Transcripts For SFGTV TA Vision Zero Committee 33116 20160401

Campos and im sure supervisor kim is on her way. The committee will also i can like to ad acknowledge the staff at the Committee Clerk is steve stamos, and the committee would also like to acknowledge the staff at sfgtv, jez see larson and leo diesis would record all of the meetings and make the transcripts available to the public online. Mr. Clerk, do you have any announcements . There are no announcements. Okay. Can you please call item number 1. Item one, roll call, commissioner campos, campos present, commissioner kim, commissioner kim, not present, commissioner yee . Here. We have a quorum. Item number 1 would be is that number 2 for you . Item 2, approve the minutes of the december 10, 2016 meeting, this is an action item. Okay. Is there any Public Comment for this item . Seeing none, Public Comment is now closed. Can i have a motion . So moved. Okay. Well take a roll call. Role ka ul, please. Er on the approval of the minutes, commissioner campos . Aye. Er campos, aye. Commissioner kim, kim, absent. Commissioner yee . Aye. Yee, aye, the minutes are approved. Could i have item number 3. Item 3, vision zero at if state and national level, this is an information item. Okay, i think tom maguire, the director of the sustainable streets of the San Francisco mta will update the committee on vision zero related centiliters at the state and national level. Mr. Maguire . Frjts thank you, commission necessaries, thanks for the chance to be here to talk about this topic today. I think we all know that San Francisco has been a National Lead ner the vision zero movement, that was apparent to my colleagues and i this spring as we attended a couple of meetings around the country, we talked to other city nas are on the path to the zero vision commitment. Earlier this mo nlt, sftv, dph and the mayors staff attended the vision zero mayors conference, it brought together leaders from industry, government, ak dmaoem ya and advocacy to talk about effective strategies for implementing and achieving vision zeros in american city, we saw sessions on speed cameras, improve thing ways in which Government Works with advocates and ways to hit and run nesz data and technology to improve the date to of the street, we attended the first meeting to have vision zero network, leah shan put this together, we brought together 10 cities from around the country, austin, boston, chicago, portland, San Francisco, washington dc, and we are beginning to Work Together in a collaborative way to share best practices, address roadblocks to vision zero and find ways to make vision zero more a national movement, so San Francisco continues to lead and we also continue to learn from other cities around the country that have set this ambitious goal, so thats the vision vao er row citys conference. I also had the opportunity in february to attend a meeting put on by the national highway traffic administration, the administrator was in San Francisco asking leaders from government and public h eflt to share sfrat jis for improving what he calls behavior change, everything from antismoking campaigns to seat belt campaigns to figure out how the federal government can get engaged in sending Strong National message to drivers about how to drive safely and achieve the goal that is we in San Francisco call vision vao er row, thats my report on vision zero at the state and national level. Im just curious, when you get together with these different cities that are implementing vision vao er row, do you have a sense of how much they spend to get to vision zero . You know, i dont have a spefng apples to apples number that i can compare to what we spent in San Francisco, we spent about 9ed. 5 Million Dollars on the first 24 and 24 project that we completed earlier this year. I do know that many cities are at different place ins the vision vao er row journey, some have made the commitment, some have put together a Multiagency Group like we have, some have leveraged really strong advocates as well, so i dont have a direct answer, its something we could be able to research and come back to you. Especially if yu break it down into not only the engineering enforcement that are hard to break down i guess, but the education piece, Public Education on the [inaudible] it would be interesting to see how much each place spends probably to be fair, how much did they spend per person, you know, obviously new yorks going to possibly be spending a lot more money. Okay. Any other questions . Okay. Do we take Public Comment on these things . No questions, so thank you very much, mr. Maguire, any Public Comment on this item . Seeing none, Public Comment is now closed. Mr. Clerk, can you call item number 4. Item 4, next generation of vision zero projects, this is an information item. Its you again. Sorry. Okay, so we talked about whats happening at the national level, we also know that right now as we look at the projects we want to do in 2016, were certainly looking back on a year in 2015 when we did not see a drop in the number of fa fatalities from 14 to 15, so we lost the same number that we did in 2014 like we did in 2015, were not fast enough with our project delivery, we see the Driver Behavior is the leading cause, fail tog yield, speeding, red light, nothings changed there, we know we did get a lot of work done in 2015. We have increased the number of citations, were focused on the five, we put out engineering treatments, Something Like 1500 small and large treatments as well as completing more than the 24 and 24 that we made the commitment to back in 2014, so looking ahead at 2016, the last time we met, you asked us to come back with a list of projects across all the vision vao er row disciplines and have that be something we continue to track through this committee in the years ahead, our focus in 2016 is trying to get a handle on excessive speeding, youll see throughout the presentation that we want to focus engineering, education, policy and enforcement efforts on controlling those excessive speeds, those drivers going 10, 15, 20 miles over the speed limit, were so disproportionately at faults nr the fatalities we see on the street. So, i want to go through the next few slides, these are highlights of the longer list that we distributed as part of the meeting packet. We want to give you a flavor of the engineering enforcement, education and evaluation project that is we have under way in 2016 and 2017. One thing we talked about last time is some of these are projects that are quick turn around time, projects well get done in the year 201617, other are streetscape improvements, for instance, the ma sonic street gate project that we will break ground on this june, thats not going to get done in 2016, thats a multiyear project, there are throughout this presentation the key milestones we think we can deliver over the next two years and these projects span every supervisorial district fwh the city and they span everything from bike ped improvements, road diets on streets like turk, things like the radar speed feedback sign, something thats been specifically requested through the participatory budgeting process in district 7, so again, wide range of projects and wide range of neighborhoods and well be reaching major milestones and or completing these projects in 2016, 2017. On the unfortunate side, we are really excited that San Francisco Police Department is going to begin a pilot of east citations with the traffic company, this will streamline the reporting of crash data from the field and really help improve standardize the date da and help us get a handle on crashes and collisions in a much more robust way. We also have an aniseed campaign, well have a presentation on that later in the agenda today. Excuse me, just a quick question. You explained the key citation, what does that mean. Key citation iss the ability of the officer to write a citation from handheld smart phones as opposed to writing the citation, the quality of the data is much better. On the education front, we have a number of targeted campaigns happening this year, we have a specific issue with motorcycle speeding causing crashes, so we secured some funding for to launch a Motorcycle Safety Education Campaign, Funding Community based organizations to do some neighborhood based culturally appropriate Safety Education to seniors, of course the safety town project will be complete, the department of public works is working on it, so a wide range of approaches to education as well. On the evaluation front, weve always said that vision zero in San Francisco is a data driven eft so were going to continue to invest in the tools that prioritize our investments based on data, well be updating the high entry data, thats where 72 of our collisions take place, the Health Department did that groundbreaking work in 2014 and were going to update that network to make sure we are always working with the most recent collision data as we engineer vision zero projects, also updating transbase and that helps us link records from places like San Francisco General Hospital with what we learn from police crash reports and on the policy front, it is our goal to secure sponsorship for the ase enforcement bill, in 2015, we did make some progress on this, we did not get a sponsor, we drafted legislation, we had 22 letters of support from organizations around the city and around the state, and our goal in 2016 is to move towards introduction of the bill in december, 2016 so we continue to did outreach with a number of interested groups, teamsters, triple a, Law Enforcement, Public Health, group that is are specifically interested in privacy issues to really get all the feedback that we need to find sponsors and get that legislation moving in december, 2016 t, so thats an overview of what we are proposing as our vision vao er row priority project list for 201517. Thank you. Supervisor kim . Thank you, chair yee. Thank you, mr. Maguire for the presentation. I had two questions. One, you know, i wanted to know your thoughts on what the strategy was to get an author for the state legislation in 2016 because i know weve now tried for two legislative cycles so weve done the letter writing, we reached out to potential sponsors, wats the thinking of how well get it on the docket next year. I would like to let my colleague to come up and answer that question. Shes spearheading that campaign. That is a 60 Million Dollar question, so we have been working very consistently in moving forward, i think in educating a Larger Community outside of San Francisco on the benefits and the proven practice of automated Speed Enforcement, that is not simple or a linear path as weve come to learn. I think its been critical in continuing to educate both our delegation as well as interested other members of the legislature that advocates have been at our side. I dont think that us alone really would have been successful and so we i think the progress that i can really point to is that we have sat down with the opposition and heard exactly what concerns they have who are they . Im speaking specifically about the teamsters who have had a traditional i wouldnt call it an out right opposed position on this specific proposal but really the issues that relate to the use of cameras in general for enforcement, and so weve been sitting down with them, i think a lot of the work that has happened here with unions in general has really helped open that dialogue to one where theres an openness of mind to have a conversation, to listen to why we continue to believe that this is a tool that San Francisco needs to have. In addition to that, again, with the advocates at our side, i think a good deal of influence and pressure has been brought to our own delegation and i think we feel confident that members of our own delegation, i dont want to speak for them at this point, but feel pretty positive about a willingness to introduce a bill and when tom says december of this year, that is the earliest that we could see [inaudible]. I understand that, so who could you mention who has expressed interest in introducing in december of 2016 . Weve been talking to Assemblymember Chiu chu and this year to get into the process, we were working closely with the city of san jose and we were really taking their lead at this time and working with members of their delegation and the end of the process by which we needed to have an author, they decided they werent ready, and so there was not much time left and i think that our delegation has seen what it means to westbound on camera legislation in sacramento. Has there been do we have Coalition Members and advocates and other city members to help us do a multiprong approach, so san jose is working on their representative, were working on assemblyman chu, l. A. Is the other major city i assume that might be interested. L. A. Is not there yet on the camera proposal, they are looking at rebooting on how speed limits are set in los angeles, theyre focused on speed, it came to our attention last week that the city of coranato had a Unanimous Council decision to enforce Speed Enforcement, the city of sacramento in the last month has adopted vision zero commitment, so for all of us, its not happening fast enough, but i think, you know, each path that we take at this, i think as im talking here, we had a positive conversation with the California Association of Police Chiefs whose members are also eager to have this tool, so thats a sort of short version of the play by play, and thats where its at. Is there kind of a calendar of Different Things that we plan on doing between now and december . Yes. And then the one thing i remember from attend thing vision zero conference in new york city was how they were able to lower the speed limits in new york city was through intensive outreach by families who have lost someone due to a vehicular collision and they spent a lot of time going up arranging office visits, i mean, this is the time to do it, so between march and november, having families set up appointment, even if the office isnt free until may, june or october, at least you get those dates in and families are able to share their Actual Stories and im not if theres hearings on these issues where people can come up and speak on Public Comment. So, those are all things that should be part of any work plan that has tactics that are going to be successful, i totally agree with you and weve talked extensively with nicole and her team at walk sf in mobilizing those units, if we had an author in november, we would have started that in november, a lot of behind the scenes stuff that we couldnt do, here we are and we have a commitment with the citys lobbyist to start engaging in those kinds of pelting. They dont have to be hearings, they can be individual meetings with legislators and with members of the administration, so but i think they still do have hearings that with open Public Comment. I think you need to start that campaign now because it seems like its not just enough to get the votes for the bill, you need to do that to get some authors on board. Have you sat down with aclu . Theyre next, we know we have entrees into that realm, we are trying to be strategic in how we start taking amendment tos the bill so we dont have five different versions of it out there, but they are very much at the top of the list as well. Great. My next question is back to mr. Maguire, thank you so much. Thank you. And that is im sorry if i might have missed this in the beginning, but i know last year, you know, with we announced that we were able to successfully finish 24 projects pie lots, that we had requested the next set of list for the next 24 months, and i know that you have the priority projects like the arguella bike lane and the turk street diet, im curious where the next 24 projects are and what that looks like. N the board packet today, we have a list of i believe its about 40 projects that were proposing would be that list that you asked for in december. Okay. Then i guess my question is what is the safe routes to School Project exactly . On page 8. Yes. Hello, my name is mike, [inaudible] im with the engineer with the group. That project is to complete a project thats currently under way if you go out to tenderloin, youll see some curbs being worked on, were adding bulbs out and adding work. Just on turk street . I believe its foe curds on turk, there may be a project on another intersection too, i believe theres at least two intersections on turk street and i would have to confirm the other location. Thats great, i hear about a lot of conflict on that corridor or that block as well. And [inaudible] i notice that some of them are to complete conceptual design, some of them is to complete construction, complete construction, and i absolutely want to expedite completing design, i think obviously thats a key piece of it, but i do want to clarify that i think when we talk about what are these expedited projects that we really mean complete construction, so i think its still good to have that comprehensive list of 40, but it would be great to know that there was 24 projects where we expect to complete construction in the next 24 months. Okay. Thank you. Supervisor campos . If we can go back to thank you, mr. Maguire, for the presentation, great work. On the automated Speed Enforcement, maybe if we can go back to that issue. Is that like a red light camera type thing, is that sort of how it works . How does it work. Er were trying to make a distinction between those because red light cameras have different couldnt verse ris, but the way that the proposal that we have would be to take images of license plates only, this proposal that San Francisco has been advancing is one that would be decriminalized in essence, its not a moving violation so, the images that are recorded are first triggered when the speed violation occurs and the photograph is taken of the license plate. I think we have to be careful about these things. I mean, i dent necessarily think there is or maybe im just its just me, but i think that we have to look at the privacy concerns and the desperate impact that some of these strategies have on certain communities. So, i dont know, you know, sort of where this falls in the efficacy of enforcement and sort of spectrum of what tactics makes sense, but i think that we need to be careful about this and i dont think it should be a given that everyone on this board will simply say yes, it does make sense bah i dont think we even have that discussion in terms of collectively as a board have, have we voted on automated Speed Enforcement . Its a policy in the adopted vision sao er rho action strategy. Were going to go down this path of pushing for this, i think we need to have more discussion on that because i think there are privacy concerns. There are, and i will say this to you, that is absolutely one of the top three issues that comes up whether the debate happens on automated Speed Enforcement in general, and the approach that and privacy in general, whether its clipper car data or other forms of personal data, the language that we have taken is lang language that is specifically prescribe hated the images could only be used for the purposes for which they are gathered if i can call it in shorthand, i hear what youre saying. The problem is you have a thee roy and you have a practice, if im an undocumented person drive ining the mission, what is that mean in terms of the chances that without me knowing, a camera could take a picture of my license plate and given to Law Enforcement and ending up in the wrong hands and even though certain things are not supposed to happen, weve had examples as recently as a few weeks ago of someone who was reporting a stolen car who ended up in detention, so i think we need to be careful about this stuff. Noted, thank you. So, in looking at the list of projects, i received a letter from i think one of my maybe my constituents, either that or hes in district 11. He pointed out that weve talked about this before, that there are other corridors that are probably just as dangerous but maybe the stats dont necessarily highlight those things, ocean avenue, general nao ef va, alameni and mission, and i know for a fact ocean avenue is pretty dangerous with youre trying to cross there, so im just curious, even though maybe there werent any projects listed in the high priority, if we have projects at all that maybe dont make the 24 or whatever but were actually working on them, we should probably have sort of an appendix for that so people understand that these are not the only 24 projects that we have if possible. That is possible, so we have we made a commitment which we met last year in 2015 and which well meet again in 2016 to improve 13 miles of [inaudible] Network Every year for 10 years, if we continue at that pace, we will abate safety improvement, every single block on the [inaudible] network before 24 24, wed certainly be able to follow up with those locations, its also important that when we talk in the evaluation section about updating the high injury network, we certainly want to take advantage of that exercise the find out these streets that maybe just missed the cut or were perhaps crash sites waiting to happen so were not missing important streets like the ones you mentioned so ill definitely keep an eye on that. Thanks, and i like that you have sort of at the last page slide about talking about legislation and maybe that should be a permanent slide because we are trying to do Different Things locally, and at the state level, i think assemblyman chu and [inaudible], theyre jointly putting something together to address the tour bus issues. Im putting things locally together to maybe improve the situation by regulating tour buses a little bit more, so i think its a good wantoning to let the committee know and let others know, these are other actions were taking that really place well into us trying to get into vision zero. Thank you, any other questions . Did i ask for Public Comments on this yet . No . Public hens on this item . Yes. On item number 4. Good afternoon, commissioners, [inaudible] projects should enforce drivers education of good concentration on driving by eliminating distractions of cell phone, eating and talking to passengers while drives. On one way condition of accidents, hot spots should enforce reduction of speed law to secure Pedestrian Safety. Warning signs for precautions must be posted on street corners on speeding traffic area to have pedestrian and is drivers apart of dangerous traffic accidents, preventive measures should be taken to prevent drinking and drivers, elders should pay extra attention in walking out to street traffic and to [inaudible] with open eyes, thank you. Okay, any other Public Comment . Hello commissioners, im the advocacy of the bicycle coalition, i wanted to note, thank you for your questions, commissioner kim, around on Speed Enforcement, the San Francisco bus location is supportive of, but supervisor campos, we recognize theres a lot of details to be worked out that we use this tool effectively and not regressively to hurt any particular community, this is all about making our streets safer in the end. As it relates to the vision zero priority projects, were really happy to see that engineering continues to be a top priority and its a crucial piece as part of the three es of vision sao er rho, what we would impress upon to do as much as possible, i think one thing thats a little bit different than the original 24 vision zero projects is a lot of thing that is are on this list is things we already knew about, the original 24 vao er row project list was able to create urgency at locations where we knew people were getting hit and killed while picking, walking, driving, so being able to look at those locations and get a quick fix in the ground within a certain time period, in mta time, its pretty fast, so we would encourage the city to be look at these quick fix locations, 13th street eastbound was sorry, westbound that was something that was graelt to be put in and get a protected bike lane on where we knew people were getting hit and being killed during biking, so try to continue to do more and use this vision zero priority project list as a way to increase urgency on delivering on these critical safety projects. Thanks. Okay. Come on up. Good afternoon, commissioners, my name is john alex lull, im the Senior Member of the Pedestrian Safety Advisory Committee and i emphasize to you the need have open dialogue with the state of california caltrans as it particularly relates to lum bard, van ness, segments of south van ness and Mission Street and slo ep boulevard which a segment of it is also a state road, to have dialogue with caltrans relating release of funds and aal pprovrticularly for these high injury corridors. Thats a strong component for why i come up to you and my second one to you, norman yee, is to mention the city engaged at the particular request of supervisor mark farrell that the city carry out what was agreed upon two years ago, to redesign several blocks of bay street because the collision of two youths at the intersection of bay and buchanan, the city responded very quickly to do that, it unfortunately took a collision at that intersection for the city sfmta to raoelz realize what had been agreed up, there were nuances that remained in that plan with other city agencies on how to coordinate that. The last point is i recall mayor ga fns executive directive on Pedestrian Safety 1003 released in september, 2010 where he specifically asked for city agencies to Work Together to reduce pedestrian collisions in this city, thank you. Thank you so much. Good afternoon, commissioners, im kathy delucca, the policy and Program Manager with walk San Francisco. First, commissioner kim, i wanted to say that walk San Francisco has been working to form a family for safe street group ins the city and we did get some family members to call state legislators about automated Speed Enforcement so so we try today start that process and well continue working on that so i wanted you to know that, and but what i really want to comment is how upset we are at all of the pedestrians that have been killed so fixer some of the commissioners here attended the memorial that we held for tu phan in february, a memorial for mr. Sun chow law, he was killed at broadway and powell in 2011, too many people are dying on our streets with we need your leadership, youve been vision zero leaders and im going call for you to keep leading the charge. We need your leadership, we know you dont approve projects but you have a lot of influence on projects, you fund safety projects, you influence staff and mta board member and is right now we need your leadership more than ever. We have projects that are getting weakened and we have supervisors that arent standing up for safety in these projects that arent putting safety first, so i urge you the keep being the vision zero leaders you are and make sure that safety never gets compromised out of a project the citys doing. Thank you. Supervisor yee, may i ask a question . Sure. Can i ask a question . Of me . Yeah. First of all, thank you, i know that walk sf is working to get the families, and i know the cause is so important for them to see the causes face to face, what has motivated me even though i support these effort iss meeting the family and friends because it is heart breaking, but second, i did want to ask, you mentioned there were projects that you felt were getting watered down, im curious what some of the priority project that is walk sf that you would like us to focus our attention and support on. I know the one from the district i represent but im not as familiar with the citywide potashes. I dont want to call people out, but this is the priority projects. There are several but one that feels urgent is the el tereval, it is a a high injury corridor, between 2009 and 14, 36 people were hit on the corridor and half of those who were hit were getting on and off the train and thats because the train doesnt have many boarding island to get off, they step off and get on to traffic, they were hit at stops that didnt have boarding islands, its clear theyre keeping people safe, city staff did a great job in creating a project that would keep people safe getting off the train, original project had boarding islands at every stop, great, great safety feature, just a basic safety feature that a Transit System should provide. Unfortunately, the plan has been revised based on pushback from the community, so there wont be boarding islands right now as proposed at every single stop, five of the stops will have a Pilot Project instead, they have paint in a travel lane that says watch out, and i dont think paint is going to keep people safe. We heard from a young man who was almost hit getting off the train last week, a blind gentleman in his 20s, he stepped off the train into moving traffic and he got off the train and there was a car there stopped at the train but the car then started and his cane literally was broken off in the wheel of this car, so we need these islands to keep people safe. Were lucky no ones been killed yet on this corridor, its just a matter of time. Weve been pushing hardworking with staff and working with our members and working with everyone we can to make sure this project has robust safety features because the boarding islands shouldnt be up for xomz compromise, its a basic safety feature, to say we shouldnt have a place for people to step into safety doesnt seem like were putting people first. So, thats the big one thats on my mind right now. I read about that, so i think this was in conflict with many of the Small Businesses were worried about losing parking spots. Sxfrjts the great thing about the plan the city came up with is unlike a lot of times, parking does just go away in the compromise for safety and thats i think appropriate, but in this case, the city has been able to find parking spots for everyone thats moved off of teraval, theyre replacing them with other locations so theres no loss of parking, its just a relocation, its a good situation for everybody involved because everybodys getting to keep something, but its not being seen that way unfortunately. Thank you. Thanks. Good afternoon, commissioners, my name is [inaudible] im an organizer at the San Francisco bicycle coalition, i wanted to echo our advocacy directors helots and expand on our members desire to see these vision vao er row priority projects implemented on schedule and wherever possible expedited, to highlight a few of these projects and also to piggy back a little bit on the previous comments, we really want these projects to address the needs of the communities where theyre being implemented. I bring the example of the polk street skaip project, a project we felt did not go far enough in addressing the needs of the Community Despite Strong Community support for a lot of these issues, similarly we also see projects delayed time and time again such as the pa trer row Streetscape Project which was approved in 2013 and is not scheduled to be completed until nearly 2018, that is a project that is desperately needed by the community in front of San Franciscos public hospital, we need to reflect people in San Francisco. Any other Public Comments . Seeing none, Public Comment is now closed. I have a question, two of them when you started mentioning about the el teraval, im wondering if were in the same situation where some of the situations along the [inaudible] juda line, does anybody know. Because theres quite a few places where they dont have islands there too. So i can give you what and it will be an incomplete answer, many of the stops have the boarding islands, particularly those close to the inner sun set, on the old teraval, the traffic move tos the right of the train, that ones different and theres an opportunity where we can bulb out the sidewalk close enough to the track to form kind of a boarding island configuration, so some of the safety issues of passengers boarding the trains on the street are present there, but the streets designed a little differently,its not as acute and theres not certainly the crash history we have on teraval. Im more familiar with where does it start. In the lower number avenues along irving, there arent any, im curious, can we find out some data, whether anybodys getting hit or anything . Yes, we can definitely follow up on that. Okay, thank you very much. Supervisor kim, are you seeing no other further question, can we have a motion its an information item. No motion needed, thank you very much. Mr. Clerk, can i have the next item. Were going the call item 6, update on the sfmtas safe Driver Training programs, this is an information item. So, were going to call item 6 first before item 5 because there was a request to do that and theres some people in the audience that needs to leave, so come on up. Thank you very much, don nox wuf with the sfmta, a team of us are here to provide an overview of our agencys efforts to ensure that are employee and is the people who do work for our agency are provided with ongoing training updated every year for driving safely around vulnerable road users. Today im joined by three other colleagues who can discuss a number of the initiatives and policies related to nonrevenue vehicles, those vehicles that are city vehicles, the vehicles that are not bringing revenue to the agency, taxis and our muni buses and trains. So, lets see. There we go. Alright. So, initially, as im sure you are aware, funded by prop k, we have developed a nonrevenue passenger vehicle training video, this is something that we put together as we were developing the large Vehicle Safety video. We realized that while we were doing the filming, a lot of the messaging we were providing to people who drive truck and is large vehicles in San Francisco is the same for folks who drive taxis, who drive cars, we hear from drivers a lot that the changing environment in San Francisco streets, the green paint, the new protected like lanes are confusing to people, and so the team that worked on developing those videos went out and they filmed every scene three times, once with a truck, once with a taxi and once with a passenger vehicle and in january, we finalized that vehicle, we have put it up on you tube and we will be integrating that into sfmtas biannual defensive driving training that is required for anybody who uses an agency car, department car, and we are also working at the same time as a part of that same prop k funneled program with the department of environment who does a lot of employee outreach throughout the city to put together in the next three months an Encouragement Program to get employees throughout the city whether or not they use city cars and city vehicles to watch the video. We really are trying to act on one of the communication goal that is we have identified before to use the tens of thousands of City Employees that we have as best practice citizens, etc. , so this video joins the large vehicle video which is available in english and translated online in chinese and spanish and the taxi vehicle, we are currently working on a version of this video that is specific to paratransit drivers who are large vehicle drivers that have many of the same passenger loading and unloading issues that taxis are and its been requested by our paratransit programs, so were working with them to develop that program we hope sometime this sum tore have that available and the paratransit operators are excite and had have already agreed to provide that. We are working in discussions with the Mayors Office on disability looking at opportunities for developing some specific training materials about driving safely around seniors and people with disabilities. At this time, i would like to invite Jerrold Williams who is the manager of safety and talk about our defensive driving program. Good afternoon, commissioners, a little about the Driver Safety program, its a computer based program, 45 minutes, we currently had about 1500 employees has completed it. Its for all sfmta nonrevenue drivers, and it covers basic city driving skills. The goal is for employees to take this training, as john said, every two years, which will incorporate the urban driving safety video. We also have a remedial Training Program which is a Classroom Program which is for those drivers that supervises the necessary training which from exhibiting unsafe acts or practices, or points, each of the police or in the pool program and the pool Program Allows an agency to have an overview of those employees that may have had traffic points taken or added to their license so we give them remedial training before they could get behind the wheel of a muni nonrevenue vehicle, and they also have the program, the Telematics Program that will give the agency the overview to see if employees are speeding, its hard breaking those bad habits which we can also identify those employees and get them in there for remedial training. Thank you. John, im sorry, maybe i was somehow dozing off or something, so these are for the nonbuses . Yes, correct. Er these are for employees like myself who may need to use an sfmta car to a place thats not easily reached. Thank you. We have two more speakers, i was going to ask chair yee if you would like to take questions about the video and the nonrevenue while mr. Williams and i are up here or if you would like to hear from the taxis and muni and ask questions for the entire presentation . I had a quick question about this one because there are so many other city vehicles that are in this category. Yes. And im just curious, you may not know the answer, but im just curious for the other fleets or other departments that have sudan, i guess, do they have similar training, do you know, or do they use your training . My understanding is the City Administrators Office oversees that aspect of training, my understanding is that they are looking to copy, you know, respectfully, they use a of the training we are provide, they are putting defensive Driver Training for all the other city users currently, but i believe its not i can get a better answer, i believe its not currently offered but they are hoping to put in place. The airport has developed theirs, theyre using the same click Safety Program we are using and i did receive an email from the City Administrators Office for copies of what were using so they can use that to help develop their programs, they are working hard to do that, they are still in the development stage. Good to know that, thank you. So, our next presenter, kate toran whos the director of taxis and [inaudible] services, to ensure our taxi drivers are driving safely intel. watching video . Whats the take away, slow down, even at 25 miles per hour, it takes a vehicle 85 feet to stop, thats almost 7 car lengths, slowing down makes collisions less severe. When a person is hit by a passenger vehicle going 20 miles per hour, the chance of death is 5 . If the same vehicle is going 40 miles per hour, that chance of death increases to 85 . Slowing down doesnt cost much time, driving belined a person on a bike for a block takes about 9 extra second, stepping at a yellow light takes 30 extra seconds but hitting someone can cost you hours, days, weeks or your job, not to mention a life, so when you feel rushed, take a deep breath and take your time. video completed . Thank you. Okay, thank you for taking your time. Supervisor campos . Thank you, so what is the name of the department again, its taxis and what else, other services . Accessible services. What does that mean . So, that includes our paratransit program, our muni discount i. D. Program and the muni accessibility, so anything related to accessibility of the fixed route system. So, quick question, maybe theres somebody else who will address this but you, but where is the sort of uber, lift, where do they fit into this . Well, they dont fit into the mta at this point, they are regulated by the Public Utilities commission, the california Public Utilities commission, so their regulations are set by the state and enforced by the cpuc. Thats just a question i have, can we really achieve the goals of vision zero if were doing everything we can on the taxicab side and yet nothing is being done with uber and lift, or at least not to the level that we would expect. Yes, good point and i would agree and say wed love to embrace the tnc drivers as part of this vision zero ffort and provide the same or similar type of training and requirements for licensing and permitting. Just as a quick followup, director tran is correct, theres nothing we can force them to do but we are in conversation with both uber and lift about creating some form of Safety Programming that they will guarantee will reach all of their drivers in return for them being able to kind of talk a little bit more about being a part of San Franciscos vision zero program. It will be a voluntary program and the conversations are very initial, but one of our ultimate goals is to ensure that some short videos but also the passenger video and the taxi video are shown to all their drivers so theyre receiving the same level of training. And now if there are no further questions about taxis, i would like to invite ken anderson whos the manager of training and instruction to give you an overbacker overview on how we train all of our muni drivers. Good afternoon, my names ken anderson,backer im the operate torx trainer manager, i want to talk about new operator training and some of the elements of that training initially. Its about a 9 week program and sometimes that stretches a little longer depending on how we overlay the template of the Training Program over the actual calendar days, but what we do is we align ourselves with the way the california dmv requires folks to be trained in order to get a drivers license, were part of the Employee Testing Program which is pursuant to a federal guideline for Third Party Testing so here at muni, we are the ones that do the testing, the training and we sign off so that they can get their commercial drivers license so ne dont have to test once they go down to the dmv. With respect to that, the first thing they require is that they learn how to inspect the vehicle to see where [inaudible] make sure the brakes are working properly, headlights, all of the safety related apparatus, we spend about a week on that because there are a number of items on these vehicles that have to be inspected from the very front all the way to the engine as well as the lubricants and things of that nature to make sure its running properly. Once they learn that and tested on that and successful on that, they go on to skills training, that is consistent with what is required by the dmv and also the fair of mode regulations for commercial Motor Vehicle operators, they have to learn to back in it, shift lanes to it, maneuver around various items to ensure the back end of the vehicle clears, and then beyond that, they come in and they do classroom training and then we start our road training so theres a number of classroom days where theyre learning all about our system in terms of fares, in terms of americans with disability act issues, all of these things theyre learning in classroom and theyre learning our routing system so theyre out on the road, essentially three people on a bus with an instructor on a daily basis learning the system and so forth. And thats essentially what happens with our brand new operators, thats folks that are coming off the street who have never worked here before whos learning for the first time how to operate here. We do have new rail operators but theyre not the same as a brand new bus operate torx those operators are folks who have been working for muni for a period of time, perhaps four years or know the, are already a transit operator but theyre switching over to a new mode of transportation, they gain an additional 55 days of training to operate rail vehicle, theyre learning basic information about how the rail system works, the overhead cabin area and the specifics for the particular vehicle theyre going to be operate, whether its our Historic Vehicles or lrvs and also our cable car system. So, thats the new operator aspect of it but we also have the inservice aspect of it, meaning that theyre going to be getting a certain amount of training each and every year, so that depends also on state requirements as well, so the state mandates at a minimum 8 hours of training and most of the time classroom training and some behind the wheel training for all operators regardless of whether it is a rubber carp vehicle or bus or a rail vehicle, and so that information or that training is specified in the california education code, and that would be 40085 of that which tells us exactly what they have to be trained on. Then we also go over incident and collision prevention and we base that on National Safety counsel standards whereas we teach a class to be operators with respect to whats preventable, how they can avoid certain incident and is those things cover not just the maneuvering of the vehicle but also backing incidents that occur on board the vehicles with passengers and so forth. We offer Refresher Training for rail operators, so in addition to the vtt or the inservice training i spoke of earlier, rail operators have a specific refresher requirement pursuant to the cpuc general orders, and that Refresher Training is based on that they learned initially which is the way the general order is written, so they are done they do this every two years and they also get a compliance check each year to ensure that they are indeed following those rules and regulations in the things theyve learned to do. We offer what we call infrastructure and equipment training, so with us having so many operators, they also have a choice to be able to move from division to division, or across modes, so from motor coach to trolley coach and then to any of our rail vehicles including cable cars, with that comes new training, so a person is once operating a bus now oncebacker want tos operate a trolley coach, they go through about 17, 18 additional days of training so they now can attend with the overhead system, some of those folks go on from rubber tire vehicles to the rear wheel training, then they move to historical vehicle and is theyre different in nature in terms of how they operate. They have to learn all associated apparatus of that, theres tremendous information that goes along with that, our cable car system is different than anything we have, than any other agency has so theres quite a bit to learn about the gripping mechanism of the cable car, the rope itself, so quite a bit and its a rail vehicle so switches and things and signals are also a part of that. And we do what we call return to work, thats a person whos been off work for over a period of time who has essentially not practiced things or perhaps has forgotten, so in order to return them back o to what we term the platform, we bring them back, go through this training all over again, depending on how long theyve been out, they go back through the entire Training Program all over again, and then finally we have whats called special services and obviously a cable car would be one of those things, but we also institute a program called the negligent operator Training Program or essentially what this program is, is we take operators who have been driving for quite some time or operating quite some time, their skill set has diminished, their Decision Making has diminished, we try to catch that in the form of near missing, we bring them in and customize a program thats specific to whatever ails them at that time to try to correct those behaviors as well. We also do other training, it depends on the circumstance, sometimes there are events that happen in the city that require specific maneuvering or to keep the service going, so we will go out, take a look at that in order to help an operator maneuver around those things, in a nutshell, thats the program that our operators go through. For the cable car training, how many hours do they get trained on ringing that bell . [laughter]. Some of those guys, they must get 100 hour training or something, theyre really good. I think they do that on their own, but it is fair with respect to signaling, that is communicating from the conductor to the i know, is it one, two or three dings, right. Yes. But im just curious, do you have different training for a bus driver and then you have the muni rail drivers, what do once one is trained in one thing, can they go on the other or vice viceversa, do they stick to one thing or what . No, they tend to come and they spend their time, its a seniority based program, so rail is kind of the sexy side of the house so to speak and everyone want tos go there, theres lots of folks who want to go there but they have to build that seniority before they can go to that division. I dont know if that happens or not, but this thing when one movers over to the rail side, does it for five years and then all of a sudden, you know, he or she wants to do actual work on overtime and overtime is on the bus side, do they get retrained at all, or can they just go over to the bus side while being retrained . Well, thats a special circumstance, we do have i mean, all the operators obviously on rail would be considered dual mode because they were Bus Operators first, but there are some that do like to move back and forth, they do get Refresher Training when its necessary, most of the time when they land over there, they stay over there and force them back because what we dont have is the training breaks down, we cant call another train to pick them up, we have to get a bus and thats the person thats going to operate that bus, when we have special projects going on where they cant run the rail and they have to do bus substitution, normally those people will be brought in training for a refresher on motor coach all over again. My last question is, there are other vehicles that muni has, maybe this is a general question, im thinking for instance cable cars, theres always those trucks that come by and help them change the griper thing, thats what i remember, i remember those trucks and i assume theres tow trucks and so forth. Yes. Are there specific training for those particular drivers . They do receive training. I dont particularly provide that training other than for their licensing, so many of them come on and they dont have a commercial license, theyll come through our Training Program, go through that in order to get their commercial license and theyll return to their department where they get training specifically on that vehicle. So, does that belong to muni, those it does, but thats housed under maintenance. Okay, so maybe the question is what kind of specific and, again, this might not be one for you to answer, but if anybody can answer this, for the maintenance truck drivers, what kind of training do they get . Well, they would get the same as what ive described, its without all of the stuff that operators have to learn in terms of the routes, the fares and things like that, theyll go through the initial training of pretrip inspection, the skills course setting, the road training and things like that in order to be able to qualify for the license, and then anything that they would get beyond that which is specifics to the job that would be handled inhouse by that group, i hope im answering your question. E this ear qualified to operate a commercial Motor Vehicle once we finish with them, and once they get to their particular division, theyll get additional training on a specific piece of equipment and they handle that. I guess there was legislation that i believe supervisor kim introduced a while ago that asked specifically for the big vehicle training, is that true, supervisor kim, or commissioner kim, and is it relevant to these type of vehicles . Sorry, john [inaudible], mta is committed to making sure that everybody drive as large vehicle, whether its a bus or a maintenance vehicle or whatever else views the large vehicle training video. Weve worked with ken, you saw the list of regulatory training requirements, so were working to get that into the muni training but as these drivers go through the training that we do and [inaudible] as well. Thank you, any other questions . Just a quick question. Do you know how much the city i dont know if you have numbers for the last five years or so, pays in terms of claims involving drivers . I dont know that off the top of my head, thats a number we could look for and get back to you on. Thank you, and if you could give us not only any court case where weve had to pay but also any torte claim, you know, i mean, before it gets to court, and then if theres any other settlement. Thank you. Ill get you everything we can. Thank you very much. Seeing no other questions, are there any are we finished . No, i was remiss in my talking about the video, i just did want to thank both the board and staff for their i mentioned prop k, i didnt thank you for your support on that because you guys are key partners i think in putting together this presentation, you know, there was a comment earlier about agencies working together but i think it also shows the many different departments, were a large agency, sfmta and we Work Together in many ways and youve been models for the city. Thats refreshing to hear. And its okay, folks, if you want to remind me that i should be calling my colleagues commissioners, not supervisors here. Lets see, Public Comment . Come on up. Hi again, commissioners, im cat thy delucca with walk San Francisco, and im here today to urge you to consider adopting a policy that would require all city drivers to get training, required Safety Training on a regular basis, on an annual basis every single year. The tragedy that happened to tu phan, she was hit by a City Employee driving a city vehicle, that driver i think another part of the training should also include letting city drivers know what theyre exempt from or not exempt from because the driver who hit and killed tu phan was making a left turn where the left turns are restricted but there are exempting to these turn and is he may thought he was exempt as a city driver, so its imperative that the city lets its employees know what they are exempt from and not exempt from. The employees deserve that. This gentleman is going the spend the rest of his life knowing what his actions resulted in, so we think the best way to go about this is to have a citywide policy that says all citywide drivers would get this training, a robust Safety Training on a regular basis and i applaud all of the effort that is the different departments are doing now, but it seems like we need one consistent program. Thank you. Thank you for mentioning that because prior to the meeting just talking about the agenda, i was asking pretty similar questions about whos presenting and whos not and im wondering if theres any universal sort of policy that we have in the city that would make it mandatory for everybody to pretty similar if not the same training so i am a person moving in that direction, you i want to give people an opportunity, theres going to be i want to ask for a ko n wans of this item later because i realize not everyones here to present, so i want to give them a chance and then move on to policy if necessary, so thank you for bringing that up. Yeah, thank you for your leadership. Hello, commissioners, i i want to mention there was a fatality two months in San Francisco of somebody who was hit over a year ago, he was a member of the cable car crew, at his Funeral Service at Grace Cathedral was tom maguire and ed ris k in, myself and his family members because ray died and what came of this and its unfortunate, it takes a fatality, i have heard and maybe he can confirm this, it is mandatory for all cable car crew to wear fluorescent vests on with vertical white stripes on them, thats a great decision, its unfortunate it took a fatality, two were hit but ray passed away this year. Thank you. Any other Public Comments . Seeing none, Public Comment is now closed. Any other comments from my colleagues . If none, could i have a motion to continue this item to the call of the chair . Motion to continue to the call of the chair . Okay, with no objection, motion passes, thank you. Lets go back to item number 5 i think. Item 5, update on speeding education hold on, why are you waging up here . To give item number 5. Oh, sorry. Okay. Item 5, an update on speeding Education Campaign, this is an information item. Good afternoon, so my name is ar y el and im a planning analyst with the sfmta, im going the present on item 5, the speeding Education Campaign, this is a campaign were working on with the sf Police Department and the department of Public Health. Were focusing on speed, as we know, excessive speeding is really especial to fatalities, you have seen this image in front of you, we know the imperative of people getting to drive the speed limb, people need to slow down and it will eliminate the deaths, so we have three goals for this effort, the first is to reduce speeding on San Francisco streets, the second is for there to be a reduction in injuries and fatalities of people who walk and bike caused by vehicles who drive too fast, this is funded by an active transportation grant, a key focus is on speeding and people who bike and walk, and to increase bicycling and walking in San Francisco is the third goal, the idea that they will create this safer environment that we should see people more willing to bike and walk on our streets, were ants paying there will be other outcomes as a result of this effort, were seeing [inaudible] and an increase commitment for speed compliance. Sorry. And also social norms that are more supportive of slow speeds. So, how are we going to do this, how are we going to really reduce speeds, were going to do this by changing the culture thats around speeding websinger have a cull xhur that says speed ising acceptable, its okay, its an appropriate way to get to point a to point b, thats not acceptable and its not the culture we want to have in San Francisco, thats what were trying to do is change the culture, so today im going to briefly go through the four components of the campaign and these are enhanced enforcement, education and media, grass roots organize sagging and evaluation, the core of this campaign is enforcement and media and this is because we know that enforcement education work best when paired, they strengthen each other, enforcement provides the general deterrence that theres consequence, education gets at those behaviors and norms that get people to speed in the first place, so much of that decision to speed is based on those attitudes and how they think about expedia which is why media and education is so important to this effort. Is first aspect of the campaign that ill talk about is the enhanced enforcement and a piece of the enhanced enforcement is high visibility enforcement, thats essentially enforcement that is visible, frequent and proactive and it is achieved by having lots of Police Officers at the same time on a predictable basis and also through publicity elements, whether thats a press conference, billboards or radio ads and the visibility things like a sobriety check point, so the visibility sign, so for this campaign, were going to have 132 extra hours of week of enforcement, 60 of these hours are going to be this high advise nlt enforcement, were going to have 12 Police Officers doing enforcement encore doors, ill go over those corridors in just a minute. Well be iteming this enforcement with edge kaix, with media, with press conferences to get that strong message out that speeding is not acceptable in San Francisco. In addition, were also going to have 72 hours of week of enhanced enforcement citywide and using this additional enforcement to really further spread the message and get out that message that speeding is not acceptable, that we do not approve that in San Francisco. These are the corridors we collect selected for the high visibility enforcement effort, we used data to select these corridors and worked with our Steering Committee, the walk sf, [inaudible] to determine which corridors are prioritized, these are corridor that is tha are on the vision zero high injury radar, corridors where weve seen high rates of speeding, we want to get the message out, we selected corridors with high Traffic Volumes so people can see what is happening and see and see and hear these message and is finally we selected corridors which lidar enforcement, i want to emphasize that the enforcement thats happening on these corridors, its really about making that big impact, the education corridors are going to go out strong and say speeding cant happen if San Francisco, you need to slow down and save lives, thats the focus, its not revenue raising, its to get out that message that we cant have speeding and those extra 72 hours will have the additional enforcement that will be citywide will amplify and spread those messages to all different part of the city, through this campaign sh were having this heightened message and spreading that every wherever. Well be combining the enforcement component with education and media and were going to be having billboards and radio ads and the like throughout the city, weve hired mig as our campaign consultant, we need to do research and understand the behaviors that residents have towards speeding, what motivates people to speed, is it about a pleasure people associate with speed, is it lifestyle, is it getting somewhere fast, is it because people dont think speed ising a big deal, we need to understand what motivates people to speed, so we can change that turn around speeding, were going to be focus groups and survey, best Practices Research on speed related campaigns and just in generating were going to be looking at what makes a positive productive, successful road safety campaign, were going to use the learning from this effort to devise a content of our aniseed messages, so from may through august, were going to be developing our media and outreach strategies, in august, were be launching back to school enforcement, you can think of it sz a mini version of this larger campaign, well be following this up in september where were going to be launching our major media component, well start working through the department of Public Health with Community Groups to be doing targeted on the ground culturally appropriate background around speeding and in october, well be doing the citywide component, well be doing education first, its about sustaining our culture and we want that to be strong about that. Er i have a question, youre and youre giving so much information in this short time that im trying to absorb this. In regards to peoples behavior and why they do it and part of it, i can speculate maybe and theres more traffic in peoples behavior and it becomes worse. Theres times of the year i think where there might be the traffic is a little bit lighter than others, like spring break. Sure. And winter break or whatever, im wondering if one would look at evaluating peoples reasons for speeding or not speeding, are they speeding more maybe its not me evaluating why theyre doing it, but extrapolating during those periods where you have fewer cars on the road, are we seeing fewer tickets for speeding . Yeah. Im just curious. I dont know whether its something we can figure out, thats something we can look at in our research, again, what motivates people to speed, is the traffic slow, are you trying to keep up with the cars that are around you, trying to get at those behaviors that cause people to speed. In our evaluation, we can look at stuff like that, Traffic Volume and is the impact on traffic values on speeding behavior, thats something we can consider. Okay. So, for more information about this, where were we . So, well be laufrnling again in october with our citywide enforcement and well have 52 weeks of the education and the enforcement. So, again, this evaluation component, were going to be doing a really comprehensive rigorous evaluation of the campaign, we know if were successful in reaching our goals, if we reached a Large Population of San Francisco residents with our message, if those residents change their perception, started thinking differently about speeding and if that change in perception led to a change in behavior, are we seeing slower speeds on our street sos this is what dph will be leading through their evaluation effort. And finally although this campaign doesnt have any specific edgebacker engineering or policy aspects to it, vision vao er row is about being systematic, thinking comprehensively and in a coordinated fashion, and how does this education effort lay were the enforcement, how the different efforts were doing are all complementing and supporting each other through this effort. Im really in the end kind of building up support for safer streets, this is a spectrum of prevention a tool that you might have seen here and the change on the complex safety issue, we really have to make changes on the micro and macro level to sustain change, were going to be using this campaign to get public support for safe streets, this is an enforcement Education Campaign with 132 hours of week of extra speed safety enforcement with an enhanced media component. Are you done . Yeah. Any questions . Seeing none, thank you for your presentation, hopefully well get some good results out of this. Lets see, any Public Comments on this item . We cant finish without me coming up one more time, im kathy delauding ka from walk San Francisco, good afternoon again, commissioners. Im really excited the city is addressing speed, its the top collision factor in the city and walk sf is on the Steering Committee, so we thank ar y el and mta staff theyre doing on 2 campaign, i wanted to mention here, i thought it would be a Good Opportunity to mention some concerns we have about vision zero enforcement and equity, its something that sort of were thinking about more and more as we continue our vision vao er row work is are we being equitable in our enforcement efforts as part of vision sao er rho and specifically were a bit concerned about sending police into communities of color and lowincome communities in the name of vision vao er row, so in this program, one of the corridors that is legated is in the bayview, and you know, that community is still dealing with the after math of the shooting of mario woods, so the question is, is it a good idea to send police into that community, is it going to aggravate a situation thiss already tense, is it going to benefit the Community Members there, so i just wanted to raise this issue as something were thinking about and were bringing it to the Steering Committee to talk about but i think its really important to think about that with equity. Are the fines for speeding as part of this Campaign Going to disproportionately negatively impact lowincome communities, so we dont have this in our vision zero policy, we dont say explicitly that were going the make sure that our enforcement is equitable, but i think we can still take actions that do that, so maybe instead of having enforcement in some of these community, we do education, maybe we have speed feedback signs instead of officers on the ground, soits just something were thinking about and talking about and i just wanted to raise it here as an issue that should be addressed. Thank you. Thank you, any other Public Comments . Seeing none, Public Comment is now closed. Okay, where are we . Item number 7 . Item 7, introduction of new items, this is an information item. Okay. Theres no new items, lets move on, item number 8. Item 8, general Public Comment. 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Thank you. Any other Public Comments . Seeing none, Public Comment is now closed. Mr. Clerk . Item 9, adjournment. Thank you very much, thanks for coming here to listen to this very important discussion on vision zero. meeting is adjourned . Than we get to do today. Today together through the years. So, thank you. Give ourselves a hand. [applause] so, yesterday i had a great opportunity to talk to jt. Is he here. He may not be here. We are working withoptical and as you know i got the most essential things we give out. Some of you may even have heard the story that i told about being a child not having glasses. We didnt have money to pay for glasses. My parents took me from church, 2 different places, to try to get free glasses and by the time we got there the place would be closed with av out. We missed him by this bus stop. My mom was crying we do not hope to get me glasses to go to school and a woman walked up and paid for me to get classes from fred meyer. That changed my life and been a bad student to being somebody who then had opportunities to rise and be the person i am today. Thats what you guys are doing here today. You are being a person who was to me. You get to be that friend today and i want to thank you. There is one or 2 things that dr. Me nuts about working in this field. There is a misnomer and a stigma that probably a lot of people here, and when you tell people today they spent the day working with the homeless, people are then ask you some questions. Theres 2 misnomers i really want to address what i was talking to jt at sea salt one of our new partners. I was saying to him, i love your idea that they understand theres a difference between street behavior in people expensing homelessness, and then, secondly, i love that they understood that people sleeping on our street and the people sleeping in our shelters are our community. We believe that its the build of streams sometimes a Little Services that people figured thats not accurate. 7080 of people outside our brothers and sisters. Their san franciscans. Another 10 come from somewhere in the state and so they cant just look at them and say we dont need to. We truly are community. When you go home, pass that around. Let people know these are our brothers and sisters and when you change the way we look, when we change that stigma, we are able to change the way we view people who need help. I am also asking what makes San Francisco so special that we are able to not only phd we do our best practices in the country, but several other best practices like the Navigation Center, like hamilton house,. I could list the many wonderful organizations like hospitality, all those great organizations. That we have. The city. The reason we have them is because the city cares. With the coming of i laugh as i watched silk and dolly have you seen that show and tech can change almost become a tech can change the world. Well actually counseling intact who i really think can really take a step at ending homelessness. While met her about 2 years ago but her name is rose broome. She came to me with this idea and since then has spread this idea of handout. Spread this idea which ill let her talk about. Since then shes been awarded as entrepreneur and innovator shes been is been replicated it over to an 50,000 have gone to her agency to give directly to participants for housing for things like healthcare, things that they need to first and last months payment. Those type of things we would have able to get elsewhere. It through for her innovation in technologies and thats what makes San Francisco so great. None of us sit back and say we dont know what to get we all try. Thank you for being here today in trying to want to introduce you to somebody has never given up and really believes that technology has a place in changing homelessness. My good friend rose broome, executive director of hand up. [applause] hey, everyone. Im so excited to be here with you this morning to share the story of hand up and also to share the story of innervation that we all see her in San Francisco. So, about 3 years ago walking down the street i had been experiencing seeing a woman sleeping on the sidewalk and this is something that so familiar to all of us. I asked myself, why and why there wasnt an easier way to give and to help my homeless neighbor. I took that idea and started talking with friends in the community and got introduced to carrot at project homeless connect. I share the idea with her, and she said lets try it. I had no idea at the time what an incredible and rare opportunity and openness she had and a project homeless connect had to try new things and getting new models off the ground. Just the phc model itself has not been replicated in to inner cities across the country. So she said lets give it a try. And a few months later we launched handout right here at the project homeless connect event and now we have raised over 1 million in donations directly for homeless neighbors. We are in 5 states. We have 25 nonprofits are using hand up and its all because tara, project homeless connect, and San Francisco was open to trying something new, to use technology in a new way and to create something from scratch, try it out and watch it in the community. Thank you. [applause] all of you are here because you care, and you have to keep showing up. We have to keep on innovating. We have to bring our friends and we have 2 and homelessness and San Francisco. [applause] i just want to finish by saying thank you to carrot to the mayor, to all of the Human Service organizations that come here and work in collaboration, and to this incredible event that we all put on together to help care for our neighbors and to help create a better San Francisco. Thank you. [applause] auto you a little more about canada. And up with you donate directly to specific homeless neighbors in your community. On our website and up. Word. We also help nonprofit Human Service organizations raise money for their own organization causes and track all of that in our software. You can see who you are helping cope with your donation will, what your impact was. So if you want to be with to help a specific neighbor on our site or a specific agency that you care about, you can go to our site, canned up. Word and help them directly. Thanks, everyone. [applause] the next person is one my favorite parts of my job. Introducing mayor lee. Its exciting to me a 2nd to say why its so exciting. Just because he does because hes the mayor but because he really believes that we can and homelessness and he is invested as you guys have seen with a west coast mayors to do although we can do to put a change an end to suffering on our streets. Thats what is why to me being able to introduce this man is the greatest honor. Thank you mayor lee for all you do for San Francisco. Thank you. [applause] mayor lee thank you, carol, for all the work and leadership you do. Those, and handout, thank you very much. Give another hand for hand off. [applause] mayor lee Beautiful People here. Volunteers of San Francisco. Thank you and welcome to the 62ndalmost close to my age62nd gathering of our project homeless connect. Its one of its wonderful to see all be here today to represent your humanity. Your love for each other. Your support for people who need help, but most importantly, the way we do things in San Francisco is the way answer for any complicated problem like homelessness is to come together, to share resources, ideas and not try to block each others ideas out and to try to do something that has an overall goal. So, you know, as the mayor of this wonderful city, ive had to think through many long hours and a lot of conversations with people and try not to just react to the motion. Some people tell me on a daily basis, why doesnt that homeless person just go away from in front of me . How, it has to happen . What is going on here breed how come youre not doing anything about it . As if, the mayor could snap his or her fingers and homelessness will go away. Well, those of you who are volunteering today, those of you who are been part of 62 sessions, those of you who are working with us are realizing how complicated homelessness is, and that how easy that one could slip into homelessness in a extensive city like San Francisco. It is happening in so many other cities and we have to be cognizant of it. What i have learned is that everything has got to work in the city in order to answer the challenge of homelessness, but also prevent it from happening. Thats why you see me working with libby shaft on raising the minimum wage across the state of california because having good pay prevent a lot of people from being homelessness. Thats why you have been working with the supervisors in so many Community Groups that evictions from rentcontrolled housing in San Francisco. Thats another thing that we have to do. Thats why we spend money doping rehabbing, inventing the building more housing like we havent done for decades. We are doing it now. Forgetting to a pace. We are asking Developers Must do more. We are doing more in our private sectors and while we do all these things have the ultimate goal of building more Affordable Housing and getting more opportunities there, and having people have good jobs, and stabilizing the neighborhoods, the people being on the street need our help on an immediate and on a transitional basis, and permanent exit. This is why project homelessness is so valuable because in many instances, these are the first batch is for people that quite frankly, not a lot of people are like rose and others who walk by and say, hey i want to help that person. A lot of people walk by and they just walked by. We accept its. Then we begin that barrier in her mind saying somebody elses problem. Homelessness is everybodys challenge. We have to have everybody working on it. Thats why i say, thank you to all of you for coming together on this day because the project homeless day and project homeless and every day homelessness projects that we have now gathered together, not just volunteers, but our experts from her health apartment, Human Services department of our social services department, our hot teens that sam dodge and devin used up help lead to get people into transitional homes like the Navigation Centers like shoulders were trying to improve, like the watching we have ed here are 80 and putting on an everyday basis and today i get to announce that because of your help, because of the problems you help us identify it deeper into and the solutions youre coming up with an everybodys idea is welcome in this challenge of our homelessness, that today we are announcing another Navigation Center opening in San Francisco. Yes. Another 93 units of housing thats going to be for the next 2maybe 3 years another Navigation Center on Market Street and we done all the outreach. Weve worked with the Plumbers Union of a trust fund that owns the building and is kind of a Rundown Hotel for many years admittedly and what weve done we are working with the Community Housing partnerships to manage the entire building with city funds through the nonprofit and in the partnership we are creating the 2nd of our very successful Navigation Centers. Have you ever had a chance to visit our Navigation Center at 16th . Get down there if you want to see what well hope is because were putting everything that we can possibly think is best models into our Navigation Center. That is a center where youve got all the services they are on the 20 or 7 basis. That workpiece managing all the issues that were bringing in people good that we have a welcome atmosphere that people want to go to a bar Navigation Centers because not only will they be treated humanely like people should be, but at the end of the Navigation Center his permanent housing. This is what we promised in all of our navigation sense. Its what we should be doing every shelter, right . Yes. We should have and and goal for everyone. That Navigation Center as we open them up, we are not just warehousing people. We are not just putting them in a place that they just sit there and dont do anything. We are trying to help them gather their lives, build friendships, reconnect with their families. Get the Public Health that they need good get the services that support they need. Great the system of support for people just like you would do even if you are not homelessness could when i moved to my neighborhood, you know, i try to make friends with people, get a support system in which is anything could happen wherever you live, and Everybody Needs friends. They need relationships. They need our local kidneys can support them and this is what were doing for people that are homeless. Theyre ordinary people. Someone lost a job. Someone got evicted. Someone who came here and had great dreams like many of you do and fell on hard times. It causes it. What complicates it and overlook all learning if youre on the streets too long then mental issues start appearing. Maybe some medication, some habits start forming. Maybe you get together with people you didnt know and all of a sudden theyre not as friends you thought they would be. All of this happens in real life. It happens on our streets. We recognize it. Thats why were developing this model of Navigation Centers to answer that to bring people hope to give them a comfortable environment and to give them a supportive environment and to give them a successful environments. Thats what all of you are about. Youre although creating that environment of people, helping each other, and thats why organizations like hand up are so valuable. In all the different tech companies, corporations that come and be part of the project homeless connect personal bible because it brings us together in this humanity focused way. So, what did you more of that. This Navigation Center is 93. This whilst i have 2 announce . Today, 200 additional permanent units of housing for formerly homeless this are being est. As a result of this. [applause] mayor yee when you have a few thousand people then you kind of say, that doesnt answer. Again, answering homelessness you got to do it on a block by dr. Places. That maybe 100 units at a time. These things can be done overnight. No one promises to answer homelessness overnight but our dedication is real. It is human focus. Its not moving people from corner to corner. Its really celebrating life and making sure we embrace the lives of the people that were taking care of. I commit to you, as long as i am mayor, i put up 1000 people off the streets permanently. Thats what we are going to do as a city. Are you going to join me on that . All right. How about the new department to an homelessness for 8000 people, consolidating that getting a vision sees, getting the commitments on an everyday business ending homelessness for a woman, for a family, for somebody who is a veteran or anyone who might have any challenges in their life. Drugs were psychiatric issues, we are going to help them get that help them in permanent housing and i were going to be able with its bonding june to have a facility at sf General Hospital site, one of the greatest hospitals in the world. Theyre going to have a site to help eagle with her psychiatric challenges that we should be having. Not to close him down like tacit and past administrations have done. We need support for people who do confront themselves with a Mental Illness challenges that oftentimes living on the streets for years will create. So, i wanted this opportunity to tell you this city is on the move to help people could weve always been the city of st. Francis. You fulfill that by being here today and be a part of it. I want to say, thank you, thank you, and thank you divide more time i would do that 62 times to celebrate people coming together the spirit in which you do it, the spirit of San Francisco. Thank you for being volunteers. Thank you for being the greatest san franciscans in the world. [applause] good evening ladies and gentlemen and welcome to the regular meeting march 28, 2016 of the San Francisco Ethics Commission. Commissioner andrews, here. Commissioner hayon, here. Commissioner keane, here. We have a visitor. Commissioner hur. Let me say we welcome you back and particularly in the view the fact well cover the wistal blow rr regulations we passed at the last meeting and i see you didnt bring your plaque that you stethly took away in february. It wasnt given to me but it is reviding in my office. Welcome. I will ask for Public Comment on matters appearing or not appearing on the agenda and believe madam assesser is here to make a few words thank you. Good afternoon commissioners. Executive director pelm. We were in the crowd wondering about commissioner hurs name tag. Glad to hear you have one. Today i want to come here because today is commissioner hurs last day with the Ethics Commission and would prefer to find a way to extend his term but i want to express my gratitude and present you with a certificate of honor on the Ethics Commission. The mission of the Ethics Commission is promote the highest level of ethics in government and know how fundamental it is so the people of the city have the trust and faith in government we all kneis so importantism there is a very fast 6 years, not sure if you feel the same way. I believe you have been able to serve in this role with great distinction. [inaudible] insureing not only fair processes and also transparence and effective processes. He is a complete role model for dialogue and thoughtful leadership. Ben stayed true to the principles and integrity and his leadership shined rchlt imerallyy happy to be able to say thank you to commissioner hur in particular as the appointee even though i wasnt the one who appointed you. I hope will be able to serve and have an appointment to the commission who is able to serve as ablely as you have. Thank you for your service and if i could present this to commissioner hur. It is a certificate of honor on behalf the sitee and county of San Francisco and our office. We extend our higher accommodation and gratitude for your service on the San Francisco Ethics Commission. We want to say and note the capacity you have served with distinction, unwaurfbing commitment to insure fair processing and thoughtful leadership guiding on enforcement relulation and policy. We are in your debt and offer our deepest appreciation. Thank you commissioner hur. Thank you very much. Thank you you very much for those remarks and look forward to commissioner hurswe look forward to the new appointment commissioner, that you will be appointing. Im sure that he or she will be equally outstanding. He or she will have a tough road to follow. Thank you again. Any other Public Comment . Patrick [inaudible] shah. I want repeat thanking commissioner hur for his [inaudible] the Ethics Commission vote to mr. [inaudible] behavior had not risen to the definition of official misconduct. As i noted previously a once anonymous analysis at the [inaudible] im submitting for inclusion in the minutes turned out to have been authored by San Francisco private practice [inaudible] it was distributed to the full board of sups. [inaudible] didnt meet the definition of official misconduct. Thankfully along with commissioner hur, supervisors campos and kim reached the same correct conclusion. It is a pity other commissioners including mrs. Hayon didnt understand the significance of [inaudible] legal analysis in the face of the mayors bold attempt to strip City Employees of protection against faults official misconduct allegations. Since larry bush is unable to attend i want to repeat [inaudible] distribution to the commission. First, i agree with bushes recommendation that this commission return to issuing its own annual report. Second, i also agree with bushes suggestion calling for annual wistal blower Protection Training for all. Let me repeat, all City Employees, not just city supervisor and man injuryial employees and not just a handful of City Employees required to complete form 700. Required to take annual sunshine ordinance training and biannual ethics training. I recall as a City Employee i as a secretary was required to take annual Sexual Harassment prevention training which included having to sign under oath i completed the training. Adding antiretaliation wistal blower training for all City Employees is a logical next step. Mrs. Bush calls for [inaudible] managerial employees retaliated against City Employees, i believe that recommendation should be expand today include mandatory unpaid suspension for 30 days as a deturant for retaliation. That may be the quick est route to curtailing retaliation against employees. Thank you. Members of the Ethics Commission, [inaudible] in november 2014 following advice posted on the Ethics Commission website i contacted ethics investigator garered chaield. After he was unable to dissuade me from filing he suggested a meeting the following the week. At that meeting [inaudible] tried for a hour to dissuade me from filing a complaint, any complaints. They did promise to look into it and get back to me. In january i contacted the new executive director leon pel umwho insured me i must have misunderstood the Ethics Commission investigator and said she will look into and get back to me. We are 4 and half months later and no response from anyone in those conversations including and especially the ecextev director. I believe have grounds to question whether any investigation is partial, starting where your next meeting ill file complaints directly with theectics commission in full view of the public, try to hide those complaints. When you go to the people who are supposed investigate complaints and before they look at anything they tell you there is no basing for sth complaint and dont understand why you want to file a complaint. It agregious and unacceptable and immoral and it is certainly unethical. To have the executive director commit to me trice to look into the matter and fail to do anything at all shows me she is just another continuation of john st. Croix. The john st. Croix who could decide yourhering while you were outf the state or no sunshine ordinance referral would be held because she didnt like the way they did things. You spent years go around and around by it sunshine ordinance and havent enforced but one time and that was against jewel gomez and recommended the mayor she be removed and the mayor ignoreed you just like everybody else. A year later we embarrassed sending a later to the mayor and saying what is your response to the recommendation and didnt bother responding. You are not worth his attention. In fact, im willing to bet mayor lee holds you all in contempt. He 12349 go isnt going it do anything you recommend. As far as mr. Hur, im glad youre gone because i cant think of one thing in your term you have done that made the city more ethical for its citizens. Any other Public Comment . David [inaudible] speaking as a individual as i commented add the jnl meeting i want appreciate commissioner hur and join in the comments of carmen chew and thank for all his time. Unfortunately we have term limits but think thank you for the work on the commission. Any others . Seeing none i return to item 3 on the agenda, which is the annual election of officers and discussion and possible action. To elect a chair and vice chair for the coming year. Commissioner keane. Mr. Chair, iwe nominate you to surfb a second year as chair the committee. Is there a second . Any discussion . Yeah, excuse me for jumping in. Deputy attorney [inaudible] a chair cant serve more than one year. Two consecutive years you have been violating it many years then. Thats not correct, it is two consecutive years my apology any discussion . Any Public Comment . David fillpeal speaking as a individual, i have no objection to president renne continues for another year i just want to ask publicly since there a new appointee to replace commissioner hur whether you want to continue for a month so the new commissioner can have a opportunity to participate but otherwise i dont think there is a problem tonight. Any other comments . My only comment is i think it would be great to have the continuity of you as chair. I think there is a transitional period with our new executive director and the other issues we are dealing with, so ii think you have done a great job and would like you to continue if you are willing to do it. Thank you. Patrick mu net shah. With all due respect chair renne and due respect to commissioner hur who i will also not be sorry to see leave, if you have been violating your own bylaws as commissioner hur claims, it is time for fresh blood and so i would urge commissioner andrews to nominate commissioner keane who is displayed it during his term on this commission some the soundest legal reasoning and ethical reasoning i have heard on this commission in the 20 years i have lived in San Francisco. Time for some fresh blood, commissioner. Thank you. Commissioners [inaudible] San Francisco open government. This is relate today the election so dont try to tell me you are not talking about the item. During the jan 25, 2016 meeting regarding the [inaudible] mark farrell chair fenny displayed how far he will go to hide from the publics the machination from the commission. First your own members had no idea why it was own the ajnda. Placing something on thugenda with attachments but not saying what the hell it is on there for leaves the public at a disadvantage. Now the public has no idea why it was on the agenda or what commissioner renne was authorized to do. Commissioner hayon doesnt seem to understand much of what goes on here during Ethics Commission meet ings and contributes little or nothing meaningful to discussions. That leaves two suitable candidates, andrews and peter keane. With these members i believe there is at least a possibility that the will the citizens of San Francisco for ethical government will stand any chance. Give ethical government a chance. I have watched you for years now and you are the most sorry bunch of people with exception to mb sellven and keane. Mr. Keane tried to stand up for something you were doing is hide from the public your backroom deal and whatever meckination you will pull regarding supervisor farrell. Supervisor hayon and hur, sure visor hur especially went along with it because it is their position on the Ethics Commission to withhold as much as they can from the public. Again, i ask those members what have you done on the Ethics Commission you can name that made any difference in the ethical atmosphere in the town . We have a mayor raising money illegally and a state senator going to prison. The citizens of San Francisco are tired of all the Different Things like going on like [inaudible] gate and whatever and they disappear into the nether world and never hear of them again and think that is what will happen and the matter related to supervisor farrell. You will make a back room deal with him, he will do the deal and somehow it will disappear into the nether world. At least supervisor keane and with some support from supervisor sullivan made a attempt to take the piece of grbage ouf the agenda. You can attach knck you want to the agenda including the San Francisco telephone book, it doesnt mean the item meaningful and when your own members have to come in and start out arguing for 25 minutes about whether you should have it on thugenda i think it is pretty clear the public was disserved. Now, as far as commissioner keane remaining or commissioner renne remaining as the president , i dont giver a damn if there is one or two terms he doesnt deserve it. What have you done commissioner to do anything to make the City Government more answerable to the people . To make elections fair . You nibal around the edges and go after people who cant defend it themselves and think you do it personally based on your personal animosity and the orders you have from the people who appoint you. [inaudible] renne should have never been before the body and should be removed on a recall not on a jury rigged policy and you and you and you were at the center of that. Thank you. Any other Public Comment . Any discussion . I would like to echo commissioner hayon about the leadership of you. You and commissioner an drews and the selection from the executive director and all the work you did on prop c meeting with the public and serving as our representative, it was a lot of extr work and appreciate it. Thank you. I call the question. All in favor . Aye. Opposed . One obtain and 4 approve. The second item on actually you cant obstain. I have a conflict of interest but ill vote if that makes you happier. Im happier item 3 is the election of the vice chair. Do i hear a nomination . Commissioner keane . Yes, i also like to renominate commissioner andrews as vice chair to the commission. I hear a second . Second. Any discussion . Any Public Comment . Patrick mu net shah. On the way into this chamber i spoke with commissioner andrews and he said between his work on the Ethics Commission as a commissioner his work on the non profit he is too busy for, so if that is the case, and if he were being honest about matters, i think he should thank commissioner keane for the generous nomination and indicate that he isnt interested in the position because he is too busy and futhermore, i think commissioner andrews should nominate commissioner keane, who has displayed the most ethical behavior on the body. [inaudible] San Francisco open government. While i do support the appointment or election of commissioner andrews as the vice chair, i really do believe it would have been better had he been the chair. I will do something now that i did at a Library Commission meeting which got me into trouble and made the newspaper. I talked about ainksant room where they appoint someone for life because the Library Commission appointed the same two people year after year and i said well, maybe it will be like the Roman Republic where we have a chance of an asassination to make a change. He is threatening and doing this the president the Library Commission, jewel gomez and these are her words not mine. I know 12people who would bury him. That is the attitude toward Public Comment. If you dont like what somebody has to say you threaten them and you fight them. I have 7 orders of determination gaest the library and commission for withholding public records part of which was to keep [inaudible] and found to file false perjureed statements and the group of the San Francisco Public Library who spends 6 million or more dollars a year money raised in the name of the city of San Francisco and not one body or individual in this City Government can tell anybody where that money went. That was the hearing we had that i was out of state and decided to do it cleverly and announce it before i left and hold it before i got back. You are too much of a coweredset of cowereds to bring it back and hold a honest hearing. We need new leadership and we need to get rid the two people i think are the worst. We have already gotten rid of one, mr. Hur. Commissioner hayon did nothing but stand up and say i was on the Library Commission and if the friends did it it must be okay which is totally prejudicial to my position. And commissioner keane, i really cant see what you do that serves any purpose at all. Sorry commissioner keane. Commissioner keane has shown some balls if you exkoos the expression. He questioned a item on the agenda last time and the rest of you with the exception of commissioner andrews went along and did what you always do which is go in the back and hide from the public. Thank you. Any other comments . Sorry, taking a moment. David [inaudible] speaking as a individual and want to support the nomination of commissioner andrews for vice chair since it appears you having the nomination tonight. Any commissioners have any comments before we vote . Alright, ill call the question. All in favor . Aye. Opposed . Commissioner andrews will remain vice chair for another year and well turn to item 4 which is discussion and possible action on a proposed stipulation, decision and order number ng ethics complaint 19131115 luinate sweet im garret [inaudible] one the investigators on staff. Can i interrupt youis mrs. Sweet here tonight . No, i dont believe she is. She was notified . She isnt required tobe here and she isnt here. So this matter for your consideration for approval the stipulation. This matter was initiated as a audit for mrs. Sweet Campaigns Committee 2010 where she ran for district 3 supervisor and she was publicly funded. Sorry, district 10. Mrs. Sweet Committee Received public funds so she was subject to a matte mandatory audit which covered the period from january 1 january 31, 2010. Mrs. Sweet was notified of the audit which she was as advised to require documents. She required documentation however there were dauments not provided. Throughout the course the audit the staff try today obtain the [inaudible] because she stopped responding to them audit staff went forward without the documentation they requested. The final report was issued july 17 making [inaudible] material findings form the basis of the stipulation. This matter has a probable cause hearing january 26, 2015 where the 10 counts were presented and the commission made the funding there was probable cause to believe the violations occurred and staff issued the acquisition on february 5. After the acquisition was issued mrs. Sweet contacted enforcement staff to deal with the matter where she provided additional documentation to staff when evidenced the other outstanding expenses however didnt do all of them. Staff proposed as a penalty in thet mayor that generally on line with recent stipulation of the recent violation but higher because she was uncooperative with audit and only engaged with the commission once acquisition was issued. So, i would request respeektfully you approve the stipulation as presented and happy to answer any questions about it for you. Am i correct in understanding that she was publicly funded . Correct, she was a publicly funded candidate the audit was mandatory because she afs candidate receiving Public Finance . That is correct in any of the other cases you say the recommended punishment in this case is in line with the other ones. Were they also dealing with public funds . Yes, so in i thinkone second. The example of complaint 2410, 1021 that candidate was publicly funded and had the same violation where she didnt turn in records and the commission for that violation was a 2500 fine to the extent you have records was it a indication they were improperly spent . The indication was the expenditures were okay. They were what they should be. The issue is that originally there was a large chunk that was missing and once the enforcement matter or once mrs. Sweet engaged with enforcement she did find additional records that this deal is outstanding reported expenses. There is some still unsupported, however, from what audits saw originally and what the enforcement staff saw after engaging with us, the records do support the right type of spending. How much is left unaccounted for . About 20,000. The make up as reported is 13,000 as salary payments and the remainder is various expenses, literature z office expenses, things like that. Do i hear a motion . Move to approval of the recommendation that we approve it. I hear a second . Second. Public comment . David [inaudible] speaking as a individual. Several comments on this item. Um, the report here and i would suggest in the future doesnt include the cam pine id number or the treasurers name, that would be helpful. Actually i take that back, page 3 includes the [inaudible] number but the treshier isnt named in here and think the id number should be part the caption on the matter. The audit report referenced wants included so there was discussion of the fact this is a publicly financed candidate but the amount of financing providing wasnt included and think that should be a consideration for the penalty amount. As you just discussed, the report indicates there is 20,000 plus in expendsures and 5 thousand in contributions that is still unaccounted for. It seems to me this is a good or bad example of Record Keeping and Record Keeping is kind of a corner stone requirement of Campaign Finance whether it publicly financed candidate or not. As i said, in the future i would include that information including the audit report that forms the basis of the recommendation squz in summary, i think the 9250 is low and encourage you to consider rejecting this amount and seek a higher amount and finally, the staff report has proposed stipulation but it is not signed and dated by the eare sponded so it isnt clear if the responded agreed to this amount. Normally when there is stip the stip includes a signature by the responded so it isnt clear if the responded agreed to this amount as a proposed settlement. Before youyou want to respond to that . Just briefly. Mr. [inaudible] stated that the amount of public funds she received waernt in the stipulation and that isnt correct. It is the third paragraph. She was the 57, 439 in public funds. The stipulation attached is proposed so mrs. Sweet agreed to it and there is a signed copy should the commission approve it, however i wasnt about to presume this would be approved so if this was rejected we would redraft a new one if that is what we were druckted directed to do. Thank you. Commissioners rea heart, [inaudible] San Francisco open government. Im a private citizen and dont pretend to take credit for serving on a Committee Like you do but i also dont have responsibility to do the job you are supposed to do and i think the very start of this with commissioner keane, commissioner renne admitting he doesnt know if there were public funds. He will vote and approve a recommendation where he doesnt know what the recommendation says. Sounds like he didnt bother to read it. I have asked whether this agreement is a joke. According to your own numbers lunet sweet cant account for 45 percent the contributions and public funds received by hercome pain. That is based on what i received from your staff in the mail and now we find we found another 25,000 which seems ludicrous you send out information to the public that is incorrect and put it on your agenda which is increblth and vote on it. If the Ethics Commission was asleep at the switch and failed to [inaudible] or she tafailed to follow the law and you didabout do squat about it. This would be something akin to my robbing a bank for 62,000 and when caught asked to return 9, 250 and keeping the rest. She still has a outstanding 20,000 balance and you ask her to pay 9250 which means she made a net profit. I believe the public has a right to know the rational for the exectesk directors recommendations. Public money was accepted and expended for the purpose of the politicalcome pain. 45 percent or 25 percent, whatever figure you choose to use because you are flexible in the number, how that money want spent will never be known to the public. Why should the public believe this finding is beingthis fine is being paid for with the very money that disappeared . I keep 20 thousand dollars of public money, put it in the bank and stick it under my mat rass and when you find the half i go under the mattress and pay you back your money and then laugh about what fools you are. This agreement is in fact a joke and if you approve it today you are a joke. This person by your own admission, your own investigators facts still has unaccounted for twice what you make the fine. That was like whenueese hurara took 5 thousand a year from friends the Public Library and fined 200 dollars for lying on a statement of economic interest under penalty of perjury. Thank you. Chair renne, i thought about keeping my yaper shut on this item but have to concur with ray hart. You asked the taxpayer tooz foot Public Financing and then as ray mention td you let lunet stick the money under the mattress and pull out half to pay a fine. Im turning to one of you with a ethical backbone. Introduce a motion to table this and send mr. Chatfield back to the investigative drawing board and finish that audit. Why should we do Public Financing . And finding the fining the candidate office for less than what they snatched out of the taxpayer coffers . I agree with mr. Hart that if you pass this thing without tabling it for further investigation, you will be making a mockery out of your own body. Good evening commissioners. Charley [inaudible] with foe, friends of ethics. We did pledge to the public back in 2000 with prop o that we would have concurrent and proactive auditing of Public Financing so we dont find ourselves in a position still deal wg a matter that should have been expedited. I understand why there is delay but hope in the future we will be tighter on the timeline. I did want to say i understand why some the questions are raised the way they are because we are educating the public who is watching on television and all they see is the header on the screen that described what the action is, but no details, so the fact is yes, Public Financing is involved and i think it would be important for you to explain to the public if in fact there is missing funds that would raise questions as to whether or not there is a liability and whether the da or the City Attorney as they have the right to do with the stipulation plan to proceed with any action or at least are considering doing so to recover any missing funds if it turns out there is a net balance due shortage in the Public Financing account. That should be explained i think as best as you can orally make that report now on television. I think there is simple explanation that could be explained and clarify confusion on the part of the public. I do think the fine is a little on the low side. I do think that normally fines should be used as a shield and not a sword. In Public Financing there is a margin i think or a appreciation that should be given. If there is something that is not making the reports in a concurrent and timely way, so in any event, i would just say at this point given the ability to collect might be a factor. The fact is the party will have to make a effort to make these good on these fines and hopefully that will happen and this will be wrapped up and we can look at any other shortages in the actual Public Financing accounts in this case, but i do recommend that you raise that and clarify it on television tonight. Any other Public Comment . Before we vote on it, let me say yashare when i read this the concern that some of the public expressed. When you deal with pup public money and a candidate cant account for how they spent the money, it would seem that at a minimum the penalty should have to be to pay whatever is missing. Now, that may not be doable for a number of reasons. It justi start from that assumption that if you take public money you got to account for it, that is what our ordinances say and let me ask this questionin our procedures when someone takes public money they have to file monthly reports . What do they have to file with the commission saying how they dispersed the money . They file the Campaign Statement reports on the schedule that the state mandates. When they apply for public funds there is a more scuteinous process about whether it contributions can be matched and those are vetted at that point but the expenditures come through just as every other campaign files the 460. I dont if it is legal but is it possible to set up a system where those candidates taking Public Financing have to report on a more frequent basis expenditures so we dont up at the end of the campaign they dont have the information that we need . Because some of the candidates may be inexperienced and may not have experienced treasurers and they dont find out that they havent complied until long after the fact. Is there some way that we dont get to the end and find out they failed to comply . That is a good policy issue you raise and not one i think i can necessarily answer, but i dont [inaudible] City Attorney but you can impose additional filing requirements. I dont see why we couldnt. I do want to address quickly that that is true there is the money unaccounted for we base this off the prior stipulation that the Commission Approved rel tivly recently which had money unaccounted for that they never turned documents over and that was a 2500 fine so if you have the [inaudible] well go back and talk to the responded about that. We pushed it up higher because of her unresponsiveness. I share chair renne concern and throughout the whole case i have been concerned about the amount that is unaccounted for and for the reason you raise, this is setting a president for the next time and concerned if we dont have a system where we are at least demanding what is unaccounted for that we create a precedent for future individuals will point to previous decisions and claim that approximately half of what is unaccounted for is the appropriate penalty. Im concerned about that as well. Did mrs. Sweet talk anything about any Financial Hardship she is having . I want to figure out the rational we apply to this up front. I think 2500 in the first 60 days and another level payments of 600i cant remember. There was discussion about that and her ability to pay and that is why the payment plan was considered into the agreement. I think that is probably the extent i could say at the moment. It was a part of the consideration though . As far as the payment plan goes. What is thei have to reread it, but if she fails to make payments as agreed to, what isis there a provision she is libel for the full amount . If you can go back to square one so to speak to collect if she fails to make a payment or misses a dollar we can reopen the matter and have the hearing and litigate at a hearing. Including the amount of the fine . The entire matter will be reopened. Based upon your discussions and investigation the ability to pay iswas a consideration . The ability to pay was a consideration in how she was going to pay. We didnt it didnt factor into total dollar amount that you thought the fine should be . I mean, we looked at the past stipulations that fts primarily what we looked at and they were around this dollar figure including the fact that they didnt have a return in the documents to show what they had spent on. Again, if you believe the 3500 is the one dedicated to the failure to disclose records or keep the records. You have the ability to send me back and renegotiate this with her if you feel that is too low. So, there are no records what so ever . She has no provided them. So we dont know whether there are records or not . She is unable to account for the remaining 20 some thousand dollars. What is the maximum that could have been imposed under all these counts . 5 thousand 5 thousand per violation so 50 thousand dollars could be imposed. Or 3 times the amount spent. Do we know what her financial situation is . I know that is asked, but is there any realty to our being able to collect any of this whether it be the 9250 or whether it be the 40,000 plus that is unaccounted for . She is unemployed and believe this amount is doable on the payment plan we set up. That is extent i know about her financial situation. Not sure what to say about that she hasnt offered a reason why she hasnt provided the documentation of the money that is missing . She has provided a reason without getting too far into details there is a issue with her treshier i believe the treshier didnt keep the record properly or maintained them in the way they were supposed to, however, as the candidate she is the responsible party. The treshier is also responsible but look that candidate in these matters. So, there was a legal issue with her treshier that created difficulty for her. So you are satisfied there is no ilintent on her part in regards to the records not provided to us . I tell you when the audit was issued and had the 45 percent the expenses still outstanding and finally contacted us and provided documentation for another 40,000 of spending that was accounted for. I wont speculate with the remaining 20 but Everything Else she provided supported what she supported and they were legitimate Campaign Expenses was there any indication you saw in your investigation she may have been pocketing money to herself . Other than campaign . There were a couple attachments tote aelg maybe 100. That was the extent that didnt have a receipt or equateed back to a legitimate expense of the 20 thousand remaining 13 thousand is reported salary to various Campaign Volunteers so that is a area of question. When you report salary without showing me a time sheet or something to support that. And you didnt check the individual who she said she paid the money to see if they got the money . That wasnt done at this point. Because this had already been determined probable cause based on what we have and cant add new things on it after a acquisition is issued. She contacted us and wanted resolve this. We believed we would bring forward the settlement to you. Of course you are at liberty to keep it open and direct me to do what you feel is appropriate at this point. Call the question. All in favor . Aye. Opposed . No. 3 to 2 opposed. Turning to item 5, discussion and possible action to select audit of Campaign Committees and lobbyists. Proceed. Thanks. Good evening. This is the item in your materials that provides you with the opportunity to randomly select campaigns that will be part the upcoming audit. These are for candidates and committees active in 2015 and subject to random audits. It is a opportunity to select lobbyist that will be subject to random audit subject to city law that requires random audits of lobbyist. We have a process, we have eric willet from audit staff and by quick background about the selection process. As you may recall, all publicly financed candidates have a mandatory audit so they will be audited at whatever level of campaignic tavety because they received Public Financing. The process tonight is randomly select other Campaign Audits for candidates controlled committees for committees that did not receive Public Finances, ballot measure committees and [inaudible] more than one election. So, we have again committees active in 2015, lobbyist audits effective july 2014, requires the commission to conduct one or more audits lobbyist. The first group the commission had selected back in march 2015 and we selected 4 lobbyist audits last year. Based on the guidelines you established back in 2008 the commission established in 20 o8, we propose to audit more committees and lobbyist for higher levels. We have a audit pool segregated inoo variety of levels. Spending my Campaign Committees above 20 o8, we propose to audit more committees and lobbyist for higher levels. We have a audit pool segregated inoo variety of levels. Spending my Campaign Committees above a ton thousand thresh hold represented nearly all Campaign Money reported. 99. 7 percent. Spending by Campaigns Committees with activity of 10,000 or less represented. 3 percent of all spending. Spending by lobbyist is above the 10,000 threshold with 10 thousand or 10 contacts that is the bulk of expenditures reported in 2015 and below the 10,000 10,000 threshhold represented. 4 percent of spending. The focus is trying to capture audits putting in the randle audit pool of those engaged in the greatest level of spending activity in citycome painsism we propose we select randomly 20 percent of the committees from a total of 53 committees that were active last year. This is 11 total committees that we propose to audit. 6 is from above 100,000. 3 would be in the midtier between 50 and 100,000 and fwo 2 is 10 thousand to 50 thousand. As we lobbyist audits we propose to select 4 lobbyist which equakes to 10 percent of those active in the last year for a total of 40 lobbyist. This follows a similar pattern of a category based on money and contact supportive but the focus is try to capture proportionality with largest expenditures selected with a higher percentage chance of beingrendomly selected and in terms of the Campaign Activity i would note our proposal is well. Once the committees are selected we would propose that are going to audit first those candidates based on their level of responding. In the past we have done audits of committees for candidates who were not successful in the elections and think it makes more sense probably a better use of resources to do audits where the Public Interest is greatest in terms of money raised and spent so we propose to audit first those candidates based on the level of expenditures reported. There is a lot of data but want to give a opening sense of what our thinking is how it reflects policy discussions you had in the past and happy to answer questions. Eric is here to answer questions as well and if there are questions we can take those or proceed to a random selection with erics help. Commissioner hur i appreciate the effort to prioritize because i know we have limited resource squz want to use them effectively as possible. One concern i