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. Clerk the meeting will come to order. I am hillary ronen, chair of the committee. With me on the committee is rules Committee Vice chair kathrin stefani, and rules Committee Member gordon an mar. Our clerk is victor young, and