We have. If there are more Technology Tools out there for automatically detecting sidewalk riding we would love to see. Maybe what we need to do locally is to create legislation to say if they they need to create this technology, otherwise we wont give them a permit. Commissioner stephanie. Just on rider accountability, not the company, but rider accountability for the person whos violating and riding the scooter on the sidewalk or has two people on the scooter or is putting the scooter on its side on the sidewalk or parking it obstructing the sidewalk, what is the accountability for the rider and what are we doing to enforce it through our own means, not through the operator. On the parking side, it is a violation of the transportation code to park a scooter improperly. That is something that can be enforced by the sfmta and we do Issue Citations for improperly parked scootered for a scooter program. Those citations are investigate. They will go out and issue the citations. Directly issuing a citation to someone on the sidewalk is a moving violation and would have to come through a p. D. Thats why we have relied on the operatorbased system of them finding users directly and suspending accounts. Where p. D. Has resources, issuing the citations is great. But we need additional means of enforcement to the users. If lyme suspends a rider, can bird allow the rider . How does that work . Do you get to go through all the companies . Just worstcase scenario, i dont know if they share information. Thats actually a really good question i dont know the answer to. I would want to check how we could do that without transferring personally identifying information, which is also prohibited. I think if there were a way if your user account is suspended, we dont need to have you go through that process four different times before youre banned from the city. I think thats something we could explore with the companies. Commissioner peskin. Thank you. And thank you for both of your lines of questioning around the selfscooter sidewalk issue. Let me take this from the top. If an individual is riding the scooter on the sidewalk, the permits that you are proposing to issue that will become effective in 11 days would first give a warning. How is that warning issued . So this assumes that somebody complai complains, and there is a positive identification of a person, a location. Like, how does the warning help me track this. So if somebody sees a violation, they can call that in. The more information that they have, the better. Particularly if its at least the brand of the scooter, what company its from. The operators are often able to identify a user because there is often one person in the vicinity. So there are representatives, they cant be everywhere, but they can provide user information and warnings. If the user is identified through that process, the warning goes out through the app and or the Contact Information that the operator has about those users. Thats something that weve developed through the pilot as well. I think its certainly not a perfect system in capturing violations, but scoot has gone through the process of suspending multiple User Accounts through this process. So it is possible to catch repeat violators through it. Im dubious, but lets just say you got your warning and then the next you do it again 25. 25 to who . Who issues that fine and who collects that fine . Its issued by the operator. So right now the yeah, the parking citations are payable to sfmta. I dont believe we have a mechanism to collect the user fines, but thats maybe something to look into. Right now the operator would issue the 25 to the user. And the operator will then collect the 25 presumably . Respectfully, this seems ass backwards. Theres no reason that i as a company want to fine my consu r consumer. I dont think and last time i asked that the p. D. Has the issued a single citation. I dont want to put the commander on the spot. But and, believe me, we all agree they have other things to do and thats a resource issue. Its hard enough to get to your first step, much less get to your second step. The company has no motivation whatsoever to issue that fine. We dont collect it. They dont remit it to us. So theres no financial incentive for the m. T. A. This should be from the getgo zero tolerance. You want as i love to say, micromobility technology in many instances may be a good first mile last mile solution to reduce congestion and g. M. T. S and vehicle miles traveled. I dont think thats a policy issue and me and my colleagues are having. The issue is about Pedestrian Safety and the issue is about rider safety. So i dont want them at San Francisco general with traumatic brain injuries, and i dont want my disabled folks and my elderly folks and kids dodging them on the sidewalks or getting hurt. So its just that simple. But this whole scheme does not seem to be frontend loaded with that concern expressed seriously. It should be if everybody knew that the first time you get popped for riding one of those things on the sidewalk, youre done, done. And all four platforms have to communicate with each other. So if one person, boom, all four of them, theyre suspended now and for ever. Then we wont have to play cat and mouse they move from one platform to another. Its hard enough to bust somebody because these are moving things. What am i going to do, take this out and do my 311 app and say i was on the corner of battery and pine. The thing is around the corner in a second. You feel like your right to have unfetterred Pedestrian Access on the peoples property, which is the sidewalks, has been violated. The scheme that youve come up with is, oh, well, you get three chances. No, it should just be one and done. I agree. This is why we need the office of emerging technology. Thank you. Any other questions . No. Okay. Any Public Comments on this item . Come on up. Good morning, chair, supervisors. Good to see you. My name is jody maderes and im the executive director of walk San Francisco. Thank you for this opportunity to comment on enforcement. I feel like this this is a really important topic that we brought to this committee, and i want to emphasize why we did. So the numbers of people dying this year from traffic violence have been too many, and we need to do Everything Possible to make it stop. Were already at 14 people, and one person on a bike, and thats the same at 2018 at the end of the year. Were hearing from our constituents that its the wild west out there, but not necessarily about scooters. That has died down. Its really about the car traffic. I want to thing this back to whats important here. We have tens of thousands more vehicles and the enforcement is not being addressed. We heard this morning its been 41 . Thankfully mayor breed has doubled the number of traffic cops. We know thats still not enough. We know we will see the emphasis focus back on the safety and the most dangerous driving behaviors. Thats what we set out in vision zero. Sfpd has to seriously boost Traffic Safety enforcement on the most dangerous streets. We asked for it from walk San Francisco, and i encourage you to ask about the locations where they are doing these citations. Are they on the highinjury corridor . Are they in areas where we know the most dangerous behaviors are reaching . The sfpd mentioned locations today, and none of them mentioned the tenderloin. Well, thats funny because weve seen four pedestrian fatalities and how many serious injuries in the tenderloin . Is so were asking you to help us ask the sfpd to strongly commit to make sure that our focus on the five behaviors in citations are laser focused on the highinjury corridor in known dangerous locations. We all deserve to be safe on our streets and if the city is truly committed to this, were asking for your help on this. Thank you, jody. I do think scooters are important, and i would prefer to have a separate hearing and right now its focus on the five. Thank you. Thank you. Next speaker. Thank you, supervisors. I would like to pay you back on what supervisor yee said about the reports. I think those are necessary by sfpd and i would like that to include the demographics and go further to see if the same disparities exist if they are doing citations on the black Community Like they are the rest. I would like to see if that correlates. Also i would like to comment on the scooters. Me and my grandson have both almost been trampled on the sidewalk by scooters. There really needs to be something done about it. Thank you. Thank you. Any other Public Comments on this item . Seeing none, Public Comment is now closed. Informational items. Well move on to the next item. Mr. Clerk, will you call the next item. Item 5, vision zero legislative update. This is a information item. Good morning, commissioners. I am from Government Affairs m. T. A. And i appreciate the opportunity to provide you with this update this morning. Also following the remarks of the commander want to acknowledge the partnership with p. D. That we have been working with on an ongoing basis and really welcome the engagement of the commander who has come on as a Traffic Company lead. So the this is very short in terms of what happened in the state legislature this year. I think both of these bills are bills that the t. A. Took a support position on. I will acknowledge that we worked very closely with your staff throughout the legislative session to see which bills we can be in alignment on. I will say there are almost no bills we have been together on in support. These two are the two that really survived during this session. The government has until october 13 to act. Ab 37 is a bill that would allow us to act on distracted driving. Interestingly, it is prohibited as a violation that can be cited for a point. We will consider this progress. The second bill is a little more global, if you will, in terms of vision zero, but it would require cal trans to consider improvements when it repairs or repaves state routes that serve as local streets. This bill has been quite controversial. The state cal trans has issued an estimate what it would cost if the state were to build bike and pedestrian facilities all into rehab projects. This bill at this point would require the state to reconsider those types of investments. It does not at this point require. San francisco has a strong support position on this bill. Weve actually mobilized the seven cities around the state to weigh in and support this bill. It is on the governors desk. Were at the end of year one of the current twoyear session. We are allow beginning the process to develop priorities for year two. I will say to you as of today vision zero transformative policy priorities are going to be at the top of our list. This leads to a transition weve been doing with the state Vision Zero Task force. Last year there was a bill ab 2363 that would have sought to allow cities to reduce speed limits another 5 km h below the currently allowed using the 85 percentile which is the way speed limits are used in california. That bill faced significant opposition, given the percentile is deeply entrenched in the law and in the culture of california. There are staff here who heard me say it many times, and its not my idea, using the 85 percentile which is 85 of cars going a certain speed per hour, that must be reasonable. That is akin to saying my teenager came home at midnight, therefore thats the time im going to set his curfew. It doesnt make sense. I think the task force which is made up of if you see the logos, if you can go back to that, i would say the majority of likeminded allies in the room encourages me. We have cities throughout california and advocacy organizations, including calbike and cal walks. On the Advisory Group we have partners. We have an Incredible Group of allies and smart folks whove been working on this issue for years to inform the work on the task force. The focus of the task force is really on speed limit setting and having a conversation with the state. The state will be producing the report about how speed limits are set and what we can do in the near term and the longer term, recognizing that the appetite to dump the 85th percentile may be too much to bite off right out of the gate. So we are focused on what can we do to seek changes in the law that will allow us to lower speed limits on highinjury networks, that will allow us to lower speed limits when an injury and Traffic Survey shows we need to go below 25 mph, but the state law will not allow us to do that. Those are changes we can do if we can get the recommendations to advance even in this second year of the current legislative session. In the longer term, the current conversation is around a safe Systems Approach and how can we look to fundamental alternatives to how speed limits are set in california. One of the things that i was reflecting on this in our past battles around automated Speed Enforcement. Its a really fundamental priority for the work of the task force. We are not there to have a conversation about whether we have a problem or not. When we were working on automated Speed Enforcement in 2017 with Assembly Member chew on av 342, we found ourselves deeply engaged in a conversation with opponents questioning the very fact that speed is a problem and is one of the top collision factors in severe and fatal crashes. That to me was a distraction, to have to spend our time making the case that the premise that we were asserting to advance the technology that we knew would work to save lives was really the forum where we were having the debate. So in the context of the task force, i think that really our effort is to have this report come out with not a question about whether we have a problem, but establishing that as a foundation and allowing us to have a conversation around the remedies. I was thinking about that and i thought that was important. The report i have done two updates and shared those with your respective offices and will continue to provide those. I think that we are working on a daily basis with our colleagues and with our partners at d. P. H. To see how we can influence the work of the task force. The next work is on october 22. Our understanding is in the afternoon we will begin the conversation around automated speed format. It is really it has been really helpful to hear even in drive time p. S. A. S that San Francisco putting itself on record in support of automated Speed Enforcement. I thank supervisor peskin for making that call. I think it had an impact. Well see where that goes in terms of our ability to influence the process. And i do, if i may, interrupt, have a little bit of an update. Obviously we were all very pleased about the statement of the president of the Police Officers association, tony montoya, to the effect that the sfpoa may be willing to move to a supportive position. And Assembly Member chew and i are setting up a meeting that for all i know could already be on my calendar because i only get to look a few days ahead. I have had very positive meetings with representatives of the teamsters who have historically been antithetical to automated Speed Enforcement and they may be reconsidering or, as barack obama said about samesex marriage, his position evolved on that and the teamsters position may be involving. That is so encouraging. The teamsters have a seat on the task force and i really like hearing that. I want to set the temporal elements of this. Two more meetings. The report will be created by calsta. They are the authors. It will include a review of safe trek ucit. That report will be issued in january. We hope it will have recommendations that the legislature can consider. I think its hopeful that we had a change in administration and we have a governor who issued the executive directive to create the first safety master plan in San Francisco. Ill just say well put our optimism there. The last thing i wanted to share with you is yesterday we learned that m. T. C. Is moving forward to establish a zero Vision Task Force and the development of a regional highinjury network. That shows how influential the work of San Francisco and other cities are having on this movement. I think having the region, the n. P. O. , that distributes funds will be critical to our work going forward. Im happy to answer any questions. Thank you for your time. Thank you very much for all the work youre doing. I guess when you meet october 22 with this group, thank them for their work also. Thank you, commissioner peskin, for pushing this forward. Ive also had similar discussions with the teamsters, indicating what you just said. Thank you. Any Public Comments on this item . Come on up, jody. I will say before a couple of words. Thank you for hearing this information. As kate mentioned, while San Francisco is on the task force, its great to be in there in that room. What i do want to emphasize is we do know we are slipping from our zero vision goals. So these tools that we have that we really need to get past at the state level. So what i do ask is that city leaders like you and this body, this zero vision coalition, really do keep your eye on this, you weigh in on this. We just need your leadership here because its going to be so critical at the state. Thank you for doing everything your doing, talking to the teamsters and the p. O. A. Because thats the stuff thats going to matter. Thank you. Thank you. Any other Public Comments on this item . Seeing none, Public Comment is now closed on in informational item. So, mr. Clerk, can you call the next item. Item 6, 2018 severe injuries report. This is an information item. Okay. Youre up. Thank you for being here to listen to this information today. Im going to present to you about severe injury trends, which youve seen a little preview of. In 2017 and 2018 we were encouraged to have record low numbers of fatalities in San Francisco, however, those fatalities continue in San Francisco almost every month. So theres much work to change this reality, and to date weve seen 22 traffic fatalities to date. In addition to fatality tracking, we track them in San Francisco. This is in collaboration with zuckerburg hospital to track those who come in their care. The monitoring includes those most severely injured by traffic injury, unlike fatality reporting which excludes freeway deaths, not happening underground as well. These numbers exclude fatality numbers for clarity. So ill show you after this, we have two main categories of injury that are severe and critical. Severe injuries are injuries that require a trauma activation, either prehospital or at the hospital and also require hospital admission. So when youre thinking about the severity of these injuries, people are staying at the hospital for care. And then critical injuries are also severe, but they are the most severe injuries. We make that distinction by an injury severity scale score which is a medical validated tool which highlights the most severe injuries. One advantage of having Hospital Data is that is a score that is calculated by a medical profession, so its highquality data. Also as people here will know, San FranciscoGeneral Hospital is the only Level One Trauma Center in our county. So anyone with most severe injuries is going there by clinical protocol. So youve seen this slide earlier today, but these are recent severe injury trends in San Francisco. You can see over the last few years weve had relatively stable numbers, but about 600 people a year who are experiencing severe traffic injury outcomes. We also like to focus on that black line which is the critical injuries and most severe which are fluctuating but stable. I will say when we look at these data, its really important to know that many things can contribute to changes year to year. So we put the most stock behind mult multiyear trends and have caution how we interpret them. These highlight different modes. Thats why ill go through different travel modes with you next. Overall for the last few years theres a trend that people walking are a third of the severe. People in Motor Vehicles are a major proportion of severe injuries at the hospital as well. And people biking and on motorcycles comprise the remainder of people. People walking. Severe injury counts have been relatively steady since 2015, but something we want to look into in detail is that uptake of critical injury numbers in 2018. Those numbers are back to pre2014 levels. 2014 is when we adopted vision zero, you will remember. That has halted a fouryear trend of reduced or stable numbers. This is something i will talk about going further into our data systems later. An escooter injury. The hospital tracks those injuries through forward. Looking methodology that we developed specifically for this. I will say that these are all included as pedestrians. So we pulled it out because we know that there is so much interest. These are people who stayed at the hospital for their injuries. Many people may have been more injured and been to an e. D. And discharged home. I will say these are all injuries having to do with escooter associated injury. That doesnt necessarily mean you were riding an escooter. We know that one of those injuries was to a pedestrian on the street hit by an escooter. Those are things we want to keep top of mind. Moving to people on bicycles. Severe and critical injury counts have been relatively steady since 2014. And then were seeing more fluctuation, as you can see for people in Motor Vehicles. Severe injuries decreased in 2018, which partially countered a 2017 increase. Last year we saw critical injuries decrease, but they are higher than recent lows. So we know that a major component of this is all of the freeway injuries are coming to zuckerburg hospital. We know that speed is a really big factor. So this is something were going to look into more. Not that freeways dont count, but is there a way to net out freeways in this dataset . Because we dont govern freeways. So when were doing vision zero, its really about our city street network. So it would be helpful to see that, if you can net out freeway injuries. Thats well said. Thats why for fatality monitoring we exclude the freeway deaths. We have the resources to do a linkage of police and Hospital Data which is really cutting edge. We have that data for 2013 to 2015. Its on my work plan to update that for the next fouryear chunk of time. It takes a little bit because you have to match people across sources. Some people are in police, hospital, and one or the other. We want to do that well. Once that linkage is done, we have a highquality dataset to look at location because the Police Collision reports give good information about where injuries are occurring and so do the balance transports. We will look at that and report back when we have the data due to what we think is freeway and other factors. People on motorcycles, we saw an increase in severe injuries in 2018, and then also a more slight increase in critical injuries, but an increase back to 2016 levels. This is something that we also want to look at with that linked dataset. The way that motorcycles are defined in Hospital Data is a pretty wide category. It can include ebikes which we know are growing in popularity. It includes those vespa style or electric scooters. This is something we want to look at in more detail in case there are micromode trends that are affecting the way the numbers are moving. So that policehospital linkage will be complete in 2020. Well have that location data, the intersection level data. It will also give us really comprehensive data on crash characteristics and sociodemographic factors which we think are important to investigate to know where the burden of injury is falling on san franciscans. Ive already mentioned that we want to look at the severe motorcycle injuries and increasing critical pedestrian injuries. So why arent severe injuries declining, despite significant investment in vision zero . This is a really complex sphere and we want to draw attention to the fact that there are some dynamic things happening in our region, even as were doing this work to reduce the burden of injury. There is more People Living in this area over the last ten years. There is also more vehicle miles traveled by those same people, not only by those same people, but also we have the impact of t. N. C. S that has distributed to an increase of the impact of vehicles traveled in our city. Also we know our population is aging, and in the same collisions older adults are more vulnerable to more serious injury. There is also increasing homelessness in our city. We know that the amount of time you spend on the streets is your exposure to traffic. If you dont have shelter, youre on the street all the time increasing the odds of injury related to traffic. So given this information, we feel strongly we need some new tools to drive numbers down, as was presented already. Were putting our emphasis behind automated enforcement, urban speed limit setting that will bring down those speeds. Local regulation of these vehicles as well. That concludes my presentation. Is there any questions . Seeing no questions, your presentation was very thorough. Thank you. Any Public Comments . Jody, i think you have a card. Come on up. Thank you for this opportunity and getting accurate numbers on this. What walk San Francisco finds alarming is the numbers are on the rise and they are increasing and were five years into vision zero. Of the total number of people in severe injuries and crashes, we know that our most vulnerable which are the pedestrians are at the highest at 30 . One of the other things that we look at in this data is we believe this is really only telling a part of the story. Because severe injury is where the trauma team is located, there is a hospital and balance, but we know there are so many more crashes happening that dont require a ambulance and theyre not being counted. We have to ask ourselves, what if they were being counted, where would we be . The other number that i want to point out is the critical injuries, up 60 from 2017. These are the injuries that have the greatest impact on peoples lives. I believe youve all met jenny yu from our families for safe streets. Jenny now cares for her mother who was hit in february of 2011. So we are talking about somebody with ptsd, cognitive impairment, headaches, confusion, emotional outbursts. This woman cannot work again. She does not have a fully functioning life because of a crash. Her family is caring for her. This is what critical injury looks like. I really want to emphasize that we need to be doing everything we can using every tool in our toolbox. We heard some things about enforcement being so important and speed management at the state level and we need to prioritize Pedestrian Safety to prevent these crashes. I want to invite you on sunday november 17 for world crash day. Any other Public Comments on this item . Seeing none, Public Comment is now closed. This is an informational item. Clerk introduction of new items is an information item. I just wanted to mention, ive been talking about this for a while, but next week i will be introducing legislation at the board of supervisors establishing the office of emerging technology. This office is built on the t. A. s guiding principles, our expanding guiding principles, and recommendations from the emerging Technology Work group, of which more than 200 people participated, including many City Departments, small and wellestablished startups, advocacy groups such as walk s. F. And senior and disability action, merchants, neighborhood and labor groups, as well as academics. I look forward to the office of emerging technology, ensuring that safety and vision zero is a top priority and that the devices that are proposed to test or operate in our city are held to the highest safety standards. Supervisor stephanie. Thank you, chair yee. I wanted to follow up about the discussion we had around enforcement. Obviously the focus on the five is something we all agree on. But for me, its all important. I am not going to, no pun intended, roll over on whats going on with scooters right now and what i see happening in my district. A Senior Citizen getting hit by someone on a scooter riding it outside of the provisions of the vehicle code needs to be dealt with. What that brings me to is when another city agency creates policies that places additional burdens on another City Department like our Police Department without Additional Resources, im going to ask questions about it. Im not going to not ask questions about it. And then the implication seems to be that somehow the San FranciscoPolice Department is falling down on the job, yet no more Additional Resources for them for the enforcement were asking. So and i dont think thats true or at least no evidence has been put in front of me to think that thats true that the San FranciscoPolice Department is falling down on the job here. I do know that the police dont just write tickets anymore, that it takes twice as long for them to issue any type of ticket. I do know that the reporting requirements on the police have doubled. So my question is this for future consideration for items for future consideration, is that have we determined that the police have the resources or enough resources to do what were asking them to do around vision zero . Yes, weve doubled the number of motorcycle Police Officers who are enforcing, but have we determined whether or not thats enough . Because we cant just have this implication that theyre not doing it right or correctly or not trying hard enough without evidence that thats the case. So its my question for future consideration, do we have enough Police Resources to actually enforce the laws, now the scooter thing thats been rolled out. Thats it. So, commissioner stefani, your question is very timely and i think its a really good question, because as maybe you werent around, maybe you were. I created the Police Staffing task force to bring them through a process to look at what the staffing needs are. Im pretty sure they looked at the Traffic Enforcement piece. But i dont know if in their study, and its being finalized now, they had to consider these new things that were asking Law Enforcement to do. I will ask staff to get to them and consider that. If they havent, i probably would ask to postpone the final draft of it so they could actually look at that piece. Thank you very much. Commissioner peskin. Thank you. I will take commissioner stefanis remarks as a cosponsorship, that you cosponsored that is before the full board of supervisors on tuesday. Im just teasing you, supervisor stefani. Im sorry that mr. Parks is no longer in the room to hear this from the m. T. A. , but this is a classic lefthand righthand left hand doesnt know what the right hand is doing. So as we want the police to focus on the five, we are and you heard from mr. Parks, who is the only person who can actually issue a citation to someone terrorizing our pedestrians on the sidewalks, the cops have enough to do. I dont want to say to the police, hey, you issued no violation for people on sidewalks because i want you to focus on the five. So on the one hand were exacerbating our Staffing Resources within Law Enforcement. When you asked mr. Parks about what the enforcement regimen is, the answer is all of these financially motivated companies are going to selfregulate. Well, thats not going to happen. Theres no i mean, were having a zero vision conversation. Theres no zero tolerance conversation coming out of the m. T. A. Which apparently is supposed to be invested in. We have wonderful staff who are doing incredible things, day lighting intersections, spending capital dollars on things, and again why am i widening sidewalks if theyre going to be used to terrorize the pedestrians and disabled people and folks in strollers, you name it. It doesnt seem to make sense. If i seem to be exercised about this issue, its because im exercised in this issue. Lets increase legislation around this. Okay. Happy friday. You are warned. Do i need to take Public Comments on this . You do. Any Public Comments on this. Seeing none jody, are you sure . Public comment is now closed. We have item 8, general Public Comment. Okay. General Public Comment. Anybody have anything to say generallily. Come on up, you have two minutes. My name is steve perero, im a civil engineer. Ive been participating with a very great Vision Zero Task force. This is my first time in this chamber. Ive been part of the Bike Coalition for 20 years coming here to speak about bike lanes. I wanted to make three points. First, my Dear Colleague is on home rest after being nailed by a scooter on the sidewalk seventh and mission two months ago. He has a desk job. Hes home. He cant get up. If you want to if the scooters are causing a nuisance, they are, tax them. Same as uber. Whats happened with technology of electric bikes and scooters is all the bike lanes are all cleared up and the sidewalks are cleared up and the pedestrians and the day lighting is awesome. But theyve been invaded by uber and these highspeed bikes. Now Young Children cant ride bikes on the pan handled bike path where i live because theres 25 mph electric bikes going on. So this is part of the same discussion. Furthermore, after all these years of talking about bike lanes, i have kids in high school and middle school in the mission. We live in a panhandle. They could ride their bikes 10 miles, thats not a possible. But they couldnt possibly ride to the mission district. Its too crazy. Sunday morning maybe, but not monday morning. Whos not being hit with the cars are the school kids who dont ride their bikes. Theyve essentially been banned from the roads. I could speak a lot more. Thank you for your comments. Mr. Chair, while i cant respond to Public Comment, i will say there is a measure on the ballot proposition which would, indeed, tax uber and lyft, not that i have a position on it where i sit. Finally and again, mr. Parks is not here, but part of the m. T. A. s scheme allegedly is to charge permit fees that are supposed to cover enforcement. I would love to ask mr. Parks more about that, but he is not here. That concludes my nonresponse to Public Comment. Any other Public Comments . Seeing none, Public Comment is now closed. Anything else . Clerk item 9, adjournment. Meeting adjourned. [ ] i want to thank mayor london breed for insisting on a transit environment. She is a huge champion of the permanent project in 2021. We didnt want to have those passengers miss the community to get out of cars and come by ferry. From alameda and oakland passengers can enjoy a game and special event at the warriors an arena and the beautiful bay. I would like to thank key partners. We do this critically quickly. The golden gate ferry paid for the tow and installation and port crew did all of the improvements you see today. It was a collaboration from three agencies that was very, very quick to get it done and effective. Thank you so much to golden gate and to the warriors for their help and support. I would like to thank my commissioners who are here today. Commission president Kimberly Brandon and gail gilman. Thank you for being here. We have other vips. Thank you for making this happen. Thank you all for being here and celebrating with us the Good Transportation opportunity that the ferry provides. Thank you so much. [applause. ] thank you, elaine. I know you guys expect to hear a sound because we have a microphone, but in fact this is to help with the new folks so they can get what we say right. I will be a little loud. First of all, i want to thank Assembly Member david chou had is advocate for transportation to make it possible for these efforts to take place. I just want to thank everyone who is here and all those who played a role to make sure on day one of the opening of the chase center we didnt hear hardly any complaints. The fact is, you know, it had to do with so many amazing folks from the m. T. A. To the port to the warriors, to so many folks getting the word out to coordinate these efforts in a way that would help make getting here easier on Public Transit, whether it is by ferry, muni or what have you, and just the ability to use your ticket as fare for the muni buses is outstanding. I am looking at jack over there. It is wonderful there. Great thing to consider for the giants. It worked so much more efficiently. We are blessed to have two amazing teams that draw people from all over the bay area, the San Francisco giants and golden state warriors. Using water as a mode of transportation is not only amazing but a great ride. It is so relaxing. I want to thank my family in the Golden Gate Bridge board. They have really been great partners with San Francisco and with water transit. We are happy to have you all here today to join us. Bay area council. Thank you, jim wonder man, the port and warriors and really doing this kind of thing takes a lot of people to make it happen. This is just the temporary location. Fingers crossed for the permanent location. We are hoping to get that thing open sooner rather than later. When that happens it is going to be a game changer boaster is going to be right there. Who wouldnt want to basically hospital on the ferry to get to a warriors game or go to a concert. The way to time it will be absolutely outstanding. This is the future of San Francisco, making it possible to get around easily and to make sure that we are doing goodbye the environment and reducing congestion and making it a great experience. We want people to enjoy themselves when they are trying to get in and out of San Francisco anywhere and this is a great addition to our city. At this time i wanted to give Assembly Member chou a chance to say a few words. Thank you for your leade leap to move this forward. Shouldnt you all be at work right now . We just took the one major form of Public Transit in the bay area that does not feel like publickic transit. This is how the transportation experience should be. I am obsessed with water transit. The chronicle says i am smitten. It goes back to five years ago when they called to say have you thought about water transit . About a week later, i ran into this man and he said have you ever thought about water transit . I then ran into larry from the giants and he said have you thought about water transit. Then jim said i need to meet with you to talk about water transit. When i started studying the fact millions of trips were taken every year across the bay on water transit. Today you go to sydney, hong kong, new york city, it is all about water transit. This is why working with jim wonder man and labor and my good friend jeff we proposed with collegenal major 3 the doubling of the water transportation system. 3 00 million for transit. This stop is really one of the flagship stops for our 21st century bay area water transportation system. This is clean and green. Let me close by emphasizing this is the most romantic way to travel. In new york city people go on dates on the ferry system. I dont know about you guys but muni dates are not the way to go. Water transit is the way to go. I look forward to seeing you guys on the next ride. [applause. ] the guy that is going to bring us a World Championship the guy that is going to make it happen, rick welch. Thank you, mayor. I just want to run over and hug everybody here. Thithis is an an unbelievable accomplishment. We were thrilled with the mayor said, look, we can make a permanent ferry dock happen at 16th street in 2021. Elaine at the port said why do we wait until that happens . A Success Story is seeing an opportunity and making it happen like this in San Francisco. I hope it is recognized. The effort that went into making this happen for the first warriors preseason game on saturday to the people in the east bay and marin, it is a game changer. David has been there from day one. I am equally smitten with water transportation. To see it come to life in mission bay what this means for every business and resident here is outstanding. Thank you, thank you, thank you for everything you did to make this a reality. Thank you. applause . I would like to now introduce the chair of the board, ms. Jody breckenridge. Good morning, it is an exciting day. Any day you can be out on the water the on a ferry is a good day. I want to thank you for your support. We love people who are passionate about water transportation but also the active support you offered to us, both of you. I want to thank the board. Jim wonder man and jeff with us today. In particular, i want be to thank everyone here involved in this. It is those who spoke before me said this came together quick and in short order. It was worked on yesterday to finish it up. Those working on it are problem solvers and doers. We are ready for the opening of the preseason game. There is a Practical Application for this. This is part of the Emergency Response portfolio we have, equipment we have. This is the first time we have had to exercise putting it up to see what that took. We have Lessons Learned that we will take back to put into both the federal and state plans for the bay to enshould be that should we need this equipment in an emergency we are ready to go and leaning forward so it is a great day and we appreciate everyone being here with us today. Thank you. That is it. Do a nice story because we had a good ride. [applause. ] sustainability mission, even though the bikes are very Minimal Energy use. It Still Matters where the energy comes from and also part of the mission in sustainability is how we run everything, run our business. So having the lights come on with clean energy is important to us as well. We heard about cleanpowersf and learned they had commercial rates and signed up for that. It was super easy to sign up. Our bookkeeper signed up online, it was like 15 minutes. Nothing has changed, except now we have cleaner energy. Its an easy way to align your environmental proclivities and goals around Climate Change and its so easy that its hard to not want to do it, and it doesnt really add anything to good morning and welcome to the San FranciscoPlanning Commission and Health Commission special joint hearing for thursday, october 3rd, 2019. I will remember you that we do not tolerate disruptions or outbursts. Please silence cell phones. Please state your name for the record. I will take roll for the planning