Their own planner and engineer, so we know who to talk to and be responsible for doing things in our neighborhood. Thank you, next speaker, please. Good afternoon. My name is jodie maderas. Im here with a message from our members and some of them youll hear today. The message is thank you, thank you for pushing the sfmta staff to do more, faster, quicker, else on our most dangerous streets in asking the right questions. Dont stop pushing. We are counting on all of you. Time and time again, were hearing the devastating, angry messages about the precious lives were losing and its feeling disheartening that were getting further and further away from our zero vision goal and fatal crashes by 2024. Thats because were in a state of emergency. Weve lost as many pedestrians this year as we have in all of 201. 2018. We believe that vision zero is achievable. Its all of us, the board, staff, mayor, our board of supervisors, public health, Police Departments, we have to double down on whats necessary now. Were grateful for this team and board for pushing for a new policy on norout noright on rd were thrilled to try a leftturn campaign at eight locations soon. Thank you. These are the solutions we need to put in place to prevent the possibility of crashes, especially in the most dangerous places, our intersection. Were grateful to mayor reed for boosting Traffic Enforcement on the most dangerous driving behaviours. But as weve heard today, its not enough. We want to see tools like redlight cameras, especially if we dont have the people to tackle. It will take every engineering tool and enforcement solution possible to meet the challenge of our streets, as well as all of the transformative policy. Thank you, jodie. Next speak, please. Harold findly followed by Jennifer Walsh and missas miss arbuckle. Im harold findly and you all know how to stop the killing. You know it. You know the route cause. You know how to eradicate it. You have some the best professionals in the world that know how to solve it. You dont need me to tell you the specifics about how do it. I could tell you, but youve read the same books and all of that. But what i can tell you is that theres a growing tide of public support for you to do the right thing, for you to create safe, vibrant cities. You dont have to put the perceived need of somebody to have an s. U. V. Parking in front of his house and drive around the city on his daily errands and drive to tahoe on the weekend, put that perceived need over the real need of a child to walk or ride a bike to School Without violently slaughtered. I mean those are two completely Different Things. You can change your focus coming down from the board to the leadership of the sfmta, to the pd to have things like you pointed out, that should just flow naturally from the top. It shouldnt be a question of no right turn on red. If you have vehicles at all, they dont get to drive in front of people in crosswashes. Cros. Every officer shoulder citing every single sidewalk or bike lane violation. Thats not up for contention. If its a violation, cite it. If youre thinking from the right perspective, youre doing it that way. And youve got you need to know you have the public support growing to do the route things. Right things. Thank you, sir. Jennifer walsh, Nancy Arbuckle and sandy wiseburg. My name is Jennifer Walsh and i work with the abilitys integrator. I wanted to advise you of the sidewalk search party. We believe everyone can give back to the community. But the Community Must be accessible physically and psych psychlogically. This is all about making simple issues fixable by shining light on them so other people can have the power to fix them. The ff sidewalk search party has been meeting since may to strategize how to implement city departments on making sure temporary pathways around construction areas are accessible for all types of accessibility. Over the months, we have had enlightening conversations with mta, 311 w street inspectors about their responsibility for issuing permits, enforcing codes regarding issues, such as path of travel, rightofway, smooth surfaces, contract compliance, a accessibility guideline. In an ideal world, alastor all y departments will take ownership for all than rather than relying on the Mayors Office for construction sites temporary pathway. Perhaps mt can be the leader in changing this philosophy of accessible for all. Everybody is welcomed to the next sf sidewalk search Party Meeting at 166 1663 mission str. Fifth floor on september 9t september 9th from 1 00 p. M. To 2 30 p. M. Thank you very much. And since we rode over on the train together, i will say thank you for riding muni. Thank you. Ok, wonderful. Next speaker, please. Nancy arbuckle, susan wiseburg and nancy harrison. I want to thank the board for this opportunity to speak. Im Nancy Arbuckle from hyde street. Im a member of walk San Francisco. Im a committed pedestrian and a Public Transit rider. Everyone in my family is. We sole botwe sold both of our x years ago and will never own a car again. Were concerned about injuries and fatalities on San Franciscos streets and not just on the highinjury network, but on a lot of streets. We dont want to die out there but weve come too close too many times. Right turners look left for other vehicles and turned right and turned right into us. Left turners look at oncoming traffic and speed right into us. I often cross the street with my arm outstretch acting like my on traffic cop. So im glad that mayor breed is asking for a noturn policy and support a policy that recognises safety, safety, as the highest priority. Im also glad that the mayor recognises that citations and enforcement are critical to Getting Division zero. I want to thank this board for quickly implementing the solutions that we know will slow speeding traffic and protect us all in intersections. Thank you. Thank you very much, next speaker, please. Susan wiseburg, nancy harrison, brian weadonmeyer. Welcome. Good afternoon, my name is susan wiseburg and im a pedestrian. In june, i spoke before this board urging you to pass the quickbuild proposals to reduce pedestrian deaths and you approved those. And i thank you for that. But since then, in just three months, there have been three more deaths and countless more injuries. This is outrageous and i know that you all agree. Miss crumbburg said earlier that were doing everything we can with all of the tools that we have. So clearly we need different tools and do Different Things with them. Now as director henninger said, the danger of pedestrians on San Francisco streets is an emergency now. The city must forthrightly work to implement all proposals, specifically those in the transformative policy agenda. Even though, they may need state approval. Vision zero needs to stop being a vision and become an actuality. Next people, please. Nancy harrison followed by brian weadonmeyer. Im nancy harrison. Thank you. I moved to San Francisco from madison, wisconsin about a year ago. One of the reasons i moved here was because of muni and bart and your Public Transportation system. The senior fairs, the apps that you have have all made it easier for me to make this transition. Im committed to walking daily around the city, gave up my car, left it in the midwest. But i am the dem graphigraphic m so glad my name wasnt in that list. In february, i was hit by a leftturrinleftturning car at e intersection of 18th street and gadado. I was in the crosswalk, it was dayloot. Daylight. Youve heard this story 100 times, so the oncoming car stopped. The guy just turned right into me in the crosswalk. So fortunately, i was unconscious and rushed to the hospital. I am a survivor. It makes me hesitant to go in the trees. I walk everyday and there it is, this intersection where i live, its dangerous. In looking every way, the right turners, left turners, trying to make contact through the shaded windows, i do this. It feels ridiculous in that i dont think the lefthand turner would have seen this either, because there i was. But i guess what i want to say is that im glad that i hadnt heard of vision zero and through walk San Francisco, i did. Im pleased to hear all of your commitment and some passion around this. I hope to live here for many years and not find my name on the list and im greatfu gratefr what youre doing. Thank you for sharing your story. It does me does help for you to. The more personal accounts, theres a face to this epidemic and thank you for sharing what, im sure, was a traumatic event. Brian weadonmeyer and herbert weiner. Im the executive director of the San Francisco bicycle coalition. On behalf of our 10,000 members, i want to join my colleague and friend, jodie maderos from walk San Francisco, thanking you and the agency and the progress we have made in things lake our quickbuild policy, pushing for state enforcement. However, i would not be doing my job as an advocate, if i didnt come here and tell you we are not doing enough and director, since you asked for specific examples, i would like to suggest a few. The first is that during the presentation on the vision action strategy, when you list one of your strategy goals as eight miles of improved Sustainable Transportation lane per year and the mayor has challenged this agency to build 20 miles of protected bike lanes in two years, so youve got this mismatch of it looks like youre working back from the Mayors Challenge on 20 miles. That does not include brt lanes or pedestrian safety. That is 20 miles of projected bike lanes alone and were saying 16 miles by 2021. On market, street, we will have an opportunity to improve turn restrictions. It suggested 10th street to main would be a significant one. Thats one of our most dangerous. Lets extend that to goth and franklin. We have policies that we can use and deploy red light cameras right now. Why have the number of red light cameras reduced to over half since the old models are removed . Why are we not installing cameras that weve seen listed on fatal collisions . Thank you very much. Herbert winer . Mr. Winer, two minutes. Herbert winer. I appreciate the thoroughness and systematic rigger before the board. Theres a safety on the sidewalk. Constantly, theres endangerment of pedestrians on the sidewalk. And an argument has been stated that if he build more bike lanes, there will be less violations. Its clearly illegal to ride on the sidewalk and people need to be protected, especially senior and disabled. And its pointed out that a vehicle that travels at any speed a threatening to a pedestrian. That certainly applies to bicycles on the sidewalk. You have to stop this. So hopefully the laws should be enforced equally. So hopefully, when vision zero surveys people, they survey the pedestrians and not groups. What would happen if a member of the board were struck by someone on the sidewalk or a Law Enforcement officer . Its up to you to draw the conclusion. Thank you. Thank you, mr. Winier. Any further Public Comment . If you want to speak. So youll be the final public speaker. Tom, the floor is yours. Thank you. Before i mention signals, the red, yellow and green, we need, i say, dedicated signals to hold back pedestrianed t pedestrianse turns turn. You have to make the decision in the beginning of a light change when it turns to green to let cars turn right or turn left while the pedestrians are Still Holding up. If you ban lefthand turns, thats ok and if you dedicate lefthand turns, they need to be dedicated in the beginning of a signal change. What about magic eye signals that say there are people on a corner waiting or theres no traffic in the oncoming lanes or sides . I dont know how that can work but we have magic eyes everywhere and maybe they can control the signal. Old folks crossing, that seems to be a major problem. Is there a button that we can hit at the corner that old people can say gets ten more seconds to get across the street, that holds the lights up . And vanesse again, the buses that well wind up putting on vanesse, if they stop at every other stop, we can do all of the stops that we had once on vanesse. The old folks on vanesse could use it. There are people that are going to get old on vanesse. And we can still put the stops in half and every time a bus stops behind the bus thats at a stop, that bus is going to move and jump the next stop. If you can follow me on that, i think its doable. I think its better for the folks that live in the city on vannesse, thank you. Thank you. Final speaker. Good afternoon, board of directors. Could i have the overhead, please . I dont think you see People Holding laptops. I wanted to first quickly say the vision zero sf twitter account came out with a video recently asking cyclists to stop at red lights. Please know they speak with the citys voice and especially the opposite is true. Charles vincent died in 2015 because a car ran a red light through him. I would appreciate it if the city was not saying bike bicycls are responsible for their own death by running red lights. We had a discussion about what hor can be done. This isnt stockholm and everything you see here is temporary. Those signs, lines, trees, its temporary. This is a quick build. This is in vancouver, british columbia. Theres now a curb separating the bike lane but it wasnt always there and you can see the planters. That was a quick build. This is my hometown in the the netherlands and you can see two things on opposite sides of the street that force cars to make a lig zigzag and only one car can pass in each direction and i think this is permanent infrastructure and a quick buildable. This is in denmark, where cars want only pass no one direction through this bus stop here. This is not a quick build but quick buildable. This is speed table. Once again, im not sure this is quick buildable but residents intersections should all look like this. So fa food for thought there. That concludes Public Comment on this item and we had a robust discussion before. Is there anyone v i have comments myself but are there any with comments. Thank you so much. You did such a great job. Its been so gratifying in the years ive been on this board to see this discussion and to see this work evolve. Im so proud of this board as i am proud of you and im proud of the public that came here. Remember what you heard up here, not just the work youre doing but all of the work that staff is doing. Remember how supportive this board is. And when youre out proposing projects in the neighborhood, remember that we will support whatever moves the safety needle forward. So when you get pushback from new brunswicknewneighbours on p, on daylighting, changing anything in the neighborhood, remember how engaged and emphatic this board was on reaching these vision zero goals. That list and that moment of silence in the beginning was chilling and that could be any one of us and any one of our loved ones and so we have to remember that and any time staff comes to us, we have to ask, yes, and, what else could you do . Was there something that didnt get included. As one of the speakers noted, we have seen Public Opinion shift. To your point, director, dayloot of intersections, went that parking removal is on the consent calendar, we have had people complain but i havent seen that happen. So were letting the public know this is important work and in order to reduce deaths on our streets, we need to do that. Thank you so much, captain, the work with enforcement is fantastic. I would love a Police Officer on the corner of vidadero and hazes to stop blocking the sidewalk. Not all of my neighbors would want that, so i try and remind myself. So for me, more officers enforcing is fantastic, but not all of my neighbors will feel the same way. Certain communities dont want as many Police Officers out there. So we need to balance that and i have every faith in the world in sfpg that theyll approach that sensitively. I want to thank everybody. I am not surprised neighbors would choose to lose a traffic lane rather than parking spaces, but its a good message to us, because traffic lane removable is palatable. Lets remember that as we go forward. I can think of a few streets to lose traffic lanes. Thank you for the work, the public who showed up, thank you and hava and megan, i wanted to stand unanup and applaud. Weve come a long way and were on the right track. Thank you. Any a directors . Director torez . I want to echo our past directors comments because think theyre on target. I do walk the streets of San Francisco more than i ride a bike or do other things and believe me, mr. Winer, ive been almost hit from bicyclists, scooters on the sidewalk and its unbelievable what occurs in there, especially for Senior Citizens and im one of those now, too, that are impacted but these activities and by the lack of ken fo concern for safety of. Its true for drivers. It happens all of the time where im trying to cross the street and they dont care who is in the crosswalk. They dont care whats going on with the tree around them and not looking. But number one, theyre on their phones. Theyre texting or theyre a vehicle that utilizes our streets for pay and theyre not taxis. They usually dont live in San Francisco but come from all over the state to harass and to, basically, congest our very streets here. So we have a long way to go, but i believe that efforts of many of the mea people who spoke shod be applauded and we need to do that to our staff and i will thank you for the incredible report which i thought was pervasive in so many areas but my fellow director has good recommendations, as well. So we need to continue to work together, because this wont be solved overnight. Thank you. Dr. Borden. I wanted to say i agree with all of my colleagues up here and i want to thank the Police Department for being here. Youre a critical part of the solution on our streets. I often wonder if we can build the railroads, crosswalks. I feel like you need to put those gates down because i see such bad behaviour on streets and we have to let people know they cant get away with driving too fast. People are walking on street. Theres people in neighborhoods, a Restaurant Owner chef got hit at division on his motorcycle. The point is that it shouldnt be that way. People shouldnt live in fat fef walking across the street. Its a message to remind ourselves to slow down. There was a great article a couple of weeks ago in the chronicle, that its not a problem just here but everywhere that people are in a hurry to get place. So we have to work against the National Trend to be distracted and not slow down and Pay Attention and really do our part, whether were acting as pedestrian, a driver, a cyclist, a motorcycle rider. We have to remember when those positions how to be safe and look aut out for others. But on our end, you have our commitment to work on these quickbuild initiatives that we know we can do in our wheelhouse. Obviously working on the state level enforcement, i think Police Officers union is supportive of the legislation to whicwhich is a great steph stepd but we need to utilize all tools in our toolbox and stay on it. We need to look at data and its great to have people remind us and its ashame to have people remind us, but this is a city and the reason we live here is because its walkable and its notliable if you cant walk across street. So i want to thank you all for your work on this. I know we have a ways to go. There are many things well be doing in the coming months and anything to do to expedite getting things done, i think you have full support in making things happen. I just wanted to also say thank you. I wanted to ask youre willing to report back as often as we want, oh, excellent i do think this is so important to articles and everything and im wondering if im interested in what others think, but maybe a Quarterly Report is where we can see metrics and things like that. I think that would be helpful for me but i dont know how manageable that is. You dont think theres an objection. I think well act well ask or o work that out. I think thats a good idea. Youve gotten feedback on pretty specific ideas. For example, director hemminger that shows a high injury network, where we have daylighted and where we havent and an indicater of the year where we will be doing it. That is the sort of document that can be updated as we go and show progress to the director, at least this director on something hes interested in. Im not here to draw your diagrams today but i think you have some feedback and if we have that repeat update as we should, you can take a little lesson from julie and this sort of ongoing, living organic documents that show us how were growing are helpful and something the public will appreciate. Let me say one thing one thing is a loose thing. You asked and important question, director, and weve talked about small items, rightturn restrictions. I appreciate the sobriety of your comment. Maybe they wont work and now weve put a pedestrian in a worse situation where theyre not anticipating a right turn and it happens. You can see similar issues with leftturn restrictions and how that will send cars to different places and create patterns. Those small fixes, we have to look to see whether it works. But interestingly, on the eve of our adopting the Market Street plan, and the eve of our adopting making a major thorou thoroughfair of San Francisco a free zone, were not talking about that tool. Youve been advocate for a carfree Market Street for years. Ive been toll to be patient because of eir restrictions and this, that and the other thing and now were there. One of the reasons ive stayed on this board and fought this day is to see this to completion. Director, thats a big tool that we have and theres no rule that says thats limited to Market Street. And i think we need to think bigger about this. There are places all through this state where cars can go and pedestrians cant. Theyre called highways and freeways. They exist because theyre efficient for the cars and because theyre so efficient for cars, you dont want people there. You need to think the other way around. And i think we need to think not just about places where you can only walk, because then were only looking at the vision zero goal as were doing it. Director brinkman is right, theres a change in Public Perception and a desire to address this issue through public policy. Theres also a changed and increased desire for muni to be more efficient in this city. I will say to you planners again, i think you can marry the two. I have on numerous occasions talked about red carpeting entire streets, making them transit only. That will serve what i think is the most important safety goal for pedestrians, which is to get people out of their private cars, get their commuting by Public Transit, have them behind the wheel of a professional, trained driver much less likely to have an accident. In addition, that will lead to streets where there arent private cars. People choose where to walk by where its safer. I am very confident to a moral certainty that once we have finally completed the Market Street project, you will see people leaving Mission Street or Howard Street or north of market to make eastwest commutes to come to Market Street because it will be safer for them to walk there. We can do the same thing elsewhere. Idi dont know what the street. Youve seen a few that im thinking should be the next one. But you asked a provocative question and whats the next big tool weve got i . To that to me is it. I would challenge this by our next boar retreat, which is january or february, to say what is the leading contender for a major red carpet thoroughfare to facilitate transit and safety and serve both interests at once . As youre evaluating that, and i expect this will be a fun project for a lot of you and this is why you went to fancy grad schools to do this, think about both goals. How are we going to serve and area where we need better transit, safer pedestrians and merge them together and create the political will of two forces behind doing this and, you know, obviously that can include bike lane and taxis, as well. Let start thinking about the next Market Street, because director, thats a blunt tool and i think blunt in the positive sense that we have in our toolbox. Ok. Anything else . I saved my speech to the end. If i could save, mr. Chairman, youre my kind okindof chairman. Made it all worthwhile. That was emotional air conditioning right there. [ laughter ] thank you very much. We will move on to the next item, please. Item 12, discussion and vote as to whether to invoke the attorneyclient privilege and conduct a closed session. Move for a closed session. All those in favour say aye. Guests, we have to throw you out. Oh, i forgot to say, captain martin, thank you so much for being here today and for all that youre doing to keep us safe. We appreciate it. Yes. So my book that i chose and it sums up my feelings as an activist and woman and legislator. It is girls can. I want to thank everyone for coming. This means a lot. This is a first step. We will see you at the next one. Thank all right. Good morning, everybody. Is this working . What a Beautiful Day in San Francisco. You know, if you go to city hall, it is so packed. Everybody is celebrating 88. Were here and going to be celebrating this new project. I am the director of public works here at the city of San Francisco. I want to thank you all for coming out our chief and mayor for coming to celebrate this milestone. This facility will be a facility that will serve our First Responders and we are very excited about it. Just last week around the corner we celebrated the new deployment facility and that is a project that will be completed in 2021. That project also is going really well. Then today we are celebrating another Capital Infrastructure project here in the bayview. This job is not only about serving our First Responders, but will also give a lot of people from the community jobs. It will be able to give a lot of our contractors an opportunity to participate in bringing supplies. Of course make our city more resilient. Its also been one of several projects that the southeast sector of our city has been benefitting from. Just in the last two years or so we finished the medical examiners building, the two shops for large and small vehicles are right around the corner. Coming up soon is the new Southeast Community center. So a lot of good opportunities here, and its great that the partnership that we have with all the contractors and all the city departments, that were all working together to really improve San Francisco. As you all know, today is very, very special because its the Traffic Company and Forensic Services division that will be in this site. The building itself is going to be over 100,000 square feet and 100,000 square feet is huge. Its two storeys as you can see. More than three quarters of this lot will be a building with a twostorey building. Were invited about that. Inside the building will be many labs that would be used to help solve crimes. Also our motorcycle Police Department, they will have their vehicles here but well also have offices for them so that they can do their administrative duties, which is highly essential because now theyre spread all over the place. This building will change that. This building will also be a hightech building. Our crews have been working very hard. As you see this pile of dirt behind us, right after this ground breaking, next week well be levelling it out. All that dirt actually is going to be on site here. This area is a little bit of a low land, so were going to be increasing it by 2 or 3 feet high. So were keeping the dirt. Were recycling. As you know, our city leads the nation in recycling. Were following a lot of the building technologies. With that said, the team that has been working on this, i would like to say a huge thanks to clark construction, our architects, h. O. K. And m. I. I. Have been on this contract. Some of our subcontractors, i just want to say thank you because this new facility will make San Francisco much safer and put us into the 21st century building. Isnt that a great opportunity . [ applause ]. I can theres a lot i can say because im excited about this building because i personally have worked in this area for over 30 years. The Public Works Department yard is just up the street. So every day we see these changes. Were very excited. In the capital plan the mayor is putting money for us to look at more opportunities to do more projects here. With that said, i would like to call her to say a few words and thank her for our leadership. Our city is changing in the right direction. Lets call mayor breed and give her a big hand. Mayor breed. [ applause ]. Mayor breed thank you. Mohamed is really excited about this project, isnt he . Hes always excited about projects that move the city forward in the right direction. San francisco is in earthquake territory. And its not a matter of if but when the next big one will be prepared. So we have to be prepared. More importantly, we have to make sure that our Public Safety officials are in seismically safe facilities so that when theyre trying to help the citizens of San Francisco, they dont necessarily need help themselves. We know that the Traffic Division and the Forensic Services division are located in buildings that are not seismically safe. Especially with the Traffic Division and motorcycles and their need to get to people and help protect people throughout San Francisco, thats going to be critical. If we have a next earthquake and something happens, how are they going to get their motorcycles out . We have to start thinking about the future and ways to protect all of our citizens, especially making sure that our Public Safety officials from the police and the Fire Department and other departments can get out there on the streets and protect and save lives. This project, along with so many other amazing projects that weve done in this city, were headed in the right direction. The new Public Safety building that just opened in mission bay is absolutely incredible. The medical examiner building that just open not too far from here is amazing. Station 49, the firefighters are going to get a new stateoftheart building. We just cut the ribbon on station 5 and 21 for the Fire Department to make sure that our First Responders have seismically safe buildings that are just really outstanding and worthy of San Francisco. Now, moving forward in the capital plan finally, after the voters approved a 2014 ether bond, we are finalley here breaking ground, ready to get this building built, not only by 2021 but also on budget, right mohamed . On budget. I dont see many claps for on budget. So i just want to thank everyone whos here today with us to celebrate this milestone and just raise the profile of how significant it is to get these projects done. In fact, the voters have been really generous because through the work of the capital plan and under the leadership of our city administrator, weve been able to bring the bond for these projects forward to the voters in a responsible way, without raising property taxes. I know they usually love that. Which is why in march of next year, well be bringing forward another bond to continue the great work that were doing to make all of our buildings seismically safe throughout San Francisco. This is a great step in the right direction. I want to thank d. P. W. And the Capital Planning committee and all the contractors and people that are going to make sure that this is not only a beautiful building, but one of the most environmentally friendly buildings and it will be a safe, great place for so many people who serve our city day in and day out to work. Im looking forward to it. Im sure these guys behind me cant wait to use a nice bathroom for a change in a great facility. With that, i want to take this opportunity to introduce the supervisor for this district, supervisor walton. Thank you so much, madam mayor. First of all, good afternoon and welcome to district 10. Youre actually in a place that is going to be very well protected in the future in San Francisco. As the mayor mentioned, we have crime lab out here now in the district. Were going to have keep your fingers crossed everything goes according to plan our evidence facility. Naturally we have the Traffic Company and Forensic Division that is coming right here. Our district is going to be well protected, which is exciting for us. Any time we can have Brand New Community gems that are going to be in our district, we get excited about that. So i want to thank everyone for coming out here today. I want to thank the commitment from the voters. Thank the mayor for her commitment and dedication to district 10. I want to of course thank mohamed who is a constituent here in district 10 and who worked very hard to make sure that we have the opportunity to bring facilities like this here into the district. I want to thank the chief for his partnership on all the work and for looking at district 10 as a place where we can bring stateoftheart 21st century facilities to the district so our police and Law Enforcement can be a staple in the community. Were all excited that this will be here in 2021 and we look forward to all the seismically safe opportunities were providing here in district 10. Thank you all for coming to the district and thank you for being here this morning. [ applause ]. Okay. And now lets hear from the chief of police, bill scott. He is a big partner with public works every day, 24 7, all of the partnership we have with the Police Department, thank you for everything that you do to support public works. Thank you for everything you do for our city. Welcome, chief scott. Thank you, mohamed, and thank you for your partnership. First of all, i have a lot of people to thank here. Mayor breed, your leadership and commitment to this Police Department and city is just off the charts. This is a Long Time Coming and it took vision. It took commitment. I just want to thank everybody who made this happen, beginning with the mayor and the director, all the contractors that will take part in this. The officers that are standing here behind me and onto the sides, this is for them. These are the frontline people that do the work. They keep our city safe and they deserve seismically safe facilities and facilities that are stateoftheart as stated. We thank you for appreciating our work and your gratitude for voting to allow this to happen. This facility will not only move our department into the future, but through the advanced services that have been built into this project, we will be better able to serve our city. It will be seismically safe. Our employees will be able to respond to major emergencies quickly and efficiently. And as supervisor walton said this part of the city is excited to have us here, and we really appreciate that. Our crime lab will be fully modernized to accommodate evolving technologies and employ sound scientific principles to process data. At the end of the day this is about keeping our community safe. We thank everybody for making this happen. Our elected leader, the voters, the architect, the engineers, the consultants. Finally, we thank you, the people of our city again for allowing us to be here and making this happen. Thank you. [ applause ]. Okay. Were going to go over to where the shovels are and we will throw a little dirt and then these contractors can get back to work. Right . All right. [ ] my name is doctor ellen moffett, i am an assistant medical examiner for the city and county of San Francisco. I perform autopsy, review medical records and write reports. Also integrate other sorts of testing data to determine cause and manner of death. I have been here at this facility since i moved here in november, and previous to that at the old facility. I was worried when we moved here that because this building is so much larger that i wouldnt see people every day. I would miss my personal interactions with the other employees, but that hasnt been the case. This building is very nice. We have lovely autopsy tables and i do get to go upstairs and down stairs several times a day to see everyone else i work with. We have a bond like any other group of employees that work for a specific agency in San Francisco. We work closely on each case to determine the best cause of death, and we also interact with family members of the diseased. That brings us closer together also. I am an investigator two at the office of the chief until examiner in San Francisco. As an investigator here i investigate all manners of death that come through our jurisdiction. I go to the field interview Police Officers, detectives, family members, physicians, anyone who might be involved with the death. Additionally i take any property with the deceased individual and take care and custody of that. I maintain the chain and custody for court purposes if that becomes an issue later and notify next of kin and make any additional follow up phone callsness with that particular death. I am dealing with people at the worst possible time in their lives delivering the worst news they could get. I work with the family to help them through the grieving process. I am ricky moore, a clerk at the San Francisco medical examiners office. I assist the pathology and toxicology and Investigative Team around work close with the families, loved ones and funeral establishment. I started at the old facility. The building was old, vintage. We had issues with plumbing and things like that. I had a tiny desk. I feet very happy to be here in the new digs where i actually have room to do my work. I am sue pairing, the toxicologist supervisor. We test for alcohol, drugs and poisons and biological substances. I oversee all of the lab operations. The forensic operation here we perform the toxicology testing for the Human Performance and the case in the city of San Francisco. We collect evidence at the scene. A woman was killed after a robbery homicide, and the dna collected from the zip ties she was bound with ended up being a cold hit to the suspect. That was the only investigative link collecting the scene to the suspect. It is nice to get the feedback. We do a lot of work and you dont hear the result. Once in a while you heard it had an impact on somebody. You can bring justice to what happened. We are able to take what we due to the next level. Many of our counterparts in other states, cities or countries dont have the resources and dont have the beautiful building and the equipmentness to really advance what we are doing. Sometimes we go to court. Whoever is on call may be called out of the office to go to various portions of the city to investigate suspicious deaths. We do whatever we can to get our job done. When we think that a case has a natural cause of death and it turns out to be another natural cause of death. Unexpected findings are fun. I have a prior background in Law Enforcement. I was a Police Officer for 8 years. I handled homicides and suicides. I had been around Death Investigation type scenes. As a Police Officer we only handled minimal components then it was turned over to the coroner or the detective division. I am intrigued with those types of calls. I wondered why someone died. I have an extremely supportive family. Older children say, mom, how was your day. I can give minor details and i have an amazing spouse always willing to listen to any and all details of my day. Without that it would be really hard to deal with the negative components of this job. Being i am a native of San Francisco and grew up in the community. I come across that a lot where i may know a loved one coming from the back way or a loved one seeking answers for their deceased. There are a lot of cases where i may feel affected by it. If from is a child involved or things like that. I try to not bring it home and not let it affect me. When i tell people i work at the medical examiners office. Whawhat do you do . The autopsy . I deal with the a with the enou with the administrative and the families. Most of the time work here is very enjoyable. After i started working with dead people, i had just gotten married and one night i woke up in a cold sweat. I thought there was somebody dead . My bed. I rolled over and poked the body. Sure enough, it was my husband who grumbled and went back to sleep. This job does have lingering effects. In terms of why did you want to go into this . I loved science growing up but i didnt want to be a doctor and didnt want to be a pharmacist. The more i learned about forensics how interested i was of the perfect combination between Applied Science and criminal justice. If you are interested in finding out the facts and truth seeking to find out what happened, anybody interested in that has a place in this field. Being a woman we just need to go for it and dont let anyone fail you, you cant be. With regard to this position in comparison to crime dramas out there, i would say there might be some minor correlations. Lets face it, we arent hollywood, we are real world. Yes we collect evidence. We want to preserve that. We are not scanning fingerprints in the field like a Hollywood Television show. Families say thank you for what you do, for me that is extremely fulfilling. Somebody has to do my job. If i can make a situation that is really negative for someone more positive, then i feel like i am doing the right thing for the city of San Francisco