Transcripts For SFGTV Transporation Authority Full Board 52416 20160525

The 2013 county wide trands portation plan and mayor lees 20 30 Transportation Plan. The plan by the mayors working group called for 3 part strat agcomprised of the transportation bonds, a sales tax and vehicle license fee. The first leg of the strat agis noted, transportation bond passed already and focus on state of good repair and safer streets. This is only a downpayment of a dramatically larger fundsing need and need to follow up with the second leg, a transportation sales tax. By extended from 15 to 25 years we can address several additional priorities such as vision zero, munis equity strategy, muni vehicle and Facilities Needs and regional investment included cal train electrification, bart vehicle needs as well as 101 corridor managed lanes for buses and carpool. On the topic of regional investment Contra Costa County decide today move ahead with revenue measure and santa clara is on track to make that decision in june. Alameda passed its half cent sales tax in 2014 so it is critically important for us to maintain our ability to contribute fair share of frunds the joint regional priorities mptd we need to maintain the ability to provide local matching fubds for state, regional and federal funding opportunities. Look forward to the discussion of the next steps, these involve coordination with all of you, the Mayors Office and moving forward with an appropriate structured funding measure for this november. Thank you and that concludes my remarks. Is there Public Comment on item 2 . Seeing none Public Comment is closed. Item 3, executive drether report. Thank you chair wiener and to the board to echo chair wieners appreciation for the funding resolution that you passed last week. My report begins with a update on the state transportation funding situation. There isnt a lot of progress or movement to report but the governor and leadership and legislature are working on potential packages. We are hearing the larger proposals are unlikely to move forward due to the 2 3 super majority approval fwhut governor indicated he would like any allocation of cap and trade to transportation to be part of the larger funding package rather than on a ad hoc base squs this limits the things we are trying to do this year but continue to press forward. Last week the deputy for policy and programming joined the chamber of Commerce City state trip to sacramento which included a number of meetings with cal tran, california transporpation and highspeed rail. That set a clear goal by bringing highspeed rail to San Francisco by 2025 and allow us to access the cap and trade fund that remain set aside and not part of the governors budget. We need that for Affordable Housing and transit and active transporpation. The highspeed Rail Authority helds a scoping meeting in San Francisco so thank you to them for that and folks wanted more information can go to the website [inaudible] they are taking comments on their Environmental Review process and documents. In addition i want to acknowledge that the Bay Area Metro Center rageinal agency has muchb movered to the sit a and holding their first meeting tomorrow so thauchck and congrtulations to them. Welcome to the 3 agencies. On the update on the transportation study, i want to mention we have a survey on the website, sfcta. Org child transportation study. This is a effort to better understand the School Transportation needs for k5 in public, private and parochial schools. This was initiated at the request of commissioner tang. Our neighbor transportation Improvement Study continue to work in district 9 and seek input on ways to improve pedestrian and bike safety at the junction of us 101 and 280 freeways and almany bul vard and are doing outreach in multiple languages and visit our website sfcta. Org [inaudible] outreach in june and will present a update on that work to the Sister Agency next month. Want to thank sfmta for completing several projects. The randolph [inaudible] and Pedestrian Safety project was completed uses funds by the Transportation Authority in this case life Line Transportation thunds and mission bay loop is underway. Funds to finish that project very soon. In addition the masonic streetscape improvement open held will be held may 25. It will be on the 25th from 5 30 to 7 30 at the San Francisco day school. This is to provide more information and updates on the safety and streetscape features for masonic avenue. Glen park saw transit access improvements finally after several years but it was a Large Program at diamond and [inaudible] so hope pedestrian calming and transit acscess and striping and repaving left pockets and shelters so a lot of work using prop k and federal funds that is available and there to help the Glen Park Community Plan recommendation in that area. I know chair wiener is pleased to see that go in. The walk First Program saw Continental Cross walks. Sfmta used the prop k sales tax funds to small cross walks on 109 locations. These are locations that constitute 70 percent of the severe and fatal traffic collisions in the city. Finally, a word of thank you. You honored peter albert at a boardf pr visors meeting and want to share another certificate of commendation we will present to him as his Retirement Party from the transportation thort in recognition of over 20 years of service to San Francisco and to our region. Peter worked at sfmta delivering important praumgects and helping support the park merced and water transportation work and americas cup races, he worked at Transportation Authority and Bay Area Rapid transit bart aerjs so we are pleased to honor him and thank you him for his service and look forward seeing what is next for peter. He is a big asset to our city and region so thank you very much. Thank you. Colleagues, any questions or comments . Seeing none rsh any Public Comment on item number 3 . Seeing none, Public Comment is closed. This is information item. I nugleted to thank leo [inaudible] of sfgtv. Item 4 approver the minutes of april 26, 2016 meeting. Any changes, questions, comments regarding the minutes . Seeing none, is there any Public Comment on item 4 . Seeing none, Public Comment is closed and i think this is our first vote so if you can call the roll. Commissioner avalos, aye. Commissioner breed, aye. Campos, aye. Cohen, aye. Commissioner farrell, aye. Commissioner kim, aye. Commissioner mar, absent. Commissioner peskin, aye. Commissioner tang, absent. Commissioner wiener, aye. Commissioner yee, aye. The minutes are approved. Okay. Item 5. Item 5, adopt positions on state legislation. This is action item. Any questions or comments on item 5 . Seeing none, any Public Comment . Seeing none u Public Comment is closed. Can we take item 5 same house same call . Without objection that will be theordser. Item 6, appoint asher butnik and alexandser post to geary corridor bus Rapid Transit citizen Advisory Committee. Any questions or comments . Any Public Comment . Seeing none, Public Comment is closed. Same house same call . Without objection that will be theordser. Item 7, allocate 9,599,451 in prop k funds with conditions for 3 requests, subjeblth to attached fiscal year cash flow disbution schedule. Any questions or comments on item seven . Seeing none, any Public Comment . Seeing none Public Comment is closed. Can we take item 7 same house same call sphwithout objection that will be the order. Item 8, development of a transportation sales tax expenditure plan. This is information item. Okay, we have a presentation from the Transportation Authority staff on item number 8. Thauchck chair wiener. We have been working with sfmta and the Mayors Office to try and develop a draft process to support the potential for revenue measure this fall. Maria [inaudible] will provide a update for the half cent sales tax measure and look at the potential process for Public Engagement. Need a little Technical Assistance can rescue me. I know there is a lot of conversations about this. Moving fast and furious. Some are probably aheads of me. Feel free to chick in and give a special shout out to [inaudible] great partner working on this. For the powerpoint which is handed out to you, the main focus today given the recently approved board of supervisors resolution that the chair mentioned get input on the draft presenceples for development of the expenditure plan and also Public Engagement strategy. The good thing when you look at the schedule it has a small heart attack when you see how small it is we are not starting from scratch. We have had conversations from 2013, 14 and which wh chair wiener was reelected this year as head of Transportation Authority we talked about the need to move forward with the recommendation from the 20 30 task force which is a suite of revenue measure tooz address unfunned need in all areas of the Transportation System. This thereis a lot of great work done there and in the prior Transportation Plan and the goals up on the screen still stands true today. We just moving forward addressing them bet squr helping at the local level and have this more competitive for state and federal funds when they materialize. We are building a Strong Foundation there are changes. The other principles deal with what i call tweaking at the margin to responds since [inaudible] the first is we want to embrace city and Agency Initiatives that are passed since then that are focused supporting equity, affordability and traffic safety. The vision zero policy is really key. The third principle is simp low going through and updating things that changed with projects. We had cost increase, which is always isnt the best story but many projects that secured funds we didnt anticipate bh wh [inaudible] was approved so we want to update and get a sense of our needs. We had more clarly on the key regional asks which are priorities ranging from cal train electrification project to bart request for contributions from alameda San Francisco and Contra Costa County to relieve crowding on the bart system we have seen trends in the past, San Francisco is expected to get unbelievable amounts of growth and we are already feeling that pain. I know chair wiener squz others mentioned the pace of growth exceeded anything we accepted so that accelerates the needs to deal with capacity issues. One fall out from that principle, in order to be able to deal with all the state of good repair and safety enhancement we need to also deal with the capacity issues so one recommendation is t 20 30 had a 15 year horizon and suggest a 25 year horizon which aligns with plan bay area year 2030. This is big picture principles for putting together a expenditure plan. I want to put up a letal more in the weeds but very important principles that have to do with fundsing and it gets to the fact that we cannot develop an expenditure plan for revenue measure in a vacuum. We need to be cogsent. There is quit a bit of possible for new revenue measures that local level. As we put together a expenditure plan for half cent sales tax we have a couple measures we need to keep in mind. In year 20 of the prop k plan we can adopt a new expenditure plan extending prop k between 2033 and 34. It is a easier list than increasing sales tax. We have the vehicle license fee San Francisco is authorized to go after a geo plan. The region is talking pretty seriously about a probably bridge toe increase. We are trying to be strategic what will go in the half cents sales tax measure, what may fit and prepare. One thing we wanted to talk about with importance of replacing vehicles. Veckerize hard to fund with local funding. That is the little bit in the weeds details but something important to consider as we put together a expendsture plan. Easy math for planning purposes. We see about 100 million a year from half cent sales tax. Currently the San Francisco sales tax rate is 8. 75 percent and if approved it bumps up to 9. 25. On the screen it is little small but at your desk and well put this on website we put together a table that shows sales tax rates in the surouning jurisdiction squz counties and also flagged a number that are considering half cents sales tax or quarter cent sales tax for transportation and other measures on the june and November Ballot. I just note if the San Francisco measure passed there are jurisdictions that are higher. The highest is elsureado, [inaudible] and san leand row. Every dollar we spends we want to stretch farther so positioning that to leverage state and federal funds is key. For a good point is prop k sales tax tiply every dollar we invest [inaudible] 4 to 6 times for each dollar spend. We receive 100 million a year and expect to leverage 10 to 15 billion. This pulls out the comparatives from other counties. The middle column is current maximum county rate. Some cities within there have different sales tax rates so it may not match you sheet. If the measures under consideration approved, conta costa, San Francisco are looking at a half sent sales tax and [inaudible] Public Engagement approach this is where we appreciate your input on this. The basic message for this outreach recognizing that we are not starting from scratch and have a very constrained timeline. They have [inaudible] they would be these up on the slide that we recognizing educating the public and those interested we have significant funding needs to meet the goal squz need to continue on the path of implementing the t 2030 recommendations. Secondly, recognizing that the prop a bond approved in 2014 did a lot of wonderful things and focused on state of good repair and there were other things we were not able to fund because of [inaudible] two good examples is there wasnt a lot of street resurfacing money and thinks like vision zero because we didnt have the policy at the time so want to address those in the new measure and want people input. There are many opportunities for input. One huge save of that input is in development of the expenditure plan, but in scubs quent meetings because these are long plans there are opportunities throughout the process. In am prop k Program Every 5 years we go through oo public process work wg agencies and parties and members of the public to figure what projects we should funds over the next 5 year period which is about as long as anyone can figure what to do. In terms of Public Engagement, super tight timeline so we want to leverage as much as we can existing venues and forums for gathering input. There is a tremendous mount of conversations happening. Spl are very recent and over a long duration. A good example is supervisor avalos worked with Transportation Coalition and helped developed the muni equity framework and help inform a potential new measure. We need to Leverage Opportunities and be very innovative about what we can do in a short amount of time. You should have your desk a more detailed schedule for key dates. I wonets bore with every detail, but the main two book ends to get to the November Ballot is under to state Public Utilities code to administer a sales tax we need the board of supervisors to place a sales tax on the bal lt. In terms of this body we want to get to end of june probably early july where the Authority Board aprubs a expenditure plan and ask the board of superveez vises to place the sales tax ordinance on the ballot. The timeline is driven fwhie board of supervisors rules and regulations for getting a sales tax ordinance on the ballot. The plan is introduce the first state on the slide the initial draft expendsture plan so we have a place holder to start the clock ticking bought it has to sit at the board for 30 days. The last chance to introduce amendmenticize the first hearing the budget and finance Committee Meeting on july 13 so we have a very compressed winnow to finalize the details and ill leave that there. Those watching this is dedicated half cent sales tax that requires 2 3 vote from the board of supervisors and 2 3 vote from the voters. This is separate and independent above prop k. Up here we cant do all of this in the next 6, 7 weeks, but the menu of strategies we would engage between now and november if this is placed on the ballot to seek input on the expenditure plan and Going Forward. I can talk about what we think we can do in the next 6 weeks but let me highlight one or 2 things i think are particularly important. One is [inaudible] hear of your needs. Jumping into existing meetings that are already scheduled or special meetings we can put on the calendars for the mta board as well as the ta board. Tomorrow night at 6 p. M. The Authority Citizens Advisory Committee we will seek input on the new revenue measure. The last two is innovate v one. We have ideaed such as telephone town halls. They may be the most effective way to reach a lot of people in the short timeframe. At the plans and Programs Committee [inaudible] several of our colleagues in other counties seeking sales tax mesers have done this approach which involves getting phone calls and remindsers there would be electronic town hall where you dial in at dinner time and participate. It sounds boring and like who would do this, but the results have been amazing. People have gotten orders of magnitude increase for people participating for relatively low cost and people participating who normally dont. I got a call on one of these and was able to do it during dinner and while doing homework. Last but not least in the short term and longer outreach we would engage in various strategy tooz reach out to communities of concern with multilingual and other and welcome input on how to do that. I guess that, if you want to add anything, otherwise that is all we have for today. I think that is it. Well take questions. Colleagues any questions for staff or comments on item 8 . Seeing none rsh move to Public Comment. Any Public Comment on item 8 . Please come forward, i see a few people. Good morning Peter Strauss boferd San Francisco transit rider jz part of the transportation Justice Coalition. We are herethis is a information item but here to strongly support this process of developing the transporitation expendsture plan. It is a continuation of the unmet needs identified or some identified as part of the 2030 process. We worked with sfr visor avalos and wiener and particularly with your Transportation Authority staff and thankful to tilly and maria for the time they have given us. This isnt the time to dwell on the nuts and bolts but would like to mention a few things. We very much support the Transportation Authority being the allocation agency for the expenditure plan. I understand this isnt something that is completely decided yet but it is embedded in what is at the board of supervisor jz feel this is pornt because of the continuity and expertise. We are in strong support of a element of the sales tax to support unmet Service Needs and in particular things identified as part of the transit exwuty strategy. Like the evening and night Service Needs. Things like providing additional metro capacity and service. All are many needsthality are not met and we do not center the ability to meet under our present structures. We support the vision zero processes inclusion and developing complete streets. We are also in support of looking at partial funding for affordability programs such as free muni for youth and seniors particularly because of the regressive nature the sales tax. Thank you and well continue to work with the staff and developing the transportation expenditure mpt thank you for your time. Thank you, next speaker. Hello commissioners. Jans lee and serve as a advocacy director [inaudible] our city is getting more and more expense v by the day and that lack of safe and affordable transportation aupsh option places a growing burden on low income working communities. It is important first step that you be board of supervisors have taken to develop a transportation expendsture plan that address the known Capital Needs and new initiatives since the 2030 planning efforts. We also know that of the original t 2030 task force we need to continue pursuing every revenue option beyond the go bond in [inaudible] plan to insure that the expenditure plan is properly vetted by the public and there are real ways to insure engagement and you chiming in how to make that work. We also look forward working with staff to get the word out and grothe number of people beyaunds the transportation Justice Coalition because we know transportation effects everyone, every san franciscan regardless of age, where you live or what modes you do and dont use to get around. The San Francisco Bike Coalition recognize there is a different cost not reflected here in the numbers which are the lives of someone injured or killed on the street. We want to make sure the final expenditure plan does everything it can to build out safe complete streets for the city and most vulnerable user which are those biking and walking. Thank you for your attention brought to the plan today and look forward working with you to meet the cities needs. Thank you, next speaker. Good morning commissioners. My name is jackie sax and im a member of the Citizens Advisory Committee for Transportation Authority. I worked on two transitsales tax packages already. The property sales tax passed in 1989 and prop k sales tax. Before you consider this sales tax package you got to remember in the few years we will have to goif you want to put this on the ballot in november for another sales tax package you have to remember in the few years even though prop k is 35 year package, in a few years we will have to go before the voters to have them extend prop k like we did with prop b when that was half way through the process. Also, regarding prop k, one of the projects in prop k you are all looking forward to the geary bus Rapid Transit, but there is nothis project is supposed to be rail ready and the 5 year ppp that i worked on for many years at intervals, the last one there was no money for a geary lightrail Transit System and the geary lightrail Transit System is the only project from prop b that was grandfathered into pop k that isnt getting funding and you should look into that before you look into anymore sales tax packages. Thank you. Thank you. Any Public Comment on item 8 . Seeing none, Public Comment is closed. This is information item. Item 9. Iletm 9, introduction to new items any introductions today . Seeing none, any Public Comment on item number 9 . Seeing none, Public Comment is closed. Also a information item. Item 10. General Public Comment any general Public Comment . [inaudible] National Integrity and foreign relations. [inaudible] successful relationships for [inaudible] this is a principle of politics that governs the nation of [inaudible] leading a common effort of [inaudible] and success. National leaders bear the responsibility of maintaining a state of developmental progress [inaudible] National Leaders should drop [inaudible] and disagreement for being in unity to lead political platform to nourish [inaudible] a better understanding of true principles. [inaudible] can show bright wisdom for [inaudible] what you have a complete [inaudible] to the plan of policies in details for a set of [inaudible] thank you. Thank you. Next speaker. Last february the Citizens Advisory Committee had information item regarding the other 9 to 5. We were given a multipage outline of what was going to be done for the people that were after 5 oclock at night or those people that worked at hotels and restaurants downtown. I have been involved in the working group since october of last year and i think that i told them at our last meeting that they should bring their final reportbring the progress to the Citizens Advisory Committee tomorrow this month so we know what is going on and i feel that before anything gets done, before they [inaudible] does anything they should come to the Citizens Advisory Committee first to see what we have to say especially the new members in district 3 and see how he feels about the 9 to 5 before you take action watt what so ever. As far as the geary bus Rapid Transit system is concerned the money in prop k was priority 3 project and [inaudible] think about that before you try tothe fact they dont have money in the 5 year plan for geary lightrail, think about that before you do anything. Thank you. Any additional Public Comment . Seeing none, Public Comment is closed. Item 11. Item 11, adjournment. We are adjourned. Thank you colleagues. [meeting adjourned] good morning, everyone good morning good morning were pleased to have everyone were excited for this important meeting 3 special guests before us this is hosted by the secretary and mayor and supervisor wiener is here in attendance we would like to, of course, remind everyone that as you may know this meeting specifically about the wonderful federal government smart city with the sdpapgs the city of to is one of the cities to powerful to the affordable round in that challenge were making an application for Initiative Ideas for transportation in urban community. Community across the country were very, very excited about that a couple of key things i want to make sure you know to the press we are pleased youre here in attendance and during the round table in questions in the press, however, an opportunity in the Mayors Office if you in the International Room 200 to meet with the mayor and secretary secretary we go around the room quickly we have a lot to cover i have everyone introduce themselves. Director reiskin during the course of transportation in San Francisco. Welcome mr. Secretary supervisor wiener on the board of supervisors and chair Transportation Authority. Thank you and the president for getting it when it comes to urban mobility and the challenges the city faces thank you. Director the california traffic safety. Malcuss with the flint traffic systems. With google x and fred im with San Francisco resident proud. John gordon chief Financial Officer gentle protect. Wayne gm for uber and cameron cso and katz attorney. Christine on the board of directors for sfaufbt tilly chang with the Transportation Authority lonnie Vice President of smarter community for verizon and scott with microsoft and for the mta and the chief architect for this proposal. Joseph Vice President of government for the west and uc berkley with the transportation study susan im professor and go civic engineering and codirector of sustainability and kims copilot. Good morning administrator the federal transit michgsz and steve with the metropolitan. Bryan with the California State Agency good to see you im kevin the mayors director mr. Mayor open this round table good morning, everyone. Good morning. It is good to have an opportunity when we have a smart city challenge we get smart people out here to participate thank you to everyone who is here at city hall and welcome in the secretary foxy were talking a few minutes earlier i was complimenting many occasion we dont get the opportunity to work with the federal government if which we are positively challenges r challenged sometimes were challenged with other things that has unique opportunity for San Francisco bay area not only one of the 7 city pilots to put together something that my goal is well beyond this particular challenge and bringing people together with an opportunity to figure out what guess our future for every neighborhood in the city for the city itself and the region were thinking about how can urban mobility be enhanced, involved temp that we think that is going to be part of our lives in the very, very near future how can the principles we are operate on the privileges of equity and go accessibility and affordability be a dive active part of the way we plan our urban mobility for that elaboration the present and future and i have scompliementd the secretary because this approach to this and president obama support for this has to do with with awakening the talents of our city in a direction that supports these principle. Uses the opportunity to get the best of our technology to blend with those principles and you know we know more than any other region in the country how the urn mobility is a challenge unless i think and plan for time for everyone so im excited about this challenge and excited because a great part is going to be discussed with people right in this room along with berkley that is part of our what we call super public our hub with you and california agencies and regional agencies and the federal agencies along with companies that have started and growing and becoming part of fabric of discussion around your own mobility and helps the challenges what is happening director reiskin and i with or talking this is just a gamechanger of what were about to do and present we need to document and make sure that agencies have access to this the public truly can come in to a center like the one anothers 50 United Nations plaza to house everybody and access to this information because but talk from the federal government smart city challenge and a a Community Engagement policy as you may know and challenge our own neighborhood and communities to rise to the challenge i know that supervisor wiener is familiar with this he and i before i became mayor were working on Community Challenge goals literally neighborhoods top City Government and say how can we help you improve our neighborhood and similarly well do this for communities not only what are your challenges. Improve our lives and make the will accessibility part of our transportation challenges this opportunity is incredible and not obviously we want to win and demonstrate that to the secretary but want to impose everyone to our shared future thats why we want to create a platform that didnt divide people people people that have wifi and dont communication devices between those who do and do not make sure this opportunity reaches everyone and San Francisco ive been doing already i it is part of our culture one of the is first citys to say that equity up by raising minimum wage lets get hours for affordable by building thirty thousand New Buildings in the next 7 or 8 years well accomplish that those inhibit are part of the successful city wheel were growing transportation my name is i in my opinion i think that is shared with the federal government the greatest equalizer of all people nowadays have to be involved because there is only 49 square miles we also share that be responsible with oakland and other cities as a Regional Partnership we want this opportunity to make sure that everyone can live and work and if youre from a place work here as well and not sit isnt car for two hours a day so the other part safety incredible work that is being done on vehicles to make sure theyre safer this vision zero goal a great contribution to that technology in the urban mobility setting cant work if it didnt offer and higher level of safety just wont work this is another attribute on the front and Center Offering this this is satisfactory im a firm blsh believer in the shared commissioner lee whether car share or bike share and the moore people are against urban centers like San Francisco and the bay area to be able to say you dont have to own and have is the frustration of being for your own vehicle a second vehicle in most cases that shared ability to actually give you a higher level of safety assess and mobility that you need that is our future something i truly believe in and think that having people come off from the demands of ownership and going into incredibly and easy assessed to transportation i think is a wonderful opportunity. Shown that time and time again with the improvements the Transportation System and making it affordable and sometimes free for youth and free for seniors and for people with disabilities got to the greater this is San Francisco bay area if it aint greener cant come to any porch one did reasons people want to be in the bay area lessee Green House Gas emissions and being a parts of either a company or a government or a Nonprofit Agency that has going on discussions about being a partner in our environmental goals so electric atones vehicles is a part of that we have the embracement no different with the federal government says lets approach the mayors of the country that is where things are happening he, he knows if i know federal officers that are prior mayors theres an instant understanding you should know that more and finally i want to say that were teaching each thats why we have to have this evening document because as an International City we want to be sure to share that information and best practices and share failures so we can overcome and work better thats what we do in the private sector weve learned this in government and more and more were not fear fell off failure all of those contributes are reflected in the approach to this smart city challenge i want to say again, thank you i know that secretary fox is reminding me not easy to put this together i appreciate that but it was kind of easy for us to accept the challenge youre talking about things we have to have happy in this country and right at the leadership of it i dont think youll find secretary in the entire world than in the bay area thankful for everyone in this room you already meeting the smarter stir challenge and appreciative of it how to be a mayor of the city that puts forward a challenge and great response and hopefully secretary he said this earlier i really hope that maybe theres resource towards 7 cities 50 million each because of what were demonstrating around the future of this country and meet that challenge thank you for being here secretary fox this is our welcome to you and glad our back here i think we put the warmest day of the week together for you laughter appreciate our presence i know your visiting everyone of the citys but i know that when you come here were welcoming and embracing the ideas and goals and well show our best calendar. Thank you, thank you mayor you thank you very much for the great welcome i love coming out here mayor ed lee and i were buddies before i came into this role and continues to serve San Francisco and one of the leading voices of the mayors around the country before we get into our presentation to spend a few moments ago talking about why the smart city challenge and process that Going Forward. I should say at the outset is the last time i was here i was disappointed during the superbowl and any carolyn panthers didnt farewell it was all good except the game laughter i should also mention being from charlotte and graduated in college we are e eternal proud of the warriors you should know that no bias on the challenge but certainly a bias on the game laughter so look what i want to convey and one of the reasons i go to all the cities to convey how urgently we need to address this nations transportation problems coming out the Department Almost 3 years ago it was raining you know what we had a government shut down, we had been almost 10 years without a long Service Transportation bill, we had ceqa tradition things when the federal get colds this is a flu in the city and locals gotten to a chronic place cities and states were struggling to keep up maintenance and not a lot of creativity or a lot of punch to what we were open about from the transportation stand point. And you lay on top of that the square 70 million more people youre familiar with the rapid population from a transportation perspective 45 percent more pressure on the federate and 65 more trucks on the road obviously the challenges of climatic change and the fact that the it is thirty percent that impacts that. And then you have this wave of technology that you know lots of ideas coming out seems like every minute but how many make sense to solving the most challenging infrastructure problems we have so what we want to do is set up a challenge that wasnt per sprich you have to have so many electric vehicles and autonomous we didnt want to do one where we spread out a bunch of resources like Peanut Butter but shift the open from a resounding active patch the road kind of forward thinking treatment how transportation should be in this country over the next several decades and so this is an urgent challenge even though you have to think the problems of that region there are not entirely unique and through this champ were trying to think for the country how can we start to tackle those problems so the smart city champ is trying to shift our thinking into proactive kind of mindset we didnt know how many folks will apply that 7 or 8 applications and intending to reduce the number of if not i was to 5 cities we upped it to 7 the applications with or were to good and San Francisco is part of 7 and in the next week or so close out the application for the phase two and hope to make a final decision this summer. Couple of things people ask how do you win how do you win it is more art than science to be honest and knowing your community what the challenges and be a clear about what those challenges and what you think the solutions should be and Everything Else builds ill not get stuck on who what items are the most eye popping but how much is placed on the real problems and actually solve them the technology we think 19 are tools but not were not doing had this for Technology Sake but to solve our mobility challenges so thats essentially the smart city challenge in a nut shell we will announce the westerners in the summer and im here, here to listen to you ill be happy to answer any questions you may have. And my team a great group of folks mark and michael daily and kevin monroe you raise your hands a little bit youll be interacting with this and with that, im going to turn it over to mayor and look forward to what i have to say and colleagues. Thank you mr. Secretary appreciate those remarks were excited to hoot this round table were going to talk about the challenge and what we are doing at a highlevel and talk about the partnerships look like and we want to give you an opportunity to entertain or anyone to have an interaction with that, ill punt to ed reiskin for your mta. Thanks tom and mr. Secretary and mr. Mayor i think i should be calling myself secretary of transportation of San Francisco instead of the director the urgency of the transportation that was mentioned mr. Secretary i and many know we hear everyday and our approach to the smart city challenge is leveraging a number of strengths we believe we have here in the city we have great local, regional, state leadership when it comes to transportation and mobility challenges we have we have extremely strong policy goals in this region regarding safety and feasibility, affordability be regarding transportation and mobility, regarding accessibility and we also have been an amazing depth of partners from economic and nonprofit and private sector many share the policy goals and bring to bear a lot of amazing talent, knowledge and experience and depth we that we can bring together you made reference to technology as a tool the means not the end were a hot bed of innovation in the city not all of the innovation has been in line with the policy goals we see the great opportunity here through the smart city challenge to be proactive to align the policy goals with the integrity from the academics if our nonprofits partners and advocates so we can achieve those and address some of the urgent needs particularly with those more disadvantaged and challenged we have no shortage of those in San Francisco in the bay area and we have been doing a lot of within our transit and another strength we have a city transportation does want that has aide transportation that regulates the go pathways and all the surface Transportation One one house and city and county were able to throw that address a lot of issues of equity and affordable affordability and cast that lens a whole challenge of partnerships as not per scripture to cities and not to our community as the mayor mentioned taking that challenge and rolling it to the community through the Community Challenge grant so thats kind of the principles of our approach we want to commend ask tim from the chief architect to explain with a little bit more detail about the challenge. Good morning, everyone what we are trying to do understand what the challenge and bring it through the San Francisco lens and then think about how best utilized for the rest of the country and world and San Francisco is one of the challenges we have a fundamental issue with the transportation it is held across the country and inaudible go affordability crisis getting hotter and hotter in San Francisco safety challenges. Weve seen the Transportation System is one of the greenest in the country has a high proportion we have improved dramatically we still have a long way to go and 20 percent household depended on transportation if we can reduce that by a little bit and do an Environmental Impact report our envision is bold mr. Secretary were way above to launch the shared connectivity and Transportation System this is our north star the reason the current transportation mode is not working too much congestion and nothing coordinated and depending on the landscape on parking and driving up the cost of development and the cost of getting around we think the series of challenges well share it is robust in our goals and building up and sdrashth the technology in scale well start seeing things changing with our Street Network and next time the structure of land to public spaces and open space and imagine plastering around the downtown they transform to housing they care about this is a transformation and a long term vision in the short term pilots to get us there and by the core values San Francisco has of core values with the transportation and not new legacy that is kept on since the 19 san jose active safety is global and we think trading digital building up the digital category for everyone not just for those who can afford it and the Transportation System we want to get things integrated so that the sustainability outcomes will be sustainable our goal is the tower of 10 we want to shift 10 percent over to transit shared mobility and active transportation and we know we can do this in the last 10 years we went from 6 percent of private vehicle trips and 40 percent mobility trips to 50 have in 2014 and getting 10 percent more with this strategy with reduced tallies by the same numbers by the vision zero and technology can get us there and reduce the emissions by working through the system and ultimately to reduce this the cost of getting around this is the best thing for everyone and make San Francisco were working to do this were creating a San Francisco smart City Infrastructure and jay will talk about that bringing in the best of government and berkley and environmental departments to get us challenges we dont center all the answers thats the reason for the demonstration project and 3 types regional pilots and city pilots and neighborhood challenge pilots they build up each other with the urban use alone and just a snapshot well build on what we have empty seats optimize and trek if i them and together we want the 9 to 5 how to get people back home were looking improving the wifi because we have a lot of people with smart phones they cant afford the plan and this is with the technology to create that assess for people to get to that mobility and last but not least the shared mobility in the neighborhood all of the shed mobility where people dont have to use a car or drive themselves around but this takes money and time this is the nut of our application and heres some works so the transport having the modes together on one platform and associate not just Good Transportation but the friends and family embedded in their appointment in the household and minimize the signatures by the city electrifying is and minimize the costs of businesses and the receipt of good idea thats what were doing and close by saying investment in all the u. S. City were the center of innovation in the world and more Technology Companies and more quality with the schajz changes than millionaire and a track record about investment and equity how we think in San Francisco and a track record of innovation whether grants or develop sf parks with the demand management and we partner are uc berkley so there is Good Opportunity to tie into the early adoption cultural with the system a Good Opportunity and we also have strong confidence in Risk Management and recently because of uc berkley were strong reputation of managing highly Sensitive Data and partnerships are the National Transportation official to get this information and with the members of the urban street guidelines is common place for transit street design improvements and lastly uc berkley having this tech program spread the information across not only the city in the u. S. But all over the world thats the reason to invest in San Francisco and want to close were the inner improvement for the nation we see this and everybody here is because of that have felt so were committed and look forward to delivering on our promise. Thank you, tim appreciate that tim referred to our lead partner uc berkley the mayor talked about i want to mention that clearly the values you guys have in the challenge grant are key this the San Francisco is using and uc berkley around those values well start and im going to turn it over to to susan the other partner the director the research at the uc berkley to talk about the specification. Thank you mr. Mayor and mr. Secretary ill tell you that with migrant challenge comes chaos if chaos a vision and this is a grand challenge we dont typically put together 20 million proposals this took a lot of effort i think that working with the worldclasscy Say University hope to create a worldclass city for the future i want to tell you this city and our University Equity is part of our dna were unpolicy allergic and i want to a few things about the research we want to commend share tim shared the power of 10 reduce trips by tennessee e 10 percent and emissions by 10 percent and collisions and fatalities by 10 percent and want to have the Household Expenses of low income residents by 10 percent we have a 3 tiered approach we believe in scale so start with the regional scale and city and neighborhood scale we absolutely feel those levels scale must come together who what is a model platform that is replicated and customized our approach also builds on the feedback control this inspired us were not going to rely on Technology Well not use argues u justice the supply approach that relies on cameras and the traditional forms of Transportation Management well go well beyond that by focusing on demand Martin Luther king in a way that has not demonstrated before and this feedback control is going to give us the opportunity to id like to take the opportunity monitor the system and optimize that with the goal of 10 Percent Energy feedback a lot of pilots ive worked on many, many pilots as many of the colleagues from uc berkley have the pilots are fixed not dynamic and everything about our proposal on the supply and demand is indeed dynamic there are 16 pilot projects embedded if this proposal theyre all adaptable from the feedback from our citizens and Technology Partners and so we envision this as an italian there maybe winners and losers thats research if he knew with we were doing when with we started it wouldnt be research thats a quote by Albert Einstein so we think well encounter success a in some cases maybe those pilots are not system another big point i want to mention 40 million proposal requires us to enlist a massive set of multi experts and planners and engineers weve done this proposal so again get this ill walk through the 5 key method the behavorial and equity impacts i had the pleasure of leading and connected vehicle Analysis Data mobility architecture my colleagues professor will be leading, our safety Impact Analysis and data privacy analysis at uc berkley we are going to do bring in expert if all of our schools Business Schools and law school and Engineering School and policy school, Planning School to do this work we have many hypotheses an example on demand late night shuttle and 67 van shuttle will increase equity an Afterschool Program lowering the commute times and cost of travel and improving quality of life weve designed metrics toe test all hi pockets and assembled sensor and survey data that will be warehouseed and managed in the vision to make that a common platform and finally id like to conclude as to me did with our vision for transfer we think that with a grand challenge we have a grand opportunity to share our knowledge countrys and across the globe weve partnered it is uc berkley with the National Resource for stakeholder engage on climatic and experts an Advisory Committee we want to make sure we are capturing the full spectrum of the impacts and this Stakeholder Group will help keep us on track and working groups to share our knowledge and also envision completing a best practices guide and finally at uc berkley we are deeply committed to the future and to our students and we really want to develop a program that will enable us to transform our current Transportation Planners and engineer into big data and city scientists of the future before i conclude id like to give my colleagues alex an opportunity to also emphasis the role of the university. Thank you, mr. Mayor and mr. Secretary for being here briefly we want to commend convey im truly excited to see this this is unusual for the Charter School to be in this stage personally worked that the mayor and also were in the second hat convey we have a whole team of people working behind us the Smart Program with reuben and the moekt program briefly i think the asset that the university brings is the discipline the team and the schools to execute the program that susan putt together and as one of the lead public universities were excited to philosophical our public goal through the system. Thank you, alex and susan mr. Secretary our mayor has pushed as you as the department to look at ever challenge and opportunity with every opportunity and stress to been partnership and clongs he said very ocher is collective responsibility and collective knowledge we created id like to turn to one of our staff the chief Initiative Officer to talk about that. Thank you collin and secretary fox and mr. Mayor were open by default we recognize the challenges that we face in our city and society are not solved by any one organization we need to work with the best and brightest inside and outside of we know how to partner weve been working with other organizations and Community Partners to create tangible impacts ill share two examples one first of its kind called start up and residents that embeds them within government to create products and services with a tremendous response three hundred startups and 40 challenges issued and created a huge impact i mentioned this because this methodology of problems sourcing and president obama and learning is the same methodology we want to use in this marketing champ and work with the community our mayor ed lee mentioned our Community Challenge Grant Program we have that has part of institution and know how to work with the neighborhood and groups and work with them open creating exclusions u solutions and implementing those solutions thats why were excited to announce the creation of Smart City Institute with with uc berkley and the foundation were creating this platform to bring together academic partners other governments, industry partners, and Community Partners this platform is really going to advance and shape the future of mobility this institute and secretary fox was capitalized by this grant and its initial focus on moeblth but goes beyond mobility in the challenges in the society whether climatic change we want to are create this platform and bring the best and brightest to tackle overseeing problems when you been the institutions this Public Institutions that San Francisco and uc berkley fundamental to who we are around equity equal opportunity and safety so weve talked about this and this is part of dna and as a testament to our commitment around the smart city we partnered with the Edward Mcmann and cam are not only and others with the foundations to create super public this is where the new institute will be housed at the plaza and across the street from city hall two minutes walk we need if proximity and able to work to solve 244 thousand square feet of space to collaborate a collaboration sprays meant to break down the city losses and you think about the levels of government we dont, about the federal, state, and local we have those laws those collaboration will breakdown that secretary fox the d o it operationally is on the same floor theyre modern ingress government well be working together on the same floor with the shared challenges and so i want to recognize g s a for this vision they want to take this vision to other cities and real estate they can find real estate in other cities 4 million secret to bring detroit and others cities but starts here first and i want to thank the administrator denise and this platform that were creating at super public and the installed institute around Community Engagement we know how to engage our Community Around equity and creating opportunities for all thank you jay. Mr. Secretary youve heard about the partnership and how the city is pulling the depth together and engagement in the community and jay alludes to the Business Partners we want to hear from them and first from google to talk about why they want to be involved sarah. Thanks for having us were excited and i know as you may know and work your Department Safety is really the main conversation around the vehicles and thats totally right are the cars safe enough weve focused on so far i think what is excited about this challenge in particular had you it was put together but not just safety but how those vehicles get used to have the positive impacts we want to see the opportunities for people to get to work and access to jobs the opportunities for elder you know to answer those questions about how do we sure this temp enables people from having access to the things that so many people take for grant thats the policy questions were excited to work with the city were very collaborative on all this i think that partnership is a legal art and means Different Things to different people we all know this technology is really, really going to come into a partnership we cant not work with the city this whole process formalized something and give us a platform for to do it thank you it also exciting. Thank you sarah. I want to call on fred. So i have to apologize im not prepared to speak i know this a brainstorming session so ill make something up and leave for any colleague the panthers cant have you laughter well, im from chicago, of course, your president steve got that someone once said that policies are local i dont know who said that all smart city implementations are local there is simply no other way for those things to work when you think about technology to solve problems as an entry have the consultant to design and pilot and build ones and configure and install many times and we as a Service Organization serve many cities that we serve your administration and proud of doing all that we think that is an end there is something Central Special there the smart city and Innovation Foundation we believe will allow us to do something that will be scaleable and repeatable and allow us to not only take a lead Global Warming but to serve many other cities around the country specifically the transportation as a service tim put up pictures models of it i believe very much a lot of strength and power behind that well meet a lot of the goals we serve were excited to be here to be across the street and to be part of this thank you. Mr. Secretary thats our presentation we want to ask you or your team it we have any questions so many people around the table and your comments as well. Anxious to ask a couple of questions im curious about a few things theres a lot first of all, let me compliment you on the incredible collaboration i see here and the vision you have for institutionalizing this collaboration is pretty impressive theres a lot of tension i see an individual mobility i wonder whether there is a freight aspect to what youre working towards and what you thought about. Tim. I can answer that mr. Secretary well, looking how to package the Transportation Solutions to the Small Business and were seeing a proliferation of deliveries in San Francisco and all over the country and many are responsible were trying to figure out how optimize that and where theyre coming from and going to getting a better handle we dont know frank what the landscape looked like and an approach how to target those areas to peel back the congestion or the delivery a real policy approach. Can i ask i think about this project 24 7. I believe you have four pilot projects that youll see that addresses the goods everything from safety to distribution to the pier to pier networks. One of the other this is more of a comment than a question but one of the reasons why we wanted to place focus on the local level for this challenge is that one of our biggest con stranlts on addressing mobility needs across the country is the sister low effect at federal and state level we know highway performances and transit performance we know Commuter Rail performance and a lot of things about bike but in terms of overall system performance it is something local government has to do we should be doing a better job but dont have a set of tools for understanding overall mobility and this is i think this is going to be a continuing challenge nationally but we kind of predetermined what we on the mobility needs for the country are and if we use data to show you ill give you an example when i he was mayor of charlotte any city engineers we need a phil road two lanes in both distributors well reduce that to 3 and make the middle lane a turn lane i said youre out of your mind it wont work they do analytic and it worked so sometimes, we think as policymakers will get changed by what the facts tells you but i wanted to convey to you one of the really important things we need to know about mobility Going Forward is what really will make a difference at the federal level i dont want you to presuppose we can answer that question better than you can if you can give us tools for understanding different ways to analyze that i think that will only help federal policy gordons this is a big need ill get off any soapbox but in conclusion get blasted back in washington for saying 24 well ultimately have to have a result driven set of policies at the federal level say heres the goals and federal government naught i figure out how to get there well not tell you to add a highway you develop a system in a way this cage is sort of forcing some of the challenges but on a grassroots level. Ill be happy to answer any questions you may have. Any mr. Secretary and mr. Mayor, thank you tilly chang build off the concept and presenter our initial thought on knowing your community and understanding the challenges they face at the ground level and how to provide that technical design so that the solution is respond to the needs the Transportation Authority is comprised of the 11 members of the board of supervisors who work with the mayor those values are shared city values i want to convey were committed to support that dialogue at a National Conversation how to address all those complex message to work in partnership with sfmta and other agencies on addressing the neighborhood challenges to the neighborhood Transportation Program things like negative impact district 6 our central south of market area 70 percent of trips are through trips we have numbered streets overview has an off ramp or onramp speak about the traffic slow those are the things that working together with sfmta and our regional partners in fact, 50 percent of San Francisco workforce is regional so absolutely bringing that collection of expertise together from the government does and working if partnership with the private sector in terms of the analytic and technical experience and the pilot with us, yes theres a chances chance for failure with the families that are living in the zones that are experiencing those impacts we think we can help thank you. Thank you. Want to make sure from our team any questions specifically for the secretary hes offered to answer . Tim. You okay. All right. laughter . Hi thank you mr. Secretary for coming out and thank you, mr. Mayor for hooting and all the great work i sit optimize the board of directors with sfmta appointed by mr. Mayor and the supervisors i want to reiterate the equity lens as a partnership lens that we have a history of bringing on here in San Francisco and throughout the region you can rest assure the partnerships have with the community weve done around the city and a track record when i was on the board we heard the need for reporting in San Francisco with our buses and what we did you know something that came from the grassroots up and you know thanks to the leadership in mta and throughout the city we did that that was sort of a dramatic thing not oakland and other agencies will connect throughout the region and done purposes i come if a Organization Called transform that partners with the community and right now, were working on open Mayors Office of housing and infrastructure with the mtc to get the Community Buy in these to fund the transportation solution this is built open a history of creating partnerships transform and other partners like we have throughout the city are going to make sure about all of the work comes from the ground up and the solutions to those transportation issues come from the community and are done with partnership with the ct a and the mta and other partners another wonderful solution that the mayor come up with the Free Transportation for youth that was tremendous from the grassroots with help from google and a lot of the partnerships weve demonstrated a real usership and make that permanent has part of the budget those covets seclusions from the community and make sure we amble if i in this model for the rest of the country thank you. Mayor. Mr. Secretary im glad you had a taste of what were proposing we want to say that you know in thinking through this entire collaboration i know our federal and regional partners are wishing gosh we should have this constantly to be a part of whether the state or regional level ill say from the private sector what we have smart City Industry leaders coming in we have one hundred and 50 local Bay Area Companies that joined and measured their pledges and candidates should we be a part of this successful grant that their pledging up to over 93 million of their effort to compliment the possible possibility of 40 to 50. Up to 99. Up to 99 okay laughter i know thats what this came challenge is awakened i think you made that that way we can demonstrate that not only will our region au wage the models we proposed through the institute will cause so much others to lift their entire game up i think that i dont take it as controversy the Oriented Approach by the federal government is precisely what we need to allow us the collaboration not be catch up in old ways of thinking of improving thank you to you and president obama for this opportunity were putting our best foot forward not only hope we know that well be successful because of the things that have been caused to succumb together with all the partnerships thank you. Mayor thank you so much great to be here with i i want to thank you all for your hard it taken energy and have effort and thought and its very infest to see what youre doing and on behalf of the president charged me with trying to be as good a steward the transportation what youre doing is an example of really the Sleeping Giant of america starting to she thought into a proactive position and get after Southern California the problems we have so were very excited to see what youre doing thank you very much clapping. thank you to secretary fox he meant what i said this challenge has awakened initiative juices and generally transportation component if usually are working in silos state and federal and local stuff i think this challenge has caused us to redesign the ways to come together for the benefit of the country be a smart city has a result so you kind of saw an example from what this is causing us to do very positive way were embracing this challenge of the best obviously with the ac dam miff thank you to secretary fox and president obama positives from this challenge and hopefully other cities will do this i will say that the things we want to do to make it sustainable and greater and things we all need continue to demonstrate that. Mayor thank you very much and obviously this is been an impressive assembly belligerent of were grateful to you put together a great team and folks want to know how to win this thing your view is ever city that puts its best foot forward and thinks about the problems they face and the opportunities that still sit before us through technology and innovation to improve transportation those cities win by virtue of everything i said is very consistent with that so with that, why not take a few questions and look forward to answering those questions. Thank you for coming can you talk a little bit about the roll the value of the role of uc berkley with the city. Well, what berkley is going bringing to the table is something that is sorely needed in transportation a rigorous set of eyeing and rigor around how various proposed solutions to mobility challenges actually work you know for most of history of transportation we could be assume that if you have a train that goes you know faster that people will get places faster or a car faster people will get there faster were in the third or Fourth Quarter of champs 2, 3, 4 america where our infrastructure is relatively con strapped and now like fingers on the hand we have to make sure that those things are acting more as one because the hole whole can be greater the sum of the parts and the rigorous decigarette butt of the parts work individually and together will give us more information and help us make much more in a more sophisticated fashion how were investing and what were investing and how it is working together and how well the planning at the local level is creating better mobility it is big time. With this challenge and the ac dam challenge with berkley we need other challenges not just were not just going to win as San Francisco so the ability to have a center a Research Center that document everything that tests hi pockets this is lets get something that works for everybody that cause others cities across the country to improve their entire systems for the right reasons and principles thats why berkley is so important we need to have everything we do be archived and shared with other cities and countries president to feel what is true innovation about not just the solicited moment of success that sometimes cities get when their fwrand a transportation project i think secretary and the president on the igniting to the country and demonstrating that on a proven basis we get better answers. The role of federal government in replicating the successes and what are the winning cities say San Francisco does amazing new things how does that like what method by which other cities and policies that are a local level or fill in. Look i think that the mayor has spoken to this weve heard this from several cities on the tour by putting the challenge out there in the first place the federal government is ignited a conversation at the local level what is possible with transportation in solving our mobility challenges i cant tell you thou flatfooted weve been as a country notwithstanding were home to some of the most impressive innovators in the world if you look at the basic policies and programs of the federal government many of them are older than 40 or 50 years so the transportation factor heretofore is lagging cart of innovation and part of what were trying to do make it a london Breed Program were experiencing more congestion and thirty percent of Green House Gas emissions are attributable to the transportation so theres a lot of work for us to do to clean up and make that satisfy and more efficient and i think this challenge in and of itself has created this kind of conversation in 78 cities across the country whoever wins the challenge other cities will be going to that city trying to replicate some of the definition they do trying to thinks how to adapt some of the ideas and quite frankly were hearing some of the cities are attracted to them and taking the practices from 0 those cities and using them thats the kind of urgency we think that necessary and 0 no more flexible level of government than the local level. With the in regard population inaudible overcrowded and one solution transportation has is effected the at the time of trial with the reputation back the idea of putting inaudible . Look you know we rely heavy on the consensus to form that he local level for various transit projects and i think weve shown a willingness to take aggressive steps to help not only this area by every area across the country to solve the mobility challenges i expect no different but starts with the local leadership and the community developing the solutions and we will follow your lead in that respect. So the bay bridge that was frequently by safety problems over serve years ago whats your opinion on the oversight. Well, i dont know the details about what was done or would have been done i have a great federal Highway Administration well certainly look at that and maybe provide you with a more detailed response later today. Is i wanted to highlight the proposal. Look i think a cough of things you do have some significant transportation challenges here and i think all of the cities in one form or another were picked for finalists demonstrated the transportation challenges and also have as the other set of cities a compatibility for addressing overseeing challenges and demonstrating a record of Community Engagement of collaboration cross the levels of government between the public and private sector a willingness to partner to get things done and you know theres also think aspect of our proposal that you know takes Community Input and perhaps uses some novel ways of reilly listening to the community and trying to hear from folks at the grassroots levels what kinds of solutions theyre looking for and that continues obviously in the next phase we havent gotten the second application for the final phase it is still being worked on what i heard today is kufrj. This is a troofrm active proposal with a lot of because of sharing how how do you sell drivers on the ideas you know people look at the congestion tell them how this looks at. You know for that part i know were approaching this in a really multiple mode but in terms of the individual driver you know being someone with whose a resident or work working in the bay area you have to understand that when people spend two hours a single contributor person in an automobile through the bay bridge or 101 or 90 on the other side theyve got to be thinking how to pend their time better and the environment and think about why they cant get home and spend time with the kids or get to that classroom theyre trying to improve themselves because of that congestion and i do believe that we to theyre very pencil interests when we suggest that shared mobility the ability to assess rather than have to own with all of the economic pressures there is the more freedom that you inherit by being partnering in a much more shared way about transportation i think can convince someone today spending hours on the road and wondering what in the heck is the quality of life of their lives all about we suggested the quality of life should be up whether working in a restaurant or hotel hotel or in their Technology Company or sport group and i am excited that people can have this idea this the same car that they might use an hour later tropt their spouse and kids to something they need and in the average get to go home and perhaps in the evening their favorite restaurant done with the same car with the denied pielt with a stimund not wonder whether the kid is not experiencing a dangerous situation because theyre out on an event that might be i think the autonomous connected vehicles that is affordable and eligible that is assessable has i think for the future a fabulous conversation with people what is effecting their lives and makes them so nerves or over stressed. If for some reason San Francisco should not be aware the inaudible to make any of this well, you know, i think this is something ive talked to secretary fox obviously the awakening of this opportunity is not just the money but also the commitment and the mindset were creating right now because i think an opportunity for us to look at how to sustain this kind of approach to the large future transportation we should be doing this we actually should be doing this outside of the grant the grant seems is i think gait something exist if we both learn from this obviously when good ideas and people come together for the right reasons there should be a reward whether financial or otherwise i think were going through this go process how do we award this incredible response to the countries champions i think that rises above what that might be an economic challenge thousand to keep this going. Great thanks everybody good to be you with and good luck to the warriors tonight good afternoon id like to call the sfpuc inform order its monday, may 2, 2016, at 1 307 mr. Secretary call the roll. Commissioner Vice President moran commissioner courtney are expected horizontal we have quorum thank you next item, please. Item 3 approval of the minutes of may 10, 2016. Approval ill second. In any discussion or pub