Transcripts For SFGTV LIVE Transportation Authority - Plans

>> approved. >> thank you very much. the minutes are adopted. since commissioner reed is here, we will move on to item four. >> item four, recommend five members transit citizen's advisory committee. >> we have transportation planner here on this item. >> good morning commissioner. this item is for the appointments to the gearry corridor advisory committee. initiative to improve travel time reliability and streetscape along the gearry corridor. it's currently in environmental review phase. the structure is shown in your memo which is on page 17 of the packet. five of those 13 members are currently up for appointment because of approximately two years ago. there was board initiated two year terms for those members. members currently in the structure are shown in the memo in attachment on page five. five members represent several different seats as there are -- there's one appointment for seat for the richmond district. one that is a representative of the fillmore area, one a representative of the tenderloin downtown district. two at large seats. four of those existing members are seeking reappointment. there is no current member seeking reappointment for one of the at large seats. we do have addition to the members seeking reappointment to the application for the individual neighborhood base seats and all of the applicants for any of the neighborhood seats are also eligible for that at large seat. we've encouraged all of the applicants to who are here today in order to express their interest and say a few words about their candidacy. some of them are here today. as a reminder, staff did not recommend candidates. we just provide the information that they have provided in their application. we are seeking a recommendation to appoint five members. so, thank you. >> thank you very much. do we have any questions from our community members? seeing none, just to reiterate, we have several reappointment, new one new appointee. i at this time i will open it up to the applicant who here. if you can come here up if you can state if you're a new appointee. >> who are the people seeking reappointment? >> sure, for the richmond district, joe anna fong and benjamin horn . >> thank you very much. >> all right, thank you very much. at this time, if would like to line up on the side of the wall here and again, please state your name which seat you're applying for and whether you're reappointment, thank you very much. don't be shy. come on up, please. >> my name is cindy i've been resident of the gearry corridor since 1990. i feel like i know pretty every inch of the gearry corridor. during that time, the last 25 years, i only owned a car for ten. the first part of this i was primarily a muny rider. more recently in the last 12 years, i've been a committed bike commuter. but i use all the forms of transportation. that's my -- i've been tracking this project for a long time. it seems to me that the biggest opposition is actually some of the gearry businesses, small businesses who fear being injured by the construction. any way, that's my experience. >> thank you. just one question and this goes for all of the applicants who are here today. if you can state why you like to serve in this capacity, what are some of the things that you like to achieve if you're able to be appointed to the cac. >> well, i see there's a need for this project. i'm really interested in helping, trying to help get it implemented. i would love to be involved in citizen capacity in the mta. i've done some work with the bicycle coalition and the m.t.a. i just think it's really important. >> all right. thank you. any questions from committee members? next applicant please. >> hi, good morning commissioners. thank you for the opportunity to speak before you today. my name is peter, i had the privilege of serving on the gearry advisory committee for the past two years. as a representative of the tenderloin downtown neighborhood. i'm here seeking reappointment today to the committee. a little bit about me, i've lived at the corner of height and gearry in district six for the past six years. i do not own a car and so i rely on public transportation to get around the city. i take the 38 gearry very often. it's the closest line to my apartment. i'm often on it getting to and from home. professionally, i work as a public outreach consultant for a small environmental marketing company and prior to that, i worked at the san francisco department of the environment on sustainable transportation projects and programs. while in the committee, one of my focus areas has been public outreach to the tenderloin community. i've worked with the transportation authority staff to identify community-based organizations to build a bridge and engage more with the community on the project. i've also done direct outreach to businesses along the gearry corridor making them aware of the community outreach offense that the t.a. has organized over the past two years. again engage the community. i've also been strong advocate for pedestrian safety improvements along the corridor particularly in the inner gearry portion where we know we have the highest pedestrian injures. i like to continue my active engagement with the committee as well as with the community. i like to ensure that the project stays on time and on budget and also work with the t.a. and city officials to make sure we secure funding for the project. would also want to continue to advocate the phasing in of the project so benefits can be benefited now. >> great, thank you for your presentation. >> thank you. >> next applicant please. >> good morning commissioners and thank you for this opportunity it speak. my name is benjamin horn, i've lived in district five for about the past ten years. i served in the last two years on the gearry tcac. i learned a lot about the project and learned about the role of the cac. my objectives is being part of the committee are to speaks a representative of district five but also to provide a voice to someone who lives and works nearby the projects. to increase safety for everyone. includes on the buses as well as in the neighborhoods and around the bus stops. increase efficiency for the projects. which is one of the main project goals. my like to ask that you appoint me to continue on the gearry cac. thank you very much. >> thank you very much for your presentation. colleagues, any questions or comments from the applicants? i don't see any other applicants here. okay, with that, i'm going to go to public comment first and take some questions and comments from committee members. public comment on item number four. >> item number four. i'll begin, bus transit citizen, committee. the past two applicants, they are well qualified. they are well outspoken. thank you. >> any other members of the public who wish to speak on item four? public comment is closed. now colleagues, do we have any recommendations or thoughts on gearry members? commissioner breed. >> thank you, i definitely think that it's important to have continuity on this particular committee and i think that the person who represents district five has been doing a really excellent job as well as peter who has served as a representative for district six. i would like to make a motion that we move forward with the existing individuals who are currently serving on this committee and i like to hear my colleagues thoughts on what we should do about the at large seat since we have not had a number of the candidates come here today before the committee to speak. >> all right, thank you. we will entertain that motion. commissioner farrell. >> thank you chair tang. just to be clear, we have one vacancy in richmond and one in tenderloin downtown and two at large that we have to fill. look, completely concur with supervisor breed and mr. horn in their continuity. in terms of -- open around the richmond district, i think the at-large seat, i know district two has been on there as at-large member. elliott talbot, i don't believe he was here today, i spoke with him about it. i would like to certainly -- given that we have two vacancies and three applicants, i would definitely support him going forward. i gotten to known him a little bit and think he would be very involved and have a great perspective there and take public transportation downtown to work every single day. he's a big advocate. >> thank you commissioner farrell. he has made his recommendation about the at-large seat with mr. elliott talbot. commissioner christensen. >> i want to echo about the thoughts of the current members. i know ben horn personally. i'm very pleased that both of them came down here today. any time somebody agrees to participate in the civic process is a wonderful thing. i appreciate all of those who are serving now and who have come forward with an interest to serve. i can speak of the list that we have available to cathy has -- kate lazarus who lives in richmond and works downtown and is a frequent user and is an exceptional young professional. i agree with commissioner breed, i did some checking with the staff and other people that work with the cac, all of them speak very highly of the person's currently serving. i think renewing those terms is an order especially all that's going on with the gearry brt. >> commissioner yee? >> one of the questions i have of staff in regards to -- thank you mr. horn and calotta being here. in regards to the current members, they're reapplying. how have their attendance been? >> they have all been fairly attended meetings and participated in and been quite -- offered a lot of contributions to the cac. >> that's important. lot of times people apply for these things and they never show up. i'm more than happy to support the four people that are currently in the seat and reapplying. in regards to the additional at-large seat, i appreciate anybody that comes here to show they're willingness to serve. i appreciate cindy for being here. there's enough support to put her on as the additional at-large seat. >> great, thank you. sounds like we have consensus on reappointments. i would definitely support that motion. we are definitely all over the map when it comes to the at-large seat. commissioner breed. >> i would also support ms. baker for the at-large seat as well if that's possible. >> okay. let's take first a motion -- >> i didn't realize ms. baker was listed in richmond. as much as i mentioned mr. talbot, i would fully support him, fair enough when people do show up to speak here, that should give preference. i'm happy to support that motion. >> great. sounds like we have consensus here. commissioner breed had made a motion supporting all the reappointments. is there a second. seconded by commissioner christensen. there's consensus on appointing ms. cindy baker to the at-large seat. do we have a motion and a second to that? moved by commissioner yee and seconded by commissioner breed. i think if we can do a roll call vote since we have commissioner farrell with us. >> on item four, commissioner breed breed aye, commissioner christensen, aye, commissioner tang, aye, commissioner yee, aye. item passes. >> great congratulations to reappointees and cindy for the at-large seat. all right, if we can call up item five nowç please. >> item five, recommend allocation of $9,878,876 in prop k funds. subject to fiscal year schedule. >> we have chad here, senior of transportation planner. >> good morning chair tang. we have a total of $10 million in request for prop k allocation today that would leverage about $67.9 million in nonprop k funds. first up is caltran's annual request for this -- san francisco annual member share for the contribution of the caltran capital budget for fiscal year '15 and '16. every year caltrans, like these for the annual capital budget, which is subject to reviewed discussion and negotiated by the three joint powers. prop k funds from the capital improvement program category and caltran shares are used to help support san francisco's annual local match contribution to caltrans capital program. prop k funding for the caltrans category has been heavily advanced to provide san francisco annual local match. we're also make a small advance for this year's request over what we have programmed in the adopted 2014 strategic plan. that requires an amendment. current programming in the prop k program in the current prop k strategic plan for caltrans runs out after fiscal year '22 and '23. these are the projects on the current slide that make up this year's request from caltrans for the state of good repair program. i want to highlight two of these. the first is the napoleon bridge closure. these funds will be used for design. these structures have reached the end of their useful lives. design is expected to be completed by december of 2016. the other project on this slide, train departure projects at the fourth and king station here in san francisco and also in san jose to provide realtime information to passengers and this project will be open for use for passengers by july 2017. on the fourth street bridge settlement project in 2003 the san francisco department of works contracted to retrofit for sizic stability. after construction the settlement between the contractor and the city was reached in which the contractor was received to $15 million, $2.3 million was sfmta responsibility. they found $300,000 in other funds and prop k to make up the difference. the prop k funding will come from $6 million that's programmed in fiscal year '16 and '17 pap that's programmed to -- that's programmed to segment f. this request also requires an amendment to advance funds for this project. another amendment to policy to allow these funds to be used for segment a instead of segment f of the project. plan the next slide is a quint-jerrold connector road. this request is part of an ongoing cooperation between the transportation authority, the city and the caltrans. first is to replace the bridge over quint street. second is to facilitate a potential future caltrans station and third aimed is to construct a new street between quint street and jerrold avenue that will run along the west side. the right of way where the road would go is currently owned by union pacific. the purchase price has been negotiated. the negotiations with the railroad on the purchase agreement are ongoing. bringing this request will allow the funds to be in place when escrow is set to close. the special conditions that are noted here on the slide, the they cover public works and city risks. >> before you move on to the next slide, if you would mind smoking to the issue and concerns that were addressed earlier. >> i will bring up the deputy director for policy and programming. >> good morning. deputy direct. the concerns that cac chair expressed in regards to the special conditions that applied what happens if escrow fails to close or what happens if escrow closes and the city purchases the property and project. in the case of escrow failing to close for whatever unforeseeable reasons occurred during escrow, the prop k funds would come back to the prop k program. if the project does not proceed after escrow closes after a period of about two years or two years is what we have in the condition and the transportation authority has deemed the project as not likely to proceed for whatever unforeseeable reason, we would ask the city to sell the property. the amount of funds that will be returned to the prop k program will be the less of the purchase price or the amount of prop k funds to acquire the property. or whatever the city can sale the land less the cost. >> okay, thank you for that clarification. >> the next project on the next slide is equipment for public works. this request it looks familiar. this is an annual request that comes from public works. it's to replayer cleaning equipment. you can see some of the specific pieces of equipment on the slide here. public works expects to complete for the equipment by the end of the calendar year. have the complete procurement to have the equipment on the street by may of 2017. another request that might look familiar, this is an annual request from the department of the environment. they submitted a request for about 80,000 in prop k to promote and administer san francisco's benefit ordinance. the prop k could fund the program from october 2015 through september 2016. the commute benefit ordinance provides san francisco employers -- the prop k will be used to offer consultations with employers that administer the ordinance, compliance, conduct outreach and maintain the commute smart hot line and update the compliance process. >> if i may ask, how has our the funding that we've allocated for. how has that translated into actual participation. i don't know if there's any sort of metrics. >> actually, the compliance -- right now, we have about 80% compliance rate from businesses and we're working this year to increase that number quite a bit. >> what are some of the things that i guess you might be doing differently in order to try to achieve better compliance rates? >> what we are doing is providing a lot more direct outreach, free consultation services. we run information through the business associations, any of the outreach channels that we have available to us that are specific to the businesses. then we've also increased our participation rates because we've partnered with the healthcare security ordinance. they had the same threshold of employers. in the past, we've had outreach to their mailers. additionally, the bay area has a new regional program. we have been communicating to them. we have multipronged approach to reaching out to employers. >> great. from my understanding, it's the last year in the department of environment is requesting these funds through prop k allocation? >> that's correct. >> great, thank you. >> the next project is the karr street multimodal implementation project. this project will build upon recommendations in the transportation authority's chinatown which is approved by the board this past july. the requested funds will be used to plan and develop designs for current montgomery streets between market and broadway. the goal is to increase pedestrian safety. we'll also enhance transit performance. there's a bunch of bus routes that run through here. it also developed north-south bicycle facilities in the corridor. this was identified as a key corridor in the 2013 bicycle strategy. the -- with that i will call my colleague, ryan, to talk about the last prop k request. >> senior planner at the t.a. this final request relates to a pilot program we are working to initiate with bart. this came out of discussions with bart about how do we address the various congested deny conditions. there's a lot of work on the way to develop longer recommendations. it's short term solutions to address crowding. we are very interested in successful pilot that had been done in singapore where they offer incentives to riders to shift out of the peak record and they were able to track how well the incentives work by using their transit card data. we cork to scope a similar program for san francisco. we applied for federal funds with that. we have a partnership with bart to get this under way. we're looking for prop k funds for the matching -- to help match the federal grant. we are looking to try to launch it in spring. bart typically experiences a ridership bump in january. we're hoping to launch it around then or potentially later in the spring. it would run for about six months. we're looking to test this approach. it's essentially promising approach for managing congestion generally not just on bart but maybe other applications or transit. operators and roadways in the long term. we look at this as an opportunity to test it and see how it works and how effective it is. could potentially go from there if we see a success. >> thank you, i think this is really interesting pilot. can you speak -- i don't know if you're able to speak to some of the potential ideas for what the incentives might be for people to shift their travel patterns. >> we are looking at either the base reward would either be clipper card value or cash. those are the two options. in singapore, they did provide transit card value but the card was much more flexible than ours. we'll be doing surveys around bart to get a sense of -- if there's a strong preferences. we'll test options with surveys around bart. i can go into more detail it is you're interested. >> thank you. any other questions? i think that concludes your presentation. thank you very much. commissioners do you have any questions or comments regarding the prop k request this time around? okay, seeing none, we will open up item five to public comment. >> [inaudible] >> thank you very much. any other members of the public wish to comment on item five. public comment closed. colleagues do we have a motion on this item? motioned by commissioner yee to adopt item five. with that objection, it passes. item six. >> this is an information item. >> we have maria lombardo, deputy directors of the t.a. here. >> good morning, i'm going to co-present this with our assistant deputy director for policy and program. there should be a powerpoint up on your screen. this one is a follow-up to the overview presentation that we gave ages ago, it was in july before recess plan bay area. ly give -- i'll give you a short recap. the focus is showing you our preliminary draft to guide our advocacy on plan bay area and also be draft list of the san francisco project priorities that we will submit to the metropolitan transportation commission. in a nutshell, what is planned bay area? this is basically the long range transportation vision for the nine bay area counties, there are 100 plus jurisdictions and close to third different transit operators. thanks to state legislators, the 2013 update is now called the regional transportation plan/sustainable communities strategy. it mandate to how it's coordinated in this planning document. two the really key sticks in that legislation has to reach state mandated target. we also have to accommodate all of the housing needs at all income levels. the basic elements of plan bay area are some goals and performance targets. sort of getting to the nuts and boats what makes up the plan. you'll see policies recommended to investment of funds to feature revenue advocacy. there are grants programs that get shaped and molded in here. particularly one in which m.t.c. has controlled. one of the key deliverables is the financial constrained project list. one thing i want to clarify up front, while we're conducting our call for project, this is not like a call for projects for the one bay area plant program where you ended up with a board adopted list of projects. this is more akin to what i say getting fishing license. you've gotten into plan bay area, which means you're allowed to go out and seek federal funds, it doesn't mean you'll get it. you have a permit license. it's essential and can be leveraged into something later on. this particular update is the first update since sb375. while for san francisco, merging the transportation side together, tend to be a little bit on the cutting edge, the rest of the regions sort of big huge effort. folks still feeling the impact. the idea is that the plan bay area is updated every four years. this particularly area is a minor update. they're building on the framework what is currently in place. m.t.c. is not changing the horizon. the last year the plan remains at year 2040. the focus is on updating the projects that are in there but also in a few areas, topics that didn't get adequately flushed out last time. it's hard to do everything one update. those are showing up on the screen, i'll come back and talk to them later. i'm going to talk about briefly now, our proposed goal and objectives to guide our advocacy. mostly these are pulled from our san francisco transportation. last plan bay area comments made and m.t.c. commissioners. to try and keep this simple, we've divided those goal and objective into two categories. financial and policy ones are here up on the page. the first one, amber will talk about more because it relates very much for the call for projects. as i said, plan bay area is your fishing license to go after federal funds. it's sort of a level of strategy about all of the projects that need to be in this update until the next one is approved in '01. you 2 1 -- 2021. three and four on the screen, basically have to do with getting more money. the third one is trying to get a bigger share of san francisco of the existing revenues. the fourth one is growing the pie. we need more revenues for transportation period. i will underscore something amber said in july, which is that we're not adding years federal revenues continue to go down as compared to prior forecast. i do want to point out that the second policy objective, this is advocating strongly for more investment in transit. our m.t.c. commissioners made a really big deal during the last plan bay area update. it makes sense in this context as the three big cities, san francisco, san jose and oakland. to be able to do that, we need to maintain our systems that we have and expand them. i won't go into a lot of detail about this. they are there and i will be happy to answer questions on attachment one. on the screen, are just a few examples of some of the new revenue advocacy of how these policies may translate into action. two things i'll note is again, while you don't get many coming on plan bay area, you can accomplish things that can later help you leverage your project in securing money. for the largest projects and projects that change roadway capacities or if you're doing a freeway management project where you get more approved, m.t.c. performance evaluation. the top 10 or 15 or so, m. -- its not the same as having a check going home. it does mean when you seek regional discussions, these are bragging rights. you can say we're a top performer in the bay area. it's easier to get dollars. last plan bay area probably two thirds of the plan bay area. we tend to do really well in this area. the green box just gives you an example of some of the policies we expect to come out of plan bay area. some are less likely as others. we always want to be prepared. lastly in my pilot presentation, up there you can see the main areas where we proposed nonpolicy related objectives. for example in terms of vision zero, we want to make sure all the m.t.c. programs allows vision zero. they just mentioned, we support strongly based decision-making because our projects do well as opposed to a formula that returns forms. lastly, equity is the high topic of this debate. we'll come back to you with thoughts on this. it is a little bit tricky. this is still a part of transportation plan that we're trying to achieve and influence land use. just the examples of how we can do that in plan bay bay area. the region can provide technical assistance through jurisdictions throughout the region about how to develop and put into place anti-displacement policies. lastly, with the one bay area grant program which we'll talk about, there are requirements administered -- eligible, there's a possibility of tieing on more strings on there saying in order to be eligible, jurisdiction needs to have six the following menu of ten anti-displacement programs of programs in place. what we'll change is the cost of the project. amber will come up and talk to you about that. >> good morning commissioners, amber transportation authority. this is the time line for the entire plan bay area process that m.t.c. produced. you can see we are at that area where there's a bunch of activity going on. basically our focus will be through mid-2016 on this issue. with respect to the call for projects, there's three concurrent efforts going on now. the first is the call for projects at the county level which is what we're going to talk about today. the second mtc asked the regional operators directly provide. mtc also asked the regional tran set operators to provide their operating needs. basically, mtc will take all of this input and build a financially constrained preferred scenario of programs and projects. our county program is basically mtc has told us we have $8.4 billion budget for local discretionary funds. discretionary funds, we have a number of projects that has mtc committed funding. it's the extra money that allows the project to move forward. we dn anticipate that 8.4 will go down a little bit. we'll know more about that later in the year. probably going to have to shave some of the funding off our final list of projects. what projects immediate to be in the rgp. maria said, any project seeking federal, state or regional funding or federal action such as federal and environmental clearance approval has to be in the plan. also projects that are large in capacity changing. fortunately, most of the projects that we hear about everyday, traffic and transportation demand management, can be bundled in a programmatic category. we really looking at the big projects. between may and july, we worked with public agencies and also solicited through comprehensive process with the whole city, family. we solicited ideas from members of the public by participating in a mtc workshop. we've done an e-mail blast and social media. we did one of the meetings with the neighborhood organizations and stakeholder groups to really get detailed input into what they were interested in seeing in the plan bay area. what we heard is very similar to what we heard in our outreach for the san francisco plan a couple of years ago. interest in social equity, public transit, bikes and ped project. we did hear from one stakeholder questions about our congestion management approval approaches. wanting us to think about how san francisco transportation relates to the region. we're not working on it alone. interest in a transparent and inclusive process with follow-up. then real focus on the length between transportation, affordable housing and displacement. in identifying the draft project priorities included in your packet, we first looked at what was last bay area. projects don't typically get removed unless they are completed or canceled. we've revised those process and what regional or local discretionary funding do they need to assign to the project to fund them. then the exciting thing is the new projects. working with the members of the public, looking at each project and determining does it need to be in the plan or can it be bundled in the problematic category. is it in the san francisco transportation plan, that's kind of the basis feed into what goes into plan bay area. is it consistent with the policies and what planning process did it come out of that public outreach and level of technical advancement. in your packet are several lists, page 46 is list of existing plan bay area project that we propose to move forward. page 50 through 52 are the new projects. they're f.y.i. to give you a full picture of what is moving forward. finally on page 55 is a list of programmatic categories. right now we're just kind of indicating what projects will be seeking local and regional discretionary funds. we're coming back for an action item next month. at the same time, planned bayer is a small portion of the planning. right now we've been engaged a long range planning effort developing a schedule and budget that's in coordination with the planning department, the mayor's office and the m.t.a. there will be deliverables that will come out of that process over the next few years. the first will be a refresh of the san francisco transportation plan. address minor subject matter that we hadn't flushed out the last time. there will be a major update to the san francisco transportation plan. that will take a longer look at the long term transportation land use division. how we prioritize transit and state of good repair. our vision for demand management and how to share mobility and feed into our transportation system. then, the third deliverable will be an update, the planning department will update its transportation element. as you know, there's a big push to do transit master planning in the city. this is happening now. will be informed by several efforts going on now. m.t.a. will capacity strategy the transit core capacity study. the rail yard boulevard study led by the planning department and then bart is also studying various things in the city. these are all going to feed into recommendations that can advance the planning conceptual engineering and environmental work on a number of capital projects before they can be included in the next plan bay area. of course, this will be a robust public engagement process. this is very tiny but it's kind of our map forward with the call for projects. we'll be bringing the list with the numbers to you next month. m.t.c. will 58 58 -- evaluate the projects. come up with a preferred scenario in early 2016 and for adoption in 2016. with that, maria and i will be happy to answer any questions you have. >> thank you so much for the thorough presentation. colleagues any questions or comments? commissioner christensen? >> i just want to make note in all of that information of an item of a special interest to my district. i'm very happy to see the rail capacity study move forward. i think a lot of my colleagues agree it's something we need to be taking a look at. i'm very happy to see the central subway extension on that list. we'll be looking forward to making some progress on that. thank you for including it. >> thank you very much. any other questions or comments? seeing none, we'll open up item six to public comment. >> [inaudible] . >> all right, any other members of the public wish to speak on item six. public comment is closed. that was an information item. we'll call touch -- item seven now. >> this is an information item. >> amber with the transportation authority. today i will providing you with abupdate on the obag program. it was one of the grant programs that came out of plan bay area to support the greenhouse gas emission goals that m.t.c. had through its sb375. it's a five year grant program. the last cycle was $826 million. it's a significant chunk of money. most of the funding comprises it are all the federal funding that m.t.c controls. you can see there's a number of different programs regional programs such as climate initiatives, transit programs, regional operations which includes things like m.t.c. three way performance initiative. 40% of the program was given back to the counties to program to a number of kind of self-selected county priority. in cycle one, the funding was distributed to counties by formula. through production and planned house. 70% will be required to be spent. priority development area. which is self-selected areas that are anticipated to take the groove. paving, transit, bike and ped. they have a really strict time use of funds requirement and lot of hoops you have to jump through. it's something we have to pay particular attention to in the process. for san francisco, we got $38.8 million over the five years. we set aside $2.5 million for schools and the remainder for streetscape like projects. this map shows the projects that moved forward. you can see in the yellow there are the defined party development areas between investment and anticipated to happen. we funded two safe routes to school projects. assigned some of the funding to a streetscape project that included six school components. we funded five streetscape projects across the city. just to give you a flavor of the type of projects here's a couple rendering through chinatown, broadway, mansell, proposal if masonic and proposal for second street. cycle one, status update as we move into the second cycle, kind of lessons learned, the first is that all the projects except for second street, has been obligated. second street is moving forward on schedule this year. four of the projects have experienced between six and nine months of delay. the rest have experienced modest or no delay. there are a number of reasons for that. we really trying to figure out how to accommodate those issues in the next round. project readiness is really essential. look into the reasons that led to project delay, first of all, there was higher than anticipated agency coordination requirements. mostly with respect to pec but also a lot of issues with caltrans which is a critical partner in this process. because we need federal environmental clearance, there's a lot more hoops to jump through there. because it's under caltrans, we thrown a lot of surprise requirements. then finally, it's very complicated to obligate the federal funding. move into cycle two, setting one of the big questions is what do we want to see as project priorities. last time we focused on safe routes to school. again, these fundings can be spent on a lot of different things, we might want to focus on the same thing. maybe we want to focus on transit, maybe we want to commit additional funding to plan and development area. looking at project readiness with the eye of a lessons learned, better evaluate the project schedule thoroughly and potentially think about whether we want to fund a few large projects that can more efficiently go through the process or smaller projects. last slide, this is just -- you're going to see update on cycle two next month. m.t.c. is currently doing outreach with stakeholders with the policies and proposals for obag. they will be bringing that through their board in november. then the projects beginning implementation in early 2017. we'll bring an item to you next month and talk about obag two in much more detail. we'll provide that update. >> great, thank you for your presentation. commissioner yee. >> thank you chair tang. thanks for the presentation. i want a clarification of your numbers. couple of questions, the total is 38.8. you have 33.5 million. move into $2.5 million for safe routes. only $1.2 million is from obag. i don't get it. >> yes. what was shown in the project total, there's also an increment of the obag funds that goes toward planning functions for the transportation authority. most of it goes to project but a small portion goes toward five years worth of oversight and planning for the transportation authority. the safe route to school now, we did program $2.5 million to safe routes to schools program. the rest of it was a component of chinatown chinatown broadway project. >> the whole thing is interesting. >> any other questions or comments from committee members? i look forward to working with all of you for cycle two. i know that on the west side of town, lot of our neighborhoods are not part of the p das. i understand why the funding will go towards the other half of the city. i do look forward to seeing if there are ways we can leverage some of the funding. we that, seeing no other questions oar comments. we'll open up item seven to public comment. specifically about the plan bay area program. >> chinatown. i go there everyday. monday, tuesday, wednesday, thursday, friday, saturday and sunday. [inaudible] ç >> item 10. >> thank you very much, we are adjourned. adjourned. announcer: b dreams and good grades aren't enough to get into college. there are actual steps you need to take. finding someone who can help is the first and most important. for the next steps, go to knowhow2go.org. (music) >> herb theatre,open rehearsal. listen to the rehearsal. i think it is fun for them, they see our work process, our discussions, the decisions we make. it is good for us. we kind of behavior little bit when we have people in the audience. msk (music) >> we are rehearsing for our most expensive tour; plus two concerts here. we are proud that the growth of the orchestra, and how it is expanded and it is being accepted. my ambition when i came on as music director here -- it was evident we needed absolutely excellent work. also evident to me that i thought everyone should know that. this was my purpose. and after we opened, which was a spectacular opening concert about five weeks after that the economy completely crashed. my plan -- and i'm absolutely dogmatic about my plans --were delayed slightly. i would say that in this very difficult timefor the arts and everyone, especially the arts, it's phenomenal how new century has grown where many unfortunate organizations have stopped. during this period we got ourselves on national radio presence; we started touring, releasing cds, a dvd. we continue to tour. reputation grows and grows and grows and it has never stopped going forward. msk(music) >> the bay area knows the orchestra. you maybe take things for granted a little bit. that is simply not the case will go on the road. the audiences go crazy. they don't see vitality like this on stage. we are capable of conveying joy when we play. msk(music) >> any performance that we do, that a program, that will be something on the program that you haven't heard before. string orchestra repertoire is pretty small. i used to be boxed into small repertoire. i kept constantly looking for new repertoire and commissioning new arrangements. if you look at the first of the program you have very early, young vibrant mendelson; fabulous opener and then you have this fabulous concerto written for us in the orchestra. is our gift. msk(music) >> and then you have strauss, extraordinary piece. the most challenging of all. string orchestra work. 23 solo instrument, no violin section, now viola section; everybody is responsible for their part in this piece. the challenge is something that i felt not only that we could do , absolutely could do, but i wanted to show off. i can't tell you how aware i am of the audience. not only what i hear but their vibes, so strong. i have been doing this for a long time. i kind of make them feel what i want them to feel. there is nobody in that audience or anywhere that is not going to know that particular song by the fourth note. and that is our encore on tour. by the way. i am proud to play it, we are from san francisco. we are going to play that piece no matter where we are. >> >>mayor edwin m. lee: good morning, everyone. welcome to our city's navigation center. i have this opportunity to talk about the partnerships that we've created in our latest but on going challenge of helping to house our homeless the best we can as a city. let me begin by again saying thank you to former mayor gave and articulated a plan to end homelessness in our city and got ought of -- all of us in the city to give this high attention and our city to create homeless programs and homeward bound programs and incentivized us to look at as many model as we can to housing rubric first and that's been our mantra. as i approached the challenges that i have with more people having suffered homelessness and working with our public health agencies, our homeless connect, our homeless center and leadership through the stories that they continue to provide to us about the challenges that families and youth and others face along with our human services agency, we also wanted to make sure that we formed additional partnerships to help us with this challenge. i think one of the best partnerships that we form is with our inter faith council because of their on going commitment and i know members of the board are here. i want to say thank you to our local representative here david campos and also mark ferrell and julie christensen for their leadership and the rest of the board as we look at this model at the navigation center and try to figure out in this partnership what else we can do and do better at. the critical partnership with the interest faith council is not just the leadership they have been and working with el nino but working with our human services department and all of the agencies that want to help in this incredible challenge of people living on our streets. we must do more and we must do better and learning from the very examples that we've given to tomb -- homeless connect when they are at bill gram and other parts of the city and we try to form even better ideas. the opportunity came about when the inter faith council had an opportunity to present to us a philanthropic idea to work with us and other agencies to put our best ideas forward at this navigation center. this truly is a center where people who are homeless and living on the streets can gets services at one center. it's an attempt to take on the challenges at our homeless shelters and input on the street and those that are working through the incredible services at the service center working along the streets along with working with our public works department, our police department to try to provide the highest human touch for people who have the tremendous barriers of living on our streets. this navigation center has some of it's good values as we try not to say no to anybody. that when we invite people we try to invite the relationships that they built over perhaps sometimes many years on the streets, taking care of their pets, the things that they have a sense of belonging with. identify their property and take care of that and have a place where they can immediately clean up, have immediate attention on health services of support, mental challenges that they might have on the behavioral side of it as well as just basic food and the inter faith council has been able to attract along with the episcopal community services a variety of food stock such that those can be here can have access to healthy foods 24/7 can get the shower and health needs on an on going basis on these sites with these portables that used to belong to public schools and the help of public works and againstity of philanthropic donors that we've been able to have very portable showers and bathroom facilities all in an effort to work with supervisors david campos because he was not interested basically in having the traditional shelter here and supervisor which would be responsible to do and as we talked to other supervisors, we wanted to present a model. i believe now given that some of the mayors that came through some of the conference of mayors that this would be the international model. mayors from seattle, portland, vancouver, have sent delegations here to review what we are doing here because they are facing similar challenges in their city and we are comparing notes along with los angeles, san jose and oakland. and by all accounts, our effort and our model here has demonstrated that we have done better and we can do more and better. such that, this navigation center given all of it's collaboration, the systems we put in, the non-profits that we put in. the surrounding and embracement of our clergy as well as those that are advocating for the rights of homeless to be respected in a dignified way. they have all said i think without a doubt that this navigation center is the right way to do it shouldn't surprise you with some statistics that over 200 people with the last 5 months since this center has started has been served that 60 have moved into permanent sustainable housing off site. 34 interesting enough, 34 individuals have raised their hands and said i have gotten to a point where you help me identified a support system where i can go home and be more successful. there are currently 71 persons here right now living and getting the support services, awaiting the permanent housing that we are negotiating. so all in all, the brief time that we've had with everybody's level of cooperation and with the again the housing first services being part of that, the navigation center with it's goals have been very successful to the point where today's announcement is not just to give you some background about the center in the navigation center in how it works. later on we'll have someone who has gone through the center to talk to you directly about what this means to him, but also to allow the center to effectuate in a way that this center approaches homelessness. we will begin immediately of reprioritizing of existing fund that exist in our human services agencies and public health to call for an additional $3 million to be put in both an expansion and another navigation center. the location of which we have yet to have, but we know this is a good model. and working with our budget office, working with beven's input and working with non-profits, we believe an expansion and working with the navigation center, i'm going next year of identifying two or three more of these navigation centers to make an even more impact around the thousands of people that are homeless in san francisco. i believe we can do that and i believe this model can be had. we are not doing it alone, we could not do it alone. i think we have affected this private partnership so deeply and encouraged the private sector that we want to establish a fund. we are going to call it navigation partnership fund where we will deposit our initial $3 million that the city will have and ask the private sector to match it. to match it in a way in which it's not just money. but that they will match it only when they see the use of the city money going towards a very successful program as we have demonstrated here so that their private money can then be viewed as being used very much in an accountable level to be matched up with the city money. we expect and we hope that as we introduce this model and bring more private citizens and companies in to educate them about homelessness and about the causes of it that we will at the same time say that this is part of the solution. now, i say part of it in a very deliberate way because none of the supervisors will say that the navigation center is in and of itself the answer. it's still affordable housing that is at the end result. this has also been the end result for all of our shelters, for all of our service programs. we want to have sustained housing but are people ready for it? i think coming to the navigation center and getting the support we have will get them there back up to this navigation center and certainly by the end of this year are over 500 units of housing primarily in affordable residential hotel units that the city and the private sector are mass releasing. that is an incredible part of the answer and that by this mid-september, we will have about 150 of those units identified so as people move in, they know where they are going to be ending up. by mid-october, another 150 units have been mass released by the mayor's office of housing and the housing coordinator and all the other agencies working together. now, the big difference and of course we will have the target of 500 by the end of the year. the big difference is this: i know cecil knows this, episcopal knows this, inter faith knows this, it is never ever about just the brick and mortar, is it? it's about the people. it's about what they need on an on going basis so they can more than survive. they have to be successful. they have job training programs helping. we have support systems for our transitional age youth that they can not do without because they have got skill training. they have to get back on education levels. they have to get to jobs that they can use the earnings of which they can afford to live here. for so homeless population it's no different. in an around the south of market area or tenderloin, we know that if we don't do more than just the brick and mortar, that they will be no different than those that are living there. we have to have services on site. where we mass released these, we made an agreement with the residential hotel owners and i want to thank them for being great people and working with us because we are going to invest in the building and management of those buildings and we are going get the ability to have a number of those residents to appeal to a certain council to keep track to make sure people are being taken care of. and continue to refer them to services and many of those will have services on-site and those will invest in the elevators and sro's and things that they do in massive affordable housing on a daily bases. they operate very low income affordable housing just like our non-profit sector that we are working deliberately on that are passing this incredible bond that we have that they though that they have to have asset management as part of that system. so, we have this model of a navigation center that begun with some great philanthropic ideas but also worked reality with our supervisors and our homeless advocates and service providers in the homeless connect to cause a center that had not only an enriched level of services, but we also have the end result which is housing at the benefit that we are taking care of as well. it not to say and i'm not going to promise 100 % for all of this, as a matter of fact some people decided it wasn't for them and they are back in shelters and 17% said i want to go home. there is strong enough of a system of support i want to have. i think this is humanity we want to have in our city. we do have voices that are formally homeless individuals that keep advising us. we want to keep our ear open to those that we help so we that on the long-term we have the long-term answers. it is not just about announcing 1,000 or 2 or 3,000 units. it's about how we do it as a city. it's a story i want to tell to take the opportunity to say that more people will be off of our streets not because we want to move them to another part of the city. supervisors don't want to hear that either. they want answers and i think we are providing them with the collaborative answer that people are seeking the longer and more sustainable answer and allows people that are form erly homeless to allow the ability to get some support to be job ready or they can access services they are not -- able to to live a richer life in the city of san francisco. i think we are already acknowledging how expensive this city is. that is why the city government is stepping up to cause this to happen but we are also going to say that we need the private sector to step it up as well. we will ask all the businesses whether it's the chamber of commerce, the tech companies, the hospitals, take a look at this model. come down here. visit, talk with the individuals and if you agree with us, with our best step forward, i want to make sure that those who have been involved in the challenge of homelessness see our city's commitment as deep as well as is wide and that we want to make sure we have all the foundational answers for this. and if it's the only way you can do that is to interview those that come to the center and talk to them about whether their lives are changing and whether we are doing the right things or not. it doesn't end with just the the center, but it does an on going basis to have a lot of partnerships to continue to recognize this is an on going thing. i want more of our people living on the streets to be off the streets for the right reasons. this incredible weather that we are having has caused a lot of people to be on the streets at night and the lifestyle of things that happen on our streets are very dangerous to them, to their health, to their well being. we have to have these kinds of answers that allow people to have long-term homes. this is the work of the navigation center. i'm proud of the people that staffed this place from episcopal to public health, behavioral, mental health, staff, neighborhood center, mission center, remind me of everybody that's down here. they smile when they have visitors because they are proud of work that they are doing. i want to give kudos to all of them and human services. this is a model that is working well and i want to be able to expand it. with that, let me proudly introduce supervisor mark farrell who has been paying a lot of attention to this and what it means to us here. [ applause ] >>supervisor mark farrell: thanks, mayor lee. homelessness has been a serious situation for decades. there is no solving this issue. what it does say is staying commitment on behalf of the city and on behalf of all of our residents. housing will always be our first priority, always. but also look at creative new ideas over a period of time that will make a difference in the lives of those living on our streets and all of san francisco residents. to me this navigation center represents not only an embodiment of new creative thinking of how we are going to take people off our streets in an environment that will bring them on a volunteer basis in this navigation center but also represent the ability of allowing the private sector to get involved to really address something that is more attractive to our city and how we are going to help them. whether it's homeward bound that mayor lee mentioned whether it the laws we passed last year or navigation centers. this is what we need to be doing as a city. we need to make sure this is a top priority for our entire city of san francisco. i want to congratulate not only mayor lee for this, but our budget committee and i want to share with you the 1st hand this administration has had and to all of those that are involved in this city not just citywide but in particular, i want to talk deven duffy, it is your vision here. [ applause ] with the coolest sun glasses that exist in san francisco right now to bobby garcia, all the other providers that worked with us in our community and michael and rita here as well. thank you to all of my colleagues, supervisors campos and christensen. it's a great thing when we come together with new ideas and to benefit all of our residents and to bring the private sector in. i'm proud to celebrate with the mayor this navigation center and also the future to continued bringing of the private sector into continuing to work on our city's issues. to me it represents an incredible step in the right direction. where we need to go with the city. i'm excited for the future. i want to congratulate everyone today and the work and the best is yet to come. i want to introduce a true friend who cares about this issue as well supervisor david campos. [ applause ] >>supervisor david campos: thank you, mark. working on the budget specifically on this issue. mr. mayor to supervisor christensen welcome to the mission to district 9. i want to just be completely honest. we are not going to solve the issue of homelessness today. i don't know that this city or any city for that matter can really completely eradicate homelessness. but what i have seen since my not only tenure as a supervisor but as a police commissioner and someone who has lived in san francisco for a long time that when it comes to homelessness, we really have to be smart about how we deal with the issue. and i think that we need to get away from some of the extremes that we have seen in the past. the idea that somehow the status quo is fine and we deal with homelessness by not looking at it and not thinking about it and the other extreme that we somehow deal with homelessness by criminalizing the homeless. those strategies do not work. when beven duffy first approached me about the navigation center and i talked to the mayor, it was important for me that we in district nine and specifically in the mission that we stepped up to make this happen. my experience is that whenever you talk about homelessness on the board of supervisors there is always apprehension about bringing into the district anything that has to do with that population. it was important for me that district 9 and the mission approach it differently and say you know what, we will tackle that issue. so, before anything is said, i want to thank the people with district 9 and specifically the people of the mission that helped to make this happen because [ applause ] because a navigation center like this does not happen over night. before even the concept was something we could talk about, beven and i had to meet with community member and community member with school parents, with the principals, teachers, merchants association, with the residents with anyone we knew that would be impacted by this. it took months to get to that point. it wasn't only until we did all of that work that we were able to bring this to what it is today. so, my message to the rest of the city is as grateful as wonderful as i think it is that district nine did this, other parts of the city also need to step up to the plate. we in district nine and we in the mission in particular are proud that we have been carrying this responsibility. but this is something that to really address it, other neighborhoods have to do the same. because what's happening right now, i can tell you is that the numbers of homeless folks that are moving into this area are increasing. i think to some extent maybe that if they are in this neighborhood that somehow they can get priority to this navigation center. there are some who feel that. so what's happening is is that we in this navigation center do not have the capacity to really address all the need that's out there, not only the need in this neighborhood but the need throughout the city. there are people who are trying to get in here and we have to do a better job. i am very excited and i want to thank the mayor for the fact that we will be opening another center. i personally think that we need 5-6 navigation? san francisco to really begin to address the level of need. also the navigation center as critical as important as it is is only part of the equation because the ultimate solution has to be permanent housing. so, mr. mayor, i look forward to continuing partnering with you and looking forward to working with my colleagues and decided where else these navigation centers will go we will make ourselves available to share with you the lessons learned and our thoughts and i think it's only fitting that this council and city is so involved because the city of frances should be the city that gets this right. with that, i'm proud to introduce one meef colleagues on the board of supervisors, the supervisor for district 3, supervisor christensen. >> so lots of people to thank. lots of history. i would like to confine my remarks to three things. to the citizens of this city get it and people who have been living on the streets because they have no home and no leg up. we understand their plight in our community is an important issue and we are on it. secondly, to this particular place, to beven duffy and his team and i think parks and recreation had a hand in this. thank you. i have been watching this center since before it's opening. i think i toured with deven. i was proud to be in south of market for the first people that moved out of the center into housing and i was especially happy to be here with senator diane feinstein a week ago who took a very particular interest in this program and in its opportunities. so it is wonderful with an issue that seems so intractable and often so lacking in hope that we have come up with at least one step that provides a chance that we can do something about this. but thirdly and this is the most important thing i would like to say today, to the person whose contribution made this possible who may even be among us today, i don't know. thank you. your money has been put to good use. wonderful things are happening here. and secondly, an invitation to people who are out there that haven't stepped up. to the companies who have not discovered philanthropy yet. to people who want to help, this is a good place to put in philanthropic system to make a real difference in people's lives and in the lives of our communities as a whole. come join us. come make these new centers happen and we'll be looking for possibilities in district 3 and we'll make many more of these happy place an i hope everyone will help to that end. thank you. [ applause ] >> our jewish sisters and brothers are about to embark on the holiest time of their year, and a time of season of new beginnings. i draw from the sacred text of the jewish people, the book of proverbs that say the without the vision the people will parish. it's a vision of action and we are blessed to see this. i want to share 2 stories with you about how we came to this day because in order to get this up and running in the time constraints that we are -- were given us we want to make sure at the inter faith council's part that we can get the funding mechanism placed within the year. we were so grateful to be able to partner but it took a little work to get there. the meeting of our board took place on the second thursday of december. i don't know if you remember what that day was like here. it wasn't as beautiful as it is today. there's no power this this city and all the schools were closed. there were torrential rains. we had done all of our due diligence and to just get a letter to talk about the significance of this and the staff said no, we won't give that to you and i said why? because the mayor wants to come himself and impress upon your board the significant of this project and he did. he made a little reference to el nino. and in his statement to our board which i think everybody will remember because we met by candlelight. there was no power. he says we are here today to pass resolutions because the people that need this shelter the most are the ones that are out there getting wet now. and i remember that like yesterday. and we felt very blessed unanimously to have embraced this project and to stay active with it. we were asked often by the press, is this going to work? is this going to be a success? people of faith can talk prophetically. i can tell you why, having an opportunity to tour this site with the mayor and owner. the mayor new every inch of what was happening here in this building and that vision i can see it was going to work and the genuine confidence in the done or and it allowed it to be created. and the creativity to be able to create coalitions with the board of supervisors, the neighbors, the city department heads and the non-profits. that was a sign that this was going to work. we are very thankful to have been at the ground floor of this pilot project and we so pray to see this replicated and continue our commitment. we've been in the business of the inter faith winter shelter for over 25 years. mr. mayor, thank you for allowing us to be involved in this. i actually get and i want to recognize human services agencies commissioner rita soems who is here. she's the president of our council and she has a very important vision. i'm proud to be here to present our client. victor and his partner cynthia on the street for 25 years. it wasn't until entry into this place where they can see a road to hope, a road to possibility. victor, would you come and share with us a little bit your story. [ applause ] >> this is a story about empowering me. it took a strong woman to give me that vision, that believed in myself. that means a lot to me. this woman right here. [ laughter ] you know, that is what is really great about this place because as you know, these streets can tear you down. you can be out there fighting and running the streets and using drugs, whatever. it is what brought you to that point in our society. in this society you need hope and believe and everybody that deserves a chance to have a life, to be a part -- productive part of our society in this world. she gave me that hope because i was living up under a bridge. i went to el nino as you talked about last time on a tarp with safe way baskets. it not what you want to go through. torrential rain, everything wet, alone. this woman inspired me. she seen something in me just like deven who said i'm coming back to get you. for a city official to tell somebody that and to come back to get that person no matter if it was a day or 2 months later. he said believe in me and i did. i'm here to testify to it. that's important to me. for the next place to have a place to come to. it's not easy to be in the streets. this is a great thing. to take you off the street and put you in a living environment is a shock. i know many people that went in off the streets and just went right back out. because they weren't ready for it. this place here. it teaches you the life skills which is so important. it makes you feel good about yourself where you can go to have a place to wash your clothes. a place to take a shower everyday. a clean environment. not just some hotel where everybody just comes off the streets with whatever. this is a clean environment. it's teaching you. you have a kitchen. you have staff, the support. they support us in getting our drivers license, marriage license, domestic partnership. it all factors in to giving that person a sense of being. that is what is so really important to have a sense of being of accomplishment and they help you on that way by giving you wake up calls. you can't have someone that lives moment to moment on a whim and expect them to go, okay, i have an 8:00 appointment today and after that i have another 2:00 appointment and it's difficult for that person to meet that because it's living outside. every minute, it can change. your life can change. somebody can come in, someone can interact with your life and change the whole, everything that you have planned to do and it will change. this place gives that you buffer and opportunities to sit down and think about it, no pressure. they are here for us. that's what's made my. it hasn't been an easy road. i'm used to getting up every morning thinking about how i'm going to eat, how i'm going to take care of her. what i'm going to do to take care of her. that's on the top of my head. put you in a basket. whatever, recycling, whatever. a few dollars to do that. if i had to pick her up and put her in a basket and put her in there and got pulled over for it. our police department said this woman coma toes in this traffic cart is getting pushed. they were worried. [ applause ] >> that officer that pulled me over cared enough about seeing something like that, a person with another human being in a basket. that's what it's all about. that's what beven showed me. he cared enough about me for meeting me and we all do. everybody. we love a chance. thank you. i won't say anything more. [ applause ] >> thank you, victor. we have more people to serve, more people to come through. >>mayor edwin m. lee: one significant thing that i know supervisor campos mentioned. when we talked about this idea, we also talked about it being temporary. the reason is this is a site for now and hopefully less than a year construction will start in 160 affordable units, that this mission and community deserve and need yesterday. we are moving very quickly on that. but it also says to all of us that, we only have a certain period of time to show what we've got. we do have time pressures because we need to get people off the street before they encounter things they can't handle. this is where the time frames are important to the accountability and the use of the public funds as well as the private funds. so we are dedicated not just to ideas, not just to the programs but on a very deliberate life changing transformative time changing for people to get their lives in order and this is what is part of the discipline in the navigation center. i want to assure that the supervisors as we promised it would be temporary and it is in fact temporary because these sites don't run off very often. we are already identifying other areas of the city and we need the similar cooperation that we fortunately had here by community representative, residents, the school district and everyone here watching what's going on they have been supportive of the pets and the property and the level of activity that's been here. we are on a quest to create more navigation centers. we are on a quest to use the city's money wisely and to create more partnerships with our religious community, our residents, our non-profits that are incredibly important to this. thank you for visiting the center and thank you for listening to the speeches and there will be more folks to ask more questions and we anticipate that our approach here will cause more people to come and take a close look at this model and work with us. thank you very much. >>. >> my name is jaeven alexander an attorney for the san francisco city attorney's office i inspires the tax team give tax advise to the treasurer and drafting tax legislation the thing i remember any mother telling me as a child but need to be prepared to take care of you've i know you wanted to burger to do something i enjoyed i did not expect anyone to gym give me anything they didn't give her anything i saw her fighting for the things she wanted for home share my name is jason man flovrlz working alien agency an admin assistants at the city attorney's office i felt in the tasks i've been given on the days i didn't show up and held my own for me, i think it is being more active and being more involved in a person to person interaction my grievous bodily harm jobs includes being a physician or nurse or pharmacy or firefighter and working with animal or the public on a personal level for improvements my sister is the biggest influence in any life because she to tell you the truth me to go forward what makes you happy rather than the most money. >> i graduated from law school in 1972 at this point when was was beginning to be an influx of women in the professional and tries case for diligent operated programs government budgets and a life fiscal legislation came to the san francisco city attorney's office and been here for about 12 years advising think tax matters i does just about anything to think of lawyers do some things and some negligence letters don't do. >> i'm from the mission and grew up and also there my whole life living there you see others question. some of them oldest and some look like me my age and a lot of them work nanny and childcare jobs and retail jobs i don't know it is being kind of like a reminder that you're kind of lucky to be where you or i guess just the facts whether you haven't gone so far at all i want them to go maybe go on an intrauf for challenging that is facing things they can't get that job you know kind of challenge and maybe surprise themselves when they get that job and feel better. >> they have been women practicing law for many years but it was so few of them that a lot of the issues hadn't really come into play and some of them were fairly worked out and resolves like equal pay in partnerships in law firms mac that women get fair assignments to be excluded and in the upper levels of government and law firms i consider myself more of a beneficiary of all the women that fought really difficult battles along the way as a society we've basically failed big portion of our population if you think about the basics of food, shelter safety a lot of people don't have any of those i'm mr. cookie can't speak for all the things but i know say, i have ideas how we can address the food issue. >> open the door and walk through that don't just stand looking out. >> as they grew up in in a how would that had access to good food and our parent cooked this is how you feed yours this is not happening in our country this is a huge pleasure i'm david one of the co-founder so about four year ago we worked with the serviced and got to know the kid one of the things we figured out was that they didn't know how to cook. >> i heard about the cooking school through the larkin academy a. >> their noting no way to feed themselves so they're eating a lot of fast food and i usually eat whatever safeway is near my home a lot of hot food i was excited that i was eating lunch enough instead of what and eat. >> as i was inviting them over teaching them basic ways to fix good food they were so existed. >> particle learning the skills and the food they were really go it it turned into the is charity foundation i ran into my friend we were talking about this this do you want to run this charity foundations and she said, yes. >> i'm a co-found and executive director for the cooking project our best classes participation for 10 students are monday they're really fun their chief driven classes we have a different guest around the city they're our stand alone cola's we had a series or series still city of attorney's office style of classes our final are night life diners. >> santa barbara shall comes in and helps us show us things and this is one the owners they help us to socialize and i've been here about a year. >> we want to be sure to serve as many as we can. >> the san francisco cooking school is an amazing amazing partner. >> it is doing that in that space really elevates the space for the kids special for the chief that make it easy for them to come and it really makes the experience pretty special. >> i'm sutro sue set i'm a chief 2, 3, 4 san francisco. >> that's what those classes afford me the opportunity it breakdown the barriers and is this is not scary this is our choice about you many times this is a feel good what it is that you give them is an opportunity you have to make it seem like it's there for them for the taking show them it is their and they can do that. >> hi, i'm antonio the chief in san francisco. >> the majority of kids at that age in order to get them into food they need to see something simple and the evidence will show and easy to produce i want to make sure that people can do it with a bowl and spoon and burner and one pan. >> i like is the receipts that are simple and not feel like it's a burden to make foods the cohesives show something eased. >> i go for vera toilet so someone can't do it or its way out of their range we only use 6 ingredients i can afford 6 ingredient what good is showing you them something they can't use but the sovereignties what are you going to do more me you're not successful. >> we made a vegetable stir-fry indicators he'd ginger and onion that is really affordable how to balance it was easy to make the food we present i loved it if i having had access to a kitchen i'd cook more. >> some of us have never had a kitchen not taught how to cookie wasn't taught how to cook. >> i have a great appreciation for programs that teach kids food and cooking it is one of the healthiest positive things you can communicate to people that are very young. >> the more programs like the cooking project in general that can have a positive impact how our kids eat is really, really important i believe that everybody should venting to utilize the kitchen and meet other kids their age to identify they're not alone and their ways in which to pick yours up and move forward that. >> it is really important to me the opportunity exists and so i do everything in my power to keep it that. >> we'll have our new headquarters in the heart of the tenderloin at taylor and kushlg at the end of this summer 2014 we're really excited. >> a lot of the of the conditions in san francisco they have in the rest of the country so our goal to 257bd or expand out of the san francisco in los angeles and then after that who know. >> we'd never want to tell people want to do or eat only provide the skills and the tools in case that's something people are 2rrd in doing. >> you can't buy a box of psyche you have to put them in the right vein and direction with the right kids with a right place address time those kids don't have this you have to instill they can do it they're good enough now to finding out figure out and find the future for >> equal good morning, everyone and happy day after labor day on a belevitated basis to thank our men and women in labor that was quite a few kind of a quiet day i was walking downtown and families were getting 82 together thank you we're putting together to work housing is not just for those to focus on a lot of people looking for housing in a you are laborer force thank you to everybody that is standing behind me our board of supervisors, our housing professionals, our nonprofits, those departments that will help me implement the legislative policies that we're introducing today and be in an amount with the supervisors in partnership and in particular the residents of the city that represent thousands of people who want more homes and want to make sure they're affordable to them that's the focus of today is announcement housing that is affordable to low income and middle-income families promotes the very diversity that is the value that is the critical part of our city diversities, equality and economic vital are all the things we strive to allow our city to be the great city it is and san francisco is a great city you know it and thousands of people who want to be here and the thoughts of more that want to stay here also know this is a city that is a great city we are using this time of prosperity to make sure that all the residents can benefit as you may know just last year with the board of supervisors and the public we raised a minimum wage to the highest in the country. >> already saw the first in a number of moves in the next few years to get it to the highest innovation we've worked with the private sector with our city departments to make your municipal transportation affordable today a very, very unique from any other american city across this country muni it affordable to the youth and seniors with disabilities thus making transportation a great part of how equal listing efforts we've invested heavy write in our public education not just the city's covers have been directly linked to helping the school district but you are private sector and the technology companies and our innovative companies are surrounding the schools circling the schools the schools with volunteerism and higher degrees than anytime and the public-private partnership are swelling that teachers and principals and those that support our public schools systems have this unique time have never felt more i think engaged with our city government than ever before we made our kids and families a high appropriate we want them to win the jobs of the 21st century. >> but providing affordable housing to low income families is essential part of our challenge, in fact, it is probably one of the most complicated of all the things we do in government you can't just built the housing that we need you also have to pay attention to making sure that we preserve the housing that people are in that we make sure we stabilize neighborhood that are under a lot of pressure by different economic forces force people away from their homes with we have to rehabilitate existing that housing to make sure they're up to standards, standards that i used to use to litigate against the housing authority with bad times now we have an opportunity to changes all of that that's why last year, i announced a very aggressive goal and goal that is shared by the board of supervisors and certainly one that we know can be accomplished by 2020, thirty thousand homes newly built and rehabbed and preserved by 2020 and guaranteeing that a third will be at the other end of the table of a lower-income families and in addition more o more for middle-income families i've been called a lot of names i do enjoy being called the housing mayor even though i may go by many other names i'm sure to make sure the housing mayor sticks i'm going to work with the board we do all the things to stabilize neighborhood we're making tremendous progress on those goals thanks to the collaboration that is going on with the handing out with the building inspection and planning, with the nonprofit housing development community, with the for profit market rate housing which you'll hear in detail things to incentivize them and the board of supervisors. >> we need to build housing we also need to make sure that we are oiflt areas of the city whether lands or neighborhoods where we can quickly build and engage partners more effectively in meeting this challenge that's why we're here today to launch a blue print you'll see in detail think the screen shortly a plow print blue print introduce 10 thousand we're assure that thought thirty thousand we build by 2020 that a minimum of 10 thousand, in fact, our numbers indicate to us we'll exceed the 10 thousand we want to make sure everybody knows a blue print to get to the 10 thousand permanently affordable units for lower-income families while we set this baby boomer goal and package of legislation it represents this blue print whether you see this and you hear the support from the board of supervisors for those various policies you'll know that we have an opportunity to exceed this 10 thousand with this fail working with the board i'm companionship 5 piece of legislation with the board of supervisors that will make sure that we reach this goal by 2020 let me begin with the first piece of legislation and that's focused on our public housing you know from my own history i worked with the public residents residents and satisfied with centralized poverty housing authority system we have i set on a pathway to convince hud housing an urban development federal partners our state agencies, of course, even our local housing tell us we had a better vision a vision that would use a program that is relatively new at hud called the rental as an deems short for rad that allows. >> to kind of leverage the financial investments that the housing authority are using but design them into a different way to incorporate nonprofit developers and for profit developers on the same sites to rebuild the housing and rehabilitate them and this rad program ♪ vet first phase will cause one thousand 4 hundred units to be rehabbed that's a cost of about $700 million and it is the phase one and one we're introducing because we know that public housing is part of the lard for a lot of people if we don't rehab and allow those sites to create more density and figure out how to long lasting housing for lower-income families we'll have a big hole in this effort so the legislation we're providing today is basically, what we called bond financing you you know in this era of a good economics times we're learning more and more we'll be introducing financial parkinson's passages that have everything to do with invest and leveraging and in this financial packages bond financing that allows us to borrow off of the public land that is owned by the federal government is a very creative way in using there rad program this money we'll borrow off about quickly preserve those homes now we're doing to with the program call hope sf because we promised the residents in public housing u housing housing not to them but with them and hope sf is about drawing out the residents and their limp making sure they said and appreciate the designs we have to do with and all accident soufrnd support systems we have for the residents because they know more than anyone else that it is never just about the brick and mortar it is about investing in the people that's why we have training programs skill set programs that draw on the people that live in public housing to participate in the design, the acceptance and the building and in the new business of integrated housing that will be managed and run and invite into those jobs empty this very residents that live there those homes are vital to the well-being and safety o our most suitable san franciscans and that's why it is the first of the introduction of our policies the second legislative package we are introducing again with the board is called neighborhood preference too often all of us hear about families demand from their homes their neighborhood and friends and community losing our home is a big tragedy and compound when our demand from connections with nearby relatives or friends even with our employment our new legislation b will give the existing residents a priority of affordable units in their community by giving neighborhoods preference that's something i know the boards has been very supportive of the third policy legislation we'll be introducing it the focus on those tenants who are displaced we've heard time and time again and read story avenue story of tenants with no fault evictions or ellis act despite the good news visits to sacramento we've not burger to get the changes through locally we can do something about the no fault evicts the evicts that are banks demolitions so we're going to provide a preference to routine who are displaced bus of those causes the fourth is something that i said earlier and thanks to the leadership of commissioner renne and supervisor kim and all the others standing behind me as well we are going do revamp what has been our inclusionary housing program by providing more incentives to market rate developers to provide affordable units to alongside their market rate units and supervisors have been very interested they know we've had trembles limitations in the way we've approached the past in terms of inclusionary housing >> what that means is whenever there is a mandating development whether in selma or visitacion valley or in downtown what we want to had never vices the building of more affordable units on the same site so we've got to freud that right mix of incentives to make sure that the developers are attracted to that put more of those hundred percent affordable units on site it allows the developers to help secure housing for families in rent-controlled units and therefore stabilize these rent in an affordable level the fifth is also linked to that but it is has nothing to do with to do we we do offsite as you may know obligations flow to developers when we build market rate housing we also want to make sure that if we have a program that incentive visas the building of affordable housing off those market rate sites we have the right incentives to build more lower-income and middle-income on the offsite by providing a little bit more height and density and making sure that pencils out to unify and onsite incentives are part of the pages my staff can go go the detail how that works we've been in conversations with the dozens of developers who know that just twooeshgz a little bit here and through on the height and density salesforce assists this them make sure the offsite and onsite development gets more play and add more units we believe that those legislative packages coupled with the aggressive buildings and rehabilitating of thirty thousand units of housing with the guaranteed third affordable and more in fact, to middle-income that we're going to steady those goals and we know that we'll have a clear road map given the blue print and the tools we have this is just before us we've got to make sure we keep he focus this is what i'm focused on as mayor and all the staff has nothing to do with with housing is focused to insure this gets think done not only to benefit the areas under construction whether south of market or in the transbay but we know those packages will also help to stable his the mission and chinatown and other neighborhoods around the city finally i want to make sure you know one of the most important things to for the public to know what's on the ballots for this november prop a is the $310 million housing bond we have before the voters and it is a housing bond it is unanimously supported by the board of supervisors with me and it has occurred the support of now dozens of community groups residential groups and it does not raise property tax this is a colloquy to our capital planning and the $310 million will in fact provide us with serious resources to not only hit home on the lower-income housing but middle-income housing and amounts of money to help build the neighborhoods much quicker it is one of the greatest single steps to stack towards the building of more housing we've got to make sure that our city's nieptd for residents who tells you on a day to day basis they can't afford to be here the city has to to be united this is the top priority we've dealt with so many other issues that help us with the affordability challenge whether transportation or parks or schools we've even got one of the best and most unique programs of starting a bank account for kids going to kindergarten no other city is doing that many are trying to do that so, now we have a a tackle the affordable housing challenge and i think this is the way to do that and certainly in my past housing advocacy we have a lot of friends to make sure that gets done as well with that, i have a great partner in the board of supervisors and i know that every single have been thinking about housing for the past couple of years and all the challenges that represents and no greater of a leader then the supervisor president breed who lived in public housing speak and testify to that but she is hundred and 50 percent committed to making sure that the public housing gets redone that's the key and a lot of land in that public housing f that is not fully utilized to incorporate more affordable housing for names that need and build in areas find city that are beautiful parts of city you should take a chance to see the areas hot beds of a lot of investment we're building housing i'll invite up to the pronounced our board president london breed (clapping.) >> thank you. i just want to start by that's why mayor ed lee i do this efrpts we've had a number of press conferences and i met that i am when i first became a member of the board i made p made it clear any priority was public housing to make sure that the recipe have the kind of housing they deserve able to live in dignity a lot of the conditions that were when i lived this sadly is there today those residents deserve better we talk about public housing and what we're to go dissolution to make sure we rehabilitate public housing and include the residents and continue to deliver the services and not leave them out we're moving in a positive step forward so i'm glad when we talk about housing in san francisco when we talk about preservation that public housing it is at the for the most part i know it is important to me and many of the members of the board that p have public housing in their district and finally finally finally we're moving a step closer to doing what we are said we'll do with 14 hundred units of this and it will make a difference thank you for that mr. mayor and the other thing i want to highlight is part of the mayors comprehensive blue print package is neighborhood preference growing up here in san francisco i've had to many friends leave the city at the can't afford it we've watched the development under redevelopment all the housing that upcoming popped up in your neighborhood and we didn't have the ability to assess if we applied and put into 0 lottery system am many times our names are not called that changed the characterization of the neighborhood and finally when the board introduced legislation for neighborhood preference bylaw before we went on release we've got to stop the who o'clock on changing the neighborhood make sure that the residents that live in the neighborhood the reason why we love san francisco and it's desists in the first place it bylaw is because of the people of the neighborhood we have to make sure they're part of any new development this will make that difference i'm proud to be part of the folks that led that charge the last thing i want to talk about the blue print i know you know i'm working on a plan for the western edition and nixon next with the mayor's office of housing and the mayor's office of department of workforce development we have to think about some of the see challenges that are happening in all the neighborhoods preservation preservation preservation there are people who live all over our city in anonym development places that are falling part some of you read in the news will fredrick and that issue we've had to take those folks to court to stop the sale of affordable housing we have to make sure as we build new and chunk the city and trying to prepare for the new printouts i residents. coming here we don't neglect our affordable housing stock we make sure in their roofs are not leaking the mold is abating and some of the conditions that are similar to public housing are abated and find creative solutions and develop a plan in order to protect the residents that already live in our air force stock throughout san francisco and part of what i'm doing is working with the mayor and his legislation fixes and working with the board of supervisors in trying to be creative not only legislatively some things require working with the city cement development and the stakeholders to come up with the plans so long term we know how to preserve the affordable housing for generations to come so i'm excited about the blue print it is a step in the right direction and we're going to make a difference in the housing unit i know there are people that are all matters listed hereunder constitute a consent calendar, are considered to be routine me every single day what is going to happen to me and my family we're working hard to make sure we do everything within our ability to stop the strengthened in san francisco so thank you, mr. mayor to you and your team i look forward to work with you to push those legislation (clapping.) >> it would be very time consuming but appropriate to invite every single of the supervisors here because each one burglary be passionate and condominium to the housing challenge and the affordability challenged i'm standing with supervisors who have spent critical hours on their own talking to residents not just in their district each of them will be i think delivering and adding value to the packages of legislation items to make sure that everybody is covered i want to intending to thank supervisor president london breed but all supervisors for this incredible complex challenge one that need to be tackled with every single of the inspires making sure they're doing they're part in working with us in the building and rehabilitating and preservation of housing we will we have the faces of people that come up to us i want to introduce two more people today who will speak preparing to how the city government can assist ♪ improving their lives and what we've down it bryan who himself was demand from his triangle home not too long ago but find the benefits of the program i want you to hear drizzle from bryan we have a motion and a second up e come on up bryan >> hi home is a deceptively simple word it is o and hum n simply but evoke active i've called san francisco home since 1983, 3 two years a member of the arts community since i arrived as a actor and a member of the theatre company now a writer and teacher this is my 14 years in the dance program at city attorney calory university i taught at san francisco state university in 2014 i was served with an ellis act eviction he thought my time in the city was coming to an end i will lived in that apartment 14 years i turned 40 in this apartment and 50 i finished my ms a and lost my best friend i spent months in panic and tried to figure out how to stay in san francisco the below grade program including their did you observe payment assistance and ellis act certify of the preference i bought a one bedroom apartment what? as an other and teacher owning in the city was never on the agenda i'm city slightly shocked i wouldn't call it a simple process and here i'd like to say thank you to vanessa doyle who answered my phone calls it was a process that worked i saw the effort of the mayor to extend the certificate of preference and to courage the developers to build for bmr units my story is not unique i couldn't probably tell you 20 other people that are in similar conditions he'll our city's vital it create by the widest possible that rage of people being able to say that san francisco is their home thanks >> (clapping). >> thank you, brian and our final speaker is a long term public housing residents in fact, 23 years to be exact she is educating herself with 9 city's public housing rebuild and she's not only a good leader but perp has make sure that information that we give out is spreading sprayed out to monolingual residents like chinese speaking population let me introduce ms. dorothy raymond come on up dorothy. >> good afternoon i have lived at 990 pacific for 23 years i've been involved with the tenant and the tenant association and have seen problems in our building for sometime the building is 41 years old and it needs a lot of repairs it needs new elevators and new wiring, it needs ventilation systems, fire alarm and when the water - is sprinklers. >> when the water falls out yeah. those are things their redoing the kitchens and bathrooms kitchen needs new cabinet and bettered countered space and storage space social room needs to be redid done security in the building needs to be teacher and this will be handle in some degree person on duty twenty-four hours a day i've been working with the new developer who will be taking over our ground chinatown community development center who has regular meetings once a month with the tenants telling them what our names and addresses with what the repairs are hopefully, the schedule but one of the major things that has to be done to our building it needs to be retrofitted with a new roof it does mean we'll do have to move out for about that year and come back i must say is chinatown has really been effective with keeping our tenants well-informed and each step becomes clearer and clearer the los angeles they've done is have a slide show they gave demonstrates of what the new kitchens will look like and the social room things like they speak our meetings are in chinese cantonese and mandarin and english so all are can understand notices are given out very ahead of time and posted on each one of the apartments to the tenants are well-informed when these things happen chinatown is doing a really good job at shous the things that need to be done i can't say enough good things about them and i want to thank the mayor and housing authority for having the vision to begin to help have our buildings in safe conditions for the tenants who have to live there thank you >> (clapping). >> dorothy and supervisor christensen's and i will make sure that the whole episode will be as good as possible for everybody even the temporary move as well well, you've hear from sdroshth and bryan the complications that are behind their efforts to stay in san francisco and be a part of it we're up to the challenge i want you and the pun to make sure that this mayor and the board of supervisors will be working very hard to make sure those are built and rehabbed not just a goal but more importantly the people that want to be here that's our focus so thank you to everybody and dorothy and bryan for our fantastic input and thank you to the supervisors taken up the legislation but implementing and united states agencies that are behind thank you for you're making that the highest priority for our city appreciate it much and let's go on and get to work thank >> hello. welcome to "culturewire." we are here today with bay area artist jody chanel, and we are here to see the plaza where your piece has just been installed. >> i have been doing large-scale paintings in the galleries and museums, and the idea that in the future, i could do something that would hang out a little bit longer than the duration of the installation the kind of appeal to me. i quickly found out about the san francisco arts commission school and realized there was a pre-qualified school you had to apply to, so i applied to the. >> how long did it take you to develop this work for the plaza? >> this was a fast track project. design development was about a month. >> let's look at the beautiful mural. i have never seen a mural created on asphalt. >> the heat of the asphalt, a new layer of asphalt. then, these wire rope templates that were fabricated for the line work get laid down and literally stamped into the asphalt, and then everything was hand-painted. >> maybe you could talk about some of the symbolism, maybe starting in the middle and working out. >> [inaudible] the flower of industry. >> it is like a compass. there's an arrow pointing north. >> within the great bear consolation, there are two pointed stars here. they typically lead one to the northstar, otherwise known as polaris. so i thought it has a layer of theme. >> let's talk about some of the other elements in the peace. we are walking along, and there is a weather vane. there's a sweet little bird hanging on the side. what kind of bird is that? >> [inaudible] the smallest of the gulf species, and it lives around the bay area. >> you want to talk about the types of flour patterns that you send? >> [inaudible] around 1926 or so by the dahlia society. >> what is this bird here? >> that is the california quail. >> coming up here, we had a little blustery theme. what is this area here? >> this is supposed to be the side view, the expense of the golden gate bridge. >> there it is. >> there are really beautiful elements of architecture still around, i would say that it gives that feeling over to the work. >> what are your hopes for it? >> that in a way it just becomes part of the area. i think it is starting to have that feeling. people utilize it. they sit and, and have their lunch and play on -- they sit and, and have their lunch and play on that -- they sit and come and have their lunch and play on it. just for it to be part of the neighborhood. that is my hope. >> is such a beautiful addition to our public art in san francisco. thank you for joining us. it was nice to meet you. and thank you for telling us about your beautiful mural. thanks for watching "culturewire." >> hi, i'm corn field and welcome to doing building san francisco, we are doing a special series, called stay safe, how you can stay in your home safely and comfortable, and we know that an earthquake is coming and there are things that you can do to reduce the effects of the earthquake on your home. let's take a look at that. >> here at the spur urban center on mission street in san francisco talking about staying in your home after an earthquake. i have guests today, pat buscavich and his dog, harvey and david, and both structural engineers and we want to talk about things that you might do before an earthquake to your home to make it more likely that your home will be ha bitable after an earthquake, what should we do? both structural and maybe even important non-structural things. >> you hear about how to prepare an earthquake kit and brace your book shelves and water tank and that is important. what you have to be careful is make sure that you are not going the easy things to make yourself feel better. if you have a bad structure, a bad building, then you need to be looking at that and everything that you do to keep your collectables in place is small and compared. if you have taken care of your structure, then there is a lot of stuff that you can do in your house that is non-structural and your chimney and water tank. >> let's talk about what the structural things might be. >> and he is exactly right. you don't want to make the deck chairs safe on the titanic, it is going down, you are going down, you have to make sure that your house is safe. there are basic things that you need to do including bracing the water heater, not just because of fire hazard but because of the water source and the damage, but basic things are installing anchor bolts, and adding plywood and strapping your beams to column and posts to footings and foundations are really easy things to do and most contractors can do the building department is set up to approve this work, and these are things that every home owner should do, and it is a little harder because you have to get a building permit and hire a contractor. but you want to be able to after a big earthquake to climb in bed that night and pull the covers up and say i don't have to worry about going to a government shelter. >> that is the main focus that it is great to have an earthquake kit to be able to bug out for 72 hours. here is a better idea, stay in your own home and in order to do that you have to be make sure that your structure is okay. if you have a house, the easy things to do with the wood construction is feasible. if you have a renter or you live in a concrete building, you need to talk to the building own , and make sure they have done their due diligence and find out what the deficiencies are. >> when i have looked at damaged buildings,vy seen that a little bit of investment in time and money and structural work provides great dividends. >> especially if it is the wood frame, typical house that you can do the things that i was talking about, the anchor and the plywood in the first garage area, you know if you refinanced in the last three years, get some of that savings and it is a really good investment. and the other thing that i try to tell people, earthquake insurance is not the solution to the shelter in place, if there is a big earthquake and your building is damaged, you are not in your house, you may be somewhere else, if you work in the city, it is going to be really hard to commute from sonoma, you want to do what is necessary so that your house is retrofitted and a couple of years of earthquake premium could get you to a level that you could be in the house after a significant earthquake and it may have damage and there is still a shelter in place where you are at home and you are not worried for the government taking care of you and you are living in a place where you can go to work and you want to have your wood frame house is really easy to get to that level. on top of the wood frame house, i mean every wood frame house in the west half of the city have a water tank and the water tank fall over because they are gas fired and start fires. and that is something that you could do for yourself, and for your neighbors and for the whole city is make sure that your water tank is braced. >> if you look at the studies that are predicting on fires, we are going to have a lot of fires and for every water tank that is braced there is a potential of one less fire that the fire department is going to have to fight and we don't want to have any more fires than we need to. so bracing the water heater is the first thing that you want to do. >> and so easy, and you go on-line and you google, earthquake, water and heater and you google the sites where you can find the details and you can put them out there on the hardware store and you can hire a small contract tore do that for you. that is a couple of hundred bucks, the best investment. if you are in other types of building it is complicated. if you are in a high-rise building you just can't anchor your building down because there are no anchor bolts, but at that point, the tenant should be asking questions of the owner's and the managers about earthquake preparedness >> and don't take the easy answer, oh, our building is safe it was designed to code. that is not the right answer, ask the tough questions and see if you can get a report that has been given to you. >> what is the right question? will i be able to stay in my home after the expected earthquake? is that a good question to ask? >> yeah, you may be more specific if you talk to the owner, if it is not a recent building, if it is ten or 20 years old see if they had an inspection done and there you will have a written before that will tell you all about the structure. >> thanks, pat. >> thanks, harvey. and thanks david for joining us and thank you for joining us on. >> present off pledge of allegiance of the united states of america and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under god, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. >> up about face david p david t dennis p, jermaine dennis a craft dennis lawrence dennis herrera listen dennis kari centering and dennis mulligan and dennis dennis p ma competent and dispensing p over the and dennis dennis j bird donald j reagan douglas c miller douglas e during relay edward alexander edward s edward j y edward j right now edward jay wright the 3rd eric eric eugene madam clerk makayla frank jonathan franklin j franklin are j callahan frankie fred fred rick junior the third gary gary right direction boss jeffrey example e golden gate cain george jerold atwood jerold a jerold jerold r did you have i didn't jerold p dui win jerald p strange jerold p nerves glen perry glen e wilson oar gregg atlas grefr j grefrg m staff grefr right direction grefr harvey l heralding hector henry a. more like junior james a. gish son. >> james awe motto. >> james m greg james a. george james raymond james organ our jeff allows jeffrey j jeffrey j olsen jeffrey p waltzes are jeffrey establishes jimmy riches john a criticizing write john a sharp arrest john august san torn john john dj marshall john f john john j planning i didn't john j jen j. john j the second john k john m. collins john madam clerk maureen john m. john pburg gunmen john p burn side per john p john p williams and john patrick john right direction fishing john t the second jonathan lower-income jonathan jose combaup joseph joseph senior joseph joseph dj barryly joseph e mellone governor jerry brown g hunter. >> jim glover levy joseph j. and junior joseph joseph p, joseph p, henry joseph p, scores per joseph right direction junior joseph right direction junior t glad top keith wood can it connecting j. man or a woman no kent watson kevin cdc kevin h. kevin j. phifer were you kevin o rock kevin kevin over and over rile kevin donny lawrence lawrence j. lawrence t stack v s pauline leon smith junior lincoln louis louis j. manually junior manually mark p, witness for the record martin e mcwilliams are martin junior martin in the wrong direction matthew dj gaffe i didn't martin e lauren matthew lower-income ryan matthew logan and michael s. michael boiling michael cdc michael michael dj michael michael e brendon con. >> michael e rousht michael edward robert michael f michael f lynch michael d michael h. hobbs michael j. crawling i didn't michael j. michael j. alliance michael j. putting con interest michael healy were michael al pack important michael paul michael scott harry low. >> michael thank you for your time carl roll arrest michael thank you for your time michael thank you for your time ross 0. >> michael thomas michael vernon. >> michael neil joseph levy and nicole's dj nicole's thank you for your time arrest oreo patrick dj burns patrick j. brown patrick j. pacific j. waters paul, paul rue beck arrest will paul paul j. a.m. event paul madam clerk beyers paul mccartney richard mary citizen 10 peter a. peter a. nielsen peter anthony investigating gay. >> peter cdc martin peter j. peter halls pr peter phil s. eddy bruce raymond e murphy raymond e downey raymond right direction joke richards do richard a. richard dj and then rikd junior rikd thank you for your time downey junior robert robert p, king junior robert go on the record robert borrowing tool robert man robert edward arrest robert f pursue robert j crawford. >> robert j. manor robert reagan robert laying a foundation everybody remembers where they were on 9/11 (inaudible) want to put in your memory forever lives were lost that day. >> thank you for taking on the challenge (inaudible) very grateful to have you wish you the best (inaudible) always place in our hearts and remember the sacrifice for that day i'd like to ask (inaudible). >> thank you chief joanne whilst good morning. >> good morning. >> it is my privilege and honor to join you in our city for the com arbitration for those past victims as well as heros 9/1114 years ago all of us remember 14 years ago in 3 thousand miles away it seems like a distance but burned if in our memories as an event we'd like never forgot by most importantly we take lessons from that and continue support our san francisco fire department our police department, our responding and optimistic readies for anything i want to thank the chief the mission, our police chief and all those that worked together to make sure that our city is ready (inaudible) and i know that while we horn the first responder especially today, we take a moment to remember the specific names not trained as froerd for families flight tenant on american airlines she worked in communicating the very first event our own hero to let us you know your country's country was under attack mark batting i am remember him as in the airlines they were not going to lowest terrorists file their cabin those are some of the people's names that reacted that all to say that at the community please understand the sacrifice i do for sure i'm working and continue to work the excessive makes sure to remind us we have the resources the support and most important that the public precious what that day whether it is recording to a fire, whether there's an accidents on the street or you're on a very sometimes think an hourly basis treating the needs on the streets we know you're there and ready we know that you respond and intending to thank and let you know that those of us not only work but appreciate the work you do and your sacrifice and appreciate the ready i didn'tness we continue to be ready for days moving forward know this our city appreciate our role in our response our sacrifice and you're ready i didn'tness thank you for being here and rem remember we're a world-class fire department ready to be responding to anything that occurs. >> thank you, mayor ed lee i'd like to introduce (inaudible). >> thank you very much, mayor ed lee chief suhr and thank you for joining us this morning and chief joanne hayes-white and members from the team members of the (inaudible) we are joining the authority and (inaudible) andrea and our vice president covering ton come this morning to commemorate and acknowledge the sacrifice of those 3 hundred and 43 new york fire department members who gave the ultimate sacrifice to 40 doing their duty they gave the sacrifice of their lives no greater gift or sacrifice for public servants than to do that we acknowledge to those members are we at commission and command force of public service for the fire department dictate ours to serving the public (inaudible) the sacrifice discharging our duties and obligation thank you. >> now i'd like to ask (inaudibl (inaudible). >> for 4 hundred police officers and firefighters dyed it day another 14 hundred have passed over 9/11 nearly 25 thousand other people would have died we lost 3 thousand americans that day as chief joanne hayes-white says everybody remembers exactly where they were so as and stand here with the large class and an equal or larger group of police academy recruits up at police academy prepared to be that next generation to run in when everybody else runs away i'll finish with a quote from the president we take the devotion for the last measure of devotion to high resolve they'll not die in vain we can't forgot the firefighters and police officers that ran in when others ran away so we might survive . >> my name is jaeven alexander an attorney for the san francisco city attorney's office i inspires the tax team give tax advise to the treasurer and drafting tax legislation the thing i remember any mother telling me as a child but need to be prepared to take care of you've i know you wanted to burger to do something i enjoyed i did not expect anyone to gym give me anything they didn't give her anything i saw her fighting for the things she wanted for home share my name is jason man flovrlz working alien agency an admin assistants at the city attorney's office i felt in the tasks i've been given on the days i didn't show up and held my own for me, i think it is being more active and being more involved in a person to person interaction my grievous bodily harm jobs includes being a physician or nurse or pharmacy or firefighter and working with animal or the public on a personal level for improvements my sister is the biggest influence in any life because she to tell you the truth me to go forward what makes you happy rather than the most money. >> i graduated from law school in 1972 at this point when was was beginning to be an influx of women in the professional and tries case for diligent operated programs government budgets and a life fiscal legislation came to the san francisco city attorney's office and been here for about 12 years advising think tax matters i does just about anything to think of lawyers do some things and some negligence letters don't do. >> i'm from the mission and grew up and also there my whole life living there you see others question. some of them oldest and some look like me my age and a lot of them work nanny and childcare jobs and retail jobs i don't know it is being kind of like a reminder that you're kind of lucky to be where you or i guess just the facts whether you haven't gone so far at all i want them to go maybe go on an intrauf for challenging that is facing things they can't get that job you know kind of challenge and maybe surprise themselves when they get that job and feel better. >> they have been women practicing law for many years but it was so few of them that a lot of the issues hadn't really come into play and some of them were fairly worked out and resolves like equal pay in partnerships in law firms mac that women get fair assignments to be excluded and in the upper levels of government and law firms i consider myself more of a beneficiary of all the women that fought really difficult battles along the way

Related Keywords

New York , United States , Chad , Crawford , Oakland , California , Richmond District , Vancouver , British Columbia , Canada , Sonoma , San Francisco State University , China , Sacramento , Singapore , London , City Of , United Kingdom , San Francisco , Americans , America , Chinese , American , Gregg Atlas , Dennis Mulligan , Dennis Kari , Kate Lazarus , Michael Al , Michael H Hobbs , Joanne Hayes , James A Gish , Benjamin Horn , Dorothy Raymond , Ryan Matthew Logan , Jerry Brown , Michael Thomas Vernon , Michael , Jermaine Dennis , Martin E Mcwilliams , Martin Peter J , Miller Douglas , David Campos , Michael Edward Robert , Martin E Lauren Matthew , Julie Christensen , Jen J John , Edward Alexander , Joe Anna Fong , Ben Horn , Michael J , Hector Henry , Maureen John M , Dennis Lawrence Herrera , Jonathan Jose , Olsen Jeffrey , Jody Chanel , Michael S , Kent Watson Kevin , Richard A , Lynch Michael , Edwin M Lee , Santa Barbara , Cindy Baker , Michael Neil Joseph , John Patrick , Gary , Lincoln Louis , Maria Lombardo , John , Paul , Elliott Talbot , Robert Edward , Robert , Bobby Garcia , Kevin , Los Angeles , Michael Healy , Reagan Douglas , Eric Eugene , Edward Jay Wright , Makayla Frank Jonathan Franklin , Jim Glover , Joseph , Marshall John , Dennis , Deven Duffy , El Nino , Vanessa Doyle , Henry Joseph , Diane Feinstein ,