Mode of like, i guess, a real stable place to progress my supervisor peskin i think we hear you. Right. It helped me to stop what i was doing to progress back no a regular living situation. Further myself there. I also performed well in track and instead of going cold turkey and easily being drawn back into the situation, it allowed me to ease the tension into a regular living situation. Thank you. Supervisor peskin thank you for your testimony. Seeing no other members of the public on item number 1, well close Public Comment. Supervisor haney and his staff have asked for an amendment that is in the long title on page 1 and the substance is subsection c on page 3. If theres no objection colleagues, i will move that and we will take that without objection. And i have been advised by the City Attorney that because ha amendment is deemed to be substantial in nature, this will require a oneweek continuance so without objection, we will continue the item as amended one week to our meeting of the 20th of theres no meeting on the 20th. On the 27th. We will continue this to the 27th of january. Well do that without objection. Madam clerk, could you please read the next item. Clerk item number 2 is the ordinance to establish the inner balboa street neighborhood commercial district. The outer balboa, bay view, the court land avenue ncd, geery, the san bruno, the coal valley, Lakeside Village, lower haite street and the ncd amending the zoning map to include the new neighborhood commercial districts and affirming appropriate findings. Supervisor peskin thank you. Before we hear from supervisor ronens stave, i want to thank supervisor ronen and her staff and the co sponsors supervisors fewer, wall son, haney, preston, yee and i would like to add myself says a cosponsor and supervisor safai would like to be added as a cosponsor. I really want to thank Planning Department staff and the Planning Commission for hearing this in record time. Obviously this is motivated in large part by the impending vote in march on the vacancy tax measure that applies to named n. C. D. S so this would be the largest if we pass it, increase in n. C. D. S for many decades. A few have been added one by one over the years but adding 12 in six different districts is a big deal. Ultimately, as reflected in the legislative digest, well give neighbors and neighborhoods and their supervisors the ability to fine tune those n. C. D. S as is the case with the other two dozen of them that are spread throughout the city and county of San Francisco and with that, the floor is yours. Thank you, so you much, chair peskin and members of the committee. Amy bynard here to speak on the legislation before you. I was going to say almost exactly what you just said. And in the interest you said is so well. Im not sure i should go through that once more. So, i would just like to reemphasize, i guess, is part of that that what this does is adds 12 new named n. C. D. S to the existing 30 named neighborhood commercial districts and neighborhood commercial transit districts in the city each of which are very distinctive and neighborhoods in different ways and that along with the ability then to move forward and find ways to support our neighborhood commercial districts through very specific controls, none of which are changing in this legislation, just to be very clear, it does not change any of the underlying controls. We know in findings ways to encourage Property Owners to keep the storefront occupied is essential and so we wanted to make sure that in having a measure on the ballot that would allow for the city to use a tax strategy, that we knew that residents would be assuming that other neighborhood commercial districts would be included and we wanted to make sure that we were meeting the voters expectations so should they pass this measure at ballot, that these will be included and i also want to say thank you, thank you, thank you, to City Attorney staff who really, really came forward quickly to make this happen and to planning staff including audry who is here today who really stepped up and then of course to the co sponsors. And then, there are some very minor technical non substantive amendments that we wanted to introduce today. Its to call out under the use that the dwelling unit mix will refer to planning code section 207. 7 and it corrects where residential districts is described as those that full word. It changes that to our district. Its global through out the entire piece of legislation that needs to be introduced and then were hoping to hear this at the full board tomorrow. So, yes, were a Committee Report. Supervisor peskin audry. I just wanted to recite some quick statistics. Three of these, the inner and outer balboa street n. C. D. S as well as the geery boulevard would be in the First District one and the first two of them in district 5 which would be the coal valley and lower haite street n. C. D. S and one of them in district 6, the lower polk street n. C. D. Which would be just south of the existing polk street neighborhood commercial district. Two of them in district 7. The Lakeside Village neighborhood commercial district and the inner ter aville. Three of them in district nine and mission burnal, san bruno avenue and court land avenue and one in district 10 00 which would be the bay view n. C. D. So i wanted to put that on the record and i know that supervisor safai is about to ask staff why these were not n. C. D. S, they were n. C. 1, n. C. S. , n. C. 2 but not n. C. D. S. The n. C. D. Undertaking was done in the mid 1980s and why those were not individually named districts is now getting on to 30yearold history. With that, ms. Maloney. Good afternoon. The Planning Commission heard this item last thursday, januaro approve it and i am available for questions. Thank you. Supervisor peskin seeing no questions. Are there members of the public who would like to testify on item number 2 . Seeing none. Public comment is closed. And supervisor safai. Can i i was just going to wait until after Public Comment. So, i mean, supervisor peskin said it but id like to hear it directly from you. What was the genesis of this . I understand that were attempting to do this through our vacancy tax but why were these areas not and how many are there currently in n. C. D. Named . How many current named n. C. D. S are there . Thats a great question. I dont have the number off hand. I can show you a map if you would like. Superivsor safai that would be great. So all the n. C. D. S in the legislation were determined by planning to be a neighborhood that have evolved in the last, as supervisor peskin said, 30 years to start to have their own identities that would require potentially them to have their own unique zoning, different than the rest of the city that is zoned that category so as you know, with something as zoned n. C. 3, for example, any time a zoning controlled changes for the nc3 table it changes all of the nc3 districts, which we have throughout the city. Certain neighborhoods thats no longer appropriate. They need to be more tailored to the specific neighborhood. Let me pull up that map for you. Superivsor safai some of this is good to be on the record. Its not a map of the full city. This is showing what we could, without it becoming too small, so the green districts that are circled in red are those that are proposed for rezoning. The green districts that are not circled are all of our other generalized n. C. S. To n. C. 3 and i apologize that district 1 and 3 are cut off. For the rest of the city any of the colors you see there are our current individual named n. C. Districts. Superivsor safai can you slide down. Ok, there you go. Is that purple one is one that orange one is one and then what this doesnt this isnt the whole city. This is not the whole city. I apologize. We dont have a map of all the n. C. S this is so show which were being added. This is as close as a map that i have off hand to show you where the other current individual names. I think the Geneva Mission is pretty clear. Yes, correct and there is one right right here and that is these three districts right here and the ones that are proposed seven excel see year and eight japan town and nine north beach and polk street and sacramento street, union street, pacific avenue, 14 24th street. 18 irving, 19 taravel, 20 nud 2h and then we have 21 soma, 23 ocean avenue, 24 glen park, 25 folsom street, 26davis, and 28 haze goff, 30, 24th vet, 21 upper market. There you go. Thank you. So seeing no other questions and no Public Comment, i will move to accept these technical changes and we can take that without objection and then accepted the item as a Committee Report as amended to be heard tomorrow at the full board of supervisors on its First Reading in time the north of market Affordable Housing deposited in the city wide Affordable Housing zone and affirming appropriate findings. Thank you. We have been hearing this since last summer. I understand that the Mayors Office of housing has asked us to continue this to a date certain of january 27th. Is there any Public Comment on this issue . Seeing none. Public comment is closed. If theres no object sex well l continue to january 27th. Could you please read item number 4. Clerk an ordinance amending the plumbing code to delete the lola mendment to the california plumbing code to the rules and regulations. In the section of Cross Connection controls and affirming appropriate findings. Supervisor peskin this has been kicking around since late 2018 as the puc and the department of Building Inspections have been learning how to communicate better so resolve this issue and on behalf of the puc we have mr. John scarpula. The floor is yours. Department of building inspection and dr. June wine tropp and my colleague ken pain from the sfpuc Water Quality division. Thank you for hearing this and for the patients as we all worked on this. Its about time. So, really quickly, before we get into legislation, what is a Cross Connection when Drinking Water wipes you conducted to water fixtures across correction is created. If its improperly connected, contamination can result in a back blow event. A back flow event is when contaminants reverse flow from the fixture or equipment, actually into the plumbing pipes. Back loads can jeopardize the water supply of a given property such as in the photo on top where you see a containment Swimming Pool going back into the water supply of a house but lead to larger issues where the Water Quality of a city can be put into jeopardy. This can happen a lot of times in large highrises with a lot of plumbing fixtures that are fed so a hospital example is one and you have water supply feeding to xray machines or bubblers or cooling towers and you reversal of the chemicals that are used in those systems that can get into the water supply and its a real concern. So that is why we have back flow preventers such as those on the screen. So im sure you all have seen these in front of buildings or actually in the building and these are all meant to protect the buildings water supply in the citys water supply. So, with this legislation aims to do specifically with the amendment that supervisor peskin referenced, is drawn to alignment the three different areas where Cross Connections regulations occur in San Francisco. They occur in the San Francisco plumbing code, San Francisco Health Code Article 12a, and in the spuc Water Service agreement that every water receiving property must sign with the puc. And so what you have was you had these three different codes and unfortunately there were differences in these codes. What would happen is a contractor would put in their black flow prevention unit, dbi would say this is great and theyre moving along on their project and puc and dph would say actually while it may be dbi codes it doesnt meet our codes. It cost the contractor time and money and theyre frustrated. So the purpose of these amendments are that when you look at the d. B. I. Plumbing code and you look at the health code and the puc code theyre all the same. It eliminates those issues. So specifically, the four amendments i will reference that again supervisor peskin passed out, first theres a paragraph recognizing that San Francisco is at a higher risk of Cross Connection failure due to our topography and large pressure differences causing back flow to occur when a pressure shifts, water can flow backwards because the pressure changes. So we have a highrisk of that in San Francisco. Second, all backflow or devices that are testable must have passed lab and field evaluation tests performed by a recognized testing organization. That is also both on page 2 both of these amendments im referring in terms of ordinance and on page three, there are two additional amendments. Carbonated beverage dispensers with up stream copper piping pose a risk Health Hazard from the reached copper in the event of a back pressure event. With the code and any poet able to close loop Industrial Water chillers, which again used chemicals and shall be protect bid a reduced pressure principle back throw assembly which is say higher level of protection and im here with all the folks i mentioned before who you much more technical so they want to dive into what these are for each of these specific im happy to have my colleagues get up. With that, were hoping that you will adopt the amendment and it sounds like there may be substantive but i hope that we move forward. Supervisor peskin thank you for edifying this committee and for finally working it out between the various departments. Are there any questions from Committee Members . I have a general question. How often do you might not be able to answer this, john, is someone here from d. B. I. . How often do people, these back flow tests, how often do they fail . Dr. Winethorp will come up and take that one. How often are the tests being performed . Good afternoon. Im dr. June winetropp im a manager from Environmental Health and the Health Department and i manage the Cross Connection program. So question, your first question how often are they tested . They are required to be tested once a year. The testable devices. Thats actually important part of what this amendment is about is that the previous devices that were allowed were for the carbonators were not testable and now were all agreed that its a good idea to have, when copper is present, for the theres a soda machine, then we need to have a device thats testable once a year. Supervisor peskin you say we all agree. What made you all agree on that . What brought that about . I mean, i know weve had carbonated systems and were mainly talking about restaurants in a lot of cases. So what made you all come to this conclusion . Well, first of all, the amazing collaboration between all the different parties that brought us together. The code, the plumbing code change in year 2000, before that, the reduced pressure principle device was required by the plumbing code and then in the year 2000, the plumbing code changed and San Francisco adopted wholesale as we do the puc and dph said we still want to keep the more conservative method of protecting and as time went by, the distance between the differences between the two codes kind of got lost and thats part of why we tried to say wait a second, now we need to all be on the same page. So the other things we all agreed to that im happy about is that we are going to approach the state Building Standards Commission and ask them to address this in their adoption of the california plumbing code so it wont be just us being different. Rather, that the whole state will be different. San francisco is the only one doing this . No, no. Not at all. I misspoke. There are a few other jurisdictions that require the reduced pressure principle testable device fo soda machine. Superivsor safai what are those . San mateo and l. A. I think. Superivsor safai let me ask this, is it normal for three separate agencies could be involved in back flow reprevention . I know we have our Water Department but its always perplexed me why d. P. H. Was involved and Water Testing oversight . I mean, i understand why p. U. C. Would be and i know i get calls from individuals account holders and they have to have their Sprinkler System and their house tested every year and its a source of frustration but im just curious why theres three different agencies involved in this. Its something that is a goal for me is to kind of figure out how we can make it more collaborative and clear to the responsible parties but it is the state code that any potential Cross Connection be protected by a testable device. The Health Department jurisdiction inside of the property so it kind of makes sense for us to be the one that is entering the property and saying we want you to protect yourselves or your apartment dwellers. We use it sort of by proxy to protect the whole water system and that is why the puc wants to be involved even if its just inside of the building. So it is confusing. Wed like to fix it. We did do a big change to the Health Code Article 12a a few years ago and i think theres some more work to be done to bring that to make that a little bit clearer and easier for all of the people who are regulated by it. Superivsor safai i didnt hear anything of why is it now youve decided that if you have copper piping, that is a problem in terms of carbonated devices. We didnt just decide it. We just had this difference for 20 years between the plumbing code and the health code and truly part of the plumbing code actually specifically says that if its a high hazard, a Health Hazard you do need to have a testable device so the plumbing code was not consistent with itself and so as we know, sometimes it takes a lot of time for us to address problems. It took us 20 years to address it here. Superivsor safai thank you. Thank you. So, i dont think we need to hear from any of the other involved departments, which would be mr. Murray from d. B. I. Are there members of the public who would like to speak on this . Seeing none. Public comment is closed. We will take the amendments described by mr. Scarpula which are substantive in nature. Well do that without objection and continue the item to januar. Which meeting is going to be a repeat of this meeting and we will do that without objection. Madam clerk, could you please call items 5 and 6 together. Clerk item number 5 is the resolution declaring the intention of the board of supervisors to order the vacation of the va laio street rightofway generally bounded by parcel block number 0138 lot number 001. Generally located between broadway street and the embarcadero as part of the improvements for the Hotel Theater and public Mark Development project on seawall lots 323 and 324 and setting the hearing date for all persons interested in the proposed vacation of said public right of away. Item number 6 is an ordinance ordering the vacation of streets on a portion of the va laio street right of away for the hotel and entertainment venue and Public Open Space project in affirming appropriate findings. As a housekeeping item, how about we insert before we even hear from staff, on the calender item number 5 number 191179 on the top of page four that the date would be february 1 south of 2020. We dont we make that amendment before i forget to do that and well do that without objection. The floor is yours. Thank you, supervisor peskin. Good afternoon members of the committee. My name is ricky and im a Development Project manager with the port. Im here to describe the proposed legislation before you. Im joined by staff from the port. The Planning Department. The department of public works and the develop team representatives. I start by providing a brief background on the development and proposed legislation that would help move the development forward. It was a tenant with the port and he was in Good Standing and it operated at the threater operation on peer 27 and 29 for 10 years until 2011. The parttime teatro lease without understanding that teatro could relocate to other port property if conditions were met. One is a acceptable development propose. In may of 2015, the board of supervisors waved the Competitive Bidding requirement for to negotiate a lease for the site. After many design interrations and intensive Community Outreach, they came out with a current proposal before you. The elements of the development is as shown on this slide here. The key components of the hotel, the dinner theater component and the public park. This proposed the approval of the lease and the street vacation to move the development forward. With the Community Outreach and vetting of the project of urban design, the developer has received the approval on this slide. The most recent is the recommendation of the budget and finance committee of the board. Listed on this slide is the benefit of the project. On this slide number five, the proposed legislation and vacation required to help moving it forward. The proposed certification will facilitate this development contemplated by the port waterfront land use plan. Why providing much needed open space within the waterfront district. The next couple of slides i will just quickly go over the site and the current site and highway currently exists and passing and and the two that need to be vacated. As you can see on this slide here, its currently being used as a packing. You could see the as well as davis street that is all currently being used for packing. This site is located at the corner of broadway and embarcadero and that is daily street on the top and va lair owe street and david street is not connected with the embarcadero. On this slide here is and you can see as indicated, a portion of davis street on va lair owe street and including the dimension of the areas to be vacated. The next slide is showing anna sem bell site and after the to provide more continuous site requirement and the next steps as we anticipate the full Board Hearing as youve indicated on january 14th and and address your comments or questions. Are there any members of the public who would like to testify on this item . Closed Public Comment. Any questions from Committee Members . Ive been advised by Council Given the impending public hearing that item must be sent without recommendation so we will send item 5 as amended to the full board with recommendations and item 6 to the full board without recommendation. That will be the order and we are adjourned. Item number 5 as a Committee Report. Im sorry. We are not adjourned. We will send item number 5 with recommendation as a Committee Report to be heard tomorrow item number 6 of course will be heard on february 11th at 3 00 p. M. That will be the order and we are now adjourned. Volunteers. My name is mark a proud grand date i didnt all over San Francisco residents are adopt rains to keep our sewer system healthy im adopted a grain draining i thought of a simple illusion to a big problem it will help out the neighborhood and be responsible for the places we live i want or apparent to the web site and first of all, happy new year. Its definitely it is definitely a happy new year indeed for so many people who rely on access to safe, Affordable Housing in San Francisco. It is our number one priority. When we look at the challenges that we face with homelessness and we are wondering why arent we able to do more, it is because we need to make sure that we have housing, we have opportunities to do more. It is why im committed to opening up 1,000 new shelter beds to get people off the streets. It is why im committed to master leasing so many buildings that might be available like the Abigail Hotel where we are standing in, where we have access to 62 new units that will help people who are formerly homeless get a great and safe and affordable place to call home without the social services , so its not as expensive as someone who might need a lot more support and wraparound services. This is what some of us call in this world step up housing because sadly we know there are people who will the goal is to understand what the challenges are. Do they need assistance with Mental Health . Do they need assistance with their addiction . Do they need assistance just to get a job and get back on their feet . Often times, if we are able to transition them out of the shelter, its usually into Supportive Housing where there is a network of people who are there to provide wraparound Supportive Services to get them back on their feet. And the great thing about the bristol in places like the abigail which we are here in today, is those people have benefited from incredible programs and are ready to move on with their lives and are not in need of the social services that they want or are in need of that is great. We have to make sure they have opportunities to move to the next level. That is what today is all about. And really focusing on providing opportunities for people to step up and be in attendance and to be able to take care of themselves is important. We know affordability is challenging. It takes a village to make opportunities like this possible thankfully here in San Francisco we are making investments in acquiring as many units as we possibly can to provide these opportunities. It does take partners like Tipping Point and daniel is here today who has been an incredible partner in raising the money and investing it and providing opportunities for people to get help. Today is an opportunity to do just that. Let me just say that its not just about the abigail where we have 62 units. We are going to be opening another place of 89 units at coast street which will be managed by the Episcopal Community services. One of our leading housing providers. And there are people there who are sadly in our shelters and will be able to transition to those units. That will make room for more people. I think that is what is great about the system that we are setting up and all the amazing partners that continue to work with us to provide these incredible opportunities, and importantly, the building owners deepak patel and sam patel, thank you so much for supporting and working with us here in the city to allow us to work with you to get access to these buildings and thank you to all the Service Providers and the tenderloin housing clinic. I know randy shaw couldnt make it here today, but he is a Firm Believer in step up housing and he has been fighting hard for a long time to make this a reality for people. So when people talk about San Francisco and the fact that, you know, theres homelessness, theres challenges of homelessness, we know that. It is not unique to San Francisco. It is happening all over the state of california. The fact is, we had not done enough to build housing so that we have what we need to get people housed. We just havent. So here in the city we are lucky because people care about making sure people are housed. The 600 milliondollar Affordable Housing bond passed by voters will be a great opportunity to invest in building more Affordable Housing , but we cant build it fast enough. So having access to the abigail, having access to the post street post street site and the bristol where there is another step up housing, those are so important to getting people housed now. So i just want to thank everyone who is here today and all of your work that sometimes escapes under the radar and people are not completely familiar with everything that goes into making an opportunity like this possible. It is appreciated, its going to make a difference for 89 people at post street and 62 people right here at the abigail. Its going to make a difference for so many people and im so grateful we have this opportunity to do just that today. How the person who has helped in our efforts to move the needle on homelessness, who probably every time i call him, and i tell him about somebody, he not only knows the name of that person, with the whole story about their medical history and family, and when they came here and Everything Else, believe it or not, its a tough job to manage our Homeless Department in San Francisco, but Jeff Kaczynski does it because he cares and because he knows that last year when we helped 2,000 people exit homelessness, thats 2,146 people that are not sleeping on our streets tonight and that matters. Ladies and gentlemen, the director of the office of homelessness here in San Francisco, Jeff Kaczynski. [applause] thank you, mare breed, for those kind words and thank you for your leadership to expand Critical Resources that we desperately need to help People Living in crisis on our streets. She understands that shelters are only part of the solution. We have to create housing opportunities are all types of low income households, especially for people who are experiencing homelessness. Every single night, the city houses nearly 10,000 formerly Homeless People and every week we help 50 people of permanently exit homelessness. However, for every person we help exit homelessness, theres three newly Homeless People coming behind them. Obviously we have a lot more work to do. Housing is a big part of the solution to homelessness. And thank you to mayor breeds focus on leadership on this issue, we have 1700 units of housing and housing subsidies in the pipeline in addition to those that we are celebrating here today. Theres a lot more of these openings to come. Its also really important to remember that behind all of these numbers are people. Each person with lived experience, each person who has struggled with homelessness has a unique story. However, the one thing they all have in common is resilience and courage and taking the steps to move beyond homelessness. Its hard work and its a challenge and it is a great honor for myself and for my colleagues to play a part, a small part really, in helping people overcome homelessness by bringing buildings like the abigail and the post online. Doing this work, i dont want to diminish how hard it is, because it is tremendously difficult, it takes a lot of people, a lot of leadership, a lot of hard work, a lot of funding, so in addition to the mayor, i want to thank other people that she already mentioned, but i want to thank them as well. Of course, i want to thank daniel from Tipping Point. Tipping Point Community is contributing 3 million towards opening the next 300 units of housing including these two sights. Were very grateful for the support that they have given, and also want to thank not only deepak and sam patel, the owners of the post on the abigail. There is more than 3,000 privately owned units that were masterly we are master leasing throughout the city. Theyre responsible for nearly half of the permanent Supportive Housing in the city and they are Unsung Heroes and very important partners. I want to thank them and their colleagues and all of the owners of the board for the 3,000 units that the city is master leasing. And i want to acknowledge all the amazing staff who have worked on this issue, all of my colleagues at the department of homelessness and Supportive Housing, my colleagues at the Mayors Office, the City Attorneys office, the Mayors Office of community development, the real estate department, all of these staff work tiredly tirelessly on these projects. Before i took this job, i spent most of my career running affordable and Supportive Housing in texas and in california and i know how hard it is to operate buildings like this and to do the work and turn housing unit into a home for somebody who was experiencing homelessness. These sites operate 24 7 and the nonprofit organizations that run them do an amazing job of helping the people who are struggling to exit homelessness or to move on from permanent Supportive Housing to be successful and to become their best selves. I especially want to acknowledge and thank beth stokes from the Episcopal Community services and everybody who is here. Tabitha and randy who couldnt be here from tenderloin housing clinic. They do an incredible amount of work making these projects happen and we are grateful to them and to everybody else who is part of this. Thank you for being here today. Thank you, jeff. Again, as i said, we cant do it alone. We are fortunate to have an incredible partner in Tipping Point, and Tipping Point provided 3 million to help make this possible, which moves this project along sooner rather than later and to speak on behalf of to think Tipping Point is daniel. Thank you. Thank you to everyone who is making this work possible. We started tipping. 15 years ago with a promise to invest in the best solutions that prevent poverty, including housing, Early Childhood education, and employment. The Silver Lining to the homelessness crisis that we outlined is we know that what it takes to get people housed. That is permanent, Supportive Housing and it works. Over 85 of people who enter permanent Supportive Housing never experience homelessness again. The opening of the post and the abigail exemplifies the role that philanthropy can play in supporting Effective Solutions in partnership with the mayor and the city department. Tipping point is providing 3 million in flexible dollars for a wide range of needs from apartment repairs to new furniture. These are funds that Service Providers can use to do whatever it takes to get units online fast. Mayor breed, thank you for your leadership and your commitment to this issue. I want also think the Tenderloin Neighborhood Development association for your tireless work on behalf of our most vulnerable neighbors. I want to thank everyone who is saying yes to solutions. We can do this, but it will take all of. Thank you very much. Thank you, daniel. Randy shaw has been a serious advocate for step up housing and im really excited that we are partnering on the abigail to make this possible. We also partnered on the bristol , and so these are two incredible properties for step up housing. Here to represent tenderloin housing clinic, since randy couldnt be here is tabitha. Randy sends his regrets. He really wanted to be here today. This is a really special project to him, a special building to him. He counts stories of the history of this building and him as an organizer in 1980 when he organized residents in this building to prevent the then owners from starting a bedandbreakfast in this building and they were successful in doing that. He has very fond memories of that project and his work with this building. We are really excited to partner with h. S. H. And the city to open some additional step up housing. This is a really beautiful building. Sixtytwo units, all bathrooms. We will have a Nice Community kitchen and laundry room and Community Room for the residents here. I also want to thank deepak, the owner, for this partnership and h. S. H. And the mayor for providing this opportunity for the residents that will get to move into this building. And then i also internally really want to thank our director of facilities who has spent countless hours on lots of time already on her work making sure that this building is a success in making sure that this building is going to be a wonderful building for the residents that move in. Thank you. It is also really great to open up places like this because they provide opportunities, and almost every time we do it, Episcopal Community services, they are always at the forefront of not only helping with Properties Like this, but some of our shelters and navigation centers, and so we are grateful for their partnership and their work. Here to represent the organization is beth. Thank you, mayor breed. I got an email last week during the holiday week to see if i was available to participate in an announcement of 150 new homes. I was delighted. I was super excited to start the year off in 2020 with the announcement of new homes for our unhoused Community Members in San Francisco. It is a great way to start the year. Im so happy to be here for this announcement. I want to thank everybody who invited us to be part of the celebration and for the opening of the abigail and the post. Its truly a celebration of homes. I want to stress that. I want to thank the mayor for her continued leadership and unwavering commitment toward Proven Solutions towards ending homelessness in San Francisco. It really takes vision and it takes a community. Thank you. Housing ends homelessness, right we know this. Yet Supportive Housing is a proven intervention for the most vulnerable, chronically unhoused in our community. Providing needed housing and stability for folks to address theyre Overall Health and wellness. Quite simply, Supportive Housing is healthcare. I say that all the time. It effectively reduces emergency room visits, we know this, inpatient hospitalizations for our highest need neighbors who are living in homelessness today Supportive Housing works, as daniel said. Again, we really believe this and we know its proven. Power board and our staff that are here thank you for being here and we are are super excited to partner with mayor breed and h. S. H. And sam patel. Thank you. Eightynine solutions to ending chronic homelessness in San Francisco. Thank you so very much. Thank you. Today we have a resident of the bristol, mitch, who wants to talk about his experience and why this is so important. Good afternoon. Im a tenant at the Bristol Hotel and i would like to emphasize that Supportive Housing does work. I was in Supportive Housing for seven years and i got the opportunity to move to a newly remodelled Bristol Hotel. I love it. Its a home for me. I dont expect to leave anytime soon. Im very happy with the whole process. And anybody who gets step up housing like the abigail is very lucky. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you, everyone else for being here today and all the folks who helped to make this possible. Again, the solution, as beth said to ending homelessness, is housing. It takes opportunities like this , it takes building faster, and thinking about ways that we can get more creative to get more access to opportunities so we can get people off the streets and we can keep people who are vulnerable housed in the first place. That is our goal. That is the opportunity we are providing today, and i want to thank each and every one of you for being here. Thank you so much. [applause] the Bicycle Coalition was giving away 33 bicycles so i applied. I was happy to receive one of them. The Community Bike build program is the San Francisco coalitions way of spreading the joy of biking and freedom of biking to residents who may not have access to affordable transportation. The city has an ordinance that we worked with them on back in 2014 that requires city agency goes to give organizations like the San Francisco bicycle organization a chance to take bicycles abandoned and put them to good use or find new homes for them. The partnerships with organizations generally with organizations that are working with low income individuals or families or people who are transportation dependent. We ask them to identify individuals who would greatly benefit from a bicycle. We make a list of people and their heights to match them to a bicycle that would suit their lifestyle and age and height. Bicycle i received has impacted my life so greatly. It is not only a form of recreation. It is also a means of getting connected with the community through bike rides and it is also just a feeling of freedom. I really appreciate it. I am very thankful. We teach a class. They have to attend a one hour class. Things like how to change lanes, how to make a left turn, right turn, how to ride around cars. After that class, then we would give everyone a test chance chance to test ride. We are giving them as a way to get around the city. Just the joy of like seeing people test drive the bicycles in the small area, there is no real word. I guess enjoyable is a word i could use. That doesnt describe the kind of warm feelings you feel in your heart giving someone that sense of freedom and maybe they havent ridden a bike in years. These folks are older than the normal crowd of people we give bicycles away to. Take my picture on my bike. That was a great experience. There were smiles all around. The recipients, myself, supervisor, everyone was happy to be a part of this joyous occasion. At the end we normally do a group ride to see people ride off with these huge smiles on their faces is a great experience. If someone is interested in volunteering, we have a special section on the website sf bike. Org volunteer you can sign up for both events. We have given away 855 bicycles, 376 last year. We are growing each and every year. I hope to top that 376 this year. We frequently do events in bayview. The spaces are for people to come and work on their own bikes or learn skills and give them access to something that they may not have had access to. For me this is a fun way to get outside and be active. Most of the time the kids will be in the house. This is a fun way to do something. You get fresh air and you dont just stay in the house all day. Iit is a good way to exercise. The Bicycle Coalition has a Bicycle Program for every community in San Francisco. It is connecting the young, older community. It is a wonderful outlet for the community to come together to have some good clean fun. It has opened to many doors to the young people that will usually might not have a bicycle. I have seen them and they are thankful and i am thankful for this program. Please call the role. Borden present. Eaken present. Heinicke present. Heminger present. Rubke present. Torres present. You have a quorum. Please be advised that brinkman will not be present. Please be advised that the ringing of Electronic Devices are prohibited at the meeting. Any person responsible for one going off may be asked to leave the room. Item 4, approval of the minutes from the december 3rd regular meeting. Okay. Board members. We have the minutes in front of us. I assume there is no Public Comment on this item. Seeing none, comment is closed. Ill entertain a moment to approve the minutes . All those in favor say aye . Any opposed . Item 5. Communications, i have none. Item 6, introduction of new or unfinished business. Board members, a new year, perhaps new business . Dire director heminger happy new year. We all received a copy of the review last month i believe. One thing i noticed, i think it does matter in the real world, the fta is hitting us on the question of how many buses we have spare. This is an issue that im sure many operators struggle with around the country. In this case, what they suggest is Something Like a 20 spare ratio. We have 40 . Double. And obviously, it probably has something to do with the fact that were not putting out the full service, but is it really that big of a gap, that that lack of full service entails . I thought it would be good get a report from staff. Okay. Hopefully that is an answer that can come back. Without objection, well ask the new director to provide an answer to that in his next report. Agreed. Yesterday, i attended the new operator, new operators on board. The new director will talk about that as well, but also supervisor walton was there as well. It was a great day. A very excited and engaged class. Wonderful. Anything else. On that note yes, please, director torres. Director torres in reference to an email that we received regarding the black alliance, i think we need to hear what the progress is on that at the agency. Chair heinicke initial reaction, that is something that should go to them to respond to. But im open to suggestions. Secretary boomer, do you have suggestions on how to address . The email that was provided was actually sent to the department of human resources, thats a citywide issue. I know that our workshop of january 28, there will be some discussion about the efforts with regard to culture within the Organization Diversity and inclusion. This is part of our process during our search for our great new director. Which we discussed in the Search Committee and i wanted to make sure we dont leave it aside and continue to Pay Attention to it. Chair heinicke if the discussion is unsatisfactory, we can take it up in a different form. Okay. While were on the topic of gathering, i had the pleasure of attending my last sftma holiday party. I will be termed out. I will give advice to my successor. If you need cheap applause, give a shoutout to the paint department. Now, without a fancy auditorium and tv cameras, im really thrilled that jeff is still there. Part of the worry was we wouldnt be there. But i knew from the enthusiasm he showed in the interview process and everything, he was going to dig in and has already started doing a wonderful job. With that, let me just for the record, say, welcome director, its wonderful to have you here. I am so honored to be here. Chair heinicke item 7, so we can turn the floor over to director. Good afternoon, directors. I am very happy to be here, my very first sfmta Board Meeting and to be serving this extraordinary board. So my directors report covers a couple of topics and ill probably ad lib at the end. I want to talk about vision zero. I want to talk about a new letter that just went out today. A cease and desist letter for a rogue scooter operator that were going to be responding to. We had some questions and concerns about our parking meters that i want to address. I want to say a few words about our muni art project. Then i want to talk a little bit about foreshadowing of things coming to you in the coming months. Lets start with vision zero. This was not a good year. We lost 29 people on the streets of San Francisco. Most of those deaths were a result of preventable traffic violence. This is a topic that the sfmta staff take very seriously. When we have an incident out on the streets, i and our Rapid Response team and my deputy directors are immediately notified by police or fire, whoever is the First Responder to the incident. And my Rapid Response team typically goes out within a matter of hours to the scene to see what is it that we might learn from this. And how could we continually improve upon the safety of our streets . But we lost 29 people. This is a higher number than last year. If there is any good news in this number, it is that the increase in fatalities in San Francisco was less than in our peer cities. If there is any good news in this number, its that the safety performance of the streets that we have paid careful attention to on our highinjury network, the performance has improved, but this number is still way too high. So in 2020, weve got a lot of work to do. A lot of the work will involve expanding upon the Quick Build Program that this board authorized staff the ability to be able to go out and quickly fix streets, particularly on the highinjury network, even when that means having to make tough choices around the convenience of motorists, the availability of parking compared to Traffic Safety. In 2019, in support of this goal, we added about seven miles of protected bikeway and have three miles under construction. Were not only well on our way to meeting the mayors goal of 20 miles of protected bikeways by 2021, but also having conversations with significantly accelerating that process. This is hard staff work. And will involve tradeoff challenges that will come to this board in the coming year. We know from the report that we produced earlier in 2019, the results, the evaluation of our vision zero engineering projects, that these efforts work and that the response to a rise in traffic fatalities is doubling down on what we know to be successful. Another thing i would like to highlight, the work were doing as part of the tenderloin Traffic Safety workforce. The tenderloin is dear too me as a neighborhood that still welcomes newcomers. Its also a place where the most vulnerable populations are concentrated. And a place where we distribute traffic to and from the freeways. It is also the greatest concentration of severe injuries and fatalities in the city. As a result of that, weve been partnering with organizations within the neighborhood and within our own organization to do some rather significant changes to the streets, but also the hundred small changes that really make a difference in safety outcomes. And so youll be seeing more of that coming in 2020 to this board. The second topic i mentioned is the gox cease and desist letter. You should have been sent copies of that by roberta. In summary, we at the sfmta are firmly supportive of using emerging mobility and innovation in order to achieve the public good, move more people conveniently and provide better choices for the people with the fewest. And we want to reward the private providers who uphold the public good and follow our procedures. We have one player, gox, who is not only ignoring the rules, but doing so in fraudulent ways. Our intention is to use what powers we and the City Attorneys office have in order to make sure that people who dont follow the rules are not allowed do business on the streets of San Francisco. So well be seeing more of this in the coming months. Youve heard Media Coverage as well as the internal work over the last year about broken parking meters. This is coming not as any surprise to us. The problems that were having with broken parking meters are similar to the problems were having with other equipment throughout the agency, including our train fleet. These are acute problems for the agency and will relate to my Closing Remarks where i talk about primary goals in helping the agency move forward. It is essential we fill our vacant positions, particularly in operation and maintenance. And to get ahead of the problem, using our capital money to buy equipment that lasts longer and has less intense repair needs. So this is an issue that were on top of. Were, of course, investing in promoting the use of park mobile and credit cards which continue to work unlike the coin slots which our customers enjoy jamming. The next topic is the muni art project which is i find delightful. Art is something that we use to elevate us and to see things more deeply. Public transit connects us. I cant think of two better combinations than art and transit, particularly given the fact that muni is the best public realm. Its really the only place in San Francisco where literally everyone comes together and where we see our common humanity. So the sfmta has been supporting local artists through the muni art program in conjunction with San Francisco beautiful and Poetry Society of america. Were bringing in images of local artists that will be displayed in 100 buses for the enjoyment of 750,000 muni riders. The artwork is going to be unveiled in a rolling gallery thursday, 10 30 a. M. Just outside of city hall. The theme is the hidden gems of San Francisco. Finally, id like to conclude with some simple goals that i have started to develop on what is this . Day 14 on the job, that will hopefully become key themes for future directors reports. Its become clear to me that my function within the agency is two simple things. There is a group of tasks that i have to do internal to the organization and a group of things externally. My internal work starts with culture change. Making the sfmta the most inclusive welcoming creative collaborative workforce among transportation agencies in the country. This is a pretty significant part of my work and its one of the reasons why in the first week on the job i asked to meet with the black and africanamerican Affinity Group to talk about issues of racism and exclusion and diminishment within the organization. We need to start there to heal the organization and, frankly, to catch up with other departments and other cities whose race and equity work is far ahead of our own. So one of the things that youll be seeing in our Budget Discussion starting later this month is the ask to help us create a race and equity and Inclusion Team that will focus both internally on the workforce and externally on Inclusive Community process. There is another key theme that is internal which is around hiring. Almost every problem for the agency faces is either tied to or rooted in our vacant positions or our lack of succession planning, or our lack of a clear pipeline to bring the right candidates into public service. We have a new h. R. Director, kim ackerman, who is doing a fantastic job, but just like our maintenance workers dealing with decades of deferred maintenance, our new h. R. Director is dealing with a lot of years of disinvestment and Strategic Thinking around hiring. Thats another thing youll be seeing in the budget workshop and likely in performance metrics, how are we doing filling vacant positions and what are we going do do with the fact that when i walk on the shop floor, im the youngest person in the room . Finally, our external work. And this is kind of my primary function is clearing a path for sfmta staff to do their best wo work. Our staff know how to solve the problems, but they need help clearing a political path. Thats partly my job. And frankly, its part of your job as well. Its one of the reasons i signed up for this adventure, because now is the time to actually clear a political path to allow us to have clarity about our values and to make the tough calls that are necessary in order for the Transportation System to cut its co2 emissions. In order for the system to eliminate fatalities. In order to deliver on the promise of economic expansion, but greater opportunity for those who have the least opportunity among us. And that is the end of my report. Thank you. Wonderful. Welcome, director tomlin. Thank you for an informative and ambitious report. Its one of the reasons youre sitting in the chair, your perspective. Is there any Public Comment on the report . Directors, well hear from the public and then if you have questions or comments for the director, take them up them. Welcome, formally, mr. Tomlin. Id like to add about the internal culture of mta, there is a problem of bullying at the work site. Top management have been guilty of it. And this affects Service Delivery. And this clearly has to be addressed. I dont wish to single out sfmta as the only agency in the city with the problem, but it would be nice if they were a pathbreaker in resolving the issue. There is bullies and bystanders. Secondly, in respect to the sidewalks. There are too many scooters on the sidewalks. There are too many cyclists. And it endangers pedestrians, especially the aged and disabled. And some controls have to be put over this. You say i congratulate you on telling people of alternative transportation that they have to play by the rules. And youll be more than willing to accommodate them, but once theyre on the sidewalk, it should not be treated like the streets. We dont see automobiles driving on the sidewalks. We dont see motorcycles driving on the sidewalks, but we sure as heck see arrogant bicyclers driving on the sidewalk. And i think this has to be addressed. Other than that, i welcome you to the leadership of mta and wish you success. Thank you. Thank you very much. Hes the last person to turn in a speaker card. There is one more card. Good afternoon, director, first, happy new year to you all, and special thank you to jeffrey tomlin, welcome aboard. You started to enunciate some of the duties youre looking forward to doing in the first six months. I want to make it clear the need to work for transit first. Great majority of the citizens of San Francisco voted for transit first many years ago. And then they went off and they did their regular thing. You could have clearly and hope that we work on it. As an example, way back, and it shows the kind of thing that can happen, so on presidio drive, because we werent concerned with transit first, we were concerned with moving cars, we spaced the stops every other block, which now has become the standard for stopspacing close to 1500 feet. We didnt do it because we wanted to speed the bus up, we did it because if we had more buses making more stops it would have slowed traffic. Its clear that was the case. And every time its one thing to compromise a little bit for an extra parking place around the corner, but we concede. We just worry about it 0 so much, let them get away with it. One of my compatriots mentioned bicycles on the sidewalk. What about cars parking and blocking the sidewalk . Those things, we have to set standards so that people know that transit is first. And of course pedestrians are right after it. I hope i cant wish you luck. Thats not enough. Its perseverance and battle that we wish you. Thanks a lot. Okay. Im told there is one more speaker card. These are for topics that mr. Tomlin addressed. Yeah, its in there. Good afternoon. Debbie quick. I live in north of the pan handle. I work at one market. Im a bike commuter. Im really looking forward to october 29. I took the train up here midday to speak. I was getting ready to cross at larkin, walking on grove. Car went right through the red light. So i dont see any way were going to achieve goals of safety without cooperation between mta and the Police Department. Im hoping that on october 29, there is Massive Police presence on market because some of the biggest impediments to safety for both pedestrians and cyclists is the crosstraffic. Car drivers are unbelievably aggressive. Its frustrating as a citizen, i love riding my bike, i would only ever ride it in the street, its not appropriate to ride it on the sidewalks, its also not appropriate for the scooters to be ridden on the sidewalks, but standing, chatting with a cop at the corner of market and spear, and scooters are just going by on the sidewalk. And the cop refuses to do anything about it. So i dont know what the mechanism is to coordinate between the two agencies, but it seems to me the Police Department needs to be fully on board and there needs to be consequences for running red lights, endangering pedestrians and bicyclists. Making it impossible for transit to operate safely. And i think that guarantee is exactly the that arrogant is exactly the right word, but arrogant can mean death or lifealtering injuries and thats not something we should be supporting in this community. Thank you very much. Public comment on item 7 is closed. Directors, anyone with questions or comments . I wanted to say thank you so much for that presentation, particularly about culture. I think everything emanates from any business in culture and focusing on those issues most importantly because the agency that has a great overall culture usually does great overall work. Thank you for tackling what i think many of us think is the most important issue for our agency and ensuring that we are best everyone be whole and serve the city. The parking meter issue. One of the things that concerns me, the cash area is jammed. The city did pass legislation last year requiring all businesses to accept cash payment. So i dont know how we treat meters that have that are not able to accept cash for those people who maybe park there and dont have a credit card or other means to pay. I really want to look at how were addressing and dealing with that specific issue, because there are people who dont have a smart phone, or perhaps dont have a credit card and dont want to use it in the meter and i dont want our agency discriminating. I would like to know what were doing around that and what our process is. If we come across a meter that doesnt take cash and someone is parked there, how we handle the situation. Especially people with lowincome, theyre the ones typically paying with cash. Gox, the cease and desist letter, what is spectacular is the crazy permit that illegal. When we talk about the company violating the rules, they have a false permit with the citys seal on it. And the chamber of commerce signed by their c. E. O. That is next level of craziness. Were not even talking about. I mean there is lots of other things of them not paying fines or stopping payment on checks. Its not antiscooter, this company specifically has chosen not to follow the rules. Any other directors, comments or questions . Director heminger isnt that a crime . Shouldnt this be a criminal matter as well . [laughter] deputy City Attorney. Yes, were exploring all options with the gox matter, but the cease and desist letter was the first step. Director eaken thank you for highlighting the challenge around hiring and open positions. And it would be wonderful as we move forward to break down the problem, parse it a little bit more. As i understand, these are things that are practices unique to the sfmta, sort of like guidelines and best practices. There are some things we could change in terms of time lines for Interview Questions being approved. There are other things that are broader city rules. And given the mayor has charged mta, helping us, and helping the Mayors Office, they understand that the rules they have control over get in the way our ability to hire efficiently and meet our goals. I think breaking down what are all the different challenges and which ones we control and which others others control. Its helpful to share that information. The second point i wanted to make on vision zero. Thank you for starting with that. And thank you for underscoring the challenge we still have to achieve. I will note, i believe your contract runs through december 31, 2024, which is the vision zero deadline. So i firmly expect you to deliver on hitting that goal of zero. And would love to help to bring us along with you in your journey of discovery as you are evaluating the incidents and sending the teams out there, what are you learning. You mentioned the continuous improvement. In addition to the devastating reporting, help us understand what youre learning every time and what the data, outlier to the data . Whether that seems to be a data point that reinforces a trend . What are we learning about best practices . As i mentioned before prior to the onboarding, i think the Rapid Response team is of course what we should do and to the extent possible be shifting into a more preventive mindset. Where if we observe again and again that a street with a certain width and speed and we keep seeing the pattern of the place seeing the incidents, why arent we looking at every intersection where we can almost predict with science those are going to be the places where the next will occur . Why wait until the next fatality occurs . I know youre thinking along these lines as well, but parsing the problem and breaking it down intersection by intersection and showing us how were getting ahead of the curve in the next what is it four years. Thank you. Anything else. The overunder on how many meetings before we remind you when your contract expires was low at one and amanda hit it. So take that as the motivation it was meant to be. Thank you for a wonderful first report. Like i said, its ambitious, but thats what we hired you to be. Good luck and you have the boards support. Item 8, Citizens Advisory Council report, there will be no report today. Item 9, general Public Comment. This is an opportunity for the members to address the matters within jurisdiction and not on the agenda. Starting with michael cheney, followed by Herbert Winer and then howard stressner. My name is michael cheney. Im retired from the city and county, i worked for muni. It was you who talked about the float and i believe we can answer that. Id like to read this. It is an email that i sent to the mayor. Copy was sent also to the board, but i can only imagine how many emails you get a day. Right . So. To the honorable mayor london breed, december 15, San Franciscos Public Transportation vehicles muni without exception should have maximum braking capability at all times. The above statement should be without dispute but as the public found out from the front pages of the chronicle our city paper of record, that has not been true. Munis new multiMillion Dollar lrvs have been operating since the first day in service on the rail lines, carrying passengers was only one of its three trucks actually having braking capability. I repeat, only one of the three trucks having actual braking capability. How could this happen . Someone decided we would purchase with public funds for the first time in muni history, a vehicle with reduced braking. A condition of acceptance. Vehicle configuration and Critical Systems have been examined and approved by the muni fleet engineering prior to purchase. What could have been the basis fort approval of this . Can i extend my comments to finish reading. You have 30 seconds left. Now 22. Okay. I have less. The thing is that you to make it whole, and there is copies of this for all of you. We need to put the trucks as we had gotten them as ordered from simmons. They can do the work on time. Can i address his . Im sorry. You can address it, but at a different juncture. Everyone gets the same amount of time. Thank you for your service to the city. Mr. Winer, youre next. Herbert winer with critical statements. Muni has been operating on two principles. One, if youre not part of the solution become part of the problem. Two, if you cant solve the problem, keep making the same mistakes and make it worse. And weve seen the upshot of it last year. It resulted in the administrative suicide of the previous executive director. Now, what i am proposing, there should be checks and balances. The executive director should be able to take managers and the board. The board should be a check and balance on management in the executive director. And any disagreements with manager should be made public so we can at least have a dialogue and at least come to constructive solution. I have seen so many programs rubber stamped and its to the distress of the community. Weve seen two wreckages. Van ness avenue and tara bell street. The residents of taraville street are not happy. What im asking for is requesting more democracy within the planning and input of mta. We need to do this desperately, otherwise well have a real catastrophe down the road and it will be worse than last year. Thank you. Thank you. And then following him, christopher peterson. One problem not mentioned is the congestion, great due to tncs, uber and lyft. I know were working on that. One of the easy might have been a congestion fee where people droiv downtown, but were be working on lots of red paint. That will probably help as you cant go on street. Your rider has to walk an extra block. Thats no problem. The other thing we should use more of is bus bulbs. The same way youre going to put them on 28th when we get to that problem to solve it. That would really stop traffic. If youre muni street and there is bus bulb, you prefer not to be on that street. Now i want to go back to longstanding problems. It seems a long time that i came to this board and you approved moving the stop at parks at presidio drive and fulton. This is a stop with lights and you agreed to make it farside. Its over two years and it hasnt happened. I know there is a blue spot on the other side. It would be really important to fix that thing. Its something i use a few times a week with my wife and all that. But that bus has always had to wait for the light. You had 20 seconds for nothing when it could have slipped right through, especially if you use the preempts and priorities to do it. The other thing, please, lets see what the problem is there. And the other thing, 19th avenue, was supposed to get the street fixed and do all these wonderful things to help the buses move better and its dragging on forever. I dont know what the problem is there either. Thats another line that i live close to and use a lot o. And when you get that done, thats going to be an example of no cost except for a few bus bulbs. Thank you very much. Christopher peterson is the last to turn in a speaker card. Is there anyone else who wishes to speak . Seeing none, mr. Peterson, you have the last work. Good afternoon, members of the board and welcome mr. Tomlin. I would like to follow up on mr. Stressners comment about the citys decades long failure to implement the transit first policy. Just as a general matter, it sounds like you have every intent of doing that. Its going to involve tough battles. Exhibit a in my own experience would be st. Francis circle. The k and the m are held up for prolonged periods of time in order to give priority to cars coming from every direction under the sun. So i hope that is one of that is one example of the many different problems that affect not only them, but the entire muni system. I hope you do take a hard look at that intersection along with others that are persistent sources of problems to the system. Thank you. Thank you very much. That concludes Public Comment item number 9. Item 10. Your consent calendar. All matters are routine. Mr. Chair, ive not received a request that any matter should be severed. Well, were getting the new year off to a good start. Directors, anyone want to change that . If not, is there Public Comment on item number 10 . No one has turned in a speaker card. Okay. Seeing none. This is why they call it the consent calendar. All those in favor, say aye. Anyone opposed . Director tomlin. It doesnt always go that way. I dont want you to get false expectations in your new position. Item 11. Regular calendar presentation regarding the municipal transportation quality review of transit operations and performance for fiscal years 2017 and 2018. Chair, vice chair, members of the board and director tomlin. You have heard the review presentation in the past. I think director heinicke has gone through it five or six times ive heard it more than that. Five or six with you. More memorable ones with you. Including a review of the Data Collection reporting methods that we use. Analysis of the please data and recommendations on changes to practice and the metrics. For the cycle analysis, was conducted. It has two parts. Well start with sam who has the findings and then recommendations and details on the performance since the audit period from the director of transit. Very good. Welcome. Thank you. Happy new year. Welcome, director tomlin. Sorry for what we did to your agency, but its for the greater good. Its sad, but its actually awesome, because we cant think of a better place. Hes going to kill it here, so you guys are in good hands. Excellent. So this is my second go round with the quality review. I guess you were here last time. Travis just mentioned the quality reviews are mandated by the charter and so sfmta has over 30 performance metrics that are related to transit alone. And so this task is to review how the data are collected, how the data is reported and then we look at what thousands trends are. And we make recommendations on the Data Collection methodology and reporting, but not on how to change the trends that we see in the performance metrics. So are we using metrics that staff can use for Actionable Solutions . And can the public follow along with what were up to . Since we were last up here, there have been a few changes in Data Collection. First, performance metrics tracking customer opinions have changed. The sfmta is now using an annual survey. Before it was a quarterly panel survey, which may sound better on paper, but in fact, was tracking people with clipper cards only and it was a lot of data, but it didnt fully and accurately depict the full ridership. So this survey is significant and will be able to answer a lot more questions for us. Second, there has been expanded reporting. There should be better clarity on some of the performance metrics Going Forward which will be better both for the public and for planners who are going to be using the data. In the next couple of slides im highlighting some of the performance trends. Metrics ending in number 1 are Key Performance indicators. So i am not going to be reading through all of these, but there is a lot of information in the final report. Im just going to touch on a couple for each goal. So these are all based on the 201318 strategic plan. And each of these metrics falls under one of the goals. Here, starting off, goal number one, create a safer transportation experience for everyone. Just want to highlight that sfpd reported munirelated crimes per 100,000 miles is down and that is continuing to decrease. Were trending in the right direction there. There are fewer collisions per 100,000 miles. So just some things youll see on the page here. Customer ratings on a scale of 1 to 5. And the m. A. Refers to that method logical change that i just mentioned moving from the quarter survey to the annual. In the final report, you can see historical trends, but for the specific table there is no way to compare the two years. Goal two. This is where we have most of our stuff for transit. The goal is to make transit walking, bicycling, taxi, rideshare, car sharing, the preferred means of travel. Just to highlight here that bus bunching was roughly the same during this period, but there was an improvement in gaps in the Rapid Network. And that did correlate with a better or improved ontime performance in the Rapid Network. So just to note, that in the next cycle, the ontime performance and gaps in the Rapid Network will be the the Data Collection will be through the new orb cad system. So were hoping for even further improvements in Data Collection reliability. More metrics under goal number 2. Ontime performance is still very low, but it was steady during this period. So i guess we have that going on. And the mean distance between failure for buses, which is basically breakdowns and just inservice problems, was better per bus and no change for light rail. One thing that did fall with the amount of service delivered compared to the amount of scheduled service. Both in terms of Service Hours and trips. And lastly, we want to point out that bus ridership overall is up. And muni metro in areas just where ridership is tracked was down. Goal 3 was to improve the environment and quality of life in San Francisco. Here we can see that the overall daily ridership for the system was down. However, cost per revenue hour was also down. Which is a good thing. However, i want to point out that a lot of times what that means, when that goes down, is that usually a decrease in service when ridership is low will gilaurentiu givelichiagive. Last performance metric is to create sorry not metric, the goal is to create a workplace that delivers outstanding service. And Employee Satisfaction again is on a scale of 1 to 5. It is still better than the neutral 2. 5, but did see a dip in fiscal year 2018. Absences were also up slightly in fiscal year 18 among operators. Okay. So we do verify that the accuracy of Data Collection and reporting was good. I said that wrong. Muni continues to make improvement in the processes that will help improve operational efficiencies and help the public see what is going on behind the curtain. Our recommendations are that mid cycle methodology changes should aim for clarity. We still want to be able to tell the story, even when things are or when systems are being upgraded. Over the last 4 to 5 years, a lot of systems have been put in place that are really great, but it will look lake blips in the screen for presentations like that, but theyre all for good reasons and should continue to give us meaningful information in the future. So we want to make sure as the upgrades happen, we can continue to paint the picture that we are doing this, not just for data sake, but for reasons that will help the agency. Second, we want to formalize make sure that Standard Operating Procedures as new technologies come online have Data Governance policies surrounding them. I think a lot of that is already taking place. We want to memorialize that is really good standard business operating procedure. And thirdly, to expand to more detailed reporting for several metrics. There is a lot of metrics that the sfmta already uses for planning purposes. And so much of this work is automated in the way it never was before. So now it is not a huge labor effort to go ahead and just publish the metrics that are already being used. And then lastly, we recommend adopting a new metric to track preventative maintenance. The percentage of ontime completion for p. M. S, we call them, is a pretty standard industry metric that could help the sfmta pinpoint where Additional Resources could be very useful. Okay, so with that, i thank you for your time. It has been really great working with a team that cares so much about good data, useful data and are very committed to transparent governance. Im going to turn it back over to the team to follow up with comments on recommendations and then well be available for questions. Thank you. Good afternoon. Transit director. I want to acknowledge this covers through 2018, but most of these trends should not come as a surprise to the board because weve been talking about them on a monthly basis. Some of the trends do capture where we have known challenges, particularly Service Delivery. I think is one. As well as the ontime performance, the nonrapid routes which is so closely linked to Service Delivery and our operator shortage. There is also some trends that at the macro level may show flat or a decline, but when we get into the nuance, i think there are positive trends. For example, what we talked about at the last performance update with the ridership, we know that where weve made concerted efforts to enhance the transit experience, whether thats through more Rapid Service or more protection from traffic, were seeing double digit increases through ridership. We were at the beginning of the l. R. V. Before rollout during this reporting period, but we know now were seeing the l. R. V. 4s at 10,000 miles between breakdowns. As they continue to improve and also make up a larger percentage of our fleet, i see that really trending in a positive direction. Then i appreciate in the report, some of the positive trends. I do want to take an opportunity to celebrate those, because they really are the hard work of the staff that is supporting jeff and tom and i to deliver this work. In particular, the collision reductions, we have, in transit, been in a Strong Partnership with the Safety Division include the collision rate. And its taking a really pragmatic approach, starting with things most in our control. Like hitting fixed objects. Collisions in the yard. And then moving to some of the harder things, like sideswipes. So im really optimistic. We are, on the transit side, living the vision zero mandate today. And we have not had a fatality and i hope to continue that positive trend. I also include that the report is showing increased response to customer complaints. Its another place where the policy Advisory Group has been tracking our Response Rate to complaints. Because its one of our important metrics and were seeing improvements. Then this report just shows the beginning of what i think is an amazing trend in terms of our bus reliability. I think at this point in 2018, we were at about 7,000 miles between breakdowns. Now were in excess of 10,000. And thats really through the leadership of this board as well as the partnership between Bus Maintenance and fleet engineering and our Quality Assurance group to really deliver a highquality program. It shouldnt come as a surprise to you, but we are an agency that really uses data for decisionmaking and so its very heartening to have the opportunity for an outside group to come in and really validate our processes and validate our procedures. For the most part, the recommendations did seem very reasonable to us. And we welcomed that feedback. We did, as she talked about, change to 15 scale for percent satisfied and very satisfied and well take that feedback that we want to be as transparent as possible when we make these changes. Were working closely with i. T. As we bring on new technology to ensure that all the new technology is included in our operating procedures and stateoftheart. And then we do have some metrics like our preventative maintenance that we track internally that we would welcome sharing publicly. One of the things we absolutely track is the percent that are completed in a timely fashion. So with that said, thank you for listening to the report and for your ongoing focus on these trends because they do really add up to what is ultimately going to be Excellent Service and safe service and Reliable Service which is all of our shared goals. Very good. So im told we have one member of the public who wishes to comment. Lets have that. Is there anyone other than mr. Winer who wants to comment . Okay, seeing none, mr. Winer will have the final word from the public. The floor is yours. Overall, i support the findings on it, but i would like to see something more open. Like subjective responses. And those can be rated from negative to very favorable. For instance, one question i would like this see is having walking a longer distance to the bus stop determined your decision whether or not to take Public Transportation . Do you drive as a result of not having having to walk a Long Distance . What is very negative about the 15 ratings in the question, it doesnt leave the flexibility of comments. And when you dont get that flexibility, you get a very skewed perception as a result of the survey. So it really should be more open to all responses. Now, im not trying to point my finger at nelson nye guard, in particular, its to all surveys that are being conducted. When i fill out the surveys, i feel that i dont have very much room to make my comments. I try to squeeze them in. But its not exactly successful. So if you really want to have full input, really want to have a balanced perception and richer perception, you have to make the surveys more open to comments. Thank you. Okay. Public comment on this item is now closed. Directors, any questions or comments for staff . Director borden i want to say, we spend a lot of time looking at these numbers. One of the things i thought was missing on the chart, was showing what the goal was. You had 17 and 18 and then a check or minus, but it was really hard for people to know what the goal was. I would say in the future, when presenting the charts, if you could show the goal number. The goal is to be better, depending on what the number is. In many of the categories i know we have a fixed number that were trying to achieve. So i think it would be more transparent information if the chart showed what the goal number was and what the numbers were so people could figure out how were progressing. I felt if you didnt read the report, it was hard to figure out what some of the numbers meant in the various categories. Anyone else . Thank you, chairman. Two quick comments. The first is a repeat. I added up the metrics here and its 36. I continue to be concerned about having such a large number of priorities. You tend not to have any priorities when you have too many. You know, jeff began his presentation with pedestrian deaths and why were focused on that. And thats an example, i think, of an overridingly important and relevant performance indicator. There are lots of ways to get to an objective and im not sure tracking a lot of them really enriches the dialogue. I think in some cases it can make it more difficult to connect the data to the decisionmaking if there is just so much data. Having said that, one of the 36 really struck me. And that is the ontime performance for the nonRapid Service which is on its way to 50 . Which is another way of saying your bus is just as likely to be late as not. Thats a horrible result. And you know, one conclusion that i would draw from it, we need more Rapid Service. Because those lines are doing better. I wonder where we are in our plans on trying to introduce more Rapid Service, because the result weve got is this segregated system. [please stand by] rooted in the work that sfmta is on the Rapid Network and i want to talk about data. As a manager, i need more data to get into the roots of causality on how its performing on the linebyline basis and investments versus the stuff that were just letting trend according to the status quo. As we look at the data, congestion has increased over the last five years and the buses that are stuck in congestion are performing worse and as a result of performing worse, theyre also suffering declining ridership. Where weve invested ridership is up 17 . Which is extraordinary compared to any other city. Just like in vision zero, the places where director and her team are making investments, they are having the opposite performance every place else and the answer is do more in what the agency has investing in. Where we need improvements, while theres certain data we need to report from a regulatoy or prop e requirement standpoint we need to get better at the story telling. Rather than just reporting 32 numbers and how to use those numbers in order to build trust with the public. To be transparent about the areas where were failing and also to district u direct us whk succeeding. Thank you for confirming our wise decision. All right. Well the overunder on how long it would take for a commen for e that. Youve set two records. Let me address some of the specific on this. The point, which i understand a great deal, theres part of this dynamic or this report that i like because the various metrics are grouped under our Mission Statement goals and i think it was useful to do that and have the one main metric and group Everything Else. Im not so concerned about the many things as long as we stay focused on the Mission Statement goals. On the performance, were all struck by the same thing and the one sub metric that were barely 50 on time on our non local routes is staggering and as director said, i want the train there when i get there or soon after. Thats the case for most of our Rapid Service and maybe even for some of our local routes that have significant headway. Im gathering from this, and this can be considered b answerr julie, that the reason that were seeing a slide there is because when we have operator shortages, those, by factors of prioritization will effect the non rapid routes the most. Is that what is going on here . Is there another cause for that data point. I think theres three causes. The first is that its an incredibly unforgiving metric. We measure whether or not were running a minute early, up to four minutes late. A minute early every three quarters of a mile. So that is one issue. Is that unforgiving it makes the metrics meaningless . Yes. Thats the single cycle of a traffic light. So hitting an unexpected green light means we fail our metric. If you need the dat need the. Dan , anthe data, why are wt help us . We use that metric because its in the charter but as the director indicated, were much more focused on terminal departures on our infrequent routes, because thats our biggest control point. And headway adherence or service gaps because its how most of our customers experience the service. The second reason that the number is low is because of the operator shortage. You are absolutely correct. And the third reason on our downtown routes is congestion. Some of the these hill top routes, with the exception of a few bottlenecks like what the 33 might experience on clayton, for example, theyre not in a lot of congestion. Getting individuals to operate so precisely to, not the four minutes but the one minute, is really tough. Ok. So, i mean, a lot of this is perception, right. We dont want our riding public to think that were failing and that theyre experiencing if its good is different. I just i mean, maybe were stuck with a metric and the charter that is not a good metric and i feel like ive had this discussion before because i have. I wonder if it makes sense to have more communication around that and more communication of here is why we dont think this mat trick is all that valuable and here is the valuable metrics and conclude them, even if were required to put in a metric that we dont think is all that great. To go ahead and actually front the discussion and not wait for what seems to happen a lot, which is wait a second, this metric doesnt mean anything. So, more of a comment for next year than for this year. And on the metro ridership piece, you said it was through june. So it was this effected at all by the tunnel shut down . It shouldnt have been significantly effected. That surprises me. And is that do we think its more of a measurement issue because were only doing it at fair gate or what is the explanation for why muni metro ridership is down. And a meaningful percent, actually. I think that we should come back at the next meeting and include the current fiscal years. That it did surprise me as well and im not prepared to give you the full explanation right now. We have added a lot of capacity on the system in the last 18 months. We do still have a lot of transit priority work to do on the surface rail system as well as the over all subway reliability. Right. So just to be transparent, let me tell you why thats the metric in this report that concerned me the most. The entire thrust of what ive been doing for the last, how many years its been, and with you and with all of these fine folks, is to build a better Transit System so people will tuesday and get out of their cars. The issue we were facing in the metro was twofold. One, there were not often but frequent enough to be annoying delays and service, significant delay and services and it was unreliable and had people thinking if im driving on that day i do better. The more significant obstacle was crowding. Is that people are being passed up particularly at castro and church stations ochurch stationy home from work. If ridership is declining, that suggests to me that were missing the mark. Our goal is to create more capacity and get more people on those trains off of the streets. If ridership is declining its a metric successor with problems all over the place. I just find it hard to believe, given what i see on a daily basis. I will look forward to seeing the updated figure. I will say, thats an extremely important figure to me because if were losing ridership in the subway, thats a big problem. As a daily k. L. M. Rider, i cant speak precisely to causality but were not providing the level of service that our passengers deserve in the subway. Particularly in the morning peak. Threecar shuttles sound like a great idea. Thank you for raising it. [laughter] we will be bringing that up. A whole package of improvements in this coming year to this board to address the operational problems that the subway faces. I know we have another agenda item on this. On that one specific metric, if you could please come back to us when you can. Whether its in your next presentation on the status of the metro or at the next meeting. And explain where we are currently on ridership numbers and if theres been a decline that a tributes causality to it, please. Absolutely. Thank you. I have two more clarifying questions. So if, as you said in the presentation, part of the point is to make this more accessible to the public and more easily understandable to the public and weve just agreed the ontime performance metric is not the metric that is so relevant anymore. I just would love to have someone sort of explain. I think you mentioned its gaps or something. Could you direct us to the metric that you think is more appropriate for us to be focused on that speaks to that experience of showing up and not having to wait so long. The one with bunching is part of that too, right . If you turn in the presentation to i jumped up too quick. Its 2. 2. 1. You will see that its trending in the right direction. And the reason that were focusing on gaps and not bunching is that while bunching is an operational problem and a red flag for me, from a customer perspective, its not an impact. If two buses show up to pick you up, you are happy if one bus shows up to pick you up. You are waiting for an hour for that bus. The problem is somewhere else in the system, theres a gap. Thats why were focusing on gaps on that 2. 2. 1 on the Rapid Network you can see in 20172018 was 6point 9 and we have been trending lower i think. Our current 90 day goal is 10 . One feeds the other, right. When i see bunching i see a huge gap in service because all the buses showed up at the same time so now i have to wait 20 minutes. It is related. Thats only a metric that describes the Rapid Network. Theres an over all ontime performance across all the network. Is there a headway adherence metric that describes the whole system . We typically have been doing gaps on our frequent service so weve been documenting it for our express, our Metro Service and the rapid bus. And i would advocate for different metrics and different types of service so if we want the metrics to point us towards solutions we need to have the metric differentiate and so the right metric for the High Frequency Rapid Network should be different than the halfhourly hill top service. Which really parents a different approach. I was wondering if you explain that a little bit more. So, some of that is a reflection of the Journey Forward Program so we have rolled out 30 miles of transit priority streets so when the buses can operate more efficiently you need fewer Service House to deliver the same amount of service so part of why you are seeing that improvement has to do with schedule efficiencies as well as some of those travel time benefits. So thats average bus occupancy across the entire network . Thats what that number means . And divided by the total number of Service Hours. Right. Yep, its a good number. Ok. Thank you. Ok. Please. I just had a comment and a question. I feel like i ask this question last time we went through this report. On the escalator and he will veil oelevator, does it includee stations we share with bart or how is that divided . Its a good question that only pertains to the escalator ands elevatorses that are maintained by the sfmta. We can reach out to bart if you think its a valuable metric but this pertains to those maintained by our agency. Great. My comment relates to that point and maybe some of the other districts which i think is it would be useful. I know the report, which was detailed and helpful and i think everyone involved with that, it would be useful to have a good appendix that explained each metric. I didnt know which elevators we were talking about and since we had so many questions about the different metrics and what they mean it would be helpful for transparencys sake. Its a valid point. We have it online and we will incorporate it in the report to help tell a better story. Thank you. Anything further on item number 11 . Very good. Thank you all for the presentation. Since theres no action on that well move on to item 12, approving parking time limits and bus stop consolidation and the extension of towaway zones hours associated with the inner sunset curb management project. Good afternoon, happy new year. My name is hank wilson and i lead the Curb Management Team at the sfmta. In just a moment, ill turn it over to my colleague, alex to talk about the specifics. I wanted to take this opportunity to talk about the Curb Management Team and curb Management Planning and what a curb Management Plan is. For a quick moment. I think the Curb Management Team was created two years ago. It reflects it was born out of the onstreet parking policy team. Were still doing all of the great constreet policy work we were doing like demand responsive pricing, Residential Permit parking and working to on going Reform Efforts for that project permitting car share and moped share vehicles to give people an option other than driving their private vehicle to get around neighborhood parking planning. All those sorts of things. This reflects the growing realization that curb management, that the curb is more than just parking and the curb management is as important as traffic routing or bike planning or other things like that in terms of supporting all of our safety and transit first and Climate Action goals. And so the two additional tasks that the Curb Management Team hat ihey which is a document tht will guide how we allocate curb space. You heard about that and you will be hearing a lot more about that in the coming weeks and months. Also to do some more holistic proactive curb Management Planning and moving away from the space by space parcel by parcel by request system weve had and into a more proactive way of planning. And weve had a few of these that have come before this board. The most prom i am an nant is te center and for paratransit and mission bay taxis and all the folks that need to be there in addition to people who are dropped off going to constructor sets and games anconcertsand ga. This is the first from the beginning to the end and curb management project where weve done the Data Collection and the Neighborhood Outreach and the surveys on the street and come up with something that makes a lot of sense and will go a long way to making the trains and the buses run through and to the much more quickly and working directly with the transit team, this was also initiated by the former Supervisors Office as something they thought would be helpful following on the heels of the inter sunset street scape project that was led by public works. Theres not that many things were asking for this board to approve. To my mind, its one of the selling points about curb management. Its Pretty Simple stuff. Its basic. Its changing curb color, extending color curb zones, adding daylighting and all those things that are not dramatic but can have a dramatic impact on the safety and efficiency of our streets. Thank you for your time. Thank you, very much. Thank you. Good afternoon director. Im a planner with the sustainable parking and Curb Management Team. If we can pull up the presentation here that would be great. So ill talk today about this inner sunset curb management project. So this project started back in spring of 2019 or 2018 when we were approached by merchants in the inner sunset neighborhood asking us to take a look at parking and loading regulations around the ninth and irving area with the completion of construction on the street scape project. At the same time, we heard from transit operators that they were having issues getting through this area due to double parking and illegal loading so we went into this project with the goals of making sure that the curb regulations in this neighborhood align with our larger city goals of transit first, vision zero and promoting vi business vital. This was a communitydriven and databased project. We started off going out and doing Data Collection including inventory what was out there on the curb at the time. We brought on a consultant to do extensive Data Collection on parking occupancy and analyze video footage to determine when and where double parking was happening and what loading behaviors were occurring on the major commercial core streets around ninth and irving. We conducted a trio of surveys, one was a merchant survey where we went outdoor to door asking them about their loading needs. We got 200 responses to our residents survey and also conducted a pedestrian intercept survey to determine how they were getting around the enabled and what kind of issues they were experiencing. We held two Community Open houses at different stages of the project to make sure that Community Input was coming into the project not just after we had a fully flushed proposal but feeding into that propose a we met with inter subset park neighbors and other Community Organizations to help develop this project. So what we found out on the street when conducting this inventory, it was that the curb regulations and the inter sunset reflect how weve done things in the past where we usually have only created loading zones or shortterm Parking Zones or other curb regulations when weve gone to specific request from a specific business or property owner. Which means that we have kind of a patchwork of regulations where some blocks might have a lot of yellow zone and some might not have any and both have a lot of businesses with important loading needs. So through this process, we put together a detailed proposal that makes a lot of changes to the color curb zones throughout the area including yellow, green, white, blue and red and we looked at other changes as well including time limits and transit improvements on lincoln way. So these are the changes that were asking you to approve today. Trance exit new parking on lincoln. Right now it stops along lincoln and our spaced every 600 feet which is below our agencys Standard Guidelines for stop spacing and we found the seventh and 11th avenue stops were low so weve been working with our transit engineering colleagues to consolidate those stops and bring stops spacing on the segment of lincoln up to our standards. Its tow away zone on the north side of lincoln between sixth avenue and 14th avenue from 4 00 to 6 00 p. M. On wednesdays and it creates a travel sane that speeds up and it doesnt cover the evening peak hours so were proposing to expand that from 3 00 to 7 00 so we have heard a decent amount of members of the Community Coming out and opposing that and due to the loss of parking for that extra hour and the evening when they come home. Going out and doing Data Collection we found that not very many people are parking there and just hour after that tow away zone ends right now. The speed improvements we think outweigh the disadvantage to parking along that corridor. We have a two hour time limit that requires board approval. Thats to increase parking turnover and availability as a relief involve for the businesses in the neighborhood as well as for golden gate park, which anybody knows that traffic can get crazy around there with people looking for a parking spot and well extend a few bus zones in the area to meet our minimum stop standard. Most of the portions of this project were approved after engineering public hearing and they run the gamut of different parking and loading regulations we added commercial loading zones and relocated to where they can better serve the types of vehicles that are bringing deliveries to these businesses and we had green zones and reduced the time limit hat the green zones and extended the hours through the evening dinner hours to make sure theyre serving the restaurants and other business thats depend on people picking up food or new Career Network services theyve relied on. We have passenger zones and blue zones, red zones and weekend only tour bus zone. So with that, let me know if you have any questions. I do. So we didnt look at the 44 stops twice. At ninth and irving and it stops at ninth and lincoln but it stops on the same side. It doesnt go into the park side. Did we look into that . Yes. We did talk about that. Both of those stops are serving different nodes in the area. Each of those has a transfer point to a different line so its important to that those. Im just trying to figure out are people going out and i would have for me it seems like it makes more sense of that stop if you were going to keep it and most people get off the bus going across lincoln way to the park so it makes more sense to move into the park and then give people the sense of greater park access despite the fact its obviously still the same did we look at that at all. We can talk to our colleagues about that. They are about to improve that intersection on their park side of the intersection there so talk to them about whether it would be possible or make sense from a service perspective. I dont know how it would due in terms of the speed issue but i would say that 44 stops a lot anyway and 2 comes incorrectly and it doesnt have the ridership because theres large times between the stops. The fact it stops twice on the same block and the majority people are crossing the street and people are driving to the park because theres not enough access to the park. Having that spot close to the academy of sciences and all that stuff creates this it helps people think i can actually take the bus to get there even though it clearly goes right there and theres a psychological thing and people dont want their kids crossing lincoln. It seems weird it stops twice on the same block where you could do better with more loading zones because of all the businesses that are on those blocks as opposed to having two does stops. Totally, yeah. Also its flat there. Its a very slight downward grade. Theyre trying to restrict cars on additional days being able to have the bus go into the park would make a it close tore amenities and it might make more sense. Is there any Public Comment on this item . There is. Herbert winier is the only person that turned in a card. Well continue the board discussion. The floor is yours. One thing thats missing here is the residents in the businesses to discuss this report and i had the lousy experience of walking from nintd irving because the bus stop was discontinued. Its very inconvenient for people. You are doing this on the bases of speeding up transportation. What is needed are more street cars and this whole business about parking and the idea of turnovers, well, if you are in this bar, i believe its on ninth and lincoln way, you only have two hours in the bar. Sorry about that. I mean, you are limiting the drinking time, you are creating ab inconvenience and i would hope that what you would have is this is a Pilot Project so people can see how its working out. Otherwise, you are having another one of these projects where things get worse and its cut in stone and i dont like it. I think it should be taken to a community meeting. I have the suspicion, many of the original plans have not changed at all. Despite the input in the rest of it. Basically, these Community Meetings are dog and pony shows where nothing is changed from the original propose a its a fade out complete. You will have angry residents and believe me, its going to accumulate to the point of an explosion. Were all members of this board and well be under fire i dont live in the sunset anymore and im the only one testifying. Its really a lousy situation. Alex, if you could summarize for us in a few sentences the local outreach and to the business and community you had about this i would say rather modest proposal it would be helpful for the record. Absolutely. We worked closely with the inner Sunset Merchant Association and park Neighbors Group to disseminate these surveys and to talk to all their members about this project from the very early stages through today and we held two Community Open houses and got a lot of input and made a lot of changes based on the unput we received and some are in the staff report. We looked at adding meeters in the area and due to major opposition from neighbors we removed those from the proposal because we felt that the remainder of the proposal was more acceptable to the community and so at the end of the day, we did have a engineering public hearing on all of this a few weeks ago that did get people coming out and what we have before you today has the support of most of the neighborhood. At least of people who ive talked to and i know you have received a few emails about this. I think we did relatively thorough job with this on Community Input. Directors, any further comment or questions on this if not ill entertain a motion. I have a quick question. It seems like a modest proposal so im prepared to support and we did receive a few emails can you discuss the final recommendation to remove it in light of those concerns and particularly i think one email. It is between stops and we estimate that removing these stops will make a time savings of 30 seconds a trip which com signed with the toe away soap and improvements on eighth street, starts to make a real difference in commutes. The other thing with the 11th avenue stop is we have lincoln way on our hand renetwork and 11th avenue is not a signalized intersection so people to cross to that do have to cross and we think its better situation from several different angles to direct people to the stops and ninth and two short blocks away. I do want to say to the point that she brought up, this is something weve talked about before is making sure that we are looking what the is on the street. The senior facility is there and a lot of seniors obviously take our transit, you know, thats something that we should consider and does that mean we should snell eyes that and i dont know. But my only point is that we definitely those are the people that most need our Transit System so ive talked about that with the 44 stopping twice on ninth does not meet our standards and we should have looked at that. All right. Thank you. With that if there are no more questions ill entertain a motion on this. Is there a second. Second. All those in favor say aye. Aye. Any opposed. Alex, you did a nice job with this. Next item. 13 regarding subway performance in a future train control upgrade. Good afternoon. And im here to give you a brief overview of the presentation that i gave to the working group in october and director borden, thank you for the invitation to come back and present to you here. Cherokee lays we can find in the control log its a train broke down and than the acute delays but right now its we dont have the tools available to solve that in terms of getting the actual data to quantify that. So thats something were working on as we speak. That was color coded according to the different causes and you can see the pie chart is essentially showing the breakdown of all the those causes and its the quantity so the number of events, the percentage of the number of events that were attributable to that cause and impact in the number of minutes. The top two categories are vehicle breakdowns and train control and vehicle breakdowns make a smaller number of incidents but they represent a larger number of minutes and that makes sense when you think about it because when a train is disabled it has to it takes longer for it to move out of the way. Vehicle breakdowns is not something that im assessing in this presentation. I am going to be focused on the second highest cause of minutes of delay and thats train control. Which is about of the over all number so its frequent these things occur. If theres good news the train control, the recovery from a failure of a train control is a little bit less its a little bit easier essentially. Just want to give a quick primer of the train control system as we know it today. The automatic train control service was put in 1998 and its based on design from the 1980s and the way it works is theres three portals, ferry portal and westportal and each time the train enters that portal, it has to conduct a handshake with the train control system. If it fails its called a failed entry and that was one of the causes that the delay you will see in a moment. The system then automatically, if it passes the handshake it will route the train to its destination to the mmt, the turn back and it will go out one of the other portals. On the surface, theyre controlled by the operator. Theres no central supervision. Its a first come first serve. When a train approaches a junction or at fourth and king, or at westportal and ulloa, the order in which those trains a arrive is the order they leave. Theres no prioritization. Well this train is behind schedule. This train is in l. None of those factors are taken into account. Its important between surface operation. In the subway we have a control center. They see the lines and where theyre supposed to go but when they get to the subway, they have a limited ability to control everything th or effect. Most changes would have had on the surface in order to keep the train in the proper order and spacing. So, quick train control 101, theres two types of train control systems dating back to the 1860s when they first developed trains. That was the sixth block system and its simple. Sixth block system is a train. Theres a block of space and if a train enters it, nothing else can enter it until that train has been confirmed to leave it in the 1860s they used lanterns and people with flags and they work by councilling the number to say this train is coming over this area and it enters this area and no one else can go in it and the other more advanced type of train control and moving block so essentially thats a train has it does havent to enter a block it essentially creates a space in front of it that the envelope expands if the train is going faster and it contract. Its based on the safety distance and the breaking curve. And so, that allows us to run trains faster and higher speeds and also closer together which is most components lead to a higher spat more reliability Train Network so the question is, the Million Dollar question is what type of train control system do we have in muni and the answer is both and so see all of the above. The reason why this works is we have a moving block system thats super imposed on top of a fixed block system and the moving block system essentially what we use 90 of the time. Its what their schedule is based on. Ill talk about the number of trains per hour that the train control system is capability of delivering and we usually measure that to embarcadero i am bound and thats 42 trains an hour. Thats what our schedule is set to. If we have a failure, they revert back from the moving block to the fixed block system. That first of all the fixed block system trains are running at half speed. Theyre running at 25 Miles Per Hour an hour. The second thing is just like it shows on the diagram, it clears that space. Whatever that space is, it clears all the other trains out of the way so it holds the trains behind it until that space is clear and that train proceeds block by block in the old banner that it did before. The block spacing, i cant say exactly how much because it actually varies when we look at forest hill and castro. Those are very large blocks. When you look at something between civic center and powell theyre smaller. The spacing and its a negative result when we switch from the moving block to the fixed block. That having been said, if we didnt have the fixed block as a back up, then we would have no system at all if the moving block system failed so we would actually be in more trouble essentially because the trinh et system wouldnt function at all so its a inconvenience but its a way that we can continue to operate into the degraded mode following a train control system failure. So this is a simple overview but in the pick bonk up three computers and theyre flowedded by floppy disks and just a highlight that for the record in the age of iphones and flash drives and the internet, and then the Operation Control Center that has the tmc and it has the essentially the video screen that shows were the trains are moving and there are computers at the way side so theyre in equipment rooms along the subway and theyre responsible for the two Way Communications between the train and the Central Computers and theyre responsible for the communication between the Central Computers and moving the switches and lighting up the signals and communicating between the loop and axel counter. That train essentially controls the propulsion, the breaks and it takes inputs from the tack only tetackomoter. The loop cable across the bottom is grown and sometimes its yellow and the way it fixes the position is cross over point where the green and the yellow cross where its able to determine its able to say the train is there and from that point it ducks a dead wreckenning based on the tack ole ter and theres a positional area that gets worse and worse and thats the primary cause of timeouts is a difference between the tackomoter on board the vehicle and where the system thinks it is. The system says these things are disagreeing, i dont know what to do and im not letting you in and it reverts to the six block system. Its responsible for 30 to 40 of our failed entries. This is the control center. It has our trains functioning normally in the system. The key reasons for some poor train control system performance. Having gone to a number of other systems around the world and understanding what are the systems. Our sister city vancouver and lon dor are using the same talas as we are. Bart doesnt have these problems. A lot of other subway system dont have these problems. A main reason is the design of our system. Most metro systems are entering their train control system once per day at the yard and they leave once per day at the yard. They enter and theyre in the system and communicating and they return to the yard and its done. We have each train enters and leaves every time on its run. So it has to do that handshake multiple times so if you think that if you are the train control vendor and you have a 1 failure rate, that might be acceptable if you are doing this once a day but if its 10, 11, 30 times a day then you can see where 1 might not be acceptable for a system of art design. The other issue is the system is old so i highlighted it was designed in the 80s and rolled out in the 90s and were getting memorandums that say that the system are obsolete in different components so were getting more failures as time goes on. We have ridged infrastructure. One of the key issues that came up in february was we had two complete computer failures for the central computer. When it happens, the computers, the time it takes to reboot the Center Computer its about five to 15 minutes and its not that terrific of a delay when you think about how big what were talking about is but it took two and a half to three hours for us to recover all of the trains into the system because in order, when the system came up and said im ready you have to it took us two and a half to three hours to communication again and after that we had a six to seven hour residual delay as a result of that. I want to highlight the impact caused wasnt necessarily the computer needed to be booted back up it was a loss of communication that was the hardest thing to recover from. The last one congestion and i talked about that. These graphs going to the presentation you heard on metrics. This is what were using to see whether the service and subway is doing well or poorly. So, variability what you are seeing across the bottom is the number of minutes of delay so the time and then across the y axis, you are seeing the percentage of trains that are experiencing that travel time. So you want to see a spike at like 20 minutes or 15 minutes and this is endtoend travel time on the knl from westportal to embarcadero so you want to see a spike at 20 minutes or 18 minutes and its a high reliable system. Its indicating theres highly variable travel times and its telling you when you show up for the k. L. M. You could experience a travel time from 19 to the gray is the scheduled so this is just a number of trains that were scheduling to a arrive at embarcadero and i mentioned the speaks its about 40 in the morning and its 42 in the afternoon and and then on a typical day that blueline is basically how many trains were able to deliver on a tip day and you can see its short of that and its around 35 to 34 so so the goal is to mirror each other those precisely so thats speaking to the fact that the number of trains that were scheduling to deliver those trains to embarcadero. This is detailed but its worth it. It shows the impact of a non communicating trained this is tracking the trains through the system so at the top is embarcadero and bat the bottom and time marchs onto the right. Most trains are proceed north a diagonal pattern and they flatten out to stop and they go to another pattern as they speed back up and head through the tunnel. If you see an area where theres a train is moving forward so thats what we want to avoid. So in this graph, were showing the nct, the non communicating trains. A strain that failed or lost communication because of the positioning error that i mentioned, is it was held to increase that spacing and basically they were brought in anyway through the automatic mode and they were backed up wound up at van ness where you can see that area those the delay and also the cueing that resulted as a result of that single non communicating train and even though the non communicating train recovered at one of the reentry points at van ness. This happens about eight to 10 times a day. This aversion of this happens. Sometimes its better or worse and what time of day it is but essentially what i want to illustrate with this graph is the impact of a single non communicating train is devastating to the service and it takes. I want to high lie one of the things were looking at or what weve done is moved the Service Management over to its given us more tools to focus on Service Management and we did a converted effort where we put p. C. O. S in the intersection to help reduce the cueing that occurs as trains are waiting to exit and that had positive effects but its an cater that we cant have people out in the intersection forever so some sort of there would work well to move traffic and allocate priorities and were Getting Better on classifying the causes as you can see to specific points of failure and then trying to attribute those in real time and communicating those with passengers so they know this is a long delay or a short delay because its delayed due to a vehicle breakdown its a long wait. A train control failure we have a rough idea this is where you hear that slowmoving traffic messages that is thats where you get the slowmoving message. How is that message delivered and to whom . The slowmoving message is delivered over the subway science and announcements to the stations. It says excuse us but were experiencing slowmoving traffic in the inbound direction. The trains are cued up behind it. So,. The next few years, we are going to activate the westportal cross over and come along with a threecar shuttle between embarcadero and much of director hine a key. Were going to look i mentioned before my team isnt done with the analysis and well look at subway congest one which is a little bit more pernicious to bring out but if we can highlight the causes, we already know where were looking. Were looking at van ness and embarcadero and were looking at westportal and those are the places and were going to try to attribute of what the causes are and what we can do with the schedule and in terms of spacing and in terms of lines to help alleviate that so we can allocate the trains. Stay tuned for those recommendations. Were going to continue an extended Maintenance Program on the train control assets so that were keeping them in the best state that we can. Were going to increase on the field supervision throughout the rail because when we targeted those efforts that it has had immediate benefits. Were recommending a 10 year upgrade expansion of the train control system and that essentially is a project that will both replace the existing subway and expand the train control area of authority to the entire muni metro system and the way it works is the trains would be in communication but they would still be driving the trains but well get improved visibility in the control center for trains that are out not on the third street corridor. The train control will also be able to communicate with Traffic Signals to better out date priority. It will also achieve that holy grail that the trains will enter at the yard and the green mme theyll maintain communication and there wont be some weird transition between the surface and the subway and theyll be in the same system the entire time. The trains will have expanded are the authority as they do to them. We expect that will reduce subway delays between 20 and 25 . The improved maintain ability is a big factor here. The loop cable and the axel counties are obsolete and we have wifi that we can use for communication. Theyre commercial off the shelf setechnology. They dont increase the burden on our maintenance staff. There are additional concerns. Its not as simple as im making it out but its the standard for monitor cbtc in places like london and new york where theyre using basically wireless Access Points along the rightofway and the train is communicating with those instead of a loop or with some other means. Ex it also means that we can attack some of the causes of delays and congestion. Bunching in gaps earlier. A lot of the analysis that weve seen so far has indicated that if we were able to do a smaller intervention further out on the line in a better spacing, so by the time the trains get on the end, they get to the portal theyre not stacked up five deep waiting to enter which theres not a lot the control center can do. If they were nipped in the bud back at sunset boulevard or at ninth and juda or something liar that wlikethat we could manage a more appropriate manner. So these are some of the technologies that come along. I mentioned wireless communication. Also i mentioned tying in the isolated Traffic Signals and switches so those would be able to controlled centrally and managed centrally and prioritized centrally. It replaces our computers with the latest technology and allows us Central Control to have more tools to manage bunches and gaps. Weve seen other cities is that the automatic trinket runs the train and tells the trains you need to dwell three seconds longer to maintain your spacing or go 22 Miles Per Hour instead of 25 Miles Per Hour to maintain your spacing and those things are either communicated to the driver on the surface or theyre just done automatically by the train if its on the subway. A quick slide showing the intended phasing of the project. We want to look hat doing the test phase on the surface so that would be along the embarcadero and towards mission bay. And including the entry to central subway. The reason for that is that were we would be implementing the system on the surface allowing us to do tests without going into the subway and initiate a complex resignalling project with technology that were not familiar with yet. Were going to install it on the surface, install the central components and all the components and test it on an area where [please stand by] its crazy to try to rent single car trains. Doing that could have a 20 minute delay in the subway. Lo and behold, thats what we got. First its good to try the handshake as early as you can in the system, but another weapon. Inroute coupling. They said they couldnt do it in the early 80s, but im told by your maintenance people you can couple old cars to new cars. The advantage of inroute coupling, you get longer trains and period of time between the train. There is no one else in the world who runs 40 trains an hour on the same track. I mean, it doesnt work. And you also should note on weekends when youre only running 30 cars, the system doesnt have problems. It runs nice. If we can get down 32, 34, the whole system can work better. I even go before 78, i used to get on a streetcar in Market Street. You do that three times and you got home in a reasonable time. We can do that with automation and controls and everybody has a better ride with less bunching and delay. Hopefully, that can happen. Any other Public Comment on this item . Seeing none, Public Comment is closed. Directors, this is an information item. But its also an item on which we can provide direction. So are there questions or comments for staff . I have a question. I know ive heard this report before. I know we do the double berthing of trains and i was wondering if its because the train control system i thought the best advantage would be the train didnt stop twice in the same spot, stop once. Does the control system not allow that to happen . Wed have to redirect passengers, the second or the first, but is our System Limited . Yeah. One of the things that weve been cautioned by some of our consultants is over customization of the product. Doublestopping is a customization we have asked for and they have delivered. Its not typically used at other properties. The way they enforce it, the train must always stop at the lead berth. So regardless of whether it performs a stop at the second berth or not, it always has a stop. So what we determined, because of the queueing, it doesnt hurt anything because the trains are in queue anyway. Frustrated passengers, it lets them get off at powell. Its a customer frustration safety valve. But in terms of operating efficiently, it doesnt play one way or another. I thought if you could keep the trains going and have a new one, there would be a relief . The reason its double berthed is because there is another train in the lead berth. Its speeding up to get into another queue. When that came about, ill give you the history, it was because the queueing was causing a line that either embarcadero excuse me, montgomery and powell. And you had angry customers so close to being able to get off the train, we figured if we did double berthing it would relieve that. Its not anywhere close to a panacea, but an escape valve for passenger satisfaction. Were you done . Yes. I clearly enjoyed your presentation. Youre a man who loves your work. Thats easy to see. The question is the length of the procurement. So youre starting this year and 10year procurement is by year 10 youll have the whole thing installed. Its a 25year. So its a long span of time. And during that time, presumably, there is going to be a lot of advance in the field of Automated Vehicles, whether its trains or buses or cars or whatever. The default operating mode, right, is that when the trains are in the subway, theyre automated. When they leave the subway theyre not. And sometimes theyre not automated in the subway either when you have trouble. Is that accurate . Correct. So i guess my question just to focus it is about when the trains leave the subway. What you represented today, they would continue to operate as they do in manual mode, but there would be advantage to the system of having them tracked and surveiled. But what about a system that would be able to operate in automated mode outside the subway and during that period of time, you know, what thought have you given to that . Im sure you have. It probably keeps you up at night. Because how do you build into a contract the ability to deal with an advance you want to take advantage of instead of being stuck with three generations ago technology . That is an excellent question, director. One of the things that i took upon myself when i embarked on this journey was to be the last train control project manager. Because in the contract, we need to stipulate that the vendor provide us with updates on a regular basis. That wasnt done with the previous system. And meanwhile ive been to their conferences and the vendor has updated their product and they have new and great things theyd love to sell us. We price that in and include that in maintenance support. 10 years down the line, there isnt another version of me giving another update on how we need to replace it. But were maintaining it. Theyre on generation 5 i think and were on generation 2. And theyre rolling out g7. You know, as the new and exciting thing. We want to keep pace with the investments. Whether itthem or another servi provider. The state of the art right now, the groundwork were laying with the system, it will be capable of autonomous. We would have to do upgrades. Things youve heard about with autonomous vehicles, light r. , that is the main problem they have to solve for operating on the street. Sensing all the pedestrians, bicycles, but it would be capable of that if the technology matures. We dont want to be the guinea pigs. We want service proven. So we want to be one step behind the leading edge so were getting all of the benefits, but none of the pain hopefully. So thats the course that im intending to steer us down. Well, nice segue, because the suggestion relates to that. And that is how youre going to proceed with the procurement. I do know that bart is well into one, if they havent already signed a contract. Do you have the ability to invite them to sit on our Interview Panel so that you can learn from each other, because theyre going to go through mistakes . Absolutely. And we absolutely will. Were also using their consultants, so its the same consultants for bart and us. Were going to conduct a little different, but were learning from what they did. Specifically we think our process is a little more streamlined. Theirs took two or three years just to get to ndp. I dont know if theyre there yet. So were going to streamline that. We want to streamline that because were a smaller system, a little less complex, but at the same time were going to learn from them. Thank you. Very good. I just want to comment on one thing before anyone gets too excited about automated trains in San Francisco, i would like to point out that the sfmta has one of the strongest safety records in the United States because we have the most skilled operators who are using judgment every minute of every day in order to ensure a safe environment. And the extraordinarily complex and insane streets of San Francisco. So while i am interested in technology and automation, i want to make sure were not the beta test site and we can continue to rely upon our extraordinarily talented crew. Yes, and its not just safe for the people outside the train, the conductor or operator provides a huge safety benefit for people inside the train as someone monitoring and in charge of the train. I think its very important to be clear, there are no plans to move to Automated Vehicles in the l. R. V. At a time when were having difficulties hiring folks and want to provide people a rewarding and longterm career. I want people to understand if you come to muni now to become an operator, we have every intention of making it a career for you and not replacing you with a robot or computer. I was just wondering if other than i understand the timeline for the train control, but im wondering if other lessons were learning from the Current Operations and some of the kind of challenges were facing, if were incorporating that into our operations for a central subway. Because based on the phasing, were not going to see this new control system in place. Its going to open with the old system, right . Correct. I know its a different tunnel so there are different issues there. Yes, central subway has its own unique challenges, mostly related to how many trains the physical subway is capable of running. So a traincontrol system, the advanced stateoftheart system wont depend on the capacity of the subway itself, due to the limitations. Thats why were targeting the embarcadero, 4th and king and the 3rd street corridor first. It will allow the control center to space out the trains on approach to central subway so theyre not bunched at the portal. Thats the main benefit were going to see. Were not going to meet the central subway opening but try to follow what the first phase sort shortly thereafter to provide the benefits. I enjoyed this presentation and to the extent we can make some version of this available more to the public, beyond those watching or here in the room, that would be useful. Because there is a lot of us train nerds out there. This is great. So thank you for an excellent presentation. Really well done as you know. Personally, this is sort of a passion of mine. Its always helpful when, not just the problems, but the causes of the problems are broken down. I thought the way you did it with the acute versus chronic is helpful and i want to focus on the chronic. Weve been prxt lets start with west portal. Could you give me the date that well activate shuttles . Do we have that date yet . Season, ill take a season. Fall, 2020. Wonderful okay. And let me give a little history. I want to get to the next thing im going to grill you on. When we did the twin peaks tunnel reconstruction and i said ill approve this if the crossover is put in, its precisely the reasons youve been talking about today. Street congestion, subway congestion and handshake. Three of the major problems of chronic delay. That crossover in my view solves all three of those problems. Number one, you dont have a train that has to have a handshake. Number, two, youve taken out the street congestion. And number three, taken out subway congestion because you dont have trains blocked up. Three problems solved with one crossover. Julie knows what im going to say next. The jay church contributes to two problems. One, subway congestion. You have another subway car in the subway and its particularly problematic from a subway congestion standpoint because it turns in the project. So, were looking at fall 2020 for the west portal crossover. Im not going as extreme as saying what if we had the l and m stop and not even come in, because im hopeful we can fix the handshake problems, but i am going to say if we cant fix it, having a Shuttle Service in the subway. Im not there yet. But lets talk about jay church. Is there any reason that we shouldnt proceed as soon as we can with the jay church not going into the subway for the very reasons that were talking about. To eliminate subway congestion and eliminate handshake problems. Im going to let my directors answer that one. We think its really promising to look at surface j that is more reliable for the jay customers and has the subway benefits. It is linked to activating the crossover because we want to make sure if were asking customers to make a transfer we have the capacity to absorb them. When you say activating the crossover, you mean the crossover at Church Street . No, the malcolm heinicke. Explain the connection. By being able to run a threecar shut until the subway, i can say with confidence that somebody going down Church Street will be able to get on the train. So i have baked that into the question. But i agree with you, that once weve made the Subway Service more reliable, so someone that gets off at jay is not going to be one of those people i pass from forest hill to church. Director tumlin. Once we solve that problem, which is around fall 20. Why wouldnt we start now . Planning that change with the jay, its not like in fall 2020, you can snap your fingers and it will happen. Particulate of this is being part of this is being on each other. You have a Market Street closure and lets look at the next street. So we are improving Subway Service with the crossover, why not plan now . We are. So the last piece of it, now were doing the nitty gritty planning of making sure that at the intersection of market and church we can manage both the accessibility concerns as well as the volume of full train worth of people getting off the train and getting safely to the subway. So that is sort of the last piece before we start sharing the proposals publicly and getting input and finding out is this really the right fix or the wrong fix . Were doing the site Design Analysis at church and market on the surface as our last unknown question. And would that effort allow for timing that if this proofs to be proves to be popular or the general conclusion is this is something that should be done, would your current time line allow implementation in say winter of 2020 for the jay church . Yes. Great. So then my final question is a technical one about the handshake. Ive tried to understand this. Ive walked the tunnel, looked at the wires, i think ive got it but want to make sure. Lets take the van ness entry point. The handshake is done sort of as the train is coming down the incline there, correct . Yes. It fails, it goes to manual and its not until van ness that it can repick up again, is that correct . Correct. So in that period where its running in manual as you explained well, the rest of the system, the rest of the subway is effected . Correct, its held back. So why not have two recognition points at the debows portal. Im thinking in my head, the 14yearold boy i am, if the pilot misses the third wire, there is still the second and the first for he or she to catch and stay on. So why are we waiting until van ness to have a second recognition point. Why not have two recognition points there in case the first one fail as soon as simple answer is space. The recognition point needs to be large enough to accommodate two, or threecar train and have to resolve that ambiguity. If we make them closer together, we might only allow onecar train. There is a space constraint in the portal, you dont want it hanging over the intersection and you dont want it obstructing the switch when it reaches the subway. Do embarcadero entry points and west portal have the same space constraint . West portal definitely does because its at the platform and you cant back that up. Im actually thinking ill stop because i realize this is mundane and people are falling asleep. Art said yes and snored in my ear. I was thinking the other way. But we can have that conversation offline. Im wondering if we could have the people looking at that to see in is a quicker way for that second recognition. We have looked into trying to get the train to have a Second Chance your not wrong. This is incredibly complex nut to crack. We found that the causes of failed entry maddeningly are not attributable to one single thing. There are three to seven things and there are three in equal parts. One is the position. There is something wrong with the accelerometer, the tack om ter on the train and its not saying where the train says it is. The train says im here, the system says, no, youre not, youre here, so the train system gives up and says you cant enter. Its not a communication system, per se, the control commission says, youre crazy, im not going to talk to you. The second is i lost communication. 30 . And the other is the magic factor but it has to do with the slope of the entry. The speed at which the operator is driving the train in and the acceleration and deceleration of the train because all of those play a role in slipping and sliding. Its worse in wet weather. Its another instance where it creates the positional error and it gets rejected. So again, new systems they dont do this at all. Thats why were looking in that direction. What we have looked at, in two out of the three issues, the train is actually communicating, its just that it disagrees with the system. So there is not anything wrong with the link, its just that theyre able to they just dont agree, so can you just let the train in with the higher factor of safety and then give it another chance on the other end . So far, theyve said no. But were working that issue and trying to give the train multiple chances to enter because its such a problem for us. Its something were still exploring. Thank you. What you do excites you and its technical, but this has a realworld implication. Kids get to school on it time, people get to work earlier, there are fewer pollutants. Everything youre doing contributes to that. Keep it up and thank you for your passion and i look forward to hearing from you the next time. Thank you. I experience it every day myself. Im sorry. One more question. Maybe more for so for the jay idea of moving it back, you referenced kind of looking longterm planning wise at accessibility of getting those from the jay down into the subway. Im wondering, thats a place where we have nonredundant elevators, correct . I believe so. I would encourage when youre doing budgeting to look at i know elevators are hugely expensive, but if were going to do that, i think we should start planning now for getting redo redone redundancy. The other option is, if and when we experience an elevator failure, we can make the decision to send the train into the subway. Were not through this through this effort, were not prohibiting the movement, were just not doing it on daily basis. Very good. Item 14, presentation and discussion regarding the legal responsibilities of the sfmta. Good afternoon, directors, deputy City Attorney. In consultation with the board secretary we decided to do the annual Legal Training which is required financial and Legal Training required under the charter, to do it today to save room on your workshop day to dive deeper into the budget. So im sure, director heinicke, will be extremely excited this is his last Legal Training after many. So ive divided this training this year into two parts. The first will be the role of the sfmta board and Board Members under the charter. And the secretary is update on sunshine and second is update on sunshine and Public Records issues. As you know, the sfmta board has exclusive authority under section 8a, which is unusual and broad. Adopted by the voters under prop e and prop a. So youre pretty well aware of this broad list of issues that you have exclusive jurisdiction over. I wont go through them all. However, the exclusive jurisdiction is has some charter limitations. And two examples that come into play quite often are that the agency does need to comply with ordinances of general application passed by the board of supervisors. So this generally means that the board of supervisors cannot adopt legislation that dictates administrative matters that are specific to the sfmta and that would affect your Core Functions under the charter. But to the extent where board legislation requires general things of all city departments, then the mta generally must follow those ordinances, especially where it does not implicate your core function. Where board legislation requires permits and approval from other city departments, the mta does not need to get the approval of the other city departments, but it does need to meet the specific standards of the ordinance. And very often, the director of transportation can determine the compliance with those standards. So for example, if some ordinances allow for waivers, and those waivers must be granted by a different department, but for the sfmta, the waiver could be granted by the director of transportation. A second area where the charter is limited came up in prop a. But was not actually effectuated until 2018. So the charter allowed kind of two areas in parking and traffic modifications where the board of supervisors would be able to adopt ordinances that would allow them to review certain of your decisions. The board did not adopt that until 2018. That legislation has been in effect since 2018. Youll see when reading agenda items there are certain issues that could be reviewed by the board of supervisors. Interestingly, to date, none of your decisions have been reviewed by the board of supervisors. A member of the public who wants to request review would need to get concurrence by five members of the board of supervisors to get review. Some things they can take review of are installing or removing stop signs, adopting limitations on parking time limits. And then creating or modifying private transportation programs. And private transportation programs include such things as the prior legislation permitting chariot to operate. The board does not have currently review of large infrastructure projects, implementation of bike lanes, or towing away and stopping any time issues. So thats something that is out there. Again, it has not been used to date. But something we might see in the future. Within the so within the charter, its interesting, the charter doesnt differentiate between the mta board and the director. But the board does have the specific roles, provides policy direction, appoints, removes the director, improves settlements, recommended by our office. Approved rates, fees charges. Something i didnt put on this list is also probably one of your primary duties is legislating parking and traffic changes. Which is a pretty unique power of any other board or commission in the city to have that legislative function. Obviously, you approve contracts and collective bargaining agreements. And you can inquire, you have the power of inquiry. So one of the issues that the charter sets up is the relationship between the board and the director of transportation. So the mta board and individual members can seek information from the member from mta operations and with permission, can seek information from staff. But there is concept about administrative interference and designated as official misconduct. So over time, i think there has been a balancing between the board and the director and over time, that relationship has evolved. So obviously now you have a new director. So its prudent to check with him about how he wants to manage this relationship and checking in directly with staff over time. We dont need to do that now. But i think each director has their own protocol. As to how that goes. So, the administrative interference prohibition does not affect your full power of hearing inquiry. So you can call any mta officer or employ before the board to answer questions regarding operations. So another Charter Authority again very unique within the city is the authority over the budget. I think youre all pretty well aware of the authority. You have the authority to adopt a two year budget. It can only be disapproved by the board. They cannot modify they dont have the power to approve it and they need a 711 vote to disapprove the budget. So it does not go through the normal department process, through the Mayors Office and the majority vote at the board like other city departments. There are a few other points on the slide. Your policy direction, you set policy for the Agency Consistent with city legislation and you give direction to staff again through the director of transportation. The board can require the director to obtain board approval of specific actions. At your last meeting you did that, you updated that through the Delegation Authority for contracting, but there are other places where you can set limits as well. An issue that comes up with other boards and commissions as well as here is that you must act as a body and make decisions as a body, as individuals you dont have any powers of the board. You can act only at a noticed meeting and attended by a quorum. So often it comes up if there is any special authority of the chair or the vice chair, and having recently chaired a board, my son asked me the same question. What do you get . I explained it. He said you get to decide if the super boring stuff comes before the really boring stuff . So essentially gets to set the agenda. I will not tell you what category we put you in. Yeah, here i am, between you and the end of the day. I know. You know. Charter mandates, what can i say . The super boring stuff at the end. Anyway, the board has a chair and vice chair annually. The chair appoints any and all committees of the board. And vice chair presides when the chair is absent. Then kind of not from a legal perspective but a functional perspective, the chair and vice chair are in contact with the secretary in terms of functioning between meetings. So im as you know, San Francisco has an even more aggressive or more sunshine policy than the state law. So the right of the people to know what their government and those acing on their acting on their behalf is doing. And thats fundamental to the city. So that plays out in a number of different ways. And you know, i mean roberta can testify to this, but we get a huge number of Public Records requests every year. And its a big time thing for our office and staff. Public records include any writing relating to the publics business, prepared, used or retained by any state or local agency. I think weve talked about this in the past, but there is a number of exemptions, including attorney generalclient communication, trade secrets. Its probably more of a caution for staff, but also for you, sending something to our office or copying our office does not necessarily exempt it from the Public Records act. It needs to be legal advice. So sending something and just asking for cover does not protect it. The sunshine laws and Public Record laws are gradually catching up with technology. The laws have been expanded to include email attachments, Text Messages, tweets. We just telling the director, we got a Public Records request today for twitter accounts of the agency, but also all Department Heads in the city. So those types of accounts can also contain Public Records. Cant they find it on the twitter. Why do we have to give that to them . So, yes, the tweets themselves of both the agency and the Department Heads would be in the public realm, but finding out if youve blocked anyone or if you have private i dont know what theyre called on twitter private direct messages, that wouldnt be obviously seen from anyone may also be yes. Depending, again so this kind of goes to the next thing with the city of san jose case which did say, if youre using a personal account to communicate with the conduct of the public business, the writing can be subject to disclosure under the Public Record act. There is a couple of different points with this. And they cant avoid disclosure just by using a personal electronic device, but it is point number two, only communications that relate to the conduct of the publics business or records. So if someone private messages you about what time youre going to meet with them for something fun, that obviously is not subject to disclosure, but if youre being private messaged in response to a post about a breakdown in the subway, yes, that could potentially be and you respond, that could potentially be subject to disclosure. And you would be required to search your public your personal devices in response. The existing exemptions from disclosure apply to your personal devices. And existing record retention policies apply to Communications Made using personal Electronic Devices. So whatever you would be required to keep under the retention policy, youre to keep on your personal device or transfer it to a government device. I have a question related to that. Like i dont i get a new phone. My former Text Messages disappear. Its not like i deleted them. Is that unreasonable . I cant provide text message was my old phone. I mean so its probably the board secretary might want to update the board at some point on records retention. Messages about setting up meetings and things like that are probably not required to be retained to the extent that youre having a substantive exchange and that had a twoyear record retention policy, then there might be obligation to retain it. The concern is, i never thought about it, and i dont think that really applies, people dont typically keep their Text Messages for years. The main point is Text Messages arent any different from a writing than an email, piece of paper or any other document. The form of text message is short and you know often not substantive, so it may be less likely to need to be retained, but if it is substantive and would need be to retained under the board record policies, which is two years, then would you need to retaken it for two years. There is a lot of practical problems with that. How do you do that . There is no way to really do that. I mean one of the i have a few actually i think the next slide two years, are you referring to the city of San Francisco . Retention policy for any records that is defined as a record is two years. For us, its 30 days. So each agency has a record retention policy and it has different record retention policies for different types of documents. So for the boards correspondence, its two years. Is that correct . Okay. So i think kind of good email and document etiquette. One of the best ways to kind of comply or be succinct and clear and keep one email account that has all of your professional cityrelated correspondence. And then you dont have to worry about whether something is on a text or a tweet or this or that. You know where it is. You can always forward something you think might be important to that account so its documented. Copy and paste it. So you dont have anything on either your personal account or other work account so that if we have litigation or sunshine requests, you know, weve had some issues with that this year. Its just been easier, less burdensome way. I guess the question there, though, in the instance of sometimes people contact you at your work email and its not the email you gave them. So like practically, how do you how does that work . I think Good Practice to have one account that you designate as your city account that can be a Gmail Account or any other i do. But when you get an email, you reply and copy from your work or personal email, you copy that account and then its in there and you can delete it from your personal account. I mean, thats one practical way to do it. So there is a couple of donts. Dont mix work and personalrelated emails and texts. Probably more common with staff, but putting personal thoughts or frustrations into emails often get us in trouble or can be embarrassing. And specific to the director not replying with other directors. And this is little avoid this. This has been one of the overload of paper and documents that our office and mta staff have to review in ponce to litigation and sunshine requests has been really overwhelming. And part of that is inevitable in the course of business, but whatever people can do to reduce that. In conclusion, remember the sunshine act. Pause before sending long or contentious emails or texts and replying all, be careful about that. And definitely dont reply all with other directors. Good email and Document Management etiquette as we discussed, possibly having one particular email account you use only for city business. And then obviously anytime you have questions or concerns, reach out to us. So thank you for taking the time. As always, every year for this very exciting presentation. I will miss it. I am sure you will. Just for the record, no member of the public has indicated they would like to address you on this topic. Very good. Okay. And the good news, we have no that takes us to the end of the day, is that correct . That concludes the business for before you today. And mr. Tumlin is still in his chair which is a success. Welcome. We are adjourned. You know ive always wanted to do this job that drives my parents crazy we want to help people i wasnt i did not think twice about that. I currently work as cadet inform the San Francisco Sheriffs Department ive been surprised 0 work within criminal Justice System field i had an opportunity to grow within that career path. 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I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of america, and to the republic for which it stands one nation under god with liberty and justice for all. Commissioner, id like to take roll. Yes, please. [ roll call ]. You have a quorum. You also have with us chief William Scott of the San Francisco Police Department and paul henderson. Thank you, everybody. This is the january 15, 2020, meeting of the Police Commission. We do have a heavy schedule tonight, so we will have two minutes for Public Comment. Im going to change slightly the agenda order. Ill ask the chief to give his report first, and then we will call line item 2 next before we move on to the d. P. A. Report. So with that, i turn it over to you, chief. Thank you, president , Vice President , commission, and executive director henderson. I start off todays report with a summary of our crime trends for the week. As of january 13, our overall crimes are down 21 year to date. And i just want to remind everybody we are very early in the year, so these percentages usually change pretty drastically through the year. With that our total property crimes are down 23 . Weve continued to have fewer reported incidents in all categories, with the exception of arson which has increased 22 year to date. Our burglaries are down 31 and our auto burglaries are down 21 when compared to 2019. When compared to year 2017, were down 38 . Our total Violent Crimes are down. Specifically drivewaysing homicides, we had no homicides this past week, and a total of one for 2019. That represents a 20 increase. That is suspects being identified, arrested, and charges being filed. Overall, i would like to report that our homicide clearance, our uniform Crime Reporting homicide rate for 2019 is 71 , which is a good thing for us. We look forward to hopefully putting more cases to closure for the families of homicide victims in 2020. Looking at our gun violence, we are down 60 over 2019. We had no shootings during the past week. There have been two shooting incidents year to date resulting in two victims of gun violence, one fatal, one nonfatal. Since its so early in the year, i wont report on the year to date trends for the past five years, but i will say that we are showing a decrease over this time this point of the year for the past five years, but its very early. We want to keep working with the community and make sure we keep homicides reduced and in check. In terms of our general case updates, a couple of significant series that are happening right now that id like to report to the commission and the public. A robbery detail conducted an investigation into a series of cellphone robberies occurring in the area of poke and hays and hays and larken in december. Following the incident on december 20, our motorcycle solo officers detained two 15yearold suspects in connection with the robberies. The suspects were cited. The two juveniles and two additional juveniles were responsible for all the robberies. There were search warrants issued and four suspects were taken into custody. Weve had school robberies as well. The school at st. Laguna has been burglarized. Computers have been taken and the school has been burglarized. We have been working hard to bring these cases to resolution. We have some good evidence we have been able to uncover, and hopefully well have a suspect identified in this in my report to the commission as this case progresses. Also in the news over the past few days has been a pretty significant robbery Home Invasion that occurred on hannover street. This occurred on january 8, 2020, at approximately 1 30 in the afternoon. Over 30,000 was taken in the robbery before all the subjects fled from the residence. Video was captured of the crime. Based on video evidence, our investigators executed a search warrant and arrested five of the multiple suspects that were connected with this case. Things from the Home Invasion were located, including an ar15 rifle with an extended magazine. Next, we focused on reducing traffic fatalities. Our vision zero is a big part of that. We have had one traffic fatality year to date, and that was a singlevehicle accident that occurred since the beginning of the year. The department will be presenting our safe streets presentation on february 5 with a lot more details on last years breakdown, as well as what we have year to date. 456 traffic citations have been issued by officers for the week of january 6 through 12, focused on vision zero, focused on the five violations. Im sorry, 69 of those 456 were focus on the five violations. Our Vision Zero Team issued 102 citations, with 99 of those focused on the five violations being cited. Thats the 97 of the citations were focus on the five violations. As i said, there was one major traffic collision that ended in a fatality that ended on january 12 of 2020 at 1 30 in the morning near bayshore and sun sunnydale. A person was riding on the side cars and lost his balance and fell under the train. The operator was unaware that the victim had been run over. A tragic situation. So i just want to remind the public, weve had several of these incidents involving l. V. R. S and people either stumbling and falling and getting struck by trains. But please obey the signals and the crossing signals for the train tracks and Pay Attention to your surroundings. That goes a long way in terms of improving Traffic Safety in our city. Also to address Traffic Safety, our officers are increasing efforts to increase bicycle safety. Last year there were 29 fatalities, compared to 23 traffic fatalities in 2018. That represented a 26 increase. Were committed to our overall goal of vision zero over the past three years. Several areas have been identified with a significant number of pedestrian and bicyclerelated collisions. In our effort to prevent collisions, additional officers have been dispatched to focus on the focus on the five, speeding, making illegal turns, failing to stop at stop sign and red lights, and failing to stop or yield to pedestrians in the crosswalk. Now, mind you enforcement sometimes equals education. It takes enforcement and education and good engineering to reduce our traffic fatalities to zero and were working with the m. T. A. To make sure were part of that zero vision goal of traffic fatalities by 2024. We had the warriors home this week. They have four home games this week. They played dallas last night. They play denver tomorrow night, orlando, and utah. Also, there is a concert with chance the rapper on january 17. So far operations in and around the chase center has been very smooth. Weve been able to work out some of our traffic concerns. Although there is congestion, many people are taking Public Transportation to alleviation the traffic congestion. So thats been a good thing for the city. Other large events in the city include j. P. Morgan who was in town for the annual healthcare conference. We also have a number of Martin Luther king junior activities this week. We have a larger event and march on the 20th starting at the caltrain station at 4th and king. Members of our command staff as well as our Police Department will be participating in that march and we invite the public to attend as well. The annual womens mar will be saturday, the 18th. It is usually a wellattended event. It will start at the civic center and will go to the embarcadero center. The 49ers are playing this weekend. We hope we will be victorious. We will be deployed if the 49ers win as well. I want to report on our overtime status. We are about halfway through the fiscal year and currently we are 6 over our budget in general overtime. Several unfunded areas have caused us to be over budget. We are and will continue to try to reel this in, but i want to report on what some of those events were. We responded to a mutual aid request at the kinkaid fire. That was a little over a 300,000 expense. Now, that will be reimbursed at some point, but it does cause our overtime costs to go up. Also, hospital watches, which is an issue that we struggle with constantly when individuals are arrested and they require medical attention and that medical attention is prolonged, our officers have to stand watch at the hospital to make sure that the person in custody is basically safe and that the medical staff is safe. Approximately 380,000 to date has been spent on hospital watches and that expense is expected to be 800,000 by the end of the year. Our hospital at zuckerberg z. F. General does not have a jail ward, so that requires additional pressure on the department to stand watch over the arrestees when theyre in the hospital. Well work with sheriff miomoto and the department of Public Health on that issue. We hope to actually mitigate that in the coming year so hoping we can reduce that expense. Also Public Records act request, approximately 143,000 has been spent year to date, and that is expected to exceed 300,000 by the end of the year to handle the new transparency laws that deal with body warrant camera releases. We are still awaiting the nine civilian positions that have been approved to be filled. We do believe once those positions are filled were in the process of filling them as we report to the commission. We hope that will mitigate and reduce our overtime costs. Also our Academy Training classes needed a greater level of course instruction, mainly remediation. We are attempting to retain the candidates in the academy that we have worked so hard to get in the academy. A lot of remediation and that takes time to do remedial work. Our goal is to retain candidates so we can get them on the streets to police our city. 250,000 in academy overtime is budgeted, but we expect those costs to be around 500,000 by the end of this year. Lastly, the buffin settlement, to comply with the terms of that settlement, the department will left 620,000 that was left unfunded in the november 2019 supplemental ordinance. So we have to absorb those costs. Then the last thing, our targeted proactive investigations which have resulted in good crime reductions have come at somewhat an additional expense, some unanticipated in our overtime. So again, practices and policies to make sure we manage our overtime appropriately and look for ways to mitigate or reduce our overtime costs. Hopefully we can do that by the end of this fiscal year with six months left to get back in line with our fiscal budget. So that is for this portion of the chiefs report, if the commission has any questions. Thank you, chief. I want to clarify something. When youre talking about expenditures year to date, thats a fiscal year june, june to june . Yes, sir. Thank you, chief. There was a lot in that update, and i obviously wont get to all of it, but i have some questions. You mentioned the disturbing trend in school burglaries. Can you someone has good taste in music out there. Great song, but please keep that off. Anyway, you mentioned the disturbing trend in school burglaries. Can you tell us both obviously there are things you could convey, but where the department is in terms of making arrests. Having that many critical supplies in electronics being stolen was, im sure, crippling for these commissioners. Yes, a couple of strategies that we employed. We actually put surveillance on i mentioned one of the schools that has been burglarized multiple times. We had surveillance units on that. It didnt yield an arrest, but we did uncover a potential suspect that we believe was casing the location. We were able to identify that person. Also, there has actually been evidence that we uncovered that has led to the identity of one of the suspects. He is not in custody at this point, so thats ongoing. But a good piece of forensic evidence and that could be a big step in terms of solving several of these. There is other evidence that we are awaiting forensic results to come back to the scene. Also working with the schools. Weve done surveillance and put extra patrols in the area, particularly for the schools which have been hit multiple times, particularly two of them. Were going to continue to employ those. We dont see this as a growing trend. At least one of the schools, the people responsible did quite a bit of work to get in the school. Quite elaborate in terms of the he testified earlier they took to get into the school. That was one of the bigger hits where 30 computers were taken. Were going to continue to work and i hope we will have one case where we have solid evidence and we have a resolution in that in the near future. Weve identified the suspect. We just have to identify the person. In terms of trying to recover after computers get stolen, do you know if any of these schools have ways for the public to donate or attempt to help or are they being assisted in any way of trying to recover . That im not sure of and i can follow up. In terms of that, a lot of work has been done in collaboration with the district Attorneys Office. Earlier the district Attorneys Office had a joint press office with the d. A. s office, several entities including the sfpd. There was a lot of property recovered from operations. Some of that property has yet to be identified. There was a lot of computers there. Were hoping that some of those computers are in that lot of property several lots of property that have been recovered. We havent identified the owners of all of those pieces of property yet. Also working that angle, the fencing operations, were hoping to do more work with the District Attorney and others to identify additional fencing operations because thats how we recover a lot of the property. In my opinion, when you steel in that volume, youre usually looking to unload it. Were hoping it will turn up through these fencing operations. Weve had some success, but definitely more work to be done. If you can find out if theres a way to dont. Everyone cares about our schools in our city and im sure everyone would want to help as much as they can. My second question is about the Home Invasion. You mentioned there was an arrest. Has that person been charged . Are there additional charges to follow . It doesnt sound like it was a oneman job . It was not. The juniarrest was a day or two. It was multiple individuals involved in that arrest. According to some of the reports weve gotten, that same group of individuals have done the same thing in other cities in the bay area. Were going to join forces with some of those other departments and see if we can Work Together on these cases. If you could follow up about a charging decision and additional arrests. Will do. Commissioner hamisaki. Chief, i wanted to touch on the press conference that happened last week with the u. S. Attorneys office involving the philmore shooting that happened i believe last year. I had some concerns and some of these concerns have come up before this commission about the departments work with various federal agencies and some of the issues with the recent settlement that was in the paper regarding the racial the targeting of racial minorities by d. E. A. Agents and them essentially dragging sfpd into this. So the report that came out of this Police Commission and again, you know, i thought you did a fine job. But the u. S. Attorney decided to turn the moment into a political stunt and started slamming our city for being a sanctuary city. That gives me a lot of pause and were going to have to reconsider the degree to which this department is going to work with these departments if they cant as a Law Enforcement agency respect our local laws, our policies, and our city. And i thought it was extremely disrespectful of the u. S. Attorney to do that with you there present. I thought the department got used like a prop to push the trump administrations agenda. Ill be very clear that if anything like this happens again or continues, im going to push to terminate relations with the federal government because this is cheap politics and taking advantage of what otherwise you know, i have no qualms with working together with other agencies. But when you start attacking our city like that, youve lost your right to speak in that forum and with our department. I thought that was disturbing and i hope i dont see that again. I have a couple things on the budget. You were talking about long medical having prolonged medical. I cant remember if there was a program in place or one where the shrferiffs would take over those watches for us. Where are you with that in terms of negotiating with the Sheriffs Department. If youre at the hospital, they can already do that. The second thing is i remember doing arraignments down at the hospital. When you say there is no jail ward there, that was a little bit disconcerting. Do they not have one anymore or what . There is a jail ward with i think four or somewhere around four beds. Its not staffed with the nurses and medical personnel that it needs. So its basically not operable right now. I know weve had discussions with d. P. H. On that and also with the sheriffs. So thats been an ongoing discussion. And with sheriff miomoto that will continue. They faced some shortages as well, they, the Sheriffs Department, and as i understood it they were trying to staff the jail. It put them in a bad position. It comes down to us working together and trying to get the funding. Thats the three departments, Public Health, the Police Department, and the Sheriffs Department. Hopefully we can come up with a better solution. Until that time, the burden is falling on the Police Department. To answer your question, yes, ive been in conversations for over a year with the Sheriffs Department on how we can come up with a better solution. Were going to continue that. I know in this budget cycle were going to have some discussions about that and hopefully we can come up with a better solution. I have two more questions. The 143,000 for the record request. And i know were going to have a budget presentation tonight. Im assuming youre going to put the in the budget that under the law were mandated to provide these records. So this is a good time to put in for the budget what we anticipate the needs will be. Yes, maam, and our ultimate hope is that we complete the process to get the civilians hired which will alleviate that overtime. But until then we have to comply with the law. I believe we are making some good progress. We have some people in the pipeline to get them hired going through backgrounds. We dont want to have to use overtime funds on that if we dont have to, but well do what we have to to comply with the law. I have some concerns that my colleague had. I read this article and it was very confusing to me. So you know, the newspaper, you cant rely on everything that sits in the newspaper. The way it appeared was that there was this gang case that was very serious. The it appears, the way i read the article, is our department referred it to the department of justice to take the case and theyre now charging the Death Penalty. If i read that correctly, i am concerned because this is way before tessa boudine was the District Attorney. I think at that conference they were announcing the Death Penalty for these individuals. And i just didnt know if that was the policy of the department. I mean, what is the purview of the department in terms of youre the arresting agency and we have a charging agency and i didnt understand if that was part of the policy to ask the department of justice to take over cases. Thats something we cant discuss right here, but i would like to put it on the agenda. I would like to get more information on that. I would like to talk to the attorney if that is a policy issue if you want the department stepping in in terms of the charging agency or if we rely on our own agency. I know its not an agenda item, just to clarify. I dont know what publication you read, but what the u. S. Attorney said what the maximum penalty is the Death Penalty. They didnt say they were pursuing the Death Penalty, but that was the maximum exposure. But did our department refer to the u. S. Attorney rather than the District Attorney . That was my major concern . In this case we have relationships and partnerships with our federal partners and we did take that case to the District Attorney for both the arrest on the homicide and other arnltion which were not followed by the District Attorney. So we did ask our federal partners to take a look at that case on federal charges. So thats what happened. And i would just like to say this in terms of the Public Safety of our city. I mean, this case as you all know from the press conference involves a shootout in the middle of the philmore in which unsuspecting people were spot, one paralyzed for the rest of his life and one of the individuals involved in that shootout was shot and killed unfortunately as well. I think its incumbent on us and im going to say my role im sorry, i found it. Were literally watching it live. My role and the departments role is nonpolitical. What we want is Public Safety for our city. That was a very, very unfortunate and unnecessary incident. So it is in my opinion not in our best interest to turn away from activities to hold those people involved and that incident accountable for their actions. We had nothing to do with the sanctuary City Ordinances of our city. That was not even a part of this investigation. What we like to see is when people shoot up the streets that there is some accountability. The other things that came in, i cant control what other people said in the press conference, but i do know we have healthy and working and productive relationships with the federal agencies and we need those to protect the Public Safety of our city. Politics aside, and i know we have to deal with the political aspects of it, but its really about protecting the city and people in our city. I guess thats what were there for. I guess was it political or not. Not from our perspective. Not from our viewpoint. Yes, i heard that. I want to respond. I know its not agendaized. Having been the state core prosecutor and then federal prosecutor because of the cooperation between our federal prosecutors, we have to put the rhetoric aside. The f. D. A. Bring things to the table to keep this city safe. They have different tools and different agents available to them and they have resources. The bottom line is i dont think this commission has any power to say were not going to work with federal thoroughs. When it comes to protecting this city from violent criminals, there is no Better Agency to jump in than the f. B. I. And the Attorneys Office. I worked with attorney anderson not once but twice. Hes honorable, ethical, hardworking, and i have full faith and confidence in him. It will be where the federal government supplements and works with local Law Enforcement. We would put this city at risk if we didnt. Just one point of clarification because i supervised the organized crime section so i know how cases are charged. All of these types of cases start out as seeking the Death Penalty and the u. S. Attorneys office is not seeking the Death Penalty. The way its charged is its death eligible. All murder cases get charged that way and then the attorney general of the United States makes the ultimate decision to seek death. I have never sought death, the u. S. Attorneys office has not sought death in several decades. I dont know what this office is planning to do, but that is not what the press conference stated and thats how it works. It said Death Penalty. All murder cases are Death Penalty. Its not a murder case. Its a rico case resulting in murder. They all begin as death eligible and the office either seeks the Death Penalty from the Attorneys Office or it does not. Just a point of clarification, if anyone thought this was a death case, it is not. That is a decision that makes by theyre exposed to the penalty. I would join the call to agendaize this because i really have concerns. I dont think its fair to attack the acting District Attorney and former Commission President and suggest that she was able to do her job or wasnt acting in the interests of this city or acting in the interests to protect this city from violent crime. Ill know a very close friend of mine was friends with the young man that was shot and paralyzed. I counseled them throughout the this process, including the criminal process in San Francisco. So i know a little bit about the case. You know, its i if were going to try to control or tell our local District Attorney how they should or shouldnt do their job by running to the feds every time we disagree with a decision, that undermines the integrity of this department and the work we do and our District Attorney and our city. So i think we need to talk a little bit its a policy issue as has been pointed out. I think we need to have a longer discussion about this. What is the agenda item . How do you want to articulate that . Let us know. Vice president. I want to agree with the chief in, first of all, there are different statutes entirely governing federal and state charges. Its not as though theyre the same thing. What needs to be proved is different from another charge. That is a decision the individual officers would make. We cannot be making blanket cherrypicking statements that were not going to work with the f. B. I. That people get killed and shot, especially poor black and brown people in the city getting shot. Black and brown people, especially black women are 65 times more likely to be victims of crime. I will work with whoever we need to work with to ensure when terrible things happen to black and brown people someone cares. Im going to stop this particular conversation for the time when we actually calendar it. Is there a commissioner that has something they want to discuss. I wanted to discuss your question about what to agendaize. That could be the criteria for going to the federal government and asking them to charge these [ overlapping speakers ] we just had a settlement based on targeting black and brown people and arresting them pm. Why dont you work on this and submit it to the staff and well get it on the agenda, rather than just trying to cobble together something now. I wanted to make sure i did echo some of the same sentiments my fellow commissioners had. I want to agendaize this and look forward to that discussion. I just had a quick question to the 330,000 for those folks we sent out on the fires. Whats the general reimbursement time when we send folks out . It varies. A lot of it has to do with our administrative prowess, if you will. If we do our paperwork the right way, its a much quicker process. Weve gotten much better at that because weve had the experience over the last couple of years. I know our Financial Team is in the room. If i could get patrick leon to answer that question. Weve already submitted our claim reimbursement. In terms of timeline, it kind of depends. Once we submit our reimbursement package it goes to the county and they review it and fima has to review it and all that process takes time. For the last fire that we had, it took until the next fiscal year for us to receive reimbursement. On our side of things, weve already closed a loop. Now its up to Sonoma County to go through our claim process. Chief, with respect to the nine positions that youre waiting for for 1421 and the p. R. A. Stuff, i know when you presented before the commission, was it november or december, you said the nine positions were still in the process of being filled. It sounds like they still havent been filled. I know it takes a long time, but if you could give us an e. T. A. As to when some were one of these positions would be filled so it gives the community a sense of how many people will be working on these type of requests. Yes, if its okay with the commission, ill get an update on each one of those positions, where we are in the process, and i can report back for the next week next commission hearing. Thank you, chief. Next item. Were going to item. Line item 4, overview of the report on the Police Departments staffing study will be put over to a future commission meeting. That was at the request of the department relying on the board of supervisors, i believe. Correct. Yes, chief. Im sorry, we also have a report for quarterly 6228 report at the second part i just want to skip that for a moment. Ill come back to it. So its line item 2. Discussion and possible action to adopt a resolution for Effective Response to homelessness and complaints regarding presence of Homeless People, discussion and possible action. Thank you. This is a resolution that came out of a meeting that was held in october of last year with coalition on homelessness executive director jennifer fre freedenbach, myself, and the other member. That was having to do with a response to homeless complaints in San Francisco. So we met, ms. Freedenbach drafted a resolution. I worked on it a little bit. It was approved by all three of us. Its now on the agenda for discussion and approval. I would welcome ms. Freedenbach, if you have anything you would like to say, im thinking positive, but negative too if you want. [ laughter ]. Really, you think im negative . No, i dont. Jennifer freedenbach, executive director of the coalition on homelessness. Really, really pleased to be standing here and really grateful for the thoughtful work of president hersh and the other commissioners for bringing this forward. This was also to add a follow up from the presentation we did several months ago on the healthy streets operations center. So, you know, i just want to point out, ill be relatively brief, but tonight we have thousands and thousands of souls out there that literally have nowhere to go. Our shelters are full. Sthrr about 900 people waiting tonight for a shelter bed and housing, while were talking about thousands and thousands of people waiting to no avail. We stopped tracking turnaway years ago. But what we do know is there are 4,000 people out there that have a Mental Health issue thats serious, a Substance Abuse issue, thats homeless that is not inside care. That portion only makes up a third of our population. Our Homeless Population went up 32 . Its much worse in oakland and sacramento. But 32 is a lot. Weve got rising rents, flat incomes, shredded safety net, divestment from housing at the federal and state level. All of this has left us in this situation. I want to point this out because the response, local governments struggling with not having the tax base that the federal government enjoys, but continuing to shoulder that neglect from the federal government have been turning to the police to manage this humanitarian catastrophe that exists. Were Police Officers, highly trained, weapons, tactical responses, you know, all these different things. We are relying on Police Officers to manage what is in essence a social program. I think its important to point this out to contextualize this whole situation. This response is neither effective, humane, appropriate. Now its not even legal. Its been recognized by researchers, courts, advocates, policy bodies, homelessness themselves. The scoring tool deducts points in the federal grant if it is not decriminalized. It is suggested working with homeless folks, neighbors, with social workers over a period of time, placing them in permanent housing if no housing exists, a temporary location that leads to housing. The department of justice issued an amicus brief, calling encampment removal cruel and unusual punishment and the 9th circuit agreed with them. This came up because the Supreme Court did not take the case, so the decision stood. September 4, 2018, the 9th circuit courts confirmed that the states may not criminalize conduct that is unavoidable consequence of being homeless. Namely sitting or sleeping on the streets when there are more Homeless People than there are shelter beds. Disability, religious beliefs, and other restrictions must be taken into account. This has to be recognized as unavoidable conduct. To punish that conduct is akin to punishing a persons homeless status. Speaking briefly about inEffective Response. In 2016, you guys might be familiar with this, the budget legislative analyst one of the main goals stated was to preserve public space in the city. However, the number of Homeless Individuals considered to be unsheltered has increased, limiting the effectiveness of quality of life laws. At the time of the report, Police Officers were dispatched to incidents related to quality of life crimes at an annual cost of 18. 5 million so that the b. L. A. Recommended that the board of supervisors implement recommending a new strategy that address these issues that shifts responsibility of quality of life incidents from the Police Department to other agencies, such as the department of homelessness and housing. Since then the numbers of Homeless People has skyrocketed, but so has the number of hours the police have committed to responding to homelessness. Back then we had 23 officers devoted to homelessness. Today we have over 80. This takes police away from other activities and response time. I mean, all of this has a lot of effect when youre talking about budget and whatnot. Yet, still homelessness is rising. Based on a study we did with the u. C. Of berkeley in 2016, we found that the response to homeless is a temporary move, where the person returns shortly after theyre removed by police or theyre moved across the street. And then this third point is around an inhumane response. According to the declaration of human rights, everyone has a right to an adequate state of living, including housing. In the u. S. 3. 5 Million People experience the trauma of homelessness each year. A Police Response can be inhumane. This is not blaming individual Police Officer r s, but its inhumane because of the structural response to the approach. Police officers dont have access to housing and treatment. At short, at best, they can move people along. For unhoused people, so much of their time is spent finding a place they can rest out of the way. A place with little stability. When Police Officers move them, that little bit of stability is rocked. That may be worth it if its leading people out of homelessness. When its just moving people from block to block, it can exacerbate Behavioral Health issues, trauma, homelessness, individuals lose contact with social workers who have housing lined up with them, they may lose contact with the community, belongings, survival gear. The great news is there are alternatives. This is what is so beautiful about this. Many municipalities have been moving away from formal Police Response to homelessness, including in oregon. So it gets dispatched to a contract agency. They have a medical team and medical professionals. In San Francisco, developing an alternative, we know this is going to take a long time. This is going to take some time. There are a lot of details to work out. However, the vision is that we can work towards a vision where we have a response to the community. This includes medical personnel, but then leads to, where appropriate, shelter, hospitalization, depending on the situation. Thats basically what were doing with this regulation. Were asking the city and the board of supervisors to develop an alternative response to work towards these results and vision. I want to applaud the chief and just take a moment out for this because this is really amazing and for the commissioners, taking a stand on this and finding alternatives to a Police Response and really moving us closer to that vision that i think all of us, as president hersh pointed out, that we have a lot of consensus around where this needs to go. Im going to pause there and if you have any questions. Thank you and thank you for your work. I just want to say thank you. I mean, i know we brought this in october. You did a wonderful report. There were so many Community Members here that opened our eyes, and then the law changed. I want to thank the chief and president hersh for meeting with you and coming up with this resolution. Many of the d. G. O. S asked us to deal with homelessness. This is a good first step in the right direction. The oregon plan looks like it has a lot of hope. I look forward to finally bringing all the Community Members, groups, and city departments together to work on this and to explore alternatives to a Police Response, to identify Funding Sources where appropriate, and to recommend necessary system change and appropriate services. I think this is a great idea and i want to thank everybody for picking up the ball, showing some leadership. Im really happy to support this resolution tonight. Its nice when were all marching along together happily. [ laughter ]. But you know, savor this rare moment. I want to join commissioner hays and ms. Freedenbach for thanking everybody. The president , commissioner scott, and everyone working around these issues for, in your case, 25 years now. I didnt realize when i joined the Police Commission how big an issue policing and homelessness is. But since ive been on here, the issues of homelessness and the challenges that arise from it are at the forefront of this city. Having people coming together around us and saying everybody and i agree. I think its not that officers are out there illintentioned trying to setting up to harass Homeless People. But structural issues that youve addressed and policies have created an untenable situation in how we address it. And i think that i hope i spoke to a reporter today and they said, is this just one of those resolutions that you guys pass and then forget . And i really hope that and i would like to be a part of this moving forward, the discussion. Because i hope we can find a way to Work Together to ensure that unhoused individuals on the street are getting the care, servi services, support they need. On the other side of things, ive gone out and seen the hundreds of calls that are waiting up that are related to homeless and houseless individuals on the street. Ive ridden with the officers around and its clear that they were wellintentioned, welltrained officers trying to deal with a situation that they were not the best qualified for. Not that theyre not excellent officers and qualified in every way that we expect from Law Enforcement, but this is a different situation. We need social support, social services, access to treatment, access to shelter. So im a big supporter and im glad that everybody has come together. You know, i know there will be discussions about how best to implement this, but i hope we can all stand together and agree that this is something that this city and this Department Needs to do. Also importantly when were talking about all of the budget strain thats being placed on this department by having to deploy so many officers to deal with all of these calls that are not Public Safety issues. You know, i think if we get out of this Stakeholders Group and come up with some better procedures, well end up saving the city millions and millions of dollars in the long run. Thank you for all your work, thank you to the coalition and all their supporters. Thank you. Vice president. I really want to thank you as well. I remember the presentation in october, it was fantastic and a lot of people put a lot of work coming to this commission on every front. It opened our eyes. Everyone knows how hard this problem is, but its really hard. Its comforting to know there are people out there who are trying to solve it as best we can. Im sure it will take a long time and this is a plan to have a plan, but its moving it very much in the right direction. Im asking that youll come back and report to the commission. Im assuming that this will go and as it gets implemented, i would like to hear and continue to hear how things are going. I would ask you to come back and report to the commission. Thank you very much. Ill be very brief. Ms. Freedenbach, youve been coming here for a long time. Today is literally by 25th anniversary. [ laughter ]. Its great. Our officers should not be responding to these calls. Youve put so much time and effort into this. Ill be brief. You are a modernday saint, for what youve done for the city. [ applause ]. Somebody said, she does this for the money. I turned and said, do you know how much they get paid . Its greatly appreciated. The reason we moved this up on the agenda is i know youre being celebrated for your 25th anniversary and well get you out soon. Is there any Public Comment before we vote on this resolution . Its Public Comment only on the resolution. What was that . How much time do we get . Two minutes. My name is neil shaw. Ive been through the criminal Justice System, im sober for four years. I have been homeless. I have a degree. I was also the c. O. Congratulations, jenny. I dont know why you dont mention that alternative that has existed for four years in San Francisco and its called concern. It doesnt exist anymore. It was an alternative for 911 for people. We sent out compassion responders to deescalate. I met with chief scott and im indicting you on this, chief, because we met multiple times to divert calls to organizations like concern. So this plan to have a plan, we already got a plan and the technology. This already exists. Im starting a Community Investment trust to start purchasing real estate in west oakland. Im going to offer Dominik Walker and the two kids that were homeless that occupied a house that the police pulled guns on to get them out of and i already emailed them to get out of as soon as possible. Im using my personal money to do that. Im indicting every single one of you. I pay your salary. Im sick and tired of you patting yourselves on the damn back. So get with the picture. Any other Public Comment . Okay. Public comment is closed. Is there a motion to approve the resolution . So moved. Second. Yes, commissioner. Really quick. I did want to point out in the third clause, im happy to adopt the resolution. In the first sentence, whereas the United States Interagency Council on homelessness issued, we need to need an issued out. And also in the fourth clause yeah, theres two issues. And also in the fourth clause. Whereas the city of county of San Francisco. I think it should be city and county of San Francisco. Thank god somebody can read here. On the question all in favor of passing the resolution . Any opposed . It carries unanimously. Thank you all. [ applause ]. Okay. Were going to go back now to the presentation on family code 6228 quarterly report. Good evening. Good evening, commissioners. President , vice commissioner, director. Greg yee, i have a report tonight pursuant to department general order 3. 16, department providing the Police Commission report that details the departments compliance with releasing California Family code 6228 incident reports. This report will cover the supplemental numbers from september of 2019 in addition to the Fourth Quarter of 2019. On the screen are the september numbers. In september of 3,481 Police Reports requested by the community, 54 fell under the provisions of family code 6228. Of those 54, all those report requests were fulfilled within five days. The majority of the report requests were made in person and the majority of the reports were Domestic Violence report related. On the back of the report of september will show there are no reports that were denied and that the majority of reports were made by the victims themselves and the average time was a little over a day that the department responded to requests under family code 6228. As we look at the Fourth Quarter of 2019, again in 49 reports in october, 37 in november, 25 in december. Again, t