Transcripts For SFGTV BOS Special Rules Committee 20240712

Im the first to say that we have a problem that we have some services for those people who have the most severe, most complicated needs, that they dont want you know, as many people as we put on the streets say thats not how people want to engage, and thats what i hope we get to moving forward on in these main areas around that Mental Health s. F. Legislation. Supervisor mandelman but i would just point out and i think i have a couple more questions, and ill feed to the other members of the committee. You know, the meth Sobering Center was i mean, what is it many different people on the Meth Task Force had many different ideas what the Sobering Center would be and what services it would have, from a place to get out the streets to more of an altern e alternative to p. E. S. From what ive heard on the streets, there was a real need to reduce pressure on p. E. S. And how a Sobering Center does that i can see stories how it does a little bit on the margins, but unless it has more, unless it is built to deal with people in acute crisis, it may not achieve that, and i know there have been conversations over time about potentially an alternative acute crisis facility in addition to p. E. S. Seems like neitheither my s is that we need that. If we dont, im happy to have that explained to me, but i do think its you know, thats key to getting someone someone whos psychotic on the street is not going to go to a sober like, the Sobering Center is not an option. They need to be taken somewhere else, i think, a. And i guess my last question is, ive heard from multiple people supervisor ronen, but also people within d. P. H. , that this care coordination is among the most and i think this is right is among the most important functions that we should be trying to build out over the last year. We had that extended conversation about Case Management, but really keeping track of who needs our services, and what those services are and getting those services aligned into what makes sense is really critical, and Mental Health s. F. Envisions that as an office of care coordination. I dont know if that is to happen in the next year, but what is your thinking if you had some resources, how you would begin to build out care coordination in a way that we would feel . Like, we would see in the data, we would experience in the city . Not the full gold plated version of this because, obviously, were not going to do that right now, but whats the obvious sort of beachhead plan that, okay, were doing this . So with your permission, im going to ask our acting director, marlo simmons, to answer your question. Shes been looking carefully at the office of care coordination idea and how we move forward on care coordination, building that structure, even before its fully funded, so im going to ask marlo to start. Supervisor mandelman great. Good afternoon, everybody. Marlo simmons, acting director of Behavioral Health within d. P. H. The legislation and how Mental Health s. F. Talks about the needs, i think, is really right on and reflected a lot of the problems that we have in our system. One of the first things that wed like to do is really build out a linkage function and what that looks like, for example, in the s. I. P. Hotels, to supervisor ronens example that she shares, is that the staff and hotel would have a place to call when they see a concern about a client, and that that call there is someone who immediately answers the phone, talks with them about what theyre seeing, whats the best response. And in that case, it sounds like someone should have come out and helped that client get access to medication or whatever services are needed. Weve started that with the shelter in place hotels. Its very new, and obviously, to get people to use that kind of service, they need to know about it, so thats where you get the Marketing Campaign thats involved in the office of care coordination. You need to train the staff in what to expect when they get calls or what will happen when they call the line, and then, you need Quality Insurance when the staff calls the line, they get a person on the line, so they understand the response, theres follow up. So theres a lot of details at every stage. I think we also need to really expand the streetbased outreach that were doing. Some of us talk about it as relentless streetbased outreach, and that is what it is with people. Theres a lot we have to show that it works. With the care coordination, if you identify someone whos willing to engage, how do you get them in the front door . Thats what we hear from people involved in the system, in the jail system, in the prison system, in the foster care world. Its helping people understand whats available, whats the best match for the client, and helping them actually get there, and that takes a lot of time and engagement and real conscious work and being aware that the services have high quality or meeting the needs of the compliantlients. And looking at the data, the outcome, what were trying to achieve. A lot of information around accessing where we are. So people like the folks at p. E. S. Are able to say oh, heres the outpatient provider, so its kind of a lot of glue in between of all the silos of services that you have. Supervisor mandelman so that takes resources . For sure. Supervisor mandelman dollars, and although it is a high priority for the department, i am my understanding is, you know, that it is not dp the best priority may not be included in your budget. So if the two stated things end up and a place for people to land if the outreach happens, and they are brought in somewhere like, those things would all need to get added either in the next month by the mayor, finding money from somewhere else or, less likely, from the board of supervisors trying to find money to shake out of the Mayors Office to pay for those things. I mean, i think what would be really useful for this supervisor i dont know about for others is for the department of Behavioral Health services similarly along the lines of what the doctor has done with the beds, but to think a little bit along the lines of some way of measuring a meaningful move in these areas, and then a cost associated with it, and i would love to see what it is. I know that supervisor ronen may already have asked the controller for this, or at least in some ways, ill ask the department to look for those. All right. Ill cede the floor. Supervisor ronen, you have this. Supervisor ronen yes. Thank you. Dr. Bland kept referring to a team. Whos on the team . Yes. So im having problems. After this, im going to switch to a different network. If i lose you, ill be back in. So lauren bruner, who youve heard from, is an analyst working with dr. Bland, and there are executive leaders from the behavioral from the d. P. H. , myself included, who sort of morphed from our early work prior to Mental Health s. F. , from Mental Health reform weekly meetings to the Mental Health s. F. Legislation and the projects that we had already started working on with Mental Health reform and the new projects, so, yeah, but its led by dr. Bland and dr. Bruner. And ill be back. Supervisor ronen i can talk to dr. Simmons in the meantime. So a lot of what youre describing in the dialogue with supervisor mandelman, it sounds like youre putting the cart before the horse. I dont know if any of you can answer these questions because its sort of dr. Blands main thing, but i do have a lot of questions about the bed study . To me and i think im agreeing with supervisor mandelman, at least as i understood his comments that how do you even do that study if you dont have a system in place . I agree with that, that the office of care and accountability the office of care coordination, that thats a Different Office that were going to put off till later. The office of care coordination is the most important part of Mental Health s. F. Because if you dont have an office where care is coordinated, and you dont have a structured team of management, etc. , where people check in, you cant have that, and weve never had that before. I just dont understand without that, whats in place . Whos the management . Whats the different level of Case Management . Who are the contracts with Case Management . Whos Quality Control . Who makes sure the same set of standards are being placed up . Whats the tracking system tracking which patient is assigned to which care manager . If someone falls out, how do they get back in . Ive heard none of this system building in your talk or the way that you refer to Mental Health s. F. , and its really worry some to me, when i saw d. P. H. S budget that was presented to the mayor, too, i have to say, i was actually shocked that there was nothing in there, with the exception of a vague reference to hiring more people in the h. R. Department at d. P. H. Very important in order to even begin implementing Mental Health s. F. Because you recognize you need to hire different staff to make it happen, or at least repurpose. So this is, again, why i get so frustrated. It has nothing to do with dr. Bland, whos incredibly talented psychiatrist and physician. If the fact that youre focusing again on these oneoffs, you know, this bed analysis that doesnt fit into a system so its kind of vague and random. Maybe you can explain to me the methodology around it, and im wrong about it. But the rising prices on our street, you know, from a gut level, it just makes no sense. And so, you know, it it its extremely worrying to me nowhere in your presentation, nowhere in your budget submissions to the mayor, and nowhere in talking about your work in the middle of a global kri s crisis is there talk about Mental Health s. F. Its just extremely problematic to me. Im really glad we have a meeting set up in a few days. I think its next week, even, but im really shocked that there hasnt been more thought into what would the first phase look like . Youve told us that street medicine goes out with a hot team. And supervisor mandelman asks, well, where do you take them . Where do they go . Well, we dont know. It sounds like a year ago, when we had to take the reins ourselves to create Mental Health s. F. And not to say that you guys havent worked really hard, because i know that you do every single day. As supervisor mandelman said, no one can underestimate the impact of covid, but i at least hope Going Forward that were thinking about it in the same way, and from the presentation and all the discussion and the drafts of Mental Health s. F. And all of that, that were still in a place where its hard to get answers to question. Supervisor mandelman before you answer, i would just say that this presentation definitely reflected conversations that i and my office have had with d. P. H. Supervisor ronen okay. Supervisor mandelman i did not ask for a report on Mental Health s. F. Implementation. I asked for whats going on on the streets, and it was the thoughts that were in my head about beds and other things, which has overlap with Mental Health s. F. Supervisor ronen sure, and i guess that, and i guess that that wasnt the topic of todays presentation, but the reason that its triggering to me is because in the way that youre answering questions that supervisor mandelman is bringing up, the framework hasnt shifts in terms of how d. P. H. Is thinking about solving these intractable problems that we havent gotten a handle over in years, and so thats whats worrying me. I hear you, supervisor mandelman. Its the way that things are being discussed that makes me feel that were not moving in the direction that i thought we unanimously passed legislation, deal brokered with the mayor, would be leading us. So supervisor ronen, i hear what youre saying, and im sorry that our presentation and the way that were talking about our work over the last few months during the covid19 activation wasnt based in the language that i think we all did the language, the vision, the tenets, the different projects are articulated in the Mental Health s. F. Vision. Before february remember, this was incredibly complicated transformational work. You were the author and visionary working with us. Its expensive and requires a lot of infusion of not just staff and changing how people do their work, but also facilities improvements. When you talk about an office of care coordination, when you talk about 247 access, those are huge transformational changing. Im glad that we started it. We talked about the expand of bhac, how we would expand access to 247. We had started work on the street Crisis Intervention Response Team and how that was articulated in Mental Health s. F. You know, the work that dr. Bland discussed, so not just the bed modelling, but how we use this. But because there was this, you know, wellspring of support for, like, i said, major transformational change, we put our effort toward it. And now, here we are. So as i said, you know, if we are able to flatten the curve, and if we can pool some of the huge resources that weve invested in the Covid Response street outreach response is hugely resources intensive. You know, it will take a lot of staff. We will have to hire staff for that and not for, you know, the clinical support thats needed for people if you put them in hotels. So i just want to be realistic that we can only do so much. I do take responsibility and really hear you about that we not only need to talk about, but start thinking about that our transformational work our Mental Health reform work is Mental Health s. F. Until we do something, its what we all were very excited about. The legislation were moving toward something. Early april, we had a meeting date for the working group. We never had the working group meet, but were focusing our energy of hiring a new director of Mental Health San Francisco. Those things need to happen before you can see what you need to see and whats urgent. So i think what were trying to convey in this presentation is weve already started working on basically whats sort of i dont want to say low hanging fruit, but its things that are directly related to our Covid Response and what we have to do right now and what we see as the start of building the foundation for Mental Health s. F. I think they are, the work that were doing in the s. I. P. And the street work, thats the start of building that foundation, but were not there yet, as you know. Supervisor ronen i really appreciate that. Your response makes a lot of sense to me. Im happy were having this conversation, and i want to thank supervisor mandelman for calling this meeting and having this conversation because its starting to sharpen whats needed moving forward, and i hear what youre saying. And again, we were moving sort of in the right direction before covid hit, and its thrown everything haywire. So im looking forward to getting together and talking about this in a different way in the midst of covid were both coughing now, but i really appreciated what you said, dr. Hammer. Thank you. Im done. Supervisor mandelman okay. Thank you, supervisor ronen. Vice chair stefani, if you dont have any questions or comments, lets go to Public Comment. Clerk for those who have already connected to our meeting via phone, please press starthree to be connected to this item. For those already in the queue, wait for the prompt. The prompt will be, your line has been unmuted. For those online or on channel 1626 to 4156550001, and then enter 1458532772. Press the pound symbol twice, and then starthree to be entered to speak. Do we have any callers . Yes, we currently have three callers in the queue. I will queue the first caller. Supervisor mandelman and i will repeat our Public Comment rules. Speakers will have two minutes. We ask that you state your first and last name and you speak directly into the phone. If youve prepared a written statement, you can send it to the city clerk for inclusion into the file, and in the interests of time, speakers are encouraged to avoid repeating statements. Lets hear the first caller. Hi, can you hear me . Supervisor mandelman yes, go ahead. Hi. My name is javier. Im a San Francisco resident and community organizer. I also represent the treatment on demand coalition. The pandemic has us in an unprecedented time in terms of health care, and as always, people that are suffering under the status quo are hit hardest by covid19. The Homeless Population has now hit fr moved from precarious on the streets. Our communities have been asking for accessible Treatment Options for decades, and we have the tools to address this. Im glad that were holding a separate hearing on the citys response to unhoused people because we passed Mental Health s. F. Late last year. This bill was to make Mental Health treatment in s. F. Actually accessible at a time when were having a conversation about reducing the police in our every day, our only conversation is finding out different ways to lock people up. Its embarrassing that our city orders its constituents to shelter in place to stay safe when they dont offer how and then continue to complain about unsightly Homeless People who our communities are Offering Solutions that arent at the center of our conversations. We must implement Mental Health s. F. Now and house people that are on the streets. We are facing rough economic times, and our approach is always to cut or slow down crucial change like Mental Health s. F. When the dotcom bubble burst, we cut Mental Health services. In 2008, we put Mental Health on the back burner again, and look we ahere we are now. Clerk the speakers time is up. Supervisor mandelman thank you. Next speaker. Nrs. Supervisors, and you so called experts from the San Francisco department, id like to bring to your attention that there are 12. 78 billion budget. I know the San Francisco Health Department washas a budget tha over 2 billion, but what i ive seen for is that a few supervisors have their heart in the right place because ive spoken to them, but when it comes to the San Francisco Health Department, its pathetic. The director, grant colfax, hes all over the place. This is what happens with newbies. When they come here, it takes them about 500 years to understand San Francisco. It is disgraceful to see so many homeless, and people assaulting people in the bus all over our city, and here, we are talking in generalities. One of the supervisors was right. We should take it upon ourselves to understand a few of the aspects, but the socalled doctor who is an expert, hes got something to do. Probably to go to the planet jubyjuby but not to attend the meeting, and thats not becoming of anybody whos professional. San franciscans are fed up. In the interim, you have a supervisor and the mayor who spent all day yesterday cutting ribbons and doling out commendations. Thats pathetic. We need to address supervisor mandelman thank you. Next speaker. Good afternoon. My name is mary kate buckelew. I appreciate todays focus on Mental Health s. F. And coordinated care for people in crisis, and i wanted to talk about covid19 and the impact on them, where entire families are sharing cramped and substandard rooms. Theyve lot significant percentages of income. I would estimate about a third across the board, and theyre isolated from families, schools, and community as theyre dealing with extra stressors, like threats from their landlords, particularly for undocumented families, and putting food on the table. Our demand has sky rocketed. Our systems are all manageable with immediate, accessible and informed connections, i these are the cities most vulnerable families. Theyre people of color, lowincome families, undocumented families. As we do our system planning and evaluation of the impacts of covid19 on people in crisis, i urge you to consider these families who are not as visible as some of others in crisis but who are truly facing unprecedented barriers. Thank you. Supervisor mandelman thank you. Next speaker. Clerk caller, go ahead. Good afternoon. My name is carolyn kennedy. Im a resident and Community Leader in district 8. Thank you, supervisors, and thank you, d. P. H. , for speaking. Its estimated that nearly half on the street suffer from Behavioral Health and Substance Abuse issues. And as supervisor mandelman says, this is a Health Crisis thats visible on the streets of our city. I thank you again. This hearing has provided much information about the problem and about d. P. H. S response to the problem. We still desperately need Mental Health services to address the tragedy we see every day on our streets. We need to maintain and add to the funding for these critical services. Supervisors, please take away one message from todays hearing. Your constituents are sad and frustrated by a city where people are on our streets in full blown psychosis, where mentally ill people are harming themselves and others, where residents are being attacked and dying by those who are mentally ill. Please know that residents in your districts want these services included in the 20202021 budget, and the department of Public Health, please provide us with clear budget figures regarding whats needed to fund enough beds to treat those in crisis so that we can lobby for them. I applaud the work youre doing, i applaud the work of Mental Health San Francisco. Please sure that we can get those on the streets suffering psychosis into the service that they so need. The ones who are so severely mentally ill, that this is the right option for them. Thank you very much. Supervisor mandelman thank you. Next speaker. [please stand by] thank you. Next speaker. Mr. Chair, that completes the queue. Great. Well, if my colleagues dont well, Public Comment now closed. I want to thank all the Public Commenters for sticking with us through these four hours and calling in. And i see of my colleagues, so i will make some concluding remarks. Mainly in thanks to our folks for doing the thinking that went that underlay their presentation today. I think there is broad agreement i think, across the board, supervisors, Mayors Office, department of Public Health i think there is a lot of shared understanding about how we need to fix our certainly our overall broken Mental Health system or at least yeah, we can call it broken. And the need to not wait another year. And so i think i am grateful to the doctor for the work he has done, and particularly for this bed study. I would like to encourage the department to do a little more thinking about these buckets that are still pockets that are still at least in this presentation, fairly generally described. Particularly street Crisis Response, outreach and care coordination to improve outcomes. I would love it if the department could spend some time thinking about how to make some significant moves in those two areas over the next year. And to do that, i think youre going to need the money to do it and it would be great to have, you know, some dollar figures attached to the projects that you want that you could undertake to make significant progress in those two areas. The area that i dont think i really saw reflected in the presentation today that i would also like to have additional thought on, is how were going to where were going to take folks over the next year when they are or the next couple of years, when they are in psychosis, intoxicated and cannot remain out on the sidewalk in the state that theyre in. As weve talked about, we can have great crisis outreach teams. Those teams are going to need places to take people. And again, i think the time to start working on that, we cannot wait. We cannot go for another year with conditions on the street deteriorating. People in distress, visibly in distress, extremely sick and more of these folks out there than ever and not be able to at least tell san franciscans that were engaged and moving as quickly as possible to a better status quo. So i actually want to continue this hearing to the call of the chair. But its my intention to have d. P. H. Back at one of our two july meetings, because i would like to have more of that detail and maybe some dollar figures attached. And i do have at least a couple of additional questions about the you know, the results of the bed study, for example, you know, how does that proposed increase in funding relate to the existing d. P. H. Budget for beds . Because my understanding is the existing budget for beds does not actually account for all of the beds we buy over the course of a year. So if were adding 10 million to a budget that already doesnt account for for the beds that we need to buy over the course of the year, im not sure thats guaranteed well be making progress toward the number of beds that we need. Anyway, maybe somebody can explain to me that aspect of the budgeting and maybe we can have craig wagner talk to us about that. And im wondering how the bed study relates to the beds we dont use. We know we have beds in the health facility, s. F. General, a number of locked beds that arent in the budget. I dont think we budget for them, i think. So there are questions id like a little bit more information about. Seeing supervisor ronen . Do you want to unmute yourself . Supervisor ronen yes, thank you. I really just dont think we have the opportunity to ask enough questions about that bed study, so i would recommend that create a time where the doctor can be here with us so that we can really ask questions about it. Yep. So i think we need to have d. P. H. Back to this committee in july. I did not anticipate that my housing conservatorship hearing would last hour and a half. And then we certainly did pepper presenters with questions as well. So the whole hearing has taken longer than anyone anticipates, but i think that is part of what happened here. He was around for three hours, so all right, with that, i will move that we continue this hearing to the call of the chair. And mr. Clerk . If you could call the roll . On the motion from chair mandelman that the hearing be continued to the call of the chair . Ronen aye. Stefani aye. Chair mandelman aye. Mr. Chair, there are three ayes. Supervisor mandelman great. Then the motion passes. Mr. Clerk, do we have any further business . Clerk that concludes this committees business for today. Well, then we are adjourned. Thanks, everyone. I went through a lot of struggles in my life, and i am blessed to be part of this. I am familiar with what people are going through to relate and empathy and compassion to their struggle so they can see i came out of the struggle, it gives them hope to come up and do something positive. I am a community ambassador. We work a lot with homeless, visitors, a lot of people in the area. What i like doing is posting up at hotspots to let people see visibility. They ask you questions, ask you directions, they might have a question about what services are available. Checking in, you guys. Wellness check. We walk by to see any individual, you know may be sitting on the sidewalk, we make sure they are okay, alive. You never know. Somebody might walk by and they are laying there for hours. You never know if they are alive. We let them know we are in the area and we are here to promote safety, and if they have somebody that is, you know, hanging around that they dont want to call the police on, they dont have to call the police. They can call us. We can direct them to the services they might need. We do the three one one to keep the city neighborhoods clean. There are people dumping, waste on the ground and needles on the ground. It is unsafe for children and adults to commute through the streets. When we see them we take a picture dispatch to 311. They give us a tracking number and they come later on to pick it up. We take pride. When we come back later in the day and we see the loose trash or debris is picked up it makes you feel good about what you are doing. It makes you feel did about escorting kids and having them feel safe walking to the play area and back. The stuff we do as ambassadors makes us feel proud to help keep the city clean, helping the residents. You can see the community ambassadors. I used to be on the streets. I didnt think i could become a community ambassador. It was too far out there for me to grab, you know. Doing this job makes me feel good. Because i came from where a lot of them are, homeless and on the street, i feel like i can give them hope because i was once there. I am not afraid to tell them i used to be here. I used to be like this, you know. I have compassion for people that are on the streets like the homeless and people that are caught up with their addiction because now, i feel like i can give them hope. It reminds you every day of where i used to be and where i am at now. As a woman of color who grew up in San Francisco i understand how institutions can have an impact on communities of color. I think having my voice was important. That is where my passion lies when the opportunity to lead an office in such a new space came up. I couldnt turn it down. I was with the District Attorneys Office for a little over nine years, if you include the time as an intern as well as volunteer da, all most 13 years. During the time with the das office i had an opportunity to serve the community not only as the assistant District Attorney but as director of community relations. That afforded the opportunity to have impact on the community in an immediate way. It is one thing to work to serve the rights of those without rights, victims. It is really rewarding to work to to further the goals of our office and the commitment we have as City Employees and advocates for people who dont have a voice. I dont know of anyone surprised to see me in this role. Maybe people have an impression what the director of the office of cannabis should be like, what their beliefs should be. I smash all of that. You grew up in the inner city of San Francisco. My career path is not traditional. I dont think a person should limit themselves to reach full potential. I say that to young women and girls. That is important. You want to see leadership that looks diverse because your path is not predetermined. I didnt wake up thinking i was going to be a prosecutor in my life. The city administrator reached out and wanted to have a conversation and gave me interest in the new role. I thought you must not know what i do for a living. It was the opposite. She had foresight in realizing it would be helpful for somebody not only a former prosecutor but interested in shaping criminal Justice Reform for the city would be the right person for the space. I appreciate the foresight of the mayor to be open how we can be leaders in San Francisco. I was able to transition to the policy space. Here i was able to work on legislation, community relations, communication and start to shape the ways our office was going to reform the criminal Justice System. It is fulfilling for me. I could create programs and see those impact peoples lives. I am the change. It took truants youth to meet with Civil Rights Movement leaders who fought to have access to education. Being a young person to understand that helped the young people realize this was an important thing to give up. What we find is that young people who are truanted have a really high homicide rate in our city, which is a sad statistic. We want to change that. Coming from a community we are black and brown. I dont reach out to other people. I dont think they feel the same way. I had the great opportunity to work on Prison Reform issues and criminal Justice Reform issues. We created a program at san quentin where we brought district opportunities t to lifs and talk about how we are all impacted by the criminal Justice System. We brought over 40 elected das to san quentin for the situation. Now we are inviting the Police Department. Our formerly incarcerated group born out of this programming asked for the opportunity to work on a project where we could bring the men in blue on the outside to come speak to the men on blue inside to start the healing dialogue around how the criminal Justice System specifically in San Francisco impacts the community. I was attracted to the role. There was a component of equity that was part of this process. The Equity Community here in San Francisco is a community that i had already worked with. Before i took steps to visit cannabis businesses i thought it was important my team have a chance to go inside and speak to men who ha had been impacted. That conversation needed to happen so we know how we are making an impact with the work that we are doing. The das office as we were leading up to the legalization of marijuana in the state we started having conversations on the policy team what that could look like. The District Attorney was really focused on the right side of history for this. We realized it would be quite a heavy lift for individuals who have been negatively impacted by the war on drugs to expunge the record. It was important to figure out the framework to make it seamless and easy. They put their minds to it after some time and many conversations the data analysts and other policy walk throughs on the team came up with the idea to engage the Tech Community in this process. Code for america helped us developed the rhythm to be used for any jurisdiction across the state that was important to create a solution to be used to assist all jurisdictions dealing with this matter. The office of cannabis is the first office to have a completely digital application process. We worked with the digital team to develop the online application. There are going to be hiccups. We are first to do it. It is one of the most rewarding parts to offer a seamless to offer a seamless approach. That is how they can find solutions to solve many of the community challenges. The best way to respond to prop 64 was to retroactively expunge 9,000 cannabis related records for San Francisco. It feels like justice full circle for my personal experience. In the past i was furthering the war on drugs just as my directive. Really coming from a place of public safety. That was the mandate and understanding. It is nice to see that pass a society we are able to look at some of our laws and say, you know what . We got it wrong. Lets get this right. I had the privilege of being in the existing framework. My predecessor Nicole Elliott did an incredible job bringing together the individuals superpassionate about cannabis. The office was created in july of 2017. I came in early 2018. I have been able to see the Offices Development over time which is nice. It is exciting to be in the space, stickily in thinking about her leadership. Looking for the office it is always we might be before my time when i was working for the board oforboard of supervisors. I learn new things every day it is challenging and rewarding for me. We get the privilege to work in an office tha that is innova. We get to spearhead the robust exprogram. I am excited she came on board to leverage experience as a prosecutor 10 years as we contemplate enforcements but approaching it without replicating the war on drugs. I was hired by cam laharris. I havent seen a District Attorney that looked kind of like me. That could be a path in my life. I might not have considered it. It is important that women and certainly women of color and spaces of leadership really do their part to bring on and mentor as many young people as they can. It is superimportant to take advantage of as many opportunities a as they can when they can intern because the doors are wide open. Plans change and that is okay. The way this was shaped because i took a risk to try something new and explore something and show that i was capable. You are capable, right . It was about leaning in and being at the table to say my voice matters. You find your passion, the sky the committee will come to order. This is the meeting of the vision zero for thursday, june 25, 2020. I am commissioner yee and i will be chairing todays meeting joined by vice chair commissioner stefani, and commissioner peskin. The Committee Clerk is angela tsao. And the committee would also like to acknowledge the staff at sfgtv who record the meetings and make the transcripts available to you online. Lets see. Madam clerk, do you have any announcements . Yes. Public comment will be available for each item on this agenda via telephone by calling 888204. 5987. And enter access code 285, 8465. And seen on the screen and follow the system prompts. Once you join, you will be able to listen to the meeting a z a participant. When you wish to speak on an item, dial 1,0 to be added to the queue to speak. Each caller will be allowed two minutes to speak and calls will be taken in the order in which they are received. Best practices are to speak slowly, clearly and turn down the volume of any televisions or radios around you. Please allow for audiovisual delays and a 30second live time during the course of the meeting. President thank you. I want to acknowledge that this is the rescheduled Vision Zero Committee meeting from march when shelter in place was beginning. Vision zero is set to expire in september and will be up to all commissioners to reauthorize the committee. Hopefully they will do so when i leave office. While San Francisco has made significant and measurable progress, we continue to have a long way to go to meet our goals. Lives literally depend on this. As of the end of may 10, 10 people have been killed on our streets, and just last week we had two additional fatalities. These are lives stolen too soon and whose family wills never be the same. As we will see in the presentations today, the lives most impacted are disproportionately seniors and those who live in communities of concern. These deaths and nearly 600 severely injured annually are preventible. It is our role to protect the most vulnerable among us and at times we are failing and missing opportunities that we should be taking. As our population continues to grow, new mobility devices become available. Ride Share Services continue to congest our streets, and newest challenges may soon be testing the driverless vehicles. We must sort of remain vigilant. We must be relentless in implementing stronger policies and accountability measures, traffic calming that creates safer streets and slow down drivers. We must have accountability written into any permits or pilots so that bad player cans be eliminated. If Companies Want to launch mobility devices, they must commit to vision zero in tangible and measurable ways. These should be implemented city wide as a city we must aggressively support the passage of automated Speed Enforcement. We must work to slow down our arterial corridors, before thinking and creating in our education enforcement strategies. I want to comment and hear updates on what has been done and what also clear and what also would be clear time lines and measurable goals for what is being planned. Please call the first item. Item one, roll call. Commissioner peskin sorry about missing that part. Commissioner peskin. A present. Peskin present. A commissioner stefani. Commissioner stefani is stuck in the psns committee of board of supervisors and i was given the short notice as chair of the t. A. Unable to find a replacement and it is chair yee and myself for the duration of this meeting. Stefani absent. Commissioner yee. Here. Yee present. We have a quorum. And mr. Chairman, i would like to motion to excuse commissioner stefani. Okay. Roll call. On the motion. Oh. Do we need let me just check with legal if we need a roll call on that. Angela, this is counsel for the t. A. You can skip a roll call if this is a motion and second. That is fine. All right. Motion passes. Okay. Now, can you please call the first item, which is item number two. A yes, of course. Consent agenda, items two and three comprise the consent agenda. These items are considered routine. Staff is not planning to present on these items but are prepared to present if desired. If a member objects, any of the consent items may be removed and considered separately. Okay. I would like to separate item 3 from the consent and invite kate bream from sfmta to speak on this item later. Roll call on item number two. I believe you dont need a roll call for separating an item as well. But no, you dont. But you do need to i would like to make a motion to i a prove the minutes. Thank you. Yes. And second it so motion passes. I do need to take a roll call on the minutes. Sorry. So there was a motion from peskin and second from yee. And commissioner peskin . Aye. Peskin, aye. Commissioner stefani . Stefani, absent. Commissioner yee . Aye. That is passed. So is ms. Bream online . Yes, i am. Im ready. Go for it, then. Thank you, commissioner yee, for which this was planned for the march agenda which would have been the heels of that prort. I am kate green and in february, the California State Transportation Agency released the final report of the zero Traffic Fatalities Task force and with the past updates on this work and enacted enacted by 2016 by Assemblywoman Laura Friedman and other steps that can reduce traffic and fatalities. And the traffic was comprised of 25 members representing government agencies, advocacy groups including representatives from arp, aaa, the california hawaii patrol and represented by the task force and represented on the Advisory Group in the room and at the table and incredible support provided for our staff and the work with the recommendations of the task force and speed limit is complicated and the team we worked with was integral to helping the task force development that recommendation. The final report which there is a link in the item that included the summary in your packet is a long report. And it summarizes the current approaches to setting speeds, describes alternatives to the current 85 percentile method dolling and summarizes recommendation on making strategies safer and the task force explored automated Speed Enforcement and reduce speeding and save lives. As a reminder and the 8 ath percentile and i find myself in place and volunteers and speed limits are set in the californiabased behavior and the 85th percentile motorists and free flowing traffic environment and dense urban environments and other modes such as bicyclists and pedestrians and the antiquated speed setting and i would note as an aside and put through if you are interested in the history and ucitf and the institute of transportation studies and supported the work of the task force and goes into the deep dive which is interesting. And many states around the u. S. Have developed new approaches to balancing the safety of the road users and the report identified the states as models for new approaches that can save lives on our street. With the primary focus on speed limits and i will say that great majority of the discussion while there are engineering improvements and recommendation, education improvements and education and great focus and on speed limit setting and the recommendations in the report include interim approaches that work within existing speed setting methods and contact sensitive, safetybased approach as an alternative. And all the recommendations around speed limit setting and statutory change and with the state level and include local jurisdiction on the High Injury Network and on streets near vulnerable population and Traffic Survey and drivers are at lower speeds. And as part of the report and importantly for this and the automated Speed Enforcement and to reducing fatalities and cities in california and for enforcing traffic laws and the report summarizing to enforcement and use of revenue. And i will say that the great majority of what was included in the Task Force Report and San Francisco and done leading up to this on 8342 and Assembly Member chiu and having said that, it recognizes the controversy around using enforcement and that conversation will now evolve in the environment around policing and where does enforcement fit in the vision zero context. And cities and Vision Zero Network are initiating that conversation to figure out how to have that discussion and certainly you all are very involved in the citys overall efforts around enforcement and policing. So prior to states shelter in place order and the covid19 legislation to advance specific recommendations from the report as it related to speed limit setting were introduced in january and barely begun and due to the measures shelved because of covid19 and made a clear directive that was not directly related to covid19 and we anticipate that the changes in the report in 2021. And to provide two short other updates that occurred with the release of the report. And importantly, we are continuing to engage with the state partners on vision zero and in communication with secretary kim and other administrative officials on Task Force Recommendation and specifically acknowledging the alarming rate of speed on the highways during the pandemic. We have seen Message Signs and during this time as the state to encourage obey speed limits and slow down. And we continue cowork in partnership on activities such as slow street programs with the vision zero goals. And the update and the partnership we have continued to build with the state around this and feels like one where we have a true partner in hoping to support change all the way from the secretary of transportation david kim and the new director of caltrans and his staff including the appointment of chief Safety Officer who staffed the work and provided assurances on vision zero. Lastly, i am pleased to share that yesterday the metropolitan Commission Approved adoption and vision zero and the ongoing the region to take action and this new Regional Policy and to support vision zero action and to build support for vision zero initiatives and i would say as part of the new effort to consider m. T. C. Making a presentation for the body on the important new Regional Policy. That is my report, and i am happy to answer questions. Thank you. And that was a breath of fresh air and positive news in terms of business efforts and made up to state level. It is indeed very good news and for m. T. A. To adopt this regional vision zero policy is i think that will add a lot of momentum and one of the things we try to do and indeed try to schedule them as you suggested for the next meeting. I want to thank over people that are involved with this. And getting weird on Health Equity and sustainability and d. P. H. And thank them for their work on caltask force. And the plan for the march Vision Zero Committee and acknowledge for the acknowledge and advocacy and commitment and passion for vision zero work. She has been an incredible partner and so much of our accomplishments are because of the work. It is a loss for us and certainly a gain for oakland. We hope to continue the aligned goals and vision zero and the report recommended more flexibility on speed limits and i know sfmta changed the timing of the lights on some of the arterials such as pine and bush. And slowing is there anybody to answer that . I will give a moments pause to answer that specifically and if not, we will respond to you following this meeting and puts the mic on here. I know ricardo is out and i dont know if you have one of the traffic engineers and left the agency recently and integral to the work as well. And commissioner yee and following this meeting to respond after this meeting. And that is an important feature. And has it been your experience as far as feedback and how has this report been received in sacramento . And i think we have allies within the administration but when we first initiated conversations with Committee Staff on ab2121 and to allow for flexibility on lowering speed limits and we definitely encountered more status quo preservationist point of view. And it really was a reminder on that call and was a clear reminder of the work we have to do and educate the priorities and the findings of this report and truly to take it on and with interest and by no means say that it was embraced as there is still a lot of entrenchment if you will around the 85th percentile. And its a long game. Yeah. And the focus of the legislator and focus the legislature on do you see any next steps to push the recommendations . And maybe you already answered that. What we are doing is staying in communication with the folks within the administration who are able to socialize the recommendations from the report and we have an understanding and i wouldnt go so far to say support from organizations like the california highway patrol. And continuing to do that work along with the partnership as we told you and the Vision Zero Network and we have a collaboration and the cacti and the california transportation and is a great opportunity for us to raise the big city void in the legislature and we are continuing to work with the other jurisdictions and try to find ways with a nexus of covid as well. And gets you something about that if i am driving 65 and everybody is zooming by me, and not talking that and really in high speed and 90 to 100 and something commonly seen these days. Thanks for your report and work on this. Commissioner peskin, do you have any questions or comments . Can we go to Public Comment . Chair, there is no Public Comment. Seeing none, Public Comment is closed. There is no further questions. This is an informational item, we will move on and close this. Thank you. Thank you. Okay. Please call item four. Item four, 2019 fatalities report. This is an information item. And this is going to be presenting from d. P. H. Sharing my screen now and let me know and to this slide. And you can see it. Thank you for inviting me to speak for the vision zero archaeologists working for the San Francisco department of Public Health. And 2019 traffic fatality report. I wouldnt be able to present this work without collaboration and in d. P. H. And work closely and to do the Crisis Response and get this to you. And here we have the data back to 2005 and take that as the Higher Quality data in the traffic trends. On this chart you can see the blue locking and every year and yellow and killed while cycling and green and you can see that in 2017 and 2018 with lower numbers historically and traffic fatalities. We breakdown the mode of travel and as i mentioned, pedestrian that were attributable and died in vehicles and the combination of driver and passenger and in 2019 and in addition to one person killed while biking and one was a motorcycle. We use data to inform our vision zero High Injury Networks. And represented in blue on this chart. And of the fatalities and 2 3 of them occurred on the High Injury Network. And the other thing with the red shaded areas of concern and a proxy measure. And the transit systems and lower levels of english as a primary language and so forth. And disproportionate amount. And anything else . Playoff all right. When we break down the proportion of the traffic fatality by age and age 65 and older and that is particularly true among pedestrians and last year half of those and almost 3 4 were people age 50 and older. And also bears saying that last year we saw one youth fatality. And to break down by race and ethnicity and died on the San Francisco streets and compare to the census breakdown in San Francisco. The majority of People Killed in 2019 with the white or asian race and compare that to San Francisco numbers and people of hispanic numbers are represented. And next is another helpful way to breakdown the data and for 2019 and the first time in the e. R. And more females than males died on San Francisco streets and you can see this is unusual and going by since we started looking and one cyclist death and the majority of 55 were female and 100 Motor Vehicle passengers who died were female and on the flip side and you guys are male. We have an increasing focus on homelessness and relating to traffic violence. And no one without a fixed address was killed and the category on the medical examiner reporting and struggling and no one was killed in that group and the prior year and 22 were people without shelter. And something we are continuing to look at and in another category, a lot of people who die on freeways included in San Francisco vision zero numbers and of those that die and freeways in 2019, 27 . Experiencing homelessness. So in general less of the population and there may be a particular vulnerability to injury and illness. Can i ask a quick question and people that are on the freeway and in the cars and what . They tend to be pedestrian. I would say off the top of my head exclusively pedestrian. On the freeway. We think there is probability a various and related to that mobility. Thank you. I am trying to advance here. This appears frozen. I am going to unshare and share and get to full screen for the system. And the next topic is because of the partnership with the sfpd and to what they have for the death that occurs last year and the top primary with unsafe speeds and change in order from that area and pedestrian and Information Available and 75 caused by the driver of a vehicle. Two fatalities and visions and collisions and caused under the driver by alcohol. And among driver characteristics and the fatal character ins and the motorcyclists span the age spectrum and the Trend Movement and with that car going and straight from the collision and 30 and one pedestrianmotorcycle and with the collision. And we are also able to look at involvement of large vehicles and larger than a pickup truck and four crashes and in 2019 involve such a vehicle. One is a golden gate transit bus and another a paratransit vehicle. Transportation company and taxis and neither were determined to be at fault last year. As well as a different crash and neither of the vehicles were an impacted vehicle and not a collision. And two vehicles were hit and run and while this is a decrease from the prior year and that is something we continue to watch. Tate i would like to read the names of lives lost to traffic violence in 2019. Those names are lucy morales, nancy ng, phil chang, and sal ghan, jose currasco. And ella mills, pablo ramirez. Grace chang. And alexander reyes. Michael evans and ramona lang. Jesus campo. And john griffin. Thank you very much. I was on silent for a moment. In closing, why the fatalities arent declining and to the region and more vehicles that are driving for miles and increasing aging resource and including deaths and in a serious crash and to increase homelessness and being at risk of the collision. And able to present speed and the leading predictor of a collision or not. And focus on urban and state level as well as the vehicle travel and the ability to graduate. Thank you for your time and u i am available for any questions. Thank you. Supervisor peskin, any questions from you . No. I consumed all that data and it is very, very good and i have no information, but i have no questions. Prouf my question is about data reflecting 2019 with what we are seeing today, and i get probably more complaints now than ever in terms of even during this shelter in place and there is an uptick in collisions and during this three months or so. And then a little disheartening and population and to see the same pattern of fatalities and yet from this area and fewer vehicles and people sheltering in place and you would think not at high injury corridors. How do you explain that . Is there any explanation . I want to welcome and invite input from sfpd on the line. And there is also a lag in the data and we dont have the data for the time period for the regular injury monitoring that we do on an annual basis. I dont have the hard facts to respond. So a lot fewer vehicles on the road in the last few months and what is happening. And this is commissioner yee and we did the initial analysis and beginning of shelter in place and saw there was an uptick in the initial period and looking to do some additional analysis on collision reports for the past few months as well. With the increase in speeding and we have collected some data to compare key corridors and ground that anecdotal information in what we are hearing. And to collect that data. I would be really interested to see if there is any conclusion for this. I am guessing that our analysis of it might feed into the strategies and it could point to the fact we might be taking the wrong strategies and to relook our strategies and analysis. Madam clerk, is there anybody for Public Comment. I will make this announcement again in case someone missed the dial in number. If you wish a make a Public Comment on this agenda, please call to the phone number i am about to read now. Since there is a lag time between the broadcast and live meeting, dial 8882045987, and entering access code 2858465. And following the prompts. Dial 1, 0 as soon as you are prompted in order to speak on that item. Are there any Public Comments . There is one comment. You have zero questions remaining. Welcome, caller. Your two minutes begins now. Hello, caller. It appears that the caller has hung up. Then Public Comment is now closed. And since this is an informational item, we will move on to the next item. This item will be closed. Okay. Can you go to the next item, clerk tsao . Item five, daylighting Program Updates and this is an information item. Ryan from sfmta will give this information. Let me get this ready. And that slide. Good afternoon. And with the daylighting work and to join today. To may of 2019, the board of supervisors adopted a resolution from behind the network and removing parking approaching intersections and is greatly improved. We appreciate that the board has issued this resolution and thank commissioner yee for the leadership and to reinforce the importance for achieving from the Injury Network and the first daylighting of the standard policies for the Capital Projects and third, the daylighting and in district four. And through the approach, and from that network. And in terms of daylighting and the Standard Capital project and evaluated as part of the Design Review project moving forward. And to standardize daylighting on the project. And the difference here is to complete about 20 intersections from the embarcadero to division street. And from and we have continued to make progress and from Taylor Street and a comprehensive approach and that area. And through that project and from the daylighting goal and in terms of work outside of Capital Projects and we continue to make progress through the work shown here in district four. And identified location and did not have daylighting and with the supervisors completed and we expect that all 94 will be implemented by this. So moving ahead we continue to make progress on the daylighting through the existing quick build and to identify funding and we wont be able to continue making progress on this work and fill that unenforced and much of this is the responsibility of the Operations Team and balancing the responsibilities around the Covid Response. And so we are cognizant of the other responsibilities they have taken on. And with the additional funding that we hope to back fill, we expect to continue to make progress on this work in addition to the capital work and projects as well. So thats the brief update on daylighting and happy to answer any questions. Am i on . Because i cant tell anymore. Am i on . Yes. Okay. Thanks for the presentation and thanks for the progress of daylighting. And sort of lost you said that there was work to move forward because of the and the pandemic situation and now having to back off that work. And the funding and identified last year to allow us to do more of the proactive work like the d4 work that i showed as an example. And that funding is no longer available as part of the budget repriorization that is happening and we are looking to back fill that Funding Source. Once we have that, we expect to continue to issue work to district four like we have done. That is not something we have right now. Okay. And any chance that some of the funding for transportation that is coming down for due to pandemic situation could be used for any of this . So we are looking to back fill that funding and i am not sure what the potential forces are and are you saying that Funding Source was money that is i know used in the what was the original Funding Source . What is the amount of the funding that we are talking about . I believe sorry. I believe the Funding Amount that we had identified was around 300,000 and i want to give a minute to ask my colleague to weigh in. Hello. I am with sfmta and Pedestrian Program manager and the funding that we have allocated was the acronym with the Educational Reimbursement and i cannot tell you what the latter two letters stand for. Without having full information and my understanding is that source is a part of the broader part of the state and asked not to spend it directly. And we had planned on using it and identify different sources. We havent had the opportunity to do that deeply in the last month. We are committed to doing this work. And the executive director also notes that the recently past proposition b and with the finance team to identify the best source. Would any staff like to comment on that . Sure. We will be glad to follow up and report back to us to potentially use the prop d funds in either our pot or m. T. A. s pot for the quick build type actions. Good. Thank you for asking the question, commissioner peskin. Thank you, chair. Okay. Thank you for your report. I think what i would like to do now is see if there is any Public Comment on this. Yes, chair, there is Public Comment. Okay. Go ahead. Welcome, caller. Your two minutes begins now. Caller hi. May name is Steven Bingham and i am a member of families for safe streets. I tried to comment on the last item as well and never got called on, so this is a learning process. But specifically on this particular item, my daughter was killed in 2009, not in San Francisco, but each of the items is critical. [please stand by] i lived in france for ten years, and the speed limit is 18 Miles Per Hour in most towns. Its unbelievably clerk thank you, caller. Thank you. Your two minutes is up. Thank you. And were sorry for your loss. President yee thank you for your comment, and i totally agree. We need to push this a little bit. Okay. Any other Public Comment . Clerk there is no on our. Can you see the slides . President yee yes. All right. Fantastic. All right. Vision zero Traffic Calming Program, and heres an outline of what i will be presenting today. Quickly go over the history, outline the programming goals and purposes, discuss a little bit about the tool box, and discuss our strategy for Community Engagement and look at the current as well as future projects in the program. Just briefly, this Program Began in 2018, it was called at that time Proactive Traffic calming. The name underwent a few iterations. Since then, it went to safe streets for vulnerable populations and then a brief stint at advancing equity through safe streets, and finally, we have settled on vision zero Proactive Traffic calming. I hope that will be the same Going Forward. The name may have changed over the last few years, but the goals and intent remains the same. The goal remains to enhance safety for all residents, but in particular seniors and those are disabilities, and we do that by reducing speeding along residential streets. The secondary goal in the theby by focusing on seniors and folks with disabilities, we make every safer. This program, as everyone understands now, does encourage slower speeds on residential streets in San Francisco. It includes the implementation of physical improvements on our road ways to cause people to slow down and, in turn, that helps to increase visibility in different situations. Its important to note all of these measures have been shown to reduce speeding and increase safety finally, this traffic calming effort, the proactive effort, is not the same as our applicationbased program. That program is sort of the overarching Traffic Calming Program at sfmta. It is put forward and is application based, but this, instead, is proactive, and its based on prioritized neighborhoods where seniors and people with disabilities are more at risk for severe injury or fatality. So the prioritization, the neighborhoods selected for this program are based on criteria led by the department of Public Health and its specifically to address safety for seniors and people with disabilities, and the neighborhoods are prioritized based on the following three factors they look at attractors for seniors and people with disabilities, such as Senior Centers, libraries, Public Health facilities, etc. We look at the density of seniors and people with disabilities by using census data, and finally, the severe injuries and fatalities of people by using the crash data. What this all once this is all put together, what is created is a map that looks like this. This sort of seat map overlays all of these efforts and identifies where we can target our efforts through this program. The tool box of mitigation measures or counter measures, as we call them, its consistent with what we use for our standard Traffic Calming Programs, and again, it includes measures that have been proven to be effective at reducing traffic speeds below the posted speed limit and perhaps more significantly reducing the incidents of egregious speeding. Supervisor peskin could you just go back to the last slide, please . Sure. Supervisor peskin and the orange road segments mean what . I was afraid you were going to ask me that, commissioner. I whoa, geez. Supervisor peskin i assume the purple segments are high injury corridors . Correct. The other three items, i dont know which of those three factors, each one represents, but i want i can certainly get back to you after this meeting with a quick answer on that. Supervisor peskin okay. Thank you. So the box, as i explained, it consists of our default devices and have been shown to be the most effective at calming traffic. We also have [inaudible], however, they have cutouts for transit and Emergency Response vehicles. We have crosswalks that are deployed at uncontrolled pedestrian crossings. They provide an additional level of safety for pedestrians crossing the street at an uncontrolled location, and then, we can move into our community management. So just due to the nature of this program, its designed to serve seniors and people with disabilities. We recognize and have a commitment to perform a deeper level of engagement for each project community that we select this gives us an opportunity to engage in addition to vulnerable populations, we get an opportunity to engage with others who might benefit from these improvements. Each project again will fulfill a higher degree of Community Engagement than the standard traffic calming project thats advanced through our regular applicationbased program. Current projects in the fiscal year, we have projects in the inner richmond. That project is fully complete. It was completed actually september of last year. You can see we installed two refuge islands and 23 traffic calming devices on 12 blocks. The central richmond, phase one, installed refuge islands, and phase two, which is 23 traffic calming devices, those are the speed humps, speed cushions, on a dozen blocks. Those are being pushed through on a contract that will move forwa forward on a j. O. C. Contract that will move forward supervisor peskin excuse me, mr. Turner, whats j. O. C. . I believe it refers to job order contract. Supervisor peskin thank you. Sorry. Supervisor peskin no problem. And finally, the excelsior, and we are currently in progress of developing phase two, which will install another 38 devices on 27 additional blocks in the excelsior. To looking forward to next fiscal year, weve identified ingleside neighborhood as well as visitacion valley, and that is directly coming from that heat map that we discussed previously and targeting those locations where we can get the biggest bang for our buck and where the most need is. Beyond next school year, we are looking at potrero hill and other neighborhoods as that map gets refreshed and updated by d. P. H. Thats the last of my slides. One thing i didnt include in the slides is funding for this program. We have included funding through fiscal year 25. Its still my understanding that we must undertake the every d effort to work with our partners at the t. A. , and that work will be coming in the coming weeks and months. President yee okay. Thank you, mr. Curtis. Is that it . Thats it, thank you. President yee okay. So just because you mentioned the budget a little bit, so what are we talking about next year . In the coming year, we have projects totaling approximately 750,000. President yee and that doesnt include traffic calming projects included outside of this project . Thats correct. All of the other traffic funding projects are funded separately, and that will also continue. President yee okay. So this program is more of less of an application based and more of a planning based by m. T. A. . Its not application based, its more based on the planning done by department of Public Health to create that heat map in regards to where the traffic accidents occur. President yee and when youre planning this, what communities have you or the planning process been working with . Good question. The usual suspects. Let me reach out to the Supervisors Office and get direction from him or her on which Community Groups to target. We also do a variety of outreach tools. We employ a variety of outreach tools, including things like neighborhood meetings, mailers, and things of the sort. Im not as knowledgeable, so if somebody wants to bail me out, feel free, but we engage with the Supervisors Offices to make sure that were reaching the communities that are most vulnerable. [inaudible] so as david mentioned, he used [inaudible] for open houses, but i think its really Community Groups, so in Richmond Senior center was really critical for the work that we did, and so we worked really closely with them, so i think it depends on what our Senior Centers or Community Centers or food banks or libraries in the neighborhoods that were working in that well find the seniors and people with disabilities and be able to talk directly with them. President yee okay. So you answered the Community Planning piece of this, that this is the area that youd like to do some work in, correct . Yes. Wed look at the overall heat map and identify a neighborhood that wed focus on and then figure out a targeted outreach plan with the District Supervisor at that point. President yee okay. That makes sense. So the questions that were tracking, its really are we studying these calming devices . So this particular program, things are i believe, as ive shown on the last slide or secondtolast slide these things were implemented just last fall, but we do have a Robust Program embedded in liveable streets, and as part of that program, we have a strategy to study the effectiveness of traffic calming measures in general, and these will be included in that study, and thats an ongoing process that were conducting. President yee okay. I think we need to really look at the impact of what were doing and making sure that the course that were taking is really the right course, so thats really important to do that. Okay. Madam clerk, is there any Public Comment on this item . Clerk yes, there is Public Comment. Operator you have two questions remaining. Clerk welcome, caller, your two minutes begins now. Thank you again. Its stephen bingham, families for safe streets. I dont speak for all members of f. S. S. , but i do speak my mind. I have a question. There are a lot of traffic calming measures that arent included in the powerpoint toolkit, and im wondering if theyre being considered, such as the types of bulbs that can be put in. In quickbuild kind of spirit, you can just put out cones at dangerous intersections for almost no many, and again, i think theres things like that that can be done now in the midst of the virus, the covid virus, that people are going to accept, people driving cars, that then eventually become permanent. I dont quite get the sense of urgency of this being an exciting time to move much, much more quickly than people were moving before, and to adopt traffic calming measures so they can be done with very little cost. As it is, its only a 750,000 project, and i think if you rethought things, you could do twice as much with the same amount of money, so i urge you you to rethink or think outside the box in terms of covid19 and how quickly these projects are designed and how they move forward. Thank you. Operator you have two questions remaining. Clerk hello, caller. Your two minutes begins now. Hello. Im Richard Rossman, and i live in the excelsior, and i was wondering why the last gentleman didnt mention this area. Theyve been implementing the Safety Measures for over a year. Apparently, its going to take another six months. It had to go to the Transportation Authority and the m. T. A. Why cant they have a joint meeting on these projects where both agencies are involved to speed up the process, and when they have the meeting, have the engineering folks who have come out and had meetings and speed this up . M. T. A. Needs to have a faster process and processing these safety improvements. Its just taking too long, and with the closure, more cars are traveling on folsom and lincoln way, and i dont know why it takes so long to implement these changes on folsom street. Thank you. President yee okay. Any other speakers . Clerk no additional public speakers. Supervisor peskin mr. Chair, id like to utilize ana to speak with funding issues. President yee okay. Thanks for helping me out, supervisor peskin, because my screen doesnt show anything. In 2019, the board approved 750,000 over the fiveyear period for this program, and the first of the project i believe we funded is central richmond. I thought we had funded excelsior, as well. It might not have been from this place holder funding. In addition, there has been discussion of the funding of this program for 2021. There has been a discussion of bulbouts at the fulton mall, and that the sfmta would be coming in during the construction phase of the project, asking for approximately 200,000 for that pr project. As far as the 2021, and the ingleside and visitacion projects, i am not aware that m. T. A. Is planning to use the place holder funds, but im pleased to hear about what will advance, and i look forward to hearing more. President yee thank you for that report. So where were we . We just finished with other comments. I guess theres no other comments or questions, so i will go ahead and close this close this out. Madam clerk, lets go to [inaudible]. So what number lets go to item 7. Clerk item 7, introduction of new items. This is an information item. President yee okay. No no introduction of new items unless i said earlier to have m. T. C. Come and give a report on their report that just came out, okay . So i guess lets go to Public Comment, then. Clerk okay. There is one Public Comment. Operator you have one question remaining. Clerk hello, caller. Your two minutes begins now. Good afternoon, chair yee and commissioner peskin. I want to thank you for this opportunity to speak. This is jodi madeiras, and im the executive director of walk San Francisco. Im here to speak on behalf of 20 organizations on the Vision Zero Coalition who sent this body as well as mayor breed a letter yesterday to encourage our city to invest in alternatives to safe policing on our streets. We need a stronger and committed investment in fair and proportionate policing. I want to thank kate breed for discussing this citys work on the automated Speed Enforcement because we need to pilot life saving speed Safety Cameras now. We also are asking as a group for a greater investment in our camera program. We currently only have 13 cameras in the city with only 2 million committed for the next five years, and this is an incredibly underutilized highly technological solutions. We need to provide alternatives to punitive inequitable fine systems in relation to traffic infractions because we know that traffic infractions should not disproportionately burden african american, black, brown, and people of color. These are the places where people of color are much more likely to live, walk, and bike. Clerk thank you, caller. Thank you. That is your two minutes. Thank you. Operator you have two questions remaining. Clerk hello, caller. Your two minutes begins now. Wethis is Steven Bingham fo the third time now, and i just want to second what jodi just said, in particular the comment in the letter she mentioned to provide alternatives to punitive traffic infractions that cause lowincome people to lose their drivers licenses and have their cars towed. I worked on this issue now, and i was a former legal aide for 20 years, and ive been working on this for a couple of decades, and one of the things that i think that m. T. A. Can take the lead on in terms of getting a conversation going is having nonpolice officers to handout tickets to reduce the kinds of interactions that the police have with people of color in particular, and i think it would lead to actually safer streets because the police could focus their resources on real crime and not minor kinds of tickets they spend a great deal of time doing. Its been in new zealand for a couple of years, where traffic tickets were handled by a different agency. There are a number of cities around the country that have decriminalized part of the vehicle code, and all of us city advocates would be happy to work with the city to make it happen. Clerk thank you. Thank you, caller. Thank you. Operator you have one question remaining. Clerk hello, caller. Your two minutes begins now. Hello. This is Richard Rossman again. I wish youd have a hearing on why muni staff has a veto power over safety improvements that the neighborhood would like to have. I think that 225 fee to appeal a decision of traffic engineers are a little too high. Maybe instead of appealing to the board, decisions should go to the m. T. A. Board before it comes to the supervisors and not let one person have a say over safety improvements that the neighborhood wants. Thank you. President yee okay. Any other Public Comments . Clerk that is it for Public Comments. President yee okay. Public comment is now closed. In terms of what jodi mentioned in the letter that she sent, id like to have a discussion between sfmta and maybe the Police Department on that issue of who should be how can we do things differently, in terms of enforcement, should be on our agenda also. Okay. So is there anything further . Madam clerk . Clerk next item is item 8, Public Comment. Supervisor peskin no, we had that. President yee just had that. Supervisor peskin next item is adjournment. Clerk item 9, meeting adjournment. President yee meeting adjourned. Thank you, supervisor peskin. Supervisor peskin thank you, chair yee. It did take a village. I was really lucky when i was 14 years old to get an internship. The difference that it made for me is i had a job, but there were other people who didnt have a job, who, unfortunately, needed money. And they were shown to commit illegal acts to get money. That is what i want to prevent. [ ] today we are here to officially kick off the first class of opportunities for all. [applause]. Opportunities for all is a program that mayor breed launched in october of 2018. It really was a vision of mayor breed to get to all of the young people in San Francisco, but with an intention to focus on young people that have typically not being able to access opportunities such as internships or workbased learning opportunities. Money should never be a barrier to your ability to succeed in life and that is what this program is about. Theres always these conversations about young people not being prepared and not having experience for work and if they dont get an opportunity to work, then they cannot gain the experience that they need. This is really about investing in the future talent pool and getting them the experience that they need. It is good for everyone because down the road we will need future mechanics, future pilots, future bankers, future whatever they may be in any industry. This is the pipe on we need to work with. We need to start developing talent, getting people excited about careers, opening up those pathways and frankly giving opportunities out there that would normally not be presented. [ ] the way that it is organized is there are different points of entry and different ways of engagement for the young person and potential employers. Young people can work in cohorts or in groups and thats really for people that have maybe never had job experience or who are still trying to figure out what they want to do and they can explore. And in the same way, it is open for employers to say, you know what, i dont think we are ready to host an intern yearround are all summer, but that they can open up their doors and do site visits or tours or panels or conversations. And then it runs all the way up to the opportunity for young people to have longterm employment, and work on a project and be part of the employee base. Something new, to get new experience and meet people and then you are getting paid for it you are getting paid for doing that. It is really cool. I starting next week, i will be a freshman. [cheers and applause] two of the things i appreciate about this program was the amazing mentorship in the job experience that i had. I am grateful for this opportunity. Thank you. Something i learned at airbnb is how to network and how important it is to network because it is not only what you know, but also who you know to get far in life. During this program, i learned basic coding languages, had a had to identify the main components and how to network on a corporate level. It is also helping me accumulate my skills all be going towards my College Tuition where i will pursue a major in computer science. For myself, being that i am an actual residential realtor, it was great. If anybody wants to buy a house, let me know. Whenever. [applause] it is good. I got you. It was really cool to see the commercial side and think about the process of developing property and Different Things that i can explore. Opportunities for all was a great opportunity for all. We were aiming to have 1,000 young people register and we had over 2,000 people register and we were able to place about between 50 and did. We are still getting the final numbers of that. Over several weeks, we were able to have students participate in Investment Banking they were able to work with our team, or technology team, our engineering 20 we also gave them lessons around the industry, around financial literacy. There are 32,000 young people ages 16 and 24 living in San Francisco. And imagine if we can create an opera skin it just opportunity for all program for every young person that lives in public housing, Affordable Housing, low income communities. It is all up to you to make that happen. We have had really great response from employers and they have been talking about it with other employers, so we have had a lot of interest for next year to have people sign on. We are starting to figure out how to stay connected to those young people and to get prepared to make sure we can get all 2400 or so that registered. We want to give them placement and what it looks like if they get more. Lets be honest, there is always a shortage of good talent in any industry, and so this is a real great career path. For potential sponsors who might be interested in supporting opportunities for all , there is an opportunity to make a difference in our city. This is a really thriving, booming economy, but not for everyone. This is a way to make sure that everyone gets to benefit from the great place that San Francisco is and that we are building pathways for folks to be able to stay here and that they feel like they will belong. Just do it. Sign up for it. [ ] [ ] im nicole and lindsey, i like the fresh air. When we sign up, its always so gratifying. We want to be here. So im very excite ied to be here today. Your volunteerism is appreciated most definitely. Last year we were able to do 6,000 hours volunteering. Without that we cant survive. Volunteering is really important because we cant do this. Its important to understand and a concept of learning how to take care of this park. We have almost a 160 acres in the district 10 area. Its fun to come out here. We have a park. Its better to take some of the stuff off the fences so people can look at the park. The street, every time, our friends. I think everybody should give back. We are very fortunate. We are successful with the company and its time to give back. Its a great place for us. The weather is nice. No rain. Beautiful San Francisco. Its a great way to be able to have fun and give back and walk away with a great feeling. For more opportunities we have volunteering every single day of the week. Get in touch with the parks and Recreation Center so come ever wonder about programs the city it working think to make San Francisco the best place to work and will we bring shine to the programs and the people making them happen join us inside that edition of whats next sf sprech of Market Street between 6th is having a Cinderella Movement with the office of Economic Workforce Development is its fairy godmother Telegraph Hill engaged in the program and providing the reason to pass through the corridor and better reason to stay office of Economic Workforce Development work to support the economic vital of all of San Francisco we have 3 distinctions workforce and neighborhood investment i work in the tenderloin that has been the focus resulting in tax chgsz and 9 arts group totally around 2 hundred thousand square feet of office space as fits great as its moved forward it is some of the place businesses engaged for the people that have living there for a long time and people that are coming into to work in the the item you have before you companies and the Affordable Housing in general people want a safe and Clean Community they see did changed coming is excited for every. Oewd proits provides permits progress resulting in the growth of mid businesses hocking beggar has doubled in size. When we were just Getting Started we were a new Business People never saturday a Small Business owner and been in the bike industry a long needed help in finding at space and sxug the that is a oewd and others agencies were a huge helped walked us through the process we couldnt have done it without you this is sloped to be your grand boulevard if so typically a way to get one way to the other it is supposed to be a beautiful boulevard and fellowship it is started to look like that. We have one goal that was the night to the neighborhood while the bigger project of developments as underway and also to bring bring a sense of Community Back to the neighborhood. We wanted to use the says that a a gathering space for people to have experience whether watching movies or a yoga or coming to lecture. That sb caliber shift on the street is awarding walking down the street and seeing people sitting outside address this building has been vacate and seeing this change is inspiringing. Weve created a space where people walk in and have fun and it is great that as changed the neighborhood. Oewd is oak on aortas a driver for San Francisco. Weve got to 23ri7b9 market and sun setting piano and it was on the street weve seen companies we say used to have to accompanying come out and recruit now theyre coming to us. Today, we learned about the office of Economic Workforce Development and its effort to Foster Community and make the buyer Market Street corridor something that be proud of thanks to much for watching and tune in next time for clapping. the airport it where i know to mind visions of traffic romance and excitement and gourmet can you limousine were at San Francisco inspirational airport to discover the awardwinning concession that conspiracies us around the world. Sfo serves are more 40 million travelers a year and a lot of the them are hungry theres many restaurant and nearly all are restaurant and cafe thats right even the airport is a diane designation. So tell me a little bit the food program at sfo and what makes this so special well, we have a we have food and Beverage Program at sfo we trivia important the sustainable organic produce and our objective to be a nonterminal and bring in the best food of San Francisco for our passengers. I like this its is inaudible i thank my parents for bringing me here. This the definitely better than the la airport one thousand times better than. I have a double knees burger with bacon. I realize im on a diet but im hoping this will be good. It total is San Francisco experience because theres so many people and nationalities in this town to come to the airport especially everyone what have what they wanted. Are repioneering or is this a model. Were definitely pioneers and in airport commemoration at least nationally if not intvrl we have many folks asking our our process and how we select our great operators. The food option in San Francisco airport are phenomenal thats if it a lot of the airports yeah. You dont have the choice. Some airports are all about food this is not many and this particular airport are amazing especially at the tirnl indicating and corey is my favorite i come one or two hours before my flight this is the life. We definitely try to use as many local grirnts as we can we use the goat cheese and we also use local vendors we use greenly produce they summarize the local soured products and the last one had 97 percent open that. Wow. Have you taken up anything unique or odd here. Ive picked up a few things in napa valley i love checking chocolates theres a lot of types of chocolate and caramel corn. Now this is a given right there. Im curious about the customer externals and how people are richmond to this collection of cities youve put together not only of San Francisco food in San Francisco but food across the bay area. This type of market with the local savors the highend products is great. I know people cant believe theyre in an airport i really joy people picking up things for their friends and family and wait i dont have to be shopping now we want people take the opportunity at our location. How long has this been operating in San Francisco and the late 18 hours it is one of the best places to get it coffee. We have intrrnl consumers that know of this original outlet here and come here for the coffee. So lets talk sandwiches. Uhhuh. Can you tell me how you came about naming our sandwiches from the katrero hills or 27 years i thought okay neighborhood and how do you keep it fresh you can answer that mia anyway you want. Our broadened is were going not irving preserves or packaged goods we take the time to incubate our jogger art if scratch people appreciate our work here. So you feel like out of captured the airport atmosphere. This is its own the city the Airline Crews and the bag handlers and the frequent travels travelers and weve established relationships it feels good. When i get lunch or come to eat the food i feel like im not city. I was kind of under the assumption you want to be done with our gifts you are down one time not true we have a lot of regulars we didnt think wed find that here at the airport. People come in at least one a week for that the food and service and the atmosphere. The food is great in San Francisco its a coffee and i took an e calorie home every couple of weeks. Im impressed i might come here on my own without a trip, you know, we have kids we could get a babysitter and have diner at the airport. This is a little bit of things for everybody theres plenty of restaurant to grab something and go otherwise in you want to sit you can enjoy the experience of local food. Tell me about the future food. Were hoping to bring newer concepts out in San Francisco and what our passengers want. I look forward to see what your cooking up laughter today weve shown you the only restaurant in San Francisco from the comfortableing old stand but you dont have to be hungry sfo has changed what it is like to eat another an airport check out our oblige at tumbler dating. Com roughly five years, i was working as a high school teacher, and i decided to take my students on a surfing field trip. The light bulb went off in my head, and i realized i could do much more for my students taking them surfing than i could as their classroom teacher, and that is when the idea for the city surf project was born. Working with kids in the ocean that arent familiar with this space is really special because youre dealing with a lot of fear and apprehension but at the same time, a lot of excitement. When i first did it, i was, like, really scared, but then, i did it again, and i liked it. Well get a group of kids who have just never been to the beach, are terrified of the idea, who dont like the beach. Its too cold out, and its those kid that are impossible to get back out of the water at the end of the day. Over the last few years, i think weve had at least 40 of our students participate in the city surf project. Surfing helped me with, like, how to swim. Weve start off with about two to four sessions in the pool before actually going out and surfing. Swimming at the pool just helps us with, like, being, like, comfortable in the water and being calm and not being all not being anxious. So when we started the city surf project, one of the things we did was to say hey, this is the way to earn your p. E. Credits. Just getting kids to go try it was one of our initial challenges for the first year or two. But now that weve been doing it three or four years, we have a group of kids thats consistent, and the word has spread, that its super fun, that you learn about the ocean. Starting in the morning, you know, i get the vehicles ready, and then, i get all the gear together, and then, i drive and go get the kids, and we take them to a local beach. We usually go to linda mar, and then occasionally ocean beach. We once did a special trip. We were in capitola last year, and it was really fun. We get in a circle and group stretch, and we talk about specific safety for the day, and then, we go down to the water. Once we go to the beach, i dont want to go home. I cant change my circumstances at home, but i can change the way i approach them. Our program has definitely been a way for our students to find community and build friends. I dont really talk to friends, so i guess when i started doing city surf, i started to, like, get to know people more than i did before, and people that i didnt think id like, like, ended up being my best friends. Its a group sport the way we do it, and with, like, close camaraderie, but everybodys doing it for themselves. Its great, surfing around, finding new people and making new friendships with people throughout surfing. It can be highly developmental for students to have this time where they can learn a lot about themselves while negotiating the waves. I feel significantly, like, calmer. It definitely helps if im, like, feeling really stressed or, like, feeling really anxious about surfing, and i go surfing, and then, i just feel, like, im going to be okay. It gives them resiliency skills and helps them build selfconfidence. And with that, they can use that in other parts of their lives. I went to bring amy family o the beach and tell them what i did. I saw kids open up in the ocean, and i got to see them connect with other students, and i got to see them fail, you know, and get up and get back on the board and experience success, and really enjoy themselves and make a connection to nature at the same time. For some kids that are, like, resistant to, like, being in a Mentorship Program like this, its they want to surf, and then later, theyll find out that theyve, like, made this community connection. I think they provided level playing fields for kids to be themselves in an open environment. For kids to feel like i can go for it and take a chance that i might not have been willing to do on my own is really special. We go on 150 surf outings a year. Thats yearround programming. Weve seen a tremendous amount of youth face their fears through surfing, and that has translated to growth in other facets of their lives. I just think the biggest thing is, like, that they feel like that they have something that is really cool, that theyre engaged in, and that we, like, care about them and how theyre doing, like, in general. What i like best is they really care about me, like, im not alone, and i have a group of people that i can go to, and, also, surfing is fun. Were creating surfers, and were changing the face of surfing. The feeling is definitely akin to being on a roller coaster. Its definitely faster than i think you expect it to be, but its definitely fun. It leaves you feeling really, really positive about what that kids going to go out and do. I think its really magical almost. At least it was for me. It was really exciting when i caught my first wave. I felt like i was, like it was, like, magical, really. When they catch that first wave, and their first lights up, you know their face lights up, you know you have them hooked. I was on top of the world. Its amazing. I felt like i was on top of the world even though i was probably going two miles an hour. It was, like, the scariest thing id ever done, and i think it was when i got hooked on surfing after i am miguel bus bustos this d this is meeting for june 16, 2020. I welcome the members of the public streaming or listening via by phone and live and to the staff who have helped to make this meeting happen this afternoon. Following the guidelines set forth by the local state officials during this health emergency, the members of the commission are meeting remotely to ensure the safety of everyone, including the members of the public. So thank you all for joining us. Madam secretary, please call the first item. Clerk thank you, mr. Chair. The first order of business is item 1, roll call. Commission members, please respond when i call your name. Commissioner brackett