[inaudible] which includes reading, writing, extended time on exams. So i am a disability specialist. At this time, we are going to do our presentation. Autism support groups and the one thing i want to emphasize is connect students with peers, tips on managing, expiration of special interests and Effective Communication and [inaudible] for success. We have approximately 30 students on the autism spectrum that identify on the autism spectrum that are registered with our office. So at this time, i would like for mikael to introduce himself sure just a little bit of information about our program. Okay. Im the carol again. Im a second year broadcasting major at San Francisco state and currently im switching majors because i have linguistic [inaudible] but now in the broadcasting department. Just trying to succeed from there. Great. Thank you. Question number one, michalak, when and how did you come to discover your identity as someone on the autism spectrum . Definitely when i arrived at sf as you because before im originally from richmond. Richmond being the city not the district. I grew up around there in autism wasntwasnt reallypeople do not really know much about autism but they werent really aware of the outcomes. There was a little special Education Department at my school but he was treated more like a study hall and just got done instead of how to handle learning disability you have. Also, during that time i was a kid who wanted to get to high school make it to the next chapter. So i didnt really see myself identifying at that time. Once i arrived at sf state and realized there was a Disability Center like the dpr see for example, thats when i started to identify more. Like once i found out it was a support group where we can go in every monday and unwind and socialize, and get a chance to facilitate were in my case i cofacilitate the meetings and use some of the strategies and tips on how to wrestle,how to get through college which is a huge transition from high school. For me its from 1500 students in the high school to 30,000 students in San Francisco. So not exactly in kansas anymore. Im trying to adapt from there. Ever since my stay at San Francisco had a strong rapport with the autism spectrum and i strongly identify currently. Thank you so much for the Disability Program in the Resource Center the accra ms. Dpr see. Thank you. You share some really really wonderful things about our support group. Thank you. We will move to question number two. What are your special interest areas and when did they first develop . Right now, my special interest areas are still growing as we speak. One thing i really enjoyed is a broadcasting field. Like im a huge fan of drs. Jimmy kimmel and also like a huge sports fan. I really love the commentary. Theres those times im watching sports with friends and i wouldnt really know whose plane was competing but just by hearing the commentating and the excitement and the tone they deliver on tv, they got me into the game. I didnt really care much about the team. I just love hearing the commentor. Because they were selling it there were getting me entertained. Right now, i am switching majors right now and, yes i definitely want to go into the broadcasting field and right now, im the kid that wants to be on the tv but im definitely working on that skill set in that field. Im so happy to say michalak has said he wants to be the kid on tv. We were on tv last year ascendant so that was a major goal we accomplish. I want to share also as far as majors, its a very small group and we have approximately 10 students and i want to give you a little bit more information about our group. We have 10 students to participate weekly and we have members who partnered with us we have members mitigate of disorders and special ed and they come in any facilitate. We also have guest speakers that come weekly as well. Went to my colleagues that will be a guest speaker on monday, and she we speaking on her identification on autism as well. So it very very exciting. Then we have our alumni students that come back and participate in our group. We have one student that studied japanese and she is currently teaching in japan now. We have one student that graduated with a mathematics major and he is currently working in his field in mathematics as a tutor and also as an instructor as well. So i guess what im trying to say is, they have very very Bright Futures ahead of them and they keep in touch. Its sort of like a close knit family and we keep in touch and i make sure that they accomplish their dreams did we accomplish dreams together. Question number three. What role has your family or other adults outside of your family played in employing where you are today . Well for family to been extremely crucial. They help me out a lot. In terms of school work. They were extremely supportive. There were times when ive had some classes where i struggled so much with the work and i try asking the teacher for help and they didnt really know how to handle me much because they were not aware tthat i was autistic. So they thought well the teachers would think i was playing with them but i wasnt trying hard enough but it was kind of the opposite. I was trying little bit too much because i wanted to get the work done and succeed. But i really struggled with the work and around that time would be i would get easily to market i would tell my parents and there been times when i would go to school and talk to the principal about it advocate on my behalf. Yes, that part they definitely helped out. From there, i slowly transitioned into a better relationship my teachers because they knew how to handle me better and they took a little bit of time to help me out which i really appreciate because if they didnt he would have been a messy slope. But the teachers are the teachers i have help me out like whether they were aware of my artistic issues were not, they all found a way to help me out in my academics and also in my college counselor. Because like when i was filling out the application for college, my College Counselors really help me out a lot. Like they help me step by step on how to manage the application and that really help me in completing it because if it wasnt for them i wouldve been stuck on filling out my name and thats probably as far as i would have got. Also, friends because right now i transition from living in richmond to living in the city. So i been mostly living in the city and have some friends that live right across campus which is perfect because some of my classes are in the morning and around finals time is like a massive exodus in the latter because everyone in their grandma as their starting and getting ready for the exam like me included. Im a little bit [inaudible] were doing some review on the score. We will deal until about 2 am because thats when the basement level our Library Closes and thats when like everyone there has to leave. So around the time ill go to my friends will give me a place to stay. The gimme some food and shelter me until the next day we have to take the exam. I have to thank everyone from parents to teachers and counselors to friends for helping me out in every way shape or form. Definitely appreciate it. I also want to add michalak said something really wonderful as far as his friends and just now working with his friends. He loves to travel and not sure if you want to touch a little bit about the trip youre going to do this year . Yes. In San Francisco state theres a program called iuc. Its a study abroad. And its mostly just a table of International Students that come from other across the world like europe, such as england, germany, japan and i think i one its a bunch of International Students that meet up and they have some events on campus. Like they have soccer games, they go to golden gate park. Theyre very very first event was going to Golden Gate Bridge. Also they have a buddy system so i signed up for the email and the usually semiweekly emails and theres one email that said if you want a penpal just write down your email address what country you prefer and i wrote on my email address and the penpal i wanted, and they gave him to me was this guy from england and ever since he came to San Franciscowe have been like a strong report. Weve been keeping in touch a lot and take him to American Grocery stores he combines about trader joes being expensive so i take him to grocery outlets. [laughing] i just do the best i can to help them out. Yes, bringing in [inaudible] like i said doing my best to help him out. Our friendship has grown to the point where when he travels back he will let me stay with him and thats going to be perfect because when the summer comes am going to england to visit him into a tour of england. Awesome. Very good. This is our last question question number four. What you want people to know about the experience of identifying on the autism spectrum that will make your life better now and forever . For that, mostly just for people to be mindful about autism and usually when people think of autism and special Education Department people have a stereotype that students are usually slower or little bit on the withered side, but its not exactly true. It just happens to be like that because their strengths and weaknesses and while someone excels in mathematics, like they may lack in Foreign Languages or poetry and vice versa. When theres someone really good in plane and instrument waste and the talented in the musical field, they might lack the mathematics. It might look that way, that some students often might look that way to autistic students might be slow, but it just they struggle that field and they dont have a chance to express with the really good at. Its kind of getting onesided view. We live and learn. As long as were mindful it definitely helps understanding a student. Thank you michalak. I think youve done a wonderful job. Hopefully you enjoyed our presentation. I dont have a question but what i want to comment, did enjoyed the presentation interaction. Learning about you mikael and getting a better understanding of challenges the people with autism face. Its really no different, i think than any other disability spectrum as far as information, education awareness, understanding like anyone else we have our own individual challenges. So i enjoyed the presentation. Appreciate you sharing some yourself and i appreciate hearing the services and what you provide and what impact youre making on the program. Im going to open up questions to the Council Members. Any questions Council Members . Councilmember williams i dont have any questions either. I just want to say what a remarkable difference during your story has made in finding out with a correct diagnosis, how thats profoundly changed your life. I just was fascinated with your story and thank you so much for sharing it. Councilmember blacksten yes you have a compelling story from start to finish and i can tell that you express yourself very well and youve learned a lot along the way. Come along way in fact. Its quite impressive. I did want to go back to onemy ears perked up when you said you changed your major at San Francisco state and going to broadcast me and i could tell by the sound of your voice there something about broadcasting that really interests you. So i just wanted to kind of pursue that a little bit. Is it the playbyplay broadcasters because you like sports, or is it the color inlets . What is it you really like when you turn on a sports broadcast . As to that its still kind of going but two things that pop up in my mind is like jimmy kimmel work conan, those guys make me laugh every time. They have come to the point where i left just looking at them. Ive always admired that. In the sports field, more like combat sports like professional wrestling or boxing. Like my family watches that a lot. Dont worry its not when the stories about being a professional wrestler. I love hearing the commentating because my family wouldthe frequently watch boxing events in the wee times i do not care about the fighter but how the commentators were build up the fighter and how they would make him look more bigger than well in my mind than they actually are. It was fascinated because they hooked me into the story. Could you see yourself doing some commentating like that . Yes. Staff . Thank you for being here michalak. That was an interesting stuff. I actually dont have a question for you. But just a comment if youre going to in them. Does a gentleman with autism his name is stephen wiltshire. Hes an artist. He lives in england and is a photogenic memory and what he does is he flies over cities in a helicopter and he takes basically a picture in his mind about what cities look like and he draws them. So if youre in england and youre interested in art, that might be an interesting person to just look at his stuff. I have a picture that he drew of the Golden Gate Bridge just going over at one time just by memory and its hanging in my office and its really remarkable. If youre in england i might be something you might be interested in seeing. I definitely look forward to checking out the museums. Okay. I want to thank our presenters. Thank you. Thank you. All open up this information item. Is there any Public Comment . Any Public Comment on the bridge line . Okay. Now we will close Public Comment for this information item. We will go on to Public Comment item number 13. Items not on todays agenda within the jurisdiction of the mdc. Any Public Comment . Anyone on the bridge line . Okay. At this time will close Public Comments. Information item number 14. Any correspondence . There is no correspondence. Thank you. Discussion item number 15, any councilmembers comments announcements at this time . Okay. Then i moved to adjourn. Everyone have a nice weekend. Thank you for your patience and see you next month. Byebye. [gavel] [adjournment] being a pedestrian in San Francisco is not easy for anybody. [inaudible] people push tables and chairs outside the sidewalk. I have to be careful not to walk the sidewalk. It is very hard. Sometimes people get half way across the intersection. You have to be alert because there is always something coming up that you need to know about. I learned to listen to the traffic patterns. Sometimes i notice the other pedestrians, they are crossing, on occasion, i have decided im going to cross, too. I get to the middle of the intersection, and i find out that the light has changed. We need to be able to work and go from one place to the other and have public transportation. The world needs to be open. People on disability has the task of addressing all the disability. When we are talk about the sidewalks, ramps, we have very specific issues. For people blind and low vision, we have the issue of knowing where they are and when the cross. It can be hit or miss. At hulk and grove, that sound the the automatic it helps people cross the street safely. Now we have a successful pedestrian signal. I push the button, i get an audible message letting me know that i need to wait. When it is safe to cross, not only am i going to get an audible indicator, this button is going to vibrate. So it tells me it is safe. There is the driller sound and this trigger is vibrating. I am not relying on anything but the actual light change, the light cycle built into it. It brings San Francisco from one of the major cities in the u. S. To what is going to be the lead city in the country. City working on all sorts of things. We are trying to be new and innovative and go beyond the ada says and make life more successful for people. Disability rights movement, the city has the overall legal obligation to manage and maintain the accessibility and right of way. With regards to the curb ramps, bounded by a groove border, 12inch wide border. For people with low vision to get the same information. The shape of the domes, flush transition between the bolt bottom of the ramp and gutter. We have a beveled transition on the change in level, tape on the surfaces, temporary asphalt to fill in level changes, flush transition to temporary wood platform and ramp down into the street under the scaffoldinging. Detectable ramps. They are all detectable. Nothing down below or protruding that people are going to get snagged up on. Smooth clean that nobody is going get caught up on. Our no. 1 issue is what we see here, the uplifting and shreufting to concrete due too street tree roots. Here is another problem we have with street trees. If i have i was a person blind, this would be an uncomfortable way to find out. We dont want to create hazards. Sometimes vendors put sidewalk cafes where people push the chairs too far out. Sometimes it can be impassable. So much foot traffic that there is no room for a wheelchair or walker to go by. San francisco is a lively street life, it can be an issue with people with visual disabilities as well. They have these diverting barriers on other side of this tables and chairs area. If people can find thraeur way around it without getting tangled up, it is still fully accessible. We dont want anything special. We want people to basically adhere to the regulations and laws as they are on the books now. People can also, just be cognizant if they have stuff on the street, they thaoed to have 48 inches so we can pass, think outside your own spectrum of yourself that there are other people you need to share the sidewalk with. We will all get along better. Although San Francisco is a hilly place for a whraoel chair user, we seem to be better at most. That doesnt mean we cant continue to improve upon ourselves. The public has a clear are of travel. We cant be every to make sure that is the place. We have to rely on the place. Call 311. Give them your name. That goes into a data base. It is difficult, still, um to make the case that the disabled community isnt being represented. In some ways we are not. We have a long way to go. The city of San Francisco is using the most Innovative Technology available. These devices allow people to remain out in their communities, doing things like shopping. It is great to be able to walk as a pedestrian in this city and cross streets safely. Thank you for coming to the talent dance performance and talent show. [ applause ] todays performance and talent show. Public recreation has every bit of the talent and every bit of the heart and soul of anything that any families are paying ten times for. You were awesome. Test. Good morning and welcome to the San Francisco Treasure Island mobility management steve stamos is our clerk today and also want to recognize jesse larson and jim smith that makes the meeting Available Online as well as a transcript mr. Clerk call the roll. Commissioner kim commissioner ronen commissioner tang we have quorum. Thank you mr. Clerk are read the first item approval of the minutes for july 20, 2016. This is an action item. Any questions or comments on the minutes colleagues a motion to approve this item. Public comment on the minutes. I can take the motion before Public Comment no so. We have a motion from commissioner ronen and seconded by commissioner tang this time open up for Public Comment on this item seeing none, Public Comment is closed on item number 2, we have a there is a motion that has been seconded mr. Clerk can we do that without opposition. On the minutes commissioner kim commissioner ronen commissioner tang the minutes are approved. So call so call item 3 the adopted fiscal year 2016 17 budget to increase revenues and expenditures by 783,526 action. Hi. Good morning cynthia executive director for finance administration the item before you is f 16, 17 we take stock in the revenues and take a look at any expenditures and include them through the budget as youre aware the programs are for the transportation improvement for Treasure Island were increasing the budget by seven hundred 783,526 that consists of additional 5 hundred thousand from Transportation Authority if the mta another 75 thousand and have rolling over a carry over of federal fund if the Previous Fiscal Year to this fiscal year nothing odd other than were not able to recognize it into this f and reducing the prop k for additional revenues for fiscal year 16, 17 theyll fund staff to develop a draft and final toll System Design requirement in addition to running traffic demand modeling the scenarios to complete the Parking Management plan all the items have gone about the ta board last week and scheduled to be adopted by the ta on april 2017 with that, were recommending to amend the adopted 2016 17 to increase by 783,526. Im available to answer any questions. Great and just a quick question the reduction in prop k a 35 thousand plus rejecttion, however, the chair over there is as much above that can you explain we reduced prop k by 35 thousand the budget is a based on federal and local contributions on the prop k is also included in the budgeted were youre going sources were limited and need to use them by an Expiration Date prop k has a longer expiration time were not utilizing the prop k appropriation but saving of time they have the longest amount of time. The prop k dollars will be allotted to tell me. But were not going to be spending it this year. Yes. Uhhuh exactly. Could it reduce this from the tremendous use from last year. It is based on what the estimates from the budget we have identified the expenditures for the year and applied the federal revenues that come in the allowable expenditures and applied the contribution now were politically what is needed to from prop k and also the chair over we could adjust that number but it probably is better to utilities the funds the tida funds are an expiration no, no i understand where were why we are spending those down the reduction in prop k is commemorate with the other funds why are we not reducing that further than 35,000. Why the distribution. Yeah. A interrelation use in every bucket if were recurring the prop k expenditures why not further reduce the expenditure this year if that makes sense. Why not pass the mike to our put their life on the line. Thank you, ms. Wong. Another change that happened since the first budget weve added additional engineering and canned modeling activities that he so the overall budget need has grown since the first budget was adopted. And i apologize for the sake of the public can you explain what the needed expansion of the scope is so we understand why were allocating more commissioners, that places you under your. On the system and demand side original budget anticipated a draft now take that to the final stage and were going to start the request for proposals for the system integrate our advancing the conceptual design further what we anticipated. Does that mean were doing for work on the front end or more work period for the project and were doing work we anticipated needed to be done and can be done in an earlier timeframe thank you for explaining. Thank you very much so at this time open up for Public Comment on item number 3, any member of the public that would like to comment . Seeing none, Public Comment is closed. Committee can commissioners can we take a motion on item item no. 8 a motion from comedian and commissioner tang. Same house, same call . Yes. Same house, same call . Thank you thank you very much can we please call item item no. 4 Treasure Island Mobility Management Program implementation update information. This is an formation. Thank you rachel of principle Transportation Planner this to the to provide you for the Committee Members an overall the Transportation Authority program and also describe for you the current activities and what this committee can expect over the next quarters as a as Treasure Island Mobility Management Agency the committee and the board is charged with the delivery and the ongoing operation of this transportation called for in the Treasure Island agreement four goals to the Transportation Plan described on the plan Treasure Island is a place where all homes within a 15 minute walk of a hub and increase from the island and where it is possible to live without a car because of the amendments and an ongoing source of operating revenue to fund this new transit and other services the goals of this plan lead back to 2007 that was the first Treasure Island transportation Something Like that was adopted with the goals and strategies San Francisco county Transportation Authority was designated in this role of Treasure Island Mobility Management Agency in 2014 from the most recent action i actually the most recent time the board met in july 2016 its the board adopted the preliminary transportation policies for the program and asked to do more work in other policy areas a number of work streams we have ongoing to get a team were at now and the anticipated date when the first homes will be available on Treasure Island that guess 2020 and the ultimate date when we expect all 8 thousand new homes to be available for people to live in on Treasure Island is 2030 or beyond. Im sorry does that include the housing on Yerba Buena Island. It includes that. Expected to open in 2020 a correct. So the goals of the tropical plan and the challenges it needs to address number one, mitigating the effect of all the new residential and land use on the acre range we need to get through the strategies and need to be able to pay for the new regional Transit Services with a committed fund we know well be able to rely on for foreseeable future and then another goal that we have included in response to the feedback from f this body and outreach over the last two years to support the affordable living housing and transportation for the low income rate resident that live on the island but be moving on the island in the future and ultimately the island will be up to 25 thousand residents that be up 2000 today it is really a large change in the number of residents on the island and others land uses that is visitors and designations owe Conference Center this is a comprehensive Transportation Plan so the amount of Transit Services called for in the plan will make Treasure Island amongst the most transit assessable neighborhoods and good opportunities increase in muni and ac transit and a muni service that doesnt exist in the east bay and Treasure Island a great opportunity for that to be a zero emission fleet so working with the air district there is opportunities there for funding with mtc there is funding opportunities to support a clean vessels and festivals to the Ferry Service is called for were working with meta and have an interest in that being a clean vessels whether hyde bred or supported and opportunities that the state cap trade a reasonable level to seek fund for an Initiative Type of technology and some of the smaller water and Transit Services and being able to service Treasure Island this is a map plan of what those new transportation and Transit Services will be and in addition to the new transit calls for an array of supporting Services Transportation for visitors, for employees, and also benefits for royal or retained on island clarity shuttle between the transit hub and the neighborhoods we have a grant to test and Initiative Type of circulating shutters that can be hailed by people and car share on the island they dont have resident to get car share not on the island right now and bike share and in addition a transit path that is a mandatory purchase for marketrate resident in the marketrate housing but we want to bring the benefits like discounted lifeline types of services on the ferry transit and ac transit right now those modes dont offer a lifeline for the residents even if belowmarketrate housing that brings me to one of the major areas of feedback weve heard as weve been doing the planning over the last few years affordability as of last july we recommended taking an approach that is describing here in the slide of Affordability Program that will benefit resident in the current and future of the belowmarketrate housing as well as what were calling the long term residents residents that have been on the 0i8d before the agreement was signed and those are folks that have not opt outed into this to remove you know the to the island making that choice if the island is the right place to locate a number of benefits we recommend for those belowmarketrate Housing Residents regardless of what mode the households uses preliminary that was a what will include the lifeline ferry on the services not oh, the lifeline fair today and a Successful Program used by la metaphor their express lane they offer a qualifying household a trans ponder that has an initial balance on the accounts and then also provides toll credits for frequent transit use so thats the some of the background and the basics of the Transportation Plan now ill describe some of the work that we expect to bring before the committee over the next few quarters this summer we expect to be able to bring before you some of the agreements policy agreements with the different transit operators that were will eventually provide services those agreements will are lay auto the principle of the service that the operators are going to agree to provide and how well do business with the ac transit the water ferry and sfmta will provide the Parking Management services on Treasure Island and the Bay Area Toll Authority well work with to provide services on the customer back end guide of toll component of the program but well have policy agreements with any potential revenue cost sharing that is applicable we also expect to bring before you an update on the next vendor that well seek which is basically the final design the software and the double design the final design that vendor is the system integrate our. This of all the actions we might bring before you the next steps in some of the agreements one we have policy agreements in place with our operators some of the next steps include agreements to go ahead and procure vessels in the case of transit vehicle two years for vehicles that is part of a why weve been working hard this year on understanding a funding retail use for the protect and clean fuels for ac and bring to you the agreement for to procure those and bring to you recommendations regarding the transit path that i mentioned and also regarding our approach to monitoring and murray the performance of the Overall Program we need to build the performance metric and monitoring requirements into the design of this system so that moves in parallel with your award of a contract to the system sgrar our the final designer im told and for me there is a supplemental environmental documentation well bring before you our team it looking what is required for ceqa documentation and because we anticipate that well have federal funds need the documents for the Transportation Program work areas that are underway the porter the governance work area the funding opportunities whether it is rm2 about the umu between in program and bridge congestion is strong there is opportunities there for the potential regional measure to support the ferry transportation Clean Initiative and clean vessels and vessels and other needs and also i want to highlight our discussions with the bayview Toll Authority have the authority to bring this approach to the bridge they have not experienced but that is an area we and are working with them on to sort out the goals and responsibilities revenue and cost sharing and well eventually bring to you an agreement with them that makes recommendations in that regard. And the engineering front i mentioned some of those already the supplemental documentations, the business requirements and the details design work well seek a vendor for over the coming couple of quarters and then in the planning area the circles here highlighting the components of the plan that were doing further design over the next 6 months so the shutter the transit path and the Parking Management that mta is leading the development but bring you and the Program Affordability design we are asking people as we go the response on that front were asking folks about their needs and travel patterns a survey we go to the Treasure Island Community Meeting basically quarterly and tomorrow is an example where were going to the shipshape to talk with folks and get information about that this slide a road map showing activities if takes to launch between today and 2020 january 2020 the launch date and the milestones ultimately this committee will consider. Thank you very much happy to take your questions. Thank you, ms. Hostility one quick question to our supporting Services Just as what was finally you put a photo i want to verify the Shuttle Program can you explain where that is headed and the solution for Treasure Island. So the charge i do not i should hahave maybe ive hea express interest to solve the particular problems with school or transportations or some of the nonprofits have programming off island theyre interested in, you know, vanderpool on and off we partnered with the ac and tida to seek cap trade funding for off and on islands a Publicprivate Partnership nonprofit partnering so that is what the meant there no a specific chariot proposal. Thank you commenting i wanted to build an rachels response chariot is considered in terms of bringing that to the Regulatory Program for the 14ur89 serviced but the point we wanted excellent and Robust Service the 25 line is wellused and also is crowded even though weve added service the challenge muni is off our program where were responsible for the services muni it are not only for budgeting for the neighborhood as it is for every single neighborhood in the city we cant buy quote unquote muni service but continue to platoon with sfmta and advocate for more muni service to Treasure Island but summer commenting we were talking about the meeting a frequency for the ferry versus adding more muni service and this neighborhood should continue to fund all the services through this program versus potentially seeking supplemental funding if the general fund im sorry from the muni part of it. By the way, i really appreciate would love talking more about a Publicprivate Partnership on a shuttle on and off the island im not sure what the chariot is thank you very much i dont any oh, commissioner tang. I was thrilled our shooting for zero emission bus potentially and wondering i certainly working on this for our city fleet and the private sector we hear there not a product out there available in the market for whether it is trucks suvs im not sure im curious where your i mean an availability on the market for zero emission vehicles are there a bus. Ac transit is increasing the share of their fleet that is vision zero this is something theyre interested in at the beginning for them too though so that if e some of the challenges are they procure buses in sort of cycles and they dont have enough vision zero fleet existing today where they have that kick he will vehicle procurement more work to develop the scope at the specification for that and to make sure that the timing is aligned in the most Cost Effective way to get the manufacturers and a cost increment that we need to seek funding to cover so certainly are vehicles available buses that is from the bus side that occ transit has in mind it is just because theyre even at the beginning of incorporating those types of vehicles into their fleet not the pathway is not set up to bring them in as for vegetational vehicle. We dont have challenges lets say going up and down hills those are some of the things weve heard about it thank you do that with the mta. Right yeah. No that is an issue yes and so ac transit the route that ac transit will use for this service does if involve a grade they considerable problematic the grade is absent issue that route didnt face that issue. Right im glad our thinking about the zero emission recks and have shorting transportation it clean on and off the island so thank you. Seeing more further questions or comments from the Committee Members at this time open up for Public Comment on item 4 seeing none, Public Comment is closed. Mr. Clerk, call item 5 and 6 together. Sure. Item point opening for the San Franciscooakland bay bridge bicycle and pedestrian touchdown information presentation. The San Franciscooakland bay bridge west span bicycle and pedestrian project information. Items. Hi i know those are two separate items but both on site. Sure good morning Deputy Director and happy to report on the Yerba Buena Island this is a point of construction were completing right now i have a quick slide show and have peter lee to handle item 6. A little bit of history caltrans opened the bike pedestrian span on october from the basic site we opened do westbound on and offramps and implemented traffic calming overlooks and currently the bike pesticide facility is open on the weekends the reason that caltrans that a lot of demolition work with the bridge and wanted to make sure they took all precautions the plan is changing theyve increased the hours abuse of dawn to department of justice but now this sketch didnt had had justice in terms of that of of what were this from the east bay on bike go ahead and land on the caltrans landing area that is an orange at the end of the orange and precede across to what is called the quarters 9 coast guard area we have a licensed architectural with the coast guard and what were building is a muni Park Building some bike racks and hydration stations as well as and everything is temporary restrooms and benches so folks can come there and have a seat and enjoy themselves there in a very appealing area in terms of taking the photos of bay bridge the thought process wed like on the vista point the same type the bike pesticides are open and cooperating with the tema timma it is important to recognize that is part of the project were building so our construction is building the facility and it is funded approximately 2 million of funding by the bay area bata. I want to talk about the fact it Treasure Island and Yerba Buena Island are basically a Construction Zone for the next two years as part of the Development Many of the hours the first order of work for road widening and infrastructure Work Associated with the development heavy truck traffic a lot of road closures temporary detours at times in place there be no pedestrian facilities frankly to get from the mountaintop i call that Yerba Buena Island to Treasure Island right now so it is important that people recognize that and what we have done is part of the bike pesticide facility to set up a temporary shuttle that is what people use on the weekends quickly everything that is colored in green, blue red, orange and blue all of the work will be ongoing for the next two years well being Transportation Authority the Development Team is going to be reconstructing the cal road that is right now the major one the major points if the wellbeing on ramp shown in red those roads will be under construction ill bringing this to light for he everybody to understand at one point in time for the next two years all the traffic come to and from the western part this is Hillcrest Road that is narrow it is some grades that are not too bad i wanted to highlight it is important for people to recognize we have no pedestrian kaupg but we have trying to make sure that invokes are slowing down along the roadway and recognize it is open to bicyclists theres the term no pain no gain were going to be in pain for a couple of years but everything you see in gray is after two years in the summer of 2019 and the new bike facility youll take a bike back and forth to the east bay and to the touchdown on the caltrans underneath the bay bridge and traffic verse on the road with a class one facility in red for everyone to recognize we have a project in the future to construction that is the west side bridges that is federal and state funded and plan to start that work in the early or summer part of r6d that will take a year and a half to complete looking ahead 5 years of construction that are critical to the effort in rebuilding the island that concludes my presentation. Were excited about the opening on may 2nd and if you have any questions on vista point embed and let me know right now otherwise bring peter lee from mtc all right. Im excited for the celebration. Me, too. Good morning, commissioners im peter lee with the Bay Area Toll Authority and the management for the west end bicycles halfway weve been working on that phase one and currently not in a preliminary phase of engineering and vital documents not having enough fund to loot the design of this project were going for the Ethics Commission for the engineering on the project as well as evaluating Environmental Needs the phase one to see the 10 to 15 percent engineering plan and peel back the bridge and evaluate the impediments to the project depending on the funding at this point walk you through through the period of alternatives that weve been looking at so our focus is preliminarily been to get from the new ban on righthand side of the staple over to San Francisco which is on the left the red line on top is the north alignment on the connection on the bridge that are cost drivers are fairly dependent weve put a lot on the approaches as their change on the north side or south side of the bridge. In San Francisco if were on the south side excuse me on the north side of the bridge well follow with the upper deck with rincon hill and removing tower on the bottom of page loop around follow the fremont offramp and close to ethic streets past harrison come down to the ethic street area i think the current plan to take back some of the streets for parking areas to tie into that weve have a lot of conversation with the city staff and the sfmta on various alignments i think that is the alignment that ties in and gives great excess to the harrison street back to embarcadero and say an option to put an elevator for the embarcadero area with the rightofway and have high speed elevators to the bike path on the south side what well do is go basically follow did harrison street offramp it is kind of challenging to see in this picture but the level underneath the upper level offramp well get around that building it is currently into be off the bryant and beal where the dog park is and certainly challenges but a good trip and well have rightofway issues with the owner but talked about that a little bit theyre supportive on the main span for the structural options to connect the bike path into the bridge the path were considering is a steel pathway 15 and a half feet wide similar to east band we have had challenges with connection as well as a. D. The steel to the bridge adding 5 to 10 percent loading load 0 on the bridge that will cause the bridge to sag we have issues with the coast guard they bring large ships to the west ban the shipping channel into the bay of oakland they have a challenge in the bridge sags more than it is well have to seek additional permits or find solutions to raise the bridge. The next incidental is just some simulations how the path will look from the upper deck and on the upper deck is better for the security stand point for drivers and others on the pathway but that gives us a sense of what the pathway will look like well probably widen out towards the 24 hours for a place to stop and do in the course of this trial treatment on the path with the estoban to help to segregate the pedestrians and you bicyclists on the pathway on Yerba Buena Island for the landing a lot of conversation with u. S. Coast guard and have active facilities on the raise your hand and tida and the to tie ourselves into the plan that i showed earlier i dont think any of us need to protect the corners 9 d. C. On the networking that are blurry their active the coast guard homes for maneuvers as well as we need to on the north side getting over the bay bridge we will have to build a new structure in front of the tunnel that will carry you over to the traffic and tieback into the bay bridge on the north side and then on the south side we will just do a hillside that runs along the side of the hill generally speaking when we talked to a number of a lot of we had outreaches for the general purpose of north side that bring in the challenge of cross over the tunnel but nicole well happy to answer questions were in the cue to have conversation with the funding is the primary driver our estimates that in expose of 3 million and you know certainly seek the refunding likes everyone else and that is just part of that cue that discussion at the mta and data. Mr. Lee thank you for the presentation that is important for us it is far away im excited about the proposed bike lane on the western part to bike that with the eastern pan the bridge i have a few questions the estimated cost of this is 300 million. In expose of 300 million probably were still working on the expose no longer than three hundred 3 if not higher and significantly higher. It could be the metrics are the barrier on the acreage that project is under 50 and were twice that length into the length of the bay bridge that is one hundred and fifty with the suicide barrier like a ball park were in the order of three to 400 million what you saw on the pictures there. Uhhuh. Well, i guess that begs the question a little bit over so i think a bike lane would be great not just a continuing connection if the eastern span to the western span unto the Treasure Island resident population of which will grow and ultimate form of transit but i guess hearing that the cost will maybe significantly in expose of 300 million has theyve been a cost analysis estimation for the increased Ferry Services plus service i want to make sure that as much as i want the be available but why spending public dollars. multiple voices . As we go to the environmental process well looking at look at those the task i had in the initial phase is he getting us primarily from the estoban to to we havent done that analysis to make those traffics perhaps if you want to call them that for business and ferries but i dont think the west is part of this action plan. Hopefully provide much better assess. I mean, i ask that because primarily hopefully for San Francisco residents that we consider that i really want this bike lane but i want to make sure that three hundred significantly in excess of 300 million will increase muni transit and Ferry Service and make sure we make the right investment for you know transportation alternatives for Treasure Island and the one final note ill make and im not an engineer or anything like that but i was concerned about the wind uhhuh. If the bike lane is on i guess the northern side of the bridge i know that with driving on the bridge that is windy for a car im wondering if it may discourage the bikers. Stripping weve done a wind analysis and shows to be i believe it is better on the north side. Oh, okay. I mean depending on what direction youre coming from the worse case from the south. Okay. But theyll both have challenges. Got it. Eventually. Thank you mr. Lee and commissioner ronen. To follow up on kens question i couldnt agree more it is exciting having a bike lane do having you have an estimate of users based on the eastern span of the bike lane that we could expect will use this facility amongst transportation. I dont have the model but you wouldnt want to use the estoban numbers currently because one recently opened the limited access is Treasure Island so or Yerba Buena Island so well modeling we have models and i dont try to put each into those numbers if we get levels adding up. Got it. I would echo commissioner kim has we move forward more information to allow us to make that cost benefit analysis the better thank you. Thank you mr. Lee at this time open up for Public Comment on items 5 and 6 seeing none, Public Comment is closed. Thank you mr. Lee for coming here from mtc to present on this item mr. Clerk, call the next item, please. Item 7 introduction of new items. Commissioners any introduction of new items seeing none, open up for Public Comment on item no. 7. Seeing none, Public Comment is closed. Weve move on to the next 8. General Public Comment. Great. Good morning, commissioners andrew yip human nature is the word influence diverse towards the process is of recovery to ones good nature with intelligence and other things the president and the National Leaders are the coloration to operate once you seek aspire understanding and the principles should support the holy management and once the witch and kindness shall break through one can establish it along the way with improvement of one aspire virtue in business work on National Unity welfare economics and the human right wellness seeks prosperity in Political Committee and structural for the continual success and spread the true principles and with unity quality and peacefulness and life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness thank you. Thank you, mr. Yip any other members of the public that wants to address the commission for Public Comment seeing none, Public Comment is closed. Mr. Clerk any other items. Item 9 adjournment. This meeting is adjourned [] San Francisco city clinic provides a broad range of Sexual Health services from Stephanie Tran medical director at San Francisco city clinic. We are here to provide easy access to conference of lowcost culturally sensitive Sexual Health services and to everyone who walks through our door. So we providestd checkups, diagnosis and treatment. We also provide hiv screening we provide hiv treatment for People Living with hiv and are uninsured and then we hope them Health Benefits and rage into conference of primary care. We also provide both prend post exposure prophylactics for hiv prevention we also provide a range of womens reproductive Health Services including contraception, emergency contraception. Sometimes known as plan b. Pap smears and [inaudible]. We are was entirely [inaudible]people will come as soon as were open even a little before opening. Weight buries a lip it could be the first person here at your in and out within a few minutes. There are some days we do have a pretty considerable weight. In general, people can just walk right in and register with her front desk seen that day. My name is yvonne piper on the Nurse Practitioner here at sf city clinic. He was the first time i came to city clinic was a little intimidated. The first time i got treated for [inaudible]. I walked up to the redline and was greeted with a warm welcome im chad redden and anna client of city clinic even has had an std clinic since all the way back to 1911. At that time, the clinic was founded to provide std diagnosis treatment for sex workers. Theres been a big increase in std rates after the earthquake and the fire a lot of people were homeless and there were more sex work and were homeless sex workers. There were some Public Health experts who are pretty progressive for their time thought that by providing std diagnosis and treatmentsex workers that we might be able to get a handle on std rates in San Francisco. When youre at the clinic youre going to wait with whoever else is able to register at the front desk first. After you register your seat in the waiting room and wait to be seen. After you are called you come to the back and meet with a Healthcare Provider can we determine what kind of testing to do, what samples to collect what medication somebody might need. Plus prophylactics is an hiv prevention method highly effective it involves folks taking a daily pill to prevent hiv. Recommended both by the cdc, center for Disease Control and prevention, as well as fight sf dph, two individuals clients were elevated risk for hiv. I actually was in the project here when i first started here it was in trials. Im currently on prep. I do prep through city clinic. You know i get my tests read here regularly and i highly recommend prep a lot of patients inclined to think that theres no way they could afford to pay for prep. We really encourage people to come in and talk to one of our prep navigators. We find that we can help almost everyone find a way to access prep so its affordable for them. If you times we do have opponents would be on thursday morning. We have two different clinics going on at that time. When is womens Health Services. People can make an appointment either by calling them a dropping in or emailing us for that. We also have an hiv care clinic that happens on that morning as well also by appointment only. He was city clinic has been like home to me. I been coming here since 2011. My name iskim troy, client of city clinic. When i first learned i was hiv positive i do not know what it was. I felt my life would be just ending there but all the support they gave me and all the information i need to know was very helpful. So i [inaudible] hiv care with their health about a quarter of our patients are women. The rest, 75 are men and about half of the men who come here are gay men or other men who have sex with men. A small percent about 1 of our clients, identify as transgender. We ask at the front for 25 fee for services but we dont turn anyone away for funds. We also work with outside its going out so any amount people can pay we will be happy to accept. I get casted for a pap smear and i also informed the contraceptive method. Accessibility to the clinic was very easy. You can just walk in and talk to a registration staff. I feel im taken care of and im been supportive. All the information were collecting here is kept confidential. So this means we cant release your information without your explicit permission get a lot of folks are concerned especially come to a Sexual Health clinic unless you have signed a document that told us exactly who can receive your information, we can give it to anybody outside of our clinic. Trance men and women face really significant levels of discrimination and stigma in their daily lives. And in healthcare. Hiv and std rates in San Francisco are particularly and strikingly high were trans women. So we really try to make city clinic a place that strandsfriendly trance competent and transwelcoming everyone from the front desk to behind our amazement there are completely knowledgeable. They are friendly good for me being a sex worker, ive gone through a lot of difficult different different medical practice and sometimes they werent competent and were not friendly good they kind of made me feel like they slapped me on the hands but living the sex life that i do. I have been coming here for seven years. When i come here i know they my services are going to be met. To be confidential but i dont have to worry about anyone looking at me or making me feel less a visit with a clinician come take anywhere from 10 minutes if you have a straightforward concern, to over an hour if something goes on that needs a little bit more help. We have some testing with you on site. So all of our samples we collect here. Including blood draws. We sent to the lab from here so people will need to go elsewhere to get their specimens collect. Then we have a few test we do run on site. So those would be pregnancy test, hiv rapid test, and hepatitis b rapid test. People get those results the same day of their visit. I think its important for transgender, gender neutral people to understand this is the most confidence, the most comfortable and the most knowledgeable place that you can come to. Onsite we have condoms as well as depoprovera which is also known as [inaudible] shot. We can prescribe other forms of contraception. Pills, a patch and rain. We provide pap smears to women who are uninsured in San Francisco residents or, to women who are enrolled in a statefunded program called family pack. Pap smears are the recommendationrecommended Screening Test for monitoring for early signs of cervical cancer. We do have a fair amount of our own stuff the day of his we can try to get answers for folks while they are here. Whenever we have that as an option we like to do that obviously to get some diagnosed and treated on the same day as we can. In terms of how many people were able to see in a day, we say roughly 100 people. If people are very brief and straightforward visits, we can sternly see 100, maybe a little more. We might be understaffed that they would have a little complicated visits we might not see as many folks. So if we reach our target number of 100 patients early in the day we may close our doors early for droppings. To my best advice to be senior is get here early. We do have a website but its sf city clinic. Working theres a wealth of information on the website but our hours and our location. As well as a kind of kind of information about stds, hiv,theres a lot of information for providers on our list as well. Patients are always welcome to call the clinic for theres a lot of information for providers on our list as well. Patients are always welcome to call the clinic for 15, 40 75500. The phones answered during hours for clients to questions. Good afternoon ladies and gentlemen. We are going to get started. I want to call the meeting to order and i want to welcome you back. This is a regularly scheduled meetingwelcome to the regular scheduled meeting of the San Francisco retirement board i am a leah cohen chairman of the body and please, join me by rising and placing your right hand over your heart and joining me in the pledge of allegiance. [pledge of allegiance] thank you. Mr. Claire, good afternoon to you. Please, call the roll call cohen here, [inaudible] the order of which they were handed to me the order in which im going to call the public common cards. If you do not hear your name being called please, at the end of the list feel free to walk up to the podium and speak into the microphone once we have satisfied the speaker cards. You will not hear any kind of indicator, chime or buzzer when you have 30 seconds remaining. Instead what you will hear is our clerk, norm nickens, he will say, 30 seconds the means you have 30 seconds to wrap up your call. Excuse me not your call but your comment. Again you of two minutes. All right. Welcome and the first person. [calling Public Comment cards. ] lets get started. Welcome. The floor is yours. Thank you. Thank you pres. And thank you board members. I remember i was here several years ago. I was an ace member. Maybe you folks still remember ace . That im coming here again i tell you what were talking about the same things. The folks in the Standing Rock used to be, last century, they got arrested for not staying in residential [inaudible] now, they have bbb because they stay on the reservation. We are talking about displacement. Several years ago i was here talking to the folks here. The bank [inaudible] lived in San Francisco and the bay area. We are talking the same thing. Again. Im not sure you folks remember we actually shut this down and out meeting when we were here because you folks cannot deal with what we were about to tell you. So, please, this time do not shut us down and listen to us. People are suffering because somebody called it this fancy word of [inaudible] as a member of a San Francisco citizen, as you all folks went in, theres a fiduciary duty to [inaudible] the folks especially not under the name of government. Especially, not under the name of using government funds. Thank you very much. For not shutting me down. Thank you. [calling Public Comment cards. ] hello. Thank you. Im here in support of the resolution at the board of supervisors passed from all related companies. I guess just the po i would make as a citizen is related to the fiduciary responsibility i think [inaudible] are declining in terms of return on investment and i think changing of investments into Renewable Energies would actually be more beneficial to the retirement board. So it wouldnt even be just a moral responsibility. It would make sense for investments. I think its an easy discussion and im here to support it. Thank you. Thank you. [calling Public Comment cards. ] members of the board, thank you for hearing us today. I am a 35yearold resident of San Francisco, 35 year resident of San Francisco. In a retiree member of local 1021. For the past 11 years from the city and county of San Francisco. I am grateful in this day and age of growing widespread Financial Insecurity our city is seen fit to send me a check each month. However, retiree is not the only hat i wear. Im also here today as a concerned citizen of the world. I try to take seriously my responsibilities as a steward, not only myself and my family, but also of the planets. I urge you, too, to remember your role as protector of the security of retirees today and of generations to come. Including current and active city workers like my son and ems worker with the San Francisco fire department. Im here today speaking also for future retirees who count on you to keep the longterm future of the planet in mine. Im not of native ancestry but because of the leadership that Indigenous People are taking in the struggle i have learned we all share this responsibility. To be protectors of clean water, clean air and the earth itself. I urge you in your work here to be not only smart but also wise to renumber the wisdom of reciprocity and to think ahead for seven generations as many traditions teach. Im here with others to ask what speed sfers is asking [inaudible] for climate change. What have you done to follow up on promises that youve made to withdraw investments from fossil fuel industries and the Financial Institutions which finance them . Why, when i search for the current status of sfers fossil fueled investment that i find nothing online but a promised timeline made by you two years ago for complete divestment of fossil fuels . Is there a timeline . How are we doing . Thank you [calling Public Comment cards. ] hello. I am a 23 year Service Employee union member and retiree and i want to thank you, first of all, for sending me the check every month, and keeping us as wellfunded and as fully invested as you guys have been doing. Its been a really good job. I also want to say that i find that promise that was made four years ago to divest from coal, and the current request that divest from oil extracted energies, is a really strong secure request. California has done really well in alternating sales to the extracted and jersey injuries injuries industries and i encourage you to meet have the committee that working on divestment, meet because i understand they have not met since last september. So i really want to encourage you to divest from all of the earth extracted industries and to seriously consider the fact that its a security risk. Its a risk to our safety, to water, to the climate, and to the we are poisoning our water. Time is running out so im okay when he said the urgency is now. Thats how i feel. So in a Capitalistic Society i feel government corporations dont really view us as people or human means. They view us as consumers when the most effective ways if you really want to resist trauma and do all these things is just divest. So do the right thing. Fix this now because i walked the streets every day in sf and i feel ashamed. Thats my comment. [calling Public Comment cards. ] isabella . Hello. My name is isabella i think im northern Cheyenne River rock and muscogee creek. I want to first acknowledge the ilona peopleland that we are standing here on this territory right now. I just want to be in solidarity with our water protectors and everyone that are standing to divest from the Dakota Access pipeline and other fossil fuel infrastructures. Im only 23 or years old and this is an Important Movement that we need to all be part of. I helped organize an action, i believe in november, on november 30. We were able to divest over three and the thousand or Million Dollars within four hours. How come its taking you over four years to do so . So i really want to reiterate what everyone is saying, that we need to push through with this. You guys have the power to do so and its my future generation, its my future that is at risk because of this. I live in richmond next to the refinery in a 2012 it exploded. I dont know what to do when that happens. Whats going to happen with the water is contaminated . When our air is contaminated . More contaminated than it is now. Please, take that stand and listen to all of us. Clearly, as this message its no joke. This is real life and please, do this for the future generations for nonhuman relatives to make sure we can continue to have clean air clean water and clean soil. Thank you. [calling Public Comment cards. ] good morning im recently coming from whats called the dan rock reservation and we took a treaty stand protesting the pipeline thats proposed to go through our treaty territory. Now, i know youre unfamiliar with treaties. We are the only tribe that had our treaty ratified by congress. So its the duty and obligation of the us [inaudible] which they are not doing, but my purpose behind being here is to urge you to divest this oil pipeline is coming through not just our treaty territory but alongside the Missouri River and its brakes its when it breaks but itll affect the second largest water supply in United States and is water supply feeds the greenbelt which [inaudible] so its not only the Missouri River thats at risk. The aquifer and like i said, this is a worldwide issue. Its happening right now. With these pipelines coming through our treaty territory. We all need water to live. Our children, the future generations, San Francisco has always been known to be at the forefront of change and positive programs. Recycling, clean air, alternative energy sources. So i like to urge you to divest as our future generations are at stacked steak at steak if we will allow these Oil Refineries were Oil Corporations engage in Risky Business that one danger our future then something is wrong. B thank you very much. [calling Public Comment cards. ] thank you very much. [calling Public Comment cards. ] my name is jackie. I am Cheyenne River. These are the two tribes in the plains. We live along the missouri could we depend on its for our ceremonies, for our wellbeing to feed ourselves, what charles was referring to was the fort laramie treaty that the great sioux nation comprised of seven tribes made an agreement with us congress back in the 19th century. Its important because as he was saying, this is the only treaty that recognized a nation to nation relationship. When we talk about these pipelines were not just talking about the future of our environment, but also human rights and business writes about a politically contested project. These investments are becoming increasingly riskier because Companies Like Energy Transfer like trans canada for creating these pipelines, do not go through the proper consultation processes that are required by these treaties. So at the very end of the day, it is a very basic idea that we are fighting for which is clean water, and respect for the first peoples of this land. Now, you are going to go behind closed doors and go through the numbers and crunch the numbers to see if this is
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