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call the first item. >> yes. please silence all cell phones and electronic copies. copies that are part of the file will be submitted to the clerk and items will be on the september 13 board of supervisors agenda unless otherwise stated. item 1 is opposing the commission's proposed equity metrics that are to be used in developing equity analysis and recreation and park services resources and capital expenditures in. >> thank you. this was brought to us by supervisor avalos and phil ginsburg and the public are here today and with that supervisor avalos the floor is years. >> thank you chair peskin and everyone for being here. this is a hearing that i called last july or early august when i heard the equity metricses for the recreation and park department as a result of prop b were to be heard and voted at the parks commission. i felt that there had not been significant or sufficient amount of public input into the metrics and since that time i did meet with general manager phil ginsburg and taylor emerson with the public as well separately to talk about the metrics and what i found overall i really appreciated that the department had gone through a very thorough process, but not complete i believe, thorough process looking at how they could set a framework for later decisions that we made in the operations plan and in the capital plan for the recreation and parks department all in confluence with prop b that was on the ballot in june, and that to me was very important there was that process, but i think since a lot of the members of the public didn't feel comfortable and have sufficient input into that i wanted to make sure that could happen. for me it was important -- i wasn't -- i really saw that prop b, the set aside for the rec and park department was going to pass when it was first introduced there were seven members of the board of supervisors that were cosponsors so i saw it was a done deal but i also worked with other departments in san francisco to make sure as departments are making decisions that they don't tend to make decisions about resources based on where there already is a lot of resources, and if i have seen anything in my eight years on the board of supervisors in san francisco where there is a lot of wealth that tends to attract other wealth and resources to come in and for me to set up it's important that the city creates a lens, an equity lens to make sure that neighborhoods that don't have the wealth and don't have a tremendous amount of resources are able to pull down greater resources for the services that they need. if you look at the parks reports that came out from the controller's office in the past few years a couple of districts often are on the shorter end of the stick. although their numbers are not terrible but the shorter side of the stick compared to other parts of san francisco and to me that shows we're making significant progress in serving neighborhoods that are low income and these services they're low income there are other resources and other diverse activities that people can take a part in parks are an essential service, sort of a town square we have of the neighborhoods and washington park and north beach and surrounding that park is are incredible amount of cultural resources that don't exist in other parts in san francisco and district 11 and the excelsior but we're trying to build that going forward so for me having the equity framework is essential so we have real mechanisms within the department how the departments will make decisions to help to give greater leverage to neighborhoods that don't get the kind of wealth and resources that wealthy neighborhoods do get, and so i know we have phil ginsburg who is here to talk about the equity metricses and taylor emerson is presenting and did a lot of work on this. for me i wanted to make sure the public is part of this discussion. i would like to find out from mr. ginsburg when the parks department will be approving these metrics. i believe they just need to be submitted to the board of supervisors, but i want to make sure there is more public engagement and if after the presentation today there's still a lot of questions that the public have i would like to think about continuing this item to the call of the chair to have another discussion or to have a meeting in my office with some of the key stakeholders in the city to talk more about these metrics and to get a common understanding of them as well so with they will pass it on to mr. ginsburg to come forward and start the presentation. >> general manager ginsburg and i would like to acknowledge vice chair norman yee has joined us. >> thank you supervisors. i want to set a little context before we dive into the equity lens and that is the passage of proposition d. prior to june and certainly for the first almost seven -- almost eight years of my time as general manager our parks i think have existed in an era of -- what i would call preserious financial insecurity, resource insecurity, and we have done okay on the capital side and had a couple of bonds but our park system has struggled as the economy struggled really having another resources to fulfill our mission and prop d was an important time for parks and offered an opportunity to sort of stabilize park funding and allow us some time and space in breath to stop reacting to maybe the financial crisis of the day, and think about our parks in over a longer cycle and to do more planning and los i want to start off by really thank you for the part in the conversation and for pushing us on both planning and on this really, really important concept of equity. equity is a topic which exists in urban park systems, exists in cities all across the country, but yet at least in our experience i think we're all grappling to understand how to measure it and what it means and how to respond to issues of equity, and you know you made sure this was a focus for us going forward and it's one we embrace and frankly really excited about. >> it's also one i would like to see could be a model that other departments start to take on. the mta has done it along their work along capital and operations and it's really great process they went through. it took two years to do but this is a great important that has city-wide impact and a strong model for us. >> we will take you through the beginning of the journey here and talk about the lens as you put it and apt and it's a lens for us to make some -- to offer some transparency, some sunshine how we deliver services in what neighborhoods. before i begin i want to thank taylor and eric of my team for some really serious and rigorous analytical work and research to get us to where we are today and i want to thank the parks community and parks advocates generally. i see rachel norton here from the parks and lands and for pushing us to be the best parks department i think we can be so let's talk a little bit about this lens, and how we hope to apply it. it starts with the actual charter language which we have which asks us to develop a set of equity metrics to establish a baseline of existing services and resources in low income neighborhoods and disadvantaged communities compared to those resources available to the city as a whole and literally maybe the day after the proposition passed we began thinking how we were going to do this so we have been at this sort of internally from an analytical standpoint for quite some time. i want to emphasize this is an evolvingity riffive conversation. there is no perfect answer. you don't immediately land on the perfect formula and metric. demographics change in cities over time but what it does is create for us a journey, an annual journey that is frankly going to be repeated for certainly the life of the charter amendment and probably well beyond that. i think you and i joked i will be 78 when -- i don't know if i will be here but i will be 78 when the charter section expires and so we are really at the beginning of this which is upon developing some metrics. the charter measure asks us to incorporate the metrics into our strategic plan which is our highest level planning document to give that document an equity lens and then to take those metrics and actually drill down deeper into the capital and operations plan which influence the annual budget so that's the journey and we will do that every year and rinse and repeat. we're going to keep doing that,. >> so each year you get to perfect? >> yeah. this isity rative. i am turn it over to tater based on the census data. >> mid-decade. >> and that will alter the data a bit andit rative over time and we will talk how we constructed the lens and how we're apply tg. >> comd afternoon supervisors. i am from the recreation and parks department. so the work plan set forth for us was first to define disadvantaged communities, and then to measure inside those communities the delivery of recreation park services and resources against the delivery of those services and same services and resources city-wide, so we set about looking for benchmark agencies across the country, any other park departments doing something like this, and lead right back home to california and in fact san francisco, the most progressive policy making body ever, and we found from governor brown a open data set that did exactly this. it defined disadvantaged communities by census tract. it's called the cal enentireo screen and it evaluates disadvantaged -- it defines disadvantaged communities by census tract and compares them across the state of california. this was designated for the agency to do as part of the state's cap and trade program, and other jurisdictions are already beginning to use this data. it's been updated twice and yesterday it was on a webinar about version 3.0 which will come out next year with the updated american community surveys as of 2015 then. >> keep going. >> keep going? >> you're going to talk -- [inaudible] [off mic] >> okay. what they did was they set -- they defined a set of what's called populations kaishts that in culmination of our -- when added together defined "disadvantaged." they measured each of these characteristics, age, because youth and seniors are more vulnerable populations, rates of asthma. linguistic and rates of isolation and this is relevant in san francisco and the definition is no one in the house over 12 speaks english well so that definitely affects your access to public services, poverty and unemployment rates so they took government sources of data, and enriched what was there with the census and used the 2010 census as a starting point and enriched it twice as i mentioned. each of the indicators is weighted the same so 1/7 for each of these in the formula and when layered upon each other define disadvantaged so in this map right here it's hard to see but the darkest purple is the highest incidents. the highest number of residents that meet this threshold. let me state back. i forgot to stay an important thing. the state enviroscreen compares to each census track to others in the state but we extracted it and compared to just other san francisco tracts so it meets the spirit of the charter and compare disadvantage as the city as a whole. we went down to the highest 20%, so the most -- the highest rate of incidents of the population characteristics compared to the city as a whole and then redesignated those census tracts as equity zones instead of disadvantaged communities, so this map shows a lot right here. it shows in the darkest area the census tracts where residents meet that definition as well as a five minute buffer, a five minute walk around those areas. this is a standard tool for measuring park access. it was used in the trust for public land's annual evaluation of urban parks and the rows and for some residents being on the edge of this imaginary line, this imaginary equity zone and a park right across the street might be closer or have the metric they're looking for and acknowledges we're a small city and walking to a park outside the zone and once we did this and the disadvantaged communities and the parks that served them we had the parks' name of those in the service area. of course no one can read this. i apologize. i am sure the document is online but there are 81 parks here that are in service of residents that could be defined as low income and disadvantaged communities, otherwise known as residents of these equity zones. 81 parks out of 220. >> just to pause you because i am looking at the list which i have a copy of and there's parks and there's parks and there's rec centers and there's many parks and open spaces. >> yes. >> and you know if i want to give some input i think it would be important as another layer in looking at the equity zone is what is the function of these parks? what are the activities in these parks? how do they differ or can you categorize them in certain ways within the list that give it you know some sense of type of intervention the parks might need in order to -- if they're actually found to have some deficiencies what types of interventions are in these parks compared to other parks and operations and not just in terms of seeing a big list like this. like we get to the next iteration that is a good way to break this down and easier for the public to even grasp like how this is going to look at their neighborhood park. >> i think it would be easier on the list supervisor to say rec center, large parks, small parks, mini-parks. there are ways to categorize it. this is a macro look of the data and the look at open space areas that we manage. >> just to reiterate that if you do that then i think the public has a greater understanding or concept how these equity metrics might apply to their neighborhood park based on their understanding and the activities in the parks. >> i think it would be easy to subgroup or categorize the size or type of property and the parks in the equity zones and i don't think it's hard to do. >> we included all kinds of recreation so i wanted to include all of them and community gardens and mini-parks and john mclaren is one on the list and it's interesting to break it down by type. okay. so we've down the lines to disadvanced communities. we defined the properties within the geographic areas that provide recreation and park services and resources and then we set about looking at both our mission, what is it that -- you know what is the recreation and park department? what is important and drives us? and what information speaks to that? of course we have the great gis information and the surveys with the controller every year and evaluate the cleanliness of the bathrooms and the trash can to the quality of the plantings and trees, the integrity of playground equipment. they're scores. work orders and the internal management system for calling up painters, plumbers, carpenters and to fix things and we have the budget and great information on permits and programs and the way to register online for programs and where mobile rec goes and the data and what had integrity and use it in the mission. geographic access, recreation for everyone, clean and well maintained parks is the mantra and investment. those are the types of things we could measure to try to get at this very qualitative term of equity. this is even harder to read. this is where we are. this is our first application of looking at the data we had and trying to standardize ways of measuring it within the equity zone and for the city as a whole. just as a reminder -- >> you want us to hold off asking questions until after you present? >> it's up to you. >> go right ahead. >> i am just looking at this piece of it right now, and some of the questions i have are on this page. one of the metrics i don't know how you measure it, but i think supervisor avalos sort of alluded to depending what kind of -- how do you count the hours? is it the park being open versus a playground or a rec center that has staff? so i am just curious would it make any sense maybe one of the metrics that we look at is how many recreational directors or rec staff per thousand people, whatever per something, because you could have a park that's open and nobody there and that's a different type of service versus those directors that actually plan for activities and so forth. i think those are really two different things. that's one question. you could answer it. >> let me try to steak a stab at that. >> >> i think you're hinting at two different concepts supervisor. one is sort of survey data about who is in your parks, how often they're there? the parks have standard hours. the landscape, the physical spaces are open with some exceptions from i believe 5:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m.. we did the park hours legislation time back so there is uniformity in terms of the hours that the parks are open. who is there? there are parks well used and dense and others that are not. we're thinking through some strategies how to do more surveys and figure out who is in the parks and for what reasons. we participated in a national study by rand and parks alliance and we have five, six, seven parks chosen scientifically were measured as to the uses with rand and we could share the data with you. it's pretty interesting and this summer we hired san francisco state students to be at delores specifically and broke it into grids and did counts and what activities are happening where so figuring out the people that are there it's a little tricky. regarding hours of program i think that the bottom metric on recreational resources per 1,000 people does speak to that. that stat really is all of the hours of structured programs that either we provide, a non-profit clubhouse partner or a non-profit clubhouse partner provides or happens on the ball fields with organized sports and it's organized and structured. that speaks to in a very macro level to program. we have been working on a tool which public works and mta are probably a little further ahead of us in partnership with the controller called "park stat" and park stat is another data tool that allow use a tool to figure out in more detail than this what is happening in the different rec centers, how many programs, how full are they? so all of that -- a long way of saying all of that is to come. >> thank you for that explanation. it would be nice to know actually what kind of sort of structure -- hours of structure activities, rec and parks actually provides versus the non-profits. sometimes the non-profits might provide something but it's to a specific group of kids that may not be neighborhood kids. >> we can break that down very easily for you. this includes non-profit -- the vast majority of hours per program but we can easily segregate it. >> for instance i will give you an example. i know a lot of the after school programs that serve a particular school might be using your facilities and they're non-profit but the kids may not even live in the neighborhood, so that's just one example. >> it is true. i mean i think this is worth noting that that because this came up a couple of times. we don't restrict a program or service or access to a park based on what neighborhood you live -- >> no, i'm not implying that. i am just in terms how we think about who we're serving and that. >> of course. but i wanted to be transparent about the data and it does speak to anyone that uses a program in a particular site regardless of what their own street address is but it's at that park. >> so the other number i am looking at is your acres of park per thousand people. it gets -- i need some clarity because of the buffer zone that is created, so when a park maybe touches the buffer zone or even touch the zone, the equity zone, but most of it is in another area, like golden gate park for instance, how do we -- do we count that acreage as part of the equity zone acreage or count it as -- i am looking at one in the richmond for instance and most is not in the zone but touches the border of it, so i am just wondering how you counted or double counted or if you come from one it doesn't make -- seems like it's not an equal way to look at it. >> right. if the park is either inside the equity zone or even a little bit inside the buffer all of the edges of the park were used in the calculations with one exception which is in golden gate park in the outer richmond. as you can see on the map which is almost visible the buffer zone does go in about 100 acres of golden gate park so if we used the same rule to include then all the 1100 acres of golden gate park would be include in the the equity zone and the investment would have come forward and this is the one gerrymander we did and exclude acre of golden gate park. it's such a special asset -- >> equity zone. >> [inaudible] i am looking also this one up here. i don't know -- >> [inaudible] >> that's not our property. >> that is golden gate national recreation area. >> i am looking because the color says that. >> yeah. >> just a question on golden gate park so it's not an equity zone but is there a way -- i know we put a lot of investment separate into golden gate park. we had a big part of the last bond paying for golden gate park so in a way golden gate park is actually -- not part of the equity zone but it still gets a lot of resources based on other decisions we made that you know probably go above and beyond what even it would get if it were just part of the equity zone because it's already well served by public dollars. >> it is included in the city-wide calculations so all the money that went into it would be on the other side. it's not in the equity zone calculation. it's in the city-wide side. >> okay got it: one other question on hours of volunteer service that could be very different for different neighborhoods that have different needs and what does that tell you in what we're trying to achieve in terms how that would make a park perform? >> voluntarism happens a couple of different ways and obviously we have friends groups around neighborhood parks and you have a lot of amazing voluntarism in your district. >> what makes you think it happens in other districts but -- >> i think it's one thing that will be interesting so we're working -- the way we collect the data doesn't lay well on the gis system so we're doing work to incorporate this. we want to be transparent when big groups come in. volunteering in a park particularly for a large corporate group is a privilege and we want to make sure when the group comes in and everyone wants to volunteer in golden gate park and this says how well are we directing the resources around the city and we have tried and i have been at casey jones and bay view and indian basin and whatever but there are two types of v investment. there are as well as and sweat and this to get a reflection of the sweat going. >> when you say voluntarism it's not neighborhood -- >> it's all of it. >> that difference as well -- >> we should know about -- i'm not saying that we do but we should know about every hour of voluntarism and goes through our department and there is stuff that do stuff on their end. >> god bless them and that goes around especially around mc layeren park. >> and we have structured days in that park and work with staff and coordinators it's well designed for the volunteers. it's something of need for the men and who are actually responsible for the land and it's safe so we try to have our volunteer work. we coordinate our volunteer work like any parks department does. >> but you don't count thannastic guy and goes and puts on the waders and pulls out weeds from the pond. >> neither counted or cited. maybe i will grab this going through the metrics. we did take feedback from the parks land and other groups that were interested in park safety which we will get into more detail and when people talk about park access there was some feedback was "well, if you do it by acres there is mclaren park is large in the southeast and that counts disproportionately." maybe. we have large parks not in the witt zone that count and lake merced and golden gate park and others and we show acreage and the number of parks and i think supervisor avalos this gets to your point about categorization of the different properties and we will do that in a future version. maintenance just to talk about briefly. these are the controller's park evaluation scores. there is a very rigorous process between the controller and the department. the departmentests every pact based on specific criteria that is refined over time. it actually gets tighter four times a year. the controller is the control group and evaluates once a year. our four times are averaged and count 50% and their one time is 50% and a weighted average. we looked how we're responding to maintenance and repair requests. these are our response rates. they come through 311 or through something called our internal work order system. investment. we focused on -- we took a three year average of investment dollars in the plan and three year average and the idea is take the rolling three year average and the reason for that capital funding is lumping and doesn't look the same every year and depends when bonds and things are issued and when bonds come to bear and when we actually receive grants and for work that is often multi-year we felt the most accurate -- we smoothed the investment over three year period so it feels more consistent. then i talked about hours of recreational resources and talked about volunteers. the last one is scholarships. just a word about our scholarships. it's one thing they think the department has worked hard at. when i started in the department the department gave away $80,000 a year in subsidized free or programs or camps. we're now at 1.3 million a year in free or subsidized programs. to get a scholarship we actually -- >> you were at 85 to 1.3 million. >> $80,000 to 1.3 million, yes. >> that's a big increase. >> it's a big jump. to get a scholarship basically if you're a public school -- it models the free and reduced lunch program for quiz in the public school and. >> >> and there is criteria for adults and we have our scholarship materials translated into five or six languages. what this tells us where people are applying for scholarships. there are people that qualify all over the city but how well are we doing outreach? i don't know what the answer is but this shows 4.9 -- you know "x" amount of scholarships are within the equity zone and "x" number from out. okay. because there was a lot of discussion about park safety what taylor and eric and janice and planners did was we said what crime data is open source and available? and we were able to kind of narrow and window the data to incidents, not crimes but incidents within 500 feet of parks and this is the first cut and an area to drill down and we're not where i want to be yet but it shows where incidents are happening and if you go back to the metric there are definitely more variety type happening in equity zones versus the city-wide average. >> is there a most common incident reported? what is it? vandalism? >> the definition of incidents includes traffic violations so illegal left and speeding -- >> anything there is an incident report and we would like to get with the data part one and two crimes and that is most relevant to the idea of having a safe park which is property crimes and krieps against crimes against person that are done in parks so we're not there yet and working with sfpd and this is sort of the first cut and it's interesting and you can -- pretty fascinating around the interim around golden gate park there is. >> >> rer rim terof golden gate park there is activity in the neighborhoods so we have this lens so how can we apply it and this is an example to drill deeper with the lens? and we have the scores inside and outside the equity zone and maybe it doesn't tell the whole story and with prozac scprts we met with and where are the highest and lowest scores in the data? we're able to cut the data that way too so you can see for example in fy '16 of the top 20 highest scoring parks 40% were parks in equity zones. 60% were outside. what does that mean? i'm not sure. it probably means we're in a range of okay because inside the equity zone is 37% of our parks and 23% of the acres of parks so it's somewhere in there the lowest 20 scoring parks definitely more in the equity zones than outside, 50%, so that number jumps out at me as being high and we have already -- fy '17 for us is a weird year because the budget was submitted prior to the passage of prop b and we're applying the concepts but next year is the first full year budget cycle but as a staff we began working on the lowest parks in equity zones and i asked the staff to go to them and what we can do and it's in the next slide -- >> that's important and right now we're talking about prioritization within the equity zones and you can see parks that might be strong in certain areas ever the metrics and weak in others. >> >> but you might be able to identify alice chommers park that fails at everything and this clearly going through the exercise you see this is going to need an entire make over right away in order for to get off the list of failing playgrounds. >> your point is very well taken and in fact it was the park i visited and was there visit and we have an -- yesterday and we have an interesting opportunity and the park is on the bond list of sf play of tier one playgrounds so the playground is getting replaced and tennis and basketball court so they're going to be resurfaced this fiscal year in the are you surfacing budget and we have a relatively small ball field and extremely well used by long fellow elementary school and i want to resurface and take the park in a community that desperately needs open space and used by the school and drill down deeper and create initiatives next year we will do and revitalization alice comp chers and one example. >> i think in drilling down on this particular metric probably is one of the better ones i have seen in terms of being able to do a quick assessment. when i look at your numbers here what it tells me is that in terms of the top 20 that 10% of the top 20 or 10% of the inside the equity zone parks are in the top 20, and also 10% on the other side too in terms of outside equity zone, but the last line that's the most telling in terms of the lowest park scores and 12% and indicates that 12% of the parks inside the equity zone are very poor versus 70% of the ones outside the equity zone. that's my own calculation. >> that's exactly -- you're right and that's what this lens -- we never looked at data this way before and that what this lens allow us to focus in a macro way. the last two slides and then i think pretty much -- we're almost done is this is example of things that are in our budget work. not all of this will be finished but where there is funding in 17 of specific projects in equity zones, different types of investments so you -- i won't read them all off but a long list of capital projects now in progress in parks in equity zones. some of the new park acquisition and development are in equity zones. levanton and toma and work the way to the board and pine and wraps up supervisor peskin and [inaudible] on the other list. slaig, indian basin, and others are in development and improving access to open space in equity zones. looking briefly in partnership with local 261 we're adding in next year's budget i think four or five more apprentices. i forget the act number but that i allow us to operate in mechanic claireen and golden gate and as we grow the apprenticeship program. we want to grow the youth educational green program and equity zones ifed. there are other non sexy deferred projects and examples which we're targeting in equity zones. a number of field renovations that we want to tackle in equity zone parks and a number of court resurfacing and because of prop b which baselined a healthy general fund capital budget for us we have -- there's not a ton of new money but we have more general fund capital dollars and came up with bigger categories of court resurfacing and it's a mix of things people see and below the surface that we need to take care but it gives us more opportunity to do the resurfacing and things like that. we started this exercise focused more on the fact this was sort of a data analytics exercise and supervisor i get and understand more than ever the importance of really having even a public conversation about this piece as we're on a new frontier here and brings everyone along with us and we have spent the extra time to kind of work through that, and you can see we view consultation and outreach ongoing and essentially a year round loop and even on the one piece of it this slide shows folks we have talked about it and this graphically highlight how we view the planning world now under prop b which is you know an ongoing loop. this is the first slide of developing and refining metrics, updating our strategic plan, building the operational plan and budget for the following year and you know it requires us to plan more and plan sooner and those are good things. >> i would like to add maybe another -- you know more opportunities for this and it's a lot of work you're already planning and [inaudible] done a lot of work within district 11 and nine and they expressed an interest to give a presentation. >> we're happy to go and discuss this with anybody that invites us to discuss it with. >> thank you. >> i want to thank supervisor avalos for inserting the board in this conversation. i say that as one of the two members of the board who dissenting on putting prop b on the ballot and with that i would like to open it up to public comment. are there members of the public that would like to testify on this one and only item? thank you ms. major. i have a list of speaker cards. [calling speaker names] >> good afternoon supervisors. my name is linda lighthiser and live in district 11 and i am speaking on my own behalf today although i do belong to many park advocacy groups particularly those around mclaren park, crocker and amazon and balboa park. i testified at the capital meeting last month and at that meeting i was very pleased that the commissioners were very concerned that this discussion continue. i went to that meeting with my concern that safety metrics had not been applied as well as 311 complaints. i am very pleased to see those issues have been taken up and applied. this is a tough thing to do applying scientific or mathematical equations to what people have in their gut what is fair and equitable. you know it when you feel it but how do you quantify it? and i appreciate the work that the department and groups have put into it and the countless amounts of emails and conversations that we have been having in our neighborhood about this, and i am also very pleased to see that we're not trying to fix this right now and say well this is it forever but i like the conversation going on how this is a process that will continue. i think in a year we're going to know that some of the things worked and things that didn't. prop b for me was a very important tool to be able to have parks sustainability and have the money that would be needed for maintenance. maintenance in my opinion is one of our very critical needs in our pas and this is where district 11 has suffered. we know when something different work. here's an example. i don't know if it needs to be seen on view by everybody but we had a playground that had a hole in the slide. in 2007 to 2008 it took a year to get that fixed. went to the park and -- it got repaired but now it's happened again so this is sort of the thing the public will feel confident in when they see a problem in a park and gets fixed in a timely manner. thank you. >> thank you. next speaker please. ms. wong. >> thank you supervisors. i am may from the exexcelior and i want to speak for the people that are invisible park users, the ladies that walk through the park in the morning at 6:00 o'clock that do tai chi and won't come out to meetings and won't speak up because they don't feel they have a voice. i appreciate rec and park's efforts. i appreciate all of the work being done. however we do need to look at it from a common sense perspective, not just figures. i applaud the department trying to put apprentices in our area which is going to be probably mclaren park but not just the bodies. please bring some equipment with you so what happens over at golden gate park with chopping up trees also happens in mclaren so we're don't have huge garbage dumpos brazil so thank you for your time. >> thank you ms. wrong and on behalf of my former employer the trust for public land ms. roomer. >> good afternoon chairman peskin and supervisor avalos. i am gina and state director forit trust of public land and we miss you mr. kes -- peskin and because we're doing work all over the country and i am looking for the department a way to measure equity across san francisco. we know that san francisco takes its vulnerable community seriously and our goal is to work with you to make this -- any resources we can bring to the table there to support these metrics. we're here to support that. i am a seventh generation san franciscan born and raised in bay view hunters point and i know there are communities across san francisco that don't have amazing parks and open spaces so this is a way to bring equity to those communities and we know that everybody deserves to be within a wark within a five or ten minute walk of where they live and this can help with that process as well as bringing parks towards a quality that everyone in san francisco can use and be proud of and i want to go to the excelsior to parks and over to bay view to parks and people. to commute across san francisco and experience different cultures and amazing open spaces. >> >> so as the public trust land and as a long time resident i applaud the department and the supervisors for being on the cutting edge once again for san francisco to do something amazing. thank you. >> thank you. [calling speaker names] >> good afternoon supervisor peskin, supervisor avalos. i wanted to show up on behalf of the labors international union local 261. we have 200 to 250 employees with the recreation and park department. to you supervisor avalos when we actually pass proposition b there were conversations whether the conversation would take place at the board of supervisors. we weren't concerned about that and preferred it over the recreation and park commission and i don't know if that was part of the legislation but you had a hearing for us may 1, 2013 and the context of that hearing was about apprenticeship what we believe the real asset of rec and park is the work force and we know we need to have those workers in the excelsior and bay view and need equitable spread of workers throughout. i have to applaud the deputy. just the facts. i have to applaud the fact they're highlighting trend apprenticeship and the expansion of it and the work force and outreach we're doing and bay view hire in the local sector. it's a good thing. we have to be honest about that and applaud you for having the conversation out in the open and without the conversation we're not sure how things will fall but right now right now our members are support of the department and the leadership. we think that this -- i went through the whole thing. it's a little too much. [laughter] but i did get a chance and the department management is reaching out to us. they're showing us the respect and including us in the conversation and it's on us to make sure you know that is takes place. >> thank you mr. courtney. next speaker please. >> hi. i am melanie and ten years ago after retiring from teaching i bought my house at the edge of mclaren park because of the park's beautiful wild beauty. to protect it and many other community members formed the group "save mclaren park and the mclaren park collaborative." i absolutely love my park and i hike everyday with my dogs. with all that being said, and i know i am very lucky woman i am constantly dismayed by the lack of general maintenance of the park especially in the acres not identified as natural areas. picnic areas need more trash cans. there's one trash can for like 18 picnic tables and therefore junk and trash is always floating and ends up in my yard -- >> i can see general manager ginsburg is writing about it now. >> i was walking at the merced park and they had a trash can for every table. okay. let's see. that doesn't even begin to touch the subject of dumping along mancell, visitation road and persia and that trash can sit there for a year sometimes so the community members call it in, call 311. i am just wondering why that isn't picked up by the gardeners or somebody without us having to call it in? tree limbs are falling. i watched one fall right before a woman with the baby rode by and a huge limb that would have killed her so we need more tree maintenance on the sidewalks. playgrounds are needed. the list is too long and more gardeners as well. >> [calling speaker names] >> supervisors hi my name is tom and i actually was hoping to speak to norman on this, fiscal year on this particular issue because he was sketching the service of it but there is something wrong with the lens. >> >> it's distorted because the calculation together is wrong and you can see that in all the per capital metrics. all of the disadvantaged equity tracks end up with high scores and that is because each of the tracts is capturing 100% of the resources of every park within a quarter mile. it's as if they weren't sharing it with anybody else in the city and really the way the accounting is done it should be all per capita metrics should include the fact that the other zones, the other tracts near by within a quarter mile are also using that park. an example, say the gm goes to a park and has a bag of 100 could goies he's giving and -- cookies he's giving out and five census tracts and one is a equity track and goes there and puts on the blind fold and randomly hands out the cookies. how many cookies that the people from the equity tract receive assuming the populations are the same? do they get 20, 50, a hundred cookies? according to the way the calculations are done they get 100 cooks. that's wrong. they only get 20 because they're sharing with the other four tracks and the same for picnic tables and trash cans. acres of land they're not just sharing with the equity tract but everyone. zumba classes. they don't get all of the classes but only the percentage so that's the fatal flaw in the calculation. it has to be fixed because the rest is meaningless without fixing that. i hope that makes sense but that's where the problem lies. >> i think we understand the cookie analogy. >> thank you. >> [inaudible] [off mic] >> mr. rothman. >> good afternoon supervisors. my name is richard rothman i represent district 1 on the park and open space advisory committee but since we haven't taken a position yet i will speak for myself. i agree that gold shouldn't be included and district 1 residents have a hard time using golden gate because we can't use fulton street and they're repaving it and we're trying to get mta to put crosswalks on every intersection between 25th avenue and ocean beach -- well, i don't understand mta. i don't know why but i listened to this presentation three times now and we heard it last month and last night and again today and i think alex andy doll of on phil's staff had a great idea. instead of concentrating on the data we know where the areas are, richmond district is very fortunate because all our parks are in good condition. i was surprised by the one tract in our neighborhood but why not set up through prozac or other groups set up district councils and let the districts decide where the money should go. should it go to playgrounds, servicing playgrounds or putting trees in or having more staff and let rec and park know and working together they can put the resources into bring all the parks up to code, so i would concentrate less on the statistics because we know where the inequity zones are and let's see how we can use rec and park funds to fix up the areas of what the people think they need to be done. thank you. >> thank you. next speaker please. >> good afternoon supervisors. nice to see you both. i represent district 5 on prozac and i want to tell you i heard the report last night for the first time and i was a little dismayed after i studied online because the statistics don't work out, and i only have a minute or so but if you really look at the page that calls equity metrics it's looks as if really if i look at these metrics i am saying the commission can't really provide any oversight or direction to the department because some of them show that the equity zone or disadvantaged zones are actually have more parks per thousand people than city-wide which is interesting because they use city-wide which incorporates the 20% of the witt zone back in so it's there twice and the acres per park show they have more but doesn't show quality. >> >> and what is missing in the metrics is among other things quality but also the statistics aside from not working they missed something else which is people know in each community if they go to their parks and playgrounds they know what is missing and what they need, and in this emphasis on this lens some of which i support and i really appreciate supervisor avalos your work on getting the equity metrics in back when prop b was not prop b yet but being worked on. i think what is really needed is a strong emphasis on community input into this process but community input as one of the metrics, what people think they really need in each of the equity zones or disadvantaged districts for their parks so in addition to what the metrics say whether they're skewed like this or fixed it comes with what people want and one example. i mentioned last night to phil that the parks need more trash cans and "no, if you have more cans you get more garbage." i reverse it and if you have more directors in the centers you would have more people -- >> i'm not sure it's counterintuitive but applying the same principle. >> that's right. >> just to respond i do appreciate your discussion. i think the public input is a real key part but i'm not sure it's like -- maybe it's like a metric to see to measure how much a park does receive in public input but i think the decisions where the public has greatest input is the capital and operational plan and the work that the department needs to do based on the metrics and baseline how to increase the public input and how to use it in making the other decisions that are going to be the most meaningful for the parks, the operation plan and the capital plan and then you will see where the rubber hits the road and it's critical and public input is part of it. >> maybe you're right. one thing that you should know that prozac decided we would continue this discussion to our october 4 meeting and at that point make comments directly to the commission regarding our assessment of what we think could be improved in the equity metrics. i don't think they're finished. i think it's a good start but i don't think they're finished so you should know that and delay further approval until we've had a chance to go through the metrics. >> great thank you. i think the date is october 20 for when the final approval is so there's time for that. >> ms. north an on behalf of the parksz alliance. >> good afternoon. i am rachel norton and interim director of the parks alliance. i want to congratulate the department on the start of the metrics. i have to say i was personally surprised how far they had actually come in developing these. i think supervisor avalos again we are very grateful to you for really pushing all of us to incorporate this lens into prop b and i think you know this is a work in progress. in some ways the equity metrics will never be finished and continue to evolve. i think it's a useful lens to look at the department's work and i agree with the input and the operations and capital plan and our job as park advocates is work with the department and make sure the information we're uncovering in the equity metrics is in the prioritizing of the work for the department. as i said it's a great start. they're getting at interesting issues here. i think our job as a park advocacy organization would be to continue to push how we can make it better and go deeper? what new sources of information can we uncover year after year to really make these better and continue them as a useful lens of the department's work but i want to commend the department for what they have done and i think it's a model for other departments and a very useful thing for the parks department so thank you. >> thank you. are there any other members of the public who would like to testify on this item? >> good afternoon supervisors. my name is leah and chair of the blue way green for the san francisco park alliance and also a parent who lives directly across from a park in the bay view. i think it's a start by park and rec really understanding this document evolving having continuous conversation and engagement and often equity is anecdotal conversation saying my park doesn't have x but a park across the street or in a different district has y. parks are the last affordable thing for families in san francisco and let park and rec to understand why some are performing higher and playgrounds and equal part with equity for all families since families are oftentimes leaving san francisco and parks allow us to build community as well. thank you. >> thank you. seeing no other members of the public for public comment we will close public comment. [gavel] . one housekeeping thing supervisor avalos is we need a motion to excuse supervisor breed as well as supervisor yee from the balance of the meeting. >> so moved. >> without objection that little housekeeping motion is adopted and then let me say a couple of things. first of all the newly adopted charter section is actually silent as to the board's role in the development of these equity metrics but i think it's a wonderful thing that supervisor avalos has held this hearing and may continue to hold these hearings as general manager ginsburg said it is an iterative process and i am proud to see how much interest there is in this new tool, this lens, and i mean obviously we have the right and ability to pass a motion expressing our support or as drafted potentially opposition but i think really it's about input and about the process between now and october 20, and beyond as you rinse and repeat year in and year out -- >> i just wanted to scare people. >> what's that? what? >> scare people. >> scare people. okay. everybody is interested and not scared and the way the process -- >> we all got to the table right away. >> but yeah having saying that supervisor avalos what is your desire and will? this is instructive and helpful. should we continue the item? >> i would like to continue to the call of the chair and before that i would like to thank everyone for the input and taylor emer son for the work and developing the metrics. it's a great start and i think we're fairly close. i think when i heard from the public it was really -- you know a passion and knowledge of the parks is coming out loud and clear. i don't think the metrics are necessarily determining what part of the park right now is supposed get fixed but provide for us a baseline understanding what are the ways -- what we will base the decisions on and they will happen next year and in the process of determining what parts will be done and there will be public input and i won't be here next year but hopefully the board will have the decisions on the capital plan and for the board to approve and the board can ask about the public input that happened and determine whether it was sufficient or not and the decisions in the capital plan are ones they approve so the public participation is key and i want to thank you for being here, and folks who are here are people that take a tremendous amount of care to our parks and right now we have people in the southern part of san francisco who are well represented and i just want to say thank you for all of your work. i know a lot of your work doesn't get counted by the recreation and park department and they might have a sense of things going on sometimes but i know people go above and beyond and just the amount of collaboration and communication and meetings that happen. often that is not counted by the department but work that you also do and one that really uplifts our parks to a greater standard to a greater level in the southern part of san francisco and i want to say thank you for that and for taking interest in this hearing and with they would ask that we continue this motion to the call of the chair. >> without objection we will continue this to the call of the chair until supervisor avalos asks us to schedule it again and that concludes the item before this committee. we are adjourned. [gavel]ed and director hsu, present. director nolan. director rib key. you have a quorum. >> the ringing of and use of cell phones, pagers and similar sound-producing electronic devices are prohibited at this meeting. please be advised that the chairman may order the removal from the meeting room of any person responsible for the ringing or use of a cell phone, pager or other similar sound-producing electronic devices. sell phones set on vibrate cause interference so request they turned off. motion approval of the minutes from august 16. >> motion to approve. >> aye >> item 5, communication director yz have none. item 6, introduction of new or unfinished business mpt >> i want bring up my favorite topics, elevators we have on the consent calendar a item for improving improvement on the escalators and elevators which provide access to our station. in light of the fact that currently civic center i believe is out right now and i know in the disability community there was a little-a lot of concern about the lack of notice and there was some notice but not enough notice and think where people are demanding on escalators and elevator, it is important to overknhunicate communicate so when we do the upgrade to infrastructure over communicate when the outages take place and do everything we can to minimize the impact on the riders. that's it. >> director rib key, i think we did everything to coordinate with bart. thank you. >> at our last meeting which was long we had a gentlemen stand up in general public comment and he called attention to the stockton street discussions go around and think his call if i remember was to make sure we continue on the public process as we always do and know we will but he waited a long time to make the comment and want today bring it up. we have got a lot of e-mails about stockton street and look forward to the public process on that. >> item 7, directors report. >> director riscon, and good afternoon member thofz chair and board and staff. i want to start out my report by recognizing a couple of ow moust outstaning employees. first i like to ask [inaudible] our chief ficial officer who is director of finance and information technology division to come forward to recognize one of her employees. >> it is pleasure to introduce naomi steinway who has been with us 35 years. before i was born she started. she demonstrated deep commitment to womeen owned businesses and as we rely on diligence and making sure we fulfill obligations to the stakeholders mpt she is a go to staff member regarding the db program and vauchbed in a large variety of other areas such as procurement of [inaudible] and third street light-rail extension to make sure we are fulfilling our obligations there to the communities. she is also been instrumental being lias ons with the auditors and said naomi is terrific gathering, analyzing and reporting the participation. she is thoughtful i hard working and has a dry whit that really positively impacts a lot of the unit. she is looking for challenges and way to enhance the community. the last comment i make, she is a big contributor of healthy snacks for our meetings and she a key member of the contract compliance office. many of her fanerize here. thank you tr 84 work for throw fiver years, it is a incredible achievement and congratulations. >> thank you very much and the commissioners, thank you. i hardly expected this at all. hoping to quitely retire with caucasian male majority. hope i can hang on another year. thank you. >> on behalf of the board and city thank you for your work, wish you all the best. [applause] >> next i want to ask john hailey the transit director to come forward and recognize one of his employees. >> good afternoon mr. hailey. >> good afternoon mr. chairman. i just it is my pleasure this afternoon to recognize gentlemen to my left, leroy wilson who is one of our longstanding transit supervisors. you may have noticed recently in the controllers report that over the last 5 years the average driving speed in san francisco dropped some 25 percent. at the same time our evening rush hour has lengthened as new industries have come to change the commute patterns. one of the things that at the same time we have been able to improve our on time performance incremental but not where we would like us to be, and one of the reasons we are able to do that is because of people like mr. wilson. mr. wilson works in the most difficult locations, south of market street, during the most difcult times. he has the opportunity to make adjustments to lines like the 27, which are frequently backed up because of bay bridge commute and also in many respects is a very sod after figure at the transbay terminal as operators will go and have issues that mr. wilson has resolved. he is a outstaning representative for all of us in terms of getting our service and making adjustments to the invariable situations so the supervisor would encounter but also is highly regarded and well respected by our operators. my apologies but i should say to the right is brent jones and [inaudible] in charge of our service management. so, it is my pleasure to introduce you to mr. wilson for his recognition. [applause] >> on behalf of the board and whole city thank you for the important work you do and do it so well for so many years. thank you. >> thank you. i just don't know how to responds after mr. hailey says all that but want to thank god first of all for giving me all the tools that i need and placing me in the department with managers that you have just met and making sure i have everything i need to get the job done. also, like to thank my wife who's sitting right there. [applause] a lot of this work i take home and she helps me out with it and my phone stays on all the time for my other co-workers out there and she says, honey, we are out to dinner and you are still taking calls. and that is just the dedication i center to my co-workers because without them i could not get that job done. i could not do this job without my co-workers and want to thank all of them even though i don't see any here. my daughter, my niece and ist iser in law who comes over my house and bugs me all the time. my cousin sean who ran for district supervisor last year and he lost to malia, sorry about that. again, thank all of you for being here and this is-this caught me by surprise right here. with that being said, i have more work to do. thank you. >> thank you. [applause] >> thank you mr. chair. vision zero update for the month. mayors executive director on vision zero included we report regularly to boards and commissions and primarily to this board. two update said today. first one very exciting we broke ground last week on 9th and division. probably one of the first in the country. this is a area on the high injury network and anyone who is troyed to pass through there on a bike or in a car very rarely do people pass on foot but it is a hairy place to try to get through and made a number of improvements on division street in recent years but this particular intersection is one we thought was a good place to try this very innovative design based on a dutch intersection design. protected bike laneatize is clear, you ride along a curb on one side and protection whether it is parked cars or delineators or barriers on the side but that works while you are in the block but when you get a intersection it is much harder to protect because intersections are open for allow of the flow of vehicles. this design coming from europe puts concrete islands at all 4 of the corners and raises the cros walk s and changes the approach and turn geometry so cars have to slow and so that the visibility between people on bike and foot and people in cars is much better. so, we are really excited to try it out here. we are also coupling with improvements on ajaistant streets on 9th and division, but very exciting to see what will be-we posted when we started this and put photo's up when it is done and we'll evaluate and watching it carefully to see how well it performs and the potential applicable may be else where in the city. exciting stuff there in the ground for the engineering e on vision zero. on the education e of vision zero, a aspect of the executive directorive is directing us the sfmta to implement a comprehensive vision zero awareness campaign within 30 days of the exectev directive. i reported at the last meeting we initiated radio ads in english and spanning to raise awareness of vision zero. we followed windup a second round we laurned yesterday. this is 6 speeds sf and just like the engineering work on the education work we use data driven or research driven process to conform the work we are doing. in this case we got feedback from focus groups as well as community wide research polling and interesting results. what we found is that, people do see speeding as a bad thing and in san francisco we are focusing on speed because it is the leading primary collision factor of serious and fating collisions. wheel people say it as a problem, people don't necessarily think of it as a problem in san francisco. they see it as a freeway thing or open road problem. there is a perception to recognize unsafe speed happen in the city and urban virems as well. more interesting, most drivers consider themselves above average ijskill and not at need to adhere to posted speed limits. like many other things we think the problem isn't with us, it is with other people. it was with that in mind that we developed this adand it is essentially meant to inform people that the speed limit in san francisco is 25 miles a hour unless otherwise posted and that small increases in speed correspond to less control in stopping, less reaction time in terms of seeing people and that traffic deaths are problem in our city so raising awareness but targeting at the perceptions. i will ask lorie to play the spot so people can hear what people hear on the radio. playing on drive time and pandora and running english, spanish and chinese then last month. >> if i drive 10 miles over the speed limit it takes [inaudible] yfs going to fast. [inaudible] i have to live with that. speeding can lead to traffic deaths on san francisco streets. the speed limit is 25 for a reason. stick to the limit. know more at vision zero sf.org. >> if you haven't heard those already, you and thousands of others will be hearing it as they make their way to work this week and the rest of the month. moving on, another campaign addressing another safety issue that is of great importance and this deals with the safety of our employees. as we discussed and heard periodically over time, we have employees be transit operators or parking control officers, inspectors and custodeian and station agents subject to attacks by memberoffs the public. there were 58 reported last year or just on muni operators and that compares to 24 in 2014. so, it is unacceptable thing happening and very disturbing trend including a couple very public incident you may have read about in the past couple weeks. we have been work wg folks internally as well as unions that represent the groups, primarily twu and sciu on a number of things to address the issue and reverse that trend. one aspect of that collaboration is new adcampaign that was launched last week, which is just one part of a comprehensive approach. the theme is keep them safe and these will be in the form of ads placed on buses and featureed throughout the transportation system and i will ask lorie and sfgovtv go to the screen to show the ads so you can get a sense of what they look like. so, we have these you see from the perspective of the employee and family and others. so, you'll be seeing those if you haven't already on muni buses. that is one part and this came from our employ ease they thought it st. important to raise aware ness to the public of the difficult work they do and there are people like the rest of us that want toget home safely like the rest of us. we'll continue working on that campaign but happy to see that come forward. couple of other muni items. on the heals of the news we were announcing recipients of $45 million of state, cap and trade funds toward the light-rail vehicle expabz program. chair nolan and i traveled to sacramento this last week along with mayor lee, board president london breed and assembly member david chiu to visit the sea mans factory. it was great to be able to go there to celebrate the recent news. this is 45 million on top of the 21 million so more than 80 million in support. first vehicle should be here about theened of the year and start seeing them in service in 2017. by the end of 2018 we will have 20 new vehicles hitting the street. that was great news. in the mean time to address crowding and to focus our resources where the demand is the highest, this morning we launched a shuttle that will shuttle cars between coal valley and embarcadero during rush hours. we have basically 4 trains, or 2 trains doing two loops runic between the points which are the inner part of the [inaudible] which anyone who ride at that time of day once you get to that portion the cars are usually full so the folks often can't board the train, so we are inserting capacity during the rush hour to try to insure the folks who want to take the injudah to get to work or to the city it k do so. we started it this morning, worked well. there are logistical issues we worked out when we tested this a few years back and hope to keep this in service and will be the first of such efforts we roll out over the next few years. meanwhile, down at balboa park, there is a a lot of various construction work going on. one of the more significant aspects is we have largest or oldest railyard there and have been in the process in the last couple years of preplacing all the rails, many switches and overhead wires and infrastructure in that facility. it is generally not public work but very important to get our system in the state of good repair. we have largeby be able to do this work without impacting the public but starting part the project today that takes the part of the revenue loop, the j and k normally travel on out of service to replace those rails. so, as a result, there are different patterns for people to board and offboard for the j and k at balboa park. the k is boarding on ocean avenue. we have done a lout of outreach and trying to make the public aware of where they need togo to catch their train or once they get off the train to get to where they are going safely. we understand it is inconvenient for folks but have done everything we can to minimize the inconvenience but excited to see this work donefelt the entire project should be done mid-2017. a very large state of good repair project you provided funding and support for in previous capital budgets. the last thing, i mentioned last time the votes for the muni art program were opened till last week and the vote are in and have the 5 winners. you can see on the screen-there is the new multimedia presentation for the directors report. we had 5 winners that were-came from the votes. the top winner is monica and her exhibit is called teens of sf. followed by lillian shan hann with bit by bit and a 3 way tie for third place which is [inaudible] counter point studio which is peter tomen son and lisa luvene for city walks and todd [inaudible] for sight seeing. these will go up. each of the artists our groups will have their work featureed on muni buses and artist receiving the most votes gelt a $2 thousand cash prize and [inaudible] get $1250 and this is a partnership between sfmta and san francisco beautiful. a win, win for artist and muni riders. that concludes my report. >> just to go back to the $45 million of money we got for more lrv in the future. it is probably confusing we state our need without having identified all the funding and i know we have seen the same with the buses as we have more funding become available we place a order for more buses and i don't find that unusual for large infrastructure purposes or projects. is that standard we identify the need and know what we want and as the money becomes available we place those orders? >> in most cases we identified the funding and just not secured the funding. we identified for the lightrail vehicles this as the main source for this part of the expansion. the procurement for lightrail is 151 to replace the ones we have and that is funded with federal and local sales tax and that we identified and secured. there is expansion of the first 24 vehiclechise is something we committed to as part of the grant agreement for the federal government for the central subway grant. we wroifed the revenues and secured revenues for those. then we had exercised an option on the lightrail vehicle for additional 40 car squz for that we identified main source orphfunding being state cap and trade funds and now secured in subsequent years the first pieces of that. yes, that is typical and most cases we have identified the funds, we just don't have them secured commitment from whatever the funding partner is. >> thank you for clearing that up. i think that can be confusing for people that dont understand how the procurement process works. >> thank you very much. congratuless on the end shuttle surfbs. that is great. as you know since you have been in the chair i pestered you about shuttle service and sure it wasn't my pestering that did it but glad you and mr. hailey got around to this one. as we procure lrv and stuff coming on stock you will look at way tooz expand this. i assume the ways to expand this don't just include shuttle service but reintroducing-i urge the switch back in west portal to acamidate that. for me this is great news and something that is of great policy interest to me, so with the permission of chair nolan and vice chair bringman, i support that we-when you have the data and you and mr. hailey are ready, report how the shuttle service is working. maybe also a update how it works comparison with the bus shuttle service and other options we throw at that line and plans for expansion for shuttle service whether plans for west portal or castro. >> happy. >> i do want to cu-mind john hailey and staff for putting this together. it may seem simple t is a lot of work that goes into making this happen and they absolutely started thinking about what are the next as the rail fleet grows the most critical needs whether it is shuttles or expanding from one to 2 car or 2 to 3 car trains. >> how this integrates with the existing system is obviously important. you can have more cars but if they get jammed ativan ness you haven't solved the problem. i want to know if the service is causes delays on the interchange or worked through seemlessly. >> mr. chairman you have one person who indicated a iftrust in addressing you and only matters discussed by mr. riscon. herben wineer followed by michael putralis. >> michael putralis. >> mr. wineer is first. >> herben wineerment one question about the new lrvs. i notice there is no railing at the end of the seats or sideways. if there is a sudden stop, if there is no railing a person can just spill over and possible injure themselves or other passengers. i noticed in the picture on the san francisco examiner so can you clarify about the safety of that because i just noticed it in the picture and something that seems to be missing. >> the picture in the paper was of the- >> mr. riscon let's let him finish. >> the vehicle that we were able to visit in the newspaper was had first production vehicle and not complete so there were many things that will be on the car that were not on the car shown in the picture. what i say generally from ever aspect of operation from accessibility to safety to performance, energy efficiency the new cars are significant improvement over what we have today so the rule jz requirements just generally for safety on rail vehicleerize very stringent. what we do is above and beyond and won't put anything to service that puts people at risk. >> thank you for the clarification. >> michael putrelis. ime arace bisticalest and concerned during your preezen taig about the vision zero work going on, there was no mention about long standing issue of mine and that is on bicyclist riding on sidewalks. i looked over your materials available on the sfmta website and can't find information about whatever sfmta may be doing to encourage bisicalest to stay off the sidewalks. in particular, i'm very concerned about the south side of market street from van ness to valencia. bicyclist are frequently riding past that um, union office and riding past quickly by the mu cros key mattress shop and it is really dangerous for pedestrians, for other bisicalests and people in cars. there needs to be a stenciling on sfmts saying it is against the law to ride your bicycle on the sidewalks and if you want to also put carat in front of bisicalest, it should also remind all bicyclist that especially on market street, we have bike lanes. bicyclists need to use the bike lanes. thank you. >> movering on, item h, advisory counsel report. i do not see chairman weaver here. public comment this is a opportunity formaters within the sfmta but not on todays agenda. we'll start with eileen boken followed by albert chow. >> good afternoon. >> eileen boken. district 4 resident. i'm here regarding the rapid project which is on the [inaudible] i believe final approval the project is premature. in light of the ongoing issues on mission street the consensus and merchants of taraval is move forward with a pilot project which involved no structural changesism this is the taraval plan or community based plan. this pilot project involves the entire taraval corridor and not just the 5 locations included in the proposed mta plan. the community is recommending the tarival project be for at least 6 months. the tarival community is seeking to avoid negative impacts the 14 mission rapid project had. the tarival neighborhood sees the community based plan as a potential win, win for mta and community at large. thank you. >> the next speaker please. >> next speaker is albert chow followed by tom lee. >> good afternoon mr. chow. >> albert chair from great wall hard weir. we have a great street the way it is now, but you are planning to take away a lot of parking and give a red lane in the left lan and put boarding island and traffic lights and bull bouts and [inaudible] because of the perpendicular parking and this for saving 2 or 3 minutes. just like that you plan to upset the dynamic of the street and discourage driving in a area where driving is really necessary. have you tried to run errands in the sun set? people drive and come to the businesses that way. i like to have some flashing lights and painted rowdways in lieu of the boarding island for safety but at the same time keep our parking. i just want to remind you that the small businesserize the backbone of the city and create the character of the neighborhood. target and macey, do they make san francisco unique? no. they leave as soon as the boom goes bust but we have stayed because we lover our city. sean [inaudible] told me that if all sides are mad we are doing something right and think this is the wrong approach. let that go for 6 months and it be a half and half sfmta and community based design everyone can be happy with. thank you very much. >> tony lee followed by aaron star and herbert wineer. >> good afternoon mr. lee. >> good evening. good afternoon mr. chairman and [inaudible] i am a full time [inaudible] 27 years. mailed me a letter saying that if i dont pay for the $179 for the disputes [inaudible] she will not let me renew my card and i cannot drive the cab so get fired. [inaudible] make a living and pay the bills. $179 [inaudible] today that i make. this not fair. [inaudible] everybody know a lot of kick backs and [inaudible] you can get it, a lot of rumor and never bring that before you because it isn't my interest but now they are clearly against me like this way so i hope that you are going to lay off your unprofessional and air gnt staff because you will make a lot of drivers lose their jobs. if you are going to fine me for this money, i will do it in a legal way and make you [inaudible] i tell people don't park. only one car you couldn't get towed, you lost 600 bucks and i find the [inaudible] they move their car and you will lose a million dollar for your tow money rev enues as well. i have a right to do that. >> aaron star, followed by herbt wineer and edward mason. >> good afternoon board. aaron star and work for the san francisco planning department. by my caurmts are my own and not paid right now. i'm here to spress concern over there bike and pedestrian on the market street. i have written the board with my concerns and received coms back from staff, however, the responses are inadequate and never addressed my point. the plan proposes painted buffers for bike lane jz upper market. this improvement wilt do nuth toog improve the safety and move the city closer to vision zero goal. i ride my bike on upper market. what i experience on a daily basis are double parked cars and delivery trucks. this forces me and fellow rider tooz move into the bike lane while travelling at 35 to 40 miles a hour. i experience cars drifting into the bike lane. proposed painted buffers will do nothing to stop the safety risks. this board adopted vision zero which seeks to eliminate traffic death. this is based on the fact we are human and make mistake. the road system needs to keep us moving but also protect at every turn. we know people continue to double park in the bike lanes and continue to drift into had bike lane because they are easily distracted and know people to not use their turn signal or check their shoulder when they cross to the bike lane to make a right hand turn or park. the road needs to be designed to encounter that. i urge you to look into protected bike lanes up to upper market to castro. >> herbert wineer followed by edward mason. >> parking spaces, bus stops and bus runs braung to the public and taxi medallions belonged to the taxi drivers. the municipal transportation agency contrary to great inconvenience to public interest. it simply declared the medallions its property and took them from taxi drivers charging state fees. this is a public agency-the mta is pirate aijs that regard parking spaces as obzeckts and sources of budy and plunder. despite the parks spaces and bus stops mta has done the right thing. it shows barbary coast to advertise and promote muni forward to 1.5 million over a 3 year period. the barb burry coast harbors pierants and mta conducted itself in the same tradition by fuming resources from the public. a government agency designated to represent the public is robbing the public of its resources. the public is walk agplank with removal and consolidation of bus stops. mta seizure and termination of parking spaces and forcing passengers seniors and the disabled to walk a quarter mile to the bus stop. after all, we are walking the plank. >> thank you. >> edward mason, michael putrelis. >> edward mason i like to present a editorial from the almanac which is a newspaper for menlo park. facebook is expanding by 6500 employees to the current 7500 employees. a housing study revealed 15 live in bell haven. created dependent for 175 units a finding of questionb logic at best. from a broader regional perspective planner voice concern. job growth and resulting upward pressure on home prices and wide spread transportation grid lock. all employ ease livering long distances from the campus about half of facebook employees drive cars to work. facebook is proposing to limit increase in trip generation relating to expansion to 438 inbound commuter vehicles. the development will benefit menlo park but result in worsening of transportation and housing facing the region. it is standard practice to abstract mitigation measures including cash payments and levering neighborhood communities for sig cnlt and uncompensated impact. no one is well served by major proposals evaluated by a single city looking out forilities own interest. cities can move away from isolated decision making. the conclusion i came from this is, there will be more corporate commuter buses unless you get together with mtr, a bag and resolve the issue because we already have 35 commuter buses on 24th street. >> michael putrelisfollowed by deneez louis and [inaudible] >> go ahead. please do. don't worry. if the folks at sf gv tv it show my. show that for 20 seconds. this is the bus shelter at 16th stroot and missionism . i made a video of sfmta property that is caked with pigeon poop. you can am back to me, please. i have been filing a number of complaints with sf 311 to have this pigeon poop removed. i'm a person with aids and have a compromised immune system and this pigeon poop is unhealthy. it also just not conducive to using public transit. there needs to be better contract compliance and monering of the sfmta has. after two weeks of observing this area there is not regular cleaning taking place of the bus shelters and sfmta street signs. this is really not good in any sense, okay. now, in terms why there is so much pigeon poop on the bus shelters, it is because the overhead electrical cables do not have ant pigeon jell on them. that is pg and e property. however, i think that sfmta needs to look into bird sensitive sound repellent machines. there is latest device to stop birds landing on this property and roosting there. i'm in touch with barbara garcia from department of public health to declare this a public health emergency. you need to get on regular cleaning of the bus shelters. >> denise louis followed by [inaudible] >> good afternoon. glad to see mr. hsu here from the west portal association and want to say i really appreciate muni. it gets me where i want to go. for years i have been saying thank you to the bus drivers and for the past yearo so i have been hearing other people do the same. i'm here to ask you about landscaping in san jose at bal bowy park station. the last i heard mt deciding on a mediterranean pallet. prior to that asked that native plants be planted where possible in dpw project along ocean avenue. since the area i'm referring to has not been planted, and dpw is assisting mta with landscaping planning here, and since the landscapers must yield to your desession on the pallet i ask you to reconsider. i ask you to [inaudible] environmental correct and what neighboring stakeholders have asked for. is there a particular person with mta i can talk to about this? >> we'll make sure to have somebody follow up. >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> marry aliza followed by car lumetser and paula katz. >> good afternoon. speaking on behalf of the tar vel. the tarival project [inaudible] delivering 87 comments and ask that you scanned a e-mail to the board members along with the statement. 70 of these comments oppose the elimination of tarival stop. the staff will not forward these so like to make sure you get them another way. before you next meetding we urge you to read the public comments and listen to the audio of the public hearing. other 50 people took time off to attend the hearing that was triple the number usually ateneding. when you read the staff report before you next meeting we urge you to keep in mind the vast majority the written and verbal comments supporting keeping the tarival stops. there are many [inaudible] about the various hardships their family members inclulding elderly parent and parent face if they lose these stops. many opposed the loss of parking on tarival and proposed transit only lanes and perpendicular parking on san tiaugo. a large number also support what the community calls, the tarival plan which calls for establishment of a 6 month pilot program of early implementation followed by community input before approval. the merchant will explain this furlther and want to add and believe this will be a universal cry throughout the merchants of the city. this thereis a real problem and also you also mention it isn't just in the mission. the parking and transportation concerns are keeping people from going san francisco merchants. >> good afternoon. >> okay, hi. carla metsler with save or el tarival stops. microphone. thank you. the el tarival project is scheduled for next meetings agenda. proposal for 9 stops at 6 locations. in the transit effectiveness project final environmental impact report that you approved in 2014 states on pages 2-26 one of the factors to be considered when selecting stop locations removal is valium of boardings and lighting of the transit stop. excuse me. now, this -okay. the kentucky fried chicken, pub lb library, library, post office and safeway, the stops surrounding 19 lth and tarival which is the busiest stop we are adding a thousand people by closing the stops before and after 19th. a thousand more people every day on 19th and tarival. i think this is dangerous and should be looked at again and it is not what we voted for. we dont want our tax dollars being used to make things more dangerous. thank you. >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> paula katz followed by tom gill burty and those are the last people. >> what do i do to get this-- there it is. paula katz. i want to make a correction to what carla said t is 2-26 of the final environmental impact report where it states that one of the factors to be considered removing stopicize boarding and lighting at the transit stop. we will give you the average weekly boarding and alignment at tarival for inbound and outbound stops. one thing we hope you can see is this data was collected november 2007 from january 2009 and so the decision to remove stopicize based on data that is 7 to 9 years olds and completely out of date. sean kennedy agreed the usage probable increased but believes the proportions stay the same. sfmta has no identity if this is true and told we can't do more head counts until next your and maybe when the new lrvs come in. in the areas whereplore housing is build or stores open usage will increase than other stops. in addition the staff said because the study is so old they can't access it and have no way of finding out when the study was done over what day or hours and doesn't include weekend. when the new lightrail vehicles we can track use r usage we urge you to put them on the tarival line as soon as possible and obtain up to date and accurate findings. this is incorporated as part of the pilot program that the merchants propose at part of the plan. i like to give you these documents. >> tom gillbirty. >> tom gillbirty. i was going-i remarked about the elevator ativan ness and thinking while we were gone that it was going to be the definition of rank. when you say something is truly rank was a slang word and that-i can't say that now because i used it and it shown the effort of being maintained a little better. i would love to have it steam cleaned and love the carpet to come up and take a look underneath. i hope probably it dirt is holding it together and triing to get rid of that sooner that later because of property changes. i also want to applaud the mechanics on the old buses. i have been very good for long time. the mechanics on the light-rail very very good and i am using my standard of when the doors open there is a floor expansion that comes up. [inaudible] tipping my hat to mechanics. next we got a number of seats we are losing, the standees we are getting. we are always losey seats with the new cars and looking like we are doing herds into subways and into the early 1950's and 60's of new york city and don't like the way the new light-rail are going. corridors are now a big word. a couple years ago cumulative was the big word. cumulative amount of traf ic. third street in the rails are going to restrict the amount of people we can allow to live there. your voices have to come up aletal higher on that. we have to slow down for the bridle on uncontenses growth. last week i call ded [inaudible] for cleaning too. >> mr. chairman that is the last person to address matters in the jurisdiction of mta and not on todays agenda. move toog consent calendar. all items considered [inaudible] member of had board wishes to have aiteal severered and considered separately. i have not heard you like to have a item severed but the public asked item 10.3 be severed. >> is there a motion on the consent calendar minus 10.3? all in favor say aye. 10.3. >> cristina varner followed by edward mason. >> good afternoon. my name is cristina vrner. i strongly urge you not to establish a week day morning shuttle done on san jose between valley and 9th street. my family lives on this block and va3 your old son. we already live on one of the dirtiest and busiest streets in san francisco where we witness accidents involves vehicles, cyclist and pedestrians. the pollution levels are high. the shuttle buses are nysy and enormous and block views. the exhaust creates unbreveth air and trophic congestion. the residents-the full loan tree that helps create breatheable air for residents on this block will be damaged by the buses pulling to the curb. i understand it is proposed to be trimmed but need the whole tree t. is a shame that to see that dpw exempted this from environmental review because it effects our environment. i want to draw your teengz to page 3 of staff report. the shuttle bus stop takes away the use of 5 to 6, not 4 parking spots which are especially permitted for residents. the city should refund the cost of the parking permit through may 31, 2017 because the point is park in the spots all day and now it is impossible to do so. there is a existing commuter shuttle spot on valencia and 26th street and additional stop doesn't need to be created in front of our house. the worker of companies catered to can walk a few blocks to caf a bus. the plan decreases safety by increasing exhaust and nysand tafic. please don't [inaudible] by approving san jose avenue. >> next speaker, please. >> edward mason and mr. chairman that is the last person. >> edward mason. stop removes the residential parking permitinant which is a form of de facto imminent domain. it is a gift of public space for private use and broken contract with no reimbursement for the people. you have a stop about 2 thousand feet away at valencia and cesar chavez. you eliminate stops by lengthening the walking distances while making these particular stops more veents. convenient. the stop is unnecessary. this is unnecessarily stop and impacts the environment because for every cycle of a bus you have pollution from the break pads and break dust and upon acceleration you have pollution caused by the engine and also the noise. this is got a environmental impact that could be-is unnecessarily if you can walk an extra 2 thousand feet. operation after 10 a.m. for bus operations i have observe buses. there is a bus at 1015 and 1010 and 1035 stopping at the current location. this is going to create unsafe situations if the automobiles are parked after 10 a.m. this will be cause a safety issue with double parking on san jose avenue. in summary, i would recommend that you take a good look at this station as to why these individuals cannot walk a extra 2 thousand feet to the new stop-to is a existing stop at the salvation army that you approved several months ago. thank you very much. >> thank you, sir. questions or comments? mr. migire you want to talk about this? >> good afternoon. tom mcguire. joined by [inaudible] who has detailed answers to your questions. >> good afternoon. so, the purpose is primarily to place a stop that is at san jose is deloris is that is being removed where they are widening the itisland so this is replacing existing stop where we have 57 vehicles stopping during the a.m. period and just serving the a.m. period. >> thank you. thank you mrs. [inaudible] i know when mrs. pain brought the commuter shuttle program she made a point of saying this is a changeable program and it is a living stop thing and we are moving it around and have seen these stops at all most every meeting we had for the past few months. i will go ahead and support this stop and thank the people who came to give feedback and completely understand how much of a change it for your block face to have a commuter shuttle stop and also want to make request that we take a look at dolores street because i understand dolores street is limited away from it stop. what we have seen in that we hear from the people around dolores park that have a hole in the shuttle program where they are walking for 15 minutes to get to a stop. i think we need to take a look at dolores street and see if the weight limit can be restricted and share the pain on the shuttle stops because nobody wants them and we need them. i make a motion to approve them. >> second that >> the residential parking space is only not available in the shuttle hours but available during the other hours. >> yes. >> thank you mr. chairman. i just want to thank the public for being engaged in this work t. is important to achieve the best possible program for us to continue to monitor how things work and accommodate accordingly looking at dolores street or what have you. this is a thing that that we hope will have a positive net effect on the community as a whole and certainly sensitive to the concerns that are brought upism namely, the pollution of diesel or what have you. those concerns are very real. i appreciate the fact the shuttles do take away a lot of otherwise car traffic t. is important that we are sensitive but look ought for the entire community so i'll support for this measure but i want to thank the public for being vigilant and encourage more individual laens as the project is implemented. >> director >> we are taking people out of cars and increasing transit use even in this private form. sorry i'm not familiar with the map out there but is there a commercial space within relative proximity to this area such that we have the stops not in 41 front of a 3 year old home or in front of a business not open and appreciate the fath they bring a lot of people to their block? >> so this is a primarily residential portion of san jose. we looked at numerous locations, mitchells is there primarily commercial use in that area and we did reach out and spoke with them early in the planning process. their concerns were around the fact that this would block their driveway used for loading during the a.m. period. so we shifted the stop a bit to not block their driveway and also be partially in front of a house and partially in front of empty garden lot to try to minimize the impact but it is challenging given it is primarily residential. >> motion and second to approve. all in favor say aye. opposed? ayes have it. >> regular agenda mr. chairman. item 11, approve parking and traffic modifications along folsom street between hawthorn and embarcadero involved in the folsom street streetscape project. >> good afternoon director. greg leaseen and sustainable streets and here to presents the folsom streetscape projeth. exciting project. been working on this my 8 year career. the project goes back further than that and touch on the history. the project sponsored by the office of ocii formally known as the redevelopment agency. it is there project but i'm the mta lead and mta and planning department are active in the streetscape design of it. public workicize construction manager and project planjure on behalf of ocii so big team effort. also have a consultant team, cmg architects and [inaudible] big team and excited to be hoor. here. 8 years of work so thank you for coming out. sharing the exassignment with me. this is the project site. it is folsom street downtown, between second street and embarcadero. this is a old aerial of the old folsom street under the freeway terminal separator structure. so, everybody knows the old embarcadero free bp way torn down after the earthquake. not everybody remembers the terminal separator which connected to the bay bridge which is the equally structure in the air. i have scoured all over to find more historic photo's of structures and i really can't find any. it is like people want to forget it existed. i called the cal trans department and had nothing. i did just-couldn't include in the presentation. if you watch the 1958 san francisco cop drama, the line up, you will see-i highly recommend it. the climax at the end takes place on the under construction terminal separator structures so please take a look and get excited about that. there are no other photo's i can find accept there is one i like to share. my friend gave me a great book when i moved to san francisco and a favorite of my kids now. don't know if you can see this. leer sat the bottom you can cineld kind of see. there is the old structure and this book remarks san franciscans dispice the monstrosity and it was torn down. i'll talk more about the history in a moment but sorry i don't have more photo's of the old folsom street. i do of the new folsom street. this is a rendering and qu walk you through the details. we will convert the street into two way traffic operation with one lane each way. there will be big widened sidewalks with corner bull bout which you can see here. the bull bouts have rain gardens and bench seating and looking into having native plants for the rain gardens because they request is made. this photodoes not show the bike lanes there also which i'll show in a moment. it is really a long history how we got to this point. i'll walk you through the cross section. this is folsom street, new folsom street looking east bound and i'll walk you through left to right. on the left on the north side, the existing 10 foot sidewalk remains at 10 feet but the high rise and ground floor retail have a 15 book setback mandated so results in a 25 foot sidewalk on the north side of instreet with double row of trees and one block is already built with phil's coffee. there is a 6 foot wide west bound protected bike lane and south of that there is a buffer and south of that there is a parking and loading strip for vehicles to stop where they won't interact with the bikes. similar design as other protected bike ways we have implemented. south of that thral is the west bound lane and east bound lane and on the south side of the street there is parking and loading and buffer and east bound protected bike lane and sidewalk will be widened to 15 feet. that is the new street, really exciting and this is implemented after the new transit center opens in 2018. ac transit will come out and move into the new elevated bus facility that will enable one lane of traffic each way without impacting ac transit. there is a map of the extents. important note is between second street and spear street is the ocii project which includes the sidewalk widening and all that lovely stuff. mta we are going to restripe the last block between spear and embarcadero to have protected bike lanes to create the connection between second street to the embarcadero and folsom street is the link. we are build agnetwork of protected boo bike ways with this project and enhancing transit and cars by make tg a 2 way street making it better for local circulation. here is the timeline. this is a abbreviated timeline rel toov the streetscape project and parking and traffic changes seeking your approval. the history of this project goes back a long way. i think when the elevated free way was built people called to have it torn down. it is worth noting there is a big effort in the late 70's and early 80's to tear down the embarcadero freways. people wanted to tear that down. the board of supervisors approved it in 1985 and the voters overturned that and that was a huge blow to the freeway removal idea. two years later there is a earthquake and the embarcadero didn't fall dow it was damaged and so was the terminal structure so at a very contenses vote the board approved 6 to 5 to tear down the freeway in 91. the people-the advocates try today tear town other freeways. as soon as the freeway was shut down all the traffic materialized. terminal separator structure and removed in the mid-90's and laid the ground for the rest of my slide which is redevelopment agency known as ocii created redevelopment area in the zone and the removal of the freeway parcels created new lands sold to developers to fund the transit center and fun this project which is $15 million project. it is a long time coming. we are here today with legislation and final approval and then we hope to break ground next year. should take about a year to build so hopefully enjoy the street and riding our bikes and walking along in 2018. here is a overview of the design. i will not walk you through this. again t is from second street to the embarcadero so the slide is from second to fremont and the bottom is from fremont to embarcadero. i'll zoom in to a example. this is typical of the design. you see-you can't see on this screen but one lane of traffic in each way and protected bike lanes and also install transit boarding islands. muni has a plan to [inaudible] bus route extension at the moment. there is work on there [inaudible] it will happen here so we are building boarding islands so the buses will not conflict with bikes. that's it. that is my presentation. >> excellent presentation. members the board? >> great presentation thank you very much. it was nice to be reminded of the history of that freeway. when i worked at [inaudible] after the earthquake we would walk and have our lunch. very fun. i love this project and think the widened sidewalks will be great. if anybody has not tried to go downtown in the last 2 years try it. a lot of the sidewalkerize so narrow you can't walk. i think the wide sidewalkerize fabulous. the parking buffered bike lanes is what everyone is look frg as we heard from mr. star about upper market street. there is such a sense of frustration among cyclist. there is a huge sense of frustration so pleased to see these are going because i know a [inaudible] crowded urban environment you can't expect 100 percent separation all the time but if we engineering it so we can prevent the [inaudible] i'm so excited about the project, it will be a fantastic addition. no questions. motion to approve. >> veckd. second. >> the buffer like a raised pavement? >> a lot of people asked that. this design isn't raised. the design is for a painted buffer. it is similar to jfk drive or bay street. it is important to know the difference from the second street which will have raised bike ways. the short answer for why we were not able to consider that is because wree have corner bull bouts with rain gardens and it is designed so the rain water rains into the rain garden so looked how that will work with a raised bike way and it basically wouldn't. we are excited. the corner bull bouts and rain gardens shorten the crossing distance between for pedestrians and also if we do find-i'm hopeful that car drivers will figure it out to not pull all the bay to the curb and putting thought into the striping and painting to make it clear but if we have issues we can ret row fit qu treatments. >> the things that youthey are like little magnet things you run up against. not a curb, but it sticks to the ground and you can-something that is like a lot of times people if they are parking and not paying attention they pull too far and if there is something like on the freeway and go to the wrong lane all is a different sound. that type of thing. >> we'll be watching closely how it functions and have it opportunity to install treatments like that. >> i think in a situation like this because this project the parking is outside the bike lane, correct? that make as huge difference because as lang asia see one or two cars parked correctly most people figure it out they are supposed to park out of the bike lanes so i think in golden gate park you see cars parked correctly and one parks incorrectly. i have high hopes this will be working. >> one traffic question and trying . is there a stretch to bridge access? >> yes. >> yes. we are going from 1 late to 2 lanes >> accept between second and essex street. that isn't changed. >> okay. and so-great. northbound traffic on second will make the right and curl up that way and there is lelft turn restriction. let me cut to the chase, you addressed this and not anticipating this will exacerbate that existed line up? >> correct. >> i think this is very exciting and looking forward to see it played out. the one question is the stretch from spear to embarcadero. was it determined there was enough [inaudible] the only change is the bike lanes? >> yes, it is really just that is the project boundary for the redevelopment area so thereat is where ocii can spend the money to widen sidewalks. mta or public works can come back and do more sidewalk widening on the south side. the good news there is the gap building on the north side so have the 15 foot set back so the 25 foot wide set back is preserved from the embarcadero to essexs street. we can come back later for the bull bouts and widen the sidewalks. >> i'm supportive of the bike lanes. there is minority andimably a vocal minority in the disability community that pestered me that they need curb back squz there are protected bike lane jz want safety for cyclist but want to be able to access in our vehicles. the concern is where the buffer basically on jfk as you probably know when you have a blew ue space you can use the buffer to unload and connect to the sidewalk. there are concerns in the community about these going in more and when the buffer is not continuous to the place where you can access the sidewalk. that a complicated thing but wonder if this addresses that or it is a continuous buffer and if we will make a extra to put in blue zones where we can. i don't drive and [inaudible] i know some people in the community are very concerned about the protected bike lanes. >> we put a lot of thought into ark sesable access work wg mta and public works. all most each block face north and south there will be a new-it isn't a white curb zone but there were be fully accessible loading zone there for everybody and we are installing new blue zone parking spaces as well. both accessible loading and parking. >> great. >> yes, just very quickly. i notice with the jfk parking like the vice chair said, usually the problem starts when one person parks the wrong way and there is a fall though leader sort of mentality of not wanting to disrupt whatever pattern is established. i often wondered if you folks had considered establishing like some kind of signage or stenciling in the buffer that indicates no parking so that people might see pulling up like where to park or not to park and there is a better understanding of how to dpoo do it. i know that it would be labeerous and maybe ugly to see a bunch of no parking signs at every space but maybe the ones at the top of the block face just wondering if you have thought about that and particularly with respect to when you are going install this one if there is think toog that and what led you to not do it. >> the blue zone spaces we springled the blue zone at the beginning of the street east and west bound because anticipate those being parks with a vehicle. when car is doing it it is obvious for others how to do it. installing signage in the painted buffer that will be tough because we can't use the street sweeper. >> like painted on the [inaudible] you have stencils and imagine a p with no parking or something to that effect. >> we can go back to the slide and walk you through. so, you can't-so, this shows a spot reserving for bike share stations. this is what the wide zone will look like and still a work in praun progrtss what the striping will be. the idea is this will be a white stripes and shown on black on the paper but are white stripes. this is a white passenger zone. i hate saying that. here are the yellow spaces which are for truck loading and this is the painted buffer. we are planning as of this moment to use our traditional parking t's to make it clear thris is a metered parking space. these are for trucks. up here where it is a white zone, there is no t's because you don't park there t is just for louding. we have put thought how this work squz we are doing other protected bikeways as we innovate this. the bottom line is we have a idea and watch it very closely and if we need to install rubber curb segments or better signage we haven't done the sign plan yet and will be mounted on the street lights just the typical no parking. we need to develop a sign if it says this is floating loading zone, which is brand new. work in progress. >> what i'm implying with this where you have the slash, diagonal white buffer zone, that is what i suggest considering putting in like a stencil that says no parking in there because for whatever reason sometimes some people do park on that-on top of it in golden gate park on the jfk lanes and creates this sort of line of parking that i suppose is-it becomes a problem i think because that buffer zone is gone and then it is less safe bike lane. i guess what i suggest is consider how you enforce it or not and see if there are lesson to be learned from maybe putting down a stencil that says no parking in the white diagonal slash because people do it all the time, well not all the time-if is interesting to see if there is a way to get better enforcement there before maybe doing something like that here. >> i do think on jfk there are stencils and say no parking. maybe we need bigger ones and p where a cross out. >> something like that i think will be warranted there. >> thank you very much. excellent presentation. motion and second? >> josey aaron followed by charles defargs. those are the only people who turned in speaker cards. good afternoon. >> good afternoon directors. josey aaron and the new neighborhood organizer with walk san francisco. on behalf of walk sf i would like to express our strong support for this exciting project. i will make the segment more pleasant and safe for everyone. we are excited to see a project that prioritizes pedestrians and includes features like bull bouts which increase pedestrian visibility, decrease the distance to cross and slow turning vehicles, wider sidewalks which act as a barrier between pedestrians and traffic with landscape. the conversion of folsom to two way traffic which calm traffic. a street that connects people to parks and open space. we are thrilled to see the city building out green connections like folsom with rain garden squz other feature. we love to see the rest of folsom when the folsom howard project is implement to be designed comprehensively with green and traffic calming features as this project. we look forward to many more projects like folsom streetscape breaking ground soon. >> charles defargs and he is the last person to address you today. >> good afternoon. my name is defarj and campaign coordinator at the san francisco bike coalition. this is a project we are excited about specifically the protected bike lanes from second to embarcadero. souckt of market is one the most heavily bike trafficked areas in san francisco despite being one the most dangerous. the projects sets to transform folsom into a bikeable street something it is not today. the improvements open up the east end of folsom lowing two way bike traffic and providing important north/south connection to howard on main, beel and fremont. the result is more accessible ceblthed and vibrant for people walk{biking. thank you guys and thank you to greg at mta. this is a great project. >> we have motion and veckd second? >> aye. >> item twevlg, discussion whether to conduct a closed session. motion to conduct a closed session. >> second? all in favor say aye. we will go in closed ession. >> discuss city attorney voted to settle the cases. 14, appropriate for motion to disclose or not disclose the information discussed >> motion to not disclose. >> all favor say aye. we are adjourned. thank you very much. >> good morning and welcome to the commission on aging and adult services meeting. could we have the roll call? >> president james? >> present. >> serina in >> here. >> commissioner itani? >> commissioner loo is absent. >> ow. >> here. >> roy. >> simils. >> present. >> please note that commissioner mcgee is present. >> could we have approval of the september, 7th, 2016 agenda. >> seconded. >> okay, it has been moved and seconded that we approve the september, the 7, 2016, agenda, all in favor, say aye. >> aye. >> opposed? and the ayes have it and so the motion is carried. >> and approval of the september 7th, consent agenda, could i have a motion to approve? >> so moved. >> second. >> it has been moved and seconded that we approve the september, 7th 2016, consent agenda. all in favor say aye. >> aye. >> the ayes have it and so the motion is carried. item four, approval of the august third, commission meeting minutes. with some corrections? >> so moved. >> it has been moved. >> the corrections were a typo and just a name that was in the wrong place. >> yes. if you will look in the back of the minutes there are some corrections in linda loo will present and then she has, and i want to mention our names mentioned and so those typos corrections in the minutes. >> okay. >> second. >> okay. >> it has been moved and seconded that we approve the minutes with the corrections noted. all in favor? >> aye. >> aye. >> opposed? >> the ayes have it and so the motion is carried. thank you. >> and now, we will come to a report, the director's report. >> good morning, good morning. >> president james and commissioners. first i just want to apoll guy for shireen she is off on vacation, and meets in the commission. and i just have a few updates, first is our age and disability, friendly san francisco group. and in 2014, mayor lee, signed a letter with for the city of san francisco to join the age friendly cities and communities. and since that time, we have had a work group. focusing on the different areas of aging disability and friendly. and now the work group is moving on to convening a task force that will complete a base line assessment and action plan as our next step. the assessment and action plan is comprehensive record of age and disability friendly efforts in the city. there will be two co-chairs for this task force, anita as the mayor, and the senior advisor on health policy, and kelley who is the director of the ihss public authority have graciously agreed to be the co-chairs for the task force. and the task force will get under way, shortly in the next few years. >> and hireen has been asked for the california, association on the areas of aging to be education campaign committee chair. and this group, the goal of this group is to look at ways to promote aging, and change the conversation in california. they have a tag line, which is aging is all about living. and they will work on different educational processes to promote positive images, and different awareness on aging. and then the third thing is the office on the aging as well as our contracts department, and the planning department are working together to develop request for proposals schedule for the whole year. and our plans is to present that to the commission at the next meeting. so that you have the plan laid out for the year of what to expect. and that concludes the report, do you have any questions? >> any questions in commissioners? >> well, okay. >> okay. you mentioned that the city, is going to have a task force to study, we study at the aging population? >> so the task force is specific to the aging and disability friendly work group. which is a work group of the long term care coordinating council. >> when they expect to issue the report? are they going to have one year? >> yeah, probably in about a year. >> that is the goal. >> what is the objective? when you, and what can we expect from the report? >> so the base line assessment gives us a picture of the current efforts of how we are meeting the aging and disability friendly, initiatives, which are outlined from the world health organization. which i would be happy to send you if you want to look at it more closely. and then from that to develop the framework of how to move forward either, either in policy development or program development and it involves, representatives from all over the city, the different departments and the community based organizations and such. >> and including the non-profits? >> yes. >> and consumers. >> yes. >> yep. >> and if you would like, i would be. >> no that is all right. >> no i am not expecting worldwide. i am interested in san francisco. >> yeah, in the initiatives for that. all of the cities that follow. >> very good. >> okay. >> commissioner sims? >> just a quick question on the calendar for rfp, could you give us a sense of what that will have? >> well, not exactly, i think that the intention is for us to layout a plan for the year, so that we are issuing them throughout the year and not in a clump for the staff. and for the commission, and for the staff, and for contracts, and so that we can make sure that we are focusing on them throughout the year. >> okay. >> and that will be the public documents chl >> yeah, a public document and it will be presented next month. >> i just have one question. will this effect the people who, the contractors in terms of their budget lines and will they be notified in advance they may have to go longer in the year? will they be notified in advance of what their budget time line will be. >> yeah, definitely. once it is developed, we will make sure that they have it. >> and go from there. and it is, you know, it is not a hard, and it is not necessarily a hard and fast thing. there may be you know, changes that we need to make, based on what is coming on at that moment. >> okay. >> thank you. >> any other questions? >> thank you. >> next we will have the employee recommendations, the department of aging and adult services will honor silvia zhang from the public conserve tor office. thank you. >> good morning, everyone. so silviy would you like to join us? okay. thank you for being here. so, we are going to, this morning, we are honoring sylvia who is from the public conservator's office. before we do that, could anyone who is here in the office stand up and be acknowledged? thank you very much, for everything that you do. and so just a little before we get to sylvia, a little information for you about the office, the public conservator provides, mental health and service foz san francisco residents, for gravely disabled. and this means that they are unable to provide for themselves, food, clothing and shelter. the due to mental illness. and the found by the court to be unable or unwilling to accept voluntary treatment and so it is a legal process by which they are assigned as a public conservator. >> it appoints one that is responsible for things like reports for placements, and psychiatric medication, and supervision of treatment, advocacy and placement and case management. and if you have any other questions, about the office, i am sure that any of the staff would be happy to ask them. or answer them for you. so, now to sylvia. >> so, really excited that you are up here and that i go get to do this. so thank you. >> she is a senior transcripter typist is her official title. she has been in the office since september of 2011. she is, and so these are words of her peers. she is an intelligent, thorough and dedicated employee who rarely misses work. behind her humble exterior lies a highly skilled and efficient and dependent worse horse capable of completing complicated work among constant interruptions she is never too busy to help others and she is always open to share her knowledge and expertise. she completes vast amounts of work discreetly and is always, gracious, she is open minded and gets along easily with colleagues as well as clients and providers, due to her kind nature and professionalism and sense of humor. sylvia is one of i kind. that is nice. and her humility and elegance and quiet determination is other worldly, we are so lucky to have her on our team. so, thank you, and i would like to present you with this memento of our gratitude, thank you very much. would you like to say anything? >> no, i am okay. >> thank you. >> thank you. could we have the advisory council report? is there a substitute? okay. good morning commissioners. management has to be out of town and so they asked me to represent him. i have to say that i look these and, these are really the transdescription of my own note and rather than the official agenda and i have not been able to see it yet. but you will have it next month. and so you will be able to see it. so it is possible there are some inaccuracies in it and certainly some omissions. so, after this is the meeting of august, 17th. and after roll call and approval of the agenda and the previous month's minutes, president schmidt and the advisory council talked to our members including one former member long time activist walter devarn who had to resign due to illness. we discussed the partnered das, and ucff division of gereatrics and the mental and behavior service training which was held at mission bay on friday, july 22nd, the advisory council members and who attended including myself, was very good. >> and das director, shireen made her report, and das has received three awards, including the chance and restaurant meals, for seniors program and the road show, and the bay view hunter's point and the multi service, information program, and one for san francisco connected. and there were talks of pursuing the world's health organization, aging friendly city designation, which has led to the creation of a task force and we have already heard about that. and an rfp has been entered and requesting additional money for home care and housing subdies. and we noted the resignation of jones, and they are in the process and has hired a deputy director and an aging director and we are going to have the presentations and one presentation was from the tender loin, safe passages program, which uses volunteers and community partnerships, to insure safe walks to and from school for the children in the tender loin and the safe passage foz seniors, several agencies are involved, cooperating, and there is funding from saint francis hospital. and ucsf school of medicine, and there will be more if the fund proposition i, passes. volunteer corner captains who were very visibly dressed, monitored designated for children. and i was less clear on how they manage the walking and of the safe passage of seniors, but that will probably be in the minutes. a second presentation was a vision zero. and a proposed collaboration between the departments of public health and the public works and the safety planning and muni to reduce the pedestrian, and bicyclist and driver, accidents, and the seniors and the persons with the disabilities are especially at risk. and it was moved and seconded and passed to support the new needs of adopting vision zero, community reports. i don't believe that there was an official report from the membership committee chaired by ruso but i am pleased to say that i know that we have two applicants in the process of requesting appointment and both will be very good. beverly taylor from district ten, which i believe is supervisor cohen's district has joined the advisory council, rick apple bee and the stated that the education committee is working with ucsf on the geriatric workforce project and the training will be in october and future trainings and goal setting, and safety, and vision, and perhaps, another which i didn't get. rments from the field, and moxi, noted that the board of supervisors has passed the motion for data collection about older, lgbtq persons, based on a well designed and research survey form from ucsf. several city agencies including das, will be involved. as you probably know, marcy has been honored by the san francisco commission on the status of women for her work on behalf of lgbtq seniors. in survey and research and advocacy, especially on dementia. and for older, and lgbtq women and for co-founding project open house. we did not discuss any of the business, we postponed discussion of the by laws as this meeting ran long and there were no further motions that were moved, seconded or passed. >> thank you. >> and i just have one question. >> sure. >> on the meeting regarding muni. so it was at a meeting of committee was going to look at safety for seniors, in the bicycle correlation? >> it is, and i don't believe it with me. and it is a proposed collaboration called vision zero. and we did not meet with muni but it seems like if it is ray proposed collaboration between the public health, public works, san francisco, planning department, and muni. >> okay, i am sorry, i don't have any more information. >> thank you. >> any other questions? >> thank you. >> okay. >> thank you. >> next will be the joint legislative committee report. diane lawrence and neil sims. >> actually i will be making that report, we are without our co-chairman diane lawrence this time she was on vacation and so you are stuck with me. we talked generally about legislation at the end of the state cycle, and i will highlight one that i thought was subnative and that is, 80, 15, 84, by brown is the cola piece of legislation, unfortunately it has moved forward, but they have significantly lowered the awards from, so that the increases are pretty meager that are going across in that cola increase, i don't have the exact dollars amounts but i know that it is nominal dollar amount. and that and our meeting was sort of at the end of the state legislative cycle. and so most of everything that we were interested in was on the governor's desk awaiting his decision for the signature and we did not have a lot of conclusion around some of those, and the status of those pieces of legislation. and we talked about the funding for the california, legislature and the funding and it was passed through both houses and expected the governor's signatu signature. mrs. warren, first name? ann. try to make her diane. >> and was quick to point out, that it is a one time only, funding and the way that cso was listed on the california state tax return, continues to be problematic, and they were not successful in reaching the minimum threshold in the last tax cycle and so there is something about the future funding so that we are concerned to be concerned about that and focus on that. and we talked about the dignity fund and invited representatives from the dignity fund to up date us on that campaign initiative, at our next meeting. and we talked about the issue of homelessness at some length. talking about both the impact of homelessness in san francisco on the disabled community as well as the increased age, dem graphic for the homelessness in san francisco and so we, i am having a tough time and i am under caffinated this morning. >> but my colleague, richard al made a motion that we approve to invite the mayor's office zcar on homelessness to talk to us about the impact that that whole area, of interest in the city is having on our city population, and those with disabilities. and so we are looking forward to that. and our next meeting is september, 21st, at 9:00 a.m. >> i did receive a question about the bi laws of the committee and combining it and having the separate stationary and as i am still looking at that and seeing, that if not, that you will create another body in terms of who is responsible, for that group, in terms of who they are reporting to. and were they operate separately. and so, i just was not quite clear. so i wanted you to really have a discussion, not only with the commission, but as well as the advisory council. >> yeah, so. >> how their by laws will we will probably have more to discuss on that, once the staff has completed that analysis. >> okay. >> we will see. >> we are not ready yet. >> okay, all right. >> and just so before you just make sure that both the advisory committees, look at that, >> absolutely. >> as well as the commission. >> yeah. >> have it, and the input into how they have changed in the by laws, or might change the by laws, thank you. >> i will just say that it will be a coordinated effort. >> okay, thank you. >> and the long term care coordinating council? >> well, i will respond to that. so there was no long term coordinating council meeting in august so there is no report, and the next is tomorrow at 1 p.m. >> okay. >> thank you. >> next the tacc report, cathy >> she is not here. >> she is in sacramento. >> okay. >> case report? i'm dave, with the senior center reporting for the case. and i will just briefly, our membership meeting in august was our annual advocacy brain storming and you will hear more about that in a couple of months, and in other words, we look at all of our successes from the last year, brain storm and what we would think, and improvements in the senior service systems in san francisco, and what we want to propose for next year. our next membership meeting is this coming monday, where we are going to embrace the dignity firm, and we have sandy coming who is going to bring in the posters and the buttons and the slogans. is there a general public comment, we will move along to any old business. no one. and the new business? okay. and all items below are action items and require a vote by the commission. i am mike, and i am from the office of on the aging and my office of the aging are excited to bring forward for the review and the approval, and a new program, for dos and this is our social, isolation, prevention services for lgbt seniors and adults with disabilities. a little bit of background on this program, to convene the lgbt aging policy task force, with a couple of purchapose to evaluate the needs, and in the city of san francisco, to assess the capacity of the current support system to meet the needs and, to make recommendations as to lgbt older adult and with the higher rates of physical disabilities and more likely to live alone and lack companion ship and have lower levels of social support and all of these factors that lead to significantly higher rates of isolation, and suicidal. >> and the services are available in san francisco to address these needs and found them to be lacking and resulting in the recommendation for the establishment of the new programming to address this need. >> and the primary to hear the shanty was formed in 1974 and was one of the based organizations in the world and through a variety of the service offerings and has worked to provide the individualized compassionate support to countless, lgbt seniors and younger adults with disabilities in san francisco. and through their years of experience, they have developed and refined, a service delivery model, utilizing the volunteers and they are the primary contractor here, and we will be handling the bulk of the work and meet thag care and navigation and the peer support and the development and the match i matching for over 40 years it has provided the lgbt, programming and this contract which is part of this and they will hire a staff person who will be dedicated to further normalizing the lgbt programming on site and expanding the capacity for the clients as well as doing education and out reach regarding this program. further. in development of this, it is entered into the letters of cooperation with a variety of partners, including the martin, health center and the project open hand, and the san francisco aids foundation, and the lgbt center and open house, of each of those organizations have their own service histories here in san francisco. and i think that what is great here, and through the collaborations and the program not only has a rich source of clients, and often who are hard to track down as they are isolated, and hard to reach, but also, creates a network of services for easy and successful connection to these clients to a variety of services including health services and meal service and social services and the groups support and housing services and there are probably many more that i just, i could list for a while. this program before you today has taken some time to formulate, but what i am presenting to you today, really recognizes the recommendation of the task force and represents a well designed program to best serve the target population, with that i am happy to answer the questions that the commissioners might have. >> okay. >> commissioners? >> yes. you indicated that you expect to serve 75 person? >> yes. >> and so, what is your estimate of the population that you could serve? much more than 75, right? >> yes. >> eligible, clients. >> yes. it is much higher than that, and this is a new program, and these clients are some of the hardest clients to reach. and so we have in the first year, we have 75, which is a modest amount, in the second year, it goes up to 90. certainly that is not the minimum amount of clients to be served but considering the circumstances this being a new program, there will be a lot of learning as it is implemented and we thought that that was a realistic number to start with. and you have been hired, three and a half people to serve this 75? >> yeah. well, it is efficient to the 3 and a half, and the paid employee, and the volunteers. >> yeah, so there is going to be a lot of people involved with this. there are certainly on the shanti program side there are three and a half, and at curry there are at least a half person or more, and then there is a recruitment of many, many, volunteers, to go out and provide a lot of the services that you know, in this program. it is really a high touch program, with the clients being seen almost on a weekly basis. >> what about the population in the city? for lgbt. >> and would you say? 15 percent? >> i don't have that number handy. unfortunately. yeah. >> thank you. >> any other questions? >> commissioners? >> yeah, you mentioned open house, as collaborating agency. >> yes. >> i don't see the open house listed in the proposals, is that in addition, or --. >> they were, a late ad, and that information. in the past few weeks and it didn't make it into these documents. >> and it there a funding passed through to that agency. >> no. the letters of cooperation are non-financial. >> okay. >> there are no financial benefits to the open house. >> i just had a couple of questions, and i was looking on page 3, in terms of how they were going to be supported and who is going to finance. >> and it. >> and so, right, right, right shlgs and so this is actually going to be two different grants. and so, this, this item a before you, is essentially the non-pets one and this one is the lgbt senior younger adults with the disabilities, social isolation prevention, and this one before you today is not going to, and this item a is not pet related and i can certainly address the pet in item b, and it is a pet one. >> okay. >> all right. >> and commissioner, to the commissioner, and i think that the over all population is estimated at about ten percent of the city's population. >> okay. >> but the senior population is probably higher. >> the senior about 20 percent, or something like that. >> i think that the numbers that i have seen are between, 20 and 25,000 today. here and they are identified for the lgbt. >> and it is always difficult, and since many don't identify or don't reveal and it is very difficult to quantify. >> thank you. >> and any other questions? >> all right. >> commissioners? >> i just want the chair show know that i am going to recuse myself from the vote on this particular issue. >> okay, do we have a quorum? >> so it is just two people. >> we have to recuse themself on this issue. >> and the four. okay. >> any other comments from the, is there a public comment on the, is there any public comment? seeing none, i will call for the vote, all in favor? >> aye. >> aye. >> opposes? >> ayes have it, and so the motion is carried. >> thank you. >> item b, requesting the authorization to enter into a new grant with shanti project, for provision of animal bond and services to the lgbt seniors and adults with disabilities during the period of september 1, 2016, through june, 30, 2017, in the amount of $200,000 plus an is 0 percent for a total grant amount not-to-exceed, $220,000 could i have a motion to discuss. >> so moved. >> second. >> and indeed this is the one vofrling the pets. >> through the board of supervisors at that process, and in this fiscal year, 200,000 was allocated, on a one time only, basis. and to support the programming related to animal bonding for isolated lgbt seniors. and a bit of background on the organization. and in 2015, the organization, pets are a wonderful to support paws merged with the project. and background on the pets they or in ated in the 80s when the volunteers serving at the foundation, food bank noticed that the clients any gleted their own nutrition, and order to provide for their pets. and so it is a result of this discovery, those volunteers created the special, pet food bank to carry the food and supplies, and it continued as an organization, until that murg merger. and shanti believes that the human animal bond is the best support available, to medically vulnerable individuals and it is just designed for the services around sustaining these bonds. for many, having a companion animal can be central to their hel and this well-being, and we are seeing the evidence, indicating that one of the benefits of the human animal bond is improved health out come for the pet owners. and the pause programs within shanti, provide services to over, 500 clients and all of these clients are residents of san francisco, and the low income, and seniors or adults with disabilities. the current pause of the service and clients identified as lgbt. and there are currently over 700 people, on the wait list for the services. and many of which meet the criteria of this program. and looking socially, isolated seniors and young adults with disabilities who will benefit from the increased support. services within the new shanti, is similar to before, and we will start with the care and navigation, and the volunteer, peer support to assist with the clients, about you this will include a focus on the maintaining the human animal bond and so for this is means that they will identify the pet related needs to keep that pet, and that human with their pet. and working to match clients with volunteers, to help to provide some of those wrap around services just some of the services available under this program, include access again to the pet food bank, and the annual pet wellness exams and the vet service and then the volunteers providing many, supportive pet care services such as assistance with the dog walking and the medication and administration, and the maintenance and clean being and the feeding and transportation to and from the medical appointments as well as emergency, foster care for the pets during the client emergencies when we are unable to care for the pet. just like the previous item, on the agenda, and the goal of this program is to alleviate the social isolation, and also support and fund, and also to support, the human animal bond for lgbt seniors and younger adults with disabilities living in san francisco and with that i am happy to answer any questions, that the commissioners may have. what happens during that year, and what happens if you selectively manage that? >> so there is a primary point person with the paws who is in connect with the pet owner and is constantly getting updates from the pet owner and the volunteers about the status of the pet and as those needs increase, they are able to access resources within their program to try to meet those needs. that might mean that if a pet takes on the illness, and for the volunteer to get that pet to an exam and to get the care that they need. and if they are ongoing medication and the things that a client may be difficult to administer. and which can be tough having or i have had to administer the medicines to the cat, and the volunteers are there to help to support that process as well. >> so, this vet nar place that you pick would they donate any free time? >> my understanding is that the program has at least one wellness exam each year, with a professional provider in town, as well as perhaps, discounted serg ser services ongoing. >> thank you. >> thank you, michael. you mentioned this as a one time only. in yes. >> what if the program is successful. and how will you determine that? >> and b, what chances do we have of getting more money to continue if? >> yes, so we are measuring the success of this program, and shanti and paws are tracking a lot of data, and tracking not just the client coming in, but the fair plan and every single interaction with the pet owner, and the pet. so we will look at those, and the maintaining of that pet, and animal bond, and see that as leading towards the successful program model. as far as addressing both the funding, and it is correct, that the funding is set at this time to sunset. and you know, june, 30th of next year. and in that interim, it will be collecting the data to look at how this program is working. and we can then either departmentally, try to advocate for additional funding or the program can advocate for the additional funding or whether it means. >> yeah. >> thank you. >> commissioner ow? >> yes, this appropriation where already approved by the supervisors and sign-off by the mayor, right? >> these what? >> these appropriations, the money. >> yes. >> all were approved by. >> yeah, >> i just wanted to make an observation, you know, the board of supervisors and the mayor, and higher than us, and we are confirming the appropriation. >> sure. >> well, they do offer it here to ask the questions, and prode and poke >> and i think that it was for the program not for the contractor. >> correct. >> correct. >> and so, i see, we we will view the contracting process. thank you. >> thank you. >> so, any other question that i had was this program would the pet lovers can be duplicated like with the african american group? for longer than in terms of that group. >> sure, i don't. >> it is smaller. >> sure, i certainly, there are a number of, and this is not the only pet service provided by paws and they noted that they have many people waiting for services but i don't see any reason why it couldn't be modelled in other, you know, communities where there may be a gap in services. >> okay. >> thank you. >> any other questions? >> point of information. >> okay. >> are you commissioners? >> i think that --. >> okay. >> i have a con fliblth on this. >> all right. >> any other questions? >> well my question, will be to the assistant, director. we just heard that you know, that the supervisor and the mayor with the budget and modified the budget and located the budget and it is third and some, and the thoughts, and recommend to the supervisors and the mayor to you know, funding for the program? >> i think that so, and i think that i think that to answer your question is that through the annual budgeting process, as it builds up steam, certainly there are methods for dos and to provide the feedback to the mayor and to the board of supervisors as to what we see as needs in the community. correct? >> yes. >> that is correct. >> all right, then you will give us a fairly clear idea. >> yeah. >> and so we will have a channel in the thing. >> right. >> we do have an input to the budget process. >> yes. >> okay. >> in the public comment? >> any public comment? hearing none, i will call for the votes. all in favor? >> aye. >> aye. >> aye. >> opposes? >> ayes have it and so the motion is carried. eitem c, requesting to authorization to enter into a new grant with the light house for the blind and the visually impaired for the provision of the transportation service and via the taxi vouchers program to the seniors and adults with disabilities and for the period of july 1, through 2016, to june, 30, 201 #. 9 in the amount of 68,028, plus a ten percent for a total grant not-to-exceed, 74,890. could i have a motion to discuss? >> so moved. >> second. >> second. >> okay. michael? >> hello, again, commissioners and this item before you is a contract to provide a taxi vouchers to the seniors and the younger adults with disabilities and the purposes of this grant is to increase transportation, access options and to the seniors and younger adults. and with the disabilities and by doing so, trying to maintain or enhance their well-being. and for elbility for this program, the clients participate in the intake process, with the contractor, whose light house for the blind and visually impaired, and the client must be able to certificate by a physician that they are unable to take public transit, once they have been accepted into the program, they are then able to request taxi vouchers, and the destination for which the taxi vouchers can be used are limited and must be within the spirit of maintaining the health and well-being, and so primarily, we will see them for two and from, the medical appointments and with also some occasional appointments for the legal services and the benefit services and the meal and nutrition services. >> it is relatively straight forward program. and happy to answer any questions. commissioners may have. >> the commissioners? >> thank you, obviously this is an important program and given the over all difficulty in getting the taxi service in the city. can these vouchers be used for uber or lyft which are more accessible. >> they cannot at this time. >> yeah. >> yeah. >> you know, for what it is worth, i will just add that the light house and this is significant, and yeah, it is a good amount of money, and the contractor and the past years who has been in the light house for the blind have man taned a good relationship, and the vouchers themselves certainly can be used at various taxi providers in the city, if the client has a preferred one, but they have found that there are a couple in particular that seem to work particularly well with the client. >> okay. >> yeah, i just have a question. >> commissioner ow? >> what is the discount for the seniors with the disability coupons? when they pay the taxi fair. >> so this is free. they get a voucher that is good and they get essentially vouchers one way each direction, and the ride is free. >> all right, so they go to the medical appointments and any of the other places? >> yeah. >> they can use, and they used those vouchers to visit friends. >> no. >> the spirit of this program is to get them access primarily to health related services. >> yeah. >> so social visits is not included. >> were alternatives to the taxi explored, uber and lyft? >> at this time, no. and i think that. >> i think that some of the reasoning there, is that this program, this program itself has been in effect for since i think 2005, 2006 and it has been quite successful, you know. >> that is another good reason. >> i think that another reason would be, we have seen this model work with them. and i think that there, perhaps there are questions to be answered regarding the ride sharing companies in there. and competency regarding seniors and young people with disabilities. >> you know, i just think and i have met some bad too, and with the uber and all of those companies, and they are unsure that i will be very concerned myself and i can see going out, and i am just saying, i guess that i would respectfully disagree. >> yeah. >> and i would, and that is has been my experience, so. yes. >> i am not an expert, but i will throw this out there as a possibility and my understanding is that there is issues with the insurance and the taxi and the government form of commute, verses the ride sharing, which is not. and a liability that could be held for the provider of the voucher. that is my understanding. and another thing is that there is certainly with the part of the taxi, and there are things that are required of them that are not required of the tnc $, i think that they are call. >> another option is silver ride, which is fully insured and fully capable of dealing with seniors. and very reliable. >> and the city has used them. >> yes. >> if so, and perhaps at this point, they might be considered as well as an alternative to taxis. >> >> any other comments? >> is there a public comment at this time on issue? any public comment? okay. >> hi, i am a with the senior and disability action and i don't have a comment specifically on the funding proposal, but i did want to make a comment about the conversation about uber and lyft, there is tremendous concern about how it and any of the tncs are not at all acceptable for the people with discal dphysical disabilities, for those who are blind or visually impaired there can be advantages but there are no wheelchair accessible, uber and lyft vehicles in san francisco or none in the country, it is just not an option, so not only is that an issue, but that is hurting the tax company and that is making it harder to get wheelchair accessible taxis which was already impossible. and so, it is really a huge concern and so, i would just urge us all to act with some caution as far as how we support with uber and lyft given that. >> thank you. >> any other public comment? hearing none, i will call for the vote. all in favor? >> aye. >> aye. >> opposes? >> ayes have it, and so the motion is carried. >> thank you. >> and item d. last item. >> requesting authorization to modify the grant with the curry senior center, for the service during the period of july, 1, 2013, through june, 30, 2018. in the additional amount of $60,000 plus a 10 percent, for at total not-to-exceed $754,059, could i have a motion to discuss in >> so moved, second. >> okay. >> mike? >> and this item before you is $60,000 in funding, and divided into $30,000 per year for the current fiscal year and for the next fiscal year, and there is money allocated to fund the security guard at the senior center, and this is something that has been funded, and at least in the prior year, if not the year before that. and i have appeared before the commission on it. and due to the location, in the tender loin, the curry senior center has needed to take the steps to insure, the safety of the client and staff. there are incidents where they have been assaulted or in tim dated by the people congregating on the nearby corners or neighboring businesses. and curry has adopted a number of practices to try to increase the safety. and one of which is the full time security guard. and which is on site. and the security guard has been in place since august, 2014. and we are bringing this today on the community, services contract but really this will benefit the variety of programs, at curry including their case management program and their medical clinic and their congregate, meal program and the senior housing on the site and there are probably more, i just didn't think of it. >> how many hours will it be funded. >> the guard is there, upwards of 40 hours a week, and i have it as, it is 7:30 to 5:30, monday through friday and then a half day on saturday and a half day on sunday. >> thank you. >> any other questions? >> and is it public comment? >> public comment? >> and hearing none, i will call for the vote, all in favor? >> aye. >> opposes? >> ayes have it and so the motion is carried. >> and any public comment at this time? hearing none, announcements? >> there is nothing to do with the commission work, if any of you are interested in ceramics and the gift from the museum to the legion of honor is currently on display, and it is in my name, and it is halfway down into the room and so you may enjoy it and a collection of 18leth century, from the factor in france. >> thank you. >> okay. >> and any other announcements? yes? >> thank you. >> and i can't skip making an announcement at the commission meeting. i want to make sure that everyone knows about the senior and disability annual celebration, it is this friday ink and i hope that some of you commissioners and the folks in the audience are attending and it is at the arc, on the corner of eleventh and howard from 6 to 8 this friday and it is really a chance for us to come together and celebrate some of the accomplishments in the senior and disabilitying community and so for the continuing effort and we will be highlighting the funds and talking about the new supportive home program and it is a lot of fun and we have a drawing for a stay at the russian river and a silent option with a lot of art and items and the food and wine and so we look forward to seeing you there, thanks. >> and i will leave some out here as well. >> could we get the tickets at the door. >> yeah. >> any other public, or any other announcements? >> any other announcements hearing, none, and is it the public comment. hearing, none, and i have a roll call for a motion to adjourn. >> so moved. >> it has been moved and seconded that we adjourn, all in favor? >> aye. >> aye. >> aye. >> ayes, have it and so the motion is carried. thank you. >>[gavel] >> welcome to the august 24, 2016 meeting of the san francisco board of appeals. the presiding officer this evening is board president honda joined tonight by frank fung and commissioner and lesser's. we do expect commissioner swig and will not hear any bills but were going to start with some of the housekeeping items this evening. commissioner swig will be absent tonight. to my left is debbie attorney, here. and will provide legal advice to get at the controls is gary can terrorist could use the board legal assistant and him cynthia cole stained executive director. also joined by representatives of the city

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