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think a citation from in terms of studying the goals or assessing healthcare but we have challenges too despite hurricane efforts from an 83 you know we continue to have problems in terms of reducing major injuries from falls we transition and watch the process if an overall from the metrics we report on from the processes and improvement in the decisions and those divisions continue to use the staff using the lean methodology to really develop our improvement metrics and we anticipate that we'll the metrics will continue to be able to improve that process as we bring on the dph lean program office so that actually was the last slide of my deck even though not progressing i want to pause before asking doctor chin to come up to take any. >> yes. you may have and any competent feedback you have to offer. >> commissioners commissioner pating thank you very much the wonderful report so as i was listening rather than digging down the data we are building a system i think that is useful to focus on other reports in the presentation style to see what is the best way to present the data so we can get what we need out of that i like what we're doing as laguna honda i saw at the last laguna honda meeting a nice dial metrics that works well, for the data so the gentleman spent more details but - i think this works really well, for the overall metrics i want to give you kudos on the bar graph a number of metrics although we're digging into 53 measures this is where your moving as a system the only thing i'm wondering about whether some of the other metrics that are not covered on laguna honda where we can pickup and dig into the outpatient metrics that way to look at the making are and so the micro in the two divisions and a in the matter of support so we can see them quickly and not keep on digging in to a level but i think we're getting there. >> that format it bans our feedback from last time. >> to make sure we are operating. >> that's why i'm the vice president (laughter). >> anyway thank you very much and i guess we see i think there is a third division that we're missing so if i can get you to drill down and other measures that don't fall if. >> primary care will be coming to your committee soon. >> as we're a looking at this this is a trial run so. >> thank you. >> you did have sort of a dashed dashboard is that being presented. >> we have a dashboard. >> those go down into the details. >> that is sort of a nice diagram also i believe that called the true north score card. >> we've tried to take the learning from laguna and see if it applies to the network you're seeing the report in the same format to their contestantcy and regularity. >> i want to ask questions on the dashboard until we kind of get it into a workable format that is red home sharers i think at the large dashboard reports the review and at some level we'll determine how it is best to look at many of the formats like as you may know we follow a number of measures and the score card going goes fairly quickly be in terms of understanding everything turns red. >> but we're going to i think need to continue to work with this because it is all coming together but new as to we would look at the best way of oversight on this but you're producing the material so we have something to look at i appreciate that. >> any other comments at this point we'll go on to doctor chins presentation and ask for further comments as appropriate. >> the second goal - >> great. >> all right. good afternoon, commissioners and correct and secretary so rolland tlulsdz about true north as a way to kind of support sdwrags i'll add to that by talking about a different kind of integration you wonder why we use the word integration you think about the next time you seem to forget if you're a person we would be in preschool but the foundations of the network go back one hundred and fifty years to 1855 when jacuzzis zuckerberg san francisco general was opened and laguna honda celebrated it's one hundred and fifty anniversary and cash mission was opened and one hundred and fifty and we're 3.5 years old this is what our communication - we're not what for example, when you think of the way we look at the kaiser permanente everything you touch and feel is experienced you know whatever you want to do with kaiser we are a health brand we have institutions and actually have a long history and identities while the network identities is in formation and coming to jell has a way to go compared to the victories this is something we really identity as something we can revisit and i think through so our communications director will be coming back to you in a couple of months to talk about some of the thinking around branding with the 3.5 years so in terms of integration you've heard about lean and true north the first time that causes an array of services general health and behavioral health and actually decided as a network we have 5 areas we agree we'll measure and have data this is quite an accomplishment a monthly group in july they come together to share best practices and done data dashboard across the network and you'll hear about in some ways our biggest challenge for integration and talk about the position council when i joined rolland at the network january of 2015 we talked about how could we bring the clinician community to create a common culture more alignment and talked about a counselor this is not healthcare is not a doctor only endeavor but from a practical stand point getting all the people in the room trying to keep it minimum end up with a counselor to give you a sense at the current time one and 67 doctors working for the usf doesn't count zuckerberg san francisco general hospital two things one is makes sense within the department sfgh is a delivery system to the lions share tomas has a group of doctors but most of them on the network side you can see they're not evenly distributed and san francisco general they credential more than 13 providers but less than half are full-time a lot of them come in as needed for surgeries are whatever from time to time so it is really under 5 hundred doctors so even though their faculty at the effect the laguna honda has big footprints in terms of position workforce we have 15 folks and all we did was visited the chief medical officers and sections where the directors position with the san francisco general and jail health and decided we wanted linkages to the larger departments we have health interdivision and population health representatives. >> we started meeting in january of july of 2015 with those goals monthly and it was really fascinate some of the position leaders that has about think working 10 and 80 and thirty and 3 seven years that never visited the sites and understand the full scope of services we provide understanding the whole elephant, if you will, a big piece of our goal developing trust in alignment was another goal as well as identifying areas for integration and clinician and other goal priorities here's some of the places we've computed the navigation center and mission mental health and howard and inspirational - silver avenue and laguna honda there's been or are intercohorts many people have not been to jail health but people definitely have not been to most of places and had some strategic discussions around general health and the medicare waiver in our network so just this past january in spirit of continuance improvement in in terms of use of time our relationship building were seen as the valuable activities and again being eye open about people's work there, there are opportunities for cross efforttion in making the relationships can be turned into constitutional coordination and competing priorities you saw how much we have going on so moving forward we're focused on really ongoing relationship building and site visits and moving every two months and spent a lot of time role focusing on strategic initiative and streamlining our membership for example, we'll be doing the next site visit at the health care a large component and the next site will be south of market mental health that has a staff component the ideas again bringing those areas where the internet is coordinating to create systems where no long goal so i hope that was of interest and leave it on to questions. >> any questions. >> i want to recognize doctor chins work our chief medical officer and has worked towards trying to integrating you'll see the positions not out of their locations for a long time so it helps us in our discharges as many of our physicians have second thoughts of moving someone from one level of care to another so her work is valuable. >> is this a formal council then and this is formal membership or this is just an ad hoc you put together of course of concept so important to integrate the figures in their thinking of entire system but. >> it depends on what you mean by formal and if the formal e-mail invitation from me to places and, yes formal i identified the structure of t mo or medical directors for those divisions that are not large enough the medical directors directors or emissions for the 2 hospitals chief of staff and physician representatives from quality improvement an intentional group of people no letterheads no signs no - yes, it is a established council for people and schedule. >> and therefore sits somewhere in the nord chart. >> not an nord chart. >> i'll see it as 40 the c mo that's how we started the network with preliminary meeting to talk about the networks their work will continue they're in all the nord charters and the xhoo and that's a great idea i wanted to see how it comes together but w0ird people in the red not liking certain things in the profile. >> everyone should go to dale. >> it is important feedback. >> it is great to take the leadership together and i don't know where you'll go with that it is aside from informing and the leadership knowing what is there in all the different institutions or programs and all there needs to be some sort of osmosis they'll make the decisions based on better information. >> as you may know doctor chow position they're incredibly important so i know that is one of the areas we focused on i think that you know this is the beginning and we'll you know asphyxiation groups develop as you may know they have a life of their own and recommendations you have we're open to those but that is the beginning of those conversations we have a major initiative and our physicians are not aligned with us around the h.r. that will be difficult that's one the major concerns for me to insure we have that data. >> and who was chosen having the leadership within the positions and so the idea for them to be aware of other parts of network and make sure they're making decisions giving their input informed by a large picture not their own. >> commissioner loyce. >> first of all, thank you director garcia for your leadership around that issue and doctor chin two of our goals that are striking all 4 are important i want to recognize but two prairie create a trust and this is critical in the sense to make sure that the network is actually doing when you say in the next goal to collaborative the coordination of all services i'll appreciate and looking forward how their practical applied to the network and the impact on the population thank you for your thinking and leadership regarding this divisions council. >> thank you, commissioners i want to respond to that i will admit in putting this together i'm used to coupling coming with more data and metrics and this to me felt soft culture change and alignment but i'll say your experience over the last year and a half people value the people feel i've never met my counterpart and could a pick up the phone and e-mail them and say let's work together that actually has emerges as something that is vanilla valuable. >> so we're integrated model led by many physicians and many of the areas so we also have misrepresent clinicians with the mental health system as well as the multiple clinical process but the positions are incredibly important. >> commissioner sanchez. >> i wanted to i think that is an exceptional new pathway it really is an out go too of again, the fact we have a baseline we're all one moving towards integrated services a number of us in the j.c. cc general and laguna honda and along with the director sits there self-defense outstanding we talk with them at laguna honda or talked with the network and working on this how do we this and that we never used to hear that before and as you said i mean a lot of - it reminds me of years ago at the university you see members of academic place had to be the - and then all of a sudden as the funding decreased and all of a sudden clinical members are voting in and have full voting rights same in a sense because all are part of this overall effort to maintain the quality care given the diminishing resources now we're part of the same team and not a silo it is a great concept i look forward to more unique outcomes there are unique things that can happen given this type of interaction well done thank you. >> yeah. i think your i guess what you call it all the photos the mug shots (laughter) ties e it would be nice this is an sf h n you put a title for people in the ph.d side so it will show our integrating this. >> (inaudible). >> so you, you have 3 things you can see how close it resembles. >> it will be an invite process - this will help to the system. >> thanks so much. >> shall we go on to the next topic. >> item 9 is other business. >> commissioners do we have any new business you wish to present at this time right the report from the march 28. >> i'll going go back on number 9 and report this as well in terms of finance and planning a draft document concerning the charity report a good number of pages if you have any comments individually please provide them to colleen or her division in the next several weeks can be reviewed and incorporated to the final documents presentation as skeleton for the first meeting in may here so i forgot to make that announcement in time we would like all commissioners to have input as i see in the charity report draft documents. >> okay next item, please. >> again. >> the report back under the march 28, 2017 commissioner president chow. >> it is my turn again well during open session the committee heard a report on the jacuzzis a-3 optimizing a care model so you may be well, much more kw5i7b9d. >> committee also reviewed the following standards report the regulatory affairs with the patient care services our hiring and report on h.r. actually on target and moving loan with the regulatory affairs and the surveys we were undergoing in the several months as you may know we've done very well and kudos to the staff and undergoing all the reviews under the medical staff report the committee approved the alcohol clinical regulations and in closed session we approved did credentials report and the picking up minutes and the quality council is sgrathd into the competent so that end our report from the zuckerberg and you'll receive the written minutes after approval at the next meeting. >> are there any questions in regards to those report. >> committee agenda setting. >> commissioners i'll be sending out a request to amend our schedules in the next 4 months to plan for quorum issues that happens in the summer not on the calendar but a place holder for july 18th that may move co-authored to your schedules. >> perhaps you can particularly note that is whether that is available with submitting the schedule. >> of course and . >> we'll be looking for committee assignment and ask if you have a particular committee assignment our interested in please let the secretary know and we will take that under consideration and try to pairs out the assignments. >> i may add that includes the external committee we have several internal. >> right so if we have a large number of people mandated we'll have to go through the process of vetting and seeing. >> okay our next item please is. >> consideration for adjournment. >> so a motion for adjournment is in order. >> >> all in favor, say i. >> i. >> opposed? the meeting is adjourned commi wednesday, march 22, 2017 and the time is 5:03 pm. item 1, roll call. president cleaveland present, stephen nakajo present, michael hardeman present, nancy covington is here. chief of department joanne hayes-white here. general public on. members of the public address the commission for up to 3 min. on any matter within the commission's jurisdiction and does not appear in the agenda. speakers shall just for most of the commissioner. the lack of response to the commission or department personnel does not necessarily constitute agreement or support of statements during made during public comments. >> any public comment? seeing none, >>[closed session] >>[gavel] >> mdm. sec. >> item number three approval of the minutes. approval of minutes from regular meeting arcade 2017. >> so moved. >> any public comment on the minutes? seeing none, public comment is closed. >>[gavel] >> commissioners? >> second. >> all those in favor say, aye. [chorus of ayes.] opposed, say nay. >> item number four certificate and indulgent of appreciation. public information officer jonathan baxter 2% certificate and acknowledgment of appreciation of herman duron or guerra, arun ran over, jennifer diego cervantes for the quick and decisive action they displayed on february 21, 2017 at 1453 hrs. with help save an adult male life was being pulled out to the bait to due to strong ties. >> was going to make a presentation on this? >> good afternoon president madrid ominous jonathan baxter to begin our presentation on this item. >> welcome. >> commissioners,, chief hayes-white, numbers of the command staff and everybody present i want you to welcome you today. today i'm honored not only to give this presentation but a few minutes before this event i had the pleasure of meeting aron and jennifer cervantes prior to this event and talking to the three of them nine years old, 19 years old, and 20 years old, me, a professional public servant at the last quarter of my career, looking at three young people the - i'm sorry - two young men and young lady you're about to meet gives me a piece of mind to say the least that our future is safe because we have people like this. i know there's a lot more that are going to step up and do the right thing at the right time for the right reasons. on 2-21 2017 at 3:53 pm in the afternoon, mr. michael shanahan was enjoying a swim in aquatic park in san francisco. weather conditions on this date due to recent storms yielded a very strong tide. which attribute to mr. shanahan been swept out into the san francisco day. esther shanahan was able to grab hold onto a be pure piling and begin to yell for help. fortunately, three young adults were fishing nearby. nine-year-old aaron durrant, oliveira, heard the yell for help and quickly notified his brother firemen over and from his girlfriend, jennifer cervantes. the three were together very quickly to locate nearby rope to throw to mr. shanahan. within our rope now securing mr. shannon from and called 911 and provided very descriptive details of the incident. aron and from and: to the rope with mr. shanahan opened onto the other end of the rope, while being pulled out due to the current, jennifer had the wherewithal to make herself visible and direct responding san francisco fire department and san francisco police department units to the exact location of mr. shanahan. i want to stop your for a moment and really explain to action zero. aron oliveira had an amazing [inaudible] on the phone copied earlier cummings being a little humble when he said that it was the dispatcher that did a great job just ask the right questions. i know for my 27 years of experience with the majority of the rescues and surf rescues and water rescues we have had, one of the problems is usually not having descriptive adequate pinpoint locations and information. all of that was given by erin on this phone call. secondly, when we arrived >> i want to correct you i think was by furman width you are correct. by furman. second of all jennifer was able to get the wherewithal in earlier she stated that just kind of came to her to do this and we would ones that were directing. that is not true. jennifer walked out, grabbed literally the fire department and walked as to the exact location where mr. shanahan was having his tragic moment and that saved so much valuable time and possibly his life. continuing, san francisco fire department and san francisco police department units were able to locate rescue assess and transport mr. shanahan to a hospital without delay. the san francisco fire department believes that the quick thinking and levelheaded actions of thurman, aron, and jennifer resulted in a successful outcome for mr. shanahan. instead of this incident being a search and recovery operation, the san francisco fire department was able to quickly rescue mr. shanahan from the waters. these three young individuals knowingly or not, save esther shanahan's life that day. now, with the permission of the commissioners i would like to invite mr. shanahan up to the podium would like to say a few words before we present the certificates. >> absolutely. thank you. >> mr. shanahan. welcome. >> thank you very much and first of all, just it so wonderful that the city fire department and police department recognize this kind of behavior and response.. aron, furman and jennifer you saved my life and [inaudible] the great fire department we have and the please of him and copy off that piling but if you had not reacted in the time you did this quickly as you did, what wasn't discussed was the fact that the hyperthermia was really setting in with me and i did not have much time left. so i will never be able to thank you. parents mother, great job raising my kid and i kid. thank you so much. >> [inaudible/off mic] please. >> [applause] [applause] >> commissioners, thank you very much. joann hayes-white fire chief. i always say the city small-town so when i found out about this story that are pil brought to us as walls are responding crews from pd and fire department, i, too, like jonathan sort of in a back nine of my career was very inspired to hear the three people out having a nice afternoon fishing to assist someone. did no total stranger. for me, i sign allow certificates every illustrated her about mr. shanahan. to my great surprise, i wanted i said to mr. shannon, who i met and know from over the years, i said you are the mr. shanahan. it's amazing like i said big city small-town. so we are forever grateful for the great work that you did and i'm glad your join us are able to join us today. congratulations i like you on behalf of the fire department and as was the commission michael each of you up individually and then you can stay by me and maybe if one of you were all three of you want to say a few words i know the commission would be very open to that. so furman, i'm going to read each certificate. they're slightly different so, on up, furman. it's a certificate we are presenting a meritorious conduct in appreciation presented to you from and ran all the era on february 21 while fishing with aron and jennifer, you are notified of calls to help from a swimmer would be in the waters of aquatic park and swept out to the date due to the rough waters. with your assistant to quickly work together to find a rope and throw to the swimmer to the swimmer was able to hold onto the for you and aron held the other in tight despite the treacherous currents trying to call the swimmer away. once the swimmer was secured you called 911 and provided as doi baxter said. just into detail about the swimmer and location to your quick actions contribute to the successful outcome to this one. so we want to say thank you and congratulations. [applause] >> before i go on, i also have to say, and it knowledge presence of your family here and i think all great children come from great parents. the tickly, great mom so thank you much mrs. olvera for what you did. [applause] >> next i'm going to call little brother, aron durand all there. come on up. [applause] >> if similar but i want to read the bulk of it for you. on february 21, 2017 while fishing with furman and jennifer, your aquatic park, calls from help from the swimmer who been in the water swept out into the bait due to rough waters. with your assistance you quickly work together to find a rope and throw it to the swimmer mr. shanahan. the swimmer was able to hold onto the ball you and your brother of the other intake despite the treacherous currents trying to both the swimmer away. your click actions contribute to successful outcome for the swimmer and understand your brother is interested in the police department but we would love to see you be a firefighter sunday. congratulations. [applause] >> next, i like to call jennifer cervantes up. congratulate you. [applause] >> was certificate also reads on february 21 while fishing with aron, and ferment your aquatic park you are notified of calls for help from a swimmer who had been in water and aquatic park and swept out into the bay. your assistance to quickly work together --through rope to the swimmer in the swimmer hold onto the tie to the local aron and ferment held the other anti-. during this time, you, jennifer wiggled to direct the arriving san francisco pd and to the exact location of the swimmer's seconds or minutes counting the situation. your quick actions contributed to the successful outcome for mr. shannon so congratulations and thank you. [applause] >> we just want to say thank you. it's really great mr. shanahan are very glad we could [inaudible] >> we are so glad we were there to help you. >> i am, too. [laughing] [inaudible/off mic] >> i'm really grateful [inaudible] and i'm grateful for being here. [applause] >> commissioners, in closing i just want to [inaudible] although i like to see everybody become a firefighter especially for the san francisco fire department, furman mentioned that he wants to be a police officer so i thought what better opportunity than what the finer applicant and to have our san francisco fire department recruitment down team here tonight to give him some information hopefully be able to recruit him. so thank you very much. [applause] > [photograph] >> [applause] >> isn't any public comment on the previous recognition? seeing none, commissioners, did you wish to say anything? yes commissioner covington >> thank you mr. pres. again i want to thank mrs. olivera and also, jennifer's parents for raising such wonderful children and children learn kindness and have big hearts because of their parents. so, ms. oliveira, your setting such a wonderful example and we are all the beneficiaries of it. mr. shanahan, we are glad you're still here with us. i want to say, to aron and furman and jennifer, you are so on the right path. please, stay on the path. you are really really good people, young people and we so often have complaints about how young people are conducting themselves. so, thank you for reminding us that there are some wonderful young people who have such care and kindness and who are so very very clear in their minds and in their hearts that not only do they jump into action, but they are able to give the information that is necessary for people to get to the point of rescue. so thank you, again. >> thank you commissioner covington. any other commissioners wish to say anything? i would just like to say, job well done. he rose, at all ages and i think it was a marvelous thing and thank you very much for your heroism and saving a life. so, without further ado, mdm. sec. next item >> item five k-9 badge ceremony for sffd k-9 search team. assistant deputy chief chief jane francisco k-9 program manager to introduce capt. peter gross program training coordinator who give a brief overview on the sffd k-9 program and present the badges to their handlers to pin on the k-9 search teams. >> hokum chief francesco >> thank you. i'm very excited to be here for the same francisco assistant of the cheaper the homeland security division i'm also serve as the k-9 program manager which means on the liaison and point of contact to california urban search and rescue task force number three down and speed menlo park it am very excited today to indoctrinate and bring it to the department are for newest members. our four k-9 from k-9 search teams. first, i want to say these teams have given tremendous time and dedication to getting these dogs trained in providing the service they do provide. typically, it takes 12-18 months to get dog certified in this task. our members here through their hard work did this in about six months. so tremendous amount of work they did. to the town of time their own time to care entering these canines constantly always having to do that when these canines. so without further ado, i would like to bring up capt. peter gross are training coordinator for the canines breed of the other k-9 search ons and he will introduce them and give you a little brief about what they do. >> thank you, chief. >> hello. commissioners. i'm going to invite the k-9 search teams to join me here so i can present them to you. chief hayes-white, commissioners, and the command staff on for allowing me this opportunity to present to you the san francisco fire department k-9 search teams. i presented the proposal to you to the commission to develop a research k-9 program towards the front san francisco fire department impact on the 20 13th and today i am pleased to report to you that the san francisco fire department has for fema certified urban search and rescue k-9 search teams that are integrated into our operations and report to our fire stations on a regular basis. commissioners, allow me to introduce to you lieut. gareth miller and his k-9 partner, [inaudible]. firefighter ed martinez, k-9 fritz. firefighter eli thomas, k-9 beta. i have my search partner. k-9, angus, who you about before. i want to take this opportunity to thank the chief. chief hayes-white, chief gonzales, chief williams and she francisco for your tireless support of the developers of the program and your continued support today. i also want to take this opportunity to it knowledge the commitment and effort of these three gentlemen and their dogs. they have taken on this commitment with dedication, hard work, and passion. all three of our newest k-9 search teams were paired with search dogs back in october 2015 the computer large amount of training specific to urban search and rescue and disaster response and also dog handling. completing the process and becoming a fema k-9 search specials, which is the highest level of certification in this discipline. all three k-9 search teams were fema certified in april 2016 by completing the rigorous evaluation and they continue to train weekly commuting high level of readiness. these firefighters in the k-9 partners not only become great ambassadors [inaudible] by participating in community events such as fleet week ending 150th anniversary but also become valuable operational resource not only large-scale incidents like we saw in the earthquake and 89 but also to local incident such as complete or partial building collapses or auto rollovers were victims ejected, the search canines will not only help locate the trapped are missing survivors, but they will also help rescuers were victims are not. this will help us to focus our efforts appropriately. therefore search canines are also known as california task force three as chief francisco mentioned it located in california task force please located in menlo park is one of the 20 fema past forces that make up the national response system for disasters. whenever they deployed, they deploy with four of these fema certified search teams. so they put great value in this resource. it takes those teams 40-72 hours to reach us to assist us. having this valuable resource here at home will help to about trapped victims of better chance of survival after earthquake or incident. closing my thank you for knowledge in our efforts today. certainly i cannot discern the today's beginning of the canine gradual further the pride, help our handlers for the hard work and accomplishment. thank you very much. >> i like to take a quick moment to thank capt. peter gross for the work he's done to get the program off and running to get the program where we are and i can't thank you enough for what he's done and the members themselves for the commitment been shown to this program. at this time like to ask chief to come down to present the badges to the handlers. >> on behalf of all the numbers about san francisco hardbound we are happy to give you badges to your canines indefinitely in appreciation for your efforts above going above and beyond providing additional service. so special night for you. i know number of you have your family zero, to so welcome to your families and also for your support. i know the canines are living at home with all of you. so, thank you. the first badge will go to capt. gross and angus. [applause] >> the second handler is firefighter eli thomas k9, leader. [applause] >> next is lieut. gareth miller and k-9, vida. [applause] >> last have firefighter ed bikinis and k-9, fritz. [applause] >>[applause] >> if you have any questions will be happy to answer them at this time. >> thank you very much, chief. do we have any public comment on this item? seeing none, public comment is closed. commissions, commissioner hardeman >> thank you vista president. well it's great to see this time around. four years ago this commission was presented this idea and we were just really encouraged and excited now to see this succeed and hopefully something we never have to use but when you need it gets there. so i just a couple of questions about how you the dog stay with you 24 hours a day? to the rotate if you're off or do you keep them at your house? >> so commissioner, to address your question, the dogs are part of our families. they join us to our assignment so whether we are going to regular assignment or detailed assignment, we get sent to our regular station the dog accompanies us at all times with these dogs might develop the really tight bond with her handler they probably join them too much of their activities throughout the day but they do return home with us at the end of the day whether it's from duty where they live with us as part of our family >> do they get ever get an opportunity to play with each other? >> these dogs are all pretty serious. i know: the might of a little side relationship going on. i'm not sure but they're all pretty serious and competitive because these dogs are carefully selected to do this kind of work and usually makes them they were really strong focus and >> thank you very much. thank you to all the >> commissioner nakajo >> thank you and much. thank you so much for this opportunity to witness this badge pinning. i want to thank all the family members because certainly, in terms of the training but also the love and support it's got to be part of the family and it's pretty evident in terms of [inaudible] as well. i know san franciscans and particularly myself and many of us are dog lovers but to be able to see a dog that can potentially rescue lives is a great feeling. so thank you so much for all your work and we are looking forward to a long relationship. >> thank you mr. vp commissioner covington >> thank you very much mr. pres. thank you very much, first of all, to francisco for serving in the capacity of being the head of the k-9 units. i have had the pleasure of being with capt. gross in the south bay and watching the canines go through their paces and was very very impressed. it's been about two years now i guess since i was down there and as many of my if any of my fellow commissioners have not had an opportunity to the canines in action with her handlers, i really do want you to do so. it's a very rewarding to see them be, four-legged professionals. they are as acting capt. gross said, they're pretty serious about their work. and very eager to do their jobs. so thank you all . thank you to firefighter thomas and lieut. miller and firefighter martinez. this is a wonderful program and i know it has been through the efforts of capt. gross, that we have got to this point. so he has been very steadfast and communicating with the chief of the department as well the commission regarding his vision for the k-9 division. so thank you all so very much. >> thank you commissioner covington. thank you, capt. very good program. you guys are all terrific and what you are doing is saving lives and it's important program. so thank you for all you do. i know you go above and beyond your daily jobs just to take care of these dogs to make sure that they can perform. when they need to get so thank you for the extra hours in the extra effort and the extra love that you put into this program. because i know that's what it takes to make it-it's a good program that it is. so thank you all, each of you for doing that. and for continuing to build the k-9 program-k-9 rescue program. thank you chief francisco for bringing them to tonight and having us giving us the opportunity to thank them personally for what they do. it's a lot of extra hours and extra cost that you aren't families are bearing to do this so thank you on behalf of the city and behalf of this commission. >> thank you phrenology not, thank you, chief. >> chief francisco final words? >> yes if you want to see training or demonstration or come out and watch old search a rubble pile, they take care of a football size field in a matter of minutes you anytime you want to see that were happy to arrange it. >> thank you so much. mdm. sec., next item >> item six chief of department's report report from chief of department joanne dwight on current issues activities and events within the apartment since the fire commission meeting of march 8, 2017 including budget academy, special benz communications and outreach to other government agencies and the public. report from administration, deputy chief ramona williams on administrative divisions facility status finance report services homeland security and training within the department. >> good evening president cleaveland. i want to get right into my report since our last meeting march 8, regarding budget as i reported in the past two cycles, we are on track for revenue and expenditures this fiscal year. we will enter into further discussion with the mayor's budget office could i've yet to get involved since we submitted our budget on february 21, but her deputy director mark corso is in regular contact with the mayor's budget office. i did want to remind you that we will be presenting an overview of our department budget to budget and finance committee on april 27 at 1 pm. the chairman of the budget committee this year is supervisor melia cohen and she has been projected after the mayors commit the balanced-budget on june 1, presentations by our department the week of june 19. your presentation on june 18 as well as a follow-up presentation on june 22 both at 10 am before budget and finance committee. regarding academies, when on 21st academy chief williams would probably go into further detail but during our 17th week. my understanding is all kept local and state tests have been passed and so we will be graduating 49 members from that academy. on april 14 10 am bearden high school. we are in the process of selections for the 122nd academy scheduled to begin on april 24. be comprised of 54 members, 42 off the list and 12 coming from station 49. eight of those well-being peaks three level to paramedics and her being each three level i and the and emt singles final selections are being made. at this, we have 35 conditional offers, meeting people that have been selected and pending final passage through the medical component will be in those seats and i've another 14 alternate officers out of which seven will be selected to join the group of 35 for a total of 42. we did conduct some interviews last week at the director of human resources and i,. we anticipate more meet and greet interviews in the june timeframe for placement in the september class and we will also be because this is a question, the list-the referral we are working off of is from january,, so before we make final selections for september we will probably refreshing given you this a new referral to capture those that may take the test after january, before june. moving right into activities, since march 8, on march 9, i did announce one on march 8 the unfortunate and untimely passing of our active-duty member firefighter joe walt [inaudible] who passed away on march 8. his celebration of life and variables on march 9 and i would like to knowledge deputy chief williams assistant deputy chief francisco and rpi oh jonathan baxter further assistance and putting together relatively quickly we had about 24 hours notice, the proper and fitting tribute to firefighter-as well as her deputy chief tony rivera and his crew from the yearbook for the apparatus we needed there and so forth. there was a service here in the city and a final resting in livermore. so in order to pull this off in a fitting tribute to firefighter -who dedicated 12 years with the san francisco fire department we hired him in 2005- we also had phenomenal assistance from the san francisco police department with sister with a motorcade, motorcycle escort, california highway patrol, alameda county fire department truck livermore pleasanton fire department and livermore police department to effect a safe secure passage from the city the couple of our rigs through and to livermore. i did one make you aware of that and have the opportunity again to thank mayor lee who visited just a month before he passed away. he was traveling in vietnam but nevertheless extended his condolences and was appreciative of the opportunity to have met him. on march 10, there's a newly formed under the deputy director chief of staff, david, kate howard, she is working closely in the mayor's office and she's putting together working group of which i'm a part of. regarding it's called the street working. basically, it's regarding a number of situations and complaints coming in from 311. some 911. just about street behavior, safe streets and so forth. there was a kickoff meeting. she has several departments participating the director public health, the police chief, myself, director of public works and the new homelessness department director, jeff kosinski. to talk about goals, further collaboration, and achieving those goals and just that would be the kickoff meeting in then, also i attended a meeting-another follow-up meeting because the priority for mayor just on the 20th with the same parties to talk about the steps in which we can work closely together to address some of the street issues that the city is experiencing. on march 11, many of us never to knowledge president reagan and commissioner covington, attended and participated in the st. patrick's day parade, which was a good celebration here in our city. on the 13th of the month, deputy chief williams and i attended the united fire service women's annual membership meeting. it was about a three-hour breakfast meeting. well attended and a lot of topics were discussed. so that was headed there some changes in their leadership. that was announced and there will be plans-there are plans underway to acknowledge and celebrate 2017 as the 30th anniversary of women coming into san francisco fire department. on 16 march, i did afterward i visited station 1900 the members are still grieving over the loss of their colleagues firefighter-they spent some time with them. just checking in and seeing how they were doing. on the 17th of participated in a [inaudible] a lafayette elementary. on the 20th, the deputies and i participate on monthly labor-management meeting. local 798 headquarters. was a productive meeting. later, that afternoon, with chief scott, our new police chief, we assisted with the delivery of meals on wheels event or delivery to one of their clients on pine street, which is a program that does so much good for a lot of different people. it's the second year i participated last year i participated with chief suhr. as i said and i went to another street working group meeting and then i just want to let you know, upcoming, tomorrow chief tony rivera and i will be participating in the fire boat -i'll be on the panel will be in the audience. listening and contributing. the design criteria panel. in which there are proposals that will be submitted for our review for the new design for station 35 which pier 22.5 that's an all-day review of looking at designs, functionality, and what we feel would work best if i am one of five panelists on that panel. so more to follow on that design and the criteria. then, i know our favorite i believe chief-from the airport has invited all of you on the 29th to the grand opening of san francisco fire department international airport station three. which will be celebrated at 10 am on the 29th. that concludes my report. >> thank you, chief. any public comment? on this item? commissioner covington >> thank you for your report, chief. i just want to know about the budget has the budget committee met recently? >> the budget committee has not met since we submitted our budget on february 21. i believe in anticipation of the meeting on april 27 there will be director course so will reach out to the budget committee and possibly convened a group. certainly, we will bring back-were having ongoing discussions but there's nothing at this point that's been decided so we're kind of in a week and see pattern but we are definitely intending to convene certainly prior to the mayors budget meeting on june 1 possibly before presentation on 27 april >> well, budget committee will be prioritizing particular budget items to share with the commission? >> so if you recall, we did submit our budget can we were asked for 3% reduction, which he responded to that we are open to further discussion. we were asked to reduce-took some issue without giving our increase call volume and so forth. in terms of additional items, we did not submit additional items, if i'm following your question >> i see. will you be submitting additional items equipped >> to to be determined i think at this point we have to fight for remaining status quo because again the ass and still is the asked that we look gatekeeper for reductions. so we have a prioritized list, which should be reviewed again by the budget committee i agree with you. i think at this point our priority right now is to hold firm on where we are at. >> all right. definitely, we need to hold firm and i know that my fellow commissioners feel the same. in my conversations with the mayor, i have pointed out that from my perspective, i think we need to keep the academies going because we have so many people were going to be retiring very soon and i don't want to see any kind of falloff from us having really robust classes in the academy. that's a good segue into complimenting everyone on us having 49 graduates. that is excellent. we need every last person zone looking forward to that graduation. it's just wonderful that we have our audience-our audiences and making up one longing to be in our department and see that some members of our community are having their dreams fulfilled by being selected by the chief of the department to enter the academy then to go through the graduation, it just a wonderful thing. >> commissioner covington, thank you. we are in complete agreement with your comments about maintaining the hiring plan adobe fought collectively sought to get. likewise, with our fleet replacement claim. we know all the efforts that we collectively put forward on that so those are definitely two initiatives or line items that we really don't want to compromise on given the number of retirements and given the fact that prolonged period of time we did not have adequate funding for our equipment and are free. >> yes thank you. so the fire boat ais going to be looking at design and functionality and i'm pretty sure aesthetics as well but will you be coming back to the commission sharing portions of those discussions with us? >> yes. >> okay. i look forward to that. thank you again for your report. >> thank you commissioner covington good commissioner hardeman >> i will be brief mr. pres. thank you for your report, chief. i probably should ask you this over the phone but i just came to me-approximate, how far down the list did you get recently the old tables-i think you got to 850 last time. i don't know i'm just curious >> sure. the list is constantly being refreshed as a people coming off of it and getting onto it. between 3504 three 4000 people on any given time >> so 30 504,000 eligible to be selected if it passed all the criteria? >> correct. if they get for wrinkle 12, which i don't know i can agree with that score equates to, and on the eligible list. since we've use the ntn national testing network, process i have gone down to a score of 840 or level viii and typically commencing the highest score is level iii. so retired from the range between level iii and level viii. >> i knew how couple that's [inaudible] >> correct. i believe in you served in the us military is better points associated with that and that's incorporated into the score >> peabody >> they have their score and then the department of human resources there is that chance points given so in cases they're always going to be there rank is going to be improved by the fact they serve their country and we have over the last several years hired a very high percentage of military veterans. >> very good.. thank you >> thank you commissioner hardeman. chief, thank you for your report one quick question. the working group with kate howard that you are typing that you met with on the 11th, that is different from the ems response working group. is that correct? >> it is >> two separate working groups? >> yes. at some more of the private providers department of emergency management and then there's stakeholders like local 798. this is more about an increase and concerns, complaints, if you will made regarding street behavior, people feeling that not feeling safer trying to get point a-to point b streets being blocked and so forth. the tense situation on the same caymans, that sort of thing. >> what about the traffic and just generally the traffic congestion? >> week i will start bowing. i'm happy to start that one. i know we have several takers on that. the working group on that although we work closely with the mta and there are a number of projects that we-andrew good partnership, have agreed to a compromise on and there are some for the sake of access and her ability to get somewhere in a relatively short period of time. we stress our concern on some of those in the initiative. >> thank you. commissioner covington your final question? >> no. i'm sorry [inaudible] >> okay. all right, thank you. call the next item. sec.'s >> administrative report. >> yes. >> good evening president covington - excuse me - president cleaveland. fellow commissioners, chief, ramona williams deputy chief of administration this is my administrative report for the month of march which covers activities from february 23 -march 22, 2017. i will begin with the assignment office. the assignment office is in the process of implementing the results of the vacancy bid the airport staff. they continue to work with division of training on scheduling probationary members for their six-month and one-year assignment changes as well as prepare for the upcoming 121st academy recruit graduation of their assignments. under homeland security, during this reporting period, chief francisco as always has continued to attend various meetings and training exercises . he recently attended a tabletop exercise at the giants ballpark. he's made a presentation with dem and dx training annie's also produced the event action plan for the st. patrick's day parade. he has also currently working-meeting with vendors regarding updating the fdo see, and he had coordinated the k-9 demonstration for the civil grand jury that are training facility on treasure island. he continues to update the command staff on all real or potential terrorist activities and as always, always like to remind the public to stay ever vigilant and if you see something, to say something. under isp, during this reporting period, the bureau has continued to conduct background testing of candidates for the upcoming academies each-two and h-three academy. there were 34 members randomly selected during this reporting period and all results were negative. on a final note, i'd like to knowledge the hard work and dedication of acting capt. sheila hunter, who for personal reasons as requested to return to the field. she worked very hard and diligently with investigative services bureau conducting investigations and assisting with the background investigations and testing. she is being replaced by capt. michael smith, who is currently receiving his training and will assume the role beginning next week. under the physician's office, they are also very busy administrative preemployment examinations for upcoming cadets for recruits for the academy. privation her he and promotional physical for department members in addition the mud they conduct work-related and returned to duty injuries examinations and administer immunizations for members. during this reporting period, 32 work-related injuries were reported down from 41 the last reporting period. under support services, a total of 146 requests were made for service during this-and process during this reporting period. construction of pump station one located fire headquarters is nearing completion.. there some final work being done on the second floor as we make room for additional staffing. support services chief leave iraq is continuing to work with mta on street designs to ensure that this notice disruption to fire department operations and the ability to respond to emergencies. right now, they been focusing on how our response will alter with speed homes on the speed bumps and speed tables which are just recently learned the difference and how the bike lanes will impact apparatus positioning including muni wireless and how that may alter our operations and ability to ladder various buildings in the district. regarding station five, the construction contract was awarded to alter construction. they are scheduled to start mid-april with a completion date tentatively set for the summer of 2018. station 16 work is currently in progress. unfortunately, there are approximate two months behind. however, the contractors have begun working on saturdays with no additional costs that will be incurred by us. they are currently under pining the neighboring homes to reinforce their foundation before they start the heavy foundation work, and their confidence that the project will be completed by january of 2018. all easter projects continue to move forward and on track and under doe, fleet, the personnel has performed 21 emergency field repairs to san francisco fire department apparatus, including ambulance, during this past 30 days, they resulted in minimal disruption to the department readiness, keeping vehicles in service without the need for a changeover. so that has been an asset. eight engines are in production with a delivery date of for this august, and for more there after, probably 4-6 months thereafter. boe has received for ambulance in january and there in the process of ordering for more new ambulances. post under 18 is now in the field and operational and another [inaudible] currently being outfitted. the final location is to be determined. the aerial ladder truck specifications are complete and the final draft is almost complete and will go out to bid shortly. doe is streamlining the process repairing [inaudible] with the help of puc in central shop for more efficiency and quicker turnaround times. and they are in the final phase of installing cordless extrication tools to all our all our aerial ladder trucks and they should all be outfitted by the end of this month. lastly, under division of training, during this reporting period, chief danaj attended a symposium in san diego last month and they were able to receive training on the latest props as well as meet with target solutions that to update our system we have currently have in place. they also as was mentioned in the previous report participated in assisted with the planning on high raise drill last month. they continue to conduct live fire training for our members. forcible entry training, and as always, planning of upcoming drills for the remainder of the year. under ems, along with our ongoing paramedic and emt certifications we are currently conducting cpr training for our members and a resumes practice your module in the city proper good last reporting period the members of the airport division were receiving that training. during this reporting period, the 12th emc academy graduated 25 emts could we had a one-week h-three level to paramedic academy held for each-eight members for members and seven numbers completed that academy. are paramedic members stationed 49, have also received alternative destinations [inaudible] i training and they have also received preceptor training which will allow them to oversee and evaluate our emt and paramedic members during their ride a longs as a phase of the academy training. under bart lieut.-overseas emergency preparedness for the community and this is along with the k-9 program a vital asset and resource to be realized in the event of a major disaster in the city. in addition to the monthly training sheet continues to make presentation throughout the city at various community events. our fire reserves also continue to be ongoing training weekly at the vision of training facilities, both fulsome on treasure island. lastly, at the chief mentioned, the 121st recruited academies currently their 17th week with 49 recruits. i am happy to say they have completed all the testing as the chief mentioned and is currently receiving specialized training such as wildland, hazmat, firefighter survival training to name a few. that's at the time this concludes my report on happy to answer the questions. >> thank you chief williams. any public comment? seeing none, public comment is closed. commissioners? commissioner hardeman >> briefly again which is unusual. were moving along too good. last meeting was three hours. this is pretty quick. i was going to make a comment about chief columbini of those went to san diego. i sent a couple people a photo from my old flip phone so it's not very good but the flip phone about the san diego fire exam which used to be a station. i don't know of any you got to see-have been [inaudible] i was there for meeting and next morning. for walk smoking a cigar and i go by this and i see this my wife was with me so i can smoke -anyway i go by the museum and the doors are open. it's beautiful. with a duo's private events there. it's a museum but fascinating. i should've wrote this down, but i didn't. at that station, the standard thread was invented. that's standardized for all fire department in the united states. effective hose-i don't know what it was but i do know i read that and i thought was pretty interesting. that was her claim to fame. it's a great museum. old apparatuses and all kinds of things hanging all over the walls. very nice. i talked to couple firefighters working with san francisco's public safety attempt to get the museum [inaudible] and they were very encouraged. they like what they saw. so see what happens. it would be nice to get a nice present for san francisco especially after seeing that one for san diego. thanks for the report, chief williams. >> thank you commissioner >> thank you commissioner hardeman. vp nakajo >> thank you very much president cleaveland. thank you for a much chief williams for your conference of report. also thank you very much chief hayes-white on your report chief williams. the semantics it's [inaudible] because of some lunch area of responsibility that you have within your office. again, your responsibility again for me, when you give your reports it just adds education and affirms my understanding of our department administrative infrastructure. so when you talk about the airport chief cost a lot of we are what we are really looking forward to that opening on march 29 which is next wednesday which is a major accomplishment for us and the airport,, city and county. when we talk about the graduation coming up on april 14, chief columbini with commissioner covington and the rest of the commissioners, we are so grateful for the professional training of your training officers. again, the numbers, 49. that's an amazing number. this is a just a recent kind of accomplishment. i think we been on a three-for your home so to speak. so it's really quite significant. point of information. i did notice chief, that you're wearing of gold today. but i will be at our ride along this coming friday and thank you very much for indicating to me that you will be present with me on various formats of that i can see the experience chief liam scum of writing and immigrants in being [inaudible] but i'm really interested in the actually of observing when the supply is replenished through the vehicles and the system that occurs with that as well. i have not heard of for a wild chief williams, anything about training facilities. i guess, at some point maybe that something you might give us a briefing on because as we go through all these classes, i still concern myself with our facilities and what we are going to do with that because we are always proactive within that projection. so, at some point, in your next report maybe could talk a livid about that. i agree and confer with commissioners that the budget and the classes are so important chief hayes-white. i know that they will be reported to the budget committee. my question isn't using frame rate where i can even ask it, but dir. corso, not that the president has committed his budget overall, i know that [inaudible] is no more anticipation some real numbers and how that affects san francisco's budget in our areas and i will be curious as to what that atmosphere looks like realistically for ourselves and i know they were holding the line but i would be interested on the other ramifications that budget cut were adjustments because were all going to be in the same city for this year for sure. i failed to mention the last commission meeting, i wanted to give recognition to our president, president cleaveland, because when we went to visit the mayor on our large long list of discussion, the president was so good to talk about our intake fleet that sitting out there. i think it station on in the parking lot with a storm and with the tarps and so basically again the initiative of understanding that [inaudible] to the mayor to have some kind of sheltering with that and at this point, there aren't representatives and at some point mr. pres., i think you want to maybe regroup with the organizations in terms of again we have a lot of interaction with [inaudible]. i just want to again come in chief and the department to understand, your presence here is always looking out for us in terms of that. other than that, at this particular point looking at my notes,i have nothing us. thank you. >> thank you mr. vp i will pay you later. [laughing] chief, williams for your report i have a quick question. you have any idea you can give us on h-23 program? maybe chief gonzales can step in and give the commission a quick update on the status? >> good evening president cleaveland commissioners, chief hayes-white. debbie is also operations that i can quickly president cleaveland, we met today with dhr pres. o'connor myself. his representatives and we are going to meet one more time. with the chief, the director of human resources, myself. the reason rest of dhr. you're going to talk about steps going forward. as i stated at the last minute classification is official which is great. i think that's a huge hurdle that need to be accomplished. the next, schmidt will be putting those two in good pres. o'connor's convinced i was part of a bundle of other conditions so we will work it out and as i said last meeting as well i'll reiterate in good faith we will continue to negotiate when i want to get it done as soon as possible >> the timeline, about when you might be able to [cross-talking / off mic] it just kind of up in the air? >> i would like to have it done by april. those two positions. i think the concern from the union and from the members we have the concern the workload during the day that is being addressed. we do have as you know the 212 hour shifts to cover a.m. and p.m. but we also [inaudible] to help with the day work load. >> thank you, chief. appreciate. thank you chief williams for your report. mdm. sec. next item please >> item number seven communications received from last meeting of march 8, 2017 e-mail from mr. corgan dated march 7, 2017. >> any public, and on these medications? seeing none, public comment is closed. commissioners? okay. and the secretary species next item >> item eight agenda for next commission meeting discussion regarding agenda for the april 12 2017 regular meeting. >> any public comment on this item? seeing none, public comment is closed... commissioners? vp nakajo >> thank you very much president trying to mdm. sec. do we have something scheduled on the next commission meeting of april? >> yes we do we have the fire reserves presentation. >> thank you very much. >> that has been confirmed width at some point as a discretion at the president and chief, if there might be some kind of presentation update or education in terms the water rescue component of our department. commissioners, we know about the units but again our knowledge base gets so enhanced with various numbers come they give based on your discretion chief, the president, i would not means mine seen something that gives us information about what goes on with that. so those two items but i don't have a date for the water rescue. it's at your discretion. [inaudible] thank you very much >> commissioner covington speed thank you mr. president. i would like an update on where we are with station 49. in terms of the planning? also, if there's been any movement on the location to replace the treasure island facility? thank you. >> thank you commissioner covington good term commissioner hardeman any items? >> [inaudible] >> i would just like to add one mdm. sec., and that's perhaps the program on the san francisco fire museum status update kind of an overview of exactly what the museum has as part of of its collection. what the status is in terms of how well there be a maintained or not be maintained, and just what possibly we need to do in order to create a really first class-which we deserve,-first-class san francisco fire department museum. so i like to add that to the list of upcoming-not necessarily next meeting but whenever the guardians of the city and others that are actually protecting our museum artifacts at this time can put together a program. i think would be very educational and useful for all us not only in the commission but in the audience and at home to understand the need of our department to have a first-class museum. any further items, commissioners? thank you very much. adam secretary, call next item >> item nine adjournment >> >> so moved. >> is there a second? >> >> second. >> all those in favor say, aye. 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joined by aaron peskin and believe commissioners safai will join shortly. the committee clerk is steve stamose and the committee would also like to acknowledge the staff at sfgtv who record our meetings and make the transcripts available to it public online and of course the staff are gym smith and jessie larsson. mr. clerk, you have announcements? >> there are no announcements. >> okay. um, could you please call item number 1. >> item 1, roll call. >> peskin, present. safai, present. yee, present. we have quorum. >> alright. please call item number 2. >> approve the minutes of december 15, 2017 meeting. this is action item. >> okay. any comments? >> i have no comment. i was not on the vision committee at the time but i have read the minutes and in so far as commissioner safai was not on there either i will not abstain as i usually do so we can get them passed and subject to public comment and move the minutes. >> any other comments? seeing none, any public comment on the item? seeing none, public comment is now closed. is there a motion? >> so moved. >> any objection? >> roll call vote. >> whatever you like. >> peskin, aye. safai, aye. yee, aye. the minutes are approved. >> okay. let me have-request to take item 4 out of order and if it's okay with the committee members we'll take item 4 first before item 3. mr. clerk can you call item 4. >> san francisco silty administrator office tellmatics on city fleet performance. this is information item. >> okay. mr. zeller. good afternoon. >> good afternoon. my name is bill zeller the fleet management department for the city administrators office and city wide tellmatic system administrator and asked to come inl to give a overview the system that we operate and answer any questions you might have about in regards to the vision zero program. so, basically what i'm planning to do is give you a quick overview thofe tell metic system, describe how it works, talk about the hardware, installation status of the devices in the fleet, talk about data available, the ways we use the data or could use the data, talk about the limitation squz data and reports and have q & a. if there is any part you like me to skip over i'm happy to do so. >> i have a lot of time so don't have to skip anything. >> okay. thank you, supervisor. okay, so this is just a graphic that just generally-can you hear me okay? generally illustrates the way the system works. tell metic devices are on board electronic devices that plug into the computer on the vehicle that most new vehicles have. the device contains a gps reserve that receives a signal that tells it where it in space and what direction it is moving from a gps satellight located in geosynchronous orbit arounds the world. the device also takes data from the on board computer hof vehicle and uploads that data plus the gps data to the web through a secure data link. um, and the devices are-or the data is processed by the vendor and we have access >> student that through the web. the system provides real-time notification should users request that. things like speeding or leaving geofences i'll talk more about those in detail in a minute, or it can produce regular reports as requested by users. we use the data in fleet management to measure things like fleet utilization, replacement planning, look into idle times and fuel use analysis so we can make the fleet more efficient. we can also use the information for diagnostic twubl codes that come off the engine and schedule maintenance thmpt device smogs the vehicles every 4 hours of operations so allows us-a number of the vehicles we have installed on, we don't have to bring in for small anymore which is considerable savings in resources for us. >> is there a estimate how much savings for that piece? y >> i can get that for you, i don't have it now. >> i'm really interested in any element that saves money. >> i'll get that for you, supervisor. i want to move to the hardware in the vehicle. there are three different devices we typically see mpt the black device at the top is the basic tellmatic device we plug into just about all our vehicles. this can be plugged into the diagnostic port the vehicle. we have a lot of older vehicles in the fleet that don't have computers believe it or not and those vehicles when you put that device in you just connect to the electrical system and it powerathize device up. when the device can't read a computer signal it default tooz the gps which works just fine, so there is a back up plan for each of these. the gray box in the idamal is called a assert guard, a internal battery operated device we use on trailer and off-road equipment where we don't need to track the vehicle or know information a computer on the vehicle, it basically pings once a day to let us know where the vehicle is and when the vehicle is moved it pings when the vehicle starts moving and stops moving. ping is shorthand that says hello i'm here and this is where i am. typically the pings on the system go every two minutes. they can be pinged down to 15 seconds but the air time, the subscription fee is higher for the more frequent pings. the bottom box is a module that the upper device, the tellmatic device plugs into when you operate in a area that doesn't have cell phone connectivity and it uses a satellight connection. it is more expensive and the pu c uses it in the hetch hetchy area when they are out of cell phone range and have vehicles that need to be tracked. that's totally voluntary as far as whether the department wants a higher ping rate or utilize the satellight. so, next slide-basically the installation status based on the legislation passed last year that modified the administrative code we installed tellmatic devices on 4162 vehicles and pieces of equipment classified as needing tellmatic services. there is 1686 law enforcement and investigative vehicles that were exempt from tell matters. there is legislation i believe supervisor yee proposed to provide that or add that device to those vehicles. we have been in contact with the police department and those departments effected by this. we have-we are working on a solution that is acceptable, which is-and once we get that proposed and tested, we'll pass on that information but we are fairly confident we can install devices on those remaining 1700 vehicles. there is another 1800 pieces of equipment considered category exempt which is a trailer or lawn mowers and things like that that don't have a reason to put this device on it. they are not cheap and there isn't a lot of reason to track the vehicles. the trailers we do track or not track but have the asset guard on have a very variable equipment in there and it is emergency equipment so we need toknow where that equipment is. not we but the departments need to know where that equipment is. um, we have four categories of information we collect. position, utilization, safety and maintenance. um, basically the safety um, is um, it was not initially a driver in our decision process. it's since become a bigger issue. one of the main values here is something called the hawthorn effect when a population is aware they are being monitored they tend to-everybody tends to do things more in line with their legal requirements and improves behavior basically is what it comes down to. um, tell matters tellmatics is one of many tool tooz identify unsafe driving patterns but important only used by trained administrators. it requires training to interpret the data in a way that's accurate and fair at all parties. dhr is currently developing city-wide policies and work wg supervisor yee's office on this issue. just a couple general pieces of information, the system is accurate within a radius of about 8 feet, so we are pretty sure we know where the vehicles are pretty much with the width of a lane of traffic. times are shown down to seconds. there is items called geofences, i mentioned that earlier, which a virtual boundary laid out by the department and set up for a number of uses but basically tells you when a vehicle entered or left a area it is supposed to or not supposed to be in. that will trigger an alert, instantaneous alert and i'll talk about those in a minute, or compiled into a monthly report or whatever report you want. utilization we track trips, which we consider those a key on key off events. you leave the yard, go to where you are going, turn the vehicle off and that's one trip or one days use and then the second trip would be turn the vehicle on and come back. so, that's how that's defined. we also track the miles, so we know how many times the vehicle is turned on and off and how far it goes in a day. we also track the hours of operation, that's not as useful a iletm at the other two but we track that. we track idling. we know on average how often vehicles in the fleet idle. idle the engine is on but not moving. the big trucks that have a power take off we can tell when power take off is engaged so the engine is running but running the power take off so don't count azideling. speeding-sorry, i skipped over fuel consumed. we need access to a computer in the vehicle. on the older vehicles we can't do fuel consumption but on the newer ones we calculate fuel use, hard breaking and hard acceleration which are safety related and operate off computer data, the engine speed and speed slowing up or slowing down. speeding, again we really strongly encourage to have a trained operator when you interpret the data. we do provide some support to departments occasionally when they ask us for support on this issue to understand what exactly they are looking at when they try to look into speeding issue. currently, the speeding set point tr the city is set at 80 miles per hour. there are other options but set it as we started the program and await any guidance as far as changing that. we have other options. we can set the speed at 5, 10 or 15 miles an hour above posted speed. we run reports that and to be honest if you set at 5 miles a hour over the speed limit you get so many hits it isn't something you can deal with. if you set 15 miles a hour to the speed limit the number goes down but we are looking to try-call it deal wg the big rocks first when we have people tripping 80 miles a hour we want to deal with those first and we think we should be deal wg those first once we get through those we can start looking at different players. okay. so, in maintenance, i mention ed the smog check issue. position. is there any questions on what we are monitoring? >> you know, it is one thing to know what you are monitoring and that is good too. not sure you will get to it, i don't see it in the rest the presentation, but in monitoring some of these things, what have you found out? do you have enough data to do analysis whether fuel consumption has gone down or whether or not there are fewer collisions and so forth? even with the older model where you may not have data, is there a way to yust look at the consumption of fuel from the pump itself where ever you get-in other words, we know how much fuel we using overall. have you seen any decline? that's what i'm interested in is really using the data to see as you get the positive results we were hoping for. >> at this point we are in fleet management our function is get the system up and running and provide the data to the departments. we are-basically it departments it is up to them how they want to utilize the data. at this point there is actionable data. we are at a stable point in the data where we know what the baseline is and need >> student start issuing policies that allow us to manage in the positive direction improving fuel economy, reducing idling, things like that. i can say there is definitely room for improvement but it isn't our function to provide that at this opponent. point. >> what would it take to get that type of information? does it have to come from legislation to ask for it or can-can you actually provide some guidance to the departments knowing that that's what i would like to see? >> i would say supervisor you are bit above my pay grade. i make the data and if i'm told how we want to approach it, probably that is something the city administrator level that would propagate that to the different departments. not a area i'm well versed in so sorry i can't help you there. >> would you let naome kelly know i'll be speaking to her and asking for that analysis. i know it is early in the game in regards to your implementing the program, but it is one thing to implement it , but if we don't-it was an assumption on my part and probably people that supported this that certain things would happen and we are not going know if it is happening if we don't do an analysis. things that we are getting information from other locations utilized tellmatics and some of the reports we are getting indicates there are fewer collisions, fuel consumption has gone way down, the speeding piece i find less data, but probably correlated to collisions. that's the direction i like to take it. >> i would completely agree, supervisor. i'll put in a plug for tellmatics, the data i won't say limited but finite but what we can do with the data is limited to your imagination. we have yet to answer a question we couldn't answer with the data available. >> i want to thank you for the presentation and also just acknowledge the dogged determineness of supervisor yee to spread the gospel of tellmatics and you are getting close supervisor, 1700 more vehicle tooz go. >> i probably should have made a couple statements that number one, this is implementation started not that long ago so i appreciate your effort and making this happen as quickly as it has. within a year timeframe. and then the piece that you talked about, which has exempt the 1700 vehicles, you indicated that we are working on hopefully unexempting them bun there are things we have to take into consideration for these particular vehicles that the other city vehicles are not as concerned about. >> we are open to your guidance, sir. >> are you finished with your presentation? >> just have two more quick slides. >> okay. why dont you finish up. >> hope i'm not taking too much time. just the way the program administered is there is departmental administrators who have pretty much all the function yz do. i wont read through them, sure you can do that, but they can only see data for their own individual departments. i'm the only person who can see all the data for all the departments and data integrity is very important and very careful how the data is set up and made available and we work closely with the city administrator's office to make sure people understand how that's going out. um, i mentioned alert and reports. alerts are real-time. somebody just sped or crossed a geofence. if you supervise said the person and kidant want them to do that, you can get a e-mail or text or vice mail on your phone saying this vehicle crossed this boundary and those are really important for different departments who actually manage people, but things like-those alerts and other data are compiled into reports that are published on a regular basis however you want, daily, weekly, monthly and we keep reports for city-wide applications back to the inception of the program and we can dig out data for quite a ways back. um, and that's kind of my function. i help departments come up with these. they have access to the same data we do within their department limitations, so they can utilize it in any way they want to use it. now, i won't go over it, you have a copy of the monthly report for the month of may, it dated prl april 4. this is a report we put together at the request of the city administrators office. it is a report we can put together and add more data and take data out of it, but this is a city-wide report and undifferentiated by departments so get a sense how the key performance indicators are moving going forward. since we have been distributing this or there isn't guidance how to manage you are seeing a development of a baseline that we in the future will be able to push down. and that's really all i have. if you have any questions happy- >> any questions? >> i do mpt . >> sure. >> thank you for the presentation. i just have a few questions. so, um-are there-first of all, how durable is the equipment in terms of this installation, how durable have you found it to be? j >> as durable as a car. they fail time to time but not often and usually when they fail they fail spectacular. it is matter pulling it out of the vehicle. >> how many have you had to replace, do you know? >> i have to look that up. >> that is good to know if this is durable equipment in term thofz investment but it sounds like you are saying it isn't that but it is good to know. the second question is, do you see cost savings in terms of once it is installed to the vehicles overall. >> cost savings. >> cost savings to the vehicle in general or to the city. we made the investment has it created cost savings and something you are measuring? >> we are not at that point. again, we haven't taken any action mpt >> i heard that. just something i want to throw out there. i think it is helpful if we are making this investment is there a cost savings. and then has this-does it effect the insurance premiums for the city? >> i believe we--i don't know the answer to the question but think we are self insured so don't know. i don't think so. >> we are self insured. >> i imagine there is still a cost associated with that, so if we do something that will decrease the probability of speeding or decrease the possibility of accidents and all those things whether we are self insured or not and maybe there is a cost savings that is something dpood to look into. >> it would be. yes, sir. >> and the last question i had, have you seen again going back to the savings, but this is specific regarding maintenance. has this helped with the overall maintenance cost of the fleet? and again you haven't measured that. that seems to be one that would be one i think we would all want to know about because if you install the equipment and people pr breaking less and speeding less than repair cost maybe are going down so maybe something to measure. i understand you haven't taken the data to really start to utilize it in that way but that would be the general thinking i had to add on to what supervisor yee said. >> the system doesn't measure that necessarily but if we put the data from this system with other systems like asset works that tracks maintenance cost and started actively managing things like hard acceleration, hard breaking and speeding and things like that, i think that's a very good assumption that we have to check the data. >> okay. um, thank you for your presentation. i want to see if there are public comments on this item. come on up and- >> one thing which is years ago in 2003 i don't know if you were around mr. zeller >> i wasn't, sir. >> i put the fleet management and ordinance under the administrative service department and it was spread all over the city. at the time we identified a series of problemwise individuals taking city cars home and using them for personal business and we tried to crack down on that. relative to geofencing and tellmatics have you seen improvement in curbing those kinds of abuses? >> um, i can tell you i can measure it. i can tell you which vehicles go where and actually there is a function in there that you can drive the vehicle home but can't move it once it is home so you can't drive it around. again, we haven't been told which vehicles can and can't go home so i'll say we can do it, just like the other supervisor asked a question. once we are told and that is probably a good sit-down to say these are the ing things we want to measure. >> that is department by department and you provide that services? we have the technology just haven't apply td. >> weef have the technology and know how to apply it, we just need to be told what the set point is. >> that's what i meant. >> thank you. >> okay. come on up. you have two minutes. >> hello commission ers. [inaudible] on staff with san francisco bicycle coalition here to express our strong support for the tellmatics legislation and thank commissioner yee insuring the technology is used effectively and expands to include the entire city fleet of vehicles. it is simple, the black box technology is just another tool to keep the streets safe. it is clear we are not making urgent progress towards vision zero and need ever tool to get us there. the first annual evaluation of the report shows how much work is already taken place to approve and test this technology for city owned vehicle jz hope to see expan to include more vehicles including law enforcement. again we thank commissioner yee's commission to vision zero and know it takes street design to enforcement to legislation such as this to get thrus. thank you for your time. >> good afternoon share yee, commissioners. cathy dulukea the prauls and program manager at walk san francisco and like [inaudible] walk sf is excited to see the tellmatics program moving forward. thank you chair yee for championing this pruben technology. as mr. zeller mentioned, just knowing this technology is in the vehicle changes driver behavior, so it is a fantastic tool that right off the bat is going make our streets safer. we are excite today see what it will do in termoffs speed information and see how we can reduce speed. we want this to go into all city vehicles so we strongly support including it in police vehicles. other cities that used tellmatics in the fleet, some started in the police vehicles so it can be done. obstacles have been worked around, so thank you for using this proven technology to make our streets safer. >> good afternoon, commissioner. aaron goodwin on the bah e balboa park cac. one key concern is from the tellmatic system is are we able to implement in other ways. can we deal with the sf commuter shuttle program and shuttle bus said that are idling throughout the street in san francisco? a lot of times you go outside downtown and find shuttlebuses idling waiting to come back downtown to pick up riders. key concern of that is making sure we address this as part the heat inversion aspect of heat inversion in cities for gas emissions and having a lot of cars and vehicles idling and are a city under construction and have a lot of vehicles. might be a way to look at addressing how construction trucks come to the city and when they are idling at construction sites as well as moving in and out of the city. >> thank you. any other public comment on this item? seeing none, public comment is now closed. again, just want to close this by saying that this is only the beginning and this actually this tool that we have, the main motivation behind it is to have our streets be safer for people and to reduce collisions. the secondary impact, which is not necessarily a lesser impact is potential of cost savings in this, so hopefully the next time we have this item we'll have a better analysis of the data. so, is there a motion to continue this item to the call of the chair? >> excuse me, i wanted to ask one question. this is just general maybe to staff. hearing public comment and talking about the exemption for law enforcement and some of the other vehicles, can someone-i understand he is gone but maybe someone from the ta can speak about the reasoning bethined exemption and then do we have any-- >> commissioner yee knows all about that compromise. >> the second question is, do we have any data about frime bicycle coalition or folks from walk sf or or the others, has there been accidents involving pedestrians and law enforcement? not to say there isn't, it is just a general question. >> i'll try. when the original legislation was enacted it had all the vehicles in san francisco and it had to go through meeting and confer with all the different departments and the issues that law enforcement agencies raised were not answered at the time and so what i did was i weighed all those just to get these other 4,000 vehicles to get going with the promise i would follow up after november to work on what's law enforcement folk tooz see what their real concerns and work out the details and we are in the process of doing that right now. we are going to schedule meet and confer to see if we move forward with the rest the vehicles. in regards to law enforcement being involved in collisions, to my recollection i don't have all the data in my head but reading the newspaper, there are times they have hit vehicles, but the nice thing about having this information is you can actually do analysis and see who ran-who did what whether they went too fast or was there a emergency at the time and so forth, and i think a good example of how this could be used was when somebody a individual citizen or person stole a police vehicle and the police department didn't know where it was. these are some of the examples where it could be useful. >> okay. thank you. >> okay. so, is there a motion? do we have a motion to continue the item to call of the chair? >> so movaled. >> motion passes without objection. let me have item 3. >> item 3, vision zero amendment thooz the san francisco zeneral plan. this is information item. >> so, lily langlois, who's a planning with the planning department. >> yes. hi. good afternoon commissioners. lily lang loy with planning department. here to provide a overview of the proposed vision zero general plan amendment. joined by mike hunter who is cochair of the vision task force. as you may call the legislation was before the full board january of this year and rejected and the way general plan amendments work is they go back to the planning commission. over the last few #34u7ck9s we have briefed your offices and colleagues, gone back to vision zero task force and coalition and supervisor yee requested i come here today. i'll provide a brief overview and talk about broader about the work the planning department is doing helping to achieve the larger vision zero goal. so, i think everyone in the room knows vision zero is a city hch wide goal passed as official policy in 2014 and the goal here is to create a culture that prioritizes traffic safety to insure mistakes on the roadway don't result in serious injuries or death. wurging through design of streets, campaigns enforcement and change to city paums policy. so, in june 2014 the planning commission adopted a resolution in support of vision zero and outlined specific actions the planning department could take to play a larger role in this effort. one of theose actions was update the general plan. since the resolution was passed by the planning department, there is a number of specific things we have been doing internally to help achieve this broader goal. this includes flagging the hire injury corridors in the personal information database so the map is available to the public and project sponsors and staff. we have a street advisory review team which reviews streetscape plans and doing this with a extra lens for road safety. updated the check list to identify when a plan is rerequire eighty-two ired and reviewedment we held trainings on the changes and procedures and work wg supervisor kim #36s office on legislation to modify the fl threshold for when street squaip improvements are required. just a quick reminder why we are updating the general plan. the general plan is the city's guiding document to shape decisions, serves for a basis for all aspect of daily life where we live and work and move across the city. the language in the general plan is provides enough specificity to provide direction and guide decisions over time. implementitation decisions in the general plan can direct the allocation of public resources and shape private development. the general plan amendments have to be adapted by the planning commission and approved by the board but xant be modified by the board. we propose to up hpidate the plan for three yeez reasons. there is no language in the plan to reflect vision zero and the city is doing tremendous work and feel appropriate to reflect that erft. when we review development applications or capital improvement plans we make consistency findings with the general plan, and the third reason is this a implementitation action the resolution i just mentioned. so, we are proposing to anend transportation and urban design element to reflect the city's vision zero policy. the department is working on a effort to update the entire transition element so this ordinance is just specific to vision zero and pedestrian and bike safety. the specific changes incorporated into the amendment include a new objective around vision zero working to acheev street safety for all, new objective vg a multidisciplinary approach improving safety including e. updated objective to design streets for safe and convenient walking. related to pedestrian network and key walking streets and finally mining amendments consistent with vision zero. the general plan also has two outidated maps arounds the pedestrian network and propose to update those. i just want to provide a little context and history how we got to this point. 2010 the city receive adgrant for the walk first projectfunded by office of traffic safety and as parlt of the effort we developed a framework how the city prioritize pedestrian improvementsism at the time we drafted the plan policy squz did city-wide out preach. 2014 the commission passed the resolution saying we update the general plan. from january until june of last year we conducted outreach to the pedestrian safety advisory committee, vision zero taskfore, bike coalition, walk sf and work wg sfmta and public health. july of last year the planning commission initiated the amendments and october they were approved and recommend today the board. january the legislation was rejected and done additional outreach over the last few months. next thursday we will return to the planning commission to have them initiate the amendments and included language by request to supervisor peskin to make sure we engage communities in the design oef our-as we develop sfreet scape plans and require language when [inaudible] appropriate. we anticipate the legislation will return to the board probably in the summer. that concludes my presentation and happy to answer any questions. >> thanks for your presentation and thanks for your patience with the board. not only this board but the board of sfr visors in looking at the issues that we were concerned about. colleagues do you have any questions? >> i do. >> commissioner safai t. >> thank you. i just have a one or two questions. i'm look at sth proposed map of key walking streets and you had your existing map on the slide. so those are intended to be different >> the two map ozthen laft are in the general plan and we propose to replace those with the one on the right. >> i'm curious because i'm looking at-particularly in my district it looks fairly similar, but there is one area that is shared between myself and supervisor yee, which is hallow way avenue and wonder why that was taking out in termoffs a pedestrian walkway. you have a idea what the process was? i'm trying to understand that better and the impablth. >> the way the map on the right was developed is the policy-these are the streets we see people walking or would walk if the conditions were better and generated based on a number of factors. we have density of land use particularly school squz institutions. the neighborhood commercial corridors, locations where we see high transit ridership, locations adjacent to schools. but it is largely the commercial corridors. >> but i'm just wondering what was the criteria for taking things out because just that one-not to zero in and nit-pick but that is a main corridor for a lot of people to walk to san francisco state and so it is constantly traveled by car squz pedestrians and also-there are speed bumps put in, traffic calming put in so just jumped out why that was taken out. is it too late to adjust that? you already presented to the planning commission? >> no we will be there thursday so can look at hollow way. >> i think that is a good idea. i see a constituent nodding his head. do you agree? it might be worthwhile to at it back. >> i'm glad we are having the hearing before it goes back to the planning commission, this is good. >> commissioner peskin do you have anything? >> no, i just appreciate that-i think we are reluctant when we rejected the general plan amendment. i was on the land use committee that heard it and sent to full board with a little trepidation in my case because i heard from constituents particularly in chinatown relative to policy 25.5 and we kind of agreed we would let it move forward and we would fix it later, but then supervisor yee and 9 of my colleagues saw fit to reject it, so have you reached out to those folks who express- >> i talk today him after the hearing. >> have you shown them the new language because i haven't seen the new language. i want to make sure everyone going into this in so far this is the first general plan amendment the board rejected in a long time everybody goes in happy. >> so, the policy [inaudible] confirmed it represents the language that you had requested. >> perfect. >> so, i have gone over the newest version and the piece that still feels like it could use some strengthening is policy 26.2, prioritize funding for pedestrian safety programs improvements and high injury locations. i guess i don't have a argument-i'm not say ing take away from that, but what i'm finding out in regard to that policy we have been utilizing in the last year or so is that it ignores certain other neighborhood corridors or other corridors that seem to be less dangerous and then when i looked at places like monterey boulevard and valdez in the two or three months span one person was killed with one collision and another serious injured with head injuries in another collision. have you looked at-that seemed like a high priority corridor mainly because just a few people that are crossing the street. my argument has been that you can't just look at places where a thousand people crossing every hour and probably see more frequency of collisions. if you have a thousand persons crossing one intersection in a day and you have a certain number of collisions there, and then you take a intersection like valdez and monterey with 10 people crossing every day and yet in the few months period you had two people being hit and he wouldn't show up. somehow we have to put language in there to take those things into consideration prioritizing some the funding to deal with those type of situations. so, i don't know if you have any language you could put in there? >> i think the-since vision zero was adopted as city policy the direction that the city has been moving in terms of implementitation is prioritizing safety improvements on the high injury network. i think that's not to say other improvements cannot happen city-wide so there are other policies in here that talk about prioritizing streetscape improvements and programs and imp lmentitation that will happen in other part of the city but will let marry hupter from the sfmta speak directly to this. >> i want to say, maybe what i'm asking is we change the definition in how we define those high priorities because we are using frequency of incident where there are collisions without taking into consideration density. so, like anything in life with numbers you can approach it in very different ways and i'm indicating there is a flaw and just using one formula to figure what is high priority area. >> um, so it is one tool we use. it is a map we continuely show for prioritizing engineering and programs education enforcement but it is just one tool. in the action strategy exstates that we the high injury network but also do improvements city-wide recognizing that the high injury network cap schred about 70 percent. to get to zero we need to cover the other 30 percent so that is articulated in the action strategy that we do improvements off the high injury network whether it is you know, city-wide enforcement or vision zero. we had been in touch with your office about modifying this particular policy and expanding it to read city-wide improvements, so we are happy to include that language to make clear why we are using the high injury network as a critical rule to prioritize resources we do safety improvements city-wide. i also note while the policy is static it says high injury network, the map does change that every couple years when we have new data we can update the high injury network to reflect any changes in how the number of severe and fatal collisions are happening around the city. >> i appreciate that you're trying to include that language, i just want to look at-it just wasn't-i don't have any alternative language to give you, but looking at it it didn't feel that strong to me. i don't know how else to-how you would state it. i'm hoping that in the next few days you am up with other language, maybe could make a bigger statement about those type of situations. >> one other thing that i'll remind the group, that in the action strategy we talked to your office about this is predictive modeling. you mentioned density, so something we are moving toward to incorporate more the predictive modeling opportunities to get at what and have been describing. >> i really appreciate because for the west side the city the one model that is being used is not really always the best. commissioner safai. >> thank you. through the chair, i had a question regarding specifically in this conversation with regard to the amendment to the general plan. i know the vision zero coalition members submitted letters with their recommendations to improve the plan with the amendments and one item in particular that's really important to us and know it is also important to supervisor yee based on his backgrown is the strategies to improve streets around schools. we have a lot of pre-school, elementary school, high school, we have a tremendous amount of schools in our district in particular and being a apparent of young children at two different locations in the morning in potrero hill and mission and there is a constant conjugz of cars and pedestrians so want td know what type of work is being included in this or language is included in this to thinkset about the safety around schools or is there? >> in the general plan or-yeah >> is there a section or conversation about this? >> there isn't specific language around that, but it's sort of referenced in the map of key walking streets because of the map of key walking streets was developed and schools was a criteria so a lot of streets selected are adjacent to school and there is a policy saying priortaz safety improvements on those corridors. >> thank you. >> okay. are there public comments on this item? come on up. take your time. >> so, i've got a few comments and spent about a year and a half fighting the situation what is going on with the drivers not yielding. i have been on the last 6 weeks of crushes. i had the same experience of driver slamming into me screaming and shouting telling me to get out of the way, driving around me and pointing and laughing. what you are doing isn't working. the media covered this as well because they probably coming from within. i had 5 police officers in three cars in the past 6 months that haven't yielded to me. they thought it was okay to drive around me and thought they were completely fine by saying to me specifically, we are going to drive around you or we thought you were near the edge of the curb when i wasn't, i was 3 quarters a way in. i'm in the richmond, spoken to the police and scheduled to go on a ride along, also scheduled on a sting because if the police dont know what they areic looing out for because they don't know what they yield to, that means they believe they are above the law so that is big problem because you look at [inaudible] citations a month which is 102,000 citations per year and if the police are not looking out and doing their job and being retrained that you do not cross over the line when somebody is crossing the street, if you are in the car you do not move until the person crossed. sure those citations would probably triple. you got to take into account the police are not yielding because they don't know the law, they create a bad example for drivers, you now got-i have spoken to [inaudible] completely agrees with along with captain [inaudible] and your office and have been conversation squz 50,000 more drivers on the road. [inaudible] uber. their drivers are wanting to get cash coming in so they drive fast. i have been in the car before and the speeding ahead. >> thank you very much. >> i have a big problem. can i say quickly thrrks is a solution. get san francisco to get vision zero to stop having all these meetings and maps, put billbords >> thank you very much. your time is up. next, please. >> ma'am, your time is done. we have to give everyone the same time. >> is there somebody pressing the light back there. hold on. angela can you-and we're back. >> okay, continue. >> thank you. cac and sf tomorrow. i thank the supervisors for acknowledging the issue about transit safety in our dist rblths. the map does miss a lot of major streets and people would be walking more on the streets if they were safe and well lighted and access to public transtd that got them downtown in a significant short amount of time. some the corridors not highlighted, silver avenue, ocean avenue and extension, hollow way was mentioned but also other streets on the southwest and southeast corridors where a lot of density will occur. how do we improve the safety in the areas not just in the downtown to incent vise walking and making sure it is safe? part of the principles are outlined about building bet squr safer street. that should include sidewalk squz traffic island making sure the sidewalks are safe and connect the places where people are try tog go and transfer. educate the public on traffic safety. there were great examples and can put this on the overhead for a second. it is from vision sf. i can show it or hands it. this is a flier given out. these can be easily put. this is a bicycle coalition flier. these can be put in muni clear channel stalls so people actually can see it. it is translated in the bike coalition, may may update it are for you in the future so these thing cz be put--these things are improvements that can occur with the vision sf program. the last thing is adopting policy changes that save lives. once again that is making sure we have the connections even if from a platform to the sidewalk near a school and mentioned this with supervisor yee about different ideas done and implemented sump as painting or toning the sidek

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