Heartedly believe in this bill. Its a wonderful intersection of gender and class, which always go together. You know, it has been you know, the fight has been a long one and even now as the fight still goes on. I dont think we should think that, you know, that Lgbt Community members have, you know, have perfect safety everywhere they go. Just, you know, like just what happened in los angeles, you know, someone killed a transgender woman. So, i think its really great that were doing this bill and i think its great that people are being paid attention to. I think this is also a great start politically because it tells s. R. O. Owners that legislators are paying attention to whats going on in those buildings and theyre being regulated. So, i think its a great start around, so i thank you for supporting this. Thank you. Good afternoon, supervisors. My name is kylie hoffmann. Im the coordinator of Youth Development and administration for the San FranciscoYouth Commission. Im here on behalf of our Youth Commissioners and want you to know that on december 18, at a full Youth Commission meeting, they voted unanimously in support of all gender restrooms in residential hotels. The Youth Commissioners would like to thank supervisors ronan, sheehy, peskin and recognize tang to cosponsor this legislation or at the very least to support it. Thank you. Good afternoon, supervise source. My name is honey mahogany. I am the cofounder of the transgender cultural district. I want to say congratulations to supervisor tang or chairperson tang in this situation. I am thrilled to be here and to see so much upstanding support for an effort put on by jordan davis and hillary ronans office. As a gendered, nonconforming person, i can speak personally to the dangers and discomfort of having to choose between a mens and womens bathroom. I think this is an Incredible Opportunity to address the days period of time theys that face gender nonconforming folks and transpeople when accessing services. They are most critical and at risk population and anything that we can do to support their abilities to access services, i believe, should be fully supported by the entire bore. I hope for those of you who have not signed on as cosponsors that youll consider cosponsoring or at the very least vote in support of this very important legislation. Thank you. Hi. Tommy mecca from the housing rights committee. We are fully in support of this legislation and hope that you will pass it. Personally, as a gay man whos been involved in the Queer Community since the early 1970s, im extremely happy that its happening. It is long overdue. As, it is jordan said, historic and gives me pride in San Francisco that often we are on the cutting edge in pushing things like this. And we should be. Safety is an extremely safety of tenants is an extremely important issue for us at housing rights committee. So, its logical that we would be here in support because all tenants must be safe and that means all. No exceptions. Despite the progress that the Lgbt Community has made in the past 40something years, the reality is that there is still antilgbt violence in this country. And especially against transgendered women of colour. So, thank you for what youre doing here. And for helping to protect transgender tenants in San Francisco. Hello, supervisors. Thank you for taking this time. My name is pablo. We are almost a 40year organization here in the city, providing services to supervisors of domestic violence, hate violence, sexual assault, police violence, who identify as lesbian, gay bisexual, transgender, queer and questioning. This legislation is imperative. Its long overdue. And i want to double and triple what people have already said. This in some instances is a matter of safety, its a matter of life and death. It can be a matter of continuity of a good quality of life for a lot of folks, particularly in the transcommunity. And what we have continued to track is the feeling of lack of safety in some of these s. R. O. S and in particular because of the shared bathrooms and needing to for lack of a better term have a Good Relationship with your neighbours. You may not be family, but in some instances, you get thrown into circumstances where, you know, youre living in a communal situation because of how things are set up. Having genderneutral bathrooms is a very, you know, common sense, essential, simple things that can be done that will go a tremendous way to providing more sense of safety and community for folks who are living in these buildings. And as legislation has already been done in the past here about genderneutral bathrooms and, you know, businesses and other kinds of facilities, any and all, you know, businesses and hotels that have a relationship with the city regardless of whether its twitter or burger king or mcdonalds or an s. R. O. , i think it is imperative that genderneutral bathrooms exist. Thank you. Good afternoon. My name is rosario cevantes and im here to support this legislation for genderneutral and genderforming bath room facilities in the s. R. O. I actually have a son whos a counselor and he works with Homeless People in s. R. O. S. So, im here to support this legislation. I hope it passes. And thank you jordan davis for all your work and thank you for all of the supervisors that are sponsoring it. Thank you. Good afternoon to the chair and supervisors of the committee. My name is rebecca leaven. Im in support of the genderforming bathrooms here in San Francisco. Thank you. Good afternoon. My name is Luis Camarillo and im in support of the legislation toward genderneutral and genderconforming bathroom facilities in the s. R. O. Here in San Francisco. Thank you. Good afternoon, supervisors. Im from chinatown c. D. C. Sheer to support this legislation in the name of the Chinatown CommunityDevelopment Centre but our s. R. O. Families collaborative who was excited and supportive of this legislation. Thank you, jordan, for all of your leadership and everybody who came in to fight today. Hello, supervisors. Thank you so much for considering this important legislation today. My name is jessica layman with senior and disabilities action and were in strong support of this legislation. First, of course, because we support the rights and dignity of all people, including those who are transgender, gender nonconforming. This is a huge issue for the senior and Disabilities Community and we had a work group looking at seniors and people with disabilitieses and s. R. O. S. There is a huge proportion of seniors and people with disabilitieses living in s. R. O. S and all gender bathrooms can also be an issue for somebody who has a care attendant who goes into the bathroom with them who may be of a different gender. Ive experienced that myself being in a wheelchair having an attendant who is male. The looks, the comments, its obviously very uncomfortable. And i know i only know the half of it as a transgendered woman. And so by making bathrooms all gender, were really allowing people to not have to worry about their safety anytime they use the restroom. This is also we think it is really an important Culture Shift to really look at how are we valuing all bodies, whether they are transgender, gender nonconforming bodies, aged body, that were all valued. Thank you. Thank you very much. Any other members of the public who wish to comments on item four . If not, thank you, everyone, for coming. Public comment is closed. And, again, thank you to supervisor ronan for bringing this up. I thought it was a complete oversight when we had passed legislation around all gender bathrooms. I didnt realise that s. R. O. S were not included so im glad that it is being addressed here. Colleagues, any other questions, comments . If not, then maybe a motion. I would be honoured to forward this to the full board with positive recommendation. Sorry. Supervisor . Yes. And i support this as well. Just want to say congratulations to jordan on his leadership. I know we just appointed him to the s. R. O. Task force just recently. Her. Im sorry, her. Excuse me. Her to the s. R. O. Task force and her aggressive leadership on this issue has been wonderful for this community and id like to be added as a cosponsor. Thank you. And i apologize for. That im sorry. I was distracted. And supervisor cohen has joined us. Supervisor cohen . Sorry, was your name on the roster for this item . Different item. There was a motion and we can do so without motion to the full board with full recommendation. Thank you. Mr. Clerk, item five. Item number five. Hearing on the coordination between the San Francisco municipal transportation agency. Technical and implementation teams. Thank you. And this hearing is sponsored by supervisor cohen and she has joined us here on land use. Good afternoon, madame khaifrment appreciate it. Good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen. Colleagues, thank you for the opportunity to have the discussion here, forgive me. But i have long comments because i have real comments that i want to make sure that im able to articulate here today. What we have here, this afternoon, is an opportunity to discuss a process used by the bike Share Department and the executive director of the sfmta which was used to determine that social bikes, also better known as jump bikes, was the best dockless bike share operator for San Francisco. So in particular, im looking to understand the criteria that was used to decide that jump bike was most complementary to motivate ford go bikes, also the citys Bike Share Programme and truly the best option to use bike share as a mode of transportation. My office has received numerous emails and feedback from a number of Bike Share Companies that were in the application and permit queue with m. T. O. And dont forget they feel two things. One, they didnt feel the communication about the process was adequate and, two, that the offerings of the organisations were understand and considered by m. T. A. So, these are serious concerns that have been leveled against the m. T. A. And im concerned by the suggestion that m. T. A. Didnt conduct a thorough and competitive process before bestowing jump bikes with the sole pilot dockless bike share permit for the next 18 months. So the reason why i called todays hearing is because this matter is, frankly not only a matter of fairness, transparency and due process for the Companies Interested in providing the service, but its also about transportation and transportation access, healthy opportunities, competitive pricing, the safety of our constituents across the entire city and and just just to name a few. So, i come to talk a little bit about bike share. So what is this all about . The goal of an expanded bike share spram to achieve 20 of trips traveled by bike. Weve seen the ford go bikes on the streets. It was launched in june of 2017. And currently has 120 stations in San Francisco. The network of the bike stations are ultimately to expand to over 300 stations and approximately 4500 bikes in San Francisco by the end of 2018. Now because of the design of the Bike Share Programme, the bike share Rollout Programme in my district and other communities on what some consider to be the outskirts of San Francisco, we wont get bike stations until the fall of this year. Despite the programme beginning in june of 2017. So, im sure you can see why im a little personally frustrated about this. And this is why jump bikes came into the picture. They saw an opportunity to provide service communitis that were not being efficiently served by the citys programme. I cant necessarily speak to the transportation access and parts of district four or district 11 that will be getting ford go bike stations at the end of this year, but as this year as my district will. But if you know anything about the southeastern neighbourhoods, you know that historically theres been an unquantifiable, disinvestment in decent transportation access. And this has been going on for far too long. So, its for this reason that i want to say that i see bike share as the next best thing. There is a net benefit here. Bike share gives users an additional travel option and also provides them a social experience. Its a flexible system that helps keep people active which i understand the value of. But bike share is not exclusively about travelsings and reducing the miles traveled by single occupancy vehicles. Bike Share Companies are not unlike ride Share Companies in that their bottom line is to collect data. These Companies Want to know where the traveler is going, how often they are going there, and the proximity of the destination to ones home, work and frequented places. They want to capture data and im hopeful that this data will be shared with our city to assist us in urban Planning Decisions from congestion management to, frankly, street design. Ridership data can be a real tool to support the land use and infrastructure decisions both in the near and longterm future. However, if our experiences with the ride Share Companies who are notorious for obstructing or simply refusing to share their user data, are any indication of the potential obstacles, i want to be sure that were taking every possible precaution to ensure that the companies we choose to do business with, and companies that we choose to allow to operate on our streets, are, indeed, coming to the table with a sense of partnership and so to back up my original statement, i wanted to understand why it is why it was the informed opinion of multiple parties within the San Francisco metropolitan Transportation Authority agency that jump bikes was the best option for San Francisco. Now i understand that motivate ford go bikes has an exclusive right to operate a Bike Share Programme and im not interested in ro hashing the terms of the contract we signed with motivate or necessarily the public Settlement Agreement. What is in question is the nature of the process used to proceed jump bikes services. Now while section 909f6s of the transportation code states that the sfmta director has the singular authority to approve these bike share permits, we still have a permiting process structure that exists. I wont read that process, but these processes exist so that, as so not to give the appearance of preferential treatment to any company which seeks to do business in San Francisco and to communicate with the public that we are making decisions that are centred in their best interest. Im not comfortable and i dont know that i see value in having the only approval go through. The director of transportation as opposed to coming through the m. T. A. Board or the board of supervisors. I will admit that i have a series of questions that i will ask the representatives from m. T. A. With that, i want to recognize director ed riskin and jamie parks from the Bike Share Programme. They are here with us in this chamber and madame chair, i would turn the rest of the hearing over to you. Ok. And supervisor cohen, who would you like to call up first . Director riskin. Welcome. Thank you. Good afternoon, chair tang. Members of the committee. Supervisor cohen, thank you for giving us an opportunity. Yes. I appreciate the opening remarks to help or cents us here. That was a good overview and clear questions that well endeavour to answer to our best ability. I want to add as overview that, as you know, bicycling is an important mode of transportation in San Francisco. Its the Fastest Growing mode of transportation in San Francisco. Both the m. T. A. Board and board of supervise sources has set very ambitious mode share targets for bicycling in the city. And we as an agency with the board of supervisors have been work on a number of different fronts to make bicycling a better option. From everything from infrastructure that were putting in the ground to Safety Education that we support. There is a number of things were doing to try to meet those mode shift goals that both you and the m. T. A. Bore have established and that are part of our overall Climate Change strategy as well. We see bike share as an important part of the overall move to increase bicycling in San Francisco. Something weve been engaged with for up to five years now. Like every other aspect of transportation in San Francisco and generally, bike share is a very dynamic industry at the moment. And like pretty much everything that has to do with nrption San Francisco, there is a lot of different opinions about how to do this the right way. And there is controversy over decisions about how much of this, how little of this, how broad, how narrow. Weve been working to try to strike the right balance so that we can optimize the emergence of this relatively new way for people to access bicycles. But do it in a way that is responsible that is going to