Transcripts For SFGTV Treasure Island Mobility Management Agency 72616 20160801

Commissioner eric mar absent commissioner peskin absent commissioner tang commissioner lee commissioner yee absent we have quorum. Thank you mr. Clerk, call the next item. Chairs report on information item. Thank you this is our first meeting since january and i would like to recognize my Committee Members vice chair commissioner avalos and commissioner campos for serving with me on the timma committee theres been a ton of activity on the island and to see the Infrastructure Projects and Mobility Programs that the staff has led and coordinating it is incredibly exciting to see our Transportation Program take shape a commitment to the residents of the island over 10 years ago were newly beginning to formulate what a new ferry and extended bus route and car share for the completely new neighborhood in San Francisco the timma committee met last week im pleased to the side is responses including the feedback about setting a town hall hours of proclamation and affordability a particular those that live on the island prior to the development and the recommendations have been refined thoughtfully to address the town hall concerns concerns the low income residents and to stand and diversity the Funding Sources beyond the users fees in this phase id like was pleased to write a letter of support for the trlt application for cap trade this will fund the pedestrian and bicycle infrastructure on the island that is exciting and support a new ac transit clean skilled buses to allow the residents to take Public Transit to the east bay it demonstrates a partner with local servicebased businesses in this case the on time and on schedule initiative that began was we moved the residents and our commitment to housing both residents that residents families and vaernlz that are formally homeless and to provide vanderpool services to support our vulnerable residents finally id like to appreciate long time island becky on the Transportation Authority cac many of you you know becky active in the Franklin Delano Roosevelt Democratic Club and ever seen is Pedestrian Safety Advisory Committee an update in march and the Transportation Authority Community Advisory board heard unanimously and endorsed those recommendations in june she serves on the Advisory Board and provides a link between our two citizen advisory groups and recognize bob the director of tihdi thank you to all the folks for your service and with that, mr. Clerk, do we take Public Comment on this item. Yes. At this time Public Comment is open on item number 2. Good morning, commissioners my name is jeff kline and im a 17 year resident of the villages on Treasure Island and want to correct commissioner kim and director chang you keep on calling it a Community Advisory board that is a citizens advisory a project committee and the redevelopment law but you got a special tida a waiver to allow the establishment of the citizens Advisory Board and only 2009 before the 4 residents elected to that board out of 19 people on the board so it is not a Community Advisory board not represent the community and im friends are with becky but shes disabled and 61 of the households on Treasure Island have a vehicle and do drive including myself and i commented at the july 30th with an of 3 residents along with becky and betty makingy why Yerba Buena Island who commented the only residents that commented any of your Meeting Community full board and im here again, i want to ask that when i make comments on island 8 and 10 youll allow me a full 3 minutes to finish my comment i have in writing and glad to provide in advance thank you, mr. Kline well provide the 3 minutes on those two items seeing none, Public Comment is closed. On this item. Can we please call the item. Directors report an information item. Thank you chair Kim Tilly Chang this month our report hospital a has several opportunities as chair mentions the cap trade application was submitted in june and director bob beck and i 2r5689d to sacramento for the Council Staff when we were impressed with the overall application four the hub facilities and the vanderpool services were keeping our fingers crossed there we applied for federal grants following the opening of this federal usda Transportation Management Technology Deployment program last week secretary fox was here for the vehicles symposium and many of the smart cities initiatives are moving forward following the announcement of the grant award going to cleveland and San Francisco is continuing to develop other kinds of projects to put forward including on Treasure Island were tracking regional grant opportunity and many of the parishioners serve on the district and tracking the transportation for the Clean Air Program that is administrative code by the air district and the one Bay Area Program they could yield demonstrates fund to move forward turning to the local issues on any report the plan bay area draft somewhere was realized by the staff and hoping is that i live support of the Treasure Island initiative in the second rating in a row of high tier performances with the high cost profile the draft transportation scenarios will be presented in september continue to work between now and then and come back to you all with the specific requests or recommendations in that regard Ferry Service ill note is taking shape on august 4th this coming august the water Transportation Authority weda will present an update on the services for the transportation board both our agency and theirs have been working hard to seek a green ferry technology for the Island Service this is their hybrid fuel and were also working to jointly get funding for the Island Service this cuomo meeting with tida and the potential start date for Ferry Service with the Capital Plan Fund and subsidies that are required and finally your tolling system a concept of operations which describes the components of the toll system how it represents to the San Francisco open bay bridge toll system with the completion of the funding we sic entity from experts and companies with the Toll Services and were working with researchers at the uc berkley and others jurisdictions gone before us in the area well brick all that back to you and take eric for the Capital Projects for moving forward and in addition to your on time and budget and our Bicycle Safety hes e hes working with the Toll Authority to deliver ill be happy to answer any questions you may have. Thank you director chang any questions for the director. One question ii had as a foul of Public Comment and hoping all the members of the citizens Advisory Committee that that would be helpful to know who sits on it. My apologies to that committee for given the wrong i should have noted a citizens Advisory Committee at this time well open up for Public Comment seeing none, Public Comment is closed. Can we please call the next item. Approval the january 26th meeting onramp action item. Thank you. Any comments on this item. At this time we will open up for Public Comment on item number 4. Seeing none, Public Comment is closed. Can we take a roll call vote. Item 4. Commissioner avalos commissioner london breed absent commissioner campos commissioner cohen commissioner farrell absent commissioner kim commissioner eric mar absent commissioner peskin absent commissioner tang commissioner lee commissioner yee minutes are approved. Thank you and mr. Clerk, call actually items 5 and 6 together. Item 5 approve the administrative code and item six the minutes of order and the fiscal and business reimbursement those are action items. Any comments on items 6 and 5 at this time well open up for Public Comment on those two items seeing none, Public Comment is closed. On items 5 and 6. Mr. Clerk same house, same call . Same house, same call . On those two items mr. Clerk, call item 7. Item 7 adapt a fiscal year 20162017 annual before you get program an action item. Thank you. Any comments on the proposed budget and work program surrendering open up for Public Comment seeing none, Public Comment is closed. And we can take that same house, same call . Mr. Clerk, call the next item. Item 8 approval the Treasure Island action item. Thank you is there any comments on this item. Seeing none, open up for Public Comment on this item. And mr. Kline well grant you the 3 minutes for Public Comment. Ive used this before so do you recognize this hi jeff kline a 17 year resident and good morning and thank you for hearing any comment as i mentioned one of the 3 residents that spoke in the july 2015 timma all four of the comments were critical all 3 residents had 4 comments critical of the proposal that charge the residents a toll and expressed concern of lack of affordability and residence by the way, were the only resident to comment i heard you talk about the affordability i assume you know that the average transportation spending of protecting resident due to the toll nearly double by build out that slide was in our presentation page 29 represent a graph but i understand how the timma missed this hesitate only the the screen for 20 minutes curiously in the grant i think it is responsible for you so im skiio approve those toll policies that double our transportation costs and specifically i demand you make all residents the villages exempt from this toll for 61 percent of villages household that have own or have access to a vehicle this tolls a huge increase and as constructive evictions and net profits comprise half of tida budget 80 million we pay for the ti project incidentally a Million Dollars to timma thats our rent money i dont need you to be remind the average to the income is ti households was that 5,000 obviously you must i present our looking for other funds for the ti project and instead of seeking nor money from the low income and middleincome people but i appreciate and ask you that you do not vote to double our transportation cots and exempt all residents from villages of the vinyls from this toll thank you. Thank you, mr. Kline there any additional Public Comment . Seeing none, Public Comment is closed. Board Community Members Board Members excuse me any comments on this item again, i do want to thank the staff timma and the Transportation Authority as well as the Treasure Island Development Authority for the work on the Mobility Plan and to fill out the robust Transportation Program for current and New Residence of this island i i feel comfortable with the goals with the hours and pricing have not been set yet and will be over the next two years will be taking in more input from the residents as well as continuing the dialogue on this process i feel comfortable and take this item same house, same call . Mr. Clerk, call item number 9 and 10 together and item 9 introduction of new items and 10 general Public Comment. Are there any new items from Board Members today . Seeing none, well open up for Public Comment on item 9 and general Public Comment as well. 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Thank you, again, for hearing any comments commissioners jeff kline for the record im opposed to the because it the mistaken assumption the planners are ignored the shift to transit and away from private vehicles by the residents of the Treasure Island during the past 8 years this shift is due entirely to the muni bus service corresponding to the 2009 Transportation Plan one hundred of people own the cars compared to the San Francisco average of 92 percent but the no idea. Survey found 61 percent 8 years later of residents have access to a vehicle and thirty percent are car free residents are exceeded the accomplish tida goal we already mold o mode shifdz tar beyond the goal to 60 percent of people ride muni the access to the bay bridge and parking on Treasure Island is the fundamental and inflated assumption of at this time this is counter this the economic they are because it is essential by month household and it is more likely that higher prices will not reduce the demand the demand for high income is by definition unlikely to be elastic since prices is not a factor for the wealth you, you should know where the program is Cost Effective to creates new openings for the ti project for the land limits of Ferry Services i urge timma to look at the reduction of Green House Gas emissions and Capital Improvement and construction time while greatly new year the urban condo system attached to the bay bridge ive prepared Background Information ive shared with supervisor kim office i hope youll reconsider the failed timma approach and an urban gondola i have copies and be glad to give you the gondolas for the San Francisco y b i upon request thank you thank you, mr. Kline and well take our comments seeing no further items on item 9 and 10 Public Comment is closed. Mr. Clerk any other items item 11 adjournment. The meeting is adjourned morning. Amandaregional initiative for the gen. Service administration pursue the claim region and of your master of ceremonies today. I do the short straw and jake to the longshot. Congratulations, jay. Welcome to the United Nations gaza. On to gsa Regional Headquarters and the physical home of super public. Today, we celebrate the official launch of super public. The nations first collaborative workspace to host city state and federal policymakers under one roof. The Innovation Lab is running in collaboration with San Francisco Mayors Office of civic innovation by the city intimate foundation and the gen. Services administration will solve common problems that affect all levels of government. Uc berkeleys center for Design Research at Stanford University and Mit Media Lab have also partnered with super public. Super public will provide space. Program convened summit, roundtables, and Training Programs to build capacity so that all partners in the lab can maximize time and impact. By working in an open innovation environment, super public intends to create extorted exportable models and solutions facing governments throughout the nation. The city of San Francisco and city intimate into gsa and other superpower concept, was an immediate, yes. Each level of government is really reinventing the wheel around a common problems. The silo nature of government has stymied the Public Sector from adopting innovative tech, and business models, and the sharing of best practices. So our hope that super public will break down some of the silos and allow us to share Common Solutions across government at the city state and federal level. Not only will gsa provide a physical space which we had quite a bit of, but we will also provide some expertise in certain areas. Gsa is a leader in procurement and also Digital Services in our digital consultancy etfs house just down the hall. Minute you walk by their offices. Just today. Weve seen a significant amount of success at the federal level addressing the german challenges and changing the way government bills and buys technology. Etf and Parent Organization the technology to Information Service can bring these past successes past and failures to the conversation. So, without further ado, we are very excited to commemorate the launch of super public and were honored to have with us another special guest. From you hear from the harsh reality recognizer speakers from todays event. Gsa administrator Denise Turner ross, mayor of the city of San Francisco and family. San francisco district 2 supervisor mark farrell. Executive director of the city intimate foundation cameron sadik, and the city administrator naomi i can name is not on your last name . Kelly. Thank you. In addition to our speakers today i like to recognizer panelists discussing women and government and Technology Early 21stcentury government. Gsa initiated denise ross we joined by codirector of the transportation sustainably Resource Center at uc berkeley. Atf deputy executive director Hillary Hartley and city oakland chief resiliency officer karen jane. Now my pleasure to introduce the speaker per todays event. I bus and head of gsa this Denise Turner ross. Ms. Ross is the 21st Senate Confirm administrative and general furnaces ministration brother 18 years of Public Service shes old there is a leadership positions in washington dc and greensboro North Carolina the focus on driving Economic Impact in ms. State of change. It is a gentleman, denise ross. [applause] thank you very much into. Thank you all for being here at gsa in this beautiful old building. I think when we had the chance to actually renovate the space we were very fortunate and what a great day to see how far its come. Im not sure that when we were renovating the space just a few years ago that we had this opportunity and vision in mind but indeed, here we are today and its just wonderful. Mayor lee thank you for having us in your subject is a beautiful subject is been here all week and its been a wonderful time. Thank you for your partnership always. I think using the mayor has been called on frequented by the administration and its because we like to go to leaders sought. Its not been by accident youve seen us here working with the mayor quite often. As administrative gsa, i have the pleasure of working with people are very committed to a really having a joint effort when they come to any community could gsa manages over three 75,000,000 ft. 2 of space. We manage over 50 with spending occurs through the federal government and has been a straighter and you pointed out, i do have a deep deep background in City Administration as well as in other capacities that i care a lot about how we are partnering with community could because when i know him and were working together both at city state and federal level, as well as with the private sector and Public Sector, the we are at our best and thats when we achieve our best. So when i came in as administrator i prioritize how do we use our physical footprint on knowledge, our access all resources to partner with these partners. As well as to partner with the federal agencies of course. An idea is for us to be able to bring the best foot forward in any place were entered weaver wants to never call her Economic Initiative which is really about how do we take a footprint and look for opportunities with communities. I think this is a great example of that. You are aware is into pointed out of our 18 f and pts and the work they been doing in Digital Services and Current Technology in bringing together that effort to our efforts and the federal government and its been really exciting. So when asked about what is super Public Meeting for gsa why are we partnering in what respect to get out of this . I spoke to see us be able to continue to partner with other communities did for me this is just the start. To start an example and a strong example of what it means for how we can really leverage the space we are managing. This space the resources, the people be accessed. Thats what is happening here. That is what were all part of today. So this is just a really exciting time for us throughout gsa not just the Technology Space but for all this that are here because were burning at the same time and will take these learning and share with other communities as well. So, mayor thank you again for coming here. Thank you and your team for having the vision as well as city innovates. Ive just been excited getting to know the work that youre doing and vision you have not just your locally but international. What a wonderful thing. So thank you for coming here and thank you for choosing this partnership and thank you for having the vision. [applause] thank you, denise. Our next speaker has incredibly strong track record of driving Collaborative Partnerships in the first mayor in the nation to create an Innovation Office and City Governments. Please, welcome mayor ed lee. [applause] thank you into for that introduction. Gsa of instead of ross, thank you for being here. This is one my favorite buildings outside of city hall. It shouldnt surprise you that we share the same architect and its one of the few buildings like my office that still has curbed the wars. So theres a lot of history that we share but being here in gsa again, connotes a lot of good memories. Certainly, it harkens back to city administrator these two director of purchasing a less political position in the city there i had fun. I truly had fun when i was director purchasing, spending the publics money about 1 billion a year buying things but trying to do it smartly and trying to incur local jobs, Small Businesses, get them involved in the economy of our city. And, even as mayor, we are still making sure were trying to do the right thing as all of our governments are. This idea of super public is exciting because in a few years, youre going to see an absolute necessity for this to happen. While it seems volunteer and innovative to do it now were actually creating the conditions the private sector, for the Public Sector, or academia, for those in government want to innovate, were trying to equate those conditions now so it has a lot more opportunity to be successful. As a city of innovation, i want to say that were already working not just as a city but is the region, im already deep conversations with mayor schaaf and mayor ricardo with our supervisors, in San Mateo County about regional issues and making sure were paying attention, more than just what the part on has for the immediate future. More about our challenges and how we can really work outside of our sideload cities and counties and into arena where we can really and truly invite the private sector to work with us. The academia sector and our innovative arms. Its no surprise that gsa is a partner because its fast becoming the most innovative arm of the federal government ive ever seen hit their really pushing it well ahead and theyre challenging us to be a great partner and we want to be. Because we have a lot of things that could withhold benefits to our public if we didnt start working cooperatively. We just are thinking outside of those silos that and you mentioned that we all know is a very fact that prevents us from doing better. And i say that we started this over a year and a half ago as well thinking that to be smarter city, not just an transportation but Everything Else that we do but transportation is a great example to start out with because if were not thinking more , not thinking more collaboratively and innovatively, beyond the cities and into a regional if not a state and federal approach, were going to fail. Whether its bikes, whether its public transportation, whether its getting less cars have thinking about Automated Vehicles and how to make them safer, how to use them how to use automation and delivery of goods and products, were going to fill it we dont innovate now and have that spirit. Thats why im excited about joining our gsa partners and our city administrator, our members of our board of supervisors, and our innovation arm of the city working with the other innovation arms of federal government and State Government. This is more than exciting. As i suggest to you super public is going to have to be a necessity because as you look around, not just United States, thats starting to happen in new york and los angeles and allow places, you look at what International Cities are already doing. You dont have to lookhas, by the way, happy the steel date those of you who have french foundations. Paris story got a super public that we are studying and looking at as a model. Toronto, under the Great International city. Other International Cities have already figured out that indo global competition that we are engaged in, and we must recognize that, that is those regions that recognize how collaboration and innovation is going to help their cities become that much more successful in a global competition. When not opting out of anything were opting in to a global setting and making sure we are ready to do that even better. So, i am excited as you can probably tell because i didnt, i visited the offices this year and the space that were talking about and i know into says we have not got the furniture yet. But, i will tell you, you got the calendar ready. Furniture comes after the talent arrives. I think that talent is here the dedication the commitment is here and i will tell you, i have never stopped trying to figure out how to decrease red tape. How to really convince our public who has to pay a lot of our taxes to say, your money is going into a smarter collaboration that we can be more transparent and telling them how we are cutting red tape. How Small Businesses can have a federal partner, a star partner, a local partner that says youre going to have a lot less red tape to be more successful. I have never stopped and effort in making sure that our city is talking with all our federal partners to it smarter and we better get how i say procurement officer as our city administrator is, to suggest that we can buy things and still have it at a less expensive price but get payments to our local Small Business faster so that we can really have a foundation for good employment in the long run. How we can tackle transportation, tackle homelessness, tackle poverty in ways which we never talked about before. Yes weve got good ideas in San Francisco but the navigation centers, like a cherry, like car sharing. How can we make this a regional thing and academia, with its berkeley mit, stanford were all part of this effort, going to contribute to that because they know that weve got the document we got to talk the man could we do to make sure our models are examples of things we can really share with people, and weve got to prove that we can do it better than the last generated so, excited about this. Im excited about super public, and i know just in the few years is quick to be an absolute necessity for the global competition and we are helping our country by doing this. We are hoping much of the federal people be better quit estate people be better on local people be better, but as a community of people interested in being smarter about what were doing we hopefully will the public was a breathing that much deeper committed to using your dollars smarter to making sure we do things in language data can really drive and help us. This is what i think super public is and i want to just say, ken, thank you to organizations like the innovate fund and our innovation civic innovation leaders, i did sector comedies like at t stepping up with berkeley folks and others to really say we can do this even better. But weve got to think regionally now. We can just think is that independent circuit either to make sure talking with sam ricardo and their interest in san jose. Mayor schaaf people in oakland and san mateo because our challenges are no longer just within our region with its housing, dissertation, with theres even a simple idea of procuring. Weve got to do it smarter and better in this consistently foundation. Its exciting to be in a room full of innovators to do this. Thank you very much. [applause] thank you mayor lea. Our next speaker is the event supervisor mark farrell. His work to communities which the Digital Divide. Please, welcome supervisor farrell [applause] thanks everyone could post about is a tall our gsa partners, the winners always like this in San Francisco. You come out for entire week. So please come out more often. Im truly excited to be here today. From my perspective, super public is the future. It is what we need to be doing across all every single city in the United States. When we think about San Francisco as much as we have a booming economy we have issues as cities have all the time. Whether it is mayor lea mentioned, the housing crisis, we have transportation issues, but theyre not singled out for steve and cities across the United States are facing these issues. With the homelessness were bridging the Digital Divide these are issues we need to work in San Francisco that matter to our residents. Doing it alone in the government is something that is not going to be part of the future could need to partner with a private sector. Need to partner with academia specialist visit here in San Francisco today the Innovation Capital of the world and thank you to all our private sector partners will contribute to make this happen today. Partnering with you partnering with academic, this is the future. We need to do it together because i will tell you, we cannot do it alone and several also city hall. We certainly cannot do it set up chambers of the board of supervisors we need to do it together as partners. Binders and with the federal government or State Government together we can do it. We also need our private sector. We need academia to be able to do it together. So im incredibly excited to be part of this. Take you to all the people who contributed to it. Congratulations to all the founding members. I know this is a long time in the making. The most excited about, is not just today but the future. This about our children and making sure as we think about problems as my son jack sits over there, honest will, this generation when we tackle problems not just San Francisco problems the regional problems and were not tackling them the City Government were tapping together with private sector with academia and that the wording of the best solution yet so congratulations to everyone and thank you i just cant wait for the future here together. Thank you. [applause] thank you, market our next speaker is naomi kelly with the city administrator of the city of San Francisco. I am agree with sympathetic partner in the gen. Services administration did we know how hard your job is. We get to do it for the federal government to the other one a come over and talk shop were always here for you. Ladies and gentlemen, naomi kelly. [applause] good morning. I was thinking about all the numbers of how much office space you manage and how much procurement you have and its enormous. I was very proud of our numbers we manage the city of San Francisco about 4,000,000 ft. 2 of office space and 1 billion in procurement and we manage 25 yeartenure 25 million capital plan. And compared to those numbers thats small. Compared to the gsa. But, its really great to be here today because of the chair partnership that will have with each other in sharing best practices, learning new innovative procurement policies, it policies. It will be very helpful in that its helping us share relevant data, figuring out what the data we have with the city but good data the government has put together super public is that we can share with each other so we can be much more innovative. Theres things were doing here in San Francisco just in the city administrator in our local gsa office, looking at how we manage our fleet. How we are using telematics or black box which will behold so helpful to us to figure out when a card word vehicle needs to go into maintenance versus guessing,. Rb rightsizing the fleet we see theres a lot of analyte underutilized vehicles but we can reduce the number berkeley. His rc fleet sitting in idling speed we can reduce our Greenhouse Gas emissions by a relevant amount of data were getting from that. I also upgrade during the next week and am in the process creating a Digital Service team. We are actively recruiting for Digital Service officer. This is all about the public experience. How can we in government better serve our residents, art tourists, visitors is a Neat Services from the government, a website how can we approve our website so they can get the information they need from a resin with the residential parking permit, whether its a productivity, but its a marriage certificate theres much we can do to provide Services Online so folks do not have to come down to city hall or wait in line to get services they need. So, were very excited about our Digital Service team working with a private industry, working with Customer Service looking at a processes how to better streamline them as we dont want to automate a broken process and of course working with our it department to make sure that our systems are running smoothly and to make sure all our data is secure because we dowe do want to make sure that everything we do is secure and that were not violating any private information that gets out there. Im so looking forward to this partnership and thank you very much. [applause] thank you naomi. Now, last but not least, the executive director of the City Innovate Foundation and very much the leader for super public, we are very lucky to have cameron and of leading the charge for us that its been fabulous working with him so far. You are a welcome breath of knowledge on all the things foundational things we need to make this a reality. I hope gsa has been a good partner to good is and gentlemen, kim and city [applause] i think a lot of you have been on this journey for the last two years and its been tough but i want to keep it short because of that people that sing to me for the last 5 min. That the mayor needs to live soon. What i do undo is actually think mayor ed lea. The sender gsa administrator District Supervisor mark we met a few times but farrell and naomi kelly city of mr. And people behind the scenes like andrew the month, the republic of under atf, krista and jacob Mayors Office of Senate Innovation to grace upon is at uc Berkeley Susan and also been great from day one. Gifford in the City Innovate Foundation team. james to make sure we talked about regional issues shes achieved resiliency officer in oakland she is working the on the past 18 months over this and not least the private sector. Dont forget them because they do help pay our bills can i do i think microsoft socialize and evangelize the passage be described. The of our friends from deloitte who are good partners and now at t and one of the things that i think a lot of people talk about the project that weve been looking at one of the other areas than looking at with San Francisco, open and others not to forget their smart cities but were looking at inclusive cities. We should try this with communities so we part up with civic makers in a couple of model youre looking at a cut program rolling this out engaging the community and doing it the right way. Again thank you all for coming out here. Yes, we hope that that show will change and his major was pointed out, there will be a lot of International Cities that come in and us cities to learn about the bit about what were doing here. Thank you. [applause] okay. So, now we get to get to the good work of actually running super public which were more excited about any event. Gsa loves doing things but im going to invite all our guests right now and we will cut this with him. I think this is as are behind me the very large service. In the very careful handing these out. [laughing] have to bring the semicarry on tonight. Can be tough to get through the airport. [laughing] three, two, one cut it. [applause] im derek, im hyungry, and ready to eat. These vendors offer a variety of the streets near you. These mobile restaurants are serving up original, creative and unusual combinations. You can grab something simple like a Grilled Cheese sandwich or something unique like curry. We areher here in the average eight upper haight. You will be competing in the Quick Buy Food challenge. An appetizer and if you are the winner you will get the title of the quitck bite chompion. I am here with matt cohen, from off the grid. We assembled trucks and put them into a really unique heurban settings. What inspired you to start off the grid . I was helping people lodge mobile food trucks. The work asking for what can we get part together . We started our first location and then from there we expanded locations. Why do think food trucks have grown . I have gotten popular because the high cost of starting a brick and mortar or strong, the rise of social media, trucks can be easily located, and food trucks to offer a unique outdoor experience that is not easily replaced by any of their setting any worlwhere else in san franc. San francisco eaters are interested in cuisine. There adventuress. The fact theyuse grea use great ingredients and make gourmet food makes unpopular. I have been dying to have these. I have had that roach coach experience. It is great theyre making food they can trust. Have you decided . We are in the thick of the competition . My game was thrown off because they pulled out of my first appetizer choice. How we going to crush clear . It will be easy. Probably everyone has tried, something bacon tell us delicious. People tell us is delicious. Hopefully you think the same thing. Hopefully i am going to win. Were in the financial district. There is a food truck right there. Every day changes. It is easy and fun to go down. These are going to be really good. How are you going to dominate . I think he does not know what he is doing. I was thinking of doing [unintelligible] we are underrepresented. I was singing of starting an irish pub. That was my idea. One our biggest is the corned beef and cabbage. We are asking people what theyre thinking in getting some feedback. For a lot of people i am sure this combination looks very wrong. It might not sound right on paper but when you taste it to or have it in your mouth, it is a variety. This is one of the best ways in creating community. People gather around and talk about it and get to know different cultures. That brings people together and i hope more off the grid style and people can mingle and interact and remove all our differences and work on our similarities. This creates opportunity. The time has come and i am very hungry. What have you got . I got this from on the go, a sandwich, and a caramel cupcake. I went with home cooking. What de think . I will have another bite. Sounds good. That was fantastic. Lets start with you. I had the fried mac and cheese, and twinkies. I wanted to get something kind of classic with a twist on it. It was crispy. I will admit. Want to try fieried mac and cheese . Was that the best twinkie . Would you say you had the winning male . Definitely. No. You are the chompion. Clair has won. You are the first chompion. They know it iwas me because i got a free meal. And check a map on check them out on facebook. Take a peek at the stuff we have cut. To get our check out our blog. 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