Transcripts For SFGTV Government Access Programming 20171123

Director rubke. You have a quorum. Director hineki will not be here. And please be advised the ringing of sound producing electr Electronic Devices are prohibited and anyone responsible for one going off may be asked to leave and the board respectfully requests they be turned off and approval of the minutes. Do you have Public Comments in no, chair. Do i have a motion. All in favor say aye. Approved. Item six, introduction of new or unfinished business. Do i have new or unfinished business. Well move on. On the directors report. Mr. Mcguire. Directors, staff and im pinch hitting today. I want to start on our efforts we created a Rapid Response team that can go after the sites of traffic fatalities and identify immediate improvements. When a fatality occurs the public can expect a rapid review and response on site. It will include an analysis of what we already know about the circumstances surrounding the crash, the crash history of the location and existing conditions and recommendations for any immediate engineering changes that can be made quickly sim to the changes and were the topic of a discussion a few Board Meetings ago. A key element in improving the rapid review will be to increase our information and coordination sharing with the San Francisco Police Department and key part nor partner who investigates every fatality and the protocol is focussed on making sure the city coordinates the services it provides to survivors and families and victims of traffic crashes. That protocol is a collaboration between the medical Examiners Office and Police Department, Fire Department and direct Attorneys Office and building the protocol on top of a robust existing protocol and already helping to build and strengthen partnerships with these key [aud [audio difficulties] the next thing i want do address is the pilot project. There was an open letter to city agencies about the concern on safety and traffic implications of how tncs and ridehailing vehicles block lanes. In his letter the mayor called on mta and the Companies Like uber and lyft to Work Together on a pilot project. Under the mayors direction we had the meeting to determine how such a pilot could be developed and importantly how it could be implemented and evaluated. No decisions have been made about a Pilot Program yet. We have made progress on goals and how data can be shared. The goal is to eliminate stopping in transit lanes and bike lanes and eliminate double parking and impacts on bus lanes and crosswalks and areas of high pick up and dropoff. Our initial hypothesis on the mta side was by promoting and enforcing the safe and reliable curb space we can increase Public Safety for all modes on the street. The city has not determined when, where or how many locations such a pilot might take place. We do know that consistent with instruction weve gotten clearly from this board it must be in an area where theres community support. Were conducting Robust Community engagement and outreach process before we make any commitments to work forward and we also know and had made it clear its imperative to commit to not double parking and making sure operators operate safely in an area. Thats the current status of that effort. Another thing you may have read about is the audit of the Cypress Security conduct and there was an audit of an agreement with Cypress Security services to determine if cypress and the mta complied with the contract and evaluate how well were monitoring the compliance and there were findings in the audit. There were invoiced hours that could not be matched to timekeeping records. The audit found cypress and the subcontractors could not demonstrate full compliance with the requirements on the Security Guard and some could not demonstrate compliance with liability, insurance, minimum compensation or Health Benefits requirements. We take it seriously. They affect not just the quality of the service we give the public but that we provide and support immunity but get to the way the public funds this board appropriated to pay the contractor are getting to employees and compliance is very important to us. Were already addressing most the areas and have been able to provide most the documentation that appeared to be missing during the audit but well continue to upon for the accountability practices and compliance more closely over the remaining life. The contract runs through march 31 of 2018 and theres provisions for extending it after that. I want to be clear that as you may know the Cypress Security Services Include armed and unarmed guards. None of the training lapse were found in the audit had anything to do with the armed guards not being trained properly. You may have also noticed new colorful compliant designs are being installed and tested on signs is at platforms that are showing the estimated time of arrival of trains. Theyre long awaited features. Making them work is not as simple as making the switch. Theres backend work to integrate new and old systems so for the next couple months well be testing rolling out it out on a stationbystation basis. Because theyre still in test mode we advise customers to use audio announcements but our goal is to have the signs displaying reliable information by next year. It will be a great step forward in the quality of information we give subway passengers. Some other good news, the Northern California chapter of the officials named the Public Agency of the year. Its an award received at the holiday dinner and Scholarship Award dinner in oakland. It brings together individuals and organizations who make outstanding contributions in transportation and further the goal of supporting minority youth who wish to enter transportation careers. In the last 13 years the groups awarded nearly 250,000 to students of color. Its an organization some have been instrumental in. Some former awardees are now employed in professional roles at bart and other transportation employers. Finally, the Fourth Annual winter walk on stockton street begins this saturday november 25 and will continue through monday january 1. This year to activate the plaza well be working in partnership with off the grid and will have two openaired beer and wine gardens and holidaythemed photo opportunities. Last year 750,000 people attended the winter walk. For more information about it visit the union square website visitunionsquaresf. Com and if youre interested in extending it it will be open to 11 30 every night through new years eve. That concludes my report. Thank you for the updates, much appreciated. The winter walk i know how popular that is every year. I go down a lot and its fun to see everybody enjoying the space. I know its been discussion what the street will look like once the construction is done on the subway. I wonder if we can get an update on how to use that space. There was talk of having a bus pedestrian only and having a convertible space to continue to do things like the winter walk. In light of the discussion we had around north beach it seems there is public appetite for space like that if we can simply find good spaces i think it would be a big benefit to the area. The compto award is fantastic. I went online and looked at the work they do. Its a great organization. Congratulations to the entire agency for getting that award. Directors, any questions or commence for mr. Mcguire. Thank you, lets move on. The clerk madame share chair, we have members of the public. Brian and jody mederos. Would you like to set a time. Two minutes. Im the executive director of the San Francisco Bicycle Coalition. After yet another fatality on San Francisco streets this one on slope boulevard on halloween, the San Francisco Bicycle Coalition wrote to demand immediate action to halt the bloodshed and another who died in the middle of the day was 78 years old. Another killed halloween night was 47. The deaths follow of another who was hit and fell on baker streets. David was 90. Tragically, this list goes on. The response to the recent spate of fatal collisions asked to deliver the leadership needed to meet the goals. Having appointed the members of the board and having written the board last week requesting leadership on moving San Francisco towards mission zero the mayor is looking to you to set the tone. Not only the mayor but our 10,000 plus members and members of the public at large are looking to the board and demonstrate your unwavering commitment to achieve flag goal. Unfortunately ive noticed a troubling trend in recent discussions when Public Safety is at issue. Increasingly the board has entertained the argument that parking should be breaking newsed against the loss of lives. And when the Safety Improvement project requires this the city does a grave disservice inviting watered down Safety Improvements by worrying about the loss of an against the community. Well be watching closely how the board chooses to lead on the charge of eliminating serious injuries and fatalities and our work is to Work Together as partners to improve safety for everyone who uses the San Francisco streets. Thank you. Next speaker, please. The clerk jodie medderos. Good afternoon. My name is jodie medderos and the new executive director of walk San Francisco. We appreciate the board commitment to vision zero. We know this agency bears the front of vision zero. Its a very Serious Public Health and Transportation Safety crisis. The letter from the mayor the asks he makes from the board are a great start to accelerating a pace of vision zero. We realistically need concrete actions that is timely and measurable and need your leadership to make sure its visualized. Heres the steps we recommend to champion the mayors asks. Resolve bureaucratic obstacles and vital vision zero objects including 11th street, the embarcadero, townsend and the upper market Safety Improvement project. All unanimously approved by this board. We recommend this board ask the mta staff for regular reports on delayed vision zero projects. This will bring the reason for delays to the open so they can be addressed. The mayor also asked the mta to implement nearterm improvements on vision zero projects with a start date beyond one. We can ask the staff to develop a list of the projects by end of this year including a time line for the improvements to go in the ground. The mayor asked the mta and other agencies to develop a Rapid Response team. Again, you can ask us for regular updates and also deliver improvements to these locations within a specific time frame. Ideally one month from each death. Your renewed commission to vision zero and prioritize safety above all else is the only way well reach zero. Were counting on you. Thank you very much. Thank you very much for bringing that up. I was remiss in not discussing the Rapid Response task force after he talked about it and were going to be anxiously awaiting what that will look like, how it will work and how we can all help speed up these projects because we do all agree with you that any loss of life on our streets is absolutely preventible and tragic and i think this board recently in the last few meetings has really shown itself to be fully commit to vision zero and recommitted ourselves to that goal. It has been a tough year in San Francisco especially recently. We all feel it and take it to heart. Once again, i will personally recommit myself to that vision zero goal and we will focus on safety over Everything Else. Thank you both. Next speaker, please. The clerk madame chair, thats the last speaker who turned in a speaker card on this matter except one. Mr. Mahmoud. Thank you, directors. Your talking about vision zero and ive been listening to the issue a long time. Driving on the city streets i mentioned its nearly impossible to see at nighttime where the pedestrian ends up coming in at the cross intersection. Because your lighting is so poor, so poor, so poor. I mean, how can we control that situation . Why dont gou to led lights. We heard you intend to but why not buy a couple thousand bulbs and start changing them immediately. Vision zero is not complete without that kind of thing. Thank you. Thank you. Do i have any more Public Commenters on the directors report . Yes, sir, please stand up and approach the podium. Okay. No . Okay. Thank you. Seeing none. Public comment is closed. The clerk item eight the Council Report i do not see a chair here so well move to item nine general Public Comment. Its time for members of the public to address the board under jurisdiction of the mta board of directors but not on the agenda. We have two speaker cards. Sleexcellent. Two minutes. I bought my medallion for 250,000. That was in july in 2017. I used live in palmdale because the rent is 1300 i went to gilroy to live and the rent 2,800. Because the rent is high i [indiscernible] after that i go back to the bank and they took my medallion away. After paying 145,000. I sandy over there she said we are going to throw you out. She wanted to throw me out of the bank because i dont pay three months. I put my name in the medallion list but because when i change my status in 1998 they said my last name was different here in the passport. When i changed it they said you have to buy again because you are not. She said born in california. We changed it to the new passport. They said here in that time i had to apply again. Thank you. Im sorry, your time is up. Do you think we can make sure that he has a good contact at San Francisco credit union. Perhaps it would help to unravel the situation with the missed payments on the loan. Thank you very much. I want to say something, please. Im sorry. Youre time is up. We need to give everybody the same amount of time or its unfair. Im sorry. The clerk the next speaker. Tomorrow im going i dont have money to pay the rent. Im sorry, sir, your time is up. The clerk you need to sit down. Thank you. Next speaker please. The clerk Tariq Mahmoud and the last person to turn in a speaker card under this item. Thank you. Im a taxi driver. I have a question about a sign to put on the cabs to take the people for 30 from city to sfo. The first day i put the sign one of the people, mr. Peters, standing on the sign looking at the people on the bus stop and said its a violation of the code so and so. I told you in the last meeting that yellow has 200 cabs with that sign for two years and theyre not in violation but i am in violation. This is the way you are running the taxi industry. Coming to that, 400 cabs are moving in the city which are legally required to have the top light connect with the meter but 400 cabs have a different meter not connect with the top light. A very serious incident happened one cab was driving his light was on but the customer in the cab. The customer in the cab somebody flagged him and said i want your cab he said i have a customer and he said your light is on. He said its a switch system and not automatic. The customer on the street pulled the gun on te driver. He has to see if theres a customer already in the cab. Can you not shut down this 40 400meter tonight . Otherwise if he was killed youre liable because you listened to this from me ten times and you didnt do it and it was going to be killed that day. You are totally liable and shut down fly Wheel Company and this is super serious and youre destroying taxi. Thank you. Thank you. Do i have any Public Comment . Seeing none Public Comment is closed and well move on. The clerk madame chair youre at your consent calendar considered to be routine unless a member of the board or public wants an item severed or discussed separately. Ive not received any notices. Do i have a motion to consent the calendar. Do i have a motion . Second . The consent calendar is approved. The clerk youre onto your regular agenda. Item 11, presentation and discussion regarding the Human Rights Commission creating an equitable city for everyone framework. Ms. Dorrin. Thank you. Director of taxis and access able accessible services. Its a treat for us to have our presenter here to present to us. Mrs. Davis is the executive director of the San Francisco Human Rights Commission, hrc and will be presenting on the citywide equity work and zoom in on Racial Equity. Director davis served as an hrc commissioner between 2011 and 2016. Prior to joining hrc, she was executive director the community had communitybased Organization Collective and she oversaw mo magic a collaborative of nonprofit organizations addressing challenges facing lowincome children, youth and families in the areas of income development, Community Health and v