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Pedestrian safety Advisory Committee, and to establish a sunset date. Could we get a motion to excuse, supervisor mar. Lets make a motion to excuse him. We will do that without objection. And now we are back to item one, which has been called. And i think that we have a representative back here. Good morning, i am the chair. And now what you have before you today, is something that we have worked on hard, and unfortunately this year, we have only had one meeting with the quorum. Because of what the administrative rules have, we have to have 18, we have to have at least, 12 people. When there is only, is 4 people appointed, at any particular time, it means that everyone has to be there basically. And we know that is not possible. And so we as a Committee Sat down and we went through and we looked at what we thought were things that had not been filled in years, and one seats that were duplicates. And what we came up with. We are really hoping that, you know, second is so important, and we cant get anything done. And we have resolutions and we want to pass, but without a quorum, we cant do that. You know, based and a lot of stuff that we wanted to do this year. And i have feel really good and i think that i have gotten all of the district seats filled which has not happened in a long time. So i worked really hard as the chair to get the seats filled. But we need your help to make it easier for have a quorum. On average, how many people are attending these meetings . We usually get, nine to eleven. But that is not a quorum. No, we sit there and count the people, you know, and door opens and is it another member . You know . And that is so frustrating when you have a committee as important as psac is. How are they interacting with vision zero. We are active in that. And we are always at vision zero and active with that. Okay. And then i also see that another requirement in addition to kind of reducing the number of seats is that any member who misses three regular meetings, within a six month period without express approval of the committee will or shall be deemed resigned from the committee. You know, with he have some and a couple of people that we dont see, and it is kind of frustrating when it is like where are they . That is why we wanted to put that in there also. All right, thank you for your presentation. I think that is, obviously we want these Advisory Committees to really serve their purposes, if you are not able to meet more than once a year, i think that these changes are fine. I have had to cancel the last two meetings because we were not going to have a quorum, the next meeting, our november meeting is on election day, we are not sure what we are going to do about that one yet. Here today, and the chair, kevin and one of the members, howard, and so, we hope that you will pass this along to the board so that we can actually do something. All right. You know, when i became th, r i had a lot of things that we wanted to do, but we have not been able to do them, because we have not been able to meet officially. Thank you. Thank you for your presentation. Do you have any questions or comments on this item . Okay, so seeing none, again, i think that it is straight forward but we will open it up to the Public Comment. If you want to comment on item one . Come on up. Hello, and high name is kevin, and i am the vice chair of the psac and as becky just stated, we have not been able to have an official meeting for a very long time because of the number of seats on our committee is 23. But we need to have 12 people to show up to have a quorum. And because a lot of other people have other commitments and other jobs that are not able to meet at this, and at the certain time on the second tuesday of each month, we are not able to pass any resolutions or have any important talks or meetings about Pedestrian Safety, and vision zero, which is what this committee was pretty much formed to deal with. And going, and as becky stated we need to reduce these number of seats, some of which are we have two seats for the bicycle committee, or whatever. And two for school, or is that right . Some of these are redundant and we dont need the double seats that one person can fill and be able to commit to meeting once a month. So we need to make sure that all of the people who are where the seats are filled with, are committed to vision zero and able to meet once a month. And have this quorum, so that we can pass the important resolutions and help you guys deal with vision zero, which is one of the most important things in the city. So, please pass this resolution, legislation and thank you for all of your hard work. Thank you very much. Next speaker, please . Good morning, i have been on the committee since it was official in 2003, and first i want to thank supervisor weiner for carrying the ordinance through to get the changes, the changes are simple, they really, by getting down to about 6 nonsupervisors these are 6 that are typically always filled, my seat, as for the transportation and the school and one school seat and obviously we need a bicycle seat and a Pedestrian Safety seat and the other two, but they are typically filled and eleven supervisors do a better job of filling their seats. And so then we have a quorum and that shows but we typically have 9 or 10, or 11 people out of the 14 appointees, that is good and we will go on and do the business and advice you and the mta and get the city safer and better for pedestrians thank you very much. All right, any other members of the public who wish to comment on item one. See none, closed. If we can get a motion to send this forward to the full board. Supervisor cohen . I will make that motion with a positive recommendation. And we will do that without objection. Item two. Hearing to consider appointing one member to the cannabis state task force. We have one seat and one applicant here and that is jennifer, i believe that she is not able to make it here today, is anyone here to speak on her behalf . Okay. So anything, none why dont we open this up to Public Comment. No i was going to actually, i thought that there was no one to speak on her behalf. I thought that i was going to make a motion. We will go to Public Comment. Seeing none, closed. And i would just say that this particular seat has a requirement that it is a representative of a labor union that represents employees working the cannabis industry from looking at her application, miss garcia does satisfy that requirement and i believe that she had originally wanted to app apply last time around, i would be fine be supporting her. Xurp cohen . I would like to make a motion to move to the full board a positive recommendation to appoint jennifer to seat one. And we will do that. Madam chair, that is also with the residence waiver. Yes, with the residency waiver. I didnt realize that. We will do that without objection. Thank you. Item three . It is the hearing to consider the term, ending november, 19, 2018, or the tenure of the nominating supervisor, whichever is shorter to the committee and one seat and one applicant. And we have charles. I am marks a pointment to the district two seat and i have lived in district two my whole life and i was born at california pacific on california street, and i grew up playing at the park and i attended the University High school and i continue to live in district two to this day, growing up i would ride my bake through the neighborhood. And i will be going to college, when i realized that i could influence the change on the streets that i was riding on. When i did arrive in la, i became fed up with the Transportation Options and the poor bicycle infrastructure, and back when the city was horrendous and that was for me, as an experienced biker, and other students would not touch a bike and would not want to go downtown or wherever, and it was difficult, so this really sparked something in me and by the end of my four years, i had created a fully funded and student staffed Bicycle Share Program which exists to this day, and close with advocates to influence the important Street Projects for the people walking and biking in the neighborhood. Now that i am back in stowers, i have been working pe San Francisco for year and a half and in this job, i work with the city agencies to organize the project and push them to completing. And it has given me a sense of how they come to fruition and how to mobilize the residents, to meet their needs, bike and walk, and people in cars. It is also, for the diverse residents of San Francisco. And their unique per pespectivp. And this has shown me that there is still much to be done to make the streets safer for all, and while i may feel okay riding on the streets that is not the case for many if not most. My little sister, for example, now she is in high school and wants to ride to become more independent and she is nervous, sharing the traffic lines and riding around in the cars, i think that the streets need to be safe and accessible. And whether that is my 14yearold sister or my neighbor with your nomination i will strive to the goal for making the street safer for all users in district two. Thank you for the thorough presentation and for your work while you are in college. I am happy to make a motion after Public Comment. So we will go to Public Comment then on item three. Any members of the public who wish to speak . Thank you. And seeing none, Public Comment is closed. Supervisor cohen . Thank you, i would like to make a motion that we move with the positive recommendation to appoint charles for seat two. And we will do that without objection. Thank you. All right, item four please . A hearing to consider appointing two members terms sending january 15, 201 , to the Health Authority. There are two seats and two after mri cants. We have eddie and maria luz. Torre. If you are here come up and make a present welcome mr. Kim. Good morning, supervisors tang and cohen, good to see you, my name is eddie and i am the current president and ceo of northwest medical service and taking care of 65,000 patients here in San Francisco, and 75 percent of them are at or near poverty. And have been working with them since i have been a ceo for eight years now. And we are really happy to be able to say that we have been able to put a majority of the visions in health homes and i think that when i first arrived, we had 50,000 patients and i think that we are up to close to 150,000 now. And i am proud of that and they are getting excellent here in San Francisco. I know that this is the reappointment and the same as seat ten as well. If you could describe what you would like to work on if you were able to be reappointed. Sure. Right now, i think that the baby boomers are really growing. And hopefully, we can do something with the health plan, in helping with the seniors. I think that the growth pattern, that we see for the baby boomers, are going to be expotential and so we have to figure out ways of providing that same type of Affordable Care for our senior population as well. All right. Good to see you eddie. Supervisor cohen. It is good to see eddie before us. Okay. All right then, and i guess that without any further questions and then we will move on to the next applicant . Thank you. Thank you. My name is maria luz. Torre i am the cochair of the San Francisco health plan and there are two of us as cochairs and cochairs are appointed by the governing board in the Health Authority. And i have cochaired the committee with three different people. And i am still doing it. My children were on medical when i start and when i started working, they were on Healthy Families because our income was up a little bit and then when the income went up, they were on the healthy San Francisco and now i am an ics provider and so for the first time, i am a member of the San Francisco plan before, it was my children. And i am also the organizer of the parent voices of San Francisco, and we served the low income family and we advocate for the children and their families and i know the struggles that the families go he through because i have been one myself. I feel one myself. And, we represent the consumers in the governing board. Or the Health Authority. And i think you are probably asking the same question that you asked eddie. And so, as a consumer representative, it is our obligation, me and ireen, who i cochair to represent the voices of the members of the health plan. Like one of the biggest issues that we have is access. And San Francisco and having universal coverage, and i think that the access is very important. We have many families who work three jobs, or work during the day or go to school, and may not be able to Access Healthcare for the children and so it is important that we provide the special care, and extended care up to 5 00 or on saturday and stuff like that. Maybe you can just talk more about some of the issues that you have been able to address, while serving in that role. All right. Yes, so as, and the committee chair, we facilitate the issues that the members bring to the gro group. It is not provided by the plan itself, and make sure that we bring in the resources and that the health plan provides the connection to the members. And so that they are able to access the dental care, because not a lot of providers want to do them in medical and the paperwork is just crazy. And one other thing, is that brings in the family and usually complain that going to the hospital or to the appointment is very difficult and they get like, and they are late for like ten minutes and then their appointments cancelled. But sometimes they are waiting for an hour. It is like they can wait for an hour but when they are late, their appointments cancelled and it is another three months before you can get an appointment and so we are bringing it up to the governing board and to our Quality Improvement people. My cochairs, in that committee. And so we want to make sure that these are addressed. And then, also we for instance, with regard to the formula, like sometimes a doctor prescribes a medicine and it is not in the formula, and so the access to the prescription will be instant, and sometimes members of the health plan were just like get frustrated and so we bring this up to the governing board. And sometimes, also the staff, because to coc comes to our Advisory Committee and here hears from the members directly, and so we facilitate that. And i have been on the cochair of the committee for so many years and i believe that my being there with the three different cochairs to provide the community. And it is an elected position by the member of the Advisory Committee and so i am honored to serve, and it is a volunteer position and i am honored to serve. Thank you so much for your service, supervisor cohen . Thank you, i just want to make a minute, to compliment you and i think that you have been an Outstanding Community leader and incredible coming from the community, and the Pacific Islander community and at times you are under represented in the last six years that i have been on the board you have been around and active. Whether in the volunteer capacity. Or in an appointed position and so i am happy to support you again today. Thank you. Thank you. Well, thank you so much for your presentation, and now we are going to go to the Public Comment to item four. Thank you, supervisors, my name is sumi from the San Francisco health plan and i just want to briefly say, that the San Francisco Health Authority is absolutely supportive of the reappointment of eddie and maria you have been outstanding Board Members and it was interesting to hear the pedestrians safety, advisory commission, issues because we have not had that problem, it is a volunteer board, and it is 19 members. But eddie and maria are among the most faithful members who really take the time, and the volunteers from a lot of time. To really help us in our duty and in our responsibility and in our passion, to take care of the low and moderate income people to make sure that they have access and, be sure that we hear the providers that take care of them and as wells the members that we serve and that will be like maria and they have done a fantastic job and we hope that you will support their reappointment. Thank you so much. Thank you. Any other members who wish to comment . Seeing none, comment is closed. I would love to make a motion to reappoint eddie for seat six with a residency waiver. Also to appoint, maria to seat ten. And we will do that without objection, congratulations. Item five . Hearing to consider appointing four members for a twoyear term to the Workforce Community Advisory Committee. There are four seats and three applicants as one has withdrawn. As the clerk stated Dalila Ahumada has withdrawn their application and so we have Elizabeth Simpson and debra mann and villy wang and if they could come up that would be wonderful. Good morning, supervisors. I am with the San Francisco conservation core. And i am a new executive director of the previous executive director has been there 25 years, and i have been the executive director since last april. I am not a resident, but i have worked both in the private sector, whereas with Morgan Stanley and i have been doing the Business Development here in San Francisco for about 15 years, and switch to the academic side and i worked at stanford and the university of San Francisco. And while serving in the university of San Francisco i was on the committee, that created the streets. And under the previous under i am trying to think of the mayor. And until we took that from a very idea to the full issue and now we have the sunday streets, as well, the San Francisco conservation core is the Workforce Development for the population, 1826 and we also run a Charter School for those who have dropped out of the Unified School District and then we do the career placement and then we have the employer relations and an academic component where we worked with the cools and do Workforce Development and so my full resume, there, and i also full disclosu disclosure, my daughter is qunichlt ncy man and volunteerd for supervisor cohen and wanted me to share with both of you at Lehi University and plays basketball and she was featured on the schedule. So any way, just so you know, loved her public experience and actually is studying Political Science and loved the grassroots building that she did this summer. I also want to speak on behalf of liz simpson. I am a new director here in San Francisco and liz has been a mentor. And so liz serves as the executive director at the success center, since 2010, she has gone from 450,000 budget to 2. 1 million. She is a resident of San Francisco. And educated at San Francisco state. And she began her Work Employment with the private investment, or the private Industry Council which was the predecessor of oewd and she is an expert in Workforce Development over the last 32 years and she was part of the grant that has secured 25 million for Youth Employment in San Francisco and she also worked with the San Francisco juvenile Probation Department for 16 years, creating job training, and programs at Log Cabin Ranch we also were at the ranch when we are doing the Workforce Development with the ten to 12 youth that they send there and we work with the Probation Department. And after retiring from the juvenile Probation Department, liz took on the appointment at success center. And in her first year, she worked with the ymca, and Program Development and it is just been honored recently, for her community service. So thank you for the opportunity to speak and we look forward to serving. Thank you so much. All right, and. Hi, good morning, supervisors tang and cohen, i am a workforce analyst with the office, and i am here because i will be staffing the Workforce Community, Advisory Committee. And we are very excited to get this committee off of the ground. And it has taken a little bit of time. But we believe that the candidates that we have in place represent you know, a wealth of expertise and knowledge in the area of Workforce Development in the city of San Francisco. So, we could not be happier, with the folks that we have proposed to be around the table to begin meeting hopefully in early november. And just to speak on behalf of billy wong. As a grantee of ours and the Community Based organization and on the sunset district, it is one of our highest performing grantees and i know that he has been there for many year and we rely on them for their expertise particularly in training and placement in the communications and information economtechnolog sectors which are growing and continue to grow in the city of San Francisco and so she brings a wealth of knowledge in that space, and so. I am sorry you said big hat sunset district. Isnt that correct . No that is not correct. That is in dog patch. She lives in the sunset. I am sorry. That is a nonprofit of phenomenal work that is happening on the south east. That is okay, that is what i am up for. But any way. High, performing grantee as our success center, and San Francisco conservation core, and so we are very excited about these three nominees. And hopefully you are as well. Great. Thank you very much. I am sorry that miss wang could not be here, but we are very familiar with the work and you know, really happy to see that she has applied. And so at this point, then, again, we have three applicant and four seats. We will go to Public Comment, unless there is any other questions for applicants . Okay. And i dont see any other members of the public here. So we will close Public Comment. And if we can get motion or several motions on this. Sure, what i would like to do first of all, i have had the opportunity to work with liz and villy for years and worked with mrs. Mann through the work of her daughter and as well as her taking the core, and these are phenomenal suggestions and we are in store for a really stal lar workforce committee, i would like to make a motion to appoint Elizabeth Jackson for seat two, mann for three, and wang to seat four. And for mann we would need a residency waiver as well. We will do that without objection, congratulations. All right, and so now, mr. Clerk, are there any other items before us. There are no more items madam chair. All right, this meeting is adjourned thank you. The office of controllers Whistle Blower Program is how City Employees and recipient sound the alarm an fraud address wait in City Government charitable complaints results in investigation that improves the efficiency of City Government that. 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Org and information on reporting retaliation that when fraud is loudly to continue it jeopardizes the level of service that City Government can provide in you hear or see any dishelicopter behavior boy an employee please report it to say Whistle Blower Program more information and the whistle blower protections please seek www. Gavel ] i call this meeting of transbay joint powers board of directors regular meeting to order for october 13, 2016. Thanks the sf govtv for being there. Would you call the roll, please. Madam secretary . Sure. Director jeff ago, jane kim, edward reiskin, Bijan Sartipi, present. You have a quorum. The first item on the agenda. Item 3. Communications. Im not aware of any. Okay. The meeting before last, ed said we should have had a presentation from last time. Yes, we should have. I didnt remember that was a closed session. I said that closed session items didnt have to be sent but i was in correct in telling staff that is improper. If the we want those ahead of closed session, then so be it. Get back to me with your opinions. I guess anything that we are going to be considering in open and closed session is especially to consider without being presented with the materials. All right. We will change that protocol. Thats my communication. Next item, please. Item 4 is board of directors new and old business. Item 5. Directors report. Good morning, board of directors. We brought a request for funds and i presented to the board june 9th including advancement of preliminary engineering for updating and Construction Cost estimates. This work is necessary for program cost estimates for valuable funding plan that would avoid difficulties we had in phase one. Unfortunately the scta board did not request the approval at this time. Some question the impact and fee issues and as well as the oversight protocol that we assigned. Im working closely with the sfta director to address the supervisors concern with the information we have. We also continue to reach out to the commissioners directly. We reached out to many of the commissioners at this point with staff. We will continue this effort. The questions during the meeting especially as it pertains to the access of the cost estimate cannot be answered until we finish the next steps. We hope that through my close collaboration with experts from sfcta we can gain approval to move forward with advancing to the Transit Center. My main concern is the escalation cost is about 200 million a year on a 4 billion budget. That translate to 200 million a month. The sooner we can move with that work, the sooner we can deliver phase 2 in the cost that we would incur. We hope to be receiving our funds disbursement for tifia and will provide what mtc has provided for phase one which will be happening later this month. I would like to thank the Mayors Office and Controllers Office and office of finance who helped with this. We hope to receive these funds soon. On september 29th and along with our Management Program control team, sorry, the Union Station. The Union Station program is similar to the Transit Center program but its on a smaller scale. It has an active retails component with the project for development that the rtd sold to the developers to build around the area. The station has a service component. The real platforms are exterior and below grade. They have a master plan for the historic station and the renovated hotel and will plan to use the hotel for Food Services and they have been there for 2 years and exceeded their business. They have a lot of passengers and people came in to conduct their business and eat. Its a good model for us and well be using this as a benchmark Going Forward in discussions and negotiations. The tdp has been invited to join other transit leaders to participate in the cal trans rail and Strategic Plan Advisory Committee. The first of six advisory meetings will take place october 19th, next week. We are glad that we have been invited. I will look forward to actively participate in this meeting to provide information and also receive information on how transit is being developed and advanced. Next week, i will be attending the California Transportation Commission meeting along with my colleagues and the golden gate Transit District to further advocate for the low cost leaves for the bus tour facilities from cal trans. This particular item was on august meeting for information organization. Next wednesdays meeting for an action item and they will provide the information for discounts. They are provide discounts for market value. We are asking for more discount than that, a 30 discount according to ac transit will provide a break even point. We hope to have something that will work for all us. I while at the meeting, i did extend the invitation for the transit members. I will be having a tour of the Transit Center. I will keep the board informed of that. Next the pla Quarterly Reports. Good morning, members. Im here with our labor project agreement Quarterly Report and end it with our apprentice reporting trend. For our administration we held our 19th administrative meeting which is a 5year milestone running the pla and doing very well. Our labor, weve had no issues. No work stoppages. Off Skilled Labor is meeting our peak very soon. We had two variables in the last quarter, back pain and shoulder issue, but no loss time. Regarding our interns, it was a great summer. We had a great send off and look forward to next summer to bring those interns back. Regarding veterans, we have a veterans event that was just held and also a various hiring fairs specifically with hiring our heroes and especially november 7th, hiring event at the warriors game. Anyone going to the oracle arena you will see our hiring people there and union continues to spread the word about direct entry. Regarding the plumbers, pipe fiters and carpenters, they talked about apprentices. This is the Biggest Program they have ever had. The Building Construction trades, michael continues to work for the articulation agreement with the school district. There are some agreements they are working through there and they will get through that agreement soon and Apprenticeship Program Social Security goal. Our labor statistics 2. 5 million in craft dollars in the bay area and regarding tracking our labors and operators, we are holding a 19 apprentice ratio. We are above our gold at this point. Our goal which you can see is the green line and the red line is tracking all apprentices. We are doing well now at this time. That completes my project Labor Agreement presentation. This concludes my report. I have one comment on it and that is that the Board Members really, i would urge you to watch that meeting at sfcta because a lot of things were said there about the tjpa and to get a good feel. Three supervisors specifically mentioned the realignment study. So that was something that seemed very concrete as far as getting something down and there were other things that were as much a reality, but that was one thing we had to come to terms with. May for director gee and myself, if you can extend the information for the meeting and the rest of us know how to get in there. Its a good link. Its a good thing to watch, about 40 minutes long. Thats all. A question, is San Francisco county sales tax the only available Funding Source to help advance phase 2 . There is other potential Funding Source, the impact fees from the city as well. Scott can speak to that. Hes been working with the good morning. Transit Center Impact fees would also be a source of funding because those impact fees are comprised of an open space fee and transportation fee the park and dtx would be eligible. We are engaging to see what opportunities might be available to access those funds. Okay. If i can just mention something, aside from the funding, the way i continue to look at it and i mentioned that to the board of supervisors that a 4 billion project is not going to be able to be delivered by one agency, we need the support from everyone to be able to do the project. Okay. Next item, please. Clerk item 6. Construction update. Good morning, directors. This needs to be director Bijan Sartipi needs to leave early. Sure. Regarding our graphics, its showing the construction going on and shows a lot of the areas on the bus island area is working very well and along the tennis racquet. Lower levels are showing a lot of walls in the lower concourse getting ready so we can get to our electrical rooms and all the Electrical Equipment to show up. On the bus ramp most of the work is on the cable bridge at the lower right and the middle section in the doughnut area and the buses actively working. We have the bus activity with many of the pictures, this is a fairly recent picture of the bus ramp and the corridor that moves up to the west approach is progressing well. We have more than this picture was a couple weeks ago and here is a good picture of this is a drop in span. This section is between the cable stay and the Transit Center. A 15 section mounted is progressing very well. A piece that will show up here in a few weeks. In a western zone, a lot of work at 201, far at the west end. You can see that picture hanging looks like a drainpipe. You can also see a lot of the concrete is poured for the island and the bus island itself and they are being readied for delivery of equipment. They are showing up this month. Thats a big milestone. In the orange, all the waterproof going up on the roof and the glass on the roof has glass on it now. Quite a few sections on there and its coming along very long. On the right, they are ready for some transformers to show up really soon and a lot of off site utility work is happening. If anyone has toured recently, we have the curves in place. And the roof is getting painted and finalized and getting worked on around the right column. The right column is starting to get the skylight. The framing for that is put in place and the awe ning is being put in place and the glass itself is being installed with most of the glass being done here for about a month for the grand hall. The bus ramp, underground utilities, the sea walls are progressing and the bus turn around elements around clementina where the work is right now. The fifth one was just within the last couple of days and they are working on 6 of the 7 cables. If you are driving down Howard Street you can see that now. Same with for upcoming work in the central and eastern zones complete, get the Water Proofing, continue the glass floor. Water proofing, its all about Water Proofing and concrete on many levels now. Eastern zone that is glass floor also going in. Grand hall glass completion and in all the switch gear and transformers are happening as well. In the western zone, same with the switch and transformers at the proper levels and the bus branch and bridge should be complete with its cables by the time of our next Board Meeting and should be in the process of armoring and capping the cables so it will start looking complete. The clementina turn around will continue to be poured. Regarding safety and labor, there was no loss time or reportable month. We are in the millionth hour through september. The budget, the estimated completion the 2. 147 billion has gained our award from last month. Based on the 2702 award is down another million 1 2 based on the award recommendation. Its trending in the right direction. In regard to contingency cost, this is our spreadsheet that shows the Contingency Program reserve which reflects the same number that the remaining balance has increased by 8 million and gone up to 149 million to 206. 9 million at this time. At the bottom it shows whats coming up. There are some change orders anticipated and but its progressing as we are projecting at this point with the spending. Our schedule this is the big one. Weve been talking about this in anticipation. This schedule is in december 22, 2017, is our substantial completion date. Appreciation to steve humphries, they have been working very hard on this. We are as of today on schedule for a substantial completion of september 22nd. Thats a tremendous milestone that the team has been working very hard for a while on now. In less than 15 months, thats a great place to be. The last 15 months werent easy, but we are focusing and swarming on any issues very quickly. The bus ramp is holding for approximately a march substantial completion as well too. So that will be around the bus ramp will look pretty much complete. The bus Storage Facility as mark referenced, we are holding those states for right now. The one item, i do note at the bottom of this, the park itself, the building itself is on schedule. We are still working on pulling the park itself to be completely done by september 22nd. The focus was getting the building, now the next focus will be to get the park. There is commitment to get that as well too. There is going to be a heavy apropos, once we get all the heavy machinery on that. Recovery schedule has been submitted and now well continue to monitor it and keep track of issues. Regarding buy america, that is an item we have been tracking for a long time. Its almost retired. We had some very strong issues with Fire Management control that are behind us at this point. Now at this point we are in a monitoring mode as submittals come in, we have been addressing individually. The very large issues and big concerns are behind us. Transit agency bus configuration ratio, there was a meetings with the director and they talked about many things and mainly how mike took back to his team about basically implementing any type of changes after the Transit Center is opened looking at the options of that and leaving us in an as built configuration on day one. And development for optimization but absolutely committing to an effort thats needed in 2017 to engage the transition planning to get ready for day one. Then the last thing which ties in all the operational readiness master getting on board as soon as possible. Hopefully by january if possible. The more time they have to get on board and handoff construction will be very helpful and getting the transit operators themselves. That is going to be a strong push. We are having biweekly meetings. We are meeting with all the transit agents. We are bringing the team on this theme that we are going to be ready december 2017. We have to get everyone on board with that too. With that, that completes my construction update. Thank you. I just want to say thats amazing that 14 months away from when we are supposed to be complete to have a 4month positive swing on this schedule. Its outstanding work by the director and the whole team on all sides. Thats great news and great work. I really have to give credit to steve humphries. Steve is here. Hes really rallied his team. Hes been at it since january and able to come through. Every work item we do is critical path. There is no room for error. We have no time. Thats how the team is whether its minor or major to make this happen. They are all priority. Thats our mantra. One thing i would be interested in the future agenda item, the time that is ready for completion and ready for operation because thats the sort of thing i want to make sure that ac transit understand when its expected and ready for operation and whats involved in doing that because i hear some of the people think its going to take several months to get the building ready for operation once its up for completion and im not sure that is true. We intend to occupy the building december 2017. We need ac transit. I talked to mike and hes going to help us out to come in the middle of 2017 and give access to the building so they can start training and do what they need to do. We need to work with them to see when that can happen. Its going to be a work in progress, but we need extra transit and the rest of the operators to do is to come to the job site and figure out what they need for themselves. Substantial completion and standard operation day is set. Thats what im going back to them on that there is no differential there. That they in fact expect to be rolling buses in with passengers on new years day. Thats what im told. They have been driving buses for a long time. Its not going to be hard. [ laughter ] okay. I just had a disconnect from one side of my ear to another and i want to get them straight what we think. Okay. Good. Thank you. Clerk next item . Yes. Your next item is citizens Advisory Committee update. Good morning, chair harper, directors and executive director. My name is bruce sag, the chair of the epiand Advisory Committee. I want to share a few items, many of them you have heard and we too heard about the substantial completion being ready on december 22nd for the substantial completion of the center and we were just ecstatic. We wanted to express our appreciation and thanks and congratulations to the project team and all of the folks on the project team really pulling this together and bringing that date forward. And with the project having over time with all the tremendous cost pressures that we have experienced over the duration of the project but delivering the whole scope of the project in phase one in delivering the scope on schedule is a major accomplishment. We shared our congratulations to the whole project team and everyone involved. With that said, chair harper what you just said is something we want to get on clarity on also. The substantial completion and readiness for transit operations we know its not the same definition as has been shared with us. But we are very interested in seeing a road map and timeline in plan which really clearly articulates what the training requirements are, we heard about a driver sign on and improvements. What does that specifically look like and what are the plans, the implementation plans, the road maps and key points and any mitigated activities to bring back the completion date or bus operation is the same or very close to the same. Also you heard dennis talk about the rooftop part. We are very also pleased to hear that the project team will be looking at mitigation measures to bring that date from midmarch and bringing it back as close to december 22nd as possible. We realize the priorities is to get that building open and getting transit operations going, but we are all on the same page to get things going on how the park is and the amenity perspectives. We are looking forward to seeing future updates to bringing the park schedule back. But two additional items i wanted to share, one was already mentioned one was regarding the retail. We understand the whole timing of the rfp and the award of the retail to the master lessee in the hopefully early First Quarter of 2017, we know there is going to be a lot of work. With the Transit Center opening in december of 2017, what kind of innovative and creative approaches, the master lessee could use to get some programming in place so that it is a true opening and not just the buildings open and do we have some transit rolling through but no amenities for the visitors and passengers. We look for the to seeing a presentation of what that looks like once the contract is awarded. One other critical and crucial issue that i would like to share, we talked about this as a cac and talked to the board about how to address the homeless issue when the Transit Center opens. The Transit Center will be a beautiful and magnificent building and that will address the challenges of the homeless in the city which can become a magnet as was the previous transbay tunnel and as we see on our market subway stations. We had this discussion and look forward to a followup discussion. We look forward to the plan of not only ensuring the safety and security of the passengers but to ensure a plan is in place to assist our vulnerable homeless population. We look forward to partner with jeff kazinsky and Supportive Housing in the development of this plan. His team has been working on innovative approaches and we dont think we can start this discussion too early. This is an issue and we plan to the proactive and not reactive. Last, i would like to mention with the production of the phase project on momentum from phase 1 to phase 2. You talked about looking at the program and rules, i dont know what it was from sfcta. I too need to look at that. I thought it was a very robust discussion there providing a lot of insight. We at cac have been looking at projects and about the alignment and incorporating assets from the bid study and the road map and timelines of the study resulting in a recommendation of a preferred alignment. What we believe could be most helpful in the shortterm is to see a presentation where the two road maps are integrated and optimizing a road of activities for some cost for minimizing escalation, milestones and points. Thats what you articulated and we would like to encourage that we would like to see this as the cac on how it comes together. It seems to somewhat align, but a nice integrated road map would be helpful. That concludes my advisory report. Any questions . I have two comments and one which you reminded me of was last weekend i was at an event in rodeo that transit hold for bus drivers and mechanics. There the Pacific Bus Museum had about 6 or 7 buses, the muni buses, the greyhound bus. They really want to be there for the grand opening. They have the very first ac transit bus to roll across the bridge into the old terminal. An old bus. But they have it. It would be fun to have a muni bus as well. It would be nice to have that history. I think there is a link we have it for you. You think we have enough base . The other thing, i agree on the homeless thing. The only thing we have seen is our idea of how much security is necessary to handle it. But no protocols and nothing in terms of what does that mean . How do we handle it. Who do we coordinate with. You are right, its not too late to think about it. Work with the people of San Francisco and see what it is to do and work with them. Yes, we have a very robust discussion that this shouldnt be just around policing and security. Its got to be a comprehensive approach so there is security and safety for all and what is that protocol and how is it handled. We want it to be on a roll. Its a good issue. I think it might be good to invite the director of the Homeless Department to see if the city has an aggressive plan, its not just the Transit Center. There is a plan for different types of housing to begin to move people. I think inviting them to share their plans and what they are doing about this future is going to look like in addressing the problem. Absolutely. I would concur with that. I think the cac is flagging the issue and i think recommending staff level and conversations would be helpful and im sure either one of us would be happy to facilitate that there. On a previous point, Market Street railway likewise i would love to be a part of that thinking. We do ourselves own some old muni buses. When the bay bridge was going up to Howard Street adjacent to where the item terminal is. It would be fun to see what that will look like. And to your report about the parallel Planning Efforts we have for phase 2 are going to come together. I think thats a great suggestion. I would offer my support for it. Great. Thank you. Okay. Thank you. Clerk next item is Public Comment. Opportunity for members of the public to address matters that are not on the calendar. We have wille lebron. Looks like the only member of the public today. Public speaker good morning, directors, it turns out im here for an item that was on the agenda, the directors report and the comments that bruce made right now. Im going to get straight to the point. There are two problems here so first of all, i was under the impression that supervisor kim had made it very clear that nobody wants 4 blocks of coverage on this street. It seems the message is not getting across. So my recommendation to the board at this point is to direct staff to terminate the dtx design contract with jacobs immediately period, end of discussion. This has been going on for long enough. The second issue, the fund for the design of a connector. As i recall, chair harper, that you told staff that nobody wanted this. In closing, i understand that later on in the closed session you will be considering the appointment of an executive director. I would strongly recommend that you make it very clear to whoever you appoint have better start paying attention to the direction of some of these boards or suffer the consequences. Thank you very much. Clerk that concludes members of the public. We can go ahead and move into your regular calendar. Item 9, approving an amendment to contract no. 8084 cmgc 000 authoring webcor joint venture to award wpcs shall reading code . Dennis has a quick presentation before i move approval. I wanted to brag about the 1. 5 million we are saving. You bragged about that enough in the report. Congratulations. The saving is good. The one question i had. Does this include the whole security room downstairs on the mezzanine above the same deck . Its all the Media Players and all the wall mounting displays. All the headquarters and the cameras . Yes. That includes that as well . Yes, the main one is the grand hall. Yeah, i talked about all the public stuff, i didnt know if that also included the fees into our security forces. Yes it does. Its sass oon city where you made a reference last time. We have a motion and second. We have a first and second and no members of the public to address you on that item. Director jeff gee, [roll call vote taken] next item. No. 10. Approving minutes september 8, 2016. Request for approval. Motion and second. Without objection, moves unanimously. Great, thank you, the minutes are approved. Clerk item 11, amending the tjpa rules of order to change the regular meeting time for tjpa Board Meetings from 9 30 a. M. To 9 45 a. M. November 10, 2016, still on the second thursday of each month in city hall. This is what we are talking about for a while. You will have to start without me. For all the right reasons, too. Okay, any objections . Im voting no, im sorry. Roll call. I just wont be here, you will have to start without me. I have commitments at 8 00 a. M. All right. I will move. Is there a second for the motion . She wont be here. I guess thats maybe a little concerning. Im happy with starting at 8 45. But if we are scheduling it at a time when we know when one of us will never be able to be had been. Its not just for the one date . 9 30 a. M. Was your earliest i can make it today. I thought it was the next meeting. No, my legislative staff too. That time would not work for me. All right. Maybe we should continue the item for a while. Its always the other end that people are having issues. So, like today and so often that i wanted to kind of get it in. We have to get everybody here for the beginning. For making our meetings faster, i think we cover a lot of ground, but i think we can work on cutting down our Presentation Time and getting out of here in a reasonable hour. The former on and on construction and staff figured that out. We all know what it looks like. Lets table that. Is that okay with everybody . All right. Unanimous concurrence by the board. Well move to item 12. A presentation by the San Francisco Planning Department and San Francisco public works of the Transit Center district Implementation Center of the public realm improvement. Directors, this presentation will be done by paul chapman and shannon. Shannon is going to start. The reason is the director this year wanted to know how the planning effort in the whole district is done so there is no gaps in improvement are left after everybody has done their work. Shannon and paul have been great to work with. They were supposed to do this presentation in june and stopped in july. They have been waiting. Good morning, directors, my name is shannon, im from public works and with paul from planning. I want to thank you for this opportunity on presenting our work from the public realm on the Transit District. We also presented to the cac and received feedback from them and with that input we have revised some of the slides which is why the presentation that you received this morning is different from the presentation emailed earlier. I apologize for the late nature of that change. The cac has also requested that paul and i come back in the coming months to present to them so we will be doing that. This morning, paul will present on the Transit Center district plan and related elements from the redevelopment plan and then i will update you on the implementation of the plan and how we are coordinating among city departments to ensure that the public realm is ready to support the Transit Center when it opens in december 2017. Here is paul. Public speaker if we can have the monitor. Im paul, from the Planning Department. Thanks to the directors for having us today and thanks to the tjpa staff for working with us. I will talk to you about the the implementation efforts we are doing in the Transit Center district. The primary goals we have in this neighborhood are to capitalize on the investment of the Transit Center like this speaker 2 you jewel that we are creating in the center with high quality high density urban landscape extension of downtown. The broader issue is to maintain access to all the grounds. There is numerous Building Construction things in the rightofway. We want to have quality design and to make sure grades are aligning and technical issues are panning out as they are supposed to. Just to back up a little bit, to give everyone some context, here is the image of the old Transit Center, a pretty dated facility. This is what the neighborhood looks like around before the Transit Center was built. You can see there was not a lot there. So we have this interesting situation where this is kind of what we anticipate in a few years where some of these buildings are constructions and some of them are being designed. We have this situation where we have done all this planning for the population that wasnt around to participate in all the planning work. Here is an outline of all the plans that have gone through kind of this early 2004 when the tjpa eir was approved through 2015 and 2016 today when we are sort of working on the Planning Efforts. I just want to thank people for giving the contacts and the planning gone on in the neighborhood. We have the zone 1 on this map is the redevelopment by ocii and the reason is because its a former public parcel to benefit from housing from them. Zone 2, is a planning area that oci did looking around a plan around capitalized Transit Center. They dont own much property and it is a planning for this district. Next to that, the city went into the planning immediately to the south of the oci parcels. Because those are privately own parcels they are being entitled to the Planning Department. Its kind of this Historic Court for planning with different foot prints. After all this work was done, the city went back and looked at areas in the circle which is the whole Transit Center district plan and looking at the neighborhood in a cohesive way. Here are all the entitlements to get us to where we are today. This is the most extensive outreach and the planning process approved since 2012 and a lot of outgoing outreach for tjpa, ocii and public works. We are also going back to the neighborhood in early next year to sort of work on a public realm plan not really cracking up on the decisions made through the environmental documents but looking at things to how to Better Program the space that we have and we are going to be partnering with the Community Benefit and looking at the ground floor business facades and treatments like grid lock. To show you whats in the area. You can see the open Space Network and the planning area and city parks which will be completed 2017. And the transbay park where the bus terminal is. These linear streets here mainly fairfield is one side of the street with a sidewalk. You can see this has already been built. Here are some images of the park at the Transit Center. Transbay park and underground park. The last are being built by ocii. This is a plan of bike infrastructure in the neighborhood and the bike lanes. The pink lines are decisions that are being made and the orange lines are under study. The better Market Street project is look ing at a cycle track. We have the Street Project which is about to break ground. There is a midblock between the street through the park that will connect people to the Transbay Center and the green line and bike lanes further to the east and embarcadero bypass. So ho street is going to be bike lanes and to the west the area which is going to be approved within a year or so. This is a map that weve made in planning that will attract everything thats happened in the district. The yellow, orange, pink projects are the City Projects and the blue projects are being built by private developers. There is a lot of coordination as to how that will happen. This is the Transit Center. You can see they have on both sidewalks and a bunch of midblock crossings that they are going to build. Here is an image of the Transit Center. Then the ocii project is a lot mostly towers that are going up, residential towers and along folsom street that will be the retail heart and on folsom street and set backs and tracks on either side and built by public works and we are looking forward to breaking ground. It will be high quality streets in San Francisco. And the tower so weve got some really great world class architecture coming in. These are private sector developments. These are entitlement of Planning Department and the mission square. The ocean wide project on first and mission which is going to have a 6 story atrium and some improvement with that project. Normal foster architects and great buildings and these are buildings for public improvement too. I will go to shannon to talk about the public works building and the coordination that public works is doing. Thank you very much. Hello, again. If we can go back to the slide showing the City Projects. This slide is showing projects implemented by the city, not sjpa. Two of the projects shown here are Market Street across the top and Second Street. Paul already referenced those. For Second Street, we expect that to be in construction in mid2017, and the contractor will be prioritizing this section between Market Street and harrison. And that will include the midblock crossing right here at natoma and Second Street. Market street will go into construction after Second Street from octavia to stuart. The phasing will be determined. There are some other projects on here that are being planned and we are looking at very early Concept Design and anticipating when we can construct them. One of those is this natomas street. 2 blocks from natomas street to the back of sf momma. We have a block here on beale that actually sf mta would like us to hold off on doing that because of transit operations. We are looking at that and very carefully at traffic flow to determine what this will look like. The other projects i would talk about on another slide. We have prioritized the implementation of projects that are needed to support transit bicycle and Pedestrian Access to the Transit Center. We have expected a large number of people walking the streets of the Transit Center. So we have to support that. And also the block of mission here between first and fremont is crucial for transit operations when the Transit Center is open. So thats another area thats very complicated physically and for construction that we are prioritizing before the Transit Center opens. This is just some images of Second Street and better Market Street of what we anticipate that to look like when the projects are complete. This slide shows new pedestrian crossings planned for the district. You can see there are nine numbers crossing there and will be there before the transit opened, the signalized and under signalized. No. Is 1 that will be implemented by public works and crossing of Mission Street at shaw alley. That is before the Transit Center opens. No. 2 is tjpa, an unsignalized pedestrian crossing, 3, a signalized crossing at first street. No. 4 on natoma and montgomery, that is going with nat oma project that i referenced that we are looking at. We dont expect that one to be implemented prior to the Transit Center opening. No. 5 at natoma and Second Street that are part of the second Street Project. 6, 7, 8 by jtpa for first fremont and beale approximately at natoma. And then no. 9, that is with the under ramp park. Paul showed in his presentation the under ramp park as the Transit Center opens that will be a crossing going with that project. So, layering on here are sidewalk improvements that are in place before the Transit Center opens. While we are on crossings, mr. Lebron mentioned about the people mover and bart and one of the things as well as trying to get the profile of the person that wants to do it from the transbay terminal is what would be the time difference between coming out of the terminal and getting to either bart station with the people mover as opposed to having a couple of scramble intersections between howard or mission, second, and be able to get people across on the surface . So when i look at that, i think it would be good to consider because its not just the Transit Center, but these towers. You are really going to have to think about people walking from the two bart stations, a lot more people walking down. The Transit Center is close compared to others that you outlined here. The southern edge of the project area. I think there will be just lots and lots of pedestrians for all kinds of reasons. And you really do need to think of it in terms of a through play in a couple of key intersections. Thats what i would like to be able to compare this idea from the Transit Center to the bart station, a people mover, an underground people mover would be a good idea. I dont know if it would save much time in the intersections is assisting the pedestrians. I can look at an analysis and getting direction on an analysis. The other thing, you know that Second Street is where the tunnel is going to go down. So at some point, a lot of construction is going to be along there. So, its a question of when is that happening versus when your improvements are going to be happening. You wouldnt want to put in a bunch of improvements and then have a tunnelling effect. Its not cut and covered i dont think. I think the current stx proposal is cut and cover. So you have some real assurance then. But the improvements to Second Street are critically needed Safety Improvement for the city given the certainty of those that were already delayed and the uncertainty of dtx and whether the cut and cover approach is the right one. We are absolutely going to move forward with redoing Second Street. Should there be impact when its built, well deal with it. I know its going to include money and that area will have to be coordinated later when we do the dtx. Okay. Okay. Going back to this slide that is layering on the sidewalk improvements over the new pedestrian crossings. The yellow line by the sjpa, across minna street and along the Transit Center itself, and we have complete area for natoma along the frontage and the western about half of the frontage is adjacent to a pedestrian plaza and the eastern half, the existing sidewalk will remain and sjpa will remain the sidewalk and surface. Then, there are Three Bridges existing. We have the first street bridge, fremont and beale. These will be coming out and what they come out. Sjpa will construct the sidewalk and roadway. So that will be done there. The northern sidewalk here between first and fremont on natoma. The red line are projects to be done by public works. So one over here is the extension of natoma plaza. The pedestrian plaza here. It will go from the Transit Center itself west to Second Street. That is actually funded by sjpa and that will be done as second Street Project as part of that along with the signalized crossing here. Then we have this block of first street, the west side of first street between mission and minna. That sidewalk will be widened to 17 feet and that corresponds to what the sidewalk that sjpa will be doing here to take out the bridge and what will happen to the north to the sideline that paul referenced. This is the crucial block of mission between first and fremont the transit operations. Its a complicated block and a lot is happening there in terms of new construction but loose is already there in terms of utility. Its just a really busy area. The city will be widening the north side of the sidewalk. Thats going to be a really busy bus stop on the north side of the sidewalk. That cant happen until the rail line t blue lines and other developers. The southern sidewalk on mission between first and fremont is to be done by sales force. That is the pad and then the city will come and build the bus island that is needed for transit operations when the Transit Center opens. The city will do the bus island and another bus pad. Once those are complete, then the widening of the north sidewalk can occur. We are working very hard to coordinate all of this and to have this open and complete before the Transit Center opens in december 2017. And then the last one here i havent talked about is park tower at 250 howard. The sidewalk on the east side of beale from howard north to meet the sidewalk where they remove the bridge. There is a lot of coordination that needs to happen to get all of this done. We are doing that. One of the primary methods of coordinating right now is we have a biweekly meeting from staff of five city agencies. Public works is hosting that meeting. Representatives from permitting are there and the lead engineer for design is at that meeting. Sf mta is attending that meeting and providing Traffic Engineering for bicyclist and routing. As the planning is there providing the vision for the Center District plan. Sjpa is there, and ocii also attends that meeting to help coordinate projects on their blocks. In addition to that coordination, we are coordinating on specific locations within other english engineers and public works and on all these blocks where work is taking place. We are doing all of this coordination to make sure the public realm is ready to support the Transit Center when it opens in december of 2017. This concludes our presentation. Paul and i are happy to answer any other questions. Thank you for the presentation. I have one of the great concern of december 17th and what coordination was happening because there is quite an amount of construction going on and this is the opportunity to weigh in and take the final adjustments. There are so many different agencies and projects. Thank you. Thank you for this presentation. A couple takeaways because im not intimately aware of all the projects in the city, is that this area of San Francisco will continue to be in Construction Zone until about 2023 the best i can tell until the next wave comes after that. I think managing everyone and coordinating the project is critical and no. 2, managing everyones expectation. Just because we hit this date on the transbay project, doesnt mean its done. This will still continue to be a construction area, but a different one rather than 4 blocks in linear. It going to be maybe 20 blocks going vertical. I think thats just as important to manage everybodys expectations that its not going to be done, construction wont be done come january 2018. That for construction on the project schedules in terms of the building, bus ramp, bus Storage Facility, to take a high level approach to where some of these projects are going to land in terms of their duration so we can see whether they are City Development projects or private to determine where its going to be so we can manage publics expectations. Great suggestion. Thank you. You have one member of the public that wanted to address you on this item. Public speaker very briefly. This is a great presentation. What i would like to say is what we did in london is we actually moved the public realm one floor up. And then at the bottom of the ground is where weve got the cars, the uber, the lyft and a lot of transportation buses and everyone else. Within Everything Else is just the public. I have seen people working right to the buildings. Clerk that concludes the members of the public that want to address you on that item. We are going into closed session at this time. I dont have any public members interested in addressing you on this item. So if not, we will please sta all right the tjpa board of directors meeting of october 13, 2016. Now back in open session. Reporting on closed session. As to proper negotiators, payment for master lease, there is no action to report. As to item 16, conference with Legal Counsel existing litigation under government code 549569 in the name of lehman, there is no item to report. Regarding 17, conference with Legal Counsel anticipated litigation. There is no action to report a. And item no. 18. Public employee appointment pursuant to government code 54958. According to the executive director. There is no action to report. We are adjourned. Thank you. [ meeting is adjourned ] good afternoon recruits im going to be very short, because i am [laughter ] okay, i should start off with a joke you have to laugh. Anyway, first off, its my pleasure to be with the chief and with our department of Public Health director to welcome you into the finest Police Department in the country and i know that because that is what you have chosen to do and im very gratified i could be here in front of you as you ago through this invaluable academy and training. Really two points i want to raise. One is to thank you for making that choice. You can join any other department in the whole bay area, but you have chosen our city and im grateful for that. Second is that today i especially appear before you to make sure that you understand what we are trying to do as an entire city with our Police Department. Were undergoing one of the biggest Reform Efforts in the history of this department, and our chief is leading that, and one of the reasons today is that you will undoubtedly be involved in many of our confrontations that other Police Officers do probably on a daily basis. And the trend has been that there are more people that are victims of alcohol and drug abuse, and will exhibit in many occasions a danger to themselves or others and you will definitely be called upon to intervene in those situations. One of the principles of our Police Reform that is going on today, one that i greatly value is the principle of the sanctity of life. You probably already have been receiving training on that. But you also will be trained in the practice called receiving time and distance. That is when you are called upon, i think well ask you to do your best to create that time and distance for the purpose of preserving life. In that, i want you to know that the rest of the city is not simply asking you to carry the entire burden of that. ; that were going to be partners with you the best that we can and one of those strong partnerships that i am and this administration is funding with the full cooperation of the police commission, your chief , all the management staff is to say that when you are asked to intervene and if you can create that time and distance with everybodys safety in mind, well then have Mental Health and Public Health experts to be at your side. So that they can do the specialty crisis intervention that you create the time and distance in order to have. We have got to work as a team. If were going save more lives out there, we have to make sure that we have the ability to get some professionals to work alongside with you, so we can intervene in the sometimes very tragic circumstances and if we can get the Mental Health expertise with the people standing behind me, the crisis intervention specialists, they are referred to as our entire team train by our Public Health department to work in these crisis situations, were going save more lives and ultimate ly that is what you seek to do in your profession and we want everybodys lives to be here. You will get crisis intervention training. You will be introduced to the sanctity of life principle, but in the realstreet situations that we have, its your ability to implement that in an effective way with the chief and all of the managers crisis and all of the trainers that are here. That we want to do it with your safety in mind and with the immediate peoples safety in mind so we can gain that valuable, sometimes minutes to be able to introduce a professional. So that we can go on and perhaps save a persons life even more times than we have in the past. Quite frankly, it has worked in no less than probably five situations in the past several months. And i was with the chief on one of those occasions, almost three to four hours in those negotiations and we saved everybodys life and everybody walked away. We need more of those opportunities, because there is drugs, there is drug abuse, there is a tremendous amount of Mental Illness and you cant do it all. We dont want to tell you to do it all, but you have an invaluable part of that process. So those are two messages. Again, thank you for choosing the city and county of San Francisco to work in and well be there to create more classes as more of our officers decide they want to have an even better life and retire and at the same time, we need to get enough officers to meet the challenges of population, and the needs of every one of our neighborhoods. Thanks for being officers in the city and county of San Francisco. Chief. First of all real fast im with the mayor every wednesday and the joke you heard i have to hear those every wednesday when i meet with him [laughter ]so the sympathy should be flowing my way. The incident that the mayor was talking about wasing at market and jones and it was a support armed with a firearm and the officer showed incredible restraint and saves that mans a life. I have since met with the mother and father of the mans life that was saved and they are incredibly grateful to the San Francisco Police Department. They spent about two hours praising our efforts, and giving us kudos for making sure that resolved the way it did. That is what were trying to push forward and we all understand its not always going to work out in our favor and things that happen that are well beyond the control of anybody wearing that uniform and we need to make sure were Crystal Clear on that, but at same time, to approach every situations a lifesaving situation. The department is moving in a different direction and were trying to be at the front of this and not the back of the line. I just sat in an awards ceremony, voting process for Department Members to get silver medals and awards and most of the recipients came up in situations that they tracked about what they did and talked about using time and distancing in deescalation. One an officer was stabbed in throat on the freeway onramp and went for his firearm which he reholstered to baton because he recognized that the situation changed and the individual no longer had the knife and he had presence of mind to think about it as it unfolded. Another situation a gentleman was sharpening a knife and had residents holed because they were too afraid and they formulated the plan of creating time and distance and they subdued him and took him into custody without shooting him. Arguably a yearandahalf, two years ago the officerinvolved shooting scenarios pure and simple. That is what were trying to preach and push today and the Group Standing behind me are meant to give you additional tools in the tool belt when you have those situation and the San Francisco Police Department is proud to partner again with the department of Public Health on Mental Health services to the community and the San Francisco police have worked with department of Public Health for years including mobile crisis teams providing assistance to child Crisis Services which helps youth in crisis. This new team of clinicians standing behind me isa valuable to San Francisco Police Officers to support negotiators in the field and conduct crisis assessments and debrief persons involved and affected by incidents, and consult with victims and provide Crisis Services. They are going to also assist with our ongoing Crisis Intervention Training Program to help our officers improve their ability to recognize people with Behavioral Health problems. This program is part of an ongoing reform system that the department has undertaken over the past year and again, im talking about the San Francisco Police Department being the lead, not following, not picking things up from everybody else. We were using a model that is still effective, but there is say better model. And our people are now researching that model to bring it to San Francisco with dealing with people in crisis. That is part of us taking the lead. Were under a Collaborative Reform Initiative review by the department of justice right now that we invited in. Because again, all of these changes are meant to make us better. So i want us all to make sure we embrace it and look behind me at these white jackets with another tool for the San Francisco Police Department to use to enforce the sanctity of life on the streets and save people, because that is our primary mission to preserve life. I want to introduce director. Thank you you and thank you all of you and i saw you standing at attention to so long and you are so fortunate to be part of a city and part of a police force that are going to be at the head of many Police Forces in this country in terms of really understanding the impact of substanceabuse and Mental Health on many of the individuals that you may meet. Behind me is a team that we have been over the last decade working very closely with the police, and coming to any incidents of violence and providing assessments and support to family members. Were going to be expanding this team with three clinical psychologists and social workers to work deeper with all of you and give you training how to engage and meet the needs of many of these individuals. And also, i have been on the calls and some of these interventions that the police chief talked about, and we believe we can really give you really Important Information about the background of an individual, who you may be negotiating with. And so were very proud. Im very proud of the team that is behind you in the white coats and im very proud of the team in the blue. And together were going to be really providing you, i believe, some essential training and also support. And we believe that doing this together, we can reduce improve the health of many of the individuals who you are going to come in contact and reduce the incidents that we have at times when we have to be more forceful with individuals. So we look forward to this. Were going to be quickly hiring these individuals, and the police will be involved with this in hiring. So we have the right type of individual who will work with us closely and by the new year, well be really working closely and responding. In between now and then, this team behind me will be taking that place until our new staff is expanded. Were 24 7, and were located in the bay view, but we travel throughout the city in order to provide these services. So i want to thank you for your attention today and we look forward to working with you, and proud to see all of you today becoming new Police Officers. [ applause ] were going to conclude this and any questions that the press may have well be outside in the hallway for you. I didnt o sound familiar do you keep on getting up theres an easier way. 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Welcome to our event to mark Domestic Violence awareness month. So i want to invite the folks with the signs to come on in and walk in closer. Before i introduce our speakers tonight, i want to recognize the Domestic Violence survivors among us, they deserve our continued support and a round of applause for our survivors. [ applause ] next i want to recognize the frontline staff of our Partner Agencies and all of the folks here who work on fighting Domestic Violence every day and lets show them our appreciation [ applause ] Domestic Violence continues to be a huge problem in San Francisco last year there were almost 9,000 911 calls for help, 3,000 Domestic Violence cases reported to the Police Department, and according to official counts we lost four lives in the last two years. Were so fortunate to have a mayor who has made ending violence against women, including Domestic Violence a priority. At the begin thing of mayor lees tenure in 2011 the city was investing 3 million in a year in direct services to survivors of Domestic Violence, Sexual Assault and Human Trafficking and under mayors leadership this funding has increased to 6. 3 Million Dollars today. [applause] [applause] without further ado, please help me welcome our mayor, edwin lee a true leader in ending violence against women. Please give him a warm welcome [ applause ]. Thank you emily and everyone, welcome to city hall. As you all know, october marks Domestic Violence awareness month, and i want to say thank you to members of on or our board of supervisors, supervisors campos and weiner are here and they agree with me that funding for more doors to safety is really important for this city. And you know, i think Domestic Violence and abuse of loved ones most of the time happens behind doors. So were trying to open more doors. So it doesnt happen. And that is why we have resources to spend to make sure our prosecutors and our da and Police Department are working together to make sure that we hold individuals accountable. That is, of course, our criminal Justice System. But we also know, given the great work that our department, our status of women, our great, wonderful communitybased nonprofits that are working every day, have seen other doors close, and we have opened them up. Because we need a School System that educates our youth. Violence is not acceptable. It may be good for certain types of sports to hit a ball, but its never good to hit another person. That is what education door is opened with this funding. We need our Health Care Centers to have their doors opened so we can treat and find those that are abused and help them out of that misery and Housing Authority to make sure Public Housing residents dont feel any less than anybody to get treatment and support. We open up the workplace to make sure that we can talk about it, and that reports can be made around Domestic Violence. Our schools, our youth, are there to help us prevent and to support those who are victims. All of these systems, we are opening more doors with this resource. So i have been proud to work with the board to increase funding. Its not so much about the dollar amount, we actually all have to feel that we have completed every single door opening to make sure we prevent violence. Because every time we hear of that fatality, we look upon ourselves and say what did we not do to try to prevent that from happening . That is why were going to be even more successful. Finally, were in the process of creating a brandnew program. Again to connect survivors of Domestic Violence, who call the police. We want to connect them immediately to an advocate to make sure all of the things are done properly at the very time that person that victim is in need. And were going to do that with this additional funding. Were using data from the Family Violence Council Report to start this program, and were starting it right in the bayview, because the bayview and the Bayview District has the highest call volume of 911 calls related to Domestic Violence. So let us all keep focused. Let us make sure that not only are we making awareness, but were actually investing in the very programs that will end Domestic Violence. With that, im happy again, tonight, to announce for the fourth time with everybodys support, but especially with the support maybe its 6 million times support from our San Francisco giants tonight, city hall will be lit in purple for the support that we have for awareness of Domestic Violence. Let us all celebrate that and continue with the giants. Thank you [ applause ] thank you so much, mr. Mayor. Next please help me welcome someone who represents the heart of the community, my dear friend, woman warrior, Beverly Upton with a very special presentation to make to the mayor. [ applause ]. If you know me you heard me say before i have the best job in the world and now i have the best job in the best city in the world. Thank you so much. Were really here today with this letter signed by so many of you that are ending violence against women, violence against children, violence against transgender womens, violence against the lgbt community. We are here to say that we stand together to end Domestic Violence. We want to take a moment to thank mayor ed lee for his continuing support for raising those dollars for us, for the board of supervisors, for really making this a priority, and really raising the issue that this hurts everybody who lives in San Francisco. So we just want to take a moment to thank you for your continued support, mayor lee. Your continued support, and also, may the purple on city hall be a beacon to everyone in San Francisco and beyond for safety, justice and healing. Thank you so much. [ applause ] thank you very much. Thank you so much, beverly. That is such an important acknowledgment of the citys support. Next i want to welcome Supervisor Scott Wiener who stands with us today in the fight to end violence against women. Please welcome Supervisor Scott Wiener. [ applause ] good evening. And welcome everyone to San Francisco city hall and i especially want to welcome our students from school of the arts and the district that i represent. Welcome to city hall. [ applause ] thank you. So Domestic Violence, its one of those things that it is always present, and its often just underneath the surface. And i think a lot of times people dont talk about it, and its very silent, and its secret, and its hidden. But it is always, always there, and it is deep and broad and toxic in its impact on our community. And once in a while something happens that brings it to the surface and people finally start talking. That happened four years ago this month in this building when sadly the board of supervisors, a minority of the board of supervisors made the wrong decision in allowing our sheriff to keep serving. I will just call it out. That was one of those moments when people started to talk, and i remember in the days and weeks after that unfortunate decision, a tragic decision, i really was reminded how broad and deep this problem is. The people that would talk to me about their experience in a relationship, about their experience as a child, observing or seeing one parent abusing another parent, or the experience that they had with a college roommate, or a friend who had been abused. People who havent been abused, but it has impacted their lives and how many people in this city, in this society have been deeply, deeply affected . Yeah have been deeply affected by Domestic Violence . And so it is so important to talk about it. And not just to sweep it under the rug, or quietly take care of it. We need to be talking about this problem, because that is the only way that were going to put an end to it once and for all. So lets keep fighting thank you. [ applause ] thank you, so much, scott i want to acknowledge a few senior officials Assessorrecorder Carmen Chu is with us today [ applause ] and if you might hold your applause, we also have list liz and jackie and Police Commander greg and adult probation chief karen fletcher, if we could give them all a big round of applause. [ applause ] i also want to thank mayors deputy chief of staff Paul Henderson and our budget analyst laura bush who joined us today and chief fletcher asked me to make one quick announcement to save the date for friday october 28th, 9 00 a. M. To 2 00 p. M. The adult Probation Department is supporting veterans and survivors of Family Violence from trauma to healing from 9 00 a. M. To 2 00 p. M. And please join us there. I would like to if any introduce the deputy Health Director at department of Public Health and please help me welcome dr. Chan. [ applause ] thank you emily. I just want to spend my five minutes just giving a little bit of the data that reflects supervisor wieners and the mayors sentiments about us coming together. The mayors sentiment and also the underlying prevalence that we all know is in San Francisco and most of us know that the prevalence one in three women have been victims of intimate Partner Violence and in San Francisco we know among our most vulnerable women, those in ninemonths of pregnancy, there is a wide disparity in ethnicity, as well as socioeconomic class. So amongst those who are most stressed, those in poverty. The prevalence is 11 . That is about three times higher than those who are not in poverty. So that really speaks to the increasing gap between the haves and have nots in San Francisco and what that does to all of us. Im in Public Health and im a pediatrician and tell you this issue profoundly affects women and children. This prevalence of Domestic Violence experienced by lowincome women and women of all classes, causes an increase in coping and reactive behaviors and that is why we have this link in intimate Partner Violence causing a fourfold risk increased risk in drug use, fivefold risk in depression and of course, increased risk of suicidality and it affects babies too. Women who are experiencing intimate Partner Violence are three times more likely to have a baby born preterm or lowbirth weight. So this all attributes to life course of consequences in child abuse and neglect and drug addiction. But there is hope in the Health Community and research we now recognize and understand that your interventions are aeffective. Primary care intervence and communitybased interventions are effective and its more and more important that we come together, integrate our Community Programs and health services. So that we can better address this issue as an entire community. One great example is that our county hospital led by many of you advocates, and internal medicine physicians, dr. Lee kimberg, who has received a federal grant, the arise grant. That really builds upon the partnership of San Francisco General Hospital, ucsf, bay area legal aid, la casa, against violence and Trauma Recovery center to provide integrated screening, counseling, quality counseling, and effective referrals to all of the women who go through our county health system. So this type of integration we feel is very promising. Its a National Leader and its becoming a National Model of how we in San Francisco can integrate our Services Better to serve our most vulnerable population at their most vulnerable times. Thank you very much for all you have your service. [ applause ] thank you very much, dr. Chan and i want to acknowledge kathy, who is here representing sheriff Vicky Hennessey and our Assessorrecorder Carmen Chu would like to say a few words. Thank you, i serve as San Franciscos elected asesor and im so honored to stand with beverly and with you, emily and all of our Community Partners to bring awareness to Domestic Violence. My comments will be short. When i stand here today i see how wonderful it is to see over the 100 people here all behind us, but also in front of us. Who came out because they understand just how important this cause is, to bring awareness. And i know that here we have 100 people already who know that they can each play a role when they see Domestic Violence happening, or they are worried that Domestic Violence might be happening, that they are going to do something. That we all take a pledge to do something about it and to make sure that our loved ones arent suffering alone. Emily was just telling me there are a ton of resources that are available and listed on the department on the status of womens website and encourage everyone who cares about this issue to please take a look at it and if you know anybody of your friends or any of your family who is going through something and not ready to take about it, please be a shoulder and please share with them all the ways that we might we able to help them. I think that is the only way were going to end Domestic Violence with that, congratulations emily on your tireless leadership year in and year out [ applause ]. Thank you carmen and i want to next introduce carmen chung and gabby, High School Seniors who participate in the young asian women against Violence Project of the Community Youth center. Lets give it up for carmen and gabby. [ applause ] hi my name is gabby. Hi, my name is karlen and were from the Leadership Program called young asian against violence. We dedicate its a program dedicated to positive empowerment and development of api High School Youth young asian women in San Francisco and to strengthen resilience, pride, healing and knowledge of young asian women to advocate for the end of Domestic Violence in our community. We educate about violence against women through creating and for thiating workshops and education creates longterm effect rather than a bandaid solution and enable using to create a foundation of change. Together we stand in solidarity with the 15yearold meadows who was incarcerated for defending herself and her family from her abusivefather and today is the day of her Court Hearing and instead of being given a safe space to heal she is being isolated from her community and loved one as she faced prosecution. It angers us to see one of our own peers for being punished for defending herself. Why are systems that are supposed to protect us harming us . As youth, our experiences are often invalidated. We have few opportunities to speak up for ourselves. We are disempowered. There are limited resources and space for healing and safety. And its really rare for us to find the resources. It} n a society where youth hold less power than adults we need spaces to be heard and four survivors to be visible and validated and providing a space for young women to share their ideas and experiences and create and opportunity to heal and grow from trauma. Youth are capable, but we need a community willing to stand with us in times of need, rather than turning away. The end of the violence starts with us. We urge you to keep your ears open to the voices of youth. To keep your mind open, to learn. To keep your heart open to our experiences. We urge you to stand in solidarity to stand with survivors of violence. [ applause ] thank you carmen and gabby, we have a whole crew here from Community Youth camp center. If you want to wave, i want to invite the Sheriffs Department to talk about the positive reapered of sheriff hennessey, please welcome dahlia [ applause ]. Good afternoon everyone. Again im davila the survivor restoration director for the San Francisco Sheriffs Department and as i look out at all of you, im reminded once again how important it is for our community to come together to support survivors of Domestic Violence. I have had the honor in working in our Sheriffs Department for over 20 years, and proud to be in the position that i am as the director of our program for the survivors. I would just like to take a moment to share how the Sheriffs Department has supported innovative programs for Domestic Violence survivors over the years and continues under our new sheriff Vicki Hennessey to not only provide those same services, but also we have enhanced them. Many of you in the audience, i know, know about our resolve to stop the violence program, our rsvp program that was started in 1997. Yes, its been 20 years. And its still here, going strong. But it was the first Justice Program that specifically worked with male offenders who have violence documented in their criminal history. Particularly Domestic Violence and again, that program is still going strong today. In fact, with our Court Collaborations in 2015 rsvp participants that were in custody for Domestic Violence increased 93 , which was a substantial increase from 2014, which was only 20 . The Sheriffs Department also has our out of custody Community Programs utilizing the Violence Prevention Program man alive, which is used in both our Community Programs and in custody programs. While we do need programs to hold offenders accountable and to give opportunities for them to change their behavior, we need to equally and more so provide services for our survivors of Domestic Violence. The San Francisco Survivor Restoration Program which i have been honored to be with over 20 years, provides services for survivors through their own process of restoration, empowerment and providing opportunities for them to contribute to the development, implementation, and evaluation of all the key components of the program. As we know, as we all know the importance of having Survivor Voices at all of our takes. Tables and we offer with our Sister Community agencies many of whom are here today direct Crisis Services through the Response Program along with our empowerment groups which is under our Survivor Empowerment Program and i would like to give special acknowledgment to my staff here and my team, that together with their fierce advocacy in 2015 as we supported 65 survivors who obtained their visas and six granted political asylum and permanent residency and db survivors graduating from our empowerment program. Our Newest Program in the Sheriffs Department is our survivor in custody program. A Reentry Program that we make contact with incarcerated survivors of Domestic Violence, and provide resources which are traumainformed and culturallyresponsive to the many challenges that they face. These services are also provided for our incarcerated db transwomen, stalk and trafficking victims. I will just end with this quote, one of my favorites from helen keller, that i love and its just simple as to say, alone we can do so little, but together we can do so much. And when i look around with all of the agencies here, and the hard work in changing our systems together we can definitely make a change. Thank you. [ applause ] thank you so much, dahlia. I just want to acknowledge a couple of staff people who are here, alden from Assembly Member tings office and i want to acknowledge the Family Violence counsel chair Katy Albright who here as well. Next up is the Community Education at las casa delas madras that opened as the first Domestic Violence shelter in the state of california and only the second in the nation. Please welcome cara. [ applause ] im going to put this down, but i was holding the door to shelter. Good evening, its wonderful to be here with all of you standing in support of Domestic Violence survivors. Over 40 years ago we began as a small shelter for battered women in San Francisco and today la casa is still providing Emergency Services to women and children in need through confidential shelter and 24hour crisis line. We also provide counseling, case management, support groups, a teen program and Legal Services at our jobs center on Mission Street four of our advocates work as the only two womenspecific Supportive Housing sites in San Francisco, providing emotional and practical support to over 150 female residents. This partnership is entering its 18th year. La casa also had the opportunity to extend our support services in San Francisco by providing targeted programming to specific populations alongside amazing Community Partners. I would like to highlight four of these programs today first were pard to be pard of zuckerberg San Francisco gener hospital and la casa advocate is onsite to meet with patients that dispose instances of intimate partnership violence to their physician and providing danger and risk assessment, safety planning, grief counseling and resources and referrals. This individual will also provide training on intimate Partner Violence to health care professionals. Second, funded by the department on the status of women, colocated at San Francisco Housing Authority. As many of us know survivor safety challenge is navigating the Public Housing system in San Francisco. We work to ensure they have safe places to life and raise their families. Our advocates at the Housing Authority also educate Property Management and support staff at housing sites across the bay area and to incidents of Domestic Violence onsite. Third, there is say la casa advocate at 850 bryant street and follows up on Police Reports of Domestic Violence to provide the survivor with resources, referrals and support. And finally, as mentioned earlier, in partnership with the department, glide, will have a advocate responding to all Domestic Violence situations. These four programs allow our staff colocated at the hospital, sros, the Housing Authority, hall of justice and bayview to provide advocacy, support, resources and referrals to survivors. Survivors that are navigating complex processes made even more challenging by experiences of trauma. Were proud at la casa to be part of the first line of response to survivors of Domestic Violence and proud to serve as a continued support system to survivors on their path to healing. And of course, were proud to be part of a community of organizations, many of whom are here today, working tirelessly to end Domestic Violence in San Francisco. Thank you. [ applause ] thanks so much, cara. I want to acknowledge the executive director of la casa, kathy black is in the audience and we have another cochair of the council is here and our last speaker is commissioner on the status of women, olgareyerson, our newest commissioner who joined us after retiring after a oyear career much of working as mayor lees invaluable aassistant and please women the commissioner on the status of women, olgareyerson. Thank you [ applause ]. Good evening everyone. Thank you so much for coming to this important event. We gather annually in october to recognize Domestic Violence awareness month, to celebrate how far we have come and to renew our efforts on what we still need to do to end intimate partner velocity. Violence in 2015 the department of Emergency Management received 18917 calls related to Domestic Violence. One in 13 Violent Crimes calls are Family Violence related and in 2015 Domestic Violence was the second most Violent Crime to which the Police Department responds. During that same time our Community Partners received over 21,000 calls to their Domestic Violence hotline, nearly three times as many as 911. This shows the importance of having multifaceted response to Domestic Violence. Many survivors may not want to involve the criminal Justice System and so we must ensure that we open many doors to safety so that different systems can assist survivors of Domestic Violence to be safe. Today we have heard from our health care system, and the wonderful work at the department of Public Health and San Francisco General Hospital and we heard from our communitybased Service Providers who provide counseling, shelter, Legal Services and advocacy and we heard from our peer educators who provide Intervention Services by working with youth to help teach healthy relationship skills and heard from our colleagues at the Sheriffs Department, who do not just house Domestic Violence offenders, but provide programs to victims and perpetrators of abuse in our jails and of course we heard from our city leaders who help ensure that we fund our public agencies and the commission on the status of women is celebrating its 40th anniversary this year from our earliest years we have focused on responding to Domestic Violence. The First Program we funded was la casa delas mad res. As you heard earlier it was the first Domestic Violence shelter in california and the second in the united states. How amazing is it that we have gone from one 75,000 grant for one program to our now over 6 million in funds to 27 different agencies . But our work is going on. In the past two years there are been four Domestic Violencerelated homicides each year, two out of those four Domestic Violence homicides in 2015 involved guns. We cannot stop our work until no one is killed by an intimate partner. Thank you for joining us. Together we will one day end Domestic Violence. [ applause ] thank you so much olga. I want to acknowledge jeff the head of the department of homelessness and Supportive Housing, who has joined us. To close our event today, i want to introduce the ensemable that will sing a piece that fits to music a text by the famous africanamerican poet audrey. Please give up for the ana cruces travel ensemble. [ applause ] [ music ] [ applause ] i want to bring up deputy chief of staff for Public Safety Paul Hendrickson for a very special unanticipated special announcement. Paul. Thank you, emily. How is everybody doing this evening . Great [ applause ] im a little disappointed i wasnt asked to sing [laughter ] but i think there is a reason for it. That is okay. I just wanted to thank you guys, all for coming out here tonight. Its really important to do the work that we all do, and there are so many different agencies and individuals out here, representing the work that we do with Family Violence from the Police Department to the District Attorneys Office to the Mayors Office, to the nonprofit agencies, and really it all begins and it ends with community and the fact that you are all here tonight is a big deal. You all saw earlier when the mayor was out here and he was presented with the big letter signed from all of the agencies that are funded through the city services. And whether when we went back into the building he wanted to make sure that i presented to you and you know that letter will be on the display in the Mayors Office in room 200 for the next few weeks and this is something that i havent seen done in past, but he was really touched by the fact that so many of the agencies came together to thank him and thank the city for its collaborative work to end Domestic Violence. So people that will be coming into this beautiful building and into room 200 for the next few weeks will see that letter, that many of you that are here tonight signed. And it will be on display inside the Mayors Office. So thank you all so much for coming and being here. I would encourage you to take advantage of the opportunity that you are here tonight to make sure that you make a record for yourselves. This would be a great thing if you stick around in about oh, i would say about an hour or so, youll see the building lit up in purple to take a picture of that, to take a picture of some of the other speakers and your friends that you saw here tonight with your message and put it on out on your social media messages and facebook and twitter and linkedin accounts to know its end Domestic Violence awareness month. Thank you all for being here tonight. I look forward to working with you through the year with the Mayors Office. [phra ufrplts ]. [ applause ]. I want to thank paul and the Mayors Office and thank the Domestic Violence consortium and my amazing staff, policy director candell who came up with the idea of lighting city hall purple, lets acknowledge her. [ applause ] and i want to thank our policy members for putting together all of these signs. And i want to thank everyone for coming out tonight. See you same time next year. Thank you very much. [ applause ] hi my name is a over and over shall running for supervisor in district 11 our neighborhood have been treated as a forgotten part of the city your working families need a strong voice to represent them at city hall im that candidate as a parent of too Young Children and a long time neighborhood resident i believe i can be that voice im a trained city planner that believes that stes cities not involved are stagnated government must insure that all families are part of healthy evolution of ourselves we have a severe shortage of Affordable Housing and must do better in the private and government sector we have not seen any of the housing producing and relatively Strong Economy that helps to fund wonderful programs at the city and county level we must strive to make sure that all sectors are represent the single biggest on or about that sets me apart weve been doing the work on behalf of the district 11 ive been producing as candidate dont just us on what we say politicians like to make a lot of promises but what weve done this will tell you what kind of a leader im the only that fought the closure of hospital by serving on the Advisory Committee and led a revolt in 2008, that achieved improvements in balboa park and in the last seven years figure out four marijuana clubs more than any other residential neighborhood in San Francisco we have enough and access is not an issue currently im working to save the consortium a family serving daycare of 200 plus subsidized childcare and working with the nonprofit director to purchase the building once in office my top 3 priorities will be to as i stated before create nor Workforce Housing we have a sunshine ordnance of Affordable Housing, that can house working families my second priority to establish fully funded universal free care for all families in San Francisco question any is her that all sectors of our population are benls from a Strong Economy and that is where the chuch gap and finally make sure that we have a really strong commercial corridor and that our vacancies and empty storefronts are dealt with the highest vacancies in the city with that well increase our sales tax with more restaurants i thank you for your time and ask for your vote on november 8th please remember over and over shall if i he. Hello my name is june im a candidate for board of supervisors district 11 im asking for your vote because i am the most convicted candidate during 5 years worked for nonprofit organizations have the experience of collaborating with communitybased organizations in 2008, i began working for then california be Assembly Member tom ammiano as his district director he spent 6 years politically my skills to bring stockholders to address issues hung up with solutions for the common good and mobile at local and statewide as Assembly Member tom ammiano assistant i played a part in helping to Save City College california landmark antibullying bill that protects children bullied in california im currently the political director local 1025 and running for district 11 supervisor im commented to assure that under recommended communities have a vows in shelter in place the policies that impact them the Difference Community not San Francisco values have made our city a beacon they are stolen by the real estate speculators in the cities that haveized the cost of living in San Francisco to unbearable levels patrol car, immigrants, the lgbt community, our elderly and working people have that have been the backbone cannot afford to live here workers that are holding on live in fear theyll come home to eviction or no longer keep their homes theyve worked they are entire lives and want to share any journey i was born and raised from the Mission District my patterns were immigrants from mexico they met in the early 1960s at the restaurant any mom waltd tables and he worked for the Garbage Company they separated my movement raised me wheel working as domestic working and relying on public assistance after high school i studied at that particular time at kink of San Francisco while working at the nonprofit jobs during the day and blessed to get a sclirp at age 37 owe graduated any Life Experience and challenges of being raised by a single mom has driven me work as a Public Servant if you elect me to the board of supervisors my priorities will include creating incentives more Affordable Housing, especially for families fooekt unjust fevers supporting subdividing and prioritizing parks and open space, working for equitable sdwrks with residential Public Transportation in my district and free tuition for all san franciscans residents at city college, please joan the organizations that have endorsed me for the board of supervisors Transit Union local 155, American Federation of teachers 2123 the california nursing association, the united educators of San Francisco, the sierra club, the San Francisco Tenants Union staffed parent hood of Northern California Harvey Milk Club the International Brotherhood of electrical works local 6 and the National Union of Health Care Works and office of the San Francisco workers and the aclu and local 10 to one and local 2015 and the united works left local 483 thank you for your consideration. Handsome im sorry guz Anyone Running for district 11 im a School Teacher in Public Schools i teach owl i all projects and advocate for your children that have lack the health and lack of quality time together due to multiple jobs pr as a Community Advocate in district 11 i have that fined a Community Organization to address the needs of young people as a Community Advocate in San Francisco i reopened a closed Public School to address the needs of immigrant children and helped he families helping them with services and housing and jobs as an elected Union Official of teachers for seven years and elected delegates for educators owe supported resolutions and legislative billions for social just the district 11 is the largest number of children as other districts ill enhance the coalition are nonprofit and communitybased organizations and the city to allocate nor resources for our children when he talked to district 11 residents he hear one resident said we need a safe neighborhood a mom said he tried to help someone who was a victim only to have the gun pointed at me as youre next supervisor he want our citizens and nonprofit organizations to have dialogues to address safety and safe neighborhoods and to build trust 24 is how well help your neighborhoods your city and district 11 are aging the population will expand thirty percent of our population as a district 11 supervisory owe meet with many seniors and have the most profound respect i found seniors in district 11 some or inhabitant some can manage their homes some cant and some are commuters and are frustrated they cant afford the rent is as youre next supervisor a lot of mire Top Priorities to make sure that note neglected or solicited district 11 has their share of garbage and some residence of district 11 discard their garbage on the sidewalks as the next supervisor we want to come up with solutions the city has changed so much more cars and upscale common sense and parttime that displace as youre next supervisor he support qualified Affordable Housing for those who are in needs ive lived in San Francisco for 35 years my family lived in District Court 11 and my son graduated from Lowell High School and 25e7bdz the university of california, San Francisco i came to america with any family as an immigrant i studied. Working hard to be a natural citizen owe graduated in Illinois University in chicago in Multi Education and was awarded a scholarship last year elected to a union elected official and humblely ask you guzman to the board of supervisors he promise to serve district 11 with all my power and strength and humanity. Dear friends please image a San Francisco that you want to see that district 11 it is 679 to see the past we have to make this vision a reality for for those of you who dont know me, im here my family and i and kids and grandkids are raised here last year, he knocked it out of the park for the mayor of San Francisco and 10 thousand i remains runner up im here to ask for your vote to serve as your supervise in district 11 this represents excelsior, ocean view, i know side 0 and Outer Mission and others too along weve loudly investors and speculators to run this and control city hall the result a renewal uaw bull market tearing up the fabric of this city and displaced thousand of the san franciscans out of the city we now have families inth districts living in cars, sharing living rooms and garage spaces we work and live here is where we have the right to live here weve developed a platform to protect our families from unjust lectured evictions and produce more Affordable Housing for working families we will improve the health of those dealing with asthma in the district particularly in the Mission Terrace and satisfy the farm and deal with the flooding there support open space in the excelsior both on mission and geneva and make sure the development of the in line will support seniors and families at the same time make sure we can have a full Serve Grocery store in the neighborhood muni is an example i think of the health of district 11 because health is more than having access to medication or clinics it is being free and from anxiety by having a living wage enough money to buy food and pay for rents health is a clean part and save schools leak the great work and neighbors in action this is a pursued at the rec rec Centers Health is protecting our Small Businesses in the Outer Mission and dealing with the Noise Pollution of low underlying mr. Haneys plans education is not only for making it free but supporting teachers we need to find Affordable Housing to be teaching here as while as your supervisor i think continue to support the great afterschool programs we have last week the excelsior conceives project and in the Community Schools and the ymca programs on 0farrell we as a district have been away for far go long but making sure our families can flourish holding off on property tax on fixed incomes for people working that question, create with a new deal we are one of the last workingclass neighborhoods in the city completes draw the line for our families and Work Together to flourish in district health, education, and living wages job safety and vibrant Small Businesses the heart of the families in our district clean streets for Senior Citizens and children and working people secure Affordable Housing this is all part of liveability what i like to call a little bit of heaven in district 11 and people like minnie ward he fool in district 11 were the few weeks that can make a derivatives join me in this program thank you very good afternoon today is thursday october 13, welcome to pub safety and Neighborhood Service of San Francisco board