets on 9th and division, but very exciting to see what will bewe posted when we started this and put photos up when it is done and well evaluate and watching it carefully to see how well it performs and the potential applicable may be else where in the city. Exciting stuff there in the ground for the engineering e on vision zero. On the education e of vision zero, a aspect of the executive directorive is directing us the sfmta to implement a comprehensive vision zero Awareness Campaign within 30 days of the exectev directive. I reported at the last meeting we initiated radio ads in english and spanning to raise awareness of vision zero. We followed windup a second round we laurned yesterday. This is 6 speeds sf and just like the Engineering Work on the education work we use data driven or Research Driven process to conform the work we are doing. In this case we got feedback from focus groups as well as Community Wide Research Polling and interesting results. What we found is that, people do see speeding as a bad thing and in San Francisco we are focusing on speed because it is the leading primary collision factor of serious and fating collisions. Wheel people say it as a problem, people dont necessarily think of it as a problem in San Francisco. They see it as a freeway thing or open road problem. There is a perception to recognize unsafe speed happen in the city and urban virems as well. More interesting, most drivers consider themselves above average ijskill and not at need to adhere to posted speed limits. Like many other things we think the problem isnt with us, it is with other people. It was with that in mind that we developed this adand it is essentially meant to inform people that the speed limit in San Francisco is 25 miles a hour unless otherwise posted and that small increases in speed correspond to less control in stopping, less reaction time in terms of seeing people and that traffic deaths are problem in our city so raising awareness but targeting at the perceptions. I will ask lorie to play the spot so people can hear what people hear on the radio. Playing on drive time and pandora and running english, spanish and chinese then last month. If i drive 10 miles over the speed limit it takes [inaudible] yfs going to fast. [inaudible] i have to live with that. Speeding can lead to traffic deaths on San Francisco streets. The speed limit is 25 for a reason. Stick to the limit. Know more at vision zero sf. Org. If you havent heard those already, you and thousands of others will be hearing it as they make their way to work this week and the rest of the month. Moving on, another campaign addressing another safety issue that is of great importance and this deals with the safety of our employees. As we discussed and heard periodically over time, we have employees be transit operators or parking control officers, inspectors and custodeian and station agents subject to attacks by memberoffs the public. There were 58 reported last year or just on muni operators and that compares to 24 in 2014. So, it is unacceptable thing happening and very disturbing trend including a couple very public incident you may have read about in the past couple weeks. We have been work wg folks internally as well as unions that represent the groups, primarily twu and sciu on a number of things to address the issue and reverse that trend. One aspect of that collaboration is new adcampaign that was launched last week, which is just one part of a comprehensive approach. The theme is keep them safe and these will be in the form of ads placed on buses and featureed throughout the Transportation System and i will ask lorie and sfgovtv go to the screen to show the ads so you can get a sense of what they look like. So, we have these you see from the perspective of the employee and family and others. So, youll be seeing those if you havent already on muni buses. That is one part and this came from our employ ease they thought it st. Important to raise aware ness to the public of the difficult work they do and there are people like the rest of us that want toget home safely like the rest of us. Well continue working on that campaign but happy to see that come forward. Couple of other muni items. On the heals of the news we were announcing recipients of 45 million of state, cap and trade funds toward the lightrail vehicle expabz program. Chair nolan and i traveled to sacramento this last week along with mayor lee, board president london breed and Assembly Member david chiu to visit the sea mans factory. It was great to be able to go there to celebrate the recent news. This is 45 million on top of the 21 million so more than 80 million in support. First vehicle should be here about theened of the year and start seeing them in service in 2017. By the end of 2018 we will have 20 new vehicles hitting the street. That was great news. In the mean time to address crowding and to focus our resources where the demand is the highest, this morning we launched a shuttle that will shuttle cars between coal valley and embarcadero during rush hours. We have basically 4 trains, or 2 trains doing two loops runic between the points which are the inner part of the [inaudible] which anyone who ride at that time of day once you get to that portion the cars are usually full so the folks often cant board the train, so we are inserting capacity during the rush hour to try to insure the folks who want to take the injudah to get to work or to the city it k do so. We started it this morning, worked well. There are logistical issues we worked out when we tested this a few years back and hope to keep this in service and will be the first of such efforts we roll out over the next few years. Meanwhile, down at balboa park, there is a a lot of various construction work going on. One of the more significant aspects is we have largest or oldest railyard there and have been in the process in the last couple years of preplacing all the rails, many switches and overhead wires and infrastructure in that facility. It is generally not public work but very important to get our system in the state of good repair. We have largeby be able to do this work without impacting the public but starting part the project today that takes the part of the revenue loop, the j and k normally travel on out of service to replace those rails. So, as a result, there are different patterns for people to board and offboard for the j and k at balboa park. The k is boarding on ocean avenue. We have done a lout of outreach and trying to make the public aware of where they need togo to catch their train or once they get off the train to get to where they are going safely. We understand it is inconvenient for folks but have done everything we can to minimize the inconvenience but excited to see this work donefelt the entire project should be done mid2017. A very large state of good repair project you provided funding and support for in Previous Capital budgets. The last thing, i mentioned last time the votes for the muni art program were opened till last week and the vote are in and have the 5 winners. You can see on the screenthere is the new multimedia presentation for the directors report. We had 5 winners that werecame from the votes. The top winner is monica and her exhibit is called teens of sf. Followed by Lillian Shan Hann with bit by bit and a 3 way tie for third place which is [inaudible] Counter Point studio which is peter tomen son and lisa luvene for city walks and todd [inaudible] for sight seeing. These will go up. Each of the artists our groups will have their work featureed on muni buses and artist receiving the most votes gelt a 2 thousand cash prize and [inaudible] get 1250 and this is a partnership between sfmta and San Francisco beautiful. A win, win for artist and muni riders. That concludes my report. Just to go back to the 45 million of money we got for more lrv in the future. It is probably confusing we state our need without having identified all the funding and i know we have seen the same with the buses as we have more funding become available we place a order for more buses and i dont find that unusual for large infrastructure purposes or projects. Is that standard we identify the need and know what we want and as the money becomes available we place those orders . In most cases we identified the funding and just not secured the funding. We identified for the lightrail vehicles this as the main source for this part of the expansion. The procurement for lightrail is 151 to replace the ones we have and that is funded with federal and local sales tax and that we identified and secured. There is expansion of the first 24 vehiclechise is something we committed to as part of the Grant Agreement for the federal government for the central subway grant. We wroifed the revenues and secured revenues for those. Then we had exercised an option on the lightrail vehicle for additional 40 car squz for that we identified main source orphfunding being state cap and trade funds and now secured in subsequent years the first pieces of that. Yes, that is typical and most cases we have identified the funds, we just dont have them secured commitment from whatever the funding partner is. Thank you for clearing that up. I think that can be confusing for people that dont understand how the procurement process works. Thank you very much. Congratuless on the end shuttle surfbs. That is great. As you know since you have been in the chair i pestered you about Shuttle Service and sure it wasnt my pestering that did it but glad you and mr. Hailey got around to this one. As we procure lrv and stuff coming on stock you will look at way tooz expand this. I assume the ways to expand this dont just include Shuttle Service but reintroducingi urge the switch back in west portal to acamidate that. For me this is great news and something that is of great policy interest to me, so with the permission of chair nolan and vice chair bringman, i support that wewhen you have the data and you and mr. Hailey are ready, report how the Shuttle Service is working. Maybe also a update how it works comparison with the bus Shuttle Service and other options we throw at that line and plans for expansion for Shuttle Service whether plans for west portal or castro. Happy. I do want to cumind john hailey and staff for putting this together. It may seem simple t is a lot of work that goes into making this happen and they absolutely started thinking about what are the next as the rail fleet grows the most critical needs whether it is shuttles or expanding from one to 2 car or 2 to 3 car trains. How this integrates with the existing system is obviously important. You can have more cars but if they get jammed ativan ness you havent solved the problem. I want to know if the service is causes delays on the interchange or worked through seemlessly. Mr. Chairman you have one person who indicated a iftrust in addressing you and only matters discussed by mr. Riscon. Herben wineer followed by michael putralis. Michael putralis. Mr. Wineer is first. Herben wineerment one question about the new lrvs. I notice there is no railing at the end of the seats or sideways. If there is a sudden stop, if there is no railing a person can just spill over and possible injure themselves or other passengers. I noticed in the picture on the San Francisco examiner so can you clarify about the safety of that because i just noticed it in the picture and something that seems to be missing. The picture in the paper was of the mr. Riscon lets let him finish. The vehicle that we were able to visit in the newspaper was had first production vehicle and not complete so there were many things that will be on the car that were not on the car shown in the picture. What i say generally from ever aspect of operation from accessibility to safety to performance, Energy Efficiency the new cars are significant improvement over what we have today so the rule jz requirements just generally for safety on rail vehicleerize very stringent. What we do is above and beyond and wont put anything to service that puts people at risk. Thank you for the clarification. Michael putrelis. Ime arace bisticalest and concerned during your preezen taig about the vision zero work going on, there was no mention about long standing issue of mine and that is on bicyclist riding on sidewalks. I looked over your materials available on the sfmta website and cant find information about whatever sfmta may be doing to encourage bisicalest to stay off the sidewalks. In particular, im very concerned about the south side of Market Street from van ness to valencia. Bicyclist are frequently riding past that um, union office and riding past quickly by the mu cros key mattress shop and it is really dangerous for pedestrians, for other bisicalests and people in cars. There needs to be a stenciling on sfmts saying it is against the law to ride your bicycle on the sidewalks and if you want to also put carat in front of bisicalest, it should also remind all bicyclist that especially on Market Street, we have bike lanes. Bicyclists need to use the bike lanes. Thank you. Movering on, item h, Advisory Counsel report. I do not see chairman weaver here. Public comment this is a opportunity formaters within the sfmta but not on todays agenda. Well start with eileen boken followed by albert chow. Good afternoon. Eileen boken. District 4 resident. Im here regarding the rapid project which is on the [inaudible] i believe final approval the project is premature. In light of the ongoing issues on Mission Street the consensus and merchants of taraval is move forward with a Pilot Project which involved no structural changesism this is the taraval plan or Community Based plan. This Pilot Project involves the entire taraval corridor and not just the 5 locations included in the proposed mta plan. The community is recommending the tarival project be for at least 6 months. The tarival community is seeking to avoid negative impacts the 14 Mission Rapid project had. The tarival neighborhood sees the Community Based plan as a potential win, win for mta and community at large. Thank you. The next speaker please. Next speaker is albert chow followed by tom lee. Good afternoon mr. Chow. Albert chair from great wall hard weir. We have a great street the way it is now, but you are planning to take away a lot of parking and give a red lane in the left lan and put boarding island and traffic lights and bull bouts and [inaudible] because of the perpendicular parking and this for saving 2 or 3 minutes. Just like that you plan to upset the dynamic of the street and discourage driving in a area where driving is really necessary. Have you tried to run errands in the sun set . People drive and come to the businesses that way. I like to have some flashing lights and painted rowdways in lieu of the boarding island for safety but at the same time keep our parking. I just want to remind you that the small businesserize the backbone of the city and create the character of the neighborhood. Target and macey, do they make San Francisco unique . No. They leave as soon as the boom goes bust but we have stayed because we lover our city. Sean [inaudible] told me that if all sides are mad we are doing something right and think this is the wrong approach. Let that go for 6 months and it be a half and half sfmta and Community Based design everyone can be happy with. Thank you very much. Tony lee followed by aaron star and herbert wineer. Good afternoon mr. Lee. Good evening. Good afternoon mr. Chairman and [inaudible] i am a full time [inaudible] 27 years. Mailed me a letter saying that if i dont pay for the 179 for the disputes [inaudible] she will not let me renew my card and i cannot drive the cab so get fired. [inaudible] make a living and pay the bills. 179 [inaudible] today that i make. This not fair. [inaudible] everybody know a lot of kick backs and [inaudible] you can get it, a lot of rumor and never bring that before you because it isnt my interest but now they are clearly against me like this way so i hope that you are going to lay off your unprofessional and air gnt staff because you will make a lot of drivers lose their jobs. If you are going to fine me for this money, i will do it in a legal way and make you [inaudible] i tell people dont park. Only one car you couldnt get towed, you lost 600 bucks and i find the [inaudible] they move their car and you will lose a Million Dollar for your tow money rev enues as well. I have a right to do that. Aaron star, followed by herbt wineer and edward mason. Good afternoon board. Aaron star and work for the San Francisco Planning Department. By my caurmts are my own and not paid right now. Im here to spress concern over there bike and pedestrian on the Market Street. I have written the board with my concerns and received coms back from staff, however, the responses are inadequate and never addressed my point. The plan proposes painted buffers for bike lane jz upper market. This improvement wilt do nuth toog improve the safety and move the city closer to vision zero goal. I ride my bike on upper market. What i experience on a daily basis are double parked cars and delivery trucks. This forces me and fellow rider tooz move into the bike lane while travelling at 35 to 40 miles a hour. I experience cars drifting into the bike lane. Proposed painted buffers will do nothing to stop the safety risks. This board adopted vision zero which seeks to eliminate traffic death. This is based on the fact we are human and make mistake. The road system needs to keep us moving but also protect at every turn. We know people continue to double park in the bike lanes and continue to drift into had bike lane because they are easily distracted and know people to not use their turn signal or check their shoulder when they cross to the bike lane to make a right hand turn or park. The road needs to be designed to encounter that. I urge you to look into protected bike lanes up to upper market to castro. Herbert wineer followed by edward mason. Parking spaces, bus stops and bus runs braung to the public and taxi medallions belonged to the taxi drivers. The Municipal Transportation Agency contrary to great inconvenience to public interest. It simply declared the medallions its property and took them from taxi drivers charging state fees. This is a public agencythe mta is pirate aijs that regard Parking Spaces as obzeckts and sources of budy and plunder. Despite the parks spaces and bus stops mta has done the right thing. It shows Barbary Coast to advertise and promote muni forward to 1. 5 million over a 3 year period. The barb burry coast harbors pierants and mta conducted itself in the same tradition by fuming resources from the public. A Government Agency designated to represent the public is robbing the public of its resources. The public is walk agplank with removal and consolidation of bus stops. Mta seizure and termination of Parking Spaces and forcing passengers seniors and the disabled to walk a quarter mile to the bus stop. After all, we are walking the plank. Thank you. Edward mason, michael putrelis. Edward mason i like to present a editorial from the almanac which is a newspaper for menlo park. Facebook is expanding by 6500 employees to the current 7500 employees. A housing study revealed 15 live in bell haven. Created dependent for 175 units a finding of questionb logic at best. From a broader regional perspective planner voice concern. Job growth and resulting upward pressure on home prices and wide spread transportation grid lock. All employ ease livering long distances from the campus about half of facebook employees drive cars to work. Facebook is proposing to limit increase in trip generation relating to expansion to 438 inbound commuter vehicles. The development will benefit menlo park but result in worsening of transportation and housing facing the region. It is Standard Practice to abstract mitigation measures including Cash Payments and levering neighborhood communities for sig cnlt and uncompensated impact. No one is well served by major proposals evaluated by a single city looking out forilities own interest. Cities can move away from isolated decision making. The conclusion i came from this is, there will be more corporate commuter buses unless you get together with mtr, a bag and resolve the issue because we already have 35 commuter buses on 24th street. Michael putrelisfollowed by deneez louis and [inaudible] go ahead. Please do. Dont worry. If the folks at sf gv tv it show my. Show that for 20 seconds. This is the bus shelter at 16th stroot and missionism. I made a video of sfmta property that is caked with pigeon poop. You can am back to me, please. I have been filing a number of complaints with sf 311 to have this pigeon poop removed. Im a person with aids and have a compromised immune system and this pigeon poop is unhealthy. It also just not conducive to using public transit. There needs to be better contract compliance and monering of the sfmta has. After two weeks of observing this area there is not regular cleaning taking place of the bus shelters and sfmta street signs. This is really not good in any sense, okay. Now, in terms why there is so much pigeon poop on the bus shelters, it is because the overhead electrical cables do not have ant pigeon jell on them. That is pg and e property. However, i think that sfmta needs to look into bird sensitive sound repellent machines. There is latest device to stop Birds Landing on this property and roosting there. Im in touch with Barbara Garcia from department of Public Health to declare this a Public Health emergency. You need to get on regular cleaning of the bus shelters. Denise louis followed by [inaudible] good afternoon. Glad to see mr. Hsu here from the west portal association and want to say i really appreciate muni. It gets me where i want to go. For years i have been saying thank you to the bus drivers and for the past yearo so i have been hearing other people do the same. Im here to ask you about landscaping in san jose at bal bowy park station. The last i heard mt deciding on a mediterranean pallet. Prior to that asked that native plants be planted where possible in dpw project along ocean avenue. Since the area im referring to has not been planted, and dpw is assisting mta with landscaping planning here, and since the landscapers must yield to your desession on the pallet i ask you to reconsider. I ask you to [inaudible] environmental correct and what neighboring stakeholders have asked for. Is there a particular person with mta i can talk to about this . Well make sure to have somebody follow up. Thank you. Next speaker, please. Marry aliza followed by car lumetser and paula katz. Good afternoon. Speaking on behalf of the tar vel. The tarival project [inaudible] delivering 87 comments and ask that you scanned a email to the Board Members along with the statement. 70 of these comments oppose the elimination of tarival stop. The staff will not forward these so like to make sure you get them another way. Before you next meetding we urge you to read the Public Comments and listen to the audio of the public hearing. Other 50 people took time off to attend the hearing that was triple the number usually ateneding. When you read the staff report before you next meeting we urge you to keep in mind the vast majority the written and verbal comments supporting keeping the tarival stops. There are many [inaudible] about the various hardships their Family Members inclulding elderly parent and parent face if they lose these stops. Many opposed the loss of parking on tarival and proposed transit only lanes and perpendicular parking on san tiaugo. A large number also support what the community calls, the tarival plan which calls for establishment of a 6 Month Pilot Program of early implementation followed by Community Input before approval. The merchant will explain this furlther and want to add and believe this will be a universal cry throughout the merchants of the city. This thereis a real problem and also you also mention it isnt just in the mission. The parking and transportation concerns are keeping people from going San Francisco merchants. Good afternoon. Okay, hi. Carla metsler with save or el tarival stops. Microphone. Thank you. The el tarival project is scheduled for next meetings agenda. Proposal for 9 stops at 6 locations. In the transit effectiveness project final Environmental Impact report that you approved in 2014 states on pages 226 one of the factors to be considered when selecting stop locations removal is valium of boardings and lighting of the transit stop. Excuse me. Now, this okay. The kentucky fried chicken, pub lb library, library, post office and safeway, the stops surrounding 19 lth and tarival which is the busiest stop we are adding a thousand people by closing the stops before and after 19th. A thousand more people every day on 19th and tarival. I think this is dangerous and should be looked at again and it is not what we voted for. We dont want our tax dollars being used to make things more dangerous. Thank you. Thank you. Next speaker, please. Paula katz followed by tom gill burty and those are the last people. What do i do to get this there it is. Paula katz. I want to make a correction to what carla said t is 226 of the final Environmental Impact report where it states that one of the factors to be considered removing stopicize boarding and lighting at the transit stop. We will give you the average weekly boarding and alignment at tarival for inbound and outbound stops. One thing we hope you can see is this data was collected november 2007 from january 2009 and so the decision to remove stopicize based on data that is 7 to 9 years olds and completely out of date. Sean kennedy agreed the usage probable increased but believes the proportions stay the same. Sfmta has no identity if this is true and told we cant do more head counts until next your and maybe when the new lrvs come in. In the areas whereplore housing is build or stores open usage will increase than other stops. In addition the staff said because the study is so old they cant access it and have no way of finding out when the study was done over what day or hours and doesnt include weekend. When the new lightrail vehicles we can track use r usage we urge you to put them on the tarival line as soon as possible and obtain up to date and accurate findings. This is incorporated as part of the Pilot Program that the merchants propose at part of the plan. I like to give you these documents. Tom gillbirty. Tom gillbirty. I was goingi remarked about the elevator ativan ness and thinking while we were gone that it was going to be the definition of rank. When you Say Something is truly rank was a slang word and thati cant say that now because i used it and it shown the effort of being maintained a little better. I would love to have it steam cleaned and love the carpet to come up and take a look underneath. I hope probably it dirt is holding it together and triing to get rid of that sooner that later because of property changes. I also want to applaud the mechanics on the old buses. I have been very good for long time. The mechanics on the lightrail very very good and i am using my standard of when the doors open there is a floor expansion that comes up. [inaudible] tipping my hat to mechanics. Next we got a number of seats we are losing, the standees we are getting. We are always losey seats with the new cars and looking like we are doing herds into subways and into the early 1950s and 60s of new york city and dont like the way the new lightrail are going. Corridors are now a big word. A couple years ago cumulative was the big word. Cumulative amount of traf ic. Third street in the rails are going to restrict the amount of people we can allow to live there. Your voices have to come up aletal higher on that. We have to slow down for the bridle on uncontenses growth. Last week i call ded [inaudible] for cleaning too. Mr. Chairman that is the last person to address matters in the jurisdiction of mta and not on todays agenda. Move toog consent calendar. All items considered [inaudible] member of had board wishes to have aiteal severered and considered separately. I have not heard you like to have a item severed but the public asked item 10. 3 be severed. Is there a motion on the consent calendar minus 10. 3 . All in favor say aye. 10. 3. Cristina varner followed by edward mason. Good afternoon. My name is cristina vrner. I strongly urge you not to establish a week day morning shuttle done on san jose between valley and 9th street. My family lives on this block and va3 your old son. We already live on one of the dirtiest and busiest streets in San Francisco where we witness accidents involves vehicles, cyclist and pedestrians. The pollution levels are high. The shuttle buses are nysy and enormous and block views. The exhaust creates unbreveth air and trophic congestion. The residentsthe full loan tree that helps create breatheable air for residents on this block will be damaged by the buses pulling to the curb. I understand it is proposed to be trimmed but need the whole tree t. Is a shame that to see that dpw exempted this from Environmental Review because it effects our environment. I want to draw your teengz to page 3 of staff report. The shuttle bus stop takes away the use of 5 to 6, not 4 parking spots which are especially permitted for residents. The city should refund the cost of the parking permit through may 31, 2017 because the point is park in the spots all day and now it is impossible to do so. There is a existing commuter shuttle spot on valencia and 26th street and additional stop doesnt need to be created in front of our house. The worker of companies catered to can walk a few blocks to caf a bus. The plan decreases safety by increasing exhaust and nysand tafic. Please dont [inaudible] by approving san jose avenue. Next speaker, please. Edward mason and mr. Chairman that is the last person. Edward mason. Stop removes the residential parking permitinant which is a form of de facto imminent domain. It is a gift of public space for private use and broken contract with no reimbursement for the people. You have a stop about 2 thousand feet away at valencia and cesar chavez. You eliminate stops by lengthening the walking distances while making these particular stops more veents. Convenient. The stop is unnecessary. This is unnecessarily stop and impacts the environment because for every cycle of a bus you have pollution from the break pads and break dust and upon acceleration you have pollution caused by the engine and also the noise. This is got a Environmental Impact that could beis unnecessarily if you can walk an extra 2 thousand feet. Operation after 10 a. M. For bus operations i have observe buses. There is a bus at 1015 and 1010 and 1035 stopping at the current location. This is going to create unsafe situations if the automobiles are parked after 10 a. M. This will be cause a safety issue with double parking on san jose avenue. In summary, i would recommend that you take a good look at this station as to why these individuals cannot walk a extra 2 thousand feet to the new stopto is a existing stop at the Salvation Army that you approved several months ago. Thank you very much. Thank you, sir. Questions or comments . Mr. Migire you want to talk about this . Good afternoon. Tom mcguire. Joined by [inaudible] who has detailed answers to your questions. Good afternoon. So, the purpose is primarily to place a stop that is at san jose is deloris is that is being removed where they are widening the itisland so this is replacing existing stop where we have 57 vehicles stopping during the a. M. Period and just serving the a. M. Period. Thank you. Thank you mrs. [inaudible] i know when mrs. Pain brought the Commuter Shuttle Program she made a point of saying this is a changeable program and it is a living stop thing and we are moving it around and have seen these stops at all most every meeting we had for the past few months. I will go ahead and support this stop and thank the people who came to give feedback and completely understand how much of a change it for your block face to have a commuter shuttle stop and also want to make request that we take a look at dolores street because i understand dolores street is limited away from it stop. What we have seen in that we hear from the people around dolores park that have a hole in the Shuttle Program where they are walking for 15 minutes to get to a stop. I think we need to take a look at dolores street and see if the weight limit can be restricted and share the pain on the shuttle stops because nobody wants them and we need them. I make a motion to approve them. Second that the residential parking space is only not available in the shuttle hours but available during the other hours. Yes. Thank you mr. Chairman. I just want to thank the public for being engaged in this work t. Is important to achieve the best possible program for us to continue to monitor how things work and accommodate accordingly looking at dolores street or what have you. This is a thing that that we hope will have a positive net effect on the community as a whole and certainly sensitive to the concerns that are brought upism namely, the pollution of diesel or what have you. Those concerns are very real. I appreciate the fact the shuttles do take away a lot of otherwise car traffic t. Is important that we are sensitive but look ought for the entire community so ill support for this measure but i want to thank the public for being vigilant and encourage more individual laens as the project is implemented. Director we are taking people out of cars and increasing transit use even in this private form. Sorry im not familiar with the map out there but is there a commercial space within relative proximity to this area such that we have the stops not in 41 front of a 3 year old home or in front of a business not open and appreciate the fath they bring a lot of people to their block . So this is a primarily residential portion of san jose. We looked at numerous locations, mitchells is there primarily commercial use in that area and we did reach out and spoke with them early in the planning process. Their concerns were around the fact that this would block their driveway used for loading during the a. M. Period. So we shifted the stop a bit to not block their driveway and also be partially in front of a house and partially in front of empty garden lot to try to minimize the impact but it is challenging given it is primarily residential. Motion and second to approve. All in favor say aye. Opposed . Ayes have it. Regular agenda mr. Chairman. Item 11, approve parking and traffic modifications along folsom street between hawthorn and embarcadero involved in the folsom street Streetscape Project. Good afternoon director. Greg leaseen and sustainable streets and here to presents the folsom streetscape projeth. Exciting project. Been working on this my 8 year career. The project goes back further than that and touch on the history. The project sponsored by the office of ocii formally known as the Redevelopment Agency. It is there project but im the mta lead and mta and Planning Department are active in the streetscape design of it. Public workicize construction manager and project planjure on behalf of ocii so big team effort. Also have a consultant team, cmg architects and [inaudible] big team and excited to be hoor. Here. 8 years of work so thank you for coming out. Sharing the exassignment with me. This is the project site. It is folsom street downtown, between Second Street and embarcadero. This is a old aerial of the old folsom street under the freeway terminal separator structure. So, Everybody Knows the old embarcadero free bp way torn down after the earthquake. Not everybody remembers the terminal separator which connected to the bay bridge which is the equally structure in the air. I have scoured all over to find more historic photos of structures and i really cant find any. It is like people want to forget it existed. I called the cal Trans Department and had nothing. I did justcouldnt include in the presentation. If you watch the 1958 San Francisco cop drama, the line up, you will seei highly recommend it. The climax at the end takes place on the under construction terminal separator structures so please take a look and get excited about that. There are no other photos i can find accept there is one i like to share. My friend gave me a great book when i moved to San Francisco and a favorite of my kids now. Dont know if you can see this. Leer sat the bottom you can cineld kind of see. There is the old structure and this book remarks san franciscans dispice the monstrosity and it was torn down. Ill talk more about the history in a moment but sorry i dont have more photos of the old folsom street. I do of the new folsom street. This is a rendering and qu walk you through the details. We will convert the street into two way Traffic Operation with one lane each way. There will be big widened sidewalks with corner bull bout which you can see here. The bull bouts have rain gardens and bench seating and looking into having native plants for the rain gardens because they request is made. This photodoes not show the bike lanes there also which ill show in a moment. It is really a long history how we got to this point. Ill walk you through the cross section. This is folsom street, new folsom street looking east bound and ill walk you through left to right. On the left on the north side, the existing 10 foot sidewalk remains at 10 feet but the high rise and ground floor retail have a 15 book setback mandated so results in a 25 foot sidewalk on the north side of instreet with double row of trees and one block is already built with phils coffee. There is a 6 foot wide west bound protected bike lane and south of that there is a buffer and south of that there is a parking and loading strip for vehicles to stop where they wont interact with the bikes. Similar design as other protected bike ways we have implemented. South of that thral is the west bound lane and east bound lane and on the south side of the street there is parking and loading and buffer and east bound protected bike lane and sidewalk will be widened to 15 feet. That is the new street, really exciting and this is implemented after the new Transit Center opens in 2018. Ac transit will come out and move into the new elevated bus facility that will enable one lane of traffic each way without impacting ac transit. There is a map of the extents. Important note is between Second Street and spear street is the ocii project which includes the sidewalk widening and all that lovely stuff. Mta we are going to restripe the last block between spear and embarcadero to have protected bike lanes to create the connection between Second Street to the embarcadero and folsom street is the link. We are build agnetwork of protected boo bike ways with this project and enhancing transit and cars by make tg a 2 way street making it better for local circulation. Here is the timeline. This is a abbreviated timeline rel toov the Streetscape Project and parking and traffic changes seeking your approval. The history of this project goes back a long way. I think when the elevated free way was built people called to have it torn down. It is worth noting there is a big effort in the late 70s and early 80s to tear down the embarcadero freways. People wanted to tear that down. The board of supervisors approved it in 1985 and the voters overturned that and that was a huge blow to the freeway removal idea. Two years later there is a earthquake and the embarcadero didnt fall dow it was damaged and so was the terminal structure so at a very contenses vote the board approved 6 to 5 to tear down the freeway in 91. The peoplethe advocates try today tear town other freeways. As soon as the freeway was shut down all the traffic materialized. Terminal separator structure and removed in the mid90s and laid the ground for the rest of my slide which is Redevelopment Agency known as ocii created Redevelopment Area in the zone and the removal of the freeway parcels created new lands sold to developers to fund the Transit Center and fun this project which is 15 million project. It is a long time coming. We are here today with legislation and final approval and then we hope to break ground next year. Should take about a year to build so hopefully enjoy the street and riding our bikes and walking along in 2018. Here is a overview of the design. I will not walk you through this. Again t is from Second Street to the embarcadero so the slide is from second to fremont and the bottom is from fremont to embarcadero. Ill zoom in to a example. This is typical of the design. You seeyou cant see on this screen but one lane of traffic in each way and protected bike lanes and also install transit boarding islands. Muni has a plan to [inaudible] bus route extension at the moment. There is work on there [inaudible] it will happen here so we are building boarding islands so the buses will not conflict with bikes. Thats it. That is my presentation. Excellent presentation. Members the board . Great presentation thank you very much. It was nice to be reminded of the history of that freeway. When i worked at [inaudible] after the earthquake we would walk and have our lunch. Very fun. I love this project and think the widened sidewalks will be great. If anybody has not tried to go downtown in the last 2 years try it. A lot of the sidewalkerize so narrow you cant walk. I think the wide sidewalkerize fabulous. The parking buffered bike lanes is what everyone is look frg as we heard from mr. Star about upper Market Street. There is such a sense of frustration among cyclist. There is a huge sense of frustration so pleased to see these are going because i know a [inaudible] crowded urban environment you cant expect 100 percent separation all the time but if we engineering it so we can prevent the [inaudible] im so excited about the project, it will be a fantastic addition. No questions. Motion to approve. Veckd. Second. The buffer like a raised pavement . A lot of people asked that. This design isnt raised. The design is for a painted buffer. It is similar to jfk drive or bay street. It is important to know the difference from the Second Street which will have raised bike ways. The short answer for why we were not able to consider that is because wree have corner bull bouts with rain gardens and it is designed so the rain water rains into the rain garden so looked how that will work with a raised bike way and it basically wouldnt. We are excited. The corner bull bouts and rain gardens shorten the crossing distance between for pedestrians and also if we do findim hopeful that car drivers will figure it out to not pull all the bay to the curb and putting thought into the striping and painting to make it clear but if we have issues we can ret row fit qu treatments. The things that youthey are like little magnet things you run up against. Not a curb, but it sticks to the ground and you cansomething that is like a lot of times people if they are parking and not paying attention they pull too far and if there is Something Like on the freeway and go to the wrong lane all is a different sound. That type of thing. Well be watching closely how it functions and have it opportunity to install treatments like that. I think in a situation like this because this project the parking is outside the bike lane, correct . That make as huge difference because as lang asia see one or two cars parked correctly most people figure it out they are supposed to park out of the bike lanes so i think in Golden Gate Park you see cars parked correctly and one parks incorrectly. I have high hopes this will be working. One traffic question and trying. Is there a stretch to bridge access . Yes. Yes. We are going from 1 late to 2 lanes accept between second and essex street. That isnt changed. Okay. And sogreat. Northbound traffic on second will make the right and curl up that way and there is lelft turn restriction. Let me cut to the chase, you addressed this and not anticipating this will exacerbate that existed line up . Correct. I think this is very exciting and looking forward to see it played out. The one question is the stretch from spear to embarcadero. Was it determined there was enough [inaudible] the only change is the bike lanes . Yes, it is really just that is the project boundary for the Redevelopment Area so thereat is where ocii can spend the money to widen sidewalks. Mta or public works can come back and do more sidewalk widening on the south side. The good news there is the gap building on the north side so have the 15 foot set back so the 25 foot wide set back is preserved from the embarcadero to essexs street. We can come back later for the bull bouts and widen the sidewalks. Im supportive of the bike lanes. There is minority andimably a vocal minority in the Disability Community that pestered me that they need curb back squz there are protected bike lane jz want safety for cyclist but want to be able to access in our vehicles. The concern is where the buffer basically on jfk as you probably know when you have a blew ue space you can use the buffer to unload and connect to the sidewalk. There are concerns in the community about these going in more and when the buffer is not continuous to the place where you can access the sidewalk. That a complicated thing but wonder if this addresses that or it is a continuous buffer and if we will make a extra to put in blue zones where we can. I dont drive and [inaudible] i know some people in the community are very concerned about the protected bike lanes. We put a lot of thought into ark sesable access work wg mta and public works. All most each block face north and south there will be a newit isnt a white curb zone but there were be fully accessible loading zone there for everybody and we are installing new blue zone Parking Spaces as well. Both accessible loading and parking. Great. Yes, just very quickly. I notice with the jfk parking like the vice chair said, usually the problem starts when one person parks the wrong way and there is a fall though leader sort of mentality of not wanting to disrupt whatever pattern is established. I often wondered if you folks had considered establishing like some kind of signage or stenciling in the buffer that indicates no parking so that people might see pulling up like where to park or not to park and there is a better understanding of how to dpoo do it. I know that it would be labeerous and maybe ugly to see a bunch of no parking signs at every space but maybe the ones at the top of the block face just wondering if you have thought about that and particularly with respect to when you are going install this one if there is think toog that and what led you to not do it. The blue zone spaces we springled the blue zone at the beginning of the street east and west bound because anticipate those being parks with a vehicle. When car is doing it it is obvious for others how to do it. Installing signage in the painted buffer that will be tough because we cant use the street sweeper. Like painted on the [inaudible] you have stencils and imagine a p with no parking or something to that effect. We can go back to the slide and walk you through. So, you cantso, this shows a spot reserving for bike share stations. This is what the wide zone will look like and still a work in praun progrtss what the striping will be. The idea is this will be a white stripes and shown on black on the paper but are white stripes. This is a white passenger zone. I hate saying that. Here are the yellow spaces which are for truck loading and this is the painted buffer. We are planning as of this moment to use our traditional parking ts to make it clear thris is a metered parking space. These are for trucks. Up here where it is a white zone, there is no ts because you dont park there t is just for louding. We have put thought how this work squz we are doing other protected bikeways as we innovate this. The bottom line is we have a idea and watch it very closely and if we need to install rubber curb segments or better signage we havent done the sign plan yet and will be mounted on the street lights just the typical no parking. We need to develop a sign if it says this is floating loading zone, which is brand new. Work in progress. What im implying with this where you have the slash, diagonal white buffer zone, that is what i suggest considering putting in like a stencil that says no parking in there because for whatever reason sometimes some people do park on thaton top of it in Golden Gate Park on the jfk lanes and creates this sort of line of parking that i suppose isit becomes a problem i think because that buffer zone is gone and then it is less safe bike lane. I guess what i suggest is consider how you enforce it or not and see if there are lesson to be learned from maybe putting down a stencil that says no parking in the white diagonal slash because people do it all the time, well not all the timeif is interesting to see if there is a way to get better enforcement there before maybe doing Something Like that here. I do think on jfk there are stencils and say no parking. Maybe we need bigger ones and p where a cross out. Something like that i think will be warranted there. Thank you very much. Excellent presentation. Motion and second . Josey aaron followed by charles defargs. Those are the only people who turned in speaker cards. Good afternoon. Good afternoon directors. Josey aaron and the new neighborhood organizer with walk San Francisco. On behalf of walk sf i would like to express our strong support for this exciting project. I will make the segment more pleasant and safe for everyone. We are excited to see a project that prioritizes pedestrians and includes features like bull bouts which increase pedestrian visibility, decrease the distance to cross and slow turning vehicles, wider sidewalks which act as a barrier between pedestrians and traffic with landscape. The conversion of folsom to two way traffic which calm traffic. A street that connects people to parks and open space. We are thrilled to see the City Building out green connections like folsom with rain garden squz other feature. We love to see the rest of folsom when the Folsom Howard project is implement to be designed comprehensively with green and traffic calming features as this project. We look forward to many more projects like folsom streetscape breaking ground soon. Charles defargs and he is the last person to address you today. Good afternoon. My name is defarj and Campaign Coordinator at the San Francisco bike coalition. This is a project we are excited about specifically the protected bike lanes from second to embarcadero. Souckt of market is one the most heavily bike trafficked areas in San Francisco despite being one the most dangerous. The projects sets to transform folsom into a bikeable street something it is not today. The improvements open up the east end of folsom lowing two way bike traffic and providing important north south connection to howard on main, beel and fremont. The result is more accessible ceblthed and vibrant for people walk{biking. Thank you guys and thank you to greg at mta. This is a great project. We have motion and veckd second . Aye. Item twevlg, discussion whether to conduct a closed session. Motion to conduct a closed session. Second . All in favor say aye. We will go in closed ession. Discuss City Attorney voted to settle the cases. 14, appropriate for motion to disclose or not disclose the information discussed motion to not disclose. All favor say aye. We are adjourned. Thank you very much. Passes. Thank you, everyone for coming to the 6 annual montoya awards and like to thank the family and friends foyer 40 for coming out to enjoy the celebration montoya awards are special named after two of our very own come from dpw, specifically they loved work for the city and the department they loved their union and they loved their coworkers they always fought it make it a better place whether a Business Manager Anthony Montoya that fought for the right of not only city workers but for Bureau Brooks brothers and sisters or like anthony grand juror junior who was a chief steward and a member of Bargaining Team that fought for better hours and wages and working continues for all fuss they knew what that meant to be a team winner and you should feel good our coworkers in the mind and felt you embodied the spirit youre one the top team players lets goumz for everyone past and present. clapping. first, i get to introduce one of the friends of ours good friends with the laborers for a long time and understand the challenges and dangers we fascinate streets working everyday our District Attorney george gascon. Thank you, thank you you know. clapping. it is really an his own being with you would you do is so important for your communities and give you a little bit of background i have a deep connection with one of the reasons why i take the opportunity it come to these events from an immigrant family and my parents were unable to get the union jobs sow they were working for minimum wage and actually below minimum wage as a High School Student i was hired at a supermarket and guess what that was a union job i started with local 770 and making more money and had Better Health insurance working 25 hours a week than my parents working 60 hours a week why did he say this i say this because having Union Representation is very important to the associate fabric 50 years ago and 40 years ago a depending on and were going in reverse less representation from our workers than generations so being here is a credible celebration im honored to be here with you the fact i have a union job and representation and would you do for you are our city is important and remember increasing less workers in this country that are aribnb a living wage we have less workers in the country that can afford to pay housing for their families and afford for another things for the families that can afford to retire when they get to that point in their lives and fortunate to live in a place we have great government it recognizes the value of unions with unions relationships and i understand how they work this they go out and often have to pick up needles and things that are hazardous to make a better life for all of us and Carbon Monoxide we forgot our priorities local government is about education and about retaining Public Safety and we often forgot those are the things that the having clean and safety streets are are priority youre on the front lines i want to thank you its an honor being here with you guys i cant say enough support for you guys thank you very much. clapping. thank you. So, now the man that needs no introduction i wouldnt do him justice mary mayor springer. Really quick i want to take the time to say first of all, thank you the job that you do that you all do is not an easy one and i know you dont get thank yous often enough im sitting here i stay to the ended this is my chance to get a chance to scombrak with you if a setting to say do something; right . But i also want to explain and a that your job is one of the most important jobs in the city because people notice when we get things done and when we dont okay. He also want to take the time to congratulate the 12 winners base thats an honor that your coworkers and a little bit along with others decided that you were the recipients this year and be a little bit i know 0 both of them and worked with the montoyas and they were dedicated therapy working hard and were definitely union and so right now i wanted to just is thanks to them were honoring them and thank you for keeping on the spirit even though their not here with the montoya awards will carry on the spirit forever all right. The other thing im here to do is to say introduce someone who has been in the corner and supported us most importantly i get it and understands we we need to keep the city clean and understands what we need in the way of resources and seize what you do and most importantly supports the dpw thats supervisor wiener. clapping. thank you thank you how is everybody doing a little bit of r r on the waterfront so i always make sure to come to this ward ceremony and honor not just the amazing award refineries but the men and women of finally and rec and park too there are rec and park people who hold through the bones of our city together apparently ill tell you as a member of the board of supervisors working to keep our district on track problems come my way to my office about something that need to be cleaned up or some problem in a neighborhood we work to fix it and, of course, then people have saying my supervisor fixed this problem in my neighborhood we end up with the credit with, of course, im not the one picking up the syringes and clean power after people entertaining with the all the substances that are out there and cleaning and getting things fixed and gardening and landscaping im not out there doing that that is you out there and this was very little fanfare and not enough credit youre the ones that make all of us guarantee look good thats why it is important to step back and say thank you without you, i dont know how the city would be run so your job goes beyond the landscaping and fixing and having to deal with a lot of the moenlz and drug issues youre the front line and see and deal with a lot of the things that the people dont want to deal with i want to say on behalf of myself i speak for all my colleagues e colleagues, i want to say thank you donna you dont have enough support the mayor offered 6 point one Million Dollars for the fix 2 team for dpw. clapping. and so im thrilled to see he is doing that help is on the way congratulations i know were presenting the awards now . Okay. So now is the fun part our first recipient george. clapping. a jerold was industrial u structural in the paving that the first house number 24 in the financial district his knowledge and hard work made this successful hes very much worst this recognition jerold congratulations caltrans congratulations. Okay. Your next honoree is our next honoree is clapping. yeah, so antonio impacted the team in public works and asked for by name he stepped up and expected a go to person when work is done and easy going and people like him so congratulations. clapping. okay our next honoree dante thomas. clapping. yeah . A maintains worker Great Team Player positive attitude motivates the staff with a worldclass service yeah. When in their challenging or site conditions with the group dante comes up with the needed repairs congratulations. clapping. okay. Next is dearly hoe supervisor one. clapping. dearly has 27 years of experience with public works steps up and helps in time of need and on the team of challenging work at encampment clean up that less difficult and incredibly important work he works to keep San Francisco clean and safe save withwith a clapping. next david allen supervisor one. clapping. more than thirty years of Public Service experience and dedicated and in his role to the special project group and worked with a limited amount of resources with vip and Ribbon Cutting and public works and you name it and delivers big time on the public event and congratulations. clapping. our next Award Recipient denise. clapping. louis has a can do attitude hes worked in the urban forestry and the water crew decision and sunset with the San Francisco Public Utilities commission a team player with the work assignment and a great levied and efficient congratulations. clapping. congratulations okay our next Award Recipient. clapping. so ben diverse this over after learning steam cleaning to event clean up ups and recently on the team dealing with the challenge of work with the encampment cleans up as a team player so congratulations ben. clapping. okay. Next Award Recipient anna marie green. clapping. oh, shes not here well give her a contempt not faired to get dirty tangibly tackling all jobs and has perseverance and the work is not easy and it is crucial congratulations anna the next recipient is fernando mendosa. Finally inform node has team spirit and willing to stay for an stent shift an all around great person and efficient and services on the team with the encampment cleans up thank you fernando. clapping. your next recipient is juan rivera. Juan is passionate about his role as a glen Eagle Academy yeah glen eagle a mentor to the entrylevel staff and takes pride in a strong work ethic and expects that from others and willing to help with fellow coworkers congratulations. clapping. okay our next final award residents sorry one more than that second to last is jason williams. clapping. jason is a go to laborer a team player and attributes to the city and county of San Francisco on a daily basis keeping the streets and sidewalks clean no problem taking any job that is sent his way and great hair too he works well, that the public and always ready to go above and beyond and his passion to take care of the city congratulations. clapping. and then larry stringer will present the final one. The last one award winner is hastening and so im allied we didnt write when i met him he was a sweeper cleaner ; right . Used to drive the sweeper at the end of the day and clean up them up thats when i first met him then the learned he had a lot of skills the next time he was in urban forestry and all of a sudden he said if you want irrigation repair hes the man and he still is the last one is he is now also i get good feedback also one of the 3 employee drivers trainers and does a very good job gets to interface but of all he is always got a smile and positive attitude and got a good word congratulations. clapping. here we go here we go laughter . Two bottles. So weve come to the ended of the program i want to shout out to romania and supervisor wiener for always being one of the gracious mcs and shout out to selma a long time sponsor for the inception of this award and also the Parks Alliance thank you, everyone and enjoy and have is great will the guests please be seated. Good afternoon and thank you for attending todays ceremony ladies and gentlemen, the 75 secretary of the navy ray magnifying us clapping. leader pelosi and pastor, mayor ed lee and supervisor wiener poland as far as were concerned milk and aaron kevin mayor of san diego and so many other distinguished guests here today and friends of in and of itself and the 4r6b9 community arm, navy and marine corp uniquely gives to america presence in around the globe around is clock insuring stability and deterring adverse and giving our leaders options in time of crisis were americans is awaiting never a home game sailors and mairpz are not only in the right place at the right time theyre in the right time all the time to get that preponderance youve got to have great halls on the horizon weve reversed the decline in shipbuilding 2001 to 2008 in those seven years the navy put 41 ships under contract ive been in this job nor seven years and in the at the same time weve contracted for 85 ships clapping. and one of the great privileges and great responsibilities that i have in this job is to name each of those ships each class of ship has a naming convention a theme so sub marines are named for states ships for cities and destroyers are named for heroes and among and no more skraeft and aircraft carriers for president and marine sheriffs deputies for battles we do this to honor the navys history but to connect the navy to america and to the American People so it is important to remember and honor navel heroes sailors and marines that sacrificed for america thats why i named 8 ships for metal of honor recipients people like john thin and Woody Williams in are we there yet . World war ii and others for vietnam and just this morning alter camp pep it on the john a Gunnery Sergeant for a metal of honor for the canal and even though the mairpz were not in part of war effort toe figure out and died at hiroshima and others ships like the rap he will or the Navy Cross Recipient in iraq and lena the first woman awarded the navy cross during world war i also important i think to recognize and honor those who have fought in a different way and sacrificed sometimes in the same way by losing their lives those who have strived to fulfill the promise laid out in our constitution to form a more Perfect Union those who have fought for the ideals that we cherish as a nation justice, quality, freedom thats why in january, i name the first ship of a new class the john louis after the iconic clapping. after the icon dearth and risked his life for that justice and quality and freedom and the naming convention for this entire class of ships are civil rights leader which brings us to the reason were here today to name a ship for a person who stood for and killed for quality justice, freedom. Harvey milk clapping. and his career was known i want to start with the fact that he came from a navy family his father william was a sub marine his mother joined the group in world war i that evoked for the inclusion of women in the United States navy so he came from a tradition of local Navel Services and activism we became a navel officer and came to san diego as a diving insofar and engaged in numerous pursuits and became active in politics as a pioneer in the Gay Rights Movement an elected supervisor to hold office no california in the 10 short months he was in office he sponsored an anti Discrimination Bill advocated for stronger safer neighborhoods and spoke out on state and National Issues of importance to the Lgbtq Community but also have importance to women to racial and ethic minority and stopped a measure to seek intolerance by appealing to anti gay rights. clapping. in his words he said we are coming out to fight the lives the myths the distortions and coming out to tell the truth of gaze tied of the conspiracy ill talk about he came out with justice. Quality, freedom and an a sin tried to silence that voice and to end that fight but even after death his voice still spoke his struggles continue and his cause taken up by countless others harvey milk prereported a statement in case i was killed it said if a bullet should enter my brain let that destroy today nearly 40 years later many of the doors have think outside the box destroyed next month the military will celebrate the 5 anniversary of the repeal of dont ask dont tell clapping. Service Members that defended our country but had to allow about w40er7 were to live only and honestly right after the appeal of dont ask dont tell he was in the house we had a big base and everybody came in afghanistan came through there i spoke to a group of seven hundred sailors and marines some of whom were coming in and some leaving and after the event a navel korman approached me just to say thank you he said he was ending his third combat tour 3 combat tours and had been purified for more than a decade hed been in the navy hell be found and asked to leave now how wrong is that 3 combat tours and yet his biggest fear was that he was not going to be permitted to serve because of who he loved. Weve got to do more than that if anyone here or anyone you know was discharged for being a member of 4r6b9 community and if theyre interested youre interested if you want to come back and let the navy take another look at that discharge clapping. i cant take another look on my own none can but if the ask and the Service Member or a Family Member asked we can take another look i urge you to do that clapping. so were doing those things for two main reasons one the morley right thing to do but another reason these actions make us a stronger military force every time every time we vote in the military to people who have been kept out for of the worst of reasons weve been stronger when the military was racially integrated in the late 40s we became stronger when we began to recruit womens in large numbers we became stronger and opened to women we became stronger when we repealed dont ask dont tell and when we end the ban on anti gay services we became stronger clapping. and every time an action like this every single time some people opposed it using the same arguments over and over again unit morale will go down that will make the force weaker and every single those folks were wrong every single time clapping. a more Diverse Force is a stronger force diversity and background, diversity in thought, exist diversity in perspective our force should represent and be reflective of the country it defends how can we deny a person that qualifies in every way the honor of helping to defend this country because wanted color or shape of their skin or because of who they love how can we do that how can we do that we shouldnt and now thankfully in the military we dont clapping. one last thing every ship has a sponsor or two they break the bottle of champagne across the bow but give that ship the 3er7b89 and character so the two sponsors for the harvey milk are going to be senator Dianne Feinstein because of her association with harvey milk and Public Policy i think a navy veteran who couldnt continue to serve in uniform because of who she is and who is sense been a force fell advocate of the Lgbtq Community and the first navy veteran to be issued a new d d214 to correct her gender listed on the form clapping. so, now it is my privilege to name ta o20 six the u. S. Usns harvey milk. clapping. thank you, mr. Secretary ladies and gentlemen, congresswoman nancy pelosi. clapping. good afternoon, everyone it is an honor for us to be here on that special occasion not only for the harvey milk family but for the United States of america arent we proud clapping. secretary magnifying us you have been a true a governor and ambassador and nor four more than seven years the skraeft secretary of the navy you honor us with your presence thank you for your jerng leadership and patism is so many people brought this day to fruition it is remarkable to start off with a gay mans chorus singing glib america and thank you for your leadership as part of the Harvey Milk Foundation mayor ed lee, an honor to be here wasnt our city beautiful as a backdrop and i know you want to welcome the mayor in san diego thank you for the roll that san diego played in making this mr. Mayor and maam, speaker thank you for what you did for the essential of the state of california and corn beggar knew harvey milk the best and i also want to recognize scott wiener for contributing to today as well to our. clapping. sponsor congratulations to you my understanding is that you were responsible for the ship for the life of the ship paula so thank you. Dianne feinstein couldnt be here as a family issue in terms of her husbands health but certainly it here in spirit and exist to be a sponsor of the ship as well as a sponsor with paula thank you congratulations to you paula thank you. clapping. were proud of this vessel designed to refuel ships at sea and bearings harrys name his fight for justice to the vision to generations of progress harvey came out at a time 4r6b9 meant those sister im honored to be here with his nephew stuart. Thank you for being a keeper of this land. clapping. his mother audry wouldnt be here but in spirit as well we all this is a family im honored to be here with my daughter christine and my granddaughter daughter we attend harvey milk day declared in california and stamp declared by the United States of america now the naming of the ship and hopefully as a chris negatively impacting of the ship pretty soon but something we take pride in harvey and john louis for whom this class of ship it named they made america more american with their sacrifice and encourage as the secretary said helped us form a more Perfect Union but people of San Francisco the usns harvey milk is another deeply powerful sign how far weve come from attending two funerals during the age crisis; right . Mr. Ambassador two a day now to celebrating marriage thanks to the leadership the 4r6b9 community and even though veterans a repeal off dont ask dont tell and removed the service ban on the hero oversees i wanted to acknowledge the roll that our want barack obama played wouldnt have been possible we take great pride. clapping. in passing the legislation in the congress but he really led the way in bringing the military Community Around leadership around to a place that has secretary said makes us stronger in our defensive of our country secretary magnifying us lead the charge to make us more inclusive we recognize this this is will inclusion and stuart said about the ships naming uncle harvey as a thats what we calls him uncle harveys legacy is bigger than San Francisco and the u. S. And the Literature Community it is a legacy of hope and a story of sacrifice for everyone and my goal stewart goal to spread that hope and call for, visibility not just across the nation but around the world the usns harvey milk went on to say without having said fail has joined us on that journey with hope and qualification hope here in america and hope across the assess thank you secretary magnifying us for your unparalleled leadership were indebted to you and youll see Service Members that protect freedom aboard the usns harvey milk harvey poured his incur into a source of hope we all saw that of a certain age we knew harvey he gave us hope for a better world hope for a better tomorrow may the break off men and women of usns harvey milk have the same hope and strength against the odds as this ships namesake thank you very much. clapping. thank you congresswoman pelosi ladies and gentlemen, the sponsor of usns harvey milk ms. Paula. clapping. good afternoon leader pelosi and secretary magnifying us and ambassador and mayor ed lee distinguished guests ladies and gentlemen, it is with deep gratitude provide and humidity that i stand here as a sponsor of this ship it is a great honor to be the sponsor of any ship in our fleet but im forever grateful to secretary magnifying us for giving me the singular privilege to sponsor this ship as i under taxi the duties and responsibility of this i say a pray im sure has been repeated through navel history dear lord please dont let me screw up for me as a member of Lgbtq Community and having served as an officer in the United States navy i know that being a sponsor of this ship is not really about me rather im the judge the person thats been grant the privilege to represent the lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenders patriots that serves our nation through the generations particularly those who have gone to sea sailed in harms way and richard the Navel Service it is altogether fitting we garter are here today to celebrate naming the ship the harvey milk it is proper that a ship of United States navy is the namesake of that man that his life exemplified the core values of encourage and commitment his work to advance our nation to form that more Perfect Union all americans enjoy the liability and the promise of freedom will be remembered whenever the usns harvey milk sail the men and women reflect did nation that embraces the rich diversity of our people and draws stroeth from inclusion and honors the service of all called to service it will take pride in a ship named for a leader that saw the promise of our country and engages the prostitute of making our country a better place for all of us and any sailor will be proud to sail in a ship like that thank you clapping. thank you ladies and gentlemen, the mayor of the city and county of San Francisco edwin m lee clapping. thank you Lieutenant Commander for that introduction and to secretary magnifying us week to San Francisco and to everyone 40 from out of town for this incredible engagement as mayor, i want to welcome you to our beautiful Treasure Island accuse the construction i want to acknowledge stuart milk harveys nephew and connecticut nonin an harveys former aid as a member of the board of supervisors here today on behalf of the milk Foundation Also want to recognize one of our own local Supervisor Scott Wiener that represents harveys district i get to go there and it was scott in 2012 offered the resolution offering the navy to do what were madam clerk, any announcements . With great pride and enjoy today ladies and gentlemen, leader pelosi lieutenant secretary has a highlighted the profound significance of this day and the naming so ill be brief San Francisco has always been a place that has attracted new people and new ideas a place of innovation for destroy, art, culture, and, of course, social Justice Harvey milk like so many that came before and after him came to San Francisco because here he could live his life nor freely than any other place in the world at the time and in doing so his profile encouraged changed the world and spider adjudicators i dont believe ill have the pleasure of being the mayor of San Francisco without his sacrifice and it cost him a man that served his country and our beloved city it cost his life and we mourn his loss but celebrate we give thanks to the great gift that was his life we come a long way from a nation that harvey knew we all know our work for full quality and acceptance not just in law but in hearts and minds is not yet done mrs. Secretary our announcement that a United States navel ship will forever bear the name of usns harvey milk is part of legacy of harveys unfinished work it tells surveyed from every part of our nation in every port of call what we know that harvey milk was a Great American that belongs in that great civil rights leader for our country were grateful were thrilled and proud for the milk family for the foundation and certainly for our city thank you. clapping. thank you, mayor ed lee ladies and gentlemen, ambassador nancy. clapping. thank you, very much. Lieutenant commander and friends lets give a grateful thanks to secretary magnifying us and nancy pelosi and mayor ed lee and the spokesman to stuart